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Indian religious leader, author, and theologian who founded the Ahmadiyya movement and claimed to be the promised Messiah, Mahdi, and Krishna

Russian opera singer, actor, and author celebrated for his deep bass voice and pioneering naturalistic acting in opera

German inventor and engineer who developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine, fundamental to modern engine technology

American businessperson, politician, philanthropist, and art collector who served as the 41st Vice President of the United States and the 49th Governor of New York

German-American physicist and Nobel laureate who precisely measured the electron's magnetic moment, leading to advancements in quantum electrodynamics

American film director and producer known for his skillful direction of comedies and literary adaptations at RKO and MGM

American serial killer known for kidnapping, rape, and murder of numerous young women and girls

American actor known for his distinctive gruff voice, gap-toothed grin, and a prolific career spanning over six decades in film and television

Irish poet, playwright, and politician who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature for his inspired poetry and served as a Senator of the Irish Free State

English physician and scientist who pioneered vaccination and created the world's first smallpox vaccine

American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, and philanthropist, recipient of an Academy Award and multiple Golden Globe Awards

American Army general who served as a top commander in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, earning the rank of General of the Army and the Medal of Honor

King of Prussia known for military successes, territorial expansion, and patronage of the arts and Enlightenment

German Romantic author, jurist, composer, and artist known for pioneering horror and crime fiction, and inspiring works like 'The Nutcracker'

Italian painter and sculptor known for his distinctive portraits and nudes with elongated forms

American writer, designer, poet, and novelist, known for portraying Gilded Age society and winning the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to a woman

Russian author, playwright, and satirist known for the posthumously published novel The Master and Margarita

Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from February 1984 to March 1985

Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland known for his reactionary domestic policies and as an art collector

American martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author known for his action films and mastery of various combat disciplines, including his own Chun Kuk Do

African-American abolitionist, social activist, Union Army spy, and suffragist who rescued enslaved people via the Underground Railroad

German mathematician who pioneered analytic number theory, advanced Fourier series, and provided the modern definition of a function

British political economist, cleric, and scholar known for his influential theories on population and demography

German composer, theatre director, and essayist known for his innovative music dramas and the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk