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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Rashid Rida
Philosophy & Thought
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Rashid Rida

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุฑุดูŠุฏ ุฑุถุง
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
September 23, 1865 โ€“ August 22, 1935 (69 years old)

Influential Islamic scholar, editor, and political theorist who founded the seminal Cairo-based journal 'Al-Manar' in 1898, continuing the modernist reform tradition of Muhammad Abduh while articulating an early vision of the modern Islamic state.

Cairo, Egypt
Paul Signac
Arts & Music
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Paul Signac

Paul Signac
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1863 โ€“ 1935 (71 years old)

Co-founder of Neo-Impressionism / Pointillism alongside Georges Seurat, president of the Sociรฉtรฉ des Artistes Indรฉpendants, and author of 'From Eugรจne Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism'.

Paris, France
Hugo de Vries
Sciences & Discovery
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Hugo de Vries

Hugo Marie de Vries
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
1848 โ€“ 1935 (87 years old)

Dutch botanist who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900 and formulated the revolutionary Mutation Theory, introducing the concept of sudden genetic changes as the raw material of evolution.

Lunteren (Ede, Gelderland), Netherlands
Anna Ancher
Art
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Anna Ancher

Anna Kirstine Brรธndum Ancher
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark
1859-08-18 โ€“ 1935-04-15 (75 years old)

Foremost Danish female painter of the Skagen group and brilliant colorist, renowned for luminous domestic interiors such as Solskin i den blรฅ stue (Sunshine in the Blue Room).

Skagen, Denmark
Art
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Aleksandรซr Moisiu

Aleksandรซr Moisiu
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
1879-04-02 โ€“ 1935-03-22 (55 years old)

World-renowned stage actor of Albanian heritage who became Max Reinhardt's leading dramatic superstar at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, celebrated across Europe for his Hamlet and Jedermann.

Morcote, Switzerland
Science
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John Macleod

J. J. R. Macleod
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
6 September 1876 โ€“ 16 March 1935 (58 years old)

Scottish-Canadian physiologist who provided laboratory facilities, critical guidance, and scientific oversight for the discovery of insulin, sharing the 1923 Nobel Prize.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Chiquinha Gonzaga
Arts & Music
30
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Chiquinha Gonzaga

Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
1847 โ€“ 1935 (87 years old)

Afro-Brazilian composer, pianist, and conductor who became the first female orchestral conductor in Brazil, composed the first carnival march (O Abre Alas), and founded Brazil's society of theatrical authors.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Politics
2
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Hajj Abdeslam Bennouna

ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ุณู„ุงู… ุจู†ูˆู†ุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1888 โ€“ 1935 (46 years old)

Revered as the 'Father of Northern Moroccan Nationalism', pioneer of modern Arab-Islamic education in Tetouan, diplomat who established ties with the League of Nations, and mentor to Abdelkhalek Torres.

Tetouan, Morocco
Military
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Fatima Taghbaloute

ูุงุทู…ุฉ ุชุงุบุจุงู„ูˆุช
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
c. 1890 โ€“ c. 1935 (~45 years old)

Legendary Amazigh combatant from the Aรฏt Ouirra tribe of El Ksiba who fought alongside Moha Ou Said against French colonial invading columns in the Middle Atlas.

El Ksiba, Morocco
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