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Elsa Brandstrom
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Elsa Brandstrom

Elsa Brandstrom
🇷🇺 Russia
1888 – 1948 (59 years old)

Swedish nurse and humanitarian celebrated across Europe as the 'Angel of Siberia' for single-handedly organizing medical relief, food, and salvation for hundreds of thousands of German and Austrian prisoners of war in Siberian camps during World War I.

Solna (Stockholm), Sweden
Nicholas Murray Butler
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Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler
🇺🇸 United States
2 April 1862 – 7 December 1947 (85 years old)

Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, educator, and political advisor who served as President of Columbia University for forty-three years (1902–1945). As the trusted confidant of Andrew Carnegie, he was the founding trustee and longtime President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sharing the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams.

Paterson, New Jersey, United States
Mabel Thorp Boardman
Humanitarian & Peace
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Mabel Thorp Boardman

Mabel Thorp Boardman
🇺🇸 United States
12 October 1860 – 17 March 1946 (85 years old)

Mabel Thorp Boardman was an American philanthropist and civic organizer who led the total administrative reorganization of the American Red Cross under a federal congressional charter in 1905. Serving as the organization's de facto executive leader for over four decades, she transformed the Red Cross from a small volunteer group into a massive, professionally funded national disaster relief agency.

Washington, D.C., United States
Henri Marie La Fontaine
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Henri Marie La Fontaine

Henri Marie La Fontaine
🇧🇪 Belgium
22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943 (89 years old)

Henri La Fontaine was an eminent Belgian international jurist, senator, and bibliographer who served as President of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943. Co-founder of the International Institute of Bibliography and creator of the Mundaneum with Paul Otlet, he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize for his organizational leadership of the global peace movement.

Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Janusz Korczak
Humanitarian & Peace
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Janusz Korczak

Henryk Goldszmit
🇷🇺 Russia
22 July 1878 – c. 7 August 1942 (64 years old)

Janusz Korczak (pen name of Henryk Goldszmit) was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, pioneering educator, and beloved children's author who established an egalitarian democratic children's republic at Dom Sierot orphanage in Warsaw. When the Nazis liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto in August 1942, Korczak steadfastly refused multiple offers of personal escape, choosing instead to march hand-in-hand with his 192 orphans into the gas chambers of Treblinka.

Treblinka / Warsaw, Poland
Ludwig Quidde
Humanitarian & Peace
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Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde
🇩🇪 Germany
23 March 1858 – 4 March 1941 (82 years old)

Ludwig Quidde was a prominent German historian, pacifist, and politician who served as President of the German Peace Society (DFG) for fifteen years (1914–1929). Famed for his daring 1894 satirical essay 'Caligula' attacking Kaiser Wilhelm II's militaristic megalomania, Quidde opposed German expansionism throughout WWI and shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize with Ferdinand Buisson before fleeing Nazi terror.

Geneva, Switzerland
Ballington Booth
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Ballington Booth

Ballington Booth
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1857 – 1940 (83 years old)

Fils de William Booth et cofondateur des Volunteers of America (1896), dévoué à la réhabilitation des détenus et à l'hébergement des familles déshéritées.

Hartsdale, New York, United States
Grace Abbott
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Grace Abbott

Grace Abbott
🇺🇸 United States
1878 – 1939 (60 years old)

Champion of immigrants' rights and child welfare who directed the Immigrants' Protective League, led the federal enforcement of the first federal child labor laws, and helped draft the historic Social Security Act of 1935.

Grand Island (Nebraska), United States
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