Notable people

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

Finnish composer (1865–1957)

Chinese novelist and playwright (1940- )

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

French writer and Nobel Prize winner (born 1940)

Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)

Hungarian author (1929–2016)

Dutch physicist (1865–1943)

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)

Icelandic author (1902-1998)

Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)

Indian chess grandmaster

German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)

German racing driver

avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944)

Spanish poet (1881–1958)

Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013 (born 1938)

Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)

King of Sweden since 1973

Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)

German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)

Dutch physicist (1837–1923)

King of Norway since 1991

Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)

German physicist (1862-1947)

Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

Islamic terrorist and al-Qaeda leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)

German-Swiss artist (1879–1940)