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Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II
Sports & Athletics
45
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 310

Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II

เชฐเชฃเชœเซ€เชคเชธเชฟเช‚เชนเชœเซ€ เชตเชฟเชญเชพเชœเซ€ เชœเชพเชกเซ‡เชœเชพ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1872 โ€“ 1933 (60 years old)

Indian ruler, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, and pioneering cricketer who played for England, inventor of the leg glance stroke; namesake of the Ranji Trophy.

Jamnagar, India
Carl Correns
Sciences & Discovery
30
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Carl Correns

Carl Erich Correns
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1864 โ€“ 1933 (68 years old)

German botanist and geneticist who independently rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, discovered non-Mendelian cytoplasmic (maternal) inheritance, and served as the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology.

Berlin, Germany
Maรขlma Yamna
Arts & Music
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Maรขlma Yamna

ุงู„ู…ุนู„ู…ุฉ ูŠู…ู†ุฉ ุจู†ุช ุงู„ุญุงุฌ ุงู„ู…ุญููˆุธ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1859 โ€“ 1933 (74 years old)

Pioneering matriarch of female professional musicians (Mesemaat) in Algiers, who in the early 1900s became one of the first Algerian artists to record on Gramophone discs.

Algiers, Algeria
Begum Rokeya
Literature & Poetry
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Begum Rokeya

เฆฐเง‹เฆ•เง‡เฆฏเฆผเฆพ เฆธเฆพเฆ–เฆพเฆ“เฆฏเฆผเฆพเฆค เฆนเง‹เฆธเง‡เฆจ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh
1880-12-09 โ€“ 1932-12-09 (52 years old)

Foremost Bengali feminist thinker, educator, and social reformer whose visionary 1905 feminist utopian novella 'Sultana's Dream' and tireless girls' schools pioneered women's liberation in South Asia.

Sodepur, Kolkata, India
Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa
Politics
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa

ุนูŠุณู‰ ุจู† ุนู„ูŠ ุขู„ ุฎู„ูŠูุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ญ Bahrain
1848-01-01 โ€“ 1932-12-09 (84 years old)

Longest-reigning sovereign of Bahrain who ruled for sixty-three years (1869โ€“1932), unifying the island nation, establishing modern municipal governance, and opening the first modern school in 1919.

Riffa, Bahrain
Science
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Joseph Babinski

Joseph Franรงois Fรฉlix Babinski
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1857 โ€“ 1932 (74 years old)

French neurologist of Polish descent who was Jean-Martin Charcot's favorite disciple, chief physician at the Hรดpital de la Pitiรฉ, and discoverer of the diagnostic Babinski reflex indicating corticospinal tract disease.

Champeaux (Seine-et-Marne), France
Ahmed Shawqi
Literature & Poetry
33
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ahmed Shawqi

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุดูˆู‚ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1868 โ€“ 1932 (63 years old)

Egyptian literary titan crowned by delegations from across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets) in 1927, who revived classical Arabic poetic eloquence and pioneered verse drama.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt
Ahmad Shawqi
Literature & Poetry
42
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 950

Ahmad Shawqi

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุดูˆู‚ูŠ (ุฃู…ูŠุฑ ุงู„ุดุนุฑุงุก)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
16 October 1868 โ€“ 14 October 1932 (63 years old)

Venerated across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets), who spearheaded the neoclassical Arabic literary renaissance (Al-Nahda) and pioneered Arabic poetic drama in Cleopatra and Majnun Layla.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt
Hafez Ibrahim
Literature & Poetry
33
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Hafez Ibrahim

ุญุงูุธ ุฅุจุฑุงู‡ูŠู…
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1872 โ€“ 1932 (60 years old)

Beloved Egyptian national poet known as 'The Poet of the Nile', whose resonant verses championed the Egyptian peasant, celebrated the Arabic language, and mourned the victims of the Denshawai massacre.

Cairo, Egypt
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