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Ilya Repin
Arts & Music
4,162
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Ilya Repin

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine
1844 โ€“ 1930 (86 years old)

Foremost Russian realist painter of the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), renowned for Barge Haulers on the Volga and Ivan the Terrible.

Repino (Kuokkala), Russia
Fridtjof Nansen
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,550

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
10 October 1861 โ€“ 13 May 1930 (68 years old)

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian polymath, polar explorer, and humanitarian diplomat who revolutionized Arctic exploration before serving as the League of Nations' first High Commissioner for Refugees. He repatriated over 400,000 WWI prisoners of war, organized massive famine relief saving millions of Russians, and created the 'Nansen Passport' for stateless refugees, earning the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize.

Lysaker, Bรฆrum, Norway
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Literature & Poetry
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช Russian Empire
1893 โ€“ 1930 (36 years old)

Thunderous Russian Futurist poet, playwright, and Bolshevik propagandist who revolutionized poetry with stepped-ladder lines in A Cloud in Trousers.

Moscow, Russia
Gustav Stresemann
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,250

Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
10 May 1878 โ€“ 3 October 1929 (51 years old)

Gustav Stresemann was a German statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic from 1923 until his death in 1929. Breaking with nationalist militarism to embrace pragmatic European reconciliation, he halted hyperinflation, negotiated the Locarno Treaties, and led Germany into the League of Nations, sharing the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize with Aristide Briand.

Berlin, Germany
Eglantyne Jebb
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,120

Eglantyne Jebb

Eglantyne Jebb
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
25 August 1876 โ€“ 17 December 1928 (52 years old)

Eglantyne Jebb was a visionary British humanitarian and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 to relieve post-WWI famine among European children. In 1923, she authored the landmark Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the League of Nations and served as the direct foundation for the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Geneva, Switzerland
Mary Richmond
Humanitarian & Peace
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mary Richmond

Mary Ellen Richmond
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1861 โ€“ 1928 (67 years old)

Pioneering American humanitarian whose 1917 masterpiece 'Social Diagnosis' constructed the scientific methodology of professional social casework, establishing diagnostic interviewing and social investigation.

Baltimore (Maryland), United States
Alvaro Obregon
Statesmanship & Statesmen
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Alvaro Obregon

Alvaro Obregon Salido
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1880 โ€“ 1928 (48 years old)

Mexican general who never lost a single battle in the Mexican Revolution, defeated Pancho Villa at the Battle of Celaya, and served as President of Mexico (1920โ€“1924), stabilizing the nation and launching mass rural public education under Jose Vasconcelos.

Huatabampo (Sonora), Mexico
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