Japanese novelist and short story writer celebrated for modern classics like The Setting Sun and No Longer Human

French writer, novelist, and journalist known for his powerful Catholic-infused novels exploring moral and social critiques of society and human despair

Serbian mathematician, physicist, and teacher; the first wife of Albert Einstein and a pioneering female student in her field

Barrister, politician, and freedom fighter who founded Pakistan and served as its first governor-general

Japanese general and politician who served as Prime Minister during World War II, leading a period marked by widespread state violence and mass killings