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Daudi Chwa II
Politics
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Daudi Chwa II

Daudi Chwa
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Uganda
1896-08-08 โ€“ 1939-11-22 (43 years old)

Kabaka of Buganda (1897โ€“1939) who ascended the throne at one year old and skillfully steered his kingdom through the 1900 Buganda Agreement, preserving indigenous governance.

Kampala, Uganda
Charlotte Maxeke
Politics
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Charlotte Maxeke

Charlotte Makgomo Manye
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa
1871-04-07 โ€“ 1939-10-16 (68 years old)

Pioneering educator and civil rights titan revered as the 'Mother of Black Freedom', the first Black South African woman to earn a university degree (BSc, Wilberforce University, 1901).

Johannesburg, South Africa
Germรกn Busch
Politics
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Germรกn Busch

Germรกn Busch Becerra
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ด Bolivia
1903-03-23 โ€“ 1939-08-23 (36 years old)

Charismatic Chaco War hero and military socialist President of Bolivia who promulgated the 1938 progressive Constitution and forced tin oligarchs to surrender foreign exchange to the State.

La Paz, Bolivia
Cheikh El Afrit
Arts & Music
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Cheikh El Afrit

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ุงู„ุนูุฑูŠุช
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1897 โ€“ July 2, 1939 (42 years old)

Renowned Tunisian Jewish singer and oud virtuoso whose mastery of Andalusian malouf, witty popular songs, and soulful delivery made him a legendary fixture of the royal Bardo court and 1930s cafรฉ culture.

Tunis, Tunisia
Mehmed Spaho
Politics
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Mehmed Spaho

Mehmed Spaho
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina
1883-03-13 โ€“ 1939-06-29 (56 years old)

Foremost political leader of Bosnian Muslims between the World Wars who headed the Yugoslav Muslim Organization (JMO) and defended the territorial integrity and historical borders of Bosnia.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Grace Abbott
Humanitarian & Peace
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Grace Abbott

Grace Abbott
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1878 โ€“ 1939 (60 years old)

Champion of immigrants' rights and child welfare who directed the Immigrants' Protective League, led the federal enforcement of the first federal child labor laws, and helped draft the historic Social Security Act of 1935.

Grand Island (Nebraska), United States
William Butler Yeats
Literature & Poetry
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland
13 June 1865 โ€“ 28 January 1939 (73 years old)

Supreme Irish lyric poet and 1923 Nobel laureate who spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival, co-founded the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory, and chronicled the turbulent birth of modern Ireland in Easter, 1916 and The Second Coming.

Menton (French Riviera), France
Mohamed Ben Ali R'bati
Arts & Music
6
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Mohamed Ben Ali R'bati

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ุฑุจุงุทูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1861 โ€“ 1939 (78 years old)

Recognized as Morocco's earliest modern easel and watercolor painter, whose enchanting figurative scenes of Tangier and traditional life were exhibited at the Goupil Gallery in London in 1916.

Tangier, Morocco
Osip Mandelstam
Literature & Poetry
37
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Osip Mandelstam

ะžัะธะฟ ะญะผะธะปัŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะœะฐะฝะดะตะปัŒัˆั‚ะฐะผ
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Russia
1891 โ€“ 1938 (47 years old)

Foremost Russian Acmeist poet and martyr whose collections Stone and Tristia, and fatal 'Stalin Epigram', made him an eternal symbol of artistic integrity.

Vladivostok, Russia
Christian Lous Lange
Humanitarian & Peace
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Christian Lous Lange

Christian Lous Lange
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
17 September 1869 โ€“ 11 December 1938 (69 years old)

Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, educator, and political scientist who served as Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for a quarter-century (1909โ€“1933). The first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Lange guided the IPU through World War I and authored the monumental 'Histoire de l'internationalisme', receiving the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Hjalmar Branting.

Oslo, Norway
Migjeni
Literature & Poetry
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Migjeni

Millosh Gjergj Nikolla
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Albania
1911-10-13 โ€“ 1938-11-30 (27 years old)

Iconoclastic revolutionary poet and schoolteacher who shattered traditional Romanticism with his free-verse collection Vargjet e lira (Free Verse), depicting poverty, disease, and social anger.

Tirana, Albania
Branislaw Tarashkyevich
Linguistics
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Branislaw Tarashkyevich

ะ‘ั€ะฐะฝั–ัะปะฐัž ะขะฐั€ะฐัˆะบะตะฒั–ั‡
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น Lithuania
1892-01-20 โ€“ 1938-11-29 (46 years old)

Visionary linguist and parliamentarian who published the foundational 'Belarusian Grammar for Schools' in 1918, establishing the classical orthography known as 'Tarashkevitsa'.

Moscow, Russia
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