Up to a tenth of the population emigrated.
Originally from Somalia, Ali, 50, emigrated to Holland in the mid-80s, where he worked as a train mechanic for 21 years, before coming with his family to the UK.
Then in 1965, not liking Swindon, he and his wife emigrated to Australia, where he played for five more years, far below his previous level.
Born in Clarion, Iowa, Ed was the son of Thomas, a farm worker who had emigrated to the US from Ireland, and his wife, Hazella, a music teacher.
Born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1930, Harris emigrated to the UK at the age of 21.
Once I got to know him better, I asked the inevitable question: "What's a nice Muslim boy doing directing a nice Jewish play?" lqbal explained that he has no religious faith (in the same way that I am a purely secular Jew), but that he feels sensitive to the characters because of the experiences of his father's generation, Pakistanis who emigrated to Britain in the 1960s.
Born into a family of Hungarian Jews who had emigrated to the US, Bernard Schwartz – the boy who became the actor Tony Curtis – could scarcely have dreamed of the wealth, fame and rollercoaster life that awaited him.
One of the country's most inspirational leaders - Arturo Alessandri Palma - was of Swiss descent, while a huge number of Germans emigrated to Chile in the 19th century.
But the country's Jewish population slumped after the Islamic revolution, when many Iranian Jews emigrated to Israel or other countries.
"The fact that Karimov will remain in office for an undetermined period means the loss of even the smallest hopes for changes in the country," said Umida Niyazova, an Uzbek journalist and activist who emigrated to Berlin in 2009 after being detained for four months on charges of subversion and "religious extremism".
Isidore was a first generation immigrant who, aged eight, travelled alone from Hamburg to New York to find his parents who had emigrated five years earlier.
