Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Iraj Mirza

ایرج میرزا

Iran

October 1874 – 12 March 1926 (51 years old)

Daring Qajar prince and satirical poet of the Constitutional era who used lucid, colloquial Persian to ridicule religious hypocrisy and champion women's education.

Tehran, Iran

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Sciences & Discovery

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Netherlands

1853 – 1926 (72 years old)

Dutch low-temperature pioneer who liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity.

Voorschoten, South Holland, Netherlands

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Sciences & Discovery

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Camillo Golgi

Italy

1843 – 1926 (82 years old)

Italian cytologist and Nobel laureate who discovered the Golgi apparatus in cells and invented the silver nitrate staining method for neurons.

Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

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Literature & Poetry

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Military Leaders & Strategists

Eino Leino

Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm

Finland

1878-07-06 – 1926-01-10 (47 years old)

Beloved Finnish poet and bohemian genius whose rhythmic, melancholic masterpiece Helkavirsiä (Whitsongs) fused ancient Kalevala trochaic meter with modern European symbolism.

Helsinki, Finland

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Osman Digna

عثمان دقنة

Sudan

c. 1840 – 1926 (86 years old)

Fabled military strategist of the Beja Hadendoa tribes in eastern Sudan who defeated British and Egyptian armies at El Teb and Tamai, breaking the British infantry square.

Wadi Halfa (Northern State), Sudan

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Félix Édouard Vallotton

Félix Vallotton

Switzerland

1865 – 1925 (60 years old)

Swiss-French painter, woodcut genius, and member of Les Nabis whose biting black-and-white print series 'Intimités' and cool, unsparing paintings captured modern bourgeois deceit.

Paris, France

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Science

Alfred Pérot

Jean-Baptiste Alfred Pérot

France

1863 – 1925 (62 years old)

French physicist and professor at the École Polytechnique who co-invented the Fabry-Pérot interferometer in 1897, establishing the international standard for the optical wavelength of the red cadmium line.

Paris, France

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Cinema

Max Linder

Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle

France

1883 – 1925 (41 years old)

French silent screen comic actor and director recognized as the world's very first international cinema star, whose dapper, silk-hatted bourgeois character directly inspired Charlie Chaplin.

Saint-Loubès (Gironde), France

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Art

Christian Krohg

Norway

1852-08-13 – 1925-10-16 (73 years old)

Prominent Norwegian naturalist painter, social critic, and novelist who championed social justice in works like Albertine i politilægens venteværelse and Leiv Eiriksson oppdager Amerika.

Oslo, Norway

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

France

21 May 1851 – 29 September 1925 (74 years old)

Léon Bourgeois was a French statesman, philosopher, and Prime Minister of France (1895–1896) whose social philosophy of 'Solidarism' provided the intellectual blueprint for the League of Nations. Known as the spiritual father of the League, he served as the first President of the Council of the League of Nations in 1920 and was awarded the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.

Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France

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Philosophy & Thought

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Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege

Germany

1848 – 1925 (76 years old)

German mathematician, logician, and philosopher universally celebrated as the father of modern logic and analytic philosophy, who invented predicate calculus and distinguished Sense and Reference.

Wismar, Germany

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Lovis Corinth

Russia

1858 – 1925 (66 years old)

German master painter and president of the Berlin Secession whose style dramatically evolved from robust naturalism into feverish, tragic late Expressionist masterpieces.

Stahnsdorf (Berlin), Germany

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie

France

1866 – 1925 (59 years old)

Eccentric French avant-garde composer and pianist whose Gymnopédies and Furniture Music anticipated minimalism and ambient sound.

Arcueil (Paris), France

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Politics

Christian Michelsen

Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen

Norway

1857-03-15 – 1925-06-29 (68 years old)

Visionary Norwegian statesman and shipping magnate who served as Prime Minister in 1905, masterminding the peaceful dissolution of the 91-year union with Sweden.

Bergen, Norway

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Felix Klein

Christian Felix Klein

Germany

1849 – 1925 (76 years old)

German mathematician who unified geometry through group theory in his Erlangen Program and discovered the non-orientable one-sided closed surface known as the Klein bottle.

Gottingen, Germany

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Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Robert Marion La Follette Sr.

United States

1855 – 1925 (70 years old)

Leader of the Progressive Movement known as 'Fighting Bob', Governor and Senator from Wisconsin who pioneered direct primary elections and workers' compensation.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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