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Annie Besant
Humanitarian & Peace
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Annie Besant

Annie Besant (nee Wood)
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1847 โ€“ 1933 (85 years old)

British social reformer, trade union champion, and orator who organized the historic 1888 London Matchgirls' Strike, moved to India to champion education and the Home Rule movement, and was elected President of the Indian National Congress in 1917.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India
Julia Lathrop
Humanitarian & Peace
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Julia Lathrop

Julia Clifford Lathrop
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1858 โ€“ 1932 (73 years old)

Pioneering American social reformer who created the world's first juvenile court system in Chicago in 1899 and became the first woman to head a United States federal government agency as Chief of the US Children's Bureau.

Rockford (Illinois), United States
Ferdinand ร‰douard Buisson
Humanitarian & Peace
4
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Ferdinand ร‰douard Buisson

Ferdinand ร‰douard Buisson
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
20 December 1841 โ€“ 16 February 1932 (90 years old)

Ferdinand Buisson was a French academic, philosopher, and social reformer who co-founded the League of Human Rights (Ligue des droits de l'homme) and served as Jules Ferry's Director of Primary Education, creating France's free, mandatory, secular public school system (laรฏcitรฉ). A passionate advocate of Franco-German pacifist reconciliation, he shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize with Ludwig Quidde.

Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, Oise, France
Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Sรถderblom
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,150

Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Sรถderblom

Lars Olof Jonathan Sรถderblom
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden
15 January 1866 โ€“ 12 July 1931 (65 years old)

Nathan Sรถderblom was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala (Primate of the Church of Sweden) from 1914 to 1931. Widely revered as the father of the modern ecumenical movement, he convened the historic 1925 Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work in Stockholm, uniting divided churches across former WWI battlelines in common humanitarian action, receiving the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize.

Uppsala, Sweden
Fridtjof Nansen
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,550

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
10 October 1861 โ€“ 13 May 1930 (68 years old)

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian polymath, polar explorer, and humanitarian diplomat who revolutionized Arctic exploration before serving as the League of Nations' first High Commissioner for Refugees. He repatriated over 400,000 WWI prisoners of war, organized massive famine relief saving millions of Russians, and created the 'Nansen Passport' for stateless refugees, earning the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize.

Lysaker, Bรฆrum, Norway
Gustav Stresemann
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,250

Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
10 May 1878 โ€“ 3 October 1929 (51 years old)

Gustav Stresemann was a German statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic from 1923 until his death in 1929. Breaking with nationalist militarism to embrace pragmatic European reconciliation, he halted hyperinflation, negotiated the Locarno Treaties, and led Germany into the League of Nations, sharing the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize with Aristide Briand.

Berlin, Germany
Eglantyne Jebb
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,120

Eglantyne Jebb

Eglantyne Jebb
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
25 August 1876 โ€“ 17 December 1928 (52 years old)

Eglantyne Jebb was a visionary British humanitarian and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 to relieve post-WWI famine among European children. In 1923, she authored the landmark Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the League of Nations and served as the direct foundation for the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Geneva, Switzerland
Mary Richmond
Humanitarian & Peace
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Mary Richmond

Mary Ellen Richmond
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1861 โ€“ 1928 (67 years old)

Pioneering American humanitarian whose 1917 masterpiece 'Social Diagnosis' constructed the scientific methodology of professional social casework, establishing diagnostic interviewing and social investigation.

Baltimore (Maryland), United States
Lรฉon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,190

Lรฉon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

Lรฉon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
21 May 1851 โ€“ 29 September 1925 (74 years old)

Lรฉon Bourgeois was a French statesman, philosopher, and Prime Minister of France (1895โ€“1896) whose social philosophy of 'Solidarism' provided the intellectual blueprint for the League of Nations. Known as the spiritual father of the League, he served as the first President of the Council of the League of Nations in 1920 and was awarded the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.

Chรขlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France
Karl Hjalmar Branting
Humanitarian & Peace
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๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,140

Karl Hjalmar Branting

Karl Hjalmar Branting
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden
23 November 1860 โ€“ 24 February 1925 (64 years old)

Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish statesman who led the Swedish Social Democratic Party and served as Prime Minister of Sweden in three separate administrations. A staunch advocate for peaceful international conflict resolution, Branting supported the League of Nations' peaceful settlement of the ร…land Islands dispute, sharing the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Christian Lous Lange.

Stockholm, Sweden
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