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Auguste Marie Franรงois Beernaert
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,010

Auguste Marie Franรงois Beernaert

Auguste Marie Franรงois Beernaert
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
26 July 2014 โ€“ 6 October 1912 (83 years old)

Auguste Beernaert was a Belgian statesman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1884 to 1894. A champion of international law, he represented Belgium at the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences, presided over the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and promoted social legislation and Congo reform, sharing the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize with Paul-Henri d'Estournelles de Constant.

Watermael-Boitsfort, Brussels, Belgium
William Booth
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

William Booth

William Booth
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1829 โ€“ 1912 (83 years old)

Prรฉdicateur britannique, fondateur et premier Gรฉnรฉral de l'Armรฉe du Salut en 1865, alliant secours social concret (nourriture, abri, rรฉinsertion) et rรฉdemption spirituelle.

Stoke Newington, London, United Kingdom
Octavia Hill
Humanitarian & Peace
2
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Octavia Hill

Octavia Hill
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1838 โ€“ 1912 (73 years old)

Pioneering British social reformer who founded modern social housing management in London's slums, championed urban public green spaces, and co-founded the National Trust in 1895 to preserve open lands for all citizens.

Crockham Hill (Kent), United Kingdom
Frรฉdรฉric Passy
Humanitarian & Peace
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,180

Frรฉdรฉric Passy

Frรฉdรฉric Passy
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
15 January 1822 โ€“ 12 June 1912 (90 years old)

Frรฉdรฉric Passy was a French political economist and pacifist who co-founded the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1889 alongside William Randal Cremer. Revered as the dean of the international peace movement, Passy was awarded the inaugural Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 jointly with Henry Dunant.

Paris, France
Clarissa Harlowe Barton
Humanitarian & Peace
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,420

Clarissa Harlowe Barton

Clarissa Harlowe Barton
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
25 December 1821 โ€“ 12 April 1912 (90 years old)

Clara Barton was a pioneering American nurse and humanitarian who ministered to wounded soldiers on the front lines of the American Civil War, earning the moniker 'Angel of the Battlefield'. She founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and served as its first president for over two decades, expanding its humanitarian mandate to include peacetime disaster relief.

Oxford, Massachusetts, United States
Henry Dunant
Humanitarian & Peace
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Henry Dunant

Jean Henri Dunant
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
1828 โ€“ 1910 (82 years old)

Swiss humanitarian whose horror at the slaughter of the 1859 Battle of Solferino inspired him to found the International Committee of the Red Cross and spark the Geneva Convention, recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Zurich, Switzerland
Gustave Moynier
Humanitarian & Peace
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,260

Gustave Moynier

Louis Gabriel Gustave Moynier
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
21 September 1826 โ€“ 21 August 1910 (83 years old)

Gustave Moynier was a Swiss jurist and humanitarian who co-founded the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) alongside Henri Dunant in 1863. Serving as ICRC President for forty-seven years (1863โ€“1910), he drafted the first Geneva Convention and pioneered international humanitarian law, being the first person in history to propose a permanent international criminal court in 1872.

Geneva, Switzerland
Florence Nightingale
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,850

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
12 May 1820 โ€“ 13 August 1910 (90 years old)

Florence Nightingale was a British social reformer, statistician, and the foundational philosopher of modern professional nursing. Gaining worldwide renown as 'The Lady with the Lamp' during the Crimean War for her nightly rounds tending wounded soldiers at Scutari hospital, she pioneered epidemiological data visualization and established the world's first secular nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital.

East Wellow, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Blackwell
Humanitarian & Peace
5
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Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1821 โ€“ 1910 (89 years old)

Premiรจre femme diplรดmรฉe en mรฉdecine aux ร‰tats-Unis (1849) et premiรจre femme inscrite ร  l'Ordre des mรฉdecins au Royaume-Uni, pionniรจre de la santรฉ pour les femmes dรฉmunies.

Kilmun, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Sir William Randal Cremer
Humanitarian & Peace
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,120

Sir William Randal Cremer

William Randal Cremer
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great britain
18 March 1828 โ€“ 22 July 1908 (80 years old)

Sir William Randal Cremer was a British carpenter, trade union leader, and Member of Parliament who rose from childhood poverty to become the foremost working-class pioneer of international arbitration. He founded the International Arbitration League, co-founded the Inter-Parliamentary Union with Frรฉdรฉric Passy, and was awarded the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize, donating his entire prize money to the arbitration movement.

London, United Kingdom
Josephine Butler
Humanitarian & Peace
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Josephine Butler

Josephine Elizabeth Butler
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1828 โ€“ 1906 (78 years old)

Heroic Victorian feminist and human rights campaigner who led the successful international campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts and exposed the international trafficking and child prostitution of young girls.

Kirknewton (Northumberland), United Kingdom
ร‰lie Ducommun
Humanitarian & Peace
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,050

ร‰lie Ducommun

ร‰lie Ducommun
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
19 February 1833 โ€“ 7 December 1906 (73 years old)

ร‰lie Ducommun was a Swiss journalist, politician, and peace activist who served as the first honorary director of the International Peace Bureau in Bern from 1891 until his death. For his tireless, unpaid leadership coordinating peace societies worldwide, he was awarded the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Charles Albert Gobat.

Bern, Switzerland
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata

เชœเชฎเชถเซ‡เชฆเชœเซ€ เชจเชธเชฐเชตเชพเชจเชœเซ€ เชŸเชพเชŸเชพ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1839 โ€“ 1904 (65 years old)

Pรจre de l'industrie indienne et dรฉsignรฉ en 2021 comme le plus grand philanthrope du siรจcle par Hurun Philanthropy (plus de 102 milliards de dollars de dons cumulรฉs).

Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
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