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Notable people and historical figures remembered on Anit.app, with their life stories, dates and sources.
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- Abay Kunanbaiuly1845–1904 · Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer
- Abdel Khaliq Mahjub1927–1971 · Sudanese politician
- Abdelhalim Hafez1929–1977 · Egyptian singer and actor
- Abdelkader El Djezairi1808–1883 · Algerian religious and military leader
- Abdullah as-Sallal1917–1994 · President of North Yemen from 1962 to 1967
- Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah1895–1965 · Ruler of Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1965
- Abdus Salam1926–1996 · theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
- Ada Lovelace1815–1852 · English mathematician
- Aden Abdullah Osman Daar1908–2007 · Somali politician
- Adile Naşit1930–1987 · Turkish stage, voice and film actress; comedian, story teller
- Agostinho Neto1922–1979 · President of Angola
- Ahmad Shah Massoud1953–2001 · Tajik military leader
- Ahmed Abdallah1919–1989 · President of the Comoros from 1978 to 1989
- Ahmed Sékou Touré1922–1984 · President of Guinea
- Ahmed Zewail1946–2016 · Chemist and university professor
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar1901–1962 · Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist
- Ahmet Kaya1957–2000 · Singer, composer and songwriter
- Akira Kurosawa1910–1998 · Film director
- Al Capone1899–1947 · Organized crime in United States history
- Alain Delon1935–2024 · French actor
- Alan Rickman1946–2016 · British actor and director
- Alan Turing1912–1954 · English computer scientist
- Albert Einstein1879–1955 · German-born theoretical physicist
- Alda da Graça1926–2010 · poet and politician from Sao Tome and Principe
- Alessandro Volta1745–1827 · Italian chemist and physicist
- Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980 · British filmmaker
- Ali Farka Touré1939–2006 · Malian musician
- Amata Kabua1928–1996 · former President of the Marshall Islands
- Amílcar Cabral1924–1973 · Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician
- Amy Winehouse1983–2011 · English singer-songwriter
- Andrei Sakharov1921–1989 · Physicist and human rights advocate
- Andrei Tarkovsky1932–1986 · Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director
- Anna Magnani1908–1973 · Italian actress
- Antoine Lavoisier1743–1794 · French nobleman and chemist
- Anton de Kom1898–1945 · Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author
- Antoni Fiter i Rossell1706–1748 · Andorran author
- Antonio Vivaldi1678–1741 · Italian composer and violinist
- Aram Khachaturian1903–1978 · Soviet Armenian composer
- Aretha Franklin1942–2018 · American singer, songwriter, and pianist
- Âşık Veysel1894–1973 · Turkish poet
- Astrid Lindgren1907–2002 · Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays
- Attilâ İlhan1925–2005 · Turkish poet and writer
- Audrey Hepburn1929–1993 · British actress
- Augusto Roa Bastos1917–2005 · Paraguayan writer
- Ayhan Işık1929–1979 · Turkish actor
- Ayrton Senna1960–1994 · Brazilian racing driver
- Aziz Nesin1915–1995 · Turkish writer
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- B.B. King1925–2015 · American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- Barbara McClintock1902–1992 · American scientist and cytogeneticist
- Barış Manço1943–1999 · Musician, composer and television presenter
- Barthélemy Boganda1910–1959 · 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory
- Béla Bartók1881–1945 · Hungarian composer and pianist
- Bergen1958–1989 · Turkish singer
- Bernhard Riemann1826–1866 · German mathematician
- Bette Davis1908–1989 · American actress
- Bhumibol Adulyadej1927–2016 · former King of Thailand
- Billie Holiday1915–1959 · American jazz singer
- Bingu wa Mutharika1934–2012 · Malawi politician and economist
- Blaise Pascal1623–1662 · French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
- Blaže Koneski1921–1993 · Macedonian writer
- Bob Marley1945–1981 · Jamaican reggae musician
- Bruce Lee1940–1973 · Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor
- Buster Keaton1895–1966 · American motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor
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- Cahit Arf1910–1997 · Turkish mathematician
- Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855 · German mathematician and physicist
- Carl Sagan1934–1996 · American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
- Carrie Fisher1956–2016 · American actress, writer and screenwriter
- Cem Karaca1945–2004 · Turkish singer-songwriter
- Cemal Süreya1931–1990 · Turkish poet
- César Vallejo1892–1938 · Peruvian writer
- Cesária Évora1941–2011 · Cape Verdean singer-songwriter
- Chadwick Boseman1976–2020 · American actor
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman1888–1970 · Indian physicist
- Charles Aznavour1924–2018 · Armenian-French singer and diplomat
- Charles Darwin1809–1882 · English naturalist and biologist
- Charlie Chaplin1889–1977 · English actor and filmmaker
- Charlie Parker1920–1955 · American jazz saxophonist
- Cheddi Jagan1918–1997 · President of Guyana, Prime Minister of Guyana, dentist
- Chien-Shiung Wu1912–1997 · Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
- Chingiz Aĭtmatov1928–2008 · Soviet and Kyrgyz author
- Chinua Achebe1930–2013 · Writer and professor
- Christopher Reeve1952–2004 · American actor
- Claude Debussy1862–1918 · French classical composer
- Claude Monet1840–1926 · French painter
- Cüneyt Arkın1937–2022 · Turkish actor and director
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- Dalida1933–1987 · Egyptian-French singer and actress
- Damdin Sükhbaatar1893–1923 · Mongolian military leader
- David Ben-Gurion1886–1973 · Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) -
- David Bowie1947–2016 · English musician and actor
- David Hilbert1862–1943 · German mathematician
- David Lynch1946–2025 · American filmmaker
- Dawda Kairaba Jawara1924–2019 · 1st President of the Gambia
- Derek Walcott1930–2017 · Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
- Desanka Maksimović1898–1993 · Serbian writer
- Desmond Tutu1931–2021 · Anglican cleric and anti-apartheid human rights advocate
- Diego Maradona1960–2020 · Argentine football player and manager
- Dilip Kumar1922–2021 · Indian actor and politician
- Diori Hamani1916–1989 · President of Niger from 1960 to 1974
- Dizzy Gillespie1917–1993 · American jazz trumpeter
- Dmitri Mendeleev1834–1907 · Russian chemist
- Dmitri Shostakovich1906–1975 · Soviet composer and pianist
- Domenico Maria Belzoppi1796–1864 · Captain Regent of San Marino
- Dorothy Hodgkin1910–1994 · British chemist
- Dorothy Vaughan1910–2008 · African-American mathematician
- Duke Ellington1899–1974 · American jazz pianist and composer
- Dun Karm Psaila1871–1961 · Maltese poet
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- Ebenezer Joshua1908–1991 · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines politician
- Edip Akbayram1950–2025 · Turkish singer-songwriter
- Edip Cansever1928–1986 · Turkish poet
- Édith Piaf1915–1963 · French singer
- Edvard Grieg1843–1907 · Norwegian composer and pianist
- Edward Oliver LeBlanc1923–2004 · Dominican politician
- Edwin Hubble1889–1953 · American astronomer
- Elizabeth Taylor1932–2011 · British-American actress
- Ella Fitzgerald1917–1996 · American jazz singer
- Elvis Presley1935–1977 · American singer and actor
- Emmy Noether1882–1935 · German Jewish mathematician
- Enrico Caruso1873–1921 · Italian opera singer
- Enrico Fermi1901–1954 · Italian–American physicist
- Erkin Koray1941–2023 · Turkish singer-songwriter
- Ernest Rutherford1871–1937 · Physicist
- Errol Barrow1920–1987 · Barbadian politician
- Errol Flynn1909–1959 · Australian actor
- Erwin Schrödinger1887–1961 · Austrian physicist
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- Fatema Mernissi1940–2015 · 1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist
- Fatima Jinnah1893–1967 · Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman
- Fatma Girik1942–2022 · Turkish actor and statesperson
- Federico Fellini1920–1993 · Italian filmmaker
- Federico García Lorca1898–1936 · Spanish poet, dramatist and prose writer
- Fela Kuti1938–1997 · Nigerian musician and activist
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny1905–1993 · First President of Ivory Coast, from 1960 to 1993
- Ferdi Tayfur1945–2025 · Turkish actor and singer
- Fernando Pessoa1888–1935 · Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares
- Fikret Kızılok1946–2001 · Turkish musician
- Florence Nightingale1820–1910 · Nurse and statistician
- Forugh Farrokhzad1935–1967 · Iranian poet
