Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Literature & Poetry

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Herman Bang

Herman Joachim Bang

Denmark

1857-04-20 – 1912-01-29 (54 years old)

Master Danish impressionist author and journalist acclaimed for his cinematic scenic prose and poignant depictions of lonely, overlooked lives in Ved Vejen and Tine.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Eloy Alfaro

José Eloy Alfaro Delgado

Ecuador

1842 – 1912 (69 years old)

President of Ecuador known as 'El Viejo Luchador' (The Old Fighter) who led the Liberal Revolution of 1895, built the Guayaquil-Quito Trans-Andean Railway, and separated Church and State.

Montecristi (Manabí), Ecuador

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake

Sophia Jex-Blake

Great Britain

1840 – 1912 (71 years old)

Médecin et réformatrice britannique, cheffe de file des « Sept d'Édimbourg » et fondatrice des premières facultés de médecine pour femmes à Londres et en Écosse.

Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Zokou Gbeuly

Zokou Gbeuly

Ivory Coast

c. 1850 – c. 1912 (62 years old)

Formidable Bété warrior chief who organized fierce military resistance against French colonial subjugation across the central-western forest belt of Côte d'Ivoire between 1906 and 1912.

Daloa, Côte d'Ivoire

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Military

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Pasha Bouchta El Baghdadi

بوشتى البغدادي

Morocco

c. 1845 – 1912 (~67 years old)

Legendary Pasha of Fez and military commander under Sultan Moulay Hassan I who maintained civic peace in the northern capital and protected trade routes through the Saïs plain.

Fez, Morocco

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Arts & Music

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Ya'qub Sanu

يعقوب صنوع (أبو نضارة)

Egypt

1839 – 1912 (73 years old)

Visionary Jewish-Egyptian playwright and journalist hailed as the 'Molière of Egypt', who created the first modern Egyptian national theater troupe and published the satirical cartoon journal Abu Naddara.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov

Валентин Александрович Серов

Russia

1865 – 1911 (46 years old)

Premier Russian portraitist and painter whose luminous 'Girl with Peaches' (1887) heralded Russian Impressionism and whose aristocratic portraits captured the twilight of the Romanov Empire.

Moscow, Russia

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ahmed Orabi

أحمد عرابي

Egypt

1841 – 1911 (70 years old)

Egyptian nationalist army general who led the 1881–1882 Urabi Revolt against British and French financial control and Khedivial tyranny, demanding a constitutional government and national dignity.

Cairo, Egypt

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History

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Anténor Firmin

Anténor Firmin

Haiti

1850 – 1911 (60 years old)

Pioneering Haitian anthropologist, diplomat, and statesman who authored 'The Equality of the Human Races' in 1885.

Cap-Haïtien, Haiti

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin

Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин

Germany

1862 – 1911 (49 years old)

Formidable Prime Minister of the Russian Empire whose Stolypin Agrarian Reforms created a class of private peasant landowners to stabilize Tsarist Russia against revolution.

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Arts & Music

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Hishida Shunso

菱田 春草

Japan

1874 – 1911 (36 years old)

Meiji-era Japanese painter who co-founded modern Nihonga and pioneered the 'morotai' (vague/blind) technique, eliminating sharp outlines to capture atmosphere and light, painted the masterpiece Black Cat.

Tokyo, Japan

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Literature & Poetry

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Petro Nino Luarasi

Petro Nino Luarasi

Albania

1859-04-22 – 1911-08-17 (52 years old)

Heroic educator, publisher, and martyr of the Albanian National Awakening who founded secret Albanian schools in Kolonjë and directed the Mësonjëtorja school in Korçë despite excommunication.

Ersekë, Albania

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Science

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Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino

Italy

1853-09-19 – 1911-08-06 (57 years old)

Self-taught genius and pioneer of South American paleontology who discovered and classified over 6,000 fossil species of prehistoric mammals in the Pampas and Patagonia, author of La antigüedad del hombre en el Plata.

La Plata, Argentina

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Literature & Poetry

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Mirza Alakbar Sabir

Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir

Azerbaijan

1862-05-30 – 1911-07-25 (49 years old)

Renowned satirical poet whose biting poetic verses published in 'Molla Nasreddin' and collected in 'Hophopname' awakened social consciousness and defended the rights of the common people.

Shamakhi, Azerbaijan

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Linguistics

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Rufino José Cuervo

Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri

Colombia

1844-09-19 – 1911-07-17 (66 years old)

Colossal nineteenth-century philologist and lexicographer whose monumental 'Diccionario de construcción y régimen de la lengua castellana' is celebrated as the greatest linguistic monument to the Spanish language.

Bogotá, Colombia

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Music

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Johan Svendsen

Johan Severin Svendsen

Norway

1840-09-30 – 1911-06-14 (70 years old)

Master Norwegian orchestral composer and internationally celebrated conductor famed for his four Norwegian Rhapsodies and the immortal Romance for Violin and Orchestra.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Politics

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Sebele I

Sebele I a Setshele

Botswana

1842-01-01 – 1911-06-06 (69 years old)

Eloquent Kgosi of the Bakwena and son of Setshele I who traveled to London in 1895 with the Three Dikgosi, defending his nation's territorial integrity and cultural laws from corporate rule.

Molepolole, Botswana

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Arts & Music

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Czech Republic

7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911 (50 years old)

Austro-Bohemian visionary composer and legendary conductor who declared 'a symphony must be like the world: it must embrace everything', pioneering 20th-century modernism with his nine epic symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde.

Vienna, Austria

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