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Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II

રણજીતસિંહજી વિભાજી જાડેજા

India

1872 – 1933 (60 years old)

Indian ruler, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, and pioneering cricketer who played for England, inventor of the leg glance stroke; namesake of the Ranji Trophy.

Jamnagar, India

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Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen

Norway

1872 – 1928 (55 years old)

Norwegian polar explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, the first to traverse the Northwest Passage, and the first verified explorer to reach the North Pole by air.

Oppegard (Akershus), Norway

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Georges Vézina

The Chicoutimi Cucumber

Canada

21 January 1887 – 27 March 1926 (39 years old)

Pioneering French-Canadian goaltender whose ice-cool demeanor in net for the Canadiens earned him the nickname "The Chicoutimi Cucumber" and inspired the NHL's premier goalie trophy.

Chicoutimi, Canada

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George Herbert Leigh Mallory

George Herbert Leigh Mallory

Great Britain

1886 – 1924 (37 years old)

English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, famous for his quote 'Because it's there'.

Tibet, China

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Ireland

1874 – 1922 (47 years old)

Anglo-Irish polar explorer renowned for supreme leadership during the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, rescuing his entire twenty-eight-man crew without losing a single life after their ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice.

South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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William Gilbert Grace

William Gilbert Grace

Great Britain

1848 – 1915 (67 years old)

English amateur cricketer and physician, universally regarded as the founding father of modern batsmanship and Victorian sport's greatest celebrity.

London, United Kingdom

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Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott

Great Britain

1868 – 1912 (43 years old)

British Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer whose heroic 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition reached the South Pole and whose poignant final diary entries inspired generations of polar scientists.

Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

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John Ware

John Ware

United States

c. 1845 – 1905 (60 years old)

Legendary African-American cowboy who drove cattle north to Calgary in 1882, becoming one of the most celebrated horsemen, ranchers, and folk heroes of the Canadian western frontier.

Calgary (Alberta), Canada

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