Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Politics

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Bathoen I

Bathoen Gaseitsiwe

Botswana

1845-01-01 – 1910-07-01 (65 years old)

Revered Kgosi of the Bangwaketse who joined Khama III and Sebele I on the historic 1895 London diplomatic mission to Queen Victoria, safeguarding Botswana's land from Cecil Rhodes's company.

Kanye, Botswana

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell

Great Britain

1821 – 1910 (89 years old)

Première femme diplômée en médecine aux États-Unis (1849) et première femme inscrite à l'Ordre des médecins au Royaume-Uni, pionnière de la santé pour les femmes démunies.

Kilmun, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

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Arts & Music

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Mily Balakirev

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

Russia

1837 – 1910 (73 years old)

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who formed and led 'The Five' (Mighty Handful), inspiring Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin, and composing the virtuosic 'Islamey'.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

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Sciences & Discovery

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Robert Koch

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch

Germany

1843 – 1910 (66 years old)

Founder of modern bacteriology who identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, formulating Koch's postulates.

Berlin, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Henri-Edmond Delacroix

Henri-Edmond Cross

France

1856 – 1910 (53 years old)

French Neo-Impressionist master whose mosaic-like blocks of vibrant Mediterranean color in Saint-Clair bridged Pointillism and the birth of Fauvism.

Le Lavandou, France

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Science

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Edouard van Beneden

Édouard Joseph Louis Marie van Beneden

Belgium

1846 – 1910 (64 years old)

Belgian cytologist and embryologist at the University of Liège who made the epochal biological discovery of meiosis in 1883, proving that gametes carry half the number of chromosomes of somatic cells.

Liège, Belgium

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Arts & Music

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel

Михаил Александрович Врубель

Russia

1856 – 1910 (54 years old)

Genius of Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau whose fractured, crystalline brushwork and haunting series of 'The Demon' anticipated Cubism and modernism.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Literature & Poetry

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norway

1832-12-08 – 1910-04-26 (77 years old)

Giant of Norwegian letters and civic life who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903, wrote the national anthem 'Ja, vi elsker dette landet', and championed democratic freedom across Europe.

Oslo, Norway

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Literature & Poetry

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

United States

30 November 1835 – 21 April 1910 (74 years old)

America's greatest humorist and storyteller dubbed by Ernest Hemingway the source of 'all modern American literature', whose Adventures of Huckleberry Finn used vernacular dialect and moral irony to deliver a devastating critique of racism.

Redding (Connecticut), United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Catherine Helen Spence

Catherine Helen Spence

United Kingdom

1825-10-31 – 1910-04-03 (84 years old)

Revered as the 'Grand Old Woman of Australasia', pioneering novelist, social crusader, and electoral reformer who stood in 1897 as Australia's first female political candidate.

Brighton, Adelaide, Australia

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History

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Germán Alcántara

Germán Alcántara

Guatemala

1863 – 1910 (46 years old)

Distinguished Guatemalan composer, cornet virtuoso, and conductor who composed the beloved waltz 'La Flor del Café'.

Guatemala City, Guatemala

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Politics

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Si Feddoul Gharnit

الفضول غرنيط

Morocco

c. 1845 – 1910 (~65 years old)

Grand Vizier and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Wazir al-Bahr) who led Moroccan diplomacy during the existential crises of the Madrid Conference and Algeciras Conference (1906).

Fez, Morocco

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Red Cloud

Mahpiya Luta

United States

1822 – 1909 (87 years old)

Renowned Oglala Lakota leader who defeated the United States Army in Red Cloud's War, forcing the abandonment of forts along the Bozeman Trail.

Pine Ridge, United States

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Art

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P.S. Krøyer

Peder Severin Krøyer

Norway

1851-07-23 – 1909-11-21 (58 years old)

Virtuoso painter and charismatic leader of the Skagen art colony famed for capturing the magical twilight of Denmark's northernmost tip in Summer Evening on Skagen South Beach.

Skagen, Denmark

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Itō Hirobumi

伊藤 博文

Japan

1841 – 1909 (68 years old)

First Prime Minister of Japan, father of the Meiji Constitution of 1889, and genrō elder statesman who transformed feudal Japan into a modern constitutional great power.

Shinagawa (Tokyo), Japan

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Politics

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Jilali ibn Idris al-Zarhouni al-Youssefi

الجيلالي بن إدريس الزرهوني بوحمارة

Morocco

c. 1862 – 1909 (47 years old)

Ingenious military technician and royal secretary who claimed to be Prince Moulay Mohammed, maintaining an independent rebel kingdom in eastern Morocco (Taza and Selouane) for seven years (1902–1909).

Fez, Morocco

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Isidore Bakanja

Isidore Bakanja

Congo

c. 1887 – 1909-08-15 (22 years old)

Congolese lay catechist and agricultural laborer beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1994, who endured months of agony after being flogged for refusing to remove his Carmelite Brown Scapular, forgiving his murderer before dying.

Bokote, Boende, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Saint Mary Helen MacKillop

Mary MacKillop

Australia

1842 – 1909 (67 years old)

Première sainte d'Australie, fondatrice des Sœurs de Saint-Joseph du Sacré-Cœur, ouvrant des écoles gratuites et des orphelinats dans tout le bush australien.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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