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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Yanka Kupala
Literature & Poetry
6
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Yanka Kupala

ะฏะฝะบะฐ ะšัƒะฟะฐะปะฐ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ Belarus
1882-07-07 โ€“ 1942-06-28 (59 years old)

Spiritual and literary patriarch of modern Belarus whose iconic 1908 anthem 'A kto tam idzie?' ('Who Goes There?') declared the awakening and dignity of the Belarusian nation to the world.

Minsk, Belarus
Akiko Yosano
Literature & Poetry
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Akiko Yosano

ไธŽ่ฌ้‡Žๆ™ถๅญ (Yosano Shoyo)
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1878 โ€“ 1942 (63 years old)

Groundbreaking Japanese poet, feminist, and social reformer (1878โ€“1942) whose daring 1901 poetry collection 'Midaregami' (Tangled Hair) revolutionized modern tanka verse, and whose anti-war poem 'Thou Shalt Not Die' challenged militarism.

Fuchu (Tokyo), Japan
Science
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Jean Perrin

Jean-Baptiste Perrin
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1870 โ€“ 1942 (71 years old)

French physical chemist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experimental proof of the discontinuous nature of matter (verifying Einstein's Brownian motion and determining Avogadro's constant), and founded the CNRS.

Paris, France
Robert Musil
Literature & Poetry
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Robert Musil

Robert Edler von Musil
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
1880-11-06 โ€“ 1942-04-15 (61 years old)

One of the twentieth century's supreme modernist novelists whose monumental philosophical masterpiece 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' ('The Man Without Qualities') dissected the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Geneva, Switzerland
J. S. Woodsworth
Politics
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J. S. Woodsworth

James Shaver Woodsworth
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1874 โ€“ 1942 (67 years old)

Saintly social reformer and Methodist minister who championed immigrant workers in Winnipeg, founded the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1932, and forced Canada's first old-age pensions.

Vancouver, Canada
Dorando Pietri
Sports & Athletics
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Dorando Pietri

Dorando Pietri
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
16 October 1885 โ€“ 7 February 1942 (56 years old)

Dorando Pietri was an Italian marathon runner whose dramatic, agonizing collapse and disqualification yards from the finish line at the 1908 London Olympic Games became the most celebrated moment of drama in early Olympic history. Disqualified after being assisted over the line by compassionate officials, he was presented with a special silver gilded cup by Queen Alexandra, becoming a worldwide folk hero.

Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Porfirio Barba-Jacob
Literature & Poetry
1
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Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Miguel รngel Osorio Benรญtez
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด Colombia
1883-07-29 โ€“ 1942-01-14 (58 years old)

Tormented bohemian poet whose incandescent, melancholic verseโ€”celebrated in 'Canciรณn de la vida profunda' and 'Acuarimรกntima'โ€”made him the archetypal 'poรจte maudit' of Latin American modernism.

Medellรญn, Colombia
Amrita Sher-Gil
Arts & Music
30
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Amrita Sher-Gil

เค…เคฎเฅƒเคคเคพ เคถเฅ‡เคฐเค—เคฟเคฒ
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
1913 โ€“ 1941 (28 years old)

Pioneering Indian-Hungarian painter celebrated as the 'Indian Frida Kahlo', whose sensuous, melancholic oil portraits of rural Indian women revolutionized modern South Asian painting.

Lahore, Pakistan
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