Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Humanitarian & Peace

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William Crawford Gorgas

William C. Gorgas

United States

1854 – 1920 (65 years old)

Médecin militaire américain et chirurgien général, qui éradiqua la fièvre jaune et maîtrisa le paludisme à La Havane et au canal de Panama.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

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Sciences & Discovery

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Dmitri Ivanovsky

Дмитрий Иосифович Ивановский

Russian Empire

1864 – 1920 (55 years old)

Russian botanist who discovered viruses in 1892 by proving that the infectious agent of tobacco mosaic disease passed through unglazed porcelain Chamberland filters that trapped all known bacteria, launching the science of virology.

Rostov-on-Don, Russia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Dmitry Ivanovsky

Дмитрий Иосифович Ивановский

Russian Empire (Russia)

1864 – 1920 (55 years old)

Russian botanist and microbiologist who discovered viruses in 1892 through his research on tobacco mosaic disease.

Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Venustiano Carranza

Venustiano Carranza Garza

Mexico

1859 – 1920 (60 years old)

Leader of the Constitutionalist faction in the Mexican Revolution and President of Mexico (1917–1920) who promulgated the historic Constitution of 1917, the first constitution in world history to enshrine fundamental social, labor, and agrarian rights.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Sciences & Discovery

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ராமானுஜன்

India

22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920 (32 years old)

Prodigious Indian mathematician whose notebooks of nearly 3,900 intuitive identities, modular forms, mock theta functions, and partition formulas transformed modern number theory.

Kumbakonam (Madras Presidency), India

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Sciences & Discovery

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Kanehiro Takaki

高木 兼寛

Japan

1849 – 1920 (70 years old)

Japanese naval surgeon general who eradicated beriberi in the Imperial Navy through nutritional reform, anticipating the discovery of vitamins.

Minato, Tokyo, Japan

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Arts & Music

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani

Italy

12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920 (35 years old)

Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France, universally celebrated for his portraits and nude studies characterized by elongated necks, mask-like faces, and almond-shaped melancholic eyes.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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William Osler

Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet

Canada

1849 – 1919 (70 years old)

Canadian physician celebrated as the 'father of modern medicine' who created the medical residency system and bedside clinical training.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Arts & Music

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

France

1841 – 1919 (78 years old)

Leading French Impressionist painter whose luminous works celebrated human warmth, sensuality, and vibrant outdoor leisure.

Essoyes, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

United Kingdom

1835 – 1919 (83 years old)

Industriel de l'acier et l'un des plus grands philanthropes de l'histoire, auteur du Gospel of Wealth, financeur de plus de 2 500 bibliothèques publiques et du Palais de la Paix.

Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ahmed al-Hiba

أحمد الهيبة بن الشيخ ماء العينين

🌐 Western Sahara / Mauritania

c. 1877 – 1919 (42 years old)

Saharan religious and military leader known as the 'Blue Sultan' who proclaimed holy resistance against the French Protectorate in 1912, marching from the Sahara to seize Marrakech with 10,000 warriors.

Tafraout (Tiznit), Morocco

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

United States

1858-10-27 – 1919-01-06 (60 years old)

Transformed the presidency into a modern active executive office, pioneered environmental conservation, and won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.

Oyster Bay, New York, United States

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Garrick Braide (Elijah II of the Niger Delta)

Garrick Sokari Marian Braide

Nigeria

c. 1882 – 1918 (~36 years old)

Known as 'Elijah II' across the Niger Delta, Garrick Braide sparked a colossal religious and social revival in 1915–1916, destroying traditional occult charms and crushing the colonial trade in European gin, which threatened British commercial monopolies.

Port Harcourt

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Deguchi Nao (Foundress of Oomoto & Shinto Prophetess)

出口なお

Japan

1837 – 1918 (81 years old)

An impoverished, illiterate peasant widow in Ayabe, Deguchi Nao experienced a terrifying divine trance on Lunar New Year 1892, producing ten thousand volumes of automatic prophetic calligraphy (Ofudesaki) heralding the 'Great Reconstruction of the World' (Ushitora no Konjin).

Ayabe, Japan

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Arts & Music

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Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

Austria

1890 – 1918 (28 years old)

Austrian Expressionist painter celebrated for his raw, psychologically charged, and uncompromisingly honest figurative works.

Vienna, Austria

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ali Bach Hamba

علي باش حانبة

Tunisia

c. 1876 – 1918 (42 years old)

Tunisian lawyer, journalist, and nationalist pioneer who co-founded the Young Tunisian movement in 1907 and founded the newspaper Le Tunisien, laying the intellectual foundations for Tunisian independence.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Shirdi Sai Baba

शिर्डीचे साई बाबा

India

c. 1838 – 1918 (~80 years old)

Indian spiritual master revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees, who lived in a dilapidated mosque in Shirdi preaching charity, love, and 'Sabka Malik Ek' (One God for All).

Shirdi, India

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Nicholas II of Russia

Николай II Александрович Романов

Russian Empire (Russia)

1868 – 1918 (50 years old)

Last Emperor of Russia whose abdication in 1917 ended three centuries of Romanov rule; canonized as a Passion-Bearer by the Orthodox Church.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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