Memorials & famous biographies

Japanese association football player and coach known for his contributions to the Japan national team

Scottish author celebrated for his diverse literary career, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, recognized among Britain's greatest post-war writers

German film, theater, and voice actor known for his extensive work across stage, screen, and voice performances

Russian oligarch, government official, engineer, and mathematician known for his influence in post-Soviet Russia and as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Polish dramatist, writer, and journalist renowned for his satirical plays and short stories that often critiqued society through absurdist humor

Polish politician, journalist, and trade unionist who served as the first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland since 1946

Australian-British chemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry who unraveled the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions

Canadian actor and musician known for his extensive work in television series and films, including Stargate Atlantis, Smallville, and Monte Carlo

American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, and internet-political activist who helped develop RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown, and co-founded Reddit

American actor best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise, also a film producer and marine biologist

French politician who served as the 86th Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 and Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001

British economist, writer, and Nobel laureate recognized for his influential theories on the nature of the firm and transaction costs, especially from his long tenure at the University of Chicago Law School

Afghan cleric who founded the Taliban and served as Afghanistan's first supreme leader

Belgian Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who discovered lysosomes and peroxisomes, transforming our understanding of cellular organization

French biologist and geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis

Swiss physicist who co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope and won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics

English physiologist and Nobel laureate who pioneered in-vitro fertilisation, leading to the birth of the first 'test-tube baby' and revolutionizing reproductive medicine

British actor known for iconic roles including Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films, Uncle Monty in Withnail and I, and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky, appointed an OBE for his extensive career

British actress known for her iconic roles during Hollywood's Golden Age and a career spanning five decades

Canadian-American actor best known for his leading roles as Phillip Drummond in Diff'rent Strokes and Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude, also an entertainer and activist

Vietnamese general, communist politician, and military strategist who led forces to victory in the Indochina wars and served as Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister

Italian politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister seven times and was a key figure in the First Republic

British biochemist and double Nobel Prize winner renowned for his work on protein and nucleic acid sequencing

Indian actor renowned for a six-decade career in Hindi cinema, becoming one of its highest-paid and most respected figures