Notable people

Finnish poet and journalist (1878–1926)

Argentine tennis player

Croatian tennis player and coach

Armenian-American chess player

French Algerian writer and film director (1936-2015)

Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)

Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar (1926-2022)

military leader of Burkina Faso since 2022

Australian tennis player and tennis coach

chemist, biochemist and biophysicist

French basketball player

Finnish-Estonian writer (born 1977)

Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)

Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)

15th Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (1929-2008)

Serbian writer (1929–2009)

Belarusian tennis player

Colombian racing driver; former Formula One driver

Colombian painter and sculptor (1932–2023)

King of Siam (1737–1809)

monarch of Luxembourg since 2025

first Turkish female combat pilot (1913–2001)

King and Emir of Afghanistan (1892-1960)

president of Guatemala in 1951–54

President of Honduras from 2014 to 2022

Ukrainian writer

Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)

Harpist and composer

Saint Lucian economist (1915–1991)

Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau (1861–1947)