Selma Lagerlöf
18581940
Pioneering Swedish writer, Nobel laureate, and first woman member of the Swedish Academy, known for her imaginative novels and children's literature
18591940
Swedish writer, poet, and painter, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1916, known for works celebrating Swedish history and life
18791940
German-Swiss artist and university teacher known for his highly individual style influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism
18651940
British biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes, and a key figure in the establishment of the Biochemical Society and Journal
18561940
British physicist who discovered the electron and received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the conduction of electricity by gases
18791940
Russian Marxist revolutionary, central figure in the October Revolution and Russian Civil War, whose ideas founded Trotskyism
18691940
British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, known for his foreign policy of appeasement and leading the nation into World War II
18801940
Spanish writer, lawyer, and politician who served as Prime Minister and the last President of the Second Spanish Republic, renowned as the father of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War
