Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Resistance & Human Rights

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Khama III

Khama III (Khama the Good)

Botswana

c. 1837 – 1923 (86 years old)

Kgosi (King) of the Bamangwato people who modernized his nation, banned alcohol and ivory exploitation, and sailed to London in 1895 with two fellow kings to outmaneuver Cecil Rhodes, preventing Botswana from being annexed into Rhodes' British South Africa Company.

Serowe (Central District), Botswana

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Sciences & Discovery

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Germany

1845 – 1923 (77 years old)

German mechanical engineer and physicist who discovered X-rays, revolutionizing diagnostic medicine.

Giessen, Hesse, Germany

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Religion

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Abu Isa Sidi Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Wazzani

المهدي الوزاني

Morocco

1849 – 1923 (74 years old)

The preeminent Maliki legal authority of late 19th-century Morocco, whose encyclopedic nine-volume compendium Al-Mi'yar al-Jadid is the definitive code of Moroccan judicial fatwas.

Fez, Morocco

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Music

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Hason Raja

হাসন রাজা

Bangladesh

1854-12-21 – 1922-12-06 (67 years old)

Wealthy Sylheti zamindar who renounced lavish feudal pleasures to become a mystic poet and songwriter, composing spiritual folk masterpieces like 'Loke Bole Bole Re, Ghor Bari Bala Na Amar'.

Sunamganj, Bangladesh

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Literature & Poetry

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

France

10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922 (51 years old)

Titan of 20th-century literature who worked from his cork-lined Paris bedroom to compose the monumental seven-volume epic À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)—immortalizing involuntary memory through the madeleine dipped in tea.

Paris, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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George Cadbury

George Cadbury

Great Britain

1839 – 1922 (83 years old)

Industriel et philanthrope quaker britannique, créateur du village modèle de Bournville offrant un habitat salubre et des droits sociaux aux ouvriers.

Bournville, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Arthur Griffith

Arthur Joseph Griffith

Ireland

1871 – 1922 (51 years old)

Irish political leader and journalist who founded Sinn Fein in 1905, served as President of Dail Eireann (1922), and led the Irish delegation that negotiated the historic 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State.

Dublin, Ireland

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Sciences & Discovery

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Jokichi Takamine

高峰 譲吉

Japan

1854 – 1922 (67 years old)

Japanese chemist and industrial biotechnology pioneer who successfully isolated and purified the hormone adrenaline (epinephrine), the first pure hormone extracted from natural tissue.

Bronx (New York), United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Mori Ogai

森鴎外 (Mori Rintaro)

Japan

1862 – 1922 (60 years old)

Surgeon General of the Imperial Japanese Army and towering literary master (1862–1922) who introduced modern German literature to Japan, authored psychological classics like 'The Dancing Girl' and 'The Wild Geese', and shaped Meiji modernization.

Mitaka (Tokyo), Japan

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Walther Rathenau

Walther Rathenau

Germany

1867 – 1922 (54 years old)

Visionary German-Jewish industrialist, philosopher, and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic who signed the Treaty of Rapallo before being assassinated by right-wing terrorists.

Berlin, Germany

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Science

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Ernest Solvay

Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay

Belgium

1838 – 1922 (84 years old)

Belgian chemical industrialist whose revolutionary ammonia-soda process made him one of the wealthiest men in the world, founding the famous Solvay Physics Conferences where quantum mechanics and relativity were forged.

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium

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Science

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Alphonse Laveran

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

France

1845 – 1922 (76 years old)

French military physician who won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the protozoan parasite responsible for malaria (Plasmodium falciparum) in Constantine, Algeria in 1880.

Paris, France

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Sports & Athletics

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

Ireland

1874 – 1922 (47 years old)

Anglo-Irish polar explorer renowned for supreme leadership during the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, rescuing his entire twenty-eight-man crew without losing a single life after their ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice.

South Georgia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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Arts & Music

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles Camille Saint-Saëns

France

1835 – 1921 (86 years old)

French Romantic composer, organist, and polymath celebrated for The Carnival of the Animals, Samson and Delilah, and the Organ Symphony.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

United States

1868 – 1921 (53 years old)

American astronomer whose discovery of the Cepheid variable period-luminosity relation provided the 'standard candle' to measure the universe.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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`Abdu'l-Bahá (Abbas Effendi)

عبدالبهاء (Servant of the Glory)

Iran

23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 (77 years old)

Eldest son and designated successor of Bahá'u'lláh. Released from Ottoman confinement in 1908, he traveled extensively across Europe and North America expounding racial equality, gender justice, and universal harmony.

Haifa, Palestine

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Arts & Music

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Fernand Khnopff

Fernand Khnopff

Belgium

1858 – 1921 (63 years old)

Leading Belgian Symbolist painter and founding member of Les XX whose enigmatic, melancholic masterworks like 'The Caress' and 'I Lock My Door Upon Myself' explored solipsism and silence.

Brussels, Belgium

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Hara Takashi

原 敬

Japan

1856 – 1921 (65 years old)

First commoner Prime Minister of Japan ('The Commoner Premier') who established Japan's first true parliamentary party cabinet during the Taishō Democracy.

Morioka (Iwate), Japan

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