Notable people

pope of the Catholic Church in 1978 (1912–1978)

Chilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)

Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1923–2012)

Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer

German writer (1917–1985)

president of Argentina from 2007-2015, vice president of Argentina since 2019 to 2023

pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958

Dutch physicist (1853–1928)

American whistleblower and former NSA contractor (born 1983)

Norwegian painter. (1863–1944)

Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power (1745-1827)

Spanish racing driver

British novelist (born 1954)

Norwegian writer (1882–1949)

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner (1931–2021)

King of Spain since 2014

Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)

South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)

American chess player (1943–2008)

Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)

Indian physicist (1888–1970)

Franco-Czech poet and novelist (1929–2023)

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Russian tennis player

Nigerian writer (born 1934)