Lives connected to places

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)

Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)

German philosopher (1762–1814)

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

Polish-American writer (1904–1991)

Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)

Chinese novelist and screenwriter

Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)

Jewish German poet and playwright

King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598

Norwegian chess player

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)

Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)

Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)

Brazilian racing driver (1960-1994)

British writer and poet (1916–1990)

Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)

King of the Netherlands (born 1967)

Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)

Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer (1895–1986)

Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)