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Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev)
Literature & Poetry
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Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev)

রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
🇮🇳 India
7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941 (80 years old)

Towering polymath and spiritual voice of Asia who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali, founded the open-air university Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan, and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.

Calcutta (Kolkata), India
Jelly Roll Morton
Arts & Music
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Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
🇺🇸 United States
1890 – 1941 (50 years old)

New Orleans pianist, composer, and bandleader who was the first true arranger and theorist of jazz, celebrated for his Red Hot Peppers recordings and Library of Congress oral history.

Los Angeles, United States
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Politics
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Alexander Cameron Rutherford

A. C. Rutherford
🇨🇦 Canada
2 February 1857 – 11 June 1941 (84 years old)

First premier of Alberta whose foundational administration in 1905 organized the provincial civil service, judicial courts, telephone system, and founded the University of Alberta.

Edmonton, Canada
Karin Boye
Literature & Poetry
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Karin Boye

Karin Maria Boye
🇸🇪 Sweden
1900-10-26 – 1941-04-24 (40 years old)

Visionary modernist poet and author whose prophetic 1940 dystopian masterpiece 'Kallocain' anticipated Orwell's '1984', celebrated for her immortal poem 'Yes, of course it hurts when buds burst'.

Gothenburg, Sweden
Clement Payne
Social
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Clement Payne

Clement Osbourne Payne
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
1904-01-01 – 1941-04-07 (37 years old)

Charismatic anti-colonial labor orator whose impassioned rallies in Bridgetown and unjust deportation ignited the 1937 Barbadian rebellion, transforming Caribbean trade union history.

San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
Literature & Poetry
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)

Virginia Woolf
🇬🇧 Great Britain
25 January 1882 – 28 March 1821 (59 years old)

Foremost British modernist novelist and pioneering feminist essayist whose stream-of-consciousness triumphs Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, alongside her rallying manifesto A Room of One's Own ('five hundred a year and a room of her own'), reshaped 20th-century consciousness.

River Ouse (near Rodmell, Sussex), Great Britain
Alexej von Jawlensky
Arts & Music
35
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Alexej von Jawlensky

Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky
🇷🇺 Russia
1864 – 1941 (76 years old)

Russian Expressionist painter and key member of Der Blaue Reiter, acclaimed for his mystical portrait heads and meditative, spiritual explorations of the human countenance.

Wiesbaden, Germany
Paul Hymans
Politics
1
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Paul Hymans

Paul Louis Adrien Henri Hymans
🇧🇪 Belgium
1865 – 1941 (75 years old)

Belgian statesman and diplomat who made world history in November 1920 by being elected the very first President of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva.

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
Ludwig Quidde
Humanitarian & Peace
31
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Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde
🇩🇪 Germany
23 March 1858 – 4 March 1941 (82 years old)

Ludwig Quidde was a prominent German historian, pacifist, and politician who served as President of the German Peace Society (DFG) for fifteen years (1914–1929). Famed for his daring 1894 satirical essay 'Caligula' attacking Kaiser Wilhelm II's militaristic megalomania, Quidde opposed German expansionism throughout WWI and shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize with Ferdinand Buisson before fleeing Nazi terror.

Geneva, Switzerland
Music
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La Bolduc (Mary Travers)

Marie-Rose-Anne Travers
🇨🇦 Canada
1894 – 1941 (46 years old)

Gaspé-born singer and harmonica virtuoso known as 'La Bolduc', whose lively mouth-music (turlutte) and satirical Depression-era folk songs made her Quebec's first commercial musical superstar.

Montreal, Canada
Maximilien Luce
Arts & Music
31
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Maximilien Luce

Maximilien Luce
🇫🇷 France
1858 – 1941 (82 years old)

French Neo-Impressionist painter, engraver, and anarchist whose vibrant pointillist canvases of steelworks, blast furnaces, and the Paris Commune celebrated industrial labor.

Rolleboise, France
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
Literature & Poetry
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce

James Joyce
🇮🇪 Ireland
2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941 (58 years old)

Revolutionary Irish avant-garde novelist whose landmark masterwork Ulysses (1922)—recounting a single Dublin day, 16 June 1904 (Bloomsday), through Leopold Bloom's stream of consciousness—permanently transformed modern world literature.

Zurich, Switzerland
Henri Bergson
Philosophy & Thought
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Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson
🇫🇷 France
1859 – 1941 (81 years old)

French philosopher of intuition and process who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature, world-famous for Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, and his concept of living duration (la duree).

Mormant (Seine-et-Marne), France
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