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Events on Wednesday 6 December 1961 1
1925 – 1961Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)Died 6 December 1961, aged 36Martinique-born psychiatrist and philosopher whose writings, including The Wretched of the Earth, became foundational texts of anti-colonial and postcolonial thought. He was an active supporter of the Algerian independence movement and died of leukemia shortly before his best-known book was published.