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Historical Figures and Influential People in History
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Franz Ferdinand
1863–1914Austria
His assassination was the spark that lit the First World War — yet he had spent his career trying to reform the empire in ways that might have prevented one.
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Franz Joseph I
1830–1916Austria
He became emperor at eighteen and reigned for sixty-eight years, holding together a dozen nations that spoke different languages and didn't much like each other — until the war that finally tore them apart.
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Gavrilo Princip
1894–1918BIH
He was nineteen years old, standing in the street after a failed assassination attempt, when the archduke's car took a wrong turn and stopped directly in front of him.
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Ho Chi Minh
1890–1969Vietnam
He fought the Japanese, the French, and the Americans in sequence — and outlasted all of them, dying a year before his country was finally reunified.
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Rosa Luxemburg
1871–1919Poland
She argued with everyone on the left — Lenin, Kautsky, Bernstein — and was murdered by the government's own paramilitaries at the moment her revolution seemed closest to succeeding.
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