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Sarojini Naidu
Literature & Poetry
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Sarojini Naidu

सरोजिनी नायडू
🇮🇳 India
1879 – 1949 (70 years old)

Indian poet and political leader celebrated as the 'Nightingale of India' (Bharat Kokila), who blended lyrical English romanticism with Indian folk motifs and served as the first woman governor of an Indian state.

Lucknow, India
Tom Longboat
Sports & Athletics
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Tom Longboat

Cogwagee
🇨🇦 Canada
4 June 1887 – 9 January 1949 (61 years old)

Legendary Onondaga long-distance runner whose revolutionary interval training crushed the 1907 Boston Marathon record by five minutes, and who served as a WWI dispatch runner.

Six Nations of the Grand River, Canada
Emanuel Vigeland
Art
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Emanuel Vigeland

August Emanuel Vigeland
🇳🇴 Norway
1875-12-02 – 1948-12-22 (73 years old)

Visionary Norwegian artist and master of stained glass and frescoes who created Tomba Emanuelle, an extraordinary windowless barrel-vaulted mausoleum covered in erotic-existential frescoes.

Oslo, Norway
Uzeyir Hajibeyov
Music
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Uzeyir Hajibeyov

Üzeyir Hacıbəyov
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
1885-09-18 – 1948-11-23 (63 years old)

Towering composer and national patriarch of Azerbaijani music who staged 'Leyli and Majnun' in 1908, the first opera in the Muslim world, and composed the national anthem of Azerbaijan.

Baku, Azerbaijan
Folke Bernadotte
Diplomacy
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Folke Bernadotte

Folke Bernadotte
🇸🇪 Sweden
1895-01-02 – 1948-09-17 (53 years old)

Swedish diplomat and nobleman who organized the heroic 1945 'White Buses' mission that rescued over 20,000 concentration camp inmates, assassinated while serving as the first UN mediator.

Solna, Sweden
Thomas Mofolo
Literature & Poetry
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Thomas Mofolo

Thomas Mokopu Mofolo
🇱🇸 Lesotho
1876-12-22 – 1948-09-08 (71 years old)

Pioneering Mosotho author who wrote 'Chaka' (1925), the first major literary tragedy in an African language, translated into a dozen languages and celebrated worldwide.

Morija, Lesotho
Politics
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Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš
🇨🇿 Kingdom of Bohemia
1884-05-28 – 1948-09-03 (64 years old)

Skilled diplomat and statesman who served as Foreign Minister and second President of Czechoslovakia, leading the government-in-exile in London throughout World War II to restore the Czechoslovak state.

Sezimovo Ústí, Tábor, Czech Republic
Moncef Bey
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Moncef Bey

المنصف باي (محمد المنصف)
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1881 – 1948 (67 years old)

Beloved patriotic Bey of Tunis who boldly supported the Neo-Destour independence movement, refused Vichy anti-Jewish laws during Nazi occupation, and was unjustly deposed by France in 1943.

Tunis, Tunisia
Charles Evans Hughes
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Charles Evans Hughes

Charles Evans Hughes
🇺🇸 United States
1862 – 1948 (86 years old)

11th Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of New York, Secretary of State, and 1916 Republican presidential nominee who led the Washington Naval Conference and resisted FDR's Court-packing plan.

Bronx, New York, United States
Sophonisba Breckinridge
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sophonisba Breckinridge

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
🇺🇸 United States
1866 – 1948 (82 years old)

Pioneering American legal scholar and social scientist who became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. from the University of Chicago, co-founding its School of Social Service Administration.

Lexington (Kentucky), United States
Arshile Gorky
Arts & Music
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Arshile Gorky

Vosdanig Manoug Adoian
🇦🇲 Armenia
1904 – 1948 (44 years old)

Armenian-American painter whose lyrical biomorphic abstractions and fluid, calligraphic draughtsmanship formed the critical bridge between European Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism.

Sherman, United States
Achille Varzi
Sports & Athletics
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Achille Varzi

Achille Varzi
🇮🇹 Italy
1904 – 1948 (43 years old)

Italian Grand Prix champion celebrated for his icy, cerebral precision, silky smooth steering lines, and epic rivalry with Tazio Nuvolari, winning thirty-three major European Grand Prix races.

Galliate (Novara), Italy
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