Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1st Earl Haig)

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

United Kingdom (Scotland)

1861 – 1928 (66 years old)

Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919 who directed the Hundred Days Offensive that won World War I.

Dryburgh (Scottish Borders), United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Resistance & Human Rights

Thomas Hardy

England

1840 – 1928 (87 years old)

Victorian realist novelist and lyric poet whose tragic Wessex novels, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, challenged Victorian social morality.

Stinsford / London, United Kingdom

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Ashfaqulla Khan

اشفاق اللہ خان

India

1900 – 1927 (27 years old)

Revolutionary freedom fighter and Urdu poet of the HSRA who symbolized Hindu-Muslim unity in the struggle against British imperialism alongside Ram Prasad Bismil.

Ayodhya, India

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Louis Paul Henri Sérusier

Paul Sérusier

France

1864 – 1927 (62 years old)

French painter and leader of Les Nabis who painted 'The Talisman' on a cigar box lid under Paul Gauguin's direct instruction at Pont-Aven, igniting the Nabis movement.

Morlaix, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Svante Arrhenius

Svante August Arrhenius

Sweden

1859 – 1927 (68 years old)

Swedish Nobel laureate who founded physical chemistry with his theory of electrolytic dissociation and first quantified CO2 global warming.

Uppsala, Sweden

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Saad Zaghloul

سعد زغلول

Khedivate of Egypt

1859 – 1927 (68 years old)

Leader of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, founder of the Wafd Party, and Prime Minister revered across Egypt as 'Za'im al-Ummah' (Leader of the Nation).

Cairo, Egypt

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Literature & Poetry

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

芥川龍之介

Empire of Japan

1892 – 1927 (35 years old)

Master of the Japanese modern short story whose Rashōmon and In a Bamboo Grove pioneered subjective multi-perspective storytelling and inspired Akira Kurosawa's classic film.

Sugamo (Tokyo), Japan

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Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

Armand Guillaumin

Kingdom of France

1841 – 1927 (86 years old)

Core French Impressionist painter who participated in six Impressionist exhibitions, celebrated for his intense, saturated color palettes of the Creuse valleys and Parisian quays.

Orly, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Saint Giuseppe Moscati

Giuseppe Maria Carlo Manoel Raffaele Moscati

Italy

1880 – 1927 (46 years old)

Médecin chef et biochimiste napolitain, canonisé comme saint laïc, surnommé le « Médecin des pauvres » pour ses soins gratuits et ses aumônes discrètes.

Naples, Italy

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Literature & Poetry

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Czech Republic

4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 (51 years old)

One of the supreme lyric poets in world literature whose mystical communion with physical objects in New Poems, Letters to a Young Poet, and the transcendent Duino Elegies ('Every angel is terrifying') explored the sacred beauty of being.

Val-Mont Sanatorium (Glion sur Montreux), Switzerland

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Emperor Taisho

大正天皇 (嘉仁)

Empire of Japan

1879 – 1926 (47 years old)

The 123rd Emperor of Japan (reigned 1912–1926) whose era—known as 'Taisho Democracy'—saw the rise of parliamentary party politics, labor unions, universal male suffrage, and cultural modernism in Japan.

Hachioji (Tokyo), Japan

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Oscar-Claude Monet

Claude Monet

France

14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926 (86 years old)

Founding father of French Impressionism whose 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise gave the revolutionary movement its name, celebrated worldwide for capturing transient light across series of Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and the monumental Water Lilies.

Giverny (Eure), French Third Republic

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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor Debs

United States

1855 – 1926 (70 years old)

American trade union pioneer, founder of the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who won nearly one million votes for President from a federal prison cell in 1920 while incarcerated for speaking against World War I.

Terre Haute (Indiana), United States

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

Виктор Михайлович Васнецов

Russian Empire

1848 – 1926 (78 years old)

Pioneering Russian folklorist and painter whose monumental epic canvases of epic heroes—such as 'Bogatyrs' and 'Alyonushka'—created the visual iconography of Russian fairy tales and epics.

Moscow, Russia

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

United States

1844 – 1926 (82 years old)

Pioneering American Impressionist painter and printmaker acclaimed for her sensitive portraits of the intimate bond between mothers and children.

Le Mesnil-Théribus, France

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