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Tony de Brum in 2015 on the island of Ebeye in the Marshall Islands. As a boy he watched a nuclear bomb being tested over the Bikini Atoll.
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Tony de Brum
Died on August 21, 2017 at age 72
A longtime political leader in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Mr. de Brum helped negotiate his country’s independence in the 1970s and decades later fought for its survival in the face of climate change.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.