Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Liubov Popova

Liubov Sergeyevna Popova

Russian Empire

1889 – 1924 (35 years old)

Pioneering Russian avant-garde artist and Constructivist who created explosive 'Painterly Architectonics' before dedicating her genius to functional Soviet textile, poster, and theater design.

Moscow, Soviet Union

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Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

Humanitarian & Peace

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Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, baron de Constant de Rebecque

France

22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924 (71 years old)

Paul-Henri d'Estournelles de Constant was a French diplomat, senator, and advocate for international arbitration who co-represented France at the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences. He was instrumental in establishing the Permanent Court of Arbitration and founded the Association for International Conciliation, receiving the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize.

Paris, France

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Alluri Sitarama Raju

అల్లూరి సీతారామరాజు

India

1897 – 1924 (26 years old)

Celebrated as 'Manyam Veerudu' (Hero of the Jungles), who led the Rampa Rebellion of 1922-1924 uniting Adivasi tribes against British forestry exploitation.

Krishnadevipeta, India

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Arts & Music

Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan

United States

1856 – 1924 (67 years old)

American architect acclaimed as the 'Father of the Modern Skyscraper', mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and creator of the immortal architectural principle 'form follows function'.

Chicago, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Mohamed Daghbaji

محمد الدغباجي

Tunisia

c. 1885 – 1924 (39 years old)

Legendary Tunisian fellagha guerrilla leader who led daring desert ambushes against French colonial troops across southern Tunisia and Libya, immortalized as an epic folk hero of armed resistance.

El Hamma (Gabès), Tunisia

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

United States

1856-12-28 – 1924-02-03 (67 years old)

Pioneered liberal internationalism ('Wilsonianism'), created the Federal Reserve System, and championed the League of Nations, receiving the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Mouha ou Said

موحا وسعيد الويراوي

Morocco

c. 1850 – c. 1924 (74 years old)

Revered Moroccan Amazigh chieftain of the Ait Ouirra tribe who fought French colonial conquest across Tadla and the High Atlas for two decades, earning fame for the Battle of El Ksiba in 1913.

El Ksiba (Beni Mellal), Morocco

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Sayed Darwish

سيد درويش

Egypt

1892 – 1923 (31 years old)

The father of modern Egyptian and Arab music, composer of Egypt's national anthem Bilady, Bilady, and national theatrical pioneer.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Samuel Maharero

Namibia

1856 – 1923 (67 years old)

Paramount Chief of the Herero people who launched the historic 1904 uprising against German colonial rule in South West Africa, surviving the Battle of Waterberg and General Lothar von Trotha's genocidal extermination campaign.

Okahandja (Otjozondjupa), Namibia

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Khama III

Khama III (Khama the Good)

Botswana

c. 1837 – 1923 (86 years old)

Kgosi (King) of the Bamangwato people who modernized his nation, banned alcohol and ivory exploitation, and sailed to London in 1895 with two fellow kings to outmaneuver Cecil Rhodes, preventing Botswana from being annexed into Rhodes' British South Africa Company.

Serowe (Central District), Botswana

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Kingdom of Prussia (Germany)

1845 – 1923 (77 years old)

German mechanical engineer and physicist who discovered X-rays, revolutionizing diagnostic medicine.

Giessen, Hesse, Germany

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust

Literature & Poetry

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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

France

10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922 (51 years old)

Titan of 20th-century literature who worked from his cork-lined Paris bedroom to compose the monumental seven-volume epic À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)—immortalizing involuntary memory through the madeleine dipped in tea.

Paris, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

George Cadbury

Great Britain

1839 – 1922 (83 years old)

Industriel et philanthrope quaker britannique, créateur du village modèle de Bournville offrant un habitat salubre et des droits sociaux aux ouvriers.

Bournville, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Arthur Griffith

Arthur Joseph Griffith

Ireland

1871 – 1922 (51 years old)

Irish political leader and journalist who founded Sinn Fein in 1905, served as President of Dail Eireann (1922), and led the Irish delegation that negotiated the historic 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State.

Dublin, Ireland

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Sciences & Discovery