An Jung-geun
Deceased Person
1879 – 1910
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Who was An Jung-geun?
An Jung-geun or Ahn Jung-geun was a Korean independence activist, nationalist, and pan-Asianist.
On October 26, 1909, he assassinated Itō Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan and then-Japanese Resident-General of Korea, following the signing of the Eulsa Treaty, with Korea on the verge of annexation by Japan.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1879
Haeju - Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Korean people
- Died
- Mar 26, 1910
Lüshunkou District
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on July 23, 2013
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