Historical Archive

Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.

Active Filters: Humanitarian & Peace Reset all
Showing 181โ€“198 of 344 archival records
Grid Timeline
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian
Humanitarian & Peace
33
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian

ิณีกีฌีธึ‚ีฝีฟ ิฟีซึ‚ีฌีบีงีถีฏีฅีกีถ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey
1869 โ€“ 1955 (86 years old)

Financier et pionnier du pรฉtrole armรฉnien, crรฉateur par testament de la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian ร  Lisbonne finanรงant l'art, la science et l'aide humanitaire.

Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Seebohm Rowntree
Humanitarian & Peace
34
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Seebohm Rowntree

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1871 โ€“ 1954 (83 years old)

Pioneering British sociologist and Quaker chocolate manufacturer whose scientific 1901 study 'Poverty: A Study of Town Life' established the concept of the 'poverty line' and formed the blueprint for the modern British welfare state.

Jordans (Buckinghamshire), United Kingdom
Mary Church Terrell
Humanitarian & Peace
29
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mary Church Terrell

Mary Eliza Church Terrell
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1863 โ€“ 1954 (90 years old)

Pioneering civil rights and women's suffrage champion who served as the first national president of the National Association of Colored Women, co-founded the NAACP, and won the landmark 1953 Supreme Court case desegregating restaurants in Washington, D.C.

Suitland (Maryland), United States
Babikr Bedri
Humanitarian & Peace
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Babikr Bedri

ุจุงุจูƒุฑ ุจุฏุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Sudan
1861 โ€“ 1954 (93 years old)

Pioneering father of female education in Sudan who survived the Battle of Omdurman, defied colonial and conservative resistance to open the first school for girls in 1907, and founded Ahfad University.

Omdurman, Sudan
Charles Gates Dawes
Humanitarian & Peace
33
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,060

Charles Gates Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
27 August 1865 โ€“ 23 April 1951 (85 years old)

Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker, general, diplomat, and 30th Vice President of the United States (1925โ€“1929). As head of the Allied Reparations Committee in 1924, he drafted the 'Dawes Plan', which ended the hyperinflation crisis in Weimar Germany, stabilized European finances, and prompted the French withdrawal from the Ruhr, earning the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.

Chicago, Illinois, United States
John Heinrich Detlef Rabe
Humanitarian & Peace
36
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,490

John Heinrich Detlef Rabe

John Heinrich Detlef Rabe
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
23 November 1882 โ€“ 5 January 1950 (67 years old)

John Rabe was a German businessman and Siemens director who led the establishment of the Nanking Safety Zone during the 1937 Nanking Massacre. Using his status as a Nazi Party member and his swastika armband to confront rampaging Imperial Japanese troops, Rabe and his committee provided food, shelter, and medical sanctuary that saved more than 250,000 Chinese civilians from slaughter.

Berlin / Nanjing, Germany
Showing 181–198 of 344 memorials • Page 11 of 20