- France Prešeren1800–1849 · Slovene national poet, a Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent
- France-Albert René1935–2019 · President of Seychelles
- Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko1924–1979 · Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea
- Francisco Xavier do Amaral1937–2012 · Timorese
- Frank Sinatra1915–1998 · American singer and actor
- Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein1906–1989 · Prince of Liechtenstein
- Franz Liszt1811–1886 · Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
- Franz Schubert1797–1828 · Austrian composer
- Freddie Mercury1946–1991 · British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen
- Frédéric Chopin1810–1849 · Polish composer and pianist
- Frida Kahlo1907–1954 · Painter
- Fulbert Youlou1917–1972 · President of the Republic of the Congo
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- Gabriel García Márquez1927–2014 · Colombian writer and Nobel laureate
- Gabriela Mistral1889–1957 · Poet and educator
- Galileo Galilei1564–1642 · Italian polymath
- Gene Kelly1912–1996 · American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer
- George Cadle Price1919–2011 · Prime Minister of Belize
- George Frideric Handel1685–1759 · German-British Baroque composer
- George Harrison1943–2001 · English musician and member of the Beatles
- George Michael1963–2016 · English singer
- Georges Enescou1881–1955 · Romanian composer and violinist
- Gertrude B. Elion1918–1999 · American biochemist and pharmacologist
- Giacomo Puccini1858–1924 · Italian opera composer
- Gina Lollobrigida1927–2023 · Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician
- Giuseppe Verdi1813–1901 · Italian opera composer
- Grace Hopper1906–1992 · Computer scientist and naval officer
- Grace Kelly1929–1982 · American actress and Princess consort of Monaco
- Gregory Peck1916–2003 · American actor
- Greta Garbo1905–1990 · Swedish-American actress
- Grigore Vieru1935–2009 · Moldovan poet
- Guglielmo Marconi1874–1937 · Italian inventor and radio pioneer
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- Habib Bourguiba1903–2000 · Tunisian politician
- Haile Selassie I1892–1975 · Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
- Halide Edib Adıvar1884–1964 · Turkish social reformer and statesperson
- Halldór Laxness1902–1998 · Icelandic author
- Hamid Olimjon1909–1944 · writer, poet
- Hammer DeRoburt1922–1992 · President of Nauru
- Hans Christian Andersen1805–1875 · Danish writer and poet
- Haruo Remeliik1933–1985 · President of Palau
- Hassan Gouled Aptidon1916–2006 · President of Djibouti
- Heath Ledger1979–2008 · Australian actor
- Heinrich Hertz1857–1894 · German physicist
- Heitor Villa-Lobos1887–1959 · Brazilian composer
- Helen Keller1880–1968 · American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar
- Henri Matisse1869–1954 · French artist
- Henri Poincaré1854–1912 · French mathematician, physicist and engineer
- Henry Dunant1828–1910 · Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross
- Hideki Yukava1907–1981 · Theoretical physicist
- Howard Florey1898–1968 · Australian pathologist
- Hristo Botev1848–1876 · Bulgarian poet, journalist and revolutionary
- Hugh Masekela1939–2018 · South African jazz trumpeter
- Hulusi Behçet1889–1948 · Turkish dermatologist
- Humphrey Bogart1899–1957 · American actor
- Hussein I of Jordan1935–1999 · King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999
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- Ibn Saud1876–1953 · King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953
- Ibrahim Nasir1926–2008 · Maldivian politician, 2nd president of the Maldives
- Ibrahim Sultan Ali1909–1987 · Eritrean independence activist
- Ichiyō Higuchi1872–1896 · Japanese writer
- Idriss Déby1952–2021 · Chadian former president
- Igor Stravinsky1882–1971 · Russian, French, and American composer
- Ingmar Bergman1918–2007 · Swedish director and screenwriter
- Ingrid Bergman1915–1982 · Swedish actress
- Irrfan Khan1967–2020 · Indian actor
- Isa II of Bahrain1933–1999 · Emir of Bahrain
- Isaac Newton1643–1727 · English mathematician and physicist
- Ismail Kadare1936–2024 · Albanian writer
- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić1874–1938 · Croatian writer
- Ivo Andrić1892–1975 · Yugoslav novelist
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- J. Robert Oppenheimer1904–1967 · American theoretical physicist
