Mario Vargas Llosa
19362025
Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician known for his cartography of power structures and trenchant images of individual resistance
19362025
Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician known for his cartography of power structures and trenchant images of individual resistance
19362021
South African politician and lawyer who served as the final state president, dismantling apartheid and introducing universal suffrage
19362023
German virologist who discovered the link between human papilloma viruses and cervical cancer, earning him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008
19361982
French novelist and Oulipo member known for ingenious wordplay and exploring absence through structural constraints like the lipogram
19361968
British racecar driver, Formula One World Champion, and Indianapolis 500 winner, holding numerous records at the time of his passing