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Quezon, Manuel Luis Quezon y

Date of birth:
August 19th, 1878 (Baler/El Príncipe, Philippines)
Date of death:
August 1st, 1944 (Saranac Lake/New York, United States)
Buried on:
Quezon Memorial Shrine
Nationality:
Philippine (1946-present, Republic)

Biography

Manuel Quezon was the president of the Philippine War Cabinet 1941–1944 and was the head of the Philippine government-in-exile. He died of Tuberculosis.

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Awarded on:
December 21st, 1937
Presented by Mayor Wu in Shanghai, China on January 28, 1937.
Order of Brilliant Jade
Awarded on:
June 18th, 1939
Ordine della Corona d'Italia - Cavaliere della Croce Grande
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
June 8th, 1940
Grootkruis in de Kroonorde
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
2015
In recognition of his Open Doors policy which enabled the influx into his country of more than 1,300 European Jewish refugees who fled from the horrors of Nazism.

The ceremony took place on 19 August 2015. Posthumously awarded
Raoul Wallenberg Medal

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