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Georg Jensen
Art
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Georg Jensen

Georg Arthur Jensen
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark
1866-08-31 โ€“ 1935-10-02 (69 years old)

Legendary Danish silversmith and sculptor whose Art Nouveau silver hollowware, jewelry, and flatware established Georg Jensen as one of the world's premier luxury design houses.

Hellerup, Denmark
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Sciences & Discovery
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

ะšะพะฝัั‚ะฐะฝั‚ะธะฝ ะญะดัƒะฐั€ะดะพะฒะธั‡ ะฆะธะพะปะบะพะฒัะบะธะน
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1857 โ€“ 1935 (78 years old)

Russian visionary schoolteacher and aerospace theorist acclaimed as the 'Father of Theoretical Astronautics', who derived the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation and conceived multi-stage rockets, space stations, and airlocks.

Kaluga, Russia
Rashid Rida
Philosophy & Thought
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Rashid Rida

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุฑุดูŠุฏ ุฑุถุง
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
September 23, 1865 โ€“ August 22, 1935 (69 years old)

Influential Islamic scholar, editor, and political theorist who founded the seminal Cairo-based journal 'Al-Manar' in 1898, continuing the modernist reform tradition of Muhammad Abduh while articulating an early vision of the modern Islamic state.

Cairo, Egypt
Paul Signac
Arts & Music
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Paul Signac

Paul Signac
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1863 โ€“ 1935 (71 years old)

Co-founder of Neo-Impressionism / Pointillism alongside Georges Seurat, president of the Sociรฉtรฉ des Artistes Indรฉpendants, and author of 'From Eugรจne Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism'.

Paris, France
Music
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Josef Suk

Josef Suk
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Kingdom of Bohemia
1874-01-04 โ€“ 1935-05-29 (61 years old)

Eminent composer and second violinist of the world-famed Bohemian String Quartet, favorite pupil and son-in-law of Antonรญn Dvoล™รกk, whose monumental 'Asrael Symphony' stands as a tragic pinnacle of Czech music.

Kล™eฤovice, Beneลกov, Czech Republic
Hugo de Vries
Sciences & Discovery
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Hugo de Vries

Hugo Marie de Vries
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
1848 โ€“ 1935 (87 years old)

Dutch botanist who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900 and formulated the revolutionary Mutation Theory, introducing the concept of sudden genetic changes as the raw material of evolution.

Lunteren (Ede, Gelderland), Netherlands
Anna Ancher
Art
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Anna Ancher

Anna Kirstine Brรธndum Ancher
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark
1859-08-18 โ€“ 1935-04-15 (75 years old)

Foremost Danish female painter of the Skagen group and brilliant colorist, renowned for luminous domestic interiors such as Solskin i den blรฅ stue (Sunshine in the Blue Room).

Skagen, Denmark
Art
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Aleksandรซr Moisiu

Aleksandรซr Moisiu
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
1879-04-02 โ€“ 1935-03-22 (55 years old)

World-renowned stage actor of Albanian heritage who became Max Reinhardt's leading dramatic superstar at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, celebrated across Europe for his Hamlet and Jedermann.

Morcote, Switzerland
Science
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John Macleod

J. J. R. Macleod
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
6 September 1876 โ€“ 16 March 1935 (58 years old)

Scottish-Canadian physiologist who provided laboratory facilities, critical guidance, and scientific oversight for the discovery of insulin, sharing the 1923 Nobel Prize.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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