Italian novelist, short story writer, painter, poet, and journalist, best known for his novel The Tartar Steppe and numerous short story collections

Chanteur, acteur et artiste français connu pour ses chansons phares comme "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" et son emblématique canotier et smoking

German-born American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure

Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who led Ghana to independence and championed Pan-Africanism

Japanese novelist and short story writer, known for his spare, lyrical prose and as the first Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature

German politician and engineer who served as President of West Germany from 1959 to 1969

German general and chief of staff who directed Operation Barbarossa and was instrumental in the radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front, later contributing to the myth of the clean Wehrmacht

Roi du Royaume-Uni et des Dominions britanniques en 1936 qui abdiqua la même année, devenant le duc de Windsor

British actress celebrated for her character roles on stage and in film

Hungarian-American biophysicist known for his Nobel Prize-winning research on the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea, unraveling the mysteries of human hearing

Influential Belgian politician and diplomat, known as 'Mr. Europe' for his leadership in founding the European Union and his service as Prime Minister of Belgium and NATO Secretary General

Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher, founding president of the Paneuropean Union and a pioneer of European integration for nearly five decades

South African-American virologist and physician who developed the life-saving vaccine against yellow fever, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1951

Kenyan-British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work at Olduvai Gorge proved humans evolved in Africa, inspiring future generations of scholars

14th Prime Minister of Canada, distinguished diplomat, scholar, and author of influential works on international relations

Italian politician and statesman who served as the 4th President of Italy and twice as its Prime Minister