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American astronaut and engineer who, aboard Apollo 8, took the iconic "Earthrise" photograph and was one of the first humans to orbit the Moon

American chemist and Nobel laureate known for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works like The Road and Blood Meridian

American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist known as the High Priestess of Soul, whose music blended classical, jazz, blues, and folk genres

American television and radio host known for his distinctive interviewing style on CNN's <em>Larry King Live</em> and other programs, conducting over 50,000 interviews

American comedian, actress, and television host, known for her sharp wit and pioneering work for women in comedy

American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first Jewish woman and second woman to hold the position

American novelist known for his intensely autobiographical fiction, blurring reality and fiction, and provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity

American political economist and political scientist, Nobel laureate known for her analysis of economic governance and the commons

American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles

American actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker known for his iconic roles in 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory', 'Young Frankenstein', and 'Blazing Saddles'

Visionary British and Italian architect known for his modernist and constructivist designs, including the Lloyd's of London Headquarters

Indian actress and poet known as "The Tragedy Queen" who starred in over 90 Hindi films

Italian germanist, medievalist, translator, and writer known for her historical novels and academic contributions

Spanish footballer known as the "Gale of the Cantabrian Sea" and voted the greatest Spanish footballer of the 20th century

American writer, filmmaker, professor, and activist known for critical essays like Against Interpretation and On Photography, and novels such as The Volcano Lover

Japanese association football player who represented the Japan national team

Soviet and Russian poet, writer, lyricist, painter, and printmaker known for his influential work during the Khrushchev Thaw

Japanese association football player who represented the Japan national team

Japanese association football player and coach who notably played for the Japan national team

Iranian revolutionary, sociologist, writer, and scholar of Islam known as one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century and an ideologue of the Islamic Revolution

An Indian actress and one of the highest-paid stars of the 1950s, celebrated for her beauty and iconic roles in Hindi films like Mughal-e-Azam

British neurologist and acclaimed writer who explored the complexities of the human brain through vivid case histories in works like 'Awakenings' and 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'

English physicist and Nobel laureate who, with Paul Lauterbur, pioneered Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)