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Pierre Paul Émile Roux

Pierre Paul Émile Roux

France

1853 – 1933 (79 years old)

Preeminent French bacteriologist who was Louis Pasteur's closest collaborator, co-developed the rabies vaccine, discovered diphtheria toxin with Alexandre Yersin, and developed diphtheria antitoxin serum, saving millions of children.

Paris, France

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Apollo Kivebulaya

Apollo Kivebulaya

Uganda

1864-01-01 – 1933-05-30 (69 years old)

Venerated Ugandan Anglican evangelist known as the 'Apostle to the Pygmies' who trekked across the Rwenzori Mountains to live among and translate scriptures for the Bambuti people.

Boga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Wovoka (Jack Wilson the Paiute Prophet)

Wovoka (The Wood Cutter)

United States

c. 1856 CE – 20 September 1932 (~76 years old)

Northern Paiute spiritual prophet who experienced a celestial vision during the total solar eclipse of New Year's Day 1889. Preached the Ghost Dance religion of universal love, non-violence, and spiritual reunion.

Yerington (Nevada), United States

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William Wade Harris (West African Prophet & Evangelist)

William Wadé Harris

🌐 Liberia

c. 1860 – 1929 (~69 years old)

Dressed in a flowing white robe carrying a bamboo cross, Bible, and gourd rattles, Prophet Harris conducted an astonishing evangelistic pilgrimage across Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana (1913–1915), converting over 100,000 people in eighteen months.

Cape Palmas, Liberia

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Sir Apolo Kagwa

Apolo Kagwa

Uganda

1864-01-01 – 1927-02-21 (63 years old)

Prime Minister (Katikkiro) of Buganda for thirty-seven years (1890–1926) and pioneering historian whose 'Basekabaka be Buganda' codified the royal history of the Baganda kingdom.

Kampala, Uganda

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Luigj Gurakuqi

Luigj Gurakuqi

Albania

1879-02-19 – 1925-03-02 (46 years old)

Prominent statesman, linguist, and educator who co-drafted the 1912 Declaration of Independence, founded the Normal School of Elbasan, and served as Minister of Education and Finance.

Shkodër, Albania

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`Abdu'l-Bahá (Abbas Effendi)

عبدالبهاء (Servant of the Glory)

Iran

23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 (77 years old)

Eldest son and designated successor of Bahá'u'lláh. Released from Ottoman confinement in 1908, he traveled extensively across Europe and North America expounding racial equality, gender justice, and universal harmony.

Haifa, Palestine

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Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Jonas Lippmann

Luxembourg

1845 – 1921 (75 years old)

Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and professor at the Sorbonne who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for producing the world's first true color photograph using pure optical light interference without artificial dyes.

Paris, France

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Sayyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan

Sayyid Maxamed Cabdille Xasan

🌐 Somalia

1856-04-07 – 1920-12-21 (64 years old)

Visionary leader of the Dervish movement who waged a twenty-year armed anti-colonial resistance (1900–1920) against British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces, acclaimed as Somalia's greatest classical poet.

Imey, Ethiopia

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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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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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Kaba of Atacora

Kaba

🌐 Benin

1870-01-01 – 1917-04-26 (47 years old)

Heroic Somba / Ditammari chieftain who led the 1914–1917 Atacora insurrection against French forced labour, colonial recruitment, and taxation in northern Dahomey.

Natitingou, Benin

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Cheikh Mustapha El Hamel

الشيخ مصطفى بن محمد بن بلقاسم

Algeria

1850 – 1917 (67 years old)

Revered head of the great Rahmaniyya Zawiya of El Hamel following Lalla Zaynab, who sheltered thousands of famine victims and defended national education.

El Hamel, Algeria

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Rik Wouters

Hendrik Emil Wouters

Belgium

1882 – 1916 (33 years old)

Beloved Brabant Fauvist painter and sculptor whose vibrant, light-filled domestic canvases of his muse Nel and ecstatic bronze sculpture The Mad Virgin (Het zotte geweld) crowned early Belgian modernism before his tragic death at 33.

Mechelen, Belgium

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Sadok Ghileb

الصادق غلب

Tunisia

c. 1840 AD – 1912 (72 years old)

Prominent municipal leader and Sheik al-Medina (Mayor of Tunis) who preserved the architectural identity of the ancient medina while introducing modern sanitation, water distribution, and lighting.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Smohalla (Wanapum Prophet of the Dreamer Religion)

Smowhala

United States

c. 1815 – 1895 (~80 years old)

The hunchbacked Wanapum mystic and prophet of the Columbia River Plateau, Smohalla founded the Dreamer Religion (Washat), fiercely resisting colonial industrialization with the immortal ecological defense of the living Mother Earth.

Priest Rapids, United States

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Alfred Solvay

Alfred Solvay

Belgium

1840 – 1894 (53 years old)

Belgian industrial pioneer who co-founded the global chemical multinational Solvay & Cie alongside his brother Ernest, directing the commercial expansion and international factory network of the soda ash empire.

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium

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Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn-Ali Nuri)

بهاءالله (The Glory of God)

Iran

12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892 (74 years old)

Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Endured forty years of imprisonment and exile across the Ottoman Empire while writing the Kitab-i-Aqdas and proclaiming the organic unity of the human race and world peace.

Bahji (Acre), Palestine

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