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American actor, known as 'the Great Profile,' who captivated audiences on stage and screen from Hamlet to Grand Hotel

American actress renowned for her energetic and off-beat roles in screwball comedies, recognized by the American Film Institute as one of Classic Hollywood's greatest female stars

Japanese tanka poet, author, feminist, and social reformer known for her influential poetry and contributions to Japanese literature and society

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer known for his lasting influence on ethnography, social theory, and field research

Polish anthropologist and ethnographer whose pioneering work in participant observation and functionalist theory profoundly shaped the discipline of anthropology

Canadian writer best known for creating the beloved Anne of Green Gables series and a wide array of other novels, essays, and poems

Pioneer of modern anthropology and the "Father of American Anthropology," who championed cultural relativism and fought against scientific racism

Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian, and philosopher, canonized as a saint and patron of Europe, murdered at Auschwitz

Austrian philosophical writer known for the influential modernist novel, 'The Man Without Qualities'

French physicist and Nobel laureate who experimentally confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his studies of Brownian motion

Cuban chess player, diplomat, and non-fiction writer who became the third world chess champion, renowned for his endgame skill and speed of play

British scientist who shared a Nobel Prize with his son for X-ray crystallography and developed wartime hydrophone technology

Austrian writer, poet, historian, and biographer, Stefan Zweig was one of the most widely translated and popular authors in the world during the 1920s and 1930s