Born and died in 1942

Japanese association football player who proudly represented his nation on the field

Nigerian general and politician who served as military dictator from 1983 to 1985 and democratically elected president from 2015 to 2025

Legendary American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, widely regarded as one of the most influential instrumentalists in rock music history, known for pioneering blues rock and psychedelic rock

American actor and conductor known for <i>M*A*S*H</i>'s Major Winchester and numerous voice roles, who also found joy in conducting orchestras

English actor known for intense "tough guy" characters in The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit

American author, screenwriter, and film director known for his science fiction and techno-thriller novels often adapted into blockbuster films

Longest-serving member of any democratic German parliament and 13th president of the Bundestag, known for his five-decade career as a German politician and statesman

First Lady of Poland and economist who dedicated her life to public service alongside her husband, President Lech Kaczyński

American musician, composer, and actor known for shaping Southern soul at Stax Records and his iconic "Theme from Shaft"

Soviet-Azerbaijani opera and pop singer, composer, and film score composer known as the "Soviet Sinatra"

American guitarist and singer best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist for the legendary rock band Grateful Dead, a prominent figure in the 1960s counterculture and an influential musician across folk rock, psychedelic rock, and jam band genres

Italian association football legend who redefined the left-back position and served as Inter Milan's chairman

Pioneer of modern anthropology and the "Father of American Anthropology," who championed cultural relativism and fought against scientific racism

Latvian politician, diplomat, and agronomist who served as the country's first Prime Minister during its interwar period of independence

Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian, and philosopher, canonized as a saint and patron of Europe, murdered at Auschwitz

German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and principal architect of the Holocaust Genocide, described by Adolf Hitler as "the man with the iron heart"

Japanese tanka poet, author, feminist, and social reformer known for her influential poetry and contributions to Japanese literature and society

American actor, known as 'the Great Profile,' who captivated audiences on stage and screen from Hamlet to Grand Hotel

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer whose pioneering work in participant observation and functionalist theory profoundly shaped the discipline of anthropology

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer known for his lasting influence on ethnography, social theory, and field research

Canadian writer best known for creating the beloved Anne of Green Gables series and a wide array of other novels, essays, and poems

French physicist and Nobel laureate who experimentally confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his studies of Brownian motion

Austrian philosophical writer known for the influential modernist novel, 'The Man Without Qualities'

British scientist who shared a Nobel Prize with his son for X-ray crystallography and developed wartime hydrophone technology