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Irish-American actress and singer known for passionate heroines in Westerns and adventure films, frequent collaborator with John Ford and John Wayne

Indian actor, producer, and politician who starred in over 300 films and held the record for most Hindi cinema hits

Chechen politician and Islamic religious leader who served as Chief Mufti of Ichkeria and President of the Chechen Republic

Chinese politician and wife of Sun Yat-sen, known as the "Mother of Modern China" and the only female, non-Communist head of state of the People's Republic of China

King of Greece who ruled during two separate reigns (1913-17; 1920-22) following his father's assassination, facing political upheaval and eventual exile

French painter who co-founded the Orphism movement, revolutionizing modern art through bold use of color and geometric abstraction

French mathematician who invented descriptive geometry and founded differential geometry, revolutionizing technical drawing and engineering design

French Renaissance poet and co-founder of La Pléiade who championed French literature's equality with classical traditions

Indian Prime Minister (1979-1980) and peasant leader known as the "Champion of Farmers" who dedicated his life to agricultural reform and farmer rights

Welsh comedian, actor, director, historian and Monty Python member who blended intellectual humor with serious historical scholarship

French lawyer and politician who served as the 17th President of France and last president of the Fourth Republic from 1954-1959

German embryologist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize for discovering embryonic induction and organizer effects that became foundational to modern developmental biology and cloning research

Canadian-born American chemist who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for pioneering research on matter at extremely low temperatures

English comic novelist and critic who wrote Lucky Jim and over 20 satirical novels, knighted in 1990 for contributions to literature

British archaeologist who pioneered the study of Bronze Age Aegean civilizations and established modern archaeological methods

French Oratorian priest and rationalist philosopher who synthesized Augustinian and Cartesian thought, developing influential doctrines of occasionalism and vision in God

English merchant and astronomer known for improving reflecting telescopes and discovering planetary satellites

King of France and Navarre known as the Tall, who implemented domestic reforms like standardizing weights and measures and creating a Court of Finances

King of Sicily, founder of the House of Anjou-Sicily, and a prominent Capetian politician

French polymath, theologian, philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist known for Mersenne prime numbers and as the "father of acoustics" for his work on vibrating strings

German Renaissance painter and printmaker, court artist to the Electors of Saxony, and a close friend of Martin Luther, known for his portraits and innovative religious art

French poet, essayist, and editor who blended socialism and nationalism with his Catholic faith, tragically killed in World War I

Duchess of Brittany and the only woman to have been queen consort of France twice

English physiologist and biophysicist who, with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles, shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning nerve cell membrane function