- male, deceased (1997)
- Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 - 24 June, 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki,...
- male, 75 years old
- Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished...
- male, 75 years old
- General Yakubu "Jack" Dan-Yumma Gowon (born October 19, 1934) was the head of state (Head of the Federal Military Government) of Nigeria from 1966...
- male, 76 years old
- General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, "Ikemba Nnewi" (born November 4, 1933) was the leader of the secessionist state of Biafra in Nigeria...
- male, deceased (2003)
- Philip Effiong (also spelled Efiong, November 18, 1925 - November 6 2003) was the first Vice President and the second and last President of the now...
- female
- Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (born January 18, 1931; died 1993) was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa. Her novel Efuru (1966) is...
- male, deceased (1995)
- Akanu Ibiam (1906-1995) was an accomplished Nigerian doctor and statesman. He was the governor of the Eastern region of Nigeria during the first...
- male, 78 years old
- Billy Dudley (Professor Billy Joseph Stanley Oritsesaninomi Dudley) was born at Warri, Nigeria, on 10 November 1931. His father was Stanley John...
- male
- Louis Orok Edet (1914-1979) was the Inspector General of the Nigerian Police Force from 1964-1966. He was the first indigenous Nigerian to occupy...
- female, 44 years old
- Caitlín O'Riordan is a British musician. She played bass guitar for the British-Irish punk/folk band The Pogues from 1983 to 1986. O'Riordan was b...
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