Dzīves

American writer, designer, poet, and novelist, known for portraying Gilded Age society and winning the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to a woman

Russian author, playwright, and satirist known for the posthumously published novel The Master and Margarita

Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from February 1984 to March 1985

Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland known for his reactionary domestic policies and as an art collector

American martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author known for his action films and mastery of various combat disciplines, including his own Chun Kuk Do

African-American abolitionist, social activist, Union Army spy, and suffragist who rescued enslaved people via the Underground Railroad

German mathematician who pioneered analytic number theory, advanced Fourier series, and provided the modern definition of a function

British political economist, cleric, and scholar known for his influential theories on population and demography

German composer, theatre director, and essayist known for his innovative music dramas and the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk

Italian chemist and physicist who invented the electric battery (voltaic pile) and discovered methane, pioneering the field of electrochemistry

Russia's best-known fabulist, a prolific author, poet, playwright, and journalist who discovered his true genre of satirical fables at the age of 40

Ukrainian poet and artist who founded modern Ukrainian literature and language, and whose collection 'Kobzar' is a cornerstone of Slavic culture

Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1655 to 1667

Swedish writer known for creating iconic children's characters like Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, and Karlsson-on-the-Roof, whose stories championed children's rights and sold 167 million copies worldwide

Burmese revolutionary leader instrumental in the struggle for independence and founder of modern Myanmar

Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate known for an authorship imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity

American theoretical physicist and science administrator known as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his leadership of the Manhattan Project

American novelist, essayist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate whose novels gave life to an essential aspect of American reality

King of Prussia known as the 'romanticist on the throne' who believed in divine right and favored Christian estates over constitutional monarchy

German mathematical physicist and professor who helped found thermodynamics, introduced entropy, and formulated the second law of thermodynamics

German philologist, linguist, and folklorist known for formulating Grimm's law, co-authoring the Deutsches Wörterbuch, and editing Grimms' Fairy Tales with his brother Wilhelm

Russian physicist, engineer, and inventor known for being one of the first to invent a radio receiving device

Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, known for works like Stabat Mater and Salve Regina, and a leading figure of the Neapolitan school

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who championed musical nationalism and influenced many Russian musicians, blending folk music with classical practices