Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Politics

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Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni

مولاي أحمد الريسوني

Morocco

1871 – April 1925 (54 years old)

Charismatic mountain leader and Sharif of the Jbala tribes known as 'The Eagle of Zinat', famed internationally for audacious hostage takings (including Ion Perdicaris), later Pasha of Asilah and master of the northwest.

Jbel Alam, Morocco

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Sun Yat-sen

孫文 / 孫中山

China

1866-11-12 – 1925-03-12 (58 years old)

Revered across both mainland China and Taiwan as the 'Father of the Nation', having ended imperial dynastic absolutism to found the first Asian republic.

Beijing, China

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Technology

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Clément Ader

Clément Agnès Ader

France

1841 – 1925 (83 years old)

Visionary French electrical and aviation pioneer who coined the word 'avion' in 1890 and made history on October 9, 1890, when his bat-winged, steam-powered aircraft Éole achieved the first unassisted motorized take-off.

Muret (Haute-Garonne), France

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Luigj Gurakuqi

Luigj Gurakuqi

Albania

1879-02-19 – 1925-03-02 (46 years old)

Prominent statesman, linguist, and educator who co-drafted the 1912 Declaration of Independence, founded the Normal School of Elbasan, and served as Minister of Education and Finance.

Shkodër, Albania

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Joseph Rowntree

Joseph Rowntree

Great Britain

1836 – 1925 (88 years old)

Industriel quaker et philanthrope britannique, fondateur de trusts dédiés à la recherche sur les causes profondes de la pauvreté et aux réformes sociales.

York, United Kingdom

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Karl Hjalmar Branting

Karl Hjalmar Branting

Sweden

23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925 (64 years old)

Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish statesman who led the Swedish Social Democratic Party and served as Prime Minister of Sweden in three separate administrations. A staunch advocate for peaceful international conflict resolution, Branting supported the League of Nations' peaceful settlement of the Åland Islands dispute, sharing the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Christian Lous Lange.

Stockholm, Sweden

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Sciences & Discovery

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Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside

Great Britain

1850 – 1925 (74 years old)

Self-taught English mathematician and electrical engineer who condensed Maxwell's 20 original quaternion equations into the modern four vector calculus equations of electromagnetism and predicted the ionosphere.

Paignton (Devon), United Kingdom

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Mekatilili wa Menza

Mnyazi wa Menza

Kenya

c. 1840 – c. 1925 (~85 years old)

Heroic Giriama woman leader who spearheaded the 1913-1914 Giriama Uprising against British colonial forced labor and hut taxation on the Kenyan coast.

Malindi, Kenya

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Science

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Carl Anton Larsen

Carl Anton Larsen

Norway

1860-08-07 – 1924-12-08 (64 years old)

Visionary Norwegian master mariner and explorer who captained the Antarctic during Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition and founded the Grytviken settlement in South Georgia.

Sandefjord, Norway

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Arts & Music

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Italy

22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924 (65 years old)

Italian operatic titan regarded as the heir to Verdi, whose heart-wrenching theatrical masterworks—La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot (Nessun dorma)—rank among the most frequently performed operas in history.

Brussels, Belgium

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Resistance & Human Rights

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E. D. Morel

Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel-de Ville

France

10 July 1873 – 5 November 1924 (51 years old)

British journalist, author, and politician who uncovered King Leopold II's rubber slave-labor regime in the Congo Free State, founding the Congo Reform Association to lead the first global human rights campaign of the 20th century.

Bovey Tracey, Devon, Great Britain

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Arts & Music

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Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré

France

1845 – 1924 (79 years old)

Refined French master of melody and harmony whose Requiem and chamber songs linked late Romanticism to 20th-century modernism.

Paris, France

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Politics

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Kgosi Linchwe I

Linchwe Khamanyane

Botswana

1856-01-01 – 1924-10-24 (68 years old)

Visionary and formidable ruler of the Bakgatla for nearly fifty years who defeated Boer forces at the Battle of Derdepoort during the Anglo-Boer War and championed Western education in Mochudi.

Mochudi, Botswana

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Literature & Poetry

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Iwan Gilkin

Iwan Gilkin

Belgium

1858 – 1924 (66 years old)

Belgian Symbolist and Parnassian poet who directed La Jeune Belgique following Max Waller's death, famed for his Baudelairean verse collection La Damnation de l'artiste and philosophical verse dramas.

Schaerbeek (Brussels), Belgium

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Literature & Poetry

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Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti

مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي

Egypt

1876 – 1924 (47 years old)

Paramount master of modern Arabic lyrical prose and essayist whose emotional masterpieces Al-Nazarat and Al-Ibarat captivated millions across the Arab world with their moral beauty and empathy for the suffering.

Asyut, Egypt

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Philosophy & Thought

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Salem Bouhageb

سالم بوحاجب

Tunisia

1827 – 1924 (97 years old)

Towering reformist thinker and revered professor at Ez-Zitouna who mentored the leaders of the Young Tunisian movement and advocated religious modernization through ijtihad.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Giacomo Matteotti

Giacomo Matteotti

Italy

22 May 1885 – 10 June 1924 (39 years old)

Italian socialist politician and deputy whose courageous parliamentary speech exposing fascist electoral fraud and violence in May 1924 led to his abduction and murder by Mussolini's blackshirts, triggering the Matteotti Crisis.

Rome, Italy

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Sports & Athletics

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George Herbert Leigh Mallory

George Herbert Leigh Mallory

Great Britain

1886 – 1924 (37 years old)

English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, famous for his quote 'Because it's there'.

Tibet, China

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