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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov
Arts & Music
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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

Виктор Михайлович Васнецов
🇷🇺 Russia
1848 – 1926 (78 years old)

Pioneering Russian folklorist and painter whose monumental epic canvases of epic heroes—such as 'Bogatyrs' and 'Alyonushka'—created the visual iconography of Russian fairy tales and epics.

Moscow, Russia
Mary Cassatt
Arts & Music
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Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt
🇺🇸 United States
1844 – 1926 (82 years old)

Pioneering American Impressionist painter and printmaker acclaimed for her sensitive portraits of the intimate bond between mothers and children.

Le Mesnil-Théribus, France
Georges Vézina
Sports & Athletics
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Georges Vézina

The Chicoutimi Cucumber
🇨🇦 Canada
21 January 1887 – 27 March 1926 (39 years old)

Pioneering French-Canadian goaltender whose ice-cool demeanor in net for the Canadiens earned him the nickname "The Chicoutimi Cucumber" and inspired the NHL's premier goalie trophy.

Chicoutimi, Canada
Literature & Poetry
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Iraj Mirza

ایرج میرزا
🇮🇷 Iran
October 1874 – 12 March 1926 (51 years old)

Daring Qajar prince and satirical poet of the Constitutional era who used lucid, colloquial Persian to ridicule religious hypocrisy and champion women's education.

Tehran, Iran
Eino Leino
Literature & Poetry
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Eino Leino

Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm
🇫🇮 Finland
1878-07-06 – 1926-01-10 (47 years old)

Beloved Finnish poet and bohemian genius whose rhythmic, melancholic masterpiece Helkavirsiä (Whitsongs) fused ancient Kalevala trochaic meter with modern European symbolism.

Helsinki, Finland
Science
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Alfred Pérot

Jean-Baptiste Alfred Pérot
🇫🇷 France
1863 – 1925 (62 years old)

French physicist and professor at the École Polytechnique who co-invented the Fabry-Pérot interferometer in 1897, establishing the international standard for the optical wavelength of the red cadmium line.

Paris, France
Art
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Magnus Enckell

Knut Magnus Enckell
🇫🇮 Finland
1870 – 1925 (55 years old)

Leading symbolist painter of the Golden Age whose ascetic, melancholic early canvases ('The Awakening') and monumental fresco 'The Resurrection' in Tampere Cathedral made him a titan of Nordic visual modernism.

Helsinki, Finland
Cinema
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Max Linder

Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle
🇫🇷 France
1883 – 1925 (41 years old)

French silent screen comic actor and director recognized as the world's very first international cinema star, whose dapper, silk-hatted bourgeois character directly inspired Charlie Chaplin.

Saint-Loubès (Gironde), France
Christian Krohg
Art
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Christian Krohg

Christian Krohg
🇳🇴 Norway
1852-08-13 – 1925-10-16 (73 years old)

Prominent Norwegian naturalist painter, social critic, and novelist who championed social justice in works like Albertine i politilægens venteværelse and Leiv Eiriksson oppdager Amerika.

Oslo, Norway
Literature & Poetry
2
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Runar Schildt

Karl Runar Schildt
🇫🇮 Finland
1888 – 1925 (36 years old)

Peerless Swedish-Finnish prose master whose polished psychological novellas and drama 'The Gallows Man' (Galgmannen) observed the tragic fall of aristocrats and the trauma of the 1918 Finnish Civil War.

Helsinki, Finland
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
Humanitarian & Peace
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Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
🇫🇷 France
21 May 1851 – 29 September 1925 (74 years old)

Léon Bourgeois was a French statesman, philosopher, and Prime Minister of France (1895–1896) whose social philosophy of 'Solidarism' provided the intellectual blueprint for the League of Nations. Known as the spiritual father of the League, he served as the first President of the Council of the League of Nations in 1920 and was awarded the 1920 Nobel Peace Prize.

Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne, France
Gottlob Frege
Philosophy & Thought
36
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Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege
🇩🇪 Germany
1848 – 1925 (76 years old)

German mathematician, logician, and philosopher universally celebrated as the father of modern logic and analytic philosophy, who invented predicate calculus and distinguished Sense and Reference.

Wismar, Germany
Lovis Corinth
Arts & Music
38
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Lovis Corinth

Lovis Corinth
🇷🇺 Russia
1858 – 1925 (66 years old)

German master painter and president of the Berlin Secession whose style dramatically evolved from robust naturalism into feverish, tragic late Expressionist masterpieces.

Stahnsdorf (Berlin), Germany
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