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Died: 1940–1940
Manuel Azaña

Manuel Azaña

18801940

Spanish writer, lawyer, and politician who served as Prime Minister and the last President of the Second Spanish Republic, renowned as the father of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War

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Arthur Harden

Arthur Harden

18651940

British biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes, and a key figure in the establishment of the Biochemical Society and Journal

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Verner von Heidenstam

Verner von Heidenstam

18591940

Swedish writer, poet, and painter, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1916, known for works celebrating Swedish history and life

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee

18791940

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

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J. J. Thomson

J. J. Thomson

18561940

British physicist who discovered the electron and received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the conduction of electricity by gases

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Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain

18691940

British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, known for his foreign policy of appeasement and leading the nation into World War II

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

18691940

Russian-born American anarchist, writer, and political philosopher who influenced anarchist thought and advocated for women's rights and pacifism

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Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

18581940

Pioneering Swedish writer, Nobel laureate, and first woman member of the Swedish Academy, known for her imaginative novels and children's literature

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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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