Born and died in 1896

Sicilian Prince and writer best known for his posthumously published novel, <em>The Leopard</em>, which chronicles the decline of the aristocracy

56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan who directed economic management in Manchukuo and revised the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty

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

Italian journalist, resistance leader, and politician who served as President of Italy from 1978 to 1985

American novelist, essayist, and short story writer best known for his depictions of the Jazz Age

French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor, and theatre director, a major figure of the European avant-garde and conceptualizer of the Theatre of Cruelty

Indian spiritual teacher, writer, translator, and philosopher who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and spread Krishna consciousness worldwide

Swiss psychologist and biologist known for his seminal theory of cognitive development and genetic epistemology

Scottish novelist and physician whose influential work, The Citadel, helped inspire the National Health Service

Norwegian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the first Secretary-General of the United Nations

Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant, leading figure in the CNT and FAI, and key participant in the Spanish Revolution of 1936

Hungarian politician, diplomat, and economist who led the 1956 Revolution against Soviet-backed rule and was later executed

Swedish chemist and inventor known for inventing dynamite and establishing the Nobel Prizes

British textile artist, author, and socialist who revived traditional textile arts and helped establish the modern fantasy genre

Norwegian linguist, poet, and philologist who created Nynorsk, one of Norway's official written languages

French physicist, astronomer, and photographer who accurately measured the speed of light and conducted the Fizeau experiment

British painter and illustrator, co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and renowned for works such as Ophelia and Christ in the House of His Parents

French poet, writer, critic, and translator who was a paramount exponent of fin de siècle poetry, associated with the Symbolist, Parnassianist, and Decadent movements