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Died: 1937–1937
Austen Chamberlain

Austen Chamberlain

18631937

British politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner known for his crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty and serving as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer

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Ramsay MacDonald

Ramsay MacDonald

18661937

British prime minister, politician, and journalist who led the Labour Party and a National Government, shaping early 20th-century British politics

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Gustaf Dalén

Gustaf Dalén

18691937

Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist who invented automatic regulators for lighthouses and buoys, significantly improving maritime safety

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J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

18601937

Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan

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Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

18751937

French composer who created masterful orchestral works bridging Impressionism and modernism, including Boléro and Daphnis et Chloé

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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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Pierre de Coubertin

Pierre de Coubertin

18631937

French educator, historian, and sports official known as the founder of the modern Olympic Games and co-founder of the International Olympic Committee

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

18711937

New Zealand physicist and chemist known as "the father of nuclear physics" and recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on elemental disintegration and radioactivity

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

18711937

New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in atomic and nuclear physics, known as "the father of nuclear physics" and a Nobel Prize laureate

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