Remembered

Jnanadanandini Devi

1850 – 1941

Writer, Social reformer, Journalist, Autobiographer

Jnanadanandini Tagore (pronounced Bengali: [gjanodanondini ˈʈʰakuɾ] (née Mukhopadhyay; 26 July 1850 – 1 October 1941) was a British Indian writer. She was marri…

Marina Tsvetaeva

1892 – 1941

Poet, Writer, Diarist, Prose writer, Translator, Playwright

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was…

Paul Sabatier

1854 – 1941

Chemist, University teacher

Paul Sabatier (French: [sabatje]; 5 November 1854 – 14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in…

Rabindranath Tagore

1861 – 1941

Painter, Poet, Composer, Playwright, Essayist, Philosopher

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: [ˈrobind̪ɾonat̪ʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ] ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher,…

Gurusaday Dutt

1882 – 1941

Writer, Politician, Civil servant, Barrister

Gurusaday Dutt (10 May 1882 – 25 June 1941) was a civil servant, folklorist, and writer. He was the founder of the Bratachari Movement in the 1930s. Education:…

Wilhelm II

1859 – 1941

Monarch, Painter, Art collector, Author, Ruler

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. His fall from po…

Dinesh Ranjan Das

1888 – 1941

Writer, Editor, Film actor, Film director, Short story writer

দীনেশরঞ্জন দাশ (২৯ জুলাই ১৮৮৮ — ১২ মে ১৯৪১), প্রখ্যাত 'কল্লোল' পত্রিকার অন্যতম প্রতিষ্ঠাতা ও সম্পাদক। Source: Wikipedia — https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%…

Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941

Novelist, Essayist, Autobiographer, Short story writer, Diarist, Literary critic

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist aut…

Alfonso XIII

1886 – 1941

Sovereign

Alfonso XIII (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isid…

Frederick Banting

1891 – 1941

Physician, Pharmacologist, Researcher, Writer, Physiologist

Sir Frederick Grant Banting (; November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of ins…

James Joyce

1882 – 1941

Poet, Novelist, Teacher, Author, Writer, Journalist

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to…

Emanuel Lasker

1868 – 1941

Mathematician, Chess player, Bridge player, Philosopher, Chess composer

Emanuel Lasker (German pronunciation: [eˈmaːnuɛl ˈlaskɐ] ; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He w…

Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj

— – 1941

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Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

1857 – 1941

Scout leader, Writer, Politician, Military officer, Scouting

Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), was a British Army officer, writer, founder…

Henri Bergson

1859 – 1941

Philosopher, Professor, Sociologist, Writer, University teacher

Henri-Louis Bergson (; French: [bɛʁksɔn]; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosoph…

Din Shoroth

1887 – 1941

Singer, Lyricist, Composer

দীন শরৎ (১৮৮৭-১৯৪১) নেত্রকোণা জেলার বাউল গায়ক ও গীতিকার ও সুরকার, যার পুরো নাম ছিলো ‘শরৎচন্দ্র দেবনাথ’, আবার কোথাও ‘শরৎচন্দ্র নাথ’, আবার কারো মতে ‘শরৎচন্দ্র দা…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 – 1940

Writer, Novelist, Short story writer, Screenwriter, Playwright

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist,…

Yakub Ali Chowdhury

1888 – 1940

Writer

Mohammad Yakub Ali Chowdhury (2 November 1888 – 15 December 1940) was a Bengali essayist and journalist. He was noted as one of the few Bengali Muslim literary…

Neville Chamberlain

1869 – 1940

Politician, Businessperson

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative…

Walter Benjamin

1892 – 1940

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Essayist, Literary critic, Sociologist

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( BEN-yə-min; German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈbɛnjamiːn] ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media…