Memorials & famous biographies

French New Wave director known for his psychologically astute thrillers often depicting the darker side of bourgeois life with a signature detached observation

American astronaut, test pilot, and naval officer who walked on the Moon and commanded the first Space Shuttle mission

American astronaut and lunar explorer who was the third person to walk on the Moon and commander of Skylab 2

American politician and gay rights activist who became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California

Nobel Prize-winning American physicist and inventor, recognized for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor that revolutionized digital imaging

American economist and Nobel laureate known for applying microeconomic analysis to a broad spectrum of human behavior, including nonmarket interactions

American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity, including the concept of Cooper pairs, and co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity

American astronaut who orbited the Moon in the Apollo 11 command module Columbia during the first crewed lunar landing, and a major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserve

Japanese association football player who represented his country on the national team

French American plastician, painter, and sculptor known for her monumental works and social commitment

Italian actress and model known for her powerful performances and her status as a sex symbol in 1950s and 1960s cinema, winning multiple prestigious awards

Australian politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, serving as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1975 to 1983

American author, philosopher, and occultist who founded the Church of Satan and authored The Satanic Bible

Celebrated Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor, and lecturer, recognized as a People's Artist of the USSR and laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation

Japanese association football player and manager who served as president of the Japan Football Association

Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate who developed multiscale models for complex chemical systems

British novelist and science fiction writer known for his psychologically provocative explorations of technology, sex, and mass media, and a key figure in New Wave science fiction

English poet and children's writer who served as Poet Laureate and is considered one of the twentieth century's greatest writers

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

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

French actor renowned for his versatile performances in films including Cinema Paradiso, spanning five decades of stage and screen work

French actor who collaborated with legendary directors like Truffaut, Haneke, and Bertolucci across six decades of European cinema

French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate known for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis, a key method in organic synthesis

American singer, pianist, and songwriter known as 'The Genius' who fused soul, jazz, and blues into a distinctive sound that changed music history