Famous People Born in 1869

Mahatma Gandhi

Leader of India's independence movement whose non-violent civil disobedience, including the 1930 Salt March, inspired civil rights campaigns worldwide

Leader of India's non-violent independence movement against British rule.

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Henri Matisse

French artist and leader of Fauvism, famous for his bold colours, The Dance and his late paper cut-outs

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French:; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

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André Gide

French author of The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters, who wrote frankly about sexuality and won the Nobel Prize in Literature

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French:; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Emma Goldman

Lithuanian-born anarchist writer and speaker who campaigned for free speech, birth control and workers' rights in America

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

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Neville Chamberlain

British Prime Minister who signed the 1938 Munich Agreement with Hitler, promising peace for our time

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 Party from May 1937 to October 1940.

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Grigori Rasputin

Siberian mystic who won the trust of Tsar Nicholas II's family by easing their son's haemophilia and was murdered in 1916

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian mystic and faith healer. He is best known for having befriended the imperial family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the final years of the Russian Empire.

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who invented the cloud chamber

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Soviet politician and revolutionary married to Vladimir Lenin

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Russian: Надежда Константиновна Крупская, IPA:; 26 February 1869 – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. She was a leading figure in the Bolshevik party and was married to Vladimir Lenin.

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