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Christian Lous Lange
Humanitarian & Peace
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Christian Lous Lange

Christian Lous Lange
🇳🇴 Norway
17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938 (69 years old)

Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, educator, and political scientist who served as Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for a quarter-century (1909–1933). The first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Lange guided the IPU through World War I and authored the monumental 'Histoire de l'internationalisme', receiving the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Hjalmar Branting.

Oslo, Norway
Carl von Ossietzky
Humanitarian & Peace
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Carl von Ossietzky

Carl von Ossietzky
🇩🇪 Germany
1889 – 1938 (48 years old)

German investigative journalist and fearless anti-Nazi editor of 'Die Weltbuhne' who exposed Germany's secret illegal rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

Berlin (Niederschonhausen), Germany
Frank Billings Kellogg
Humanitarian & Peace
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Frank Billings Kellogg

Frank Billings Kellogg
🇺🇸 United States
22 December 1856 – 21 December 1937 (80 years old)

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, diplomat, and US Secretary of State (1925–1929) under President Calvin Coolidge. Working in partnership with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, he authored the historic 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris), signed by sixty-two nations legally renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, for which he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington, D.C., United States
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
🇬🇧 Great Britain
16 October 1863 – 17 March 1937 (73 years old)

Sir Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929. Renowned as the primary diplomatic architect of the 1925 Locarno Treaties, which reconciled postwar Germany with France and Britain and admitted Germany to the League of Nations, he was awarded the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Charles G. Dawes.

London, United Kingdom
Arthur Henderson
Humanitarian & Peace
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Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson
🇬🇧 Great Britain
13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935 (72 years old)

Arthur Henderson was a Scottish iron moulder, trade union leader, and British Foreign Secretary (1929–1931) who served as leader of the Labour Party across three terms. Appointed President of the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva in 1932, he struggled heroically for three years to achieve global arms reduction in the face of rising fascism, receiving the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize.

London, United Kingdom
Jane Addams
Humanitarian & Peace
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Jane Addams

Jane Addams
🇺🇸 United States
1860 – 1935 (74 years old)

Pionnière américaine du travail social, fondatrice de Hull House à Chicago et première Américaine récipiendaire du prix Nobel de la paix en 1931.

Cedarville, Illinois, United States
Annie Besant
Humanitarian & Peace
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Annie Besant

Annie Besant (nee Wood)
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1847 – 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
Sol Plaatje
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sol Plaatje

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
🇿🇦 South Africa
1876 – 1932 (55 years old)

Brilliant intellectual, journalist, and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (later ANC), whose book 'Native Life in South Africa' exposed land dispossession.

Kimberley, South Africa
Julia Lathrop
Humanitarian & Peace
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Julia Lathrop

Julia Clifford Lathrop
🇺🇸 United States
1858 – 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
Florence Kelley
Humanitarian & Peace
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Florence Kelley

Florence Kelley
🇺🇸 United States
1859 – 1932 (72 years old)

Tireless American labor and consumer reformer who lived at Hull House, served as Illinois' first female Chief Factory Inspector, founded the National Consumers League, and co-founded the NAACP in 1909.

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), United States
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson
Humanitarian & Peace
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Ferdinand Édouard Buisson

Ferdinand Édouard Buisson
🇫🇷 France
20 December 1841 – 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 (laïcité). A passionate advocate of Franco-German pacifist reconciliation, he shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize with Ludwig Quidde.

Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, Oise, France
Julius Rosenwald
Humanitarian & Peace
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Julius Rosenwald

Julius Rosenwald
🇺🇸 United States
1862 – 1932 (69 years old)

Président de Sears, Roebuck & Co. et philanthrope visionnaire, financeur avec Booker T. Washington de plus de 5 000 écoles pour les enfants afro-américains dans le Sud ségrégué.

Chicago, Illinois, United States
Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
Humanitarian & Peace
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Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom

Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom
🇸🇪 Sweden
15 January 1866 – 12 July 1931 (65 years old)

Nathan Söderblom 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
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Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen
🇳🇴 Norway
10 October 1861 – 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, Bærum, Norway
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