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Ernest Rutherford
Sciences & Discovery
13
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ New Zealand
30 August 1871 โ€“ 19 October 1937 (66 years old)

New Zealand-British physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, identified alpha and beta radiation, proved radioactive transmutation, and achieved humanity's first artificial nuclear transmutation.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ray Ewry
Sports & Athletics
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,920

Ray Ewry

Raymond Clarence Ewry
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
14 October 1873 โ€“ 29 September 1937 (63 years old)

Raymond Clarence 'Ray' Ewry was an American track and field phenomenon who won eight official Olympic gold medals (and two more at the 1906 Intercalated Games) without ever losing a single Olympic competition. Confined to a wheelchair as a boy due to childhood polio, he developed superhuman leg spring to dominate the standing high jump, standing long jump, and standing triple jump.

Long Island, New York, United States
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,080

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
16 October 1863 โ€“ 17 March 1937 (73 years old)

Sir Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929. Renowned as the primary diplomatic architect of the 1925 Locarno Treaties, which reconciled postwar Germany with France and Britain and admitted Germany to the League of Nations, he was awarded the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Charles G. Dawes.

London, United Kingdom
Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)
Literature & Poetry
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 995

Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun)

้ญฏ่ฟ… (ๅ‘จๆจนไบบ)
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
25 September 1881 โ€“ 19 October 1936 (55 years old)

Revered as the foundational father of modern Chinese literature whose revolutionary vernacular stories A Madman's Diary (1918) and The True Story of Ah Q spearheaded the May Fourth cultural revolution, fiercely attacking feudal hypocrisy.

Shanghai, China
Munshi Premchand
Literature & Poetry
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Munshi Premchand

เคฎเฅเค‚เคถเฅ€ เคชเฅเคฐเฅ‡เคฎเคšเค‚เคฆ (Dhanpat Rai Srivastava)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ British Raj
1880 โ€“ 1936 (56 years old)

Foremost pioneer of modern realist Hindi and Urdu literature (1880โ€“1936), honored as 'Upanyas Samrat' (Emperor of Novels), who wrote 'Godaan', 'Kafan', and hundreds of stories exposing social injustice and rural poverty.

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), India
Federico del Sagrado Corazรณn de Jesรบs Garcรญa Lorca
Literature & Poetry
15
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 998

Federico del Sagrado Corazรณn de Jesรบs Garcรญa Lorca

Federico Garcรญa Lorca
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
5 June 1898 โ€“ 19 August 1936 (38 years old)

Preeminent Spanish poet and dramatist of the Generation of '27 whose Romancero gitano, theory of Duende, and searing tragediesโ€”Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Albaโ€”ended in his tragic murder by Nationalist fascists at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Alfacar (Granada, Andalusia), Spain
Tahar Haddad
Resistance & Human Rights
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Tahar Haddad

ุงู„ุทุงู‡ุฑ ุงู„ุญุฏุงุฏ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1899 โ€“ 1935 (36 years old)

Visionary Tunisian Islamic reformer, trade unionist, and author of the groundbreaking 1930 treatise 'Our Woman in the Sharia and Society', which pioneered female emancipation in the modern Arab world.

Tunis, Tunisia
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