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Joseph Maurice Ravel
Arts & Music
38
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 975

Joseph Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
7 March 1875 โ€“ 28 December 1937 (62 years old)

French composer and supreme orchestral wizard celebrated for his precision craftsmanship, Basque-Spanish elegance, and dazzling sonic imagination in Bolรฉro, Pavane pour une infante dรฉfunte, and Daphnis et Chloรฉ.

Paris, France
Frank Billings Kellogg
Humanitarian & Peace
28
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,110

Frank Billings Kellogg

Frank Billings Kellogg
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
22 December 1856 โ€“ 21 December 1937 (80 years old)

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, diplomat, and US Secretary of State (1925โ€“1929) under President Calvin Coolidge. Working in partnership with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, he authored the historic 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris), signed by sixty-two nations legally renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, for which he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington, D.C., United States
Dawood Hosni
Arts & Music
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Dawood Hosni

ุฏุงูˆุฏ ุญุณู†ูŠ (ุฏูŠููŠุฏ ุญุงูŠูŠู… ู„ูŠููŠ)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1870 โ€“ 1937 (67 years old)

Pioneering Jewish-Egyptian musical genius who composed the first complete modern Arabic operetta (Sabah, 1919), recorded over 500 classical taqatiq, and discovered and trained young Umm Kulthum and Asmahan.

Cairo, Egypt
Gustaf Dalรฉn
Science
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Gustaf Dalรฉn

Nils Gustaf Dalรฉn
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden
1869-11-30 โ€“ 1937-12-09 (68 years old)

Swedish inventor and founder of AGA who was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics for his automatic sun valve and dissolved acetylene regulators that saved thousands of lives at sea.

Lidingรถ, Sweden
Yeghishe Charents
Literature & Poetry
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Yeghishe Charents

ิตีฒีซีทีฅ ี‰ีกึ€ีฅีถึ
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Historical Armenia
1897-03-13 โ€“ 1937-11-27 (40 years old)

Revolutionary avant-garde poet and national martyr whose immortal hymn 'I Love My Sweet Armenia' and radical modernist verse captured the volcanic spirit of twentieth-century Armenian literature.

Yerevan, Armenia
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Sciences & Discovery
27
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Jagadish Chandra Bose

เฆœเฆ—เฆฆเง€เฆถ เฆšเฆจเงเฆฆเงเฆฐ เฆฌเฆธเง
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh
1858 โ€“ 1937 (78 years old)

Indian polymath who pioneered millimeter-wave radio transmission, invented the semiconductor crystal radio detector, and invented the crescograph to prove that plants respond physiologically to electrical, chemical, and emotional stimuli.

Kolkata (West Bengal), India
Ernest Rutherford
Sciences & Discovery
48
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ New Zealand
30 August 1871 โ€“ 19 October 1937 (66 years old)

New Zealand-British physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, identified alpha and beta radiation, proved radioactive transmutation, and achieved humanity's first artificial nuclear transmutation.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ray Ewry
Sports & Athletics
51
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,920

Ray Ewry

Raymond Clarence Ewry
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
14 October 1873 โ€“ 29 September 1937 (63 years old)

Raymond Clarence 'Ray' Ewry was an American track and field phenomenon who won eight official Olympic gold medals (and two more at the 1906 Intercalated Games) without ever losing a single Olympic competition. Confined to a wheelchair as a boy due to childhood polio, he developed superhuman leg spring to dominate the standing high jump, standing long jump, and standing triple jump.

Long Island, New York, United States
Robert Borden
Politics
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Robert Borden

Sir Robert Laird Borden
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1854 โ€“ 1937 (82 years old)

Canada's resolute wartime Prime Minister during World War I who mobilized 600,000 troops, established the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and asserted Canada's international sovereign independence at Versailles.

Ottawa, Canada
Politics
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Moulay Abd al-Hafid

ู…ูˆู„ุงูŠ ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ุญููŠุธ ุจู† ุงู„ุญุณู†
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1875 โ€“ 1937 (62 years old)

Alaouite Sultan (1908โ€“1912), scholar, and poet who ascended the throne through the 'Hafidiya' movement pledging to resist foreign domination, compelled to sign the 1912 Treaty of Fez before abdicating in protest.

Fez, Morocco
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