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Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev)
Literature & Poetry
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 998

Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev)

เฆฐเฆฌเง€เฆจเงเฆฆเงเฆฐเฆจเฆพเฆฅ เฆ เฆพเฆ•เงเฆฐ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
7 May 1861 โ€“ 7 August 1941 (80 years old)

Towering polymath and spiritual voice of Asia who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali, founded the open-air university Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan, and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.

Calcutta (Kolkata), India
Adeline Virginia Woolf (nรฉe Stephen)
Literature & Poetry
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 995

Adeline Virginia Woolf (nรฉe Stephen)

Virginia Woolf
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
25 January 1882 โ€“ 28 March 1821 (59 years old)

Foremost British modernist novelist and pioneering feminist essayist whose stream-of-consciousness triumphs Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, alongside her rallying manifesto A Room of One's Own ('five hundred a year and a room of her own'), reshaped 20th-century consciousness.

River Ouse (near Rodmell, Sussex), Great Britain
Ludwig Quidde
Humanitarian & Peace
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,040

Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde
๐ŸŒ Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
23 March 1858 โ€“ 4 March 1941 (82 years old)

Ludwig Quidde was a prominent German historian, pacifist, and politician who served as President of the German Peace Society (DFG) for fifteen years (1914โ€“1929). Famed for his daring 1894 satirical essay 'Caligula' attacking Kaiser Wilhelm II's militaristic megalomania, Quidde opposed German expansionism throughout WWI and shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize with Ferdinand Buisson before fleeing Nazi terror.

Geneva, Switzerland
Taneda Santoka
Literature & Poetry
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Taneda Santoka

็จฎ็”ฐๅฑฑ้ ญ็ซ (Taneda Shoichi)
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Meiji Japan
1882 โ€“ 1940 (57 years old)

Twentieth-century free-verse haiku poet and Zen mendicant monk (1882โ€“1940) whose unconventional, unrhymed poems distilled the solitude of walking, begging bowls, flowing waters, and sake into spontaneous spiritual art.

Matsuyama (Ehime), Japan
Silvestre Revueltas
Arts & Music
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas Sรกnchez
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1899 โ€“ 1940 (40 years old)

Mexican composer and violinist celebrated for Sensemaya and La noche de los mayas, whose rhythmically ferocious, anti-romantic orchestral scores captured modern Mexican street energy and indigenous ritual.

Mexico City, Mexico
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