Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Ashfaqulla Khan

اشفاق اللہ خان

India

1900 – 1927 (27 years old)

Revolutionary freedom fighter and Urdu poet of the HSRA who symbolized Hindu-Muslim unity in the struggle against British imperialism alongside Ram Prasad Bismil.

Ayodhya, India

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Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño

Ecuador

1891-08-02 – 1927-12-07 (36 years old)

Aristocratic symbolist poet of the 'Generación Decapitada' whose delicate 1922 collection 'Romanza de las horas' and haunting sonnet 'Emoción vesperal' epitomized the elegant, fatalistic twilight of Andean Modernism.

Quito, Ecuador

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Enrique Gómez Carrillo

Guatemala

1873 – 1927 (54 years old)

Prolific Guatemalan writer, literary chronicler, and diplomat crowned the 'Prince of Chroniclers' in Hispanic modernism.

Paris, Guatemala

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Music

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Wilhelm Stenhammar

Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar

Sweden

1871-02-07 – 1927-11-20 (56 years old)

Master composer and concert pianist who led the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and composed the Serenade in F major and Symphony No. 2, synthesizing Nordic melody with classical counterpoint.

Danderyd, Sweden

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Yusef of Morocco

مولاي يوسف بن الحسن

Morocco

1882 – 1927 (45 years old)

Alaouite Sultan of Morocco from 1912 to 1927 whose calm, dignified leadership preserved the Alaouite monarchy during the turbulent Rif War and who inaugurated the Grand Mosque of Paris in 1926.

Fez, Morocco

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Arts & Music

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Louis Paul Henri Sérusier

Paul Sérusier

France

1864 – 1927 (62 years old)

French painter and leader of Les Nabis who painted 'The Talisman' on a cigar box lid under Paul Gauguin's direct instruction at Pont-Aven, igniting the Nabis movement.

Morlaix, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Svante Arrhenius

Svante August Arrhenius

Sweden

1859 – 1927 (68 years old)

Swedish Nobel laureate who founded physical chemistry with his theory of electrolytic dissociation and first quantified CO2 global warming.

Uppsala, Sweden

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Art

Michael Ancher

Michael Peter Ancher

Denmark

1849-06-09 – 1927-09-19 (78 years old)

Distinguished Danish realist painter who co-founded the Skagen artists' colony and immortalized the heroic struggles and life-saving rescue crews of Danish North Sea fishermen.

Skagen, Denmark

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Military

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Andranik Ozanian

Անդրանիկ Օզանյան

Turkey

1865-02-25 – 1927-08-31 (62 years old)

Legendary military commander and fedaie leader who defended Armenian civilian populations against Ottoman forces and led volunteer divisions in the Caucasus during World War I.

Yerevan, Armenia

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Saad Zaghloul

سعد زغلول

Egypt

1859 – 1927 (68 years old)

Leader of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, founder of the Wafd Party, and Prime Minister revered across Egypt as 'Za'im al-Ummah' (Leader of the Nation).

Cairo, Egypt

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Stephane G. Stephansson

Stefán Guðmundur Guðmundsson

Iceland

1853-10-03 – 1927-08-10 (73 years old)

Foremost poet of the Icelandic diaspora known as 'The Sleepless Poet' (Klettafjallaskáldið) who homesteaded in Alberta, Canada, and penned the monumental six-volume poetic cycle Andvökur.

Markerville, Canada

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Politics

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King Sisowath

ព្រះបាទស៊ីសុវត្ថិ

Cambodia

1840-09-07 – 1927-08-09 (86 years old)

Beloved King of Cambodia who recovered the historic Angkor provinces of Siem Reap and Battambang from Siam in 1907 and dazzled Europe with the Royal Cambodian Ballet at the 1906 Colonial Exhibition.

Oudong, Cambodia

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Education

James Kwegyir Aggrey

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey

Ghana

1875-10-18 – 1927-07-30 (51 years old)

Visionary Ghanaian educator and philosopher who co-founded Achimota College and formulated the famous parable of the black and white piano keys playing harmony together.

Salisbury, United States

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

芥川龍之介

Japan

1892 – 1927 (35 years old)

Master of the Japanese modern short story whose Rashōmon and In a Bamboo Grove pioneered subjective multi-perspective storytelling and inspired Akira Kurosawa's classic film.

Sugamo (Tokyo), Japan

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Arts & Music

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Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

Armand Guillaumin

France

1841 – 1927 (86 years old)

Core French Impressionist painter who participated in six Impressionist exhibitions, celebrated for his intense, saturated color palettes of the Creuse valleys and Parisian quays.

Orly, France

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Vilhelm Thomsen

Vilhelm Ludvig Peter Thomsen

Denmark

1842-01-25 – 1927-05-12 (85 years old)

Genius comparative linguist and President of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences who cracked the undeciphered 8th-century Old Turkic Orkhon runic inscriptions in 1893, opening ancient Central Asian history.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Aviation