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Tarek El-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (Arabic: طارق الطيب محمد البوعزيزي, romanized: Ṭāriq aṭ-Ṭayib Muḥammad al-Būʿazīzī; 29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, an act which became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring against autocratic regimes.
Student. Self-immolated as an offering for a deity for the cause of statehood. [126] September 10, 2010: Ye Zhongcheng: 79 China: Forced demolition of their home: Zhongcheng self-immolated with two family members and died on September 18. [127] December 17, 2010: Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi: 26 Tunisia: Corruption in government
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
In 2011, as the widely reported protests sparked off by Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Tunisia began to have a clear impact on the Tunisian government, a wave of self-immolations swept Algeria. These individual acts of protest mostly took place in front of a government building following an unsuccessful approach to the authorities.
During the Great Schism of the Russian Church, entire villages of Old Believers burned themselves to death in an act known as "fire baptism" (self-burners: samosozhigateli). [20] A 1973 study by a prison doctor suggested that people who choose self-immolation as a form of suicide are more likely to be in a "disturbed state of consciousness ...
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List of executions in Japan; List of people executed in Mexico; List of people executed in Romania; List of hazing deaths in the United States; List of horse accidents (deaths and serious injuries) List of inventors killed by their own inventions; Lists of murders. Murdered sex workers in the United Kingdom; List of murdered musicians. List of ...