Born and died in 1871

French poet, essayist, and philosopher known for his poetry, fiction, and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events

Italian Military General Officer and Marshal of the Royal Italian Army during both World Wars, who also served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1943-1944

New Zealand physicist and chemist known as "the father of nuclear physics" and recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on elemental disintegration and radioactivity

New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in atomic and nuclear physics, known as "the father of nuclear physics" and a Nobel Prize laureate

15th President of the French Republic and the last president of the Third Republic, also known for his work as an engineer and entomologist

French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his seven-volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu, widely considered one of the twentieth century's most influential literary works

French chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered the Grignard reagent, revolutionizing the synthesis of organic compounds

Greek military officer and politician who served as the strongman leader of Greece from 1936 to 1941, heading the 4th of August Regime

German writer known for his sociopolitical novels and fierce criticism of Nazism

Polish-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary who co-founded the Spartacus League and championed socialist democracy, known for her influential writings on imperialism and revolution

German politician who served as the first president of Germany from 1919 until his death in 1925, establishing democratic governance in a new republic