Maurice Chevalier18881972French singer, actor, and entertainer known for his signature songs like "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and iconic boater hat and tuxedo
Maria Goeppert Mayer19061972German-born American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
Yasunari Kawabata18991972Japanese novelist and short story writer, known for his spare, lyrical prose and as the first Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature
Edward VIII18941972King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions in 1936 who abdicated his throne later that year, becoming known as the Duke of Windsor
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi18941972Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher, founding president of the Paneuropean Union and a pioneer of European integration for nearly five decades
Max Theiler18991972South African-American virologist and physician who developed the life-saving vaccine against yellow fever, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1951
Lester B. Pearson1897197214th Prime Minister of Canada, distinguished diplomat, scholar, and author of influential works on international relations