Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Dassine Oult Yemma

ⴷⴰⵙⵉⵏ ⵓⵍⵜ ⵢⵎⵎⴰ

Algeria

c. 1875 – c. 1935 (60 years old)

The supreme poetess and virtuoso of the sacred single-string violin (Imzad) in Tuareg culture, whose artistic salon (Ahal) shaped the cultural soul of the Hoggar.

Tamanrasset, Algeria

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Science

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Adrien de Gerlache

Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery

Belgium

1866-08-02 – 1934-12-04 (68 years old)

Belgian naval officer who led the historic 1897–1899 'Belgica' expedition, conducting the first-ever scientific overwintering in the Antarctic pack ice alongside Roald Amundsen and Frederick Cook.

Evere, Brussels, Belgium

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas

Carlos Chagas

Brazil

1879 – 1934 (55 years old)

Médecin et chercheur brésilien d'exception, auteur d'un exploit unique en médecine : la découverte intégrale d'une maladie infectieuse, son agent, son vecteur et sa clinique.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Sciences & Discovery

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spain

1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934 (82 years old)

Spanish histologist and Nobel laureate who established the Neuron Doctrine—proving that the nervous system is composed of discrete individual nerve cells (neurons) communicating across synapses.

Madrid, Spain

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Raymond Poincaré

Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré

France

1860 – 1934 (74 years old)

President of France throughout World War I who formed the 'Union Sacrée' and served as five-time Prime Minister, stabilizing the currency as 'Poincaré the Franc'.

Nubécourt (Meuse), France

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Literature & Poetry

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Abou el Kacem Chebbi

أبو القاسم الشابي

Tunisia

1909 – 1934 (25 years old)

Immortal national poet of Tunisia whose fiery romantic and revolutionary verses in 'The Will of Life' (Iradat al-Hayat) and 'To the Tyrants of the World' inspired generations of Arab anti-colonial struggles and the 2011 Arab Spring.

Tozeur, Tunisia

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Science

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Edgeworth David

Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David

United Kingdom

1858-01-28 – 1934-08-28 (76 years old)

Celebrated geologist and explorer who discovered the massive Hunter Valley coal seams, led the climbing team that reached the South Magnetic Pole in 1909, and commanded military tunneling at Messines.

North Ryde, Sydney, Australia

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Art

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Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler

Canada

9 November 1868 – 28 July 1934 (65 years old)

Cobourg-born stage and screen star who staged an astonishing career comeback in her sixties to become Hollywood's number-one box-office star and Oscar winner.

Glendale, United States

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Ahmad al-Alawi

أحمد بن مصطفى العلاوي

Algeria

1869 – 1934 (65 years old)

Venerated 20th-century Algerian Sufi master who founded the worldwide Alawiyya tariqa in Mostaganem, published reformist newspapers, and whose spiritual depth was celebrated by European philosophers including Martin Lings.

Mostaganem, Algeria

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Sciences & Discovery

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Poland

1867 – 1934 (66 years old)

Trailblazing physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics & Chemistry), and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

Passy, France

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Togo Heihachiro

東郷 平八郎

Japan

1848 – 1934 (86 years old)

Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy dubbed the 'Nelson of the East', who annihilated the Russian Imperial Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, changing world naval history.

Fuchu (Tokyo), Japan

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Arts & Music

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst

Great Britain

1874 – 1934 (59 years old)

English composer and educator world-renowned for his monumental orchestral suite The Planets.

Chichester, United Kingdom

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Science

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Carsten Borchgrevink

Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink

Norway

1864-12-01 – 1934-04-21 (69 years old)

Pioneering Norwegian-Australian polar explorer who led the Southern Cross Expedition, pioneering the first overwintering on the Antarctic mainland at Cape Adare in 1899.

Oslo, Norway

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Literature & Poetry

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Safvet-beg Bašagić

Safvet-beg Bašagić

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1870-05-06 – 1934-04-09 (63 years old)

Foremost intellectual of the Bosniak cultural renaissance, orientalist, and poet who founded the cultural society Gajret, served as President of the Bosnian Sabor, and preserved Islamic manuscript heritage.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Arts & Music

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Mahmoud Mokhtar

محمود مختار

Egypt

January 26, 1891 – March 28, 1934 (43 years old)

Pioneering sculptor universally celebrated as the father of modern Egyptian sculpture, who revitalized monumental stone carving after a two-thousand-year hiatus, immortalized by his monumental statue 'Nahdat Misr' (Egypt's Renaissance).

Cairo, Egypt

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Science

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Davidson Black

Davidson Black

Canada

25 July 1884 – 15 March 1934 (49 years old)

Toronto-born medical anatomist whose excavations at Zhoukoudian in China identified the fossils of "Peking Man," proving early human evolution in Asia.

Toronto, Canada

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Monarchy

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King Albert I

Albert Ier / Albert I

Belgium

1875 – 1934 (58 years old)

Legendary 'Soldier King' of the Belgians who heroically commanded the Belgian Army on the front lines throughout World War I, rejecting the 1914 German ultimatum and defending the Yser pocket.

Laeken (Brussels), Belgium

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Sciences & Discovery

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Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber

Poland

1868 – 1934 (65 years old)

German chemist who invented the Haber-Bosch process synthesizing ammonia from air, feeding half the modern human population.

Basel, Switzerland

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