- Jacques Brel1929–1978 · Belgian singer
- Jacques Roumain1907–1944 · Haitian politician and poet
- Jaime Sáenz1921–1986 · Bolivian writer
- James Chadwick1891–1974 · English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
- James Clerk Maxwell1831–1879 · Scottish physicist
- James Dean1931–1955 · American actor
- James Joyce1882–1941 · Irish novelist and poet
- James Stewart1908–1997 · American actor and military officer
- Janis Joplin1943–1970 · American singer
- Jean Sibelius1865–1957 · Finnish composer
- Jean-Paul Belmondo1933–2021 · French actor
- Jeanne Moreau1928–2017 · French actress, singer, screenwriter and director
- Jesse Owens1913–1980 · American track and field athlete
- Jigme Dorji Wangchuck1929–1972 · King of Bhutan
- Jim Morrison1943–1971 · American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors
- Jimi Hendrix1942–1970 · American guitarist
- Joe Cocker1944–2014 · British singer
- Johann Sebastian Bach1685–1750 · German composer
- Johannes Kepler1571–1630 · German mathematician and astronomer
- John Coltrane1926–1967 · American jazz saxophonist
- John Dillinger1903–1934 · Bank robbery in United States history
- John Ford1894–1973 · American film director
- John Garang1945–2005 · Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader
- John Lennon1940–1980 · British musician
- John Paul II1920–2005 · pope, cardinal, bishop, priest, author
- Johnny Cash1932–2003 · American country singer
- Jonas Salk1914–1995 · Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine
- Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986 · Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
- José Figueres Ferrer1906–1990 · Costa Rican politician
- José Martí1853–1895 · Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist
- José Rizal1861–1896 · Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath
- Joshua Nkomo1917–1999 · Zimbabwean politician
- Juan Bosch1909–2001 · First democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic
- Juana de Ibarbourou1892–1979 · Uruguayan writer
- Judith Wright1915–2000 · Australian poet, environmentalist and Indigenous rights campaigner
- Judy Garland1922–1969 · American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian
- Julius Nyerere1922–1999 · Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania
- Juvénal Habyarimana1937–1994 · 2nd President of Rwanda
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- Kahlil Gibran1883–1931 · Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter
- Kamisese Mara1920–2004 · President of Fiji
- Katharine Hepburn1907–2003 · American actress
- Katherine Johnson1918–2020 · NASA research mathematician
- Katherine Mansfield1888–1923 · Short-story writer and poet
- Kazi Nazrul Islam1899–1976 · National poet of Bangladesh
- Kâzım Koyuncu1971–2005 · Turkish singer
- Kemal Sunal1944–2000 · Turkish actor
- Kenneth Kaunda1924–2021 · First president of Zambia
- Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani1932–2016 · former Emir of Qatar
- Kim Dae-jung1924–2009 · 8th President of the Republic of Korea
- Kim Il-sung1912–1994 · Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
- Kobe Bryant1978–2020 · American basketball player
- Kuan Yew Lee1923–2015 · 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore
- Kurt Cobain1967–1994 · American rock musician, singer and songwriter
- Kwame Nkrumah1909–1972 · Ghanaian politician
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- Lao She1899–1966 · Chinese writer, novelist and playwright
- Lata Mangeshkar1929–2022 · Indian singer
- Lauren Bacall1924–2014 · American actress
- Laurence Olivier1907–1989 · English actor and director
- Laxmi Prasad Devkota1909–1959 · Nepali poet
- Leo Tolstoy1828–1910 · Writer
- Leonard Cohen1934–2016 · Canadian singer, songwriter and poet
- Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519 · Italian Renaissance polymath
- Leonhard Euler1707–1783 · Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer
- Léopold Sédar Senghor1906–2001 · first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist
- Lesya Ukrainka1871–1913 · Ukrainian poet, writer and feminist
- Lise Meitner1878–1968 · Austrian-Swedish physicist
- Lou Reed1942–2013 · American rock musician
- Louis Armstrong1901–1971 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
- Louis de Funès1914–1983 · French actor and comedian
- Louis Pasteur1822–1895 · French chemist and microbiologist
- Lu Xun1881–1936 · Chinese novelist and essayist
- Luciano Pavarotti1935–2007 · Italian operatic tenor
- Ľudovít Štúr1815–1856 · Slovak poet, philosopher, linguist, publicist, politician and writer
- Ludwig Boltzmann1844–1906 · Austrian physicist and philosopher
- Ludwig van Beethoven1770–1827 · German composer
- Lydia Koidula1843–1886 · Estonian poet
- Lynden Pindling1930–2000 · Bahamian politician
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- Machado de Assis1839–1908 · Novelist, short-story writer and journalist
- Mahmoud Darwish1941–2008 · The national Palestinian poet, and author
- Mahzuni Şerif1940–2002 · Turkish poet
- Makarios III1913–1977 · Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus
- Malietoa Tanumafili II1913–2007 · Malietoa in Samoa
- Manu Dibango1933–2020 · Cameroonian musician and songwriter, recording artist
- Marcello Mastroianni1924–1996 · Italian actor
- Maria Meneghini Callas1923–1977 · American-Greek operatic soprano
- Marie Curie1867–1934 · Physicist and chemist
- Marilyn Monroe1926–1962 · American actress and model
- Marlon Brando1924–2004 · American actor
- Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968 · Minister and civil rights advocate
- Mathieu Kérékou1933–2015 · politician
- Maurice Bishop1944–1983 · Revolutionary and Grenada 's second Prime Minister
- Maurice Ravel1875–1937 · French composer
- Max Planck1858–1947 · German theoretical physicist
- Maya Angelou1928–2014 · American poet, author, and civil rights activist
- Melchior Ndadaye1953–1993 · President of Burundi
- Mercedes Sosa1935–2009 · Argentine singer
- Michael Faraday1791–1867 · British scientist
- Michael Gambon1940–2023 · Irish and English actor
- Michael Jackson1958–2009 · American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
- Michael Somare1936–2021 · Papua New Guinea's first prime minister
- Michel Rodange1827–1876 · Luxembourgian poet
- Michelangelo1475–1564 · Italian artist and architect
- Miguel Ángel Asturias1899–1974 · Guatemalan writer and diplomat
- Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis1875–1911 · Lithuanian painter, composer and writer
- Miles Davis1926–1991 · American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
- Milton Obote1925–2005 · President of Uganda
- Miriam Makeba1932–2008 · Singer and anti-apartheid advocate
- Modibo Keïta1915–1977 · Malian politician and President of Mali
- Mohammad-Reza Shajarian1940–2020 · Iranian singer and musician
- Moktar Ould Daddah1924–2003 · President of Mauritania from 1960 to 1978
- Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho1938–1996 · King of Lesotho
- Mother Teresa1910–1997 · Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity
- Muhammad Ali1942–2016 · American boxer
- Münir Özkul1925–2018 · Turkish actor
- Muslim Magomayev1942–2008 · Opera and popular music singer
- Müslüm Gürses1953–2013 · Turkish actor and singer
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881–1938 · Founder of the Republic of Türkiye
- Müzeyyen Senar1918–2015 · Turkish musician
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- Naguib Mahfouz1911–2006 · Egyptian writer
- Napoléon Bonaparte1769–1821 · French military and political leader
- Nazik Al-Malaika1922–2007 · Iraqi poet
- Nâzım Hikmet1902–1963 · Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist
- Nelson Mandela1918–2013 · Anti-apartheid politician and South African president
- Neşet Ertaş1938–2012 · Turkish country music singer
- Nicolaus Copernicus1473–1543 · Polish mathematician and astronomer
- Niels Bohr1885–1962 · Danish physicist
- Niko Pirosmani1862–1918 · Georgian artist
- Nikola Tesla1856–1943 · Serbian-American engineer and inventor
- Nina Simone1933–2003 · American singer, songwriter and pianist and civil rights activist
- Nizar Qabbani1923–1998 · Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher
- Norodom Sihanouk1922–2012 · Cambodian monarch and politician
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan1948–1997 · Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali
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- Octavio Paz1914–1998 · Mexican writer, poet an diplomat
- Odysseas Elytis1911–1996 · Greek poet and art critic
- Oğuz Atay1934–1977 · Turkish novelist
- Oktay Sinanoğlