Historical Archives & Public Figures

Charlemagne Péralte

Haiti

1885 – 1919 (34 years old)

Heroic nationalist leader of the Cacos rebellion against the United States occupation of Haiti, National Hero of Haiti.

Cap-Haïtien, Haiti

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Literature & Poetry

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Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Denmark

1857-06-02 – 1919-10-11 (62 years old)

Danish poet and novelist awarded the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature for his varied and rich poetry inspired by lofty ideals, author of The Pilgrim Kamanita.

Dresden, Germany

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Politics

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Alfred Deakin

Australia

1856-08-03 – 1919-10-07 (63 years old)

Three-time Prime Minister of Australia and pivotal founding father who established the High Court, the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, and the Australian Navy.

St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Gebrehiwet Baykedagn

🌐 Eritrea

1886 – 1919 (33 years old)

Visionary political economist and medical scholar whose landmark 1919 treatise 'State and Economy' laid the foundations for modern developmental economics and institutional critique in the Horn of Africa.

Asmara, Eritrea

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Andrew Carnegie

Great Britain

1835 – 1919 (83 years old)

Industriel de l'acier et l'un des plus grands philanthropes de l'histoire, auteur du Gospel of Wealth, financeur de plus de 2 500 bibliothèques publiques et du Palais de la Paix.

Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States

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Art

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Octave Maus

Belgium

1856 – 1919 (63 years old)

Visionary Belgian art critic, jurist, and impresario who directed the avant-garde artistic societies Les XX (The Twenty) and La Libre Esthétique, making Brussels the capital of European modernism.

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium

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Literature & Poetry

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Medardo Ángel Silva

Medardo Ángel Silva Rodas

Ecuador

1898-06-08 – 1919-06-10 (21 years old)

Tragic teenage poetic prodigy and leader of the 'Generación Decapitada' whose heartbreaking modern poem 'El alma en los labios' was set to music as Ecuador's most iconic and haunting pasillo.

Guayaquil, Ecuador

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ahmed al-Hiba

أحمد الهيبة بن الشيخ ماء العينين

Mauritania

c. 1877 – 1919 (42 years old)

Saharan religious and military leader known as the 'Blue Sultan' who proclaimed holy resistance against the French Protectorate in 1912, marching from the Sahara to seize Marrakech with 10,000 warriors.

Tafraout (Tiznit), Morocco

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Science

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Lawrence Lambe

Canada

27 August 1863 – 12 March 1919 (55 years old)

Canada's first great vertebrate paleontologist whose descriptions of Alberta fossils—including Centrosaurus, Chasmosaurus, and Gorgosaurus—founded the nation's paleontology.

Ottawa, Canada

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Military

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Sam Steele

Major-General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele

Canada

1848 – 1919 (71 years old)

Legendary Mountie officer who marched across the prairies in 1874, maintained order during CPR construction, commanded the North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush, and led Strathcona's Horse.

Winnipeg (Manitoba), Canada

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Politics

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Ismail Qemali

Ismail Qemal Bej Vlora

Albania

1844-01-16 – 1919-01-24 (75 years old)

Founding father of modern Albania who raised the double-headed eagle flag in Vlorë on November 28, 1912, declaring Albanian independence after nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule.

Vlorë, Albania

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Art

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Carl Larsson

Sweden

1853-05-28 – 1919-01-22 (65 years old)

Iconic Swedish painter and illustrator whose delightful watercolors of his Sundborn home, 'Lilla Hyttnäs', published in 'Ett Hem' (1899), established the quintessential Swedish interior aesthetic.

Sundborn, Sweden

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Theodore Roosevelt

United States

1858-10-27 – 1919-01-06 (60 years old)

Transformed the presidency into a modern active executive office, pioneered environmental conservation, and won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.

Oyster Bay, New York, United States

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Politics

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Guimbi Ouattara

Burkina Faso

1836-01-01 – 1919-01-01 (83 years old)

Visionary 19th-century warrior princess and diplomat of the Kingdom of Gwiriko whose statesmanship, military counsel, and negotiations protected Bobo-Dioulasso from destruction.

Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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Literature & Poetry

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Maryana Marrash

مريانا مراش

Syria

1848 – 1919 (71 years old)

Pioneering Syrian woman of letters from Aleppo who established the first modern Arab literary salon in her home in the 1880s.

Aleppo, Syria

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Garrick Braide (Elijah II of the Niger Delta)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Garrick Braide (Elijah II of the Niger Delta)

Garrick Sokari Marian Braide

Nigeria

c. 1882 – 1918 (~36 years old)

Known as 'Elijah II' across the Niger Delta, Garrick Braide sparked a colossal religious and social revival in 1915–1916, destroying traditional occult charms and crushing the colonial trade in European gin, which threatened British commercial monopolies.

Port Harcourt

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Deguchi Nao (Foundress of Oomoto & Shinto Prophetess)

Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Deguchi Nao (Foundress of Oomoto & Shinto Prophetess)

出口なお

Japan

1837 – 1918 (81 years old)

An impoverished, illiterate peasant widow in Ayabe, Deguchi Nao experienced a terrifying divine trance on Lunar New Year 1892, producing ten thousand volumes of automatic prophetic calligraphy (Ofudesaki) heralding the 'Great Reconstruction of the World' (Ushitora no Konjin).

Ayabe, Japan

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