Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Queen Liliʻuokalani

Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha

United states

1838 – 1917 (79 years old)

Last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (1891–1893), brilliant composer of 'Aloha ʻOe', who yielded her executive throne under armed US military threat to prevent bloodshed, fighting peacefully in Washington for her people's civil sovereignty.

Honolulu (Oahu), United States

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Arts & Music

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Edgar Degas

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

France

1834 – 1917 (83 years old)

French artist celebrated for his innovative pastel drawings and oil paintings capturing Parisian dancers, bathers, and racehorses.

Paris, France

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Military

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Georges Guynemer

Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer

France

1894 – 1917 (22 years old)

Beloved French fighter ace and national hero of World War I who scored 54 aerial victories in his SPAD aircraft 'Vieux Charles' with the elite Escadrille des Cigognes before disappearing in the clouds of Flanders at age twenty-two.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Marian Smoluchowski

Marian Smoluchowski

Austria

1872 – 1917 (45 years old)

Polish theoretical physicist who independently explained Brownian motion simultaneously with Albert Einstein and developed the kinetic theory of colloidal coagulation.

Cracow, Poland

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Art

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Hugo Simberg

Hugo Gerhard Simberg

Finland

1873-06-24 – 1917-07-12 (44 years old)

Visionary Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist who created poignant, tender masterpieces of the supernatural, notably Haavoittunut enkeli (The Wounded Angel) and Kuoleman puutarha.

Helsinki, Finland

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Cheikh Saad Bouh

الشيخ سعد بوه (سعد بن محمد)

Mauritania

1848 – 1917 (69 years old)

Illustrious Mauritanian Sufi master, scholar, and diplomat of the Qadiriyya-Fadiliyya order whose spiritual influence united millions of disciples across Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, and Mali.

Trarza, Mauritania

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Arts & Music

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Tom Thomson

Thomas John Thomson

Canada

1877 – 1917 (39 years old)

Iconic Canadian painter whose luminous, expressive masterworks The Jack Pine and The West Wind revolutionized Canadian landscape art, sparking the formation of the Group of Seven.

Leith (Owen Sound, Ontario), Canada

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Science

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Robert Bell

The Moccasin Doctor

Canada

3 June 1841 – 19 June 1917 (76 years old)

Prolific Geological Survey of Canada scientist who named over 3,000 geographical features and mapped vast reaches of Hudson Bay, northern Ontario, and Baffin Island.

Ottawa, Canada

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Science

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Kristian Birkeland

Kristian Olaf Bernhard Birkeland

Norway

1867-12-13 – 1917-06-15 (49 years old)

Visionary Norwegian physicist who elucidated the electric nature of the Northern Lights (aurora borealis), discovered Birkeland currents, and co-founded Norsk Hydro.

Oslo, Norway

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Literature & Poetry

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Maksim Bahdanovic

Максім Багдановіч

Belarus

1891-12-09 – 1917-05-25 (25 years old)

Tragic young genius of Belarusian lyric poetry who mastered European poetic forms (sonnets, triolets) in his immortal 1913 collection 'Vyenok' before dying of tuberculosis at age twenty-five.

Yalta, Ukraine

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Kaba of Atacora

Kaba

🌐 Benin

1870-01-01 – 1917-04-26 (47 years old)

Heroic Somba / Ditammari chieftain who led the 1914–1917 Atacora insurrection against French forced labour, colonial recruitment, and taxation in northern Dahomey.

Natitingou, Benin

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Béchir Sfar

البشير صفر

Tunisia

February 27, 1856 – March 1, 1917 (61 years old)

Eminent Tunisian social reformer, educator, and civic pioneer who co-founded the Khaldounia institute and led the Young Tunisians movement, laying the intellectual foundations for national self-determination through scientific education.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Mathematics

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Gaston Darboux

Jean-Gaston Darboux

France

1842 – 1917 (74 years old)

Eminent French mathematician whose monumental four-volume Leçons sur la théorie générale des surfaces established modern differential geometry, and who formulated the Darboux integral in real analysis.

Paris, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz

Oswaldo Cruz

Brazil

1872 – 1917 (44 years old)

Médecin bactériologiste brésilien, père de la santé publique moderne au Brésil, vainqueur de la fièvre jaune et de la peste à Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Politics

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Mandume ya Ndemufayo

Mandume ya Ndemufayo

Angola

1894-01-01 – 1917-02-06 (23 years old)

Legendary last sovereign King of the Kwanyama (Oukwanyama) who fiercely resisted both Portuguese and British-South African colonial invasions in southern Angola and northern Namibia.

Namacunde, Angola

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Cheikh Mustapha El Hamel

الشيخ مصطفى بن محمد بن بلقاسم

Algeria

1850 – 1917 (67 years old)

Revered head of the great Rahmaniyya Zawiya of El Hamel following Lalla Zaynab, who sheltered thousands of famine victims and defended national education.

El Hamel, Algeria

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Military

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Bio Guéra

Gbaasi N'Guerra

Benin

1856-01-01 – 1916-12-17 (60 years old)

Formidable Wasangari prince and military commander who led the fierce 1916 Baura anti-colonial insurrection in northern Dahomey against French military conquest and forced conscription.

Bembéréké, Benin

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Literature & Poetry

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Natsume Kinnosuke (Natsume Sōseki)

夏目漱石

Japan

9 February 1867 – 9 December 1916 (49 years old)

Preeminent novelist of Meiji Japan and former 1000-yen banknote portrait who captured the agonizing spiritual collision between Western individualism and Japanese traditional community in Kokoro, Botchan, and I Am a Cat.

Tokyo, Japan

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