Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lourens Alma Tadema

Netherlands

1836 – 1912 (76 years old)

Dutch-born British Victorian painter whose dazzlingly realistic depictions of gleaming Roman white marble, azure Mediterranean seas, and 'The Roses of Heliogabalus' defined classical luxury.

London, United Kingdom

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Frédéric Passy

Frédéric Passy

France

15 January 1822 – 12 June 1912 (90 years old)

Frédéric Passy was a French political economist and pacifist who co-founded the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1889 alongside William Randal Cremer. Revered as the dean of the international peace movement, Passy was awarded the inaugural Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 jointly with Henry Dunant.

Paris, France

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Mohamed Amezian

الشريف محمد أمزيان

Morocco

1859 – 1912 (53 years old)

Pioneering leader of the Riffian resistance who mobilized the tribes of northeastern Morocco from 1909 to 1912, defeating Spanish forces in over a hundred battles before his martyrdom.

Zeghanghane, Morocco

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Literature & Poetry

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August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg

Sweden

1849 – 1912 (63 years old)

Visionary Swedish playwright, novelist, and painter whose naturalistic and expressionist masterpieces Miss Julie and A Dream Play pioneered modern European drama.

Stockholm, Sweden

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Literature & Poetry

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Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker

Ireland

1847 – 1912 (64 years old)

Irish author and longtime business manager of London's Lyceum Theatre who created the seminal gothic vampire masterpiece Dracula.

London, United Kingdom

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Clarissa Harlowe Barton

Clarissa Harlowe Barton

United States

25 December 1821 – 12 April 1912 (90 years old)

Clara Barton was a pioneering American nurse and humanitarian who ministered to wounded soldiers on the front lines of the American Civil War, earning the moniker 'Angel of the Battlefield'. She founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and served as its first president for over two decades, expanding its humanitarian mandate to include peacetime disaster relief.

Oxford, Massachusetts, United States

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Medicine

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Taieb Radhouane

الطيب رضوان

Tunisia

1844 AD – 1912 (68 years old)

Pioneering pre-colonial Tunisian physician educated at Sadiki and Montpellier who introduced vaccination campaigns and modernized medical treatment in the hospitals of Tunis.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Sports & Athletics

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Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott

Great Britain

1868 – 1912 (43 years old)

British Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer whose heroic 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition reached the South Pole and whose poignant final diary entries inspired generations of polar scientists.

Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

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Science

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Gerhard Armauer Hansen

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen

Norway

1841-07-29 – 1912-02-12 (70 years old)

Renowned Norwegian physician who discovered the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873, identifying leprosy as an infectious disease rather than a hereditary curse.

Bergen, Norway

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Sciences & Discovery

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Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister

Great Britain

1827 – 1912 (84 years old)

British surgeon celebrated as the 'father of modern antiseptic surgery' who used carbolic acid to eradicate surgical infections.

London, United Kingdom

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Philosophy & Thought

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Edward Wilmot Blyden

Edward Wilmot Blyden

United States

1832 – 1912 (79 years old)

Educator, writer, and diplomat recognized as the father of Pan-Africanism, whose 1887 book Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race formulated the concept of the 'African Personality'.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Literature & Poetry

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Herman Bang

Herman Joachim Bang

Denmark

1857-04-20 – 1912-01-29 (54 years old)

Master Danish impressionist author and journalist acclaimed for his cinematic scenic prose and poignant depictions of lonely, overlooked lives in Ved Vejen and Tine.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Eloy Alfaro

José Eloy Alfaro Delgado

Ecuador

1842 – 1912 (69 years old)

President of Ecuador known as 'El Viejo Luchador' (The Old Fighter) who led the Liberal Revolution of 1895, built the Guayaquil-Quito Trans-Andean Railway, and separated Church and State.

Montecristi (Manabí), Ecuador

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake

Sophia Jex-Blake

Great Britain

1840 – 1912 (71 years old)

Médecin et réformatrice britannique, cheffe de file des « Sept d'Édimbourg » et fondatrice des premières facultés de médecine pour femmes à Londres et en Écosse.

Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom

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Military

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Pasha Bouchta El Baghdadi

بوشتى البغدادي

Morocco

c. 1845 – 1912 (~67 years old)

Legendary Pasha of Fez and military commander under Sultan Moulay Hassan I who maintained civic peace in the northern capital and protected trade routes through the Saïs plain.

Fez, Morocco

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Arts & Music

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Ya'qub Sanu

يعقوب صنوع (أبو نضارة)

Egypt

1839 – 1912 (73 years old)

Visionary Jewish-Egyptian playwright and journalist hailed as the 'Molière of Egypt', who created the first modern Egyptian national theater troupe and published the satirical cartoon journal Abu Naddara.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov

Валентин Александрович Серов

Russia

1865 – 1911 (46 years old)

Premier Russian portraitist and painter whose luminous 'Girl with Peaches' (1887) heralded Russian Impressionism and whose aristocratic portraits captured the twilight of the Romanov Empire.

Moscow, Russia

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ahmed Orabi

أحمد عرابي

Egypt

1841 – 1911 (70 years old)

Egyptian nationalist army general who led the 1881–1882 Urabi Revolt against British and French financial control and Khedivial tyranny, demanding a constitutional government and national dignity.

Cairo, Egypt

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