Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Daoud Corm

داود قرم

Lebanon

1852 – 1930 (78 years old)

Founding pioneer of modern easel painting in Lebanon who studied in Rome and served as official court portraitist to Khedive Abbas II in Cairo.

Ghosta, Lebanon

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Literature & Poetry

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Albert Giraud

Marie Émile Albert Kayenbergh

Belgium

1860 – 1929 (69 years old)

Belgian Parnassian and Symbolist poet whose 1884 poetic masterwork Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels bergamasques achieved worldwide immortality when set to groundbreaking modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg.

Schaerbeek (Brussels), Belgium

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History

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Rosalvo Bobo

Rosalvo Bobo

Haiti

1874 – 1929 (55 years old)

Physician, politician, and fiery anti-imperialist leader who led the 1915 northern revolution opposing United States intervention.

Paris, Haiti

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau

France

1841-09-28 – 1929-11-24 (88 years old)

Unbending wartime prime minister who restored national civilian and military resolve to achieve victory in World War I.

Paris, France

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Fadhil Bu Umar

الفضيل بوعمر

Libya

1880 – November 20, 1929 (49 years old)

Heroic Libyan guerrilla commander of the Al-Majabira tribe who served as the most trusted deputy and tactical field general of Omar al-Mukhtar during the two-decade war of liberation against fascist Italy.

Benghazi, Libya

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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José Batlle y Ordóñez

José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez

Uruguay

1856 – 1929 (73 years old)

Two-term President of Uruguay whose visionary 'Batllismo' reforms created the first welfare state in the Americas, introducing eight-hour workdays and female suffrage.

Montevideo, Uruguay

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Stresemann

Germany

10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929 (51 years old)

Gustav Stresemann was a German statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic from 1923 until his death in 1929. Breaking with nationalist militarism to embrace pragmatic European reconciliation, he halted hyperinflation, negotiated the Locarno Treaties, and led Germany into the League of Nations, sharing the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize with Aristide Briand.

Berlin, Germany

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Sculpture

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Antoine Bourdelle

Émile Antoine Bourdelle

France

1861 – 1929 (67 years old)

Monumental French sculptor from Montauban who worked as Auguste Rodin's primary carving assistant for fifteen years, created the dynamic Héraklès archer (1909), and trained Alberto Giacometti and Germaine Richier.

Paris, France

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Business

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Edouard Empain

Édouard Louis Joseph Empain

Belgium

1852 – 1929 (76 years old)

Belgian industrialist, financier, and transport builder who constructed the Paris Métro electrical subway network and founded the visionary desert oasis city of Heliopolis in Cairo.

Cairo, Egypt

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Literature & Poetry

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

Austria

1874-02-01 – 1929-07-15 (55 years old)

Brilliant symbolist prodigy, dramatist, and Richard Strauss's master librettist ('Der Rosenkavalier', 'Elektra') who co-founded the world-famous Salzburg Festival with Max Reinhardt.

Rodaun, Vienna, Austria

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Art

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Amandus Adamson

Amandus Heinrich Adamson

Estonia

1855 – 1929 (73 years old)

Preeminent Estonian academic sculptor whose iconic bronze monument 'Russalka' (1902) in Kadriorg, Tallinn, depicting a bronze angel holding an Orthodox cross toward the Baltic Sea, stands as a national symbol.

Pärnu, Estonia

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Literature & Poetry

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Bliss Carman

William Bliss Carman

Canada

1861 – 1929 (68 years old)

Celebrated Canadian lyrical poet whose Vagabondia collections with Richard Hovey won international fame and who was unofficially crowned Canada's Poet Laureate in 1921.

Fredericton (New Brunswick), Canada

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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William Wade Harris (West African Prophet & Evangelist)

William Wadé Harris

🌐 Liberia

c. 1860 – 1929 (~69 years old)

Dressed in a flowing white robe carrying a bamboo cross, Bible, and gourd rattles, Prophet Harris conducted an astonishing evangelistic pilgrimage across Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana (1913–1915), converting over 100,000 people in eighteen months.

Cape Palmas, Liberia

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Arts & Music

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Rebeca Matte

Rebeca Matte Bello

Chile

1875-10-29 – 1929-05-15 (53 years old)

Chile's first internationally acclaimed female sculptor, granddaughter of Andrés Bello, whose monumental marble and bronze masterpieces include 'Icarus and Daedalus' and the Peace Monument at The Hague.

Santiago, Chile

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Literature & Poetry

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Rudolf Nilsen

Rudolf William Nilsen

Norway

1901-02-28 – 1929-04-23 (28 years old)

Beloved Norwegian working-class poet whose sharp, rhythmic verses in collections like På stengrunn and På gjensyn captured the urban poverty, defiance, and solidarity of Oslo workers.

Oslo, Norway

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Eglantyne Jebb

Eglantyne Jebb

Great Britain

25 August 1876 – 17 December 1928 (52 years old)

Eglantyne Jebb was a visionary British humanitarian and social reformer who founded Save the Children in 1919 to relieve post-WWI famine among European children. In 1923, she authored the landmark Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted by the League of Nations and served as the direct foundation for the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Literature & Poetry

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José Eustasio Rivera

José Eustasio Rivera Salas

Colombia

1888-02-19 – 1928-12-01 (40 years old)

Master novelist and lawyer whose 1924 epic masterpiece 'La vorágine' ('The Vortex') exposed the horrific enslavement and slaughter of Indigenous peoples during the Amazon rubber boom.

Bogotá, Colombia

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Art

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Mauritz Stiller

Moshe Stiller

Finland

1883-07-17 – 1928-11-18 (45 years old)

Pioneering director of the golden age of Swedish silent cinema whose sophisticated comedies and epics like 'The Saga of Gösta Berling' discovered and launched Greta Garbo.

Solna, Sweden

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