Born and died in 1940

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

Pakistani politician and entrepreneur who served as the 12th president of Pakistan, recognized for his loyalty and low-key leadership

American musician, composer, and satirist known for his stylistically diverse discography and nonconformist approach to music

Hong Kong–American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker who founded Jeet Kune Do and became the first global Chinese film star

Brazilian footballer, actor, and politician widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history, holding a Guinness World Record for goals and named Athlete of the Century

Distinguished Irish-English actor known for his extensive stage, film, and television career, including his BAFTA-winning performances and knighthood for services to drama

British musician, songwriter, and peace activist, widely known as a founder of The Beatles and for his iconic solo album Imagine

Serbian actress known for her extensive career in film, television, and theatre, and for her role in The Dark Side of the Sun

Afghan politician, pedagogue, and university teacher who served as the sixth President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again in 2001

Fourth President of Indonesia, Islamic leader, and founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB)

American actress and international sex symbol known for her roles in films like Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C., and Legally Blonde

Uruguayan writer and journalist known as a literary giant of the Latin American left and global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters

American novelist, essayist, and short story writer best known for his depictions of the Jazz Age

Finnish politician and 4th President of Finland who guided the nation through the Winter War and became the first president to resign and the only one to die in office

British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, known for his foreign policy of appeasement and leading the nation into World War II

Écrivain, avocat et homme politique espagnol qui a été Prime Minister et le dernier President de la Seconde République espagnole, renommé comme le père de la République durant la Spanish Civil War

123rd President of Catalonia, lawyer, politician, and trade unionist who led during the Spanish Civil War

Austrian Nobel laureate and psychiatrist recognized for malariotherapy in treating dementia paralytica

British physicist who discovered the electron and received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the conduction of electricity by gases

Russian Marxist revolutionary, central figure in the October Revolution and Russian Civil War, whose ideas founded Trotskyism

American who was the tallest recorded person in history, known for his dignity despite his extraordinary size

German-Swiss artist and university teacher known for his highly individual style influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism

British biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes, and a key figure in the establishment of the Biochemical Society and Journal

Swedish writer, poet, and painter, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1916, known for works celebrating Swedish history and life