Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Resistance & Human Rights

Togo Heihachiro

東郷平八郎

Tokugawa Japan

1848 – 1934 (86 years old)

Fleet Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy dubbed the 'Nelson of the East', who annihilated the Russian Imperial Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, changing world naval history.

Fuchu (Tokyo), Japan

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Arts & Music

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst

United Kingdom

1874 – 1934 (59 years old)

English composer and educator world-renowned for his monumental orchestral suite The Planets.

Chichester, United Kingdom

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Sciences & Discovery

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Fritz Haber

Kingdom of Prussia (Poland)

1868 – 1934 (65 years old)

German chemist who invented the Haber-Bosch process synthesizing ammonia from air, feeding half the modern human population.

Basel, Switzerland

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Surya Sen

সূর্য সেন

Bangladesh

1894 – 1934 (39 years old)

Revered as 'Masterda', Bengali schoolteacher who masterminded the historic Chittagong Armoury Raid of 1930 and proclaimed a provisional independent government.

Chittagong, Bangladesh

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Kenji Miyazawa

宮沢賢治

Meiji Japan

1896 – 1933 (37 years old)

Beloved Japanese poet, children's author, and agronomist (1896–1933) whose magical realist masterpiece 'Night on the Galactic Railroad' and selfless poem 'Be Not Defeated by the Rain' (Ame ni mo Makezu) are cultural treasures.

Hanamaki (Iwate), Japan

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Humanitarian & Peace

Annie Besant

Annie Besant (nee Wood)

Great Britain

1847 – 1933 (85 years old)

British social reformer, trade union champion, and orator who organized the historic 1888 London Matchgirls' Strike, moved to India to champion education and the Home Rule movement, and was elected President of the Indian National Congress in 1917.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India

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Arts & Music

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Adolf Loos

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos

Austria

1870 – 1933 (62 years old)

Austrian architect and uncompromising polemicist who authored 'Ornament and Crime', pioneered the spatial 'Raumplan' concept, and shaped European modernist architecture.

Kalksburg (Vienna), Austria

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Hipolito Yrigoyen

Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen

Argentine Confederation

1852 – 1933 (80 years old)

Two-time President of Argentina and leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), who was the first president elected under universal male suffrage (Saenz Pena Law), founding YPF and universal social reform.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Resistance & Human Rights

King Njoya of Bamum

Ibrahim Njoya (Mfon of Bamum)

Kingdom of Bamum

c. 1860 CE – 1933 (73 years old)

Visionary seventeenth Sultan of the Kingdom of Bamum in Cameroon who invented the indigenous Shumom alphabet, constructed a printing press, mapped his kingdom, and built Foumban Royal Palace.

Foumban, Cameroon

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Sports & Athletics

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Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II

રણજીતસિંહજી વિભાજી જાડેજા

India

1872 – 1933 (60 years old)

Indian ruler, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, and pioneering cricketer who played for England, inventor of the leg glance stroke; namesake of the Ranji Trophy.

Jamnagar, India

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Ahmad al-Sharif al-Senussi

أحمد الشريف السنوسي

Libya

c. 1873 – 1933 (60 years old)

Third supreme leader of the Senussi Sufi order who commanded broad North African and Saharan military resistance against French, British, and Italian colonial invasions.

Medina, Saudi Arabia

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Sciences & Discovery

Carl Correns

Carl Erich Correns

Kingdom of Bavaria

1864 – 1933 (68 years old)

German botanist and geneticist who independently rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, discovered non-Mendelian cytoplasmic (maternal) inheritance, and served as the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology.

Berlin, Germany

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Ahmed Shawqi

أحمد شوقي

Khedivate of Egypt

1868 – 1932 (63 years old)

Egyptian literary titan crowned by delegations from across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets) in 1927, who revived classical Arabic poetic eloquence and pioneered verse drama.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Ahmad Shawqi

أحمد شوقي (أمير الشعراء)

Egypt

16 October 1868 – 14 October 1932 (63 years old)

Venerated across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets), who spearheaded the neoclassical Arabic literary renaissance (Al-Nahda) and pioneered Arabic poetic drama in Cleopatra and Majnun Layla.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt

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Wovoka (Jack Wilson the Paiute Prophet)

Wovoka (The Wood Cutter)

United States

c. 1856 CE – 20 September 1932 (~76 years old)

Northern Paiute spiritual prophet who experienced a celestial vision during the total solar eclipse of New Year's Day 1889. Preached the Ghost Dance religion of universal love, non-violence, and spiritual reunion.

Yerington (Nevada), United States

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Sciences & Discovery

3,415

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Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross

British India (India)

1857 – 1932 (75 years old)

British physician who proved that malaria parasites are transmitted by mosquitoes, becoming the first British Nobel laureate in 1902.

Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom

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