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Paul Cรฉzanne
Arts & Music
41
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Paul Cรฉzanne

Paul Cรฉzanne
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
19 January 1839 โ€“ 22 October 1906 (67 years old)

The solitary genius of Aix-en-Provence proclaimed by both Picasso and Matisse as 'the father of us all', who deconstructed visual reality into underlying cylinders, spheres, and cones in his Mont Sainte-Victoire series, birthing Cubism.

Aix-en-Provence, France
Raja Ravi Varma
Arts & Music
32
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Raja Ravi Varma

เดฐเดพเดœเดพ เดฐเดตเดฟเดตเตผเดฎเตเดฎ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1848 โ€“ 1906 (58 years old)

Pioneering Indian painter who fused European academic oil technique with Hindu iconography, establishing the visual archetypes of Hindu gods and goddesses through accessible oleograph prints.

Kilimanoor (Kerala), India
Politics
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Madam Yoko

Soma
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Sierra Leone
1849-01-01 โ€“ 1906-08-01 (57 years old)

Formidable 19th-century Mende monarch who utilized diplomatic genius and the Sande secret society to consolidate an empire of fourteen chiefdoms as Paramount Chief of Senehun.

Moyamba, Sierra Leone
Carlos Pellegrini
Politics
0
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Carlos Pellegrini

Carlos Enrique Josรฉ Pellegrini Alta
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina
1846-10-11 โ€“ 1906-07-17 (59 years old)

Statesman who assumed the presidency following the 1890 financial collapse, stabilized the currency, founded the Banco de la Naciรณn Argentina, and championed progressive industrialization.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Henrik Johan Ibsen
Literature & Poetry
38
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 965

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
20 March 1828 โ€“ 23 May 1906 (78 years old)

Founding father of modern theatrical realism and second most performed playwright in history after Shakespeare whose explosive social dramasโ€”A Doll's House (Nora's slamming door), Ghosts, and Hedda Gablerโ€”shattered Victorian bourgeois hypocrisy.

Kristiania (Oslo), Norway
Gabriel Dumont
Military
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Gabriel Dumont

Gabriel Dumont
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1837 โ€“ 1906 (68 years old)

Legendary Mรฉtis buffalo hunt commander and master marksman who served as military general during the 1885 North-West Resistance, displaying tactical brilliance at Duck Lake and Fish Creek.

Batoche (Saskatchewan), Canada
William Farrer
Science
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

William Farrer

William James Farrer
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1845-04-03 โ€“ 1906-04-16 (61 years old)

Visionary agricultural scientist whose systematic cross-breeding created 'Federation' wheat in 1901, a rust- and drought-resistant strain that transformed Australia into a premier wheat exporter.

Tharwa, ACT, Australia
Ras Makonnen
Military
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ras Makonnen

Makonnen Wolde Mikael
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia
1852-05-08 โ€“ 1906-03-21 (53 years old)

Eminent general and diplomat who served as Governor of Harar, commanded the imperial vanguard at the Battle of Adwa, and was the father of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Harar, Ethiopia
Aleksandr Popov
Sciences & Discovery
32
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Aleksandr Popov

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1859 โ€“ 1906 (46 years old)

Russian physicist and electrical engineer who demonstrated the world's first radio lightning detector and practical wireless radio receiver in Saint Petersburg in 1895, celebrated across Eastern Europe as a father of radio.

Saint Petersburg, Russia
Si Mohand ou-Mhand
Literature & Poetry
19
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Si Mohand ou-Mhand

โต™โต‰ โตŽโต“โตƒโดฐโตโดท โต“ โตŽโตƒโดฐโตโดท
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 1848 โ€“ 1905 (57 years old)

The immortal wandering bard of the Berber language whose spoken 'isefra' (philosophical stanzas) gave voice to the tragedy of colonial land dispossession and the enduring pride of the Kabyle spirit.

Ain El Hammam (Michelet, Kabylie), Algeria
Hendrik Witbooi
Resistance & Human Rights
36
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Hendrik Witbooi

Hendrik Witbooi (!Nanseb /Gรขbemab)
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa
c. 1830 โ€“ 1905 (75 years old)

Kaptein of the Nama people and supreme national hero of Namibia whose tactical guerrilla warfare, literate diplomatic journals, and 1904 uprising against Imperial German colonial genocide make him the foremost figure on Namibia's currency.

Gibeon (Hardap Region), Namibia
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