deaths
December 6, 1961
Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (born 1925)

Frantz Fanon
Frantz Omar Fanon was a French West Indian psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique. His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.