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Alvaro Obregon

Alvaro Obregon Salido

Mexico

1880 – 1928 (48 years old)

Mexican general who never lost a single battle in the Mexican Revolution, defeated Pancho Villa at the Battle of Celaya, and served as President of Mexico (1920–1924), stabilizing the nation and launching mass rural public education under Jose Vasconcelos.

Huatabampo (Sonora), Mexico

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Saad Zaghloul

سعد زغلول

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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Baba Ould Cheikh Sidiyya

الشيخ سيدي باب بن الشيخ سيدي محمد

Mauritania

1862 – 1924 (62 years old)

Titan of Saharan diplomacy and legal reform, grandson of Sidiyya al-Kabir, whose immense moral authority negotiated peaceful pacts, preserved Islamic Sharia courts, and modernized desert education.

Boutilimit, Mauritania

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Babah Ould Cheikh

باب ولد الشيخ سيديا

Mauritania

1860 – 1924 (64 years old)

Head of the prominent Cheikh Sidiyya family of Boutilimit whose encyclopedic mahadra attracted scholars from across West Africa, navigating peaceful political transition during the colonial onset.

Boutilimit, Mauritania

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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

Germany

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

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

Germany

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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Moussa ag Amastan

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Algeria

1867 – 1920 (53 years old)

Supreme Amenokal (Sovereign Paramount Chief) of the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg from 1905 to 1920, who preserved tribal law, peace, and cultural heritage.

Tit (Tamanrasset), Algeria

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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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Mohamed Farid

محمد فريد

Egypt

January 20, 1868 – November 15, 1919 (51 years old)

Selfless Egyptian nationalist leader and philanthropist who succeeded Mustafa Kamil as head of the National Party, spending his entire personal fortune to fund night schools for workers, trade unions, and national liberation from British rule.

Cairo, Egypt

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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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Madani El Glaoui

المدني الكلاوي

Morocco

1860 – 1918 (58 years old)

Elder architect of the Glaoua dynasty, Grand Vizier of Morocco, and Minister of War under Sultan Moulay Abdelhafid during the turbulent pre-Protectorate period.

Marrakesh, Morocco

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Béchir Sfar

البشير صفر

Tunisia

February 27, 1856 – March 1, 1917 (61 years old)

Eminent Tunisian social reformer, educator, and civic pioneer who co-founded the Khaldounia institute and led the Young Tunisians movement, laying the intellectual foundations for national self-determination through scientific education.

Tunis, Tunisia

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