William Somerset Maugham
18741965
English playwright and author known for his compelling plays, insightful novels, and captivating short stories
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Estonian statesman and president, influential in the independent democratic Republic of Estonia prior to World War II, a lawyer, jurist, and journalist
18741929
Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, and dramatist known for Der Rosenkavalier and diverse literary contributions spanning opera, drama, and prose
18741961
Italian politician, economist, and banker who served as President of Italy and is recognized as a founding father of the Italian Republic
18741926
18741948
Russian philosopher and Christian existentialist who emphasized human freedom and the spiritual significance of the human person
18741936
Austrian writer, satirist, and publicist known for his sharp critique of the press and politics, nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature
18741937
Italian inventor and radio pioneer credited with developing the practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system, sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
18741957
German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect and the Doppler effect in canal rays
18741936
English author and Christian apologist known for his wit, paradoxical style, and defense of tradition, who was a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature
18741945
German philosopher and historian of philosophy known for his neo-Kantian approach and his extensive works on the philosophy of symbolic forms
18741939
British egyptologist known for discovering the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found
18741934
British composer best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, who significantly influenced 20th-century classical music by blending folk traditions with modern techniques
18741951
Austrian-Jewish American composer and theorist who revolutionized classical music through developing variation and the emancipation of the dissonance
18741965
British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister during World War II and won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his historical and biographical works and brilliant oratory
18741942
Canadian writer best known for creating the beloved Anne of Green Gables series and a wide array of other novels, essays, and poems
18741955
Portuguese neurosurgeon and politician, known for developing cerebral angiography and the leucotomy procedure, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949
18741952
First President of Israel and British chemist instrumental in the Balfour Declaration and Israel's recognition