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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Johannes Fibiger
Science
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Johannes Fibiger

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
🇩🇰 Denmark
1867-04-23 – 1928-01-30 (60 years old)

Eminent Danish pathologist awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering experimental research demonstrating that environmental parasites can induce carcinomas.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Nikolai Astrup
Art
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Nikolai Astrup

Nikolai Johannes Astrup
🇳🇴 Norway
1880-08-30 – 1928-01-21 (47 years old)

Distinctive Norwegian painter and innovative printmaker who immortalized the lush, mystical landscapes and Midsummer bonfires of Jølster in Western Norway.

Jølster, Norway
Thomas Hardy
Literature & Poetry
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1840 – 1928 (87 years old)

Victorian realist novelist and lyric poet whose tragic Wessex novels, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, challenged Victorian social morality.

Stinsford / London, United Kingdom
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Music
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Wilhelm Stenhammar

Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar
🇸🇪 Sweden
1871-02-07 – 1927-11-20 (56 years old)

Master composer and concert pianist who led the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and composed the Serenade in F major and Symphony No. 2, synthesizing Nordic melody with classical counterpoint.

Danderyd, Sweden
Yusef of Morocco
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Yusef of Morocco

مولاي يوسف بن الحسن
🇲🇦 Morocco
1882 – 1927 (45 years old)

Alaouite Sultan of Morocco from 1912 to 1927 whose calm, dignified leadership preserved the Alaouite monarchy during the turbulent Rif War and who inaugurated the Grand Mosque of Paris in 1926.

Fez, Morocco
Michael Ancher
Art
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Michael Ancher

Michael Peter Ancher
🇩🇰 Denmark
1849-06-09 – 1927-09-19 (78 years old)

Distinguished Danish realist painter who co-founded the Skagen artists' colony and immortalized the heroic struggles and life-saving rescue crews of Danish North Sea fishermen.

Skagen, Denmark
Andranik Ozanian
Military
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Andranik Ozanian

Անդրանիկ Օզանյան
🇦🇲 Historical Armenia
1865-02-25 – 1927-08-31 (62 years old)

Legendary military commander and fedaie leader who defended Armenian civilian populations against Ottoman forces and led volunteer divisions in the Caucasus during World War I.

Yerevan, Armenia
Stephane G. Stephansson
Literature & Poetry
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Stephane G. Stephansson

Stefán Guðmundur Guðmundsson
🇮🇸 Iceland
1853-10-03 – 1927-08-10 (73 years old)

Foremost poet of the Icelandic diaspora known as 'The Sleepless Poet' (Klettafjallaskáldið) who homesteaded in Alberta, Canada, and penned the monumental six-volume poetic cycle Andvökur.

Markerville, Canada
Education
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James Kwegyir Aggrey

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey
🇬🇭 Ghana
1875-10-18 – 1927-07-30 (51 years old)

Visionary Ghanaian educator and philosopher who co-founded Achimota College and formulated the famous parable of the black and white piano keys playing harmony together.

Salisbury, United States
Aviation
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Charles Nungesser

Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser
🇫🇷 France
1892 – 1927 (35 years old)

Third-highest scoring French fighter ace of World War I with 43 confirmed victories who flew with a macabre skull-and-coffin insignia, and vanished in the North Atlantic in May 1927 attempting the first Paris-to-New York flight in L'Oiseau Blanc.

Étretat (Seine-Maritime), France
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