Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Humanitarian & Peace

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Mary Richmond

Mary Ellen Richmond

United States

1861 – 1928 (67 years old)

Pioneering American humanitarian whose 1917 masterpiece 'Social Diagnosis' constructed the scientific methodology of professional social casework, establishing diagnostic interviewing and social investigation.

Baltimore (Maryland), United States

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Arts & Music

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Franz von Stuck

Franz von Stuck

Germany

1863 – 1928 (65 years old)

Leader of the Munich Secession whose provocative Symbolist canvas 'The Sin' (Die Sünde) and magnificent self-designed Villa Stuck mentored Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

Munich, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček

Austria

1854 – 1928 (74 years old)

Moravian Czech composer celebrated for his revolutionary musical style based on human speech inflections, immortalized by 'Jenůfa', 'The Cunning Little Vixen', and the 'Sinfonietta'.

Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

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Politics

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Stjepan Radić

Stjepan Radić

Croatia

1871-06-11 – 1928-08-08 (57 years old)

Beloved leader of the Croatian Peasant Party and pacifist tribune whose assassination on the floor of the Belgrade Parliament in 1928 became a turning point in Croatian national history.

Zagreb, Croatia

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History

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Kostas Karyotakis

Kostas Karyotakis

Greece

1896 – 1928 (31 years old)

Influential Greek poet whose melancholic, satirical, and sarcastic verses captured the disillusionment of the 1920s generation.

Preveza, Greece

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Alvaro Obregon

Alvaro Obregon Salido

Mexico

1880 – 1928 (48 years old)

Mexican general who never lost a single battle in the Mexican Revolution, defeated Pancho Villa at the Battle of Celaya, and served as President of Mexico (1920–1924), stabilizing the nation and launching mass rural public education under Jose Vasconcelos.

Huatabampo (Sonora), Mexico

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Arts & Music

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Khalil Saleeby

خليل صليبي

Lebanon

1870 – 7 July 1928 (58 years old)

Pioneering Impressionist painter from Bteghrine who introduced modern plein-air painting and artistic nude studies to Lebanon.

Bteghrine, Lebanon

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Sports & Athletics

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Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen

Norway

1872 – 1928 (55 years old)

Norwegian polar explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, the first to traverse the Northwest Passage, and the first verified explorer to reach the North Pole by air.

Oppegard (Akershus), Norway

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Goulden

Great Britain

15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928 (69 years old)

British political activist who organized the UK suffragette movement and founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), using direct action under the motto 'Deeds, Not Words' to win women the right to vote.

Hampstead, London, Great Britain

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Literature & Poetry

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Adela Zamudio

Paz Juana Plácida Adela Rafaela Zamudio Rivero

Bolivia

1854-10-11 – 1928-06-02 (73 years old)

Foremost Bolivian feminist writer, educator, and intellectual pioneer whose courageous verse and activism challenged patriarchal society and the clerical monopoly on education.

Cochabamba, Bolivia

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Literature & Poetry

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Alfredo Espino

Edgardo Alfredo Espino Najarro

El Salvador

1900 – 1928 (28 years old)

Beloved national poet whose posthumous collection 'Jícaras tristes' (Sad Gourds) is the most widely read book of poetry in Salvadoran history, celebrating volcanoes, coffee blossoms, and peasant life.

San Salvador, El Salvador

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Hideyo Noguchi

野口 英世 (Seisaku Noguchi)

Japan

1876 – 1928 (51 years old)

Bactériologiste japonais de renommée mondiale, chercheur infatigable contre la syphilis et la fièvre jaune, mort martyr de la science en Afrique de l'Ouest.

Bronx, New York, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Paul van Ostaijen

Paul Leopold Isidore Lodewijk van Ostaijen

Belgium

1896 – 1928 (32 years old)

Visionary Flemish avant-garde poet and critic whose radical Dadaist and Expressionist collection Bezette Stad (Occupied City, 1921) introduced rhythmic typography and cinematic montage into Dutch poetry.

Hoboken (Antwerp), Belgium

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Sciences & Discovery

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Hendrik Lorentz

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

Netherlands

1853 – 1928 (74 years old)

Dutch physicist who unified Maxwell's electromagnetism with electron theory and formulated the Lorentz transformations.

Haarlem, Netherlands

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Science

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Johannes Fibiger

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger

Denmark

1867-04-23 – 1928-01-30 (60 years old)

Eminent Danish pathologist awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering experimental research demonstrating that environmental parasites can induce carcinomas.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1st Earl Haig)

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Scotland

1861 – 1928 (66 years old)

Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919 who directed the Hundred Days Offensive that won World War I.

Dryburgh (Scottish Borders), United Kingdom

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Art

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Nikolai Astrup

Nikolai Johannes Astrup

Norway

1880-08-30 – 1928-01-21 (47 years old)

Distinctive Norwegian painter and innovative printmaker who immortalized the lush, mystical landscapes and Midsummer bonfires of Jølster in Western Norway.

Jølster, Norway

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Literature & Poetry

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Great Britain

1840 – 1928 (87 years old)

Victorian realist novelist and lyric poet whose tragic Wessex novels, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, challenged Victorian social morality.

Stinsford / London, United Kingdom

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