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Cecile Arnold

1891–1931 (age 40)

St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery

American actor whose performances contributed to early twentieth-century theatrical arts.

Zhao Dengyu

1898–1937 (age 39)

Tomb of Zhao Dengyu

Xu Zhimo

1897–1931 (age 34)

Xu Zhimo Tomb

Xu Zhimo was a pioneering modern Chinese poet and literary innovator whose romantic verse and cultural influence shaped ...

Johan Wilhelm Normann Munthe

1864–1935 (age 71)

Racecourse Road Cemetery

Robert Klein

1848–1931 (age 83)

Bubbling Well Road Cemetery

Robert Klein was a military officer whose career extended across the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth c...

Luella Miner

1861–1935 (age 74)

Tsinan Foreign Cemetery

Eliza Lydia McCook

1869–1934 (age 65)

Kuling Foreign Cemetery

Eliza Lydia McCook was a foreign resident of China whose life reflected the expatriate communities of the late nineteent...

Liu Shangqing

1868–1947 (age 79)

Beijing

Chen Gongbo

1892–1946 (age 54)

Shanghai

Chen Gongbo was a Chinese politician whose career spanned the Republican era and the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Fei Gong

1905–1945 (age 40)

Shanghai

Bill O'Hara

1879–1941 (age 62)

Shanghai

Bill O'Hara was an Australian rules football player who was active in Shanghai's sporting community during the early twe...

Hoja-Niyaz

1889–1941 (age 52)

Ürümqi

Huang Baitao

1900–1948 (age 48)

Nanjing

Huang Baitao was a Chinese military officer whose career spanned the warlord period through the late Republican era.

Yuan Guoping

1906–1941 (age 35)

Nanjing

Zhou Zikun

1901–1941 (age 40)

Nanjing

Zhou Zikun was a Chinese military officer who died in service during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Wen Yiduo

1899–1946 (age 47)

Dian Lake

Meletius

1868–1946 (age 78)

Church of the Annunciation, Harbin

Meletius was an Orthodox archimandrite whose spiritual leadership served Russian and Orthodox Christian communities in H...

Dai Anlan

1904–1942 (age 38)

Wuhu

Ehmetjan Qasim

1914–1949 (age 35)

Yining

Ehmetjan Qasim was a Uyghur politician whose leadership in Yining reflected the political complexities of mid-twentieth-...

Eugene Chen

1878–1944 (age 66)

Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery

Huang Siu-Ming

1909–1947 (age 38)

Meixian District

Huang Siu-Ming was a Chinese professor whose academic work contributed to intellectual life during the Republican era.

Maurice Tornay

1910–1949 (age 39)

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Yerkalo

Merton Beckwith-Smith

1890–1942 (age 52)

Sai Wan War Cemetery

Merton Beckwith-Smith was a military personnel who served during the early twentieth century.

John K. Lawson

1887–1941 (age 54)

Sai Wan War Cemetery

Charles Arthur Wagner

1916–1943 (age 27)

Sai Wan War Cemetery

Charles Arthur Wagner was a military personnel who served during World War II.

Johannes Gerardus van Raam

1892–1945 (age 53)

Sai Wan War Cemetery

Lucas Fledderus Elzenga

1893–1944 (age 51)

Sai Wan War Cemetery

Lucas Fledderus Elzenga was a military officer who served during World War II.

Georg Weig

1883–1941 (age 58)

St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao

Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet

1873–1944 (age 71)

Zhalan Cemetery

Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, was a distinguished historian specializing in Chinese history.

Joe Hughes

1925–1946 (age 21)

Hong Kong Cemetery

Cai Yuanpei

1868–1940 (age 72)

Aberdeen Chinese Permanent Cemetery

Cai Yuanpei was a prominent Chinese politician and intellectual reformer.

Douglas Ford

1918–1943 (age 25)

Stanley Military Cemetery

Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn

1881–1943 (age 62)

Stanley Military Cemetery

Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn was a banker and business leader.

Carlos Henrique Basto

1890–1944 (age 54)

Stanley Military Cemetery

Rodérick Egal

1892–1947 (age 55)

Stanley Military Cemetery

Rodérick Egal was a merchant engaged in commercial enterprises.

Chen Duxiu

1879–1942 (age 63)

tomb of Chen Duxiu

Song Zheyuan

1885–1940 (age 55)

Fule Mountain

Song Zheyuan was a military personnel who served during early twentieth-century China.

Feng Yuxiang

1882–1948 (age 66)

tomb of Feng Yuxiang

Xie Jinyuan

1905–1941 (age 36)

Mausoleum of Soong Ching Ling

Xie Jinyuan was a military officer who served with distinction during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Dwarkanath Kotnis

1910–1942 (age 32)

North China Military Martyrs Cemetery

Yang Jingyu

1905–1940 (age 35)

Yang Jingyu Memorial Park

Yang Jingyu was a partisan leader who led resistance against Japanese occupation in Manchuria.

Ma Benzhai

1901–1944 (age 43)

North China Military Martyrs Cemetery

Che Yaoxian

1894–1946 (age 52)

Geleshan Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery

Political activist who contributed to early 20th-century revolutionary movements in China.

Yun Dong-ju

1917–1945 (age 28)

Hechengli

Tao Xingzhi

1891–1946 (age 55)

Tomb of Tao Xingzhi

Influential writer whose literary works shaped early-to-mid 20th-century Chinese intellectual discourse.

Xiang Ying

1895–1941 (age 46)

Three Martyrs' Tomb of the New Fourth Army Incident

Cui Yiping

1915–1942 (age 27)

Dongping Martyrs' Cemetery

Partisan fighter who dedicated his life to resistance and liberation efforts in China.

Wang Shaoqi

1912–1944 (age 32)

Panshan Martyrs' Cemetery

Zeng Lanyou

1943–1943 (age 0)

Geleshan

Individual whose life spanned the mid-20th century in China.

Jin Kwang Hwa

1911–1942 (age 31)

Jinjiluyu Martyr Cemetery