Edith Wharton
18621937
American writer, designer, poet, and novelist, known for portraying Gilded Age society and winning the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to a woman
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18621937
American writer, designer, poet, and novelist, known for portraying Gilded Age society and winning the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to a woman
18911940
Russian author, playwright, and satirist known for the posthumously published novel The Master and Margarita
19111985
Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from February 1984 to March 1985
18451894
Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland known for his reactionary domestic policies and as an art collector
19402026
American martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author known for his action films and mastery of various combat disciplines, including his own Chun Kuk Do
18221913
African-American abolitionist, social activist, Union Army spy, and suffragist who rescued enslaved people via the Underground Railroad
18051859
German mathematician who pioneered analytic number theory, advanced Fourier series, and provided the modern definition of a function
17661834
British political economist, cleric, and scholar known for his influential theories on population and demography
18131883
German composer, theatre director, and essayist known for his innovative music dramas and the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk
17451827
Italian chemist and physicist who invented the electric battery (voltaic pile) and discovered methane, pioneering the field of electrochemistry
17691844
Russia's best-known fabulist, a prolific author, poet, playwright, and journalist who discovered his true genre of satirical fables at the age of 40
18141861
Ukrainian poet and artist who founded modern Ukrainian literature and language, and whose collection 'Kobzar' is a cornerstone of Slavic culture
15991667
Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1655 to 1667
19072002
Swedish writer known for creating iconic children's characters like Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, and Karlsson-on-the-Roof, whose stories championed children's rights and sold 167 million copies worldwide
19151947
Burmese revolutionary leader instrumental in the struggle for independence and founder of modern Myanmar
19401996
Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate known for an authorship imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity
19041967
American theoretical physicist and science administrator known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his leadership of the Manhattan Project
19312019
American novelist, essayist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate whose novels gave life to an essential aspect of American reality
17951861
King of Prussia known as the 'romanticist on the throne' who believed in divine right and favored Christian estates over constitutional monarchy
18221888
German mathematical physicist and professor who helped found thermodynamics, introduced entropy, and formulated the second law of thermodynamics
17851863
German philologist, linguist, and folklorist known for formulating Grimm's law, co-authoring the Deutsches Wörterbuch, and editing Grimms' Fairy Tales with his brother Wilhelm
18591906
Russian physicist, engineer, and inventor known for being one of the first to invent a radio receiving device
17101736
Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, known for works like Stabat Mater and Salve Regina, and a leading figure of the Neapolitan school
18371910
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who championed musical nationalism and influenced many Russian musicians, blending folk music with classical practices