Historical Archives & Public Figures

Édouard Louis Joseph Empain

Belgium

1852 – 1929 (76 years old)

Belgian industrialist, financier, and transport builder who constructed the Paris Métro electrical subway network and founded the visionary desert oasis city of Heliopolis in Cairo.

Cairo, Egypt

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

Austria

1874-02-01 – 1929-07-15 (55 years old)

Brilliant symbolist prodigy, dramatist, and Richard Strauss's master librettist ('Der Rosenkavalier', 'Elektra') who co-founded the world-famous Salzburg Festival with Max Reinhardt.

Rodaun, Vienna, Austria

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Literature & Poetry

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Bliss Carman

William Bliss Carman

Canada

1861 – 1929 (68 years old)

Celebrated Canadian lyrical poet whose Vagabondia collections with Richard Hovey won international fame and who was unofficially crowned Canada's Poet Laureate in 1921.

Fredericton (New Brunswick), Canada

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William Wade Harris (West African Prophet & Evangelist)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

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William Wade Harris (West African Prophet & Evangelist)

William Wadé Harris

🌐 Liberia

c. 1860 – 1929 (~69 years old)

Dressed in a flowing white robe carrying a bamboo cross, Bible, and gourd rattles, Prophet Harris conducted an astonishing evangelistic pilgrimage across Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana (1913–1915), converting over 100,000 people in eighteen months.

Cape Palmas, Liberia

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Literature & Poetry

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Rudolf Nilsen

Rudolf William Nilsen

Norway

1901-02-28 – 1929-04-23 (28 years old)

Beloved Norwegian working-class poet whose sharp, rhythmic verses in collections like På stengrunn and På gjensyn captured the urban poverty, defiance, and solidarity of Oslo workers.

Oslo, Norway

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Eglantyne Jebb

Great Britain

25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928 (52 years old)

Eglantyne Jebb was a visionary British humanitarian and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 to relieve post-WWI famine among European children. In 1923, she authored the landmark Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the League of Nations and served as the direct foundation for the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Art

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Mauritz Stiller

Moshe Stiller

Finland

1883-07-17 – 1928-11-18 (45 years old)

Pioneering director of the golden age of Swedish silent cinema whose sophisticated comedies and epics like 'The Saga of Gösta Berling' discovered and launched Greta Garbo.

Solna, Sweden

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Mary Richmond

Mary Ellen Richmond

United States

1861 – 1928 (67 years old)

Pioneering American humanitarian whose 1917 masterpiece 'Social Diagnosis' constructed the scientific methodology of professional social casework, establishing diagnostic interviewing and social investigation.

Baltimore (Maryland), United States

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Arts & Music

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Franz von Stuck

Germany

1863 – 1928 (65 years old)

Leader of the Munich Secession whose provocative Symbolist canvas 'The Sin' (Die Sünde) and magnificent self-designed Villa Stuck mentored Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

Munich, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Leoš Janáček

Austria

1854 – 1928 (74 years old)

Moravian Czech composer celebrated for his revolutionary musical style based on human speech inflections, immortalized by 'Jenůfa', 'The Cunning Little Vixen', and the 'Sinfonietta'.

Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Alvaro Obregon

Alvaro Obregon Salido

Mexico

1880 – 1928 (48 years old)

Mexican general who never lost a single battle in the Mexican Revolution, defeated Pancho Villa at the Battle of Celaya, and served as President of Mexico (1920–1924), stabilizing the nation and launching mass rural public education under Jose Vasconcelos.

Huatabampo (Sonora), Mexico

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Arts & Music

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Khalil Saleeby

خليل صليبي

Lebanon

1870 – 7 July 1928 (58 years old)

Pioneering Impressionist painter from Bteghrine who introduced modern plein-air painting and artistic nude studies to Lebanon.

Bteghrine, Lebanon

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Sports & Athletics

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Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen

Norway

1872 – 1928 (55 years old)

Norwegian polar explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, the first to traverse the Northwest Passage, and the first verified explorer to reach the North Pole by air.

Oppegard (Akershus), Norway

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Goulden

Great Britain

15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928 (69 years old)

British political activist who organized the UK suffragette movement and founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), using direct action under the motto 'Deeds, Not Words' to win women the right to vote.

Hampstead, London, Great Britain

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Literature & Poetry

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Adela Zamudio

Paz Juana Plácida Adela Rafaela Zamudio Rivero

Bolivia

1854-10-11 – 1928-06-02 (73 years old)

Foremost Bolivian feminist writer, educator, and intellectual pioneer whose courageous verse and activism challenged patriarchal society and the clerical monopoly on education.

Cochabamba, Bolivia

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Hideyo Noguchi

野口英世 (Seisaku Noguchi)

Japan

1876 – 1928 (51 years old)

Bactériologiste japonais de renommée mondiale, chercheur infatigable contre la syphilis et la fièvre jaune, mort martyr de la science en Afrique de l'Ouest.

Bronx, New York, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Paul van Ostaijen

Paul Leopold Isidore Lodewijk van Ostaijen

Belgium

1896 – 1928 (32 years old)

Visionary Flemish avant-garde poet and critic whose radical Dadaist and Expressionist collection Bezette Stad (Occupied City, 1921) introduced rhythmic typography and cinematic montage into Dutch poetry.

Hoboken (Antwerp), Belgium

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