Born and died in 1927

Indian classical sarangi player who popularized the instrument as a solo concert instrument and became the first internationally successful sarangi player

South Korean politician who served as the nation's seventh president from 1993 to 1998

Thailand's longest-reigning monarch who ruled for 70 years and was also a jazz musician, photographer, writer, and environmental advocate

Soviet and Russian actor, director, and public figure, known for his distinguished career in theatre and cinema

Polish philosopher and historian of ideas known for his critical analysis of Marxism and later focus on religious questions

English actor best known for his record seven portrayals of James Bond in the iconic film series

8th President of the Republic of Turkey, influential engineer, and politician who led the Motherland Party and served as Prime Minister

Argentine biochemist who developed the hybridoma technique for monoclonal antibodies, earning the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist and New Left thinker known for his extensive writings on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia

French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician remembered for championing women's rights and the 1975 Veil Act legalizing abortion, as well as her advocacy for human dignity and European reconciliation

Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician known as "the most beautiful woman in the world" and a high-profile European actress of the 1950s and 60s

American Nobel laureate and environmental chemist known for discovering that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion

Swedish scientist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, and one of the founders of physical chemistry, known for his electrolytic theory of dissociation

American dancer and choreographer who pioneered modern contemporary dance and achieved widespread acclaim throughout Europe and the United States

Japanese writer, novelist, poet, and literary critic, regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story," after whom the Akutagawa Prize is named

German biochemist and physiologist who won the 1910 Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on the chemical composition of nucleic acids and proteins

Spanish Cubist painter, illustrator, and sculptor whose distinctive works are central to the Cubist movement