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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Thomas Willson
Science
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Thomas Willson

Carbide Willson
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
14 March 1860 โ€“ 20 December 1915 (55 years old)

Pioneering Canadian electrical inventor whose electric arc furnace discovery of commercial calcium carbide founded the global acetylene lighting and welding industries.

Guelph, Canada
Politics
2
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Mubarak Al-Sabah

ู…ุจุงุฑูƒ ุงู„ุตุจุงุญ / ู…ุจุงุฑูƒ ุงู„ูƒุจูŠุฑ
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ผ Kuwait
1844 โ€“ 28 November 1915 (71 years old)

Founding father of modern Kuwait who concluded the historic 1899 Anglo-Kuwaiti Treaty, securing independence from Ottoman annexation.

Kuwait City, Kuwait
Charles Tupper
Politics
2
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Charles Tupper

Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1821 โ€“ 1915 (94 years old)

Formidable Father of Confederation who brought Nova Scotia into the union, established free public schools in Nova Scotia, and served as Canada's sixth prime minister and high commissioner to London.

Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada
Philippe Baucq
History
5
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Philippe Baucq

Philippe Baucq
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1880 โ€“ 1915 (35 years old)

Belgian architect and resistance hero who organized covert escape routes for trapped Allied soldiers and distributed underground newspapers, executed by German firing squad alongside British nurse Edith Cavell.

Schaerbeek (Brussels), Belgium
Edith Louisa Cavell
Humanitarian & Peace
32
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Edith Louisa Cavell

Edith Louisa Cavell
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
4 December 1865 โ€“ 12 October 1915 (49 years old)

Edith Cavell was a British nurse and the pioneer of modern secular nursing in Belgium who treated wounded soldiers from both Allied and German forces without discrimination during World War I. She helped more than two hundred Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands, for which she was court-martialed and executed by a German firing squad, becoming a global symbol of moral courage.

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Keir Hardie
Statesmanship & Statesmen
35
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Keir Hardie

James Keir Hardie
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Scotland
1856 โ€“ 1915 (59 years old)

Legendary Scottish coal miner and trade unionist who entered the mines at age ten, founded the Independent Labour Party, and became the first socialist Member of the British Parliament in 1892, entering the House of Commons in a tweed cloth cap.

Cumnock (Ayrshire), Scotland
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
Politics
4
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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1823 โ€“ 1915 (92 years old)

Pioneering African American abolitionist and merchant who migrated to Vancouver Island in 1858, becoming the first Black person elected to public office in British Columbia and an influential advocate for Canadian Confederation.

Little Rock (Arkansas), United States
Business
1
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Armand Peugeot

Armand Peugeot
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1849 โ€“ 1915 (65 years old)

Visionary French industrial pioneer who transformed his family's metal and bicycle manufacturing enterprise in Franche-Comtรฉ into Automobiles Peugeot in 1896, producing France's first commercial petrol motor cars.

Paris, France
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