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Events on Thursday 14 December 1989 1
1921 – 1989Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989)Died 14 December 1989, aged 68Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist who became a leading human rights dissident and advocate for disarmament. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 despite being barred from traveling to accept it. He returned to public life as a reformist deputy shortly before his death.