Historical Archives & Public Figures

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Netherlands

1853 – 1926 (72 years old)

Dutch low-temperature pioneer who liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity.

Voorschoten, South Holland, Netherlands

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Sciences & Discovery

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Camillo Golgi

Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (Italy)

1843 – 1926 (82 years old)

Italian cytologist and Nobel laureate who discovered the Golgi apparatus in cells and invented the silver nitrate staining method for neurons.

Pavia, Lombardy, Italy

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Arts & Music

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Félix Édouard Vallotton

Félix Vallotton

Switzerland

1865 – 1925 (60 years old)

Swiss-French painter, woodcut genius, and member of Les Nabis whose biting black-and-white print series 'Intimités' and cool, unsparing paintings captured modern bourgeois deceit.

Paris, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

5

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Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

France

21 May 1851 – 29 September 1925 (74 years old)

Léon Bourgeois was a French statesman, philosopher, and Prime Minister of France (1895–1896) whose social philosophy of 'Solidarism' provided the intellectual blueprint for the League of Nations. Known as the spiritual father of the League, he served as the first President of the Council of the League of Nations in 1920 and was awarded the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.

Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France

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Philosophy & Thought

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Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

1848 – 1925 (76 years old)

German mathematician, logician, and philosopher universally celebrated as the father of modern logic and analytic philosophy, who invented predicate calculus and distinguished Sense and Reference.

Wismar, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Lovis Corinth

Kingdom of Prussia

1858 – 1925 (66 years old)

German master painter and president of the Berlin Secession whose style dramatically evolved from robust naturalism into feverish, tragic late Expressionist masterpieces.

Stahnsdorf (Berlin), Germany

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Arts & Music

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie

France

1866 – 1925 (59 years old)

Eccentric French avant-garde composer and pianist whose Gymnopédies and Furniture Music anticipated minimalism and ambient sound.

Arcueil (Paris), France

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Sciences & Discovery

3

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Felix Klein

Christian Felix Klein

Kingdom of Prussia

1849 – 1925 (76 years old)

German mathematician who unified geometry through group theory in his Erlangen Program and discovered the non-orientable one-sided closed surface known as the Klein bottle.

Gottingen, Germany

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Robert Marion La Follette Sr.

United States

1855 – 1925 (70 years old)

Leader of the Progressive Movement known as 'Fighting Bob', Governor and Senator from Wisconsin who pioneered direct primary elections and workers' compensation.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Arts & Music

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John Singer Sargent

Italy

1856 – 1925 (69 years old)

Foremost portrait painter of his generation, celebrated for dazzling bravura brushwork and the controversial Portrait of Madame X.

Brookwood, Surrey, United Kingdom

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Sun Yat-sen

孫文 / 孫中山

China

1866-11-12 – 1925-03-12 (58 years old)

Revered across both mainland China and Taiwan as the 'Father of the Nation', having ended imperial dynastic absolutism to found the first Asian republic.

Beijing, China

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Humanitarian & Peace

7

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Joseph Rowntree

Great Britain

1836 – 1925 (88 years old)

Industriel quaker et philanthrope britannique, fondateur de trusts dédiés à la recherche sur les causes profondes de la pauvreté et aux réformes sociales.

York, United Kingdom

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Karl Hjalmar Branting

Sweden

23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925 (64 years old)

Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish statesman who led the Swedish Social Democratic Party and served as Prime Minister of Sweden in three separate administrations. A staunch advocate for peaceful international conflict resolution, Branting supported the League of Nations' peaceful settlement of the Åland Islands dispute, sharing the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Christian Lous Lange.

Stockholm, Sweden

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Sciences & Discovery

4

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Oliver Heaviside

United Kingdom

1850 – 1925 (74 years old)

Self-taught English mathematician and electrical engineer who condensed Maxwell's 20 original quaternion equations into the modern four vector calculus equations of electromagnetism and predicted the ionosphere.

Paignton (Devon), United Kingdom

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Resistance & Human Rights

3

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Mekatilili wa Menza

Mnyazi wa Menza

Kenya

c. 1840 – c. 1925 (~85 years old)

Heroic Giriama woman leader who spearheaded the 1913-1914 Giriama Uprising against British colonial forced labor and hut taxation on the Kenyan coast.

Malindi, Kenya

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

Arts & Music

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Italy

22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924 (65 years old)

Italian operatic titan regarded as the heir to Verdi, whose heart-wrenching theatrical masterworks—La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot (Nessun dorma)—rank among the most frequently performed operas in history.

Brussels, Belgium

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Resistance & Human Rights

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E. D. Morel

Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel-de Ville

France

10 July 1873 – 5 November 1924 (51 years old)

British journalist, author, and politician who uncovered King Leopold II's rubber slave-labor regime in the Congo Free State, founding the Congo Reform Association to lead the first global human rights campaign of the 20th century.

Bovey Tracey, Devon, Great Britain

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