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Saad Zaghloul

سعد زغلول

Khedivate of Egypt

1859 – 1927 (68 years old)

Leader of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, founder of the Wafd Party, and Prime Minister revered across Egypt as 'Za'im al-Ummah' (Leader of the Nation).

Cairo, Egypt

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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor Debs

United States

1855 – 1926 (70 years old)

American trade union pioneer, founder of the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who won nearly one million votes for President from a federal prison cell in 1920 while incarcerated for speaking against World War I.

Terre Haute (Indiana), United States

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Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Robert Marion La Follette Sr.

United States

1855 – 1925 (70 years old)

Leader of the Progressive Movement known as 'Fighting Bob', Governor and Senator from Wisconsin who pioneered direct primary elections and workers' compensation.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Sun Yat-sen

孫文 / 孫中山

China

1866-11-12 – 1925-03-12 (58 years old)

Revered across both mainland China and Taiwan as the 'Father of the Nation', having ended imperial dynastic absolutism to found the first Asian republic.

Beijing, China

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

United States

1856-12-28 – 1924-02-03 (67 years old)

Pioneered liberal internationalism ('Wilsonianism'), created the Federal Reserve System, and championed the League of Nations, receiving the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Arthur Griffith

Arthur Joseph Griffith

Ireland

1871 – 1922 (51 years old)

Irish political leader and journalist who founded Sinn Fein in 1905, served as President of Dail Eireann (1922), and led the Irish delegation that negotiated the historic 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State.

Dublin, Ireland

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Walther Rathenau

Walther Rathenau

Kingdom of Prussia

1867 – 1922 (54 years old)

Visionary German-Jewish industrialist, philosopher, and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic who signed the Treaty of Rapallo before being assassinated by right-wing terrorists.

Berlin, Germany

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Hara Takashi

原 敬

Edo Period Japan

1856 – 1921 (65 years old)

First commoner Prime Minister of Japan ('The Commoner Premier') who established Japan's first true parliamentary party cabinet during the Taishō Democracy.

Morioka (Iwate), Japan

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Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg

Kingdom of Prussia

1856 – 1921 (64 years old)

Imperial Chancellor of Germany from 1909 to 1917 whose leadership guided Germany during the July Crisis of 1914 and who sought domestic democratic electoral reform.

Hohenfinow (Brandenburg), Germany

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Venustiano Carranza

Venustiano Carranza Garza

Mexico

1859 – 1920 (60 years old)

Leader of the Constitutionalist faction in the Mexican Revolution and President of Mexico (1917–1920) who promulgated the historic Constitution of 1917, the first constitution in world history to enshrine fundamental social, labor, and agrarian rights.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

United States

1858-10-27 – 1919-01-06 (60 years old)

Transformed the presidency into a modern active executive office, pioneered environmental conservation, and won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.

Oyster Bay, New York, United States

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Keir Hardie

James Keir Hardie

Scotland

1856 – 1915 (59 years old)

Legendary Scottish coal miner and trade unionist who entered the mines at age ten, founded the Independent Labour Party, and became the first socialist Member of the British Parliament in 1892, entering the House of Commons in a tweed cloth cap.

Cumnock (Ayrshire), Scotland

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Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte

Сергей Юльевич Витте

Russian Empire

1849 – 1915 (65 years old)

Chief architect of Russian industrialization who built the Trans-Siberian Railway, established the Gold Standard, and authored the 1905 October Manifesto creating the State Duma.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Jean Jaurès

Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès

France

1859-09-03 – 1914-07-31 (54 years old)

Greatest moral tribune of the French left, who harmonized democratic republican values with democratic socialism and anti-militarism.

Paris, France

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Francisco I. Madero

Francisco Ignacio Madero Gonzalez

Mexico

1873 – 1913 (39 years old)

Mexican revolutionary leader and democratic President (1911–1913) known as the 'Apostle of Democracy', whose 1910 Plan of San Luis Potosi ignited the Mexican Revolution and overthrew the thirty-four-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Eloy Alfaro

José Eloy Alfaro Delgado

Ecuador

1842 – 1912 (69 years old)

President of Ecuador known as 'El Viejo Luchador' (The Old Fighter) who led the Liberal Revolution of 1895, built the Guayaquil-Quito Trans-Andean Railway, and separated Church and State.

Montecristi (Manabí), Ecuador

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Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin

Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин

Kingdom of Saxony

1862 – 1911 (49 years old)

Formidable Prime Minister of the Russian Empire whose Stolypin Agrarian Reforms created a class of private peasant landowners to stabilize Tsarist Russia against revolution.

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Itō Hirobumi

伊藤 博文

Edo Period Japan

1841 – 1909 (68 years old)

First Prime Minister of Japan, father of the Meiji Constitution of 1889, and genrō elder statesman who transformed feudal Japan into a modern constitutional great power.

Shinagawa (Tokyo), Japan

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