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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

Russia

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

Germany

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

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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Mustafa Kamil Pasha

مصطفى كامل

Egypt

August 14, 1874 – February 10, 1908 (33 years old)

Fiery Egyptian nationalist leader, brilliant orator, and journalist who founded the National Party (Watani Party) and the daily newspaper 'Al-Liwaa', mobilizing international outrage against the British military occupation.

Cairo, Egypt

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Bartolomé Mitre

Bartolomé Mitre Martínez

United States

1821 – 1906 (84 years old)

First President of a unified Argentina (1862–1868), historian, translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, and founder of the premier newspaper La Nación.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Ali III ibn al-Husayn

علي باي الثالث بن الحسين

Tunisia

1817 – 1902 (84 years old)

Husainid Bey of Tunis whose twenty-year reign witnessed the deep bureaucratic entrenchment of the French protectorate following the 1883 Conventions of La Marsa.

Medina of Tunis, Tunisia

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Li Hongzhang

李鴻章

China

1823 – 1901 (78 years old)

Preeminent Qing dynasty statesman, diplomat, and leader of the Self-Strengthening Movement who modernized Chinese industry and navy, negotiating with the world powers.

Hefei (Anhui), China

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Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

Chlodwig Carl Viktor, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst

Germany

1819 – 1901 (82 years old)

German Imperial Chancellor and Bavarian Prime Minister whose statesmanship united southern Germany with the German Empire and codified German Civil Law (BGB).

Schillingsfürst (Bavaria), Germany

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Abdallahi ibn Muhammad

عبد الله بن محمد التعايشي (الخليفة)

Sudan

c. 1846 – 1899 (53 years old)

Supreme military commander and ruler of the Mahdist State of Sudan from 1885 to 1898 who organized a vast sovereign state, minted currency, and commanded tens of thousands of Ansars at Omdurman.

Kordofan, Sudan

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Otto von Bismarck

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck

Germany

1815-04-01 – 1898-07-30 (83 years old)

Unified Germany into a dominant European power and invented the modern social security system to integrate the working class into the state.

Friedrichsruh, Germany

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William Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

Great Britain

1809-12-29 – 1898-05-19 (88 years old)

Dominant moral voice of Victorian British politics; introduced the secret ballot, expanded the voting franchise, and fought for Irish self-determination.

Hawarden, Flintshire, Great Britain

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Charilaos Trikoupis

Χαρίλαος Τρικούπης

Greece

1832 – 1896 (63 years old)

Seven-time Prime Minister of Greece who modernized 19th-century Greece, cutting the Corinth Canal, building the national railway network, modernizing the military, and establishing the constitutional principle of parliamentary majority (Dedilomeni).

Athens, Greece

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Ahmed Cevdet Pasha

Ahmed Cevdet Paşa

Bulgaria

1822 – 1895 (73 years old)

Master Ottoman jurist, historian, and statesman who directed the compilation of the Mecelle, the first modern civil code based on Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia).

Istanbul, Turkey

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José Martí

José Julián Martí Pérez

Cuba

1853-01-28 – 1895-05-19 (42 years old)

National Hero of Cuba and foundational thinker of Latin American continental unity ('Nuestra América'); harmonized lyrical modernism with moral political liberation.

Dos Ríos, Cuba

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