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English children's writer, one of the best-selling and most prolific authors of all time, translated into ninety languages

Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter who bridged multiple artistic movements and exhibited in all eight Impressionist exhibitions

German-American architect who founded the Bauhaus School and pioneered modernist architecture and design education

Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada in two non-consecutive terms

French-born American diarist, novelist, and essayist known for her autobiographical works and pioneering contributions to erotica

German historian and philosopher best known for his work <em>The Decline of the West</em> and his organic theory of civilization lifecycles

German chemist and 1902 Nobel Prize winner who discovered Fischer esterification, developed the Fischer projection, and proposed the lock and key mechanism of enzyme action

Spanish playwright, civil engineer, mathematician, and statesman who was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature for his role in reviving Spanish drama

Egyptian actor, bridge player, and non-fiction writer, celebrated for over 100 films and his pioneering roles as "the first Egyptian and Arab to conquer Hollywood"

Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden for two terms, leading the Social Democratic Party

British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and philosopher who served as Prime Minister from 1902 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919

Baltic German chemist and philosopher, a founder of physical chemistry, Nobel laureate for work on catalysis and reaction rates

German-American experimental physicist who won the 1943 Nobel Prize for developing molecular beam techniques and discovering the proton's magnetic moment

French-Italian actress celebrated as a leading figure of Italian cinema, appearing in over 175 films across six decades and regarded as one of the last stars of the Golden Age of European cinema

Italian politician, professor, and diplomat who served five terms as Prime Minister of Italy and was a prominent leader of the Christian Democracy party

Cuban chess player, diplomat, and non-fiction writer who became the third world chess champion, renowned for his endgame skill and speed of play

French author, poet, and political activist known for his influential World War I novel, "Under Fire," which helped define the Lost Generation movement

First president of Senegal, renowned poet, cultural theorist, and French resistance fighter

Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar known as "the father of media studies" for his groundbreaking work on media theory

French writer and poet, principal theorist and co-founder of Surrealism, known for the First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924

French inventor, organist, and educator who, blinded at a young age, developed the enduring system of braille for reading and writing

Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor who wrote essential testimonies including "If This Is a Man" and "The Periodic Table"

Scottish physicist and meteorologist who invented the cloud chamber and won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics

German economist and Chancellor who created the social market economy and led West Germany's economic miracle