Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Religious Figures & Theologians

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Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani

محمد بن جعفر الكتاني

Morocco

c. 1858 – 1927 (69 years old)

Foremost Moroccan Hadith traditionist, polymath, and historian of Fez whose three-volume masterwork 'Salwat al-Anfas' chronicles the lives of all saints and scholars buried in the imperial capital.

Fez, Morocco

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Kattani

محمد بن جعفر الكتاني

Morocco

1857 – 1927 (70 years old)

Supreme hadith master and encyclopedist of Fez whose 3-volume biographical masterwork Salwat al-Anfas documented over 1,200 scholars, saints, and institutions of the imperial capital Fez.

Fez, Morocco

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Sir Apolo Kagwa

Apolo Kagwa

Uganda

1864-01-01 – 1927-02-21 (63 years old)

Prime Minister (Katikkiro) of Buganda for thirty-seven years (1890–1926) and pioneering historian whose 'Basekabaka be Buganda' codified the royal history of the Baganda kingdom.

Kampala, Uganda

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Literature & Poetry

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Georg Brandes

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes

Denmark

1842-02-04 – 1927-02-19 (85 years old)

Influential Danish literary critic and intellectual titan who launched the 'Modern Breakthrough' in 1871, demanding that literature debate modern social, political, and moral problems.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Literature & Poetry

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Dr. Mohamed Bencheneb

الدكتور محمد بن أبي شنب

Algeria

1869 – 1927 (57 years old)

The first Algerian to earn a State Doctorate in France (Sorbonne, 1920), illustrious polyglot scholar and member of the prestigious Arab Academy of Damascus.

Algiers, Algeria

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Cheikh Amoud Ben Mokhtar

الشيخ آمود بن المختار

Algeria

1859 – 1927 (68 years old)

Legendary Tuareg war chief who waged an unrelenting forty-year armed struggle against French colonial conquest of the Sahara from 1881 to 1923.

Djanet (honored throughout the Sahara), Algeria

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ahmad al-Marid

أحمد المريض

Libya

c. 1880 – 1927 (~47 years old)

Charismatic chieftain of the Tarhuna tribal confederation and president of the Supreme Council of the Tripolitanian Republic (1918–1922), who led ferocious resistance against Italian colonial forces.

Tarhuna, Libya

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Literature & Poetry

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Czech Republic

4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 (51 years old)

One of the supreme lyric poets in world literature whose mystical communion with physical objects in New Poems, Letters to a Young Poet, and the transcendent Duino Elegies ('Every angel is terrifying') explored the sacred beauty of being.

Val-Mont Sanatorium (Glion sur Montreux), Switzerland

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Emperor Taisho

大正天皇 (嘉仁)

Japan

1879 – 1926 (47 years old)

The 123rd Emperor of Japan (reigned 1912–1926) whose era—known as 'Taisho Democracy'—saw the rise of parliamentary party politics, labor unions, universal male suffrage, and cultural modernism in Japan.

Hachioji (Tokyo), Japan

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Politics

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Johan Castberg

Johan Castberg

Norway

1860-09-21 – 1926-12-24 (66 years old)

Pioneering Norwegian progressive statesman and jurist who authored the revolutionary Castbergian Child Laws of 1915, granting children born out of wedlock full inheritance and paternal recognition.

Oslo, Norway

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Science

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Lars Magnus Ericsson

Lars Magnus Ericsson

Sweden

1846-05-05 – 1926-12-17 (80 years old)

Visionary telecommunications engineer who founded the Ericsson empire in 1876, designing the world's most elegant early telephone handsets and manual switchboards.

Botkyrka, Sweden

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Art

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Théo van Rysselberghe

Théophile van Rysselberghe

Belgium

1862 – 1926 (64 years old)

Leading Belgian Neo-Impressionist painter who co-founded Les XX, adopted Georges Seurat's pointillist division of color, and created luminous portraits, coastal seascapes, and Mediterranean sunlit canvases.

Le Lavandou (Var), France

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Politics

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Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis Dinagde

Habte Giyorgis Dinagde

Ethiopia

1851-01-01 – 1926-12-12 (75 years old)

Distinguished Oromo military commander and Minister of War known as Abba Kisho, who commanded forces at Adwa and served as the indispensable anchor of the Ethiopian state for thirty years.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Arts & Music

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Oscar-Claude Monet

Claude Monet

France

14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926 (86 years old)

Founding father of French Impressionism whose 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise gave the revolutionary movement its name, celebrated worldwide for capturing transient light across series of Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and the monumental Water Lilies.

Giverny (Eure), France

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor Debs

United States

1855 – 1926 (70 years old)

American trade union pioneer, founder of the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who won nearly one million votes for President from a federal prison cell in 1920 while incarcerated for speaking against World War I.

Terre Haute (Indiana), United States

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Arts & Music

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

Виктор Михайлович Васнецов

Russia

1848 – 1926 (78 years old)

Pioneering Russian folklorist and painter whose monumental epic canvases of epic heroes—such as 'Bogatyrs' and 'Alyonushka'—created the visual iconography of Russian fairy tales and epics.

Moscow, Russia

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Arts & Music

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

United States

1844 – 1926 (82 years old)

Pioneering American Impressionist painter and printmaker acclaimed for her sensitive portraits of the intimate bond between mothers and children.

Le Mesnil-Théribus, France

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Sports & Athletics

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Georges Vézina

The Chicoutimi Cucumber

Canada

21 January 1887 – 27 March 1926 (39 years old)

Pioneering French-Canadian goaltender whose ice-cool demeanor in net for the Canadiens earned him the nickname "The Chicoutimi Cucumber" and inspired the NHL's premier goalie trophy.

Chicoutimi, Canada

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