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Isaiah Shembe (Prophet of the Nazareth Baptist Church)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

Isaiah Shembe (Prophet of the Nazareth Baptist Church)

Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe

South Africa

c. 1867 – 1935 (~68 years old)

Founder of the Nazareth Baptist Church (Ibandla lamaNazaretha) with millions of adherents, Isaiah Shembe blended Christian scripture with authentic Zulu cultural dignity, sacred dance, and divinely inspired choral poetry at the holy mountain of Nhlangakazi.

Inanda, South Africa

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Pierre Paul Émile Roux

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Pierre Paul Émile Roux

Pierre Paul Émile Roux

France

1853 – 1933 (79 years old)

Preeminent French bacteriologist who was Louis Pasteur's closest collaborator, co-developed the rabies vaccine, discovered diphtheria toxin with Alexandre Yersin, and developed diphtheria antitoxin serum, saving millions of children.

Paris, France

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Wovoka (Jack Wilson the Paiute Prophet)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

Wovoka (Jack Wilson the Paiute Prophet)

Wovoka (The Wood Cutter)

United States

c. 1856 CE – 20 September 1932 (~76 years old)

Northern Paiute spiritual prophet who experienced a celestial vision during the total solar eclipse of New Year's Day 1889. Preached the Ghost Dance religion of universal love, non-violence, and spiritual reunion.

Yerington (Nevada), United States

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William Wade Harris (West African Prophet & Evangelist)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

William Wade Harris (West African Prophet & Evangelist)

William Wadé Harris

🌐 Liberia

c. 1860 – 1929 (~69 years old)

Dressed in a flowing white robe carrying a bamboo cross, Bible, and gourd rattles, Prophet Harris conducted an astonishing evangelistic pilgrimage across Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana (1913–1915), converting over 100,000 people in eighteen months.

Cape Palmas, Liberia

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`Abdu'l-Bahá (Abbas Effendi)

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`Abdu'l-Bahá (Abbas Effendi)

عبدالبهاء (Servant of the Glory)

Iran

23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 (77 years old)

Eldest son and designated successor of Bahá'u'lláh. Released from Ottoman confinement in 1908, he traveled extensively across Europe and North America expounding racial equality, gender justice, and universal harmony.

Haifa, Palestine

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Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Jonas Lippmann

Luxembourg

1845 – 1921 (75 years old)

Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and professor at the Sorbonne who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for producing the world's first true color photograph using pure optical light interference without artificial dyes.

Paris, France

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Garrick Braide (Elijah II of the Niger Delta)

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Garrick Braide (Elijah II of the Niger Delta)

Garrick Sokari Marian Braide

Nigeria

c. 1882 – 1918 (~36 years old)

Known as 'Elijah II' across the Niger Delta, Garrick Braide sparked a colossal religious and social revival in 1915–1916, destroying traditional occult charms and crushing the colonial trade in European gin, which threatened British commercial monopolies.

Port Harcourt

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Deguchi Nao (Foundress of Oomoto & Shinto Prophetess)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

Deguchi Nao (Foundress of Oomoto & Shinto Prophetess)

出口なお

Japan

1837 – 1918 (81 years old)

An impoverished, illiterate peasant widow in Ayabe, Deguchi Nao experienced a terrifying divine trance on Lunar New Year 1892, producing ten thousand volumes of automatic prophetic calligraphy (Ofudesaki) heralding the 'Great Reconstruction of the World' (Ushitora no Konjin).

Ayabe, Japan

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Cheikh Mustapha El Hamel

Prophets & Divine Messengers

Cheikh Mustapha El Hamel

الشيخ مصطفى بن محمد بن بلقاسم

Algeria

1850 – 1917 (67 years old)

Revered head of the great Rahmaniyya Zawiya of El Hamel following Lalla Zaynab, who sheltered thousands of famine victims and defended national education.

El Hamel, Algeria

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Sadok Ghileb

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Sadok Ghileb

الصادق غلب

Tunisia

c. 1840 AD – 1912 (72 years old)

Prominent municipal leader and Sheik al-Medina (Mayor of Tunis) who preserved the architectural identity of the ancient medina while introducing modern sanitation, water distribution, and lighting.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Smohalla (Wanapum Prophet of the Dreamer Religion)

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Smohalla (Wanapum Prophet of the Dreamer Religion)

Smowhala

United States

c. 1815 – 1895 (~80 years old)

The hunchbacked Wanapum mystic and prophet of the Columbia River Plateau, Smohalla founded the Dreamer Religion (Washat), fiercely resisting colonial industrialization with the immortal ecological defense of the living Mother Earth.

Priest Rapids, United States

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Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn-Ali Nuri)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn-Ali Nuri)

بهاءالله (The Glory of God)

Iran

12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892 (74 years old)

Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Endured forty years of imprisonment and exile across the Ottoman Empire while writing the Kitab-i-Aqdas and proclaiming the organic unity of the human race and world peace.

Bahji (Acre), Palestine

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Nakayama Miki (Oyasama / Foundress of Tenrikyo)

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Nakayama Miki (Oyasama / Foundress of Tenrikyo)

中山みき

Japan

1798 – 1887 (88 years old)

Affectionately revered as 'Oyasama' (Beloved Parent) by millions of Tenrikyo followers, Nakayama Miki became the living shrine of God the Parent (Tenri-O-no-Mikoto) in 1838, divesting herself of all possessions to teach the Joyous Life (Yokigurashi).

Tenri, Japan

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Joseph Poelaert

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Joseph Poelaert

Joseph Poelaert

Belgium

1817 – 1879 (62 years old)

Visionary architect whose colossal masterpiece, the Palais de Justice of Brussels (1866–1883), was the largest building constructed in the nineteenth century, dominating the capital's skyline.

Brussels, Belgium

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King Leopold I

Léopold Ier / Leopold I

Germany

1790 – 1865 (74 years old)

The first King of the Belgians (1831–1865) who took the constitutional oath on July 21, 1831, successfully defending the new nation against Dutch invasion and steering Belgium into an era of peace and industrialization.

Laeken (Brussels), Belgium

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Félix de Mûelenaere

Félix Amand de Mûelenaere

Belgium

1793 – 1862 (69 years old)

Prominent Catholic statesman from West Flanders who served as Belgium's third Prime Minister (1831–1832) under King Leopold I and successfully managed early diplomatic negotiations with the Great Powers.

Pittem (West Flanders), Belgium

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Queen Louise of Orléans

Louise-Marie d'Orléans

Italy

1812 – 1850 (38 years old)

The beloved first Queen of the Belgians, eldest daughter of French King Louis-Philippe I, whose marriage to Leopold I cemented the Franco-Belgian alliance and who was renowned for her devoted charity toward the poor.

Laeken (Brussels), Belgium

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The Báb (Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi)

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The Báb (Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi)

سید علی‌محمد شیرازی (The Gate)

Iran

20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850 (30 years old)

Young merchant of Shiraz who in 1844 proclaimed himself the Gate (Al-Báb) to the promised divine messenger. Authored the Persian Bayan, launched sweeping spiritual reforms, and was martyred by a 750-man firing squad in Tabriz.

Tabriz, Iran

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