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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Idola Saint-Jean
Politics
3
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Idola Saint-Jean

Idola Saint-Jean
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1880 โ€“ 1945 (64 years old)

Passionate Montreal suffragist, actress, and educator who founded the Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes and became the first French Canadian woman to run for the federal parliament in 1930.

Montreal, Canada
Emily Carr
Arts & Music
7
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Emily Carr

Emily Carr
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1871 โ€“ 1945 (73 years old)

Monumental West Coast painter and author who overcame decades of isolation to paint the towering totem poles and cedar rainforests of British Columbia, winning the Governor General's Award for Klee Wyck.

Victoria (British Columbia), Canada
Eric Liddell
Sports & Athletics
41
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Eric Liddell

Eric Henry Liddell
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
16 January 1902 โ€“ 21 February 1945 (43 years old)

Eric Liddell, 'The Flying Scotsman', was an Olympic 400m champion and Scottish rugby international renowned for his unyielding Christian conviction, famously withdrawing from his signature 100m event at the 1924 Paris Olympics because the heats were held on a Sunday. Switching to the 400 meters, he won gold in a world record time before dedicating his life to missionary work in China, where he died in a Japanese civilian internment camp in 1945.

Weihsien Internment Camp, Shandong, China
Military
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Belay Zeleke

Belay Zeleke
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia
1912 โ€“ 1945 (33 years old)

Legendary patriot commander known as 'Abba Koster' who mobilized a guerrilla army of 40,000 fighters in the gorges of Gojjam, repeatedly annihilating elite Italian fascist divisions for five years.

Bichena, Gojjam, Ethiopia
Vladimir Vernadsky
Sciences & Discovery
33
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Vladimir Vernadsky

ะ’ะปะฐะดะธะผะธั€ ะ˜ะฒะฐะฝะพะฒะธั‡ ะ’ะตั€ะฝะฐะดัะบะธะน
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1863 โ€“ 1945 (81 years old)

Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who founded biogeochemistry and popularized the concept of the Biosphere, theorizing its evolution into the human-guided Noosphere.

Moscow, Russia
Lhaj Belaid
Arts & Music
10
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Lhaj Belaid

ุงู„ุญุงุฌ ุจู„ุนูŠุฏ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
c. 1875 โ€“ c. 1945 (~70 years old)

The founding patriarch and undisputed master of modern Amazigh (Soussi) poetry and music, whose virtuosity on the single-stringed ribab and philosophical Tamazight verses transformed Moroccan folk culture.

Tiznit, Morocco
Cheikh Tourad
Religious Figures & Theologians
22
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Cheikh Tourad

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ุชุฑุงุฏ ูˆู„ุฏ ุงู„ุนุจุงุณ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania
1843 โ€“ 1945 (102 years old)

Venerated 19th-century Sufi master of the Fadiliyya-Qadiriyya order who spent a century arbitrating Saharan tribal conflicts and establishing nomadic schools across the Hodh and Sahel.

Aioun, Mauritania
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
Arts & Music
39
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

ะ’ะฐัะธะปะธะน ะ’ะฐัะธะปัŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะšะฐะฝะดะธะฝัะบะธะน
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
16 December 1866 โ€“ 13 December 1944 (77 years old)

Visionary Russian painter and Bauhaus master universally recognized as the pioneer of pure non-objective abstract art, who linked visual color and geometry to musical synesthesia in his landmark treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

Neuilly-sur-Seine (Paris), France
Paul Otlet
Technology
3
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Paul Otlet

Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1868 โ€“ 1944 (76 years old)

Belgian bibliographer and visionary thinker revered as a founding father of information science who created the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and conceived the Mundaneumโ€”a physical precursor to the World Wide Web.

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
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