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

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

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

American heavy metal singer, composer, musician, and songwriter known for fronting bands like Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate known for his pioneering work in designing and synthesizing molecular machines, including catenanes and rotaxanes

Belgian physician and athlete who became the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013

German racing driver and the only Formula One World Drivers' Champion to be awarded the title posthumously

German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, known as the "Father of American Anthropology," who introduced historical particularism and cultural relativism

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

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

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

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 physicist, mathematician, chemist, and crystallographer who uniquely shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his son for their work in X-ray crystallography

Cuban chess player, diplomat, and non-fiction writer who became the third world chess champion, renowned for his endgame skill and speed of play

Austrian writer, poet, historian, and biographer, Stefan Zweig was one of the most widely translated and popular authors in the world during the 1920s and 1930s