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Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella

Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella

18701930

Spanish military officer and politician who served as dictator and Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the Bourbon Restoration

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Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler

18701937

Austrian psychotherapist and founder of Individual Psychology, known for the concept of the "inferiority complex" and emphasizing social belonging and purpose

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Jules Bordet

Jules Bordet

18701961

Belgian Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and microbiologist who made fundamental discoveries about immunity and bacterial infections

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Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

18701952

Italian physician and educator who developed the globally recognized Montessori Method of education and scientific pedagogy

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Jean Perrin

Jean Perrin

18701942

French physicist and Nobel laureate who experimentally confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his studies of Brownian motion

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Ivan Bunin

Ivan Bunin

18701953

First Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, noted for his strict artistry in carrying on classical Russian prose and poetry traditions

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Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Juho Kusti Paasikivi

18701956

Seventh President of Finland who served from 1946 to 1956, and an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years

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Karl Renner

Karl Renner

18701950

Austrian politician and jurist known as the 'Father of the Republics' for leading the first government of the Republic of German-Austria, the First Austrian Republic, and becoming the first President of the Second Republic after World War II

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos

18701933

Austrian and Czech architect, influential theorist, and critic of Art Nouveau who sparked the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism