British-American actress known for her prolific career in film, television, and stage, transitioning from a child star in Britain to a Hollywood icon

British fashion designer and couturier known for founding his eponymous label and his influential tenure at Givenchy, recipient of multiple Designer of the Year awards

Soviet chess grandmaster and World Champion, known for his record 17 Chess Olympiad medals and musical career

Scottish physician and pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine for developing propranolol and cimetidine through rational drug design

French artist recognized for his versatile work as a painter, sculptor, and designer, contributing to French visual culture throughout his life

Spanish diplomat and sports official who served as the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001

Polish politician and lawyer who served as the 4th President of Poland from 2005-2010, democratic oppositionist, and former Mayor of Warsaw who died in the Smolensk air disaster

American actress known for her roles as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women and Randi King on Family Law

French-American artist known for large-scale sculpture and installation art, who explored themes of domesticity, sexuality, and the unconscious

American heavy metal singer, composer, musician, and songwriter known for fronting bands like Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell

American singer, actress, dancer, and activist whose career spanned over seventy years across film, television, and theater

Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in 2010, previously a university teacher and entrepreneur

South Korean actor and singer celebrated for his roles in film and television, and his contributions to Korean ballad music

Lithuanian politician who served as the first democratically elected president of post-Soviet Lithuania and later as Prime Minister

Portuguese novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate who crafted imaginative parables offering subversive perspectives on history and reality

Russian mathematician and physicist known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem, and contributions to dynamical systems, topology, and differential equations

Soviet and Russian poet, writer, lyricist, painter, and printmaker known for his influential work during the Khrushchev Thaw

Eighth President of Italy and Prime Minister, a prominent politician, jurist, and university teacher of the First Italian Republic

French physicist who invented the multiwire proportional chamber and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992

Argentine lawyer and politician who served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, pioneering the political approach known as Kirchnerism

Polish-born French and American mathematician known for coining the word 'fractal' and developing the field of fractal geometry

French economist and Nobel laureate who revolutionized market theory through mathematical analysis and interdisciplinary research

Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator known as 'the voice of the epoch' in Russia

Canadian-American actor and comedian known for his prolific career and iconic deadpan humor

Russian diplomat and politician known for serving as Prime Minister from 1992-1998 and leading the transition to a market economy