Memorials & famous biographies

French poet, essayist, and philosopher known for his poetry, fiction, and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events

Italian poet, prose writer, and editor awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature for his distinctive interpretation of human values

British actor and director known for his stage and screen roles, distinctive voice, and numerous awards including a BAFTA and Golden Globe

German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for discovering X-ray diffraction by crystals, founding modern crystallography

British statesman who uniquely held all four Great Offices of State and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Chinese-American architect who designed iconic American buildings including the National Gallery East Wing and Morton H. Myerson Symphony Center

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker renowned for avant-garde surrealist cinema that blended dreamlike imagery with sharp political and social commentary

Founding President and 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh, also known as Bangabandhu, who led the nation to independence and served until his assassination

French playwright, diplomat, and polymath best known for his influential Figaro plays, including The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville

Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, with Edmund Hillary, was the first confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest

Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, recognized with the Nobel Prize for his method of color photography based on interference

Preeminent French Neoclassical painter and politician known for monumental history paintings like 'The Death of Socrates' and shifting artistic taste towards classical austerity

Hungarian association football player and coach, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar, known as the 'Galloping Major' and an Olympic champion in 1952

French writer, politician, and diplomat who shaped 19th-century Romantic literature and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and ambassador to several European nations

Emperor of Japan who presided over the Meiji Restoration, transforming Japan from a feudal state into a major imperial power

French writer, archaeologist, and historian known for his novella Carmen and significant contributions to architectural preservation

Japanese writer, novelist, poet, and literary critic, regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story," after whom the Akutagawa Prize is named

King of France from 1226 to 1270, renowned as Saint Louis and the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians

Prolific Italian composer, orchestrator, and conductor, celebrated for more than 400 film scores and 100 classical works across modern classical, jazz, pop, and rock genres

Swedish writer and Nobel laureate known for his profound exploration of eternal human questions through poetry and prose

British theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who theorized a mechanism for the mass of subatomic particles

Swiss writer, poet, and theologian awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 for his epic <i>Olympian Spring</i>

Greek poet, diplomat, and Nobel laureate whose eminent lyrical writing reflected the Hellenic world of culture

Iraqi British architect, designer, and artist recognized as a key figure in late 20th and early 21st-century architecture