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Gustav Stresemann
Humanitarian & Peace
29
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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
27
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,120

Eglantyne Jebb

Eglantyne Jebb
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
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
25
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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
32
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
34
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
Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant
Humanitarian & Peace
30
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,060

Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, baron de Constant de Rebecque
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
22 November 1852 โ€“ 15 May 1924 (71 years old)

Paul-Henri d'Estournelles de Constant was a French diplomat, senator, and advocate for international arbitration who co-represented France at the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences. He was instrumental in establishing the Permanent Court of Arbitration and founded the Association for International Conciliation, receiving the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize.

Paris, France
Alfred Fried
Humanitarian & Peace
29
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Alfred Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
1864 โ€“ 1921 (56 years old)

Austrian pacifist author and publisher who co-founded the German Peace Society alongside Bertha von Suttner, edited 'Die Friedens-Warte', and was awarded the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific theory of international organizational pacifism.

Vienna, Austria
Alfred Hermann Fried
Humanitarian & Peace
30
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,010

Alfred Hermann Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
11 November 1864 โ€“ 5 May 1921 (56 years old)

Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, journalist, and publisher who co-founded the German Peace Society (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft) in 1892 alongside Bertha von Suttner. As editor of 'Die Waffen nieder!' and 'Die Friedens-Warte', he pioneered 'scientific pacifism', advocating international organization as an economic and structural necessity, receiving the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

Vienna, Austria
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Humanitarian & Peace
31
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,090

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
20 September 1833 โ€“ 10 February 1918 (84 years old)

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, Garibaldian freedom fighter, and peace leader who founded the International Peace Society in Lombardy. As the influential editor of Milan's leading newspaper, Il Secolo, Moneta advocated for Franco-Italian reconciliation and international arbitration, becoming Italy's only Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1907.

Milan, Italy
Louis Renault
Humanitarian & Peace
35
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,020

Louis Renault

Louis Renault
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
21 May 1843 โ€“ 8 February 1918 (74 years old)

Louis Renault was an eminent French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Paris. Serving as legal counsel to the French Foreign Ministry and principal rapporteur at the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences, he drafted pivotal treaties on naval warfare and prisoners of war, sharing the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.

Paris, France
Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis
Humanitarian & Peace
32
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,150

Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis

Elsie Maud Inglis
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
16 August 1864 โ€“ 26 November 1917 (53 years old)

Dr. Elsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish physician, surgeon, and suffragist who founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service during World War I. Rebuffed by the British War Office who told her to 'go home and sit still', she established fourteen frontline female-staffed hospitals across France, Serbia, and Russia, earning Serbia's highest military honor.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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