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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Arshile Gorky
Arts & Music
4
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Arshile Gorky

Vosdanig Manoug Adoian
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Armenia
1904 โ€“ 1948 (44 years old)

Armenian-American painter whose lyrical biomorphic abstractions and fluid, calligraphic draughtsmanship formed the critical bridge between European Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism.

Sherman, United States
Witold Pilecki
Resistance & Human Rights
10
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Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
13 May 1901 โ€“ 25 May 1948 (47 years old)

Polish cavalry officer and resistance leader who deliberately allowed himself to be captured in 1940 to infiltrate Auschwitz, organized a military resistance movement inside the camp, authored the first comprehensive intelligence reports on the gas chambers, and escaped after nearly three years.

Mokotรณw Prison, Warsaw, Poland
Manuel Ponce
Arts & Music
3
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Manuel Ponce

Manuel Marรญa Ponce Cuรฉllar
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1882 โ€“ 1948 (65 years old)

Mexican composer and pianist revered as the father of Mexican musical nationalism, world-famous for the romantic song Estrellita and his guitar masterworks composed for Andres Segovia.

Mexico City, Mexico
Elsa Brandstrom
Humanitarian & Peace
4
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Elsa Brandstrom

Elsa Brandstrom
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russian Empire
1888 โ€“ 1948 (59 years old)

Swedish nurse and humanitarian celebrated across Europe as the 'Angel of Siberia' for single-handedly organizing medical relief, food, and salvation for hundreds of thousands of German and Austrian prisoners of war in Siberian camps during World War I.

Solna (Stockholm), Sweden
Kurt Schwitters
Arts & Music
4
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Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1887 โ€“ 1948 (60 years old)

German avant-garde polymath who created 'Merz'โ€”a total art philosophy utilizing street detritus, ticket stubs, and discarded refuse to construct visionary collages and walk-in architectural installations.

Kendal, United Kingdom
Nicholas Murray Butler
Humanitarian & Peace
6
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Nicholas Murray Butler

Nicholas Murray Butler
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
2 April 1862 โ€“ 7 December 1947 (85 years old)

Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, educator, and political advisor who served as President of Columbia University for forty-three years (1902โ€“1945). As the trusted confidant of Andrew Carnegie, he was the founding trustee and longtime President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sharing the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams.

Paterson, New Jersey, United States
Max Planck
Sciences & Discovery
16
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Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
23 April 1858 โ€“ 4 October 1947 (89 years old)

German theoretical physicist who initiated the quantum revolution in 1900 by discovering that energy is emitted and absorbed in discrete packets called quanta, introducing Planck's constant (h).

Gรถttingen, Germany
Pierre Bonnard
Arts & Music
5
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Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Second French Empire
1867 โ€“ 1947 (79 years old)

French Post-Impressionist painter and founding member of Les Nabis whose dazzling, sun-soaked color harmonies and intimate bathroom scenes of his wife Marthe revolutionized modern colorism.

Le Cannet, France
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