Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Adolf Loos

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos

Austria

1870 – 1933 (62 years old)

Austrian architect and uncompromising polemicist who authored 'Ornament and Crime', pioneered the spatial 'Raumplan' concept, and shaped European modernist architecture.

Kalksburg (Vienna), Austria

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Music

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Robert Kajanus

Robert Kajanus

Finland

1856-12-02 – 1933-07-06 (76 years old)

Pioneering Finnish conductor and composer who founded the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 1882, led it for fifty years, and championed the orchestral music of Jean Sibelius.

Helsinki, Finland

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Hipolito Yrigoyen

Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen

Argentina

1852 – 1933 (80 years old)

Two-time President of Argentina and leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), who was the first president elected under universal male suffrage (Saenz Pena Law), founding YPF and universal social reform.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Science

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King Njoya

Ibrahim Njoya

Cameroon

c. 1867 – 1933-05-30 (66 years old)

Visionary 17th Sultan of the Bamum Kingdom who invented the original Bamum 'A-ka-u-ku' writing system, built the majestic Foumban Royal Palace, and surveyed detailed topographical maps of his kingdom.

Foumban, Cameroon

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Apollo Kivebulaya

Apollo Kivebulaya

Uganda

1864-01-01 – 1933-05-30 (69 years old)

Venerated Ugandan Anglican evangelist known as the 'Apostle to the Pygmies' who trekked across the Rwenzori Mountains to live among and translate scriptures for the Bambuti people.

Boga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Science

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Sultan Njoya

Ibrahim Njoya

Cameroon

1860-01-01 – 1933-05-30 (73 years old)

Genius 17th King of the Bamum Kingdom who invented the original Bamum syllabic writing script (A-ka-u-ku), founded schools, compiled history books, and designed the Royal Palace of Foumban.

Foumban, Cameroon

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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King Njoya of Bamum

Ibrahim Njoya (Mfon of Bamum)

Cameroon

c. 1860 CE – 1933 (73 years old)

Visionary seventeenth Sultan of the Kingdom of Bamum in Cameroon who invented the indigenous Shumom alphabet, constructed a printing press, mapped his kingdom, and built Foumban Royal Palace.

Foumban, Cameroon

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History

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Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy

Greece

1863 – 1933 (70 years old)

Internationally renowned Greek poet from Alexandria, author of 'Ithaka' and 'Waiting for the Barbarians'.

Alexandria, Greece

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Literature & Poetry

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Ricardo Jaimes Freyre

Ricardo Jaimes Freyre

Bolivia

1868-05-12 – 1933-04-24 (64 years old)

Foundational figure of Spanish-American Modernismo and Symbolist poetry who co-founded the 'Revista de América' with Rubén Darío and authored the mythical verse collection 'Castalia bárbara'.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Science

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Harriet Brooks

Harriet Brooks

Canada

2 July 1876 – 17 April 1933 (56 years old)

Canada's first female nuclear physicist who worked with Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie, discovering atomic recoil and the radioactive emanation of radon.

Montreal, Canada

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Sports & Athletics

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Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II

રણજીતસિંહજી વિભાજી જાડેજા

India

1872 – 1933 (60 years old)

Indian ruler, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, and pioneering cricketer who played for England, inventor of the leg glance stroke; namesake of the Ranji Trophy.

Jamnagar, India

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ahmad Sharif al-Senussi

أحمد الشريف السنوسي

Libya

1873 – 1933 (60 years old)

Supreme leader of the Senussi order from 1902 to 1918 who mobilized the Bedouin tribes of Cyrenaica and the Sahara in armed resistance against the Italian colonial invasion in 1911.

Medina, Saudi Arabia

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ahmad al-Sharif al-Senussi

أحمد الشريف السنوسي

Libya

c. 1873 – 1933 (60 years old)

Third supreme leader of the Senussi Sufi order who commanded broad North African and Saharan military resistance against French, British, and Italian colonial invasions.

Medina, Saudi Arabia

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Arts & Music

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Juan Francisco González

Juan Francisco González Escobar

Chile

1853-09-25 – 1933-03-04 (79 years old)

Revolutionary master painter considered the greatest colorist and impressionist in Chilean art history, renowned for over 4,000 luminous, rapid-sketch oil canvases of flowers, adobe streets, and fruits.

Santiago, Chile

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Literature & Poetry

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Kamil al-Ghazzi

كامل الغزي

Syria

1853 – 3 March 1933 (80 years old)

Preeminent modern historian of Aleppo whose three-volume 'Nahr al-Dhahab fi Tarikh Halab' documented the city's heritage.

Aleppo, Syria

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Sciences & Discovery

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Carl Correns

Carl Erich Correns

Germany

1864 – 1933 (68 years old)

German botanist and geneticist who independently rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, discovered non-Mendelian cytoplasmic (maternal) inheritance, and served as the first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology.

Berlin, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Maâlma Yamna

المعلمة يمنة بنت الحاج المحفوظ

Algeria

1859 – 1933 (74 years old)

Pioneering matriarch of female professional musicians (Mesemaat) in Algiers, who in the early 1900s became one of the first Algerian artists to record on Gramophone discs.

Algiers, Algeria

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Literature & Poetry

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Arvid Järnefelt

Arvid Järnefelt

Russian Empire

1861 – 1932 (71 years old)

Visionary jurist and novelist who abandoned a promising legal career to embrace Leo Tolstoy's Christian anarchism and pacifism, authoring moral masterpieces including 'Isänmaa' and 'Greeta ja hänen poikansa'.

Helsinki, Finland

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