deaths
January 20, 1973
Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (born 1924)
Amílcar Cabral
Amílcar Lopes Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat. He was one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. He was also a pan-Africanist and intellectual nationalist revolutionary poet.