Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Roland Garros

Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros

France

1888 – 1918 (29 years old)

Dashing French aviator who achieved world fame in 1913 by completing the first non-stop flight across the Mediterranean Sea, invented forward-firing fighter aircraft synchronization, and whose name graces the French Open tennis tournament.

Vouziers (Ardennes), France

1 Full Record →

47

Nicholas II of Russia

Николай II Александрович Романов

Russia

1868 – 1918 (50 years old)

Last Emperor of Russia whose abdication in 1917 ended three centuries of Romanov rule; canonized as a Passion-Bearer by the Orthodox Church.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

47 Full Record →

History

Gavrilo Princip

Гаврило Принцип

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1894-07-25 – 1918-04-28 (23 years old)

Nineteenth-year-old member of Young Bosnia whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, precipitated the outbreak of World War I.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

1 Full Record →

32

Otto Wagner

Otto Koloman Wagner

Austria

1841 – 1918 (76 years old)

Austrian architect and urban planner who led the Vienna Secession toward modernism, celebrated for the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and the Vienna Stadtbahn transit system.

Vienna, Austria

32 Full Record →

41

🕯️ 985

Achille-Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

France

22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918 (55 years old)

French musical pioneer whose shimmering orchestral colors, non-functional harmony, and evocative sensuality in Clair de Lune, La Mer, and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune dissolved 19th-century tonality and opened modern music.

Paris, France

41 Full Record →

31

César Cui

Cesarius Benjaminus Cui

Lithuania

1835 – 1918 (83 years old)

Russian composer of 'The Five', imperial military engineer who attained the rank of General, and biting music critic who vigorously championed the Russian nationalist school.

Petrograd, Soviet Russia

31 Full Record →

Politics

Empress Taytu Betul

Taytu Betul

Ethiopia

1851-01-01 – 1918-02-11 (67 years old)

Formidable Empress of Ethiopia who named and founded Addis Ababa, devised the decisive water-denial strategy at the Siege of Mekelle, and led her own cavalry regiment at the Battle of Adwa.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1 Full Record →

Humanitarian & Peace

32

🕯️ 1,090

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Italy

20 September 1833 – 10 February 1918 (84 years old)

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, Garibaldian freedom fighter, and peace leader who founded the International Peace Society in Lombardy. As the influential editor of Milan's leading newspaper, Il Secolo, Moneta advocated for Franco-Italian reconciliation and international arbitration, becoming Italy's only Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1907.

Milan, Italy

32 Full Record →

Humanitarian & Peace

37

🕯️ 1,020

Louis Renault

France

21 May 1843 – 8 February 1918 (74 years old)

Louis Renault was an eminent French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Paris. Serving as legal counsel to the French Foreign Ministry and principal rapporteur at the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences, he drafted pivotal treaties on naval warfare and prisoners of war, sharing the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta.

Paris, France

37 Full Record →

40

🕯️ 990

Gustav Klimt

Austria

14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918 (55 years old)

Austrian Symbolist master and founding president of the Vienna Secession, renowned for his dazzling 'Golden Phase'—above all The Kiss and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I—blending erotic sensuality, Byzantine gold leaf, and decorative mosaic patterns.

Vienna, Austria

40 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

2

Statesmanship & Statesmen

John McCrae

Canada

30 November 1872 – 28 January 1918 (45 years old)

Canadian military surgeon whose haunting 1915 poem In Flanders Fields gave birth to the global symbol of the Remembrance Poppy.

Wimereux, France

2 Full Record →

Sciences & Discovery

2,216

🕯️ 39

Georg Cantor

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor

Russia

1845 – 1918 (72 years old)

German mathematician who created set theory, transfinite arithmetic, and discovered that infinities come in different sizes.

Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

2,216 Full Record →

13

Madani El Glaoui

المدني الكلاوي

Morocco

1860 – 1918 (58 years old)

Elder architect of the Glaoua dynasty, Grand Vizier of Morocco, and Minister of War under Sultan Moulay Abdelhafid during the turbulent pre-Protectorate period.

Marrakesh, Morocco

13 Full Record →

Frederick McCubbin

Australia

1855-02-25 – 1917-12-20 (62 years old)

Pioneering artist and beloved teacher of the Heidelberg School whose monumental narrative triptych 'The Pioneer' and paintings such as 'Down on His Luck' captured the quiet hardships of the Australian bush.

Caulfield South, Melbourne, Australia

1 Full Record →

Politics

Mackenzie Bowell

Sir Mackenzie Bowell

Great Britain

1823 – 1917 (93 years old)

Fifth Prime Minister of Canada who organized the First Colonial Conference in Ottawa in 1894, promoted the Pacific Telegraph Cable, and governed through the turbulent Manitoba Schools crisis.

Belleville (Ontario), Canada

1 Full Record →

Humanitarian & Peace

33

🕯️ 1,150

Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis

Elsie Maud Inglis

India

16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917 (53 years old)

Dr. Elsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish physician, surgeon, and suffragist who founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service during World War I. Rebuffed by the British War Office who told her to 'go home and sit still', she established fourteen frontline female-staffed hospitals across France, Serbia, and Russia, earning Serbia's highest military honor.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

33 Full Record →