Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Madani El Glaoui

المدني الكلاوي

Morocco

1860 – 1918 (58 years old)

Elder architect of the Glaoua dynasty, Grand Vizier of Morocco, and Minister of War under Sultan Moulay Abdelhafid during the turbulent pre-Protectorate period.

Marrakesh, Morocco

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Frederick McCubbin

Australia

1855-02-25 – 1917-12-20 (62 years old)

Pioneering artist and beloved teacher of the Heidelberg School whose monumental narrative triptych 'The Pioneer' and paintings such as 'Down on His Luck' captured the quiet hardships of the Australian bush.

Caulfield South, Melbourne, Australia

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Literature & Poetry

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Vassilis Michaelides

Cyprus

c. 1849 – 1917-12-18 (68 years old)

National poet of Cyprus whose monumental epic poems 'The 9th of July 1821 in Nicosia' and 'The Woman of Chios' elevated the Cypriot Greek dialect to supreme tragic and lyrical height.

Limassol, Cyprus

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Politics

Mackenzie Bowell

Sir Mackenzie Bowell

Great Britain

1823 – 1917 (93 years old)

Fifth Prime Minister of Canada who organized the First Colonial Conference in Ottawa in 1894, promoted the Pacific Telegraph Cable, and governed through the turbulent Manitoba Schools crisis.

Belleville (Ontario), Canada

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Dr. Elsie Maud Inglis

Elsie Maud Inglis

India

16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917 (53 years old)

Dr. Elsie Inglis was an innovative Scottish physician, surgeon, and suffragist who founded the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service during World War I. Rebuffed by the British War Office who told her to 'go home and sit still', she established fourteen frontline female-staffed hospitals across France, Serbia, and Russia, earning Serbia's highest military honor.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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François-Auguste-René Rodin

Auguste Rodin

France

12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 (77 years old)

Supreme giant of modern sculpture who resurrected the emotional and psychological vitality of Michelangelo and Donatello, creating monumental masterpieces like The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, and The Burghers of Calais.

Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), France

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Queen Liliʻuokalani

Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha

United states

1838 – 1917 (79 years old)

Last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii (1891–1893), brilliant composer of 'Aloha ʻOe', who yielded her executive throne under armed US military threat to prevent bloodshed, fighting peacefully in Washington for her people's civil sovereignty.

Honolulu (Oahu), United States

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Edgar Degas

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

France

1834 – 1917 (83 years old)

French artist celebrated for his innovative pastel drawings and oil paintings capturing Parisian dancers, bathers, and racehorses.

Paris, France

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Military

Georges Guynemer

Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer

France

1894 – 1917 (22 years old)

Beloved French fighter ace and national hero of World War I who scored 54 aerial victories in his SPAD aircraft 'Vieux Charles' with the elite Escadrille des Cigognes before disappearing in the clouds of Flanders at age twenty-two.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Marian Smoluchowski

Austria

1872 – 1917 (45 years old)

Polish theoretical physicist who independently explained Brownian motion simultaneously with Albert Einstein and developed the kinetic theory of colloidal coagulation.

Cracow, Poland

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History

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Hendrik Olsen

Greenland

1884 – 1917 (33 years old)

Inuit dog-sled explorer and hunter who perished heroically during Knud Rasmussen's Second Thule Expedition.

North Greenland, Greenland

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Art

Religious Figures & Theologians

Hugo Simberg

Hugo Gerhard Simberg

Finland

1873-06-24 – 1917-07-12 (44 years old)

Visionary Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist who created poignant, tender masterpieces of the supernatural, notably Haavoittunut enkeli (The Wounded Angel) and Kuoleman puutarha.

Helsinki, Finland

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Cheikh Saad Bouh

الشيخ سعد بوه (سعد بن محمد)

Mauritania

1848 – 1917 (69 years old)

Illustrious Mauritanian Sufi master, scholar, and diplomat of the Qadiriyya-Fadiliyya order whose spiritual influence united millions of disciples across Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, and Mali.

Trarza, Mauritania

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Tom Thomson

Thomas John Thomson

Canada

1877 – 1917 (39 years old)

Iconic Canadian painter whose luminous, expressive masterworks The Jack Pine and The West Wind revolutionized Canadian landscape art, sparking the formation of the Group of Seven.

Leith (Owen Sound, Ontario), Canada

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History

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Carl Christian Reindorf

Ghana

1834 – 1917 (83 years old)

Pioneering Ghanaian historian and pastor who authored 'The History of the Gold Coast and Asante', the first indigenous written history of Ghana.

Osu, Accra, Ghana

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Science

Robert Bell

The Moccasin Doctor

Canada

3 June 1841 – 19 June 1917 (76 years old)

Prolific Geological Survey of Canada scientist who named over 3,000 geographical features and mapped vast reaches of Hudson Bay, northern Ontario, and Baffin Island.

Ottawa, Canada

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Science