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Louise McKinney
Politics
2
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Louise McKinney

Louise Crummy McKinney
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1868 โ€“ 1931 (62 years old)

Pioneering temperance crusader who was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1917, becoming the first woman sworn into a parliament anywhere in the British Empire, and a member of the Famous Five.

Claresholm (Alberta), Canada
Amar ou Said Boulifa
Sciences & Discovery
24
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Amar ou Said Boulifa

ุนู…ุงุฑ ุจู† ุณุนูŠุฏ ุจูˆู„ูŠูุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 1865 โ€“ 1931 (66 years old)

Pioneering Algerian scholar, teacher, and ethnographer who published foundational studies on Kabyle linguistics, oral poetry of Si Mohand, and the ancient history of the Berber nation.

Algiers, Algeria
Politics
2
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Sharif Hussein bin Ali

ุงู„ุญุณูŠู† ุจู† ุนู„ูŠ ุดุฑูŠู ู…ูƒุฉ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey
1854 โ€“ 4 June 1931 (77 years old)

Sharif of Mecca who launched the 1916 Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire to establish a united, independent Arab state.

Jerusalem, Palestine
Eugรจne Ysaรฟe
Music
2
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Eugรจne Ysaรฟe

Eugรจne-Auguste Ysaรฟe
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1858 โ€“ 1931 (72 years old)

Universally crowned the 'King of the Violin', Liรจge-born virtuoso and composer whose monumental Six Sonatas for Solo Violin (Op. 27) transformed twentieth-century string technique and who inspired Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata.

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
Prempeh I
Resistance & Human Rights
40
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Prempeh I

Kwaku Dua III Asamu (Prempeh I)
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana
1870 โ€“ 1931 (60 years old)

Asantehene (King) of the Ashanti Empire who rejected British protectorate ultimatums, endured twenty-eight years of colonial exile in Sierra Leone and Seychelles to protect the sacred Golden Stool, and returned in triumph to Kumasi in 1924.

Kumasi (Ashanti Region), Ghana
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Literature & Poetry
43
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Gibran Khalil Gibran

ุฌุจุฑุงู† ุฎู„ูŠู„ ุฌุจุฑุงู†
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
6 January 1883 โ€“ 10 April 1931 (48 years old)

Lebanese-American mystic poet and artist whose prose-poetry masterwork The Prophet (1923)โ€”translated into over one hundred languagesโ€”ranks as the third best-selling poet in history after Shakespeare and Laozi.

New York City, United States
Business
2
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Andrรฉ Michelin

Andrรฉ Jules Michelin
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1853 โ€“ 1931 (78 years old)

Visionary French industrialist and marketing pioneer who co-founded Michelin with his brother ร‰douard, created the Michelin Man (Bibendum), originated the Michelin Red Guide (1900), and published the first modern road maps.

Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dรดme), France
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Art
1
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Axel Waldemar Gallรฉn
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland
1865-04-26 โ€“ 1931-03-07 (65 years old)

Finland's most prominent painter whose monumental, heroic masterworksโ€”including The Defence of the Sampo, Lemminkรคinen's Mother, and the Aino Triptychโ€”defined the visual spirit of Finnish independence.

Helsinki, Finland
Fritz Pregl
Science
1
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Fritz Pregl

Fritz Pregl
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
1869-09-03 โ€“ 1930-12-13 (61 years old)

Austrian chemist and physician who invented organic micro-analysis, enabling chemical analysis on minuscule milligram-sized samples, awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Graz, Styria, Austria
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