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Who was born in 1879

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E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

18791970

English novelist, literary critic, and essayist known for exploring social class and humanism in works like 'A Room with a View' and 'A Passage to India'

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Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu

18791949

Indian poet, politician, and independence activist who served as the first Governor of United Provinces and the first Indian woman president of the Indian National Congress

March

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

18791955

German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity and the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2

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Owen Willans Richardson

Owen Willans Richardson

18791959

British physicist known for his Nobel Prize-winning work on thermionic emission and the discovery of Richardson's law

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Emperor Taishō

Emperor Taishō

18791926

Emperor of Japan from 1912-1926 who presided over the Taishō democracy era and Japan's emergence as a modern world power

Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata

18791919

Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who was a main figure in the Mexican Revolution and inspiration for the agrarian movement Zapatismo

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Franz von Papen

Franz von Papen

18791969

German Chancellor, diplomat, and military officer remembered for his significant political influence and role in the early 20th-century German government

Max von Laue

Max von Laue

18791960

German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for discovering X-ray diffraction by crystals, founding modern crystallography

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

18791940

Russian Marxist revolutionary, central figure in the October Revolution and Russian Civil War, whose ideas founded Trotskyism

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Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi

18791950

Indian spiritual teacher, writer, and philosopher known for his profound wisdom as a Hindu sage and jivanmukta, guiding seekers through self-inquiry

Paul Klee

Paul Klee

18791940

German-Swiss artist and university teacher known for his highly individual style influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism