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David J. Guzmรกn

David Joaquรญn Guzmรกn Martorell
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ป El Salvador
1843 โ€“ 1927 (83 years old)

Eminent polymath, botanist, and physician who founded the National Museum of Anthropology (MUNA), authored the 'Oraciรณn a la Bandera Salvadoreรฑa', and cataloged the medicinal flora of Central America.

San Salvador, El Salvador
Renรฉ Karl Wilhelm Johann Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Literature & Poetry
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Renรฉ Karl Wilhelm Johann Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Rainer Maria Rilke
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic
4 December 1875 โ€“ 29 December 1926 (51 years old)

One of the supreme lyric poets in world literature whose mystical communion with physical objects in New Poems, Letters to a Young Poet, and the transcendent Duino Elegies ('Every angel is terrifying') explored the sacred beauty of being.

Val-Mont Sanatorium (Glion sur Montreux), Switzerland
Emperor Taisho
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Emperor Taisho

ๅคงๆญฃๅคฉ็š‡ (ๅ˜‰ไป)
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1879 โ€“ 1926 (47 years old)

The 123rd Emperor of Japan (reigned 1912โ€“1926) whose eraโ€”known as 'Taisho Democracy'โ€”saw the rise of parliamentary party politics, labor unions, universal male suffrage, and cultural modernism in Japan.

Hachioji (Tokyo), Japan
Johan Castberg
Politics
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Johan Castberg

Johan Castberg
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
1860-09-21 โ€“ 1926-12-24 (66 years old)

Pioneering Norwegian progressive statesman and jurist who authored the revolutionary Castbergian Child Laws of 1915, granting children born out of wedlock full inheritance and paternal recognition.

Oslo, Norway
Thรฉo van Rysselberghe
Art
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Thรฉo van Rysselberghe

Thรฉophile van Rysselberghe
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1862 โ€“ 1926 (64 years old)

Leading Belgian Neo-Impressionist painter who co-founded Les XX, adopted Georges Seurat's pointillist division of color, and created luminous portraits, coastal seascapes, and Mediterranean sunlit canvases.

Le Lavandou (Var), France
Politics
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Habte Giyorgis Dinagde

Habte Giyorgis Dinagde
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia
c. 1851 โ€“ 1926 (75 years old)

Supreme military commander and statesman known as 'Aba Kela' who served as Minister of War for two decades, commanded the imperial vanguard at Adwa, and acted as the indispensable stabilizer of the state.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Oscar-Claude Monet
Arts & Music
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Oscar-Claude Monet

Claude Monet
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
14 November 1840 โ€“ 5 December 1926 (86 years old)

Founding father of French Impressionism whose 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise gave the revolutionary movement its name, celebrated worldwide for capturing transient light across series of Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and the monumental Water Lilies.

Giverny (Eure), France
Eugene V. Debs
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Eugene V. Debs

Eugene Victor Debs
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1855 โ€“ 1926 (70 years old)

American trade union pioneer, founder of the American Railway Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who won nearly one million votes for President from a federal prison cell in 1920 while incarcerated for speaking against World War I.

Terre Haute (Indiana), United States
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