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Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale
🇮🇹 Italy
12 May 1820 – 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
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Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1821 – 1910 (89 years old)

Première femme diplômée en médecine aux États-Unis (1849) et première femme inscrite à l'Ordre des médecins au Royaume-Uni, pionnière de la santé pour les femmes démunies.

Kilmun, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Sir William Randal Cremer
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Sir William Randal Cremer

William Randal Cremer
🇬🇧 Great Britain
18 March 1828 – 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 Frédéric Passy, and was awarded the 1903 Nobel Peace Prize, donating his entire prize money to the arbitration movement.

London, United Kingdom
Josephine Butler
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Josephine Butler

Josephine Elizabeth Butler
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1828 – 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
Élie Ducommun
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Élie Ducommun

Élie Ducommun
🇨🇭 Switzerland
19 February 1833 – 7 December 1906 (73 years old)

Élie 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
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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata

જમશેદજી નસરવાનજી ટાટા
🇮🇳 India
1839 – 1904 (65 years old)

Père de l'industrie indienne et désigné en 2021 comme le plus grand philanthrope du siècle par Hurun Philanthropy (plus de 102 milliards de dollars de dons cumulés).

Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
Walter Reed
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Walter Reed

Walter Reed
🇺🇸 United States
1851 – 1902 (51 years old)

Médecin militaire américain qui dirigea la commission cubaine démontrant de manière irréfutable que la fièvre jaune est transmise par le moustique Aedes aegypti.

Arlington, Virginia, United States
Samuel Plimsoll
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Samuel Plimsoll

Samuel Plimsoll
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1824 – 1898 (74 years old)

Parlementaire et réformateur social britannique surnommé « l'Ami des marins », inventeur de la ligne de charge (ligne de Plimsoll) empêchant le naufrage des navires surchargés.

Cheriton, Folkestone, Kent, United Kingdom
Dr. Louis Paul Amédée Appia
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Dr. Louis Paul Amédée Appia

Louis Paul Amédée Appia
🇩🇪 Germany
13 October 1818 – 1 May 1898 (79 years old)

Dr. Louis Appia was a Swiss-German surgeon and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The preeminent battlefield doctor among the 'Committee of Five', he was the first person in history to wear a Red Cross armband during an active military conflict during the Second Schleswig War in 1864, testing international humanitarian medical neutrality in the field.

Geneva, Switzerland
Mary Ann Shadd
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Mary Ann Shadd

Mary Ann Shadd Cary
🇺🇸 United States
1823 – 1893 (69 years old)

Pioneering abolitionist, educator, and suffragist who became the first Black female newspaper publisher in North America (The Provincial Freeman) in Canada and the second Black woman in the United States to earn a law degree.

Hyattsville (Maryland), United States
Cardinal Lavigerie
Humanitarian & Peace
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Cardinal Lavigerie

Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie
🇫🇷 France
1825 – 1892 (67 years old)

Archbishop of Algiers and founder of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) who launched an international crusade across Europe's capitals that mobilized global public opinion to eradicate the East African slave trade.

Carthage (Tunis), Tunisia
Charles Bradlaugh
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Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1833 – 1891 (57 years old)

Courageous British radical reformer and champion of free thought who waged a historic six-year constitutional battle to take his seat in Parliament without taking a religious oath, and championed Indian self-determination as 'Member for India'.

Brookwood (Surrey), United Kingdom
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