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1948 deaths
- Mahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula. His father Karamchand Uttamchand…
- Okamoto IppeiOn the 11th of June 1886, Okamoto Ippei entered a world shaped by strict tradition. He was the second son of Katei Okamoto, a scholar devoted to Confucian…
- Harilal GandhiHarilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 23rd of August 1888. His father left for England shortly after his birth to pursue higher studies.
- Charles A. BeardCharles Austin Beard was born on the 27th of November 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana. He grew up working on a family farm in the Corn Belt region.
- Mileva MarićMileva Marić entered the world on the 19th of December 1875 in Titel, a town within Austria-Hungary. Her family held wealth and status among the local…
- Hideki TojoHideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on the 30th of December 1884. He entered a world where society remained rigidly divided into four…
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long…
- Muhammad Ali JinnahOn the 25th of December 1876, a boy named Mahomedali Jinnahbhai was born in a rented apartment on the second floor of Wazir Mansion near Karachi.
- Sergei EisensteinSergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was born on the 11th of February 1898 in Riga, within the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.