Born and died in 1933

Dutch climatologist and Nobel laureate known for his work on atmospheric ozone and popularizing the term 'Anthropocene'

Polish composer, conductor, and pedagogue known for his visionary contributions to contemporary classical music, including 'Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima' and the 'St Luke Passion'

Iranian revolutionary, sociologist, writer, and scholar of Islam known as one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century and an ideologue of the Islamic Revolution

Japanese association football player who represented the Japan national team

Iraqi politician who served as the 6th president of Iraq and president of the Governing Council

Hong Kong-British-American physicist and electrical engineer who revolutionized telecommunications with his pioneering work in fiber optics, enabling the Internet and the World Wide Web

British composer and conductor widely celebrated for crafting iconic film scores, particularly for the James Bond series

Brazilian association football player regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and one of the greatest dribblers ever

Spanish footballer known as the "Gale of the Cantabrian Sea" and voted the greatest Spanish footballer of the 20th century

English physicist and Nobel laureate who, with Paul Lauterbur, pioneered Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

British developmental biologist recognized for pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning

Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from 1975 until his death in a plane crash in 1986

German symbolist poet and translator known for leading the George-Kreis literary circle and founding Blätter für die Kunst

British socialist, theosophist, and women's rights activist who became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917

Austrian and Czech architect, influential theorist, and critic of Art Nouveau who sparked the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism

Argentine lawyer, politician, and author who served as President of the Republic and championed the Sáenz Peña Law, leading to Argentina's first democratically elected presidency

German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and tireless advocate for women's rights

Greek-Egyptian poet and journalist known for his distinctive style, considered a major figure in modern Greek and Western poetry

English novelist and playwright who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature for The Forsyte Saga and related trilogies