Born and died in 1996

Portuguese association football player known for his clinical finishing, blistering pace, masterful dribbling ability, and relentless work rate as a forward and winger

French professional racing driver and 2018 GP3 Series champion, a talent remembered for his speed and dedication in junior motorsport

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator known for his profound influence on public understanding of the universe

Italian actor widely regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20th century, starring in 147 films and earning three Oscar nominations

British paleoanthropologist known for her groundbreaking discoveries of early hominin fossils and artifacts, including the Proconsul skull, robust Zinjanthropus, and the ancient Laetoli footprints, which significantly expanded our understanding of human evolution

Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles

2nd president and emperor of the Central African Republic

British politician and diplomat known for serving as the acting Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946

Canadian-American economist and Nobel Laureate known for the Vickrey auction, congestion pricing, and contributions to public economics and incentive theory

Legendary Italian footballer and manager, celebrated for his record-setting career as a striker, a 1938 FIFA World Cup champion, and one of Italy's greatest players

Japanese author and novelist known for exploring the complexities of faith from a Japanese Catholic viewpoint, acclaimed for works like Silence and a recipient of the Akutagawa Prize and Order of Culture

Afghan physician, diplomat, and politician who served as the 5th President of Afghanistan and General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

British Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for pioneering inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis, particularly his work on organometallic sandwich compounds

Prolific Hungarian mathematician known for solving numerous open problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, and number theory