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Chief Piapot

Piapot

Canada

c. 1816 – 20 April 1908 (92 years old)

Formidable Plains Cree chief and spiritual leader who defended Indigenous hunting grounds against Canadian Pacific Railway expansion and preserved the Sun Dance.

Maple Creek, Canada

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History

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Massillon Coicou

Massillon Coicou

Haiti

1867 – 1908 (40 years old)

Prominent Haitian poet, dramatist, diplomat, and political martyr executed under the Nord Alexis dictatorship.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Mustafa Kamil Pasha

مصطفى كامل

Egypt

August 14, 1874 – February 10, 1908 (33 years old)

Fiery Egyptian nationalist leader, brilliant orator, and journalist who founded the National Party (Watani Party) and the daily newspaper 'Al-Liwaa', mobilizing international outrage against the British military occupation.

Cairo, Egypt

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Bai Bureh

Bai Bureh (Kebalai)

Sierra Leone

1840 – c. 1908 (67 years old)

Sierra Leonean ruler and military strategist who led the historic 1898 Hut Tax War against British imperial taxation, defeating British expeditionary forces for ten months through masterclass guerrilla ambushes and trench networks.

Rogbare (Port Loko), Sierra Leone

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Sciences & Discovery

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Lord Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Great Britain

1824 – 1907 (83 years old)

Titan of Victorian science who established the absolute thermodynamic temperature scale and engineered the transatlantic cable.

London, United Kingdom

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Journalism

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Hasan bey Zardabi

Həsən bəy Zərdabi

Azerbaijan

1837-06-28 – 1907-11-28 (70 years old)

Enlightenment educator and intellectual who founded 'Akinchi' in 1875, the first Azerbaijani-language newspaper, launching the modern national press and civic awakening.

Baku, Azerbaijan

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History

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Justin Lhérisson

Justin Lhérisson

Haiti

1873 – 1907 (34 years old)

Poet, journalist, and novelist who wrote the lyrics of Haiti's national anthem 'La Dessalinienne' and invented the Lodyans genre.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Ilia Chavchavadze

Ilia Chavchavadze

Georgia

1837 – 1907 (69 years old)

Father of the Georgian Nation, poet, novelist, and journalist who led the cultural and national revival of Georgia in the 19th century.

Tbilisi, Georgia

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Arts & Music

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg

Norway

1843 – 1907 (64 years old)

Norway's supreme nationalist composer, world-celebrated for Peer Gynt, the Piano Concerto in A minor, and Lyric Pieces.

Bergen, Norway

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Military

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Lalla Aïcha Bent Omar al-Chaouia

للا عائشة بنت عمر الشاوية

Morocco

c. 1880 – 1907 (~27 years old)

Heroic Chaouia tribal woman who took up arms and rallied Moroccan horsemen to resist the French naval bombardment and military invasion of Casablanca in August 1907.

Casablanca, Morocco

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Politics

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Bartolomé Masó

Bartolomé Masó Márquez

Cuba

1830-12-21 – 1907-06-14 (76 years old)

Patriotic Major General who stood beside Céspedes at the Grito de Yara, led the uprising of February 24, 1895, in Oriente, and served as President of the Republic in Arms during the decisive year 1897.

Manzanillo, Cuba

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Politics

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Sultan Bangassou

Bangassou

Historical Central Africa

c. 1850 – 1907-06-09 (57 years old)

Powerful 19th-century Nzakara sovereign whose military fortifications and strategic diplomacy with Belgian and French expeditions along the Mbomou River founded the modern city of Bangassou.

Bangassou, Mbomou, Central African Republic

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Literature & Poetry

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Joris-Karl Huysmans

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans

France

1848 – 1907 (59 years old)

French novelist of Dutch heritage who broke with Émile Zola's naturalism to publish À rebours (Against Nature, 1884), hailed as 'the breviary of the Decadence', before undergoing a famous conversion to Catholic mysticism in En route and La Cathédrale.

Paris, France

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Science

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Marcellin Berthelot

Marcellin Pierre Eugène Berthelot

France

1827 – 1907 (79 years old)

Giant of nineteenth-century chemistry who shattered vitalism by synthesizing organic compounds directly from inorganic elements (acetylene, benzene, alcohol), founded thermochemistry, and was interred in the Panthéon.

Paris, France

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Science

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Henri Moissan

Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan

France

1852 – 1907 (54 years old)

Brilliant French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for successfully isolating the deadly halogen element fluorine in 1886 and inventing the high-temperature electric arc furnace.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев

Russia

8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907 (72 years old)

Russian chemist who formulated the Periodic Law and organized known chemical elements into the Periodic Table, predicting unknown elements and their atomic properties with astonishing precision.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Politics

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Muhammad al-Aziz Bouattour

محمد العزيز بوعتور

Tunisia

1825 AD – 1907 (82 years old)

Long-serving Grand Vizier of Tunisia who steered the state administration for twenty-five years during the early French protectorate, preserving administrative continuity, religious endowments, and traditional institutions.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Josephine Butler

Josephine Elizabeth Butler

Great Britain

1828 – 1906 (78 years old)

Heroic Victorian feminist and human rights campaigner who led the successful international campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts and exposed the international trafficking and child prostitution of young girls.

Kirknewton (Northumberland), United Kingdom

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