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Christian Lous Lange
Humanitarian & Peace
30
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Christian Lous Lange

Christian Lous Lange
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
17 September 1869 โ€“ 11 December 1938 (69 years old)

Christian Lous Lange was a Norwegian historian, educator, and political scientist who served as Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for a quarter-century (1909โ€“1933). The first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Lange guided the IPU through World War I and authored the monumental 'Histoire de l'internationalisme', receiving the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Hjalmar Branting.

Oslo, Norway
Carl von Ossietzky
Humanitarian & Peace
29
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Carl von Ossietzky

Carl von Ossietzky
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1889 โ€“ 1938 (48 years old)

German investigative journalist and fearless anti-Nazi editor of 'Die Weltbuhne' who exposed Germany's secret illegal rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

Berlin (Niederschonhausen), Germany
Frank Billings Kellogg
Humanitarian & Peace
30
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Frank Billings Kellogg

Frank Billings Kellogg
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
22 December 1856 โ€“ 21 December 1937 (80 years old)

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, diplomat, and US Secretary of State (1925โ€“1929) under President Calvin Coolidge. Working in partnership with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, he authored the historic 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris), signed by sixty-two nations legally renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, for which he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington, D.C., United States
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Humanitarian & Peace
31
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,080

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
16 October 1863 โ€“ 17 March 1937 (73 years old)

Sir Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman who served as Foreign Secretary from 1924 to 1929. Renowned as the primary diplomatic architect of the 1925 Locarno Treaties, which reconciled postwar Germany with France and Britain and admitted Germany to the League of Nations, he was awarded the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Charles G. Dawes.

London, United Kingdom
Arthur Henderson
Humanitarian & Peace
42
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Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
13 September 1863 โ€“ 20 October 1935 (72 years old)

Arthur Henderson was a Scottish iron moulder, trade union leader, and British Foreign Secretary (1929โ€“1931) who served as leader of the Labour Party across three terms. Appointed President of the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva in 1932, he struggled heroically for three years to achieve global arms reduction in the face of rising fascism, receiving the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize.

London, United Kingdom
Annie Besant
Humanitarian & Peace
34
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Annie Besant

Annie Besant (nee Wood)
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1847 โ€“ 1933 (85 years old)

British social reformer, trade union champion, and orator who organized the historic 1888 London Matchgirls' Strike, moved to India to champion education and the Home Rule movement, and was elected President of the Indian National Congress in 1917.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India
Julia Lathrop
Humanitarian & Peace
39
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Julia Lathrop

Julia Clifford Lathrop
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1858 โ€“ 1932 (73 years old)

Pioneering American social reformer who created the world's first juvenile court system in Chicago in 1899 and became the first woman to head a United States federal government agency as Chief of the US Children's Bureau.

Rockford (Illinois), United States
Ferdinand ร‰douard Buisson
Humanitarian & Peace
31
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,080

Ferdinand ร‰douard Buisson

Ferdinand ร‰douard Buisson
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
20 December 1841 โ€“ 16 February 1932 (90 years old)

Ferdinand Buisson was a French academic, philosopher, and social reformer who co-founded the League of Human Rights (Ligue des droits de l'homme) and served as Jules Ferry's Director of Primary Education, creating France's free, mandatory, secular public school system (laรฏcitรฉ). A passionate advocate of Franco-German pacifist reconciliation, he shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize with Ludwig Quidde.

Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, Oise, France
Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Sรถderblom
Humanitarian & Peace
35
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,150

Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Sรถderblom

Lars Olof Jonathan Sรถderblom
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden
15 January 1866 โ€“ 12 July 1931 (65 years old)

Nathan Sรถderblom was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala (Primate of the Church of Sweden) from 1914 to 1931. Widely revered as the father of the modern ecumenical movement, he convened the historic 1925 Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work in Stockholm, uniting divided churches across former WWI battlelines in common humanitarian action, receiving the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize.

Uppsala, Sweden
Fridtjof Nansen
Humanitarian & Peace
29
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
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