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• Bikila, Abebe   b. August 7, 1932  d. October 25, 1973
  Olympic Champion. He was born in Jato, Ethiopia. He won the Olympic Marathon twice, in 1960 and 1964. He set a new world record at Rome in 1960 and was the first African to win an Olympic gold medal. He set a new world record in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He won marathon world championships in 1960 and 1962.
  In 1968 he was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down. He continued to compete athletically winning a 25km cross-country sledge competition in Norway in 1970. His...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
  Saint Joseph's Church Cemetery, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Chartered City, Ethiopia
   
• Makkonen, Prince    b. October 16, 1923  d. May 13, 1957
  Ethiopian Royalty. Born Araya Yohannes. He was the son of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I and his wife, Empress Menen Asfaw. A native of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he became known as the Duke of Harrar upon his parent's coronation. He later married Sara Gizaw, and she was the given title of Princess and Duchess of Harrar. Together the two had five children including Prince Taffari, Prince Mikael, Prince Beide Mariam, Prince Makkonen, Prince Wossen Seged, and Prince Dawit. Prince Makkonen also...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Chartered City, Ethiopia
  Plot: Crypt
   
• Paulos, Dr. Abune   b. November 3, 1935  d. August 16, 2012
  Orthodox Religious Figure. He shall be remembered for his 20 year tenure as Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and spiritual leader to its 40 million members. Born Gebre Medhin Wolde Yohannes to a religious family, he entered a monestary as a young man and was ordained a priest. Following study at the College of the Holy Trinity in Addis Ababa he was sent to St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary of Crestwood, New York, and thence to Princeton University. Recalled home...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Chartered City, Ethiopia
   
• Selassie, Haile    b. July 23, 1892  d. August 27, 1975
  Ethiopian Emperor. Born Tafari Makonnen, he ruled Ethiopia as regent and crown prince from 1916 to his 1928 ascension to the Kingly throne under the name Ras Tafar. He assumed the title of Emperor and the new name Haile Selassie (meaning "Holy Trinity") in 1930. Seeking to modernize Ethiopia, Selassie secured membership in the League of Nations in 1923 and enacted the first Ethiopian constitution in 1931. Following Italian invasion in 1935, Selassie went into exile until the reclaimation of his...[Read More] (Bio by: Stuthehistoryguy)
  Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Chartered City, Ethiopia
   
• Tadesse, Sinedu   b. 1974  d. May 28, 1995
  Criminal. She killed her Harvard roommate, Trang Ho, then killed herself. The crime was the subject of the book "Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder" by Melanie Thernstrom. (Bio by: Jennifer M.)
  Ethiopian Orthodox Cemetery, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Chartered City, Ethiopia
   
• Tsehai Haile Selassie, Princess    d. 1942
  Ethiopian Royalty. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, she was the third daughter and fourth child of Emperor Haile Selassie I and his wife, Empress Menen Asfaw. Trained as a nurse in Great Britain during her father's exile there from 1936 to 1941, she later returned to Ethiopia. Following the return of her father to power in 1941, she married General Abiye Abebe and moved to the Welega Province, where her husband served as governor. The following year she died from complications during pregnancy...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Taeka Negest Ba'eta Le Mariam Monastery, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Chartered City, Ethiopia
  Plot: Crypt
   
• Zenawi, Meles   b. May 9, 1955  d. August 20, 2012
  Ethiopian Prime Minister. Born Legesse Zenawi Asras, he led Ethiopia since 1991, when commanding the guerrilla group "Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front" (EPRDF), overthrew the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam, leader of the pro-sovietic military junta that ruled the country from 1974 to 1987 and then president of the country until 1991. Zenawi, was president from 1991 to 1995, after which he became as prime minister. He was one of Africa's strongmen, and a key ally of...[Read More] (Bio by: Errete)
  Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Chartered City, Ethiopia
   

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