Memorials & famous biographies

Indian actress and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu who served for six terms, leaving a significant mark on post-independence Indian politics

Soviet and Russian diplomat who served as ambassador to North Korea and Turkey

Japanese association football player and manager who played for the Japan national team

English record producer, arranger, and musician widely known as the 'fifth Beatle' for his transformative work on their albums, including Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Brazilian association football player and manager who captained the 1970 World Cup-winning team and scored one of the tournament's greatest goals

Saudi Shia Sheikh, human rights defender, and Islamic jurist from Al-Awamiyah whose execution in 2016 sparked international condemnation

German economist and mathematician who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games, also known for work in bounded rationality and experimental economics

Brazilian lawyer, businessman, and athlete who served as FIFA president from 1974 to 1998, overseeing significant global expansion of football, and a long-serving member of the International Olympic Committee

Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster, author, and writer known as one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion

Austrian-American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate for developing density functional theory, a crucial tool in materials science and condensed-phase physics

Japanese mountaineer and explorer, the first woman to summit Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits

American actress, singer, and dancer known for her iconic role as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain and her chart-topping song "Tammy", earning an Academy Award nomination for The Unsinkable Molly Brown

American professional boxer and activist, widely known as "the Greatest" and regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, a global cultural icon who held multiple heavyweight titles

American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who pioneered the "Minneapolis sound" and influenced countless artists

Mexican singer, songwriter, and composer known for his flamboyant style, diverse musical genres, and status as a pop icon, with a prolific career spanning decades

American actress and writer best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars, also a celebrated novelist, script doctor, and mental health advocate

Longest-serving Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany, a key figure in German and European politics

French composer, conductor, and writer who was a dominant figure of post-war contemporary classical music and founder of several musical institutions

German politician, lawyer, and writer who served as Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor of Germany, notable as the first openly gay person in these roles

British chemist who co-discovered fullerenes, earning him the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on carbon structures

German politician who served as President of West Germany and led the Free Democratic Party (FDP)

Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time

Italian actor, lawyer, professional swimmer and water polo player, best known for his action-comedy and spaghetti Western roles alongside Terence Hill

Egyptian-American chemist known as the 'father of femtochemistry' and 1999 Nobel laureate for his work on chemical reaction dynamics using femtosecond spectroscopy