Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
18811938
Founding father and first president of the Republic of Turkey, who led significant reforms to establish a secular, industrializing nation
18811958
French writer and playwright, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature for his influential novel-cycle Les Thibault
18811945
German organic chemist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize for his research on haemin and chlorophyll synthesis
18811975
English author and humorist whose beloved creations like Jeeves and Bertie Wooster made him one of the most widely read comic writers of the 20th century
18811963
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 1958 to 1963, remembered for his five years of leadership as Pope John XXIII