b, *1938
Musician
A.k.a. Francis Mading Deng
Francis Mading Deng was born in 1938 at Noong, near Abyei, Soutn Sudan, the administrative centre of the Ngok Dinka, of which his father, Deng Majok, was Paramount Chief. He was educated at Khartoum University (Bachelor of Laws) and a Master of Laws and a Doctor of the Science of Law from Yale University. He also took graduate courses at King's College London. Politician and diplomat, he was his country's first ambassador to the United Nations.