Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Ramadan al-Suwayhili

رمضان السويحلي

Libya

1879 – August 24, 1920 (41 years old)

Valiant Libyan military commander and patriot who inflicted a historic defeat on the Italian Royal Army at the Battle of Qasr Bu Hadi in 1915 and served as a founding leader of the pioneering Tripolitanian Republic.

Misrata, Libya

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Art

Resistance & Human Rights

Anders Zorn

Anders Leonard Zorn

Sweden

1860-02-18 – 1920-08-22 (60 years old)

Virtuoso Swedish master painter and etcher renowned worldwide for his dazzling brushwork, shimmering depictions of water and nudes, and portraits of three US Presidents.

Mora, Sweden

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Ramadan al-Suwayhli

رمضان السويحلي

Libya

c. 1879 – 1920 (41 years old)

Pioneering Libyan nationalist commander who crushed Italian colonial armies at the Battle of Qasr Bu Hadi in 1915 and helped establish the historic Tripolitanian Republic, the first democratic republic in the Arab world.

Misrata, Libya

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Arts & Music

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Max Klinger

Germany

1857 – 1920 (63 years old)

German Symbolist painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose dreamlike print cycle 'A Glove' and polychrome marble monument to Beethoven pioneered modern psychological fantasy.

Naumburg, Germany

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Humanitarian & Peace

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William Crawford Gorgas

William C. Gorgas

United States

1854 – 1920 (65 years old)

Médecin militaire américain et chirurgien général, qui éradiqua la fièvre jaune et maîtrisa le paludisme à La Havane et au canal de Panama.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

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Dmitri Ivanovsky

Дмитрий Иосифович Ивановский

Russia

1864 – 1920 (55 years old)

Russian botanist who discovered viruses in 1892 by proving that the infectious agent of tobacco mosaic disease passed through unglazed porcelain Chamberland filters that trapped all known bacteria, launching the science of virology.

Rostov-on-Don, Russia

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Dmitry Ivanovsky

Дмитрий Иосифович Ивановский

Russia

1864 – 1920 (55 years old)

Russian botanist and microbiologist who discovered viruses in 1892 through his research on tobacco mosaic disease.

Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia

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Politics

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Fatali Khan Khoyski

Fətəli xan Xoyski

Azerbaijan

1875-12-07 – 1920-06-19 (44 years old)

Pioneering jurist and statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, organizing the state administration, army, and diplomatic corps in 1918.

Tbilisi, Georgia

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Venustiano Carranza

Venustiano Carranza Garza

Mexico

1859 – 1920 (60 years old)

Leader of the Constitutionalist faction in the Mexican Revolution and President of Mexico (1917–1920) who promulgated the historic Constitution of 1917, the first constitution in world history to enshrine fundamental social, labor, and agrarian rights.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ராமானுஜன்

India

22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920 (32 years old)

Prodigious Indian mathematician whose notebooks of nearly 3,900 intuitive identities, modular forms, mock theta functions, and partition formulas transformed modern number theory.

Kumbakonam (Madras Presidency), India

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Kanehiro Takaki

高木兼寛

Japan

1849 – 1920 (70 years old)

Japanese naval surgeon general who eradicated beriberi in the Imperial Navy through nutritional reform, anticipating the discovery of vitamins.

Minato, Tokyo, Japan

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Art

Theodor Philipsen

Poul Sivert Theodor Philipsen

Denmark

1840-06-10 – 1920-03-03 (79 years old)

Pioneering Danish Impressionist painter who befriended Paul Gauguin, introduced French open-air impressionism to Denmark, and painted luminous pastoral scenes of cattle on Saltholm.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Arts & Music

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani

Italy

12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920 (35 years old)

Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France, universally celebrated for his portraits and nude studies characterized by elongated necks, mask-like faces, and almond-shaped melancholic eyes.

Paris, France

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Politics

Edmund Barton

Sir Edmund Barton

Australia

1849-01-18 – 1920-01-07 (70 years old)

First Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia (1901–1903) and founding High Court Justice who steered the Constitutional Conventions to birth the Australian nation.

Vaucluse, Sydney, Australia

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Literature & Poetry