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Edith Louisa Cavell
Humanitarian & Peace
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Edith Louisa Cavell

Edith Louisa Cavell
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
4 December 1865 โ€“ 12 October 1915 (49 years old)

Edith Cavell was a British nurse and the pioneer of modern secular nursing in Belgium who treated wounded soldiers from both Allied and German forces without discrimination during World War I. She helped more than two hundred Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands, for which she was court-martialed and executed by a German firing squad, becoming a global symbol of moral courage.

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Charles Albert Gobat
Humanitarian & Peace
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Charles Albert Gobat

Charles Albert Gobat
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
21 May 1843 โ€“ 16 March 1914 (70 years old)

Charles Albert Gobat was a Swiss lawyer, statesman, and educator who served as administrator of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and later directed the International Peace Bureau. Jointly awarded the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize with ร‰lie Ducommun, Gobat passed away while addressing a peace conference in Bern on the eve of World War I.

Bern, Switzerland
Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Humanitarian & Peace
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Tobias Michael Carel Asser

Tobias Michael Carel Asser
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
28 April 1838 โ€“ 29 July 1913 (75 years old)

Tobias Asser was an eminent Dutch jurist who pioneered the international codification of private international law. He initiated and presided over the Hague Conferences on Private International Law (1893โ€“1904), co-founded the Institut de Droit International, and helped create the Hague Academy of International Law, receiving the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Hague, Netherlands
Auguste Marie Franรงois Beernaert
Humanitarian & Peace
31
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
Octavia Hill
Humanitarian & Peace
33
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Octavia Hill

Octavia Hill
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
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
40
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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
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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
39
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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
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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
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