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Tomรกลก Garrigue Masaryk

Tomรกลก Jan Masaryk
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Austria
1850-03-07 โ€“ 1937-09-14 (87 years old)

Philosopher-statesman revered as 'President Liberator' (Prezident Osvoboditel) who led the Czechoslovak independence movement in World War I and built interwar Czechoslovakia into Central Europe's beacon of democracy.

Lรกny, Kladno District, Czech Republic
Robert Borden
Politics
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Robert Borden

Sir Robert Laird Borden
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1854 โ€“ 1937 (82 years old)

Canada's resolute wartime Prime Minister during World War I who mobilized 600,000 troops, established the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and asserted Canada's international sovereign independence at Versailles.

Ottawa, Canada
Military
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Mogus Asgedom

Mogus Asgedom
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ท Eritrea
c. 1912 โ€“ c. May 1937 (25 years old)

Heroic Eritrean patriot who alongside Abreha Deboch executed the daring February 19, 1937 hand-grenade attack on Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, fighting to the death in the mountains of Selale.

Debre Libanos, Ethiopia
Military
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Abreha Deboch

Abreha Deboch
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ท Eritrea
c. 1910 โ€“ c. May 1937 (27 years old)

Heroic anti-fascist patriot who on February 19, 1937, hurled hand grenades at Italian Fascist Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani at the Genete Leul Palace in Addis Ababa, striking a mortal blow against imperial occupation.

Debarwa, Debub, Eritrea
Monarchy
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King Malabo

Malabo Lopelo Melaka
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ถ Historical Fernando Po
c. 1837 โ€“ 1937 (100 years old)

Revered traditional sovereign of the Bubi kingdom on Bioko Island whose moral leadership resisted Spanish colonial intrusion, and in whose immortal honor the capital city of Malabo was renamed upon independence.

Moka, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea
Politics
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Moulay Abd al-Hafid

ู…ูˆู„ุงูŠ ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ุญููŠุธ ุจู† ุงู„ุญุณู†
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1875 โ€“ 1937 (62 years old)

Alaouite Sultan (1908โ€“1912), scholar, and poet who ascended the throne through the 'Hafidiya' movement pledging to resist foreign domination, compelled to sign the 1912 Treaty of Fez before abdicating in protest.

Fez, Morocco
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
Music
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Erkki Melartin

Erik Gustaf Melartin
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland
1875 โ€“ 1937 (62 years old)

Leading symphonist and educator who composed six masterly symphonies, the mystical opera 'Aino', over 300 lyric songs, and directed the Helsinki Conservatory (Sibelius Academy) for a quarter of a century.

Helsinki, Finland
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