Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa

عيسى بن علي آل خليفة

Bahrain

1848-01-01 – 1932-12-09 (84 years old)

Longest-reigning sovereign of Bahrain who ruled for sixty-three years (1869–1932), unifying the island nation, establishing modern municipal governance, and opening the first modern school in 1919.

Riffa, Bahrain

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Arts & Music

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J. E. H. MacDonald

James Edward Hervey MacDonald

Great Britain

1873 – 1932 (59 years old)

Founding member and elder statesman of the Group of Seven, whose radiant autumn landscape The Solemn Land captured the spiritual majesty of Algoma, and who served as Principal of OCA.

Toronto, Canada

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Science

Joseph Babinski

Joseph François Félix Babinski

France

1857 – 1932 (74 years old)

French neurologist of Polish descent who was Jean-Martin Charcot's favorite disciple, chief physician at the Hôpital de la Pitié, and discoverer of the diagnostic Babinski reflex indicating corticospinal tract disease.

Champeaux (Seine-et-Marne), France

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Ahmed Shawqi

أحمد شوقي

Egypt

1868 – 1932 (63 years old)

Egyptian literary titan crowned by delegations from across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets) in 1927, who revived classical Arabic poetic eloquence and pioneered verse drama.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt

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Ahmad Shawqi

أحمد شوقي (أمير الشعراء)

Egypt

16 October 1868 – 14 October 1932 (63 years old)

Venerated across the Arab world as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (The Prince of Poets), who spearheaded the neoclassical Arabic literary renaissance (Al-Nahda) and pioneered Arabic poetic drama in Cleopatra and Majnun Layla.

Giza (Cairo), Egypt

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Music

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson

Iceland

1842-06-28 – 1932-10-06 (90 years old)

Pioneering Icelandic composer and pianist who set Matthías Jochumsson's psalm 'Ó, guð vors lands' to music in Edinburgh in 1874, creating Iceland's national anthem (Lofsöngur).

Reykjavík, Iceland

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Wovoka (Jack Wilson the Paiute Prophet)

Wovoka (The Wood Cutter)

United States

c. 1856 CE – 20 September 1932 (~76 years old)

Northern Paiute spiritual prophet who experienced a celestial vision during the total solar eclipse of New Year's Day 1889. Preached the Ghost Dance religion of universal love, non-violence, and spiritual reunion.

Yerington (Nevada), United States

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Sciences & Discovery

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Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross

Bangladesh

1857 – 1932 (75 years old)

British physician who proved that malaria parasites are transmitted by mosquitoes, becoming the first British Nobel laureate in 1902.

Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom

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Alberto Masferrer

Vicente Alberto Masferrer Mónico

El Salvador

1868 – 1932 (64 years old)

Philosopher, moral essayist, and social reformer whose humanitarian doctrine 'El Mínimo Vital' argued that every citizen is entitled to guaranteed food, shelter, education, and healthcare as a basic human right.

San Salvador, El Salvador

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Cyriel Buysse

Belgium

1859 – 1932 (72 years old)

Pioneering Flemish naturalist author whose uncompromising novel Het recht van den sterkste and classic social drama Het gezin van Paemel exposed the harsh poverty and class exploitation of rural Flanders.

Sint-Amandsberg (Ghent), Belgium

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Science

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Reginald Fessenden

Canada

6 October 1866 – 22 July 1932 (65 years old)

Genius Canadian inventor who patented amplitude modulation (AM) and broadcast the world's first audio voice and music program by radio on Christmas Eve 1906.

Smith's Parish, Bermuda

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Emilio Prud'Homme

Emilio Prud'Homme y Maduro

Dominican Republic

1856-08-20 – 1932-07-21 (75 years old)

Eminent educator and poet who in 1883 authored the stirring lyrics of the Dominican National Anthem ('Quisqueyanos valientes, alcemos nuestro canto con viva emoción'), consecrated as the eternal national hymn.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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Hafez Ibrahim

حافظ إبراهيم

Egypt

1872 – 1932 (60 years old)

Beloved Egyptian national poet known as 'The Poet of the Nile', whose resonant verses championed the Egyptian peasant, celebrated the Arabic language, and mourned the victims of the Denshawai massacre.

Cairo, Egypt

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Sol Plaatje

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

South Africa

1876 – 1932 (55 years old)

Brilliant intellectual, journalist, and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (later ANC), whose book 'Native Life in South Africa' exposed land dispossession.

Kimberley, South Africa

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Politics

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Edith Cowan

Edith Dircksey Cowan

Australia

1861-08-02 – 1932-06-09 (70 years old)

Trailblazing social reformer who made history in 1921 as the first woman elected to an Australian Parliament (Western Australia), featured on the Australian fifty-dollar banknote.

Karrakatta, Perth, Australia

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Inukai Tsuyoshi

犬養毅

Japan

1855 – 1932 (76 years old)

Prime Minister of Japan and 'God of Constitutional Politics' whose murder by military extremists in the May 15 Incident ended pre-war Japanese party democracy.

Tokyo, Japan

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Humanitarian & Peace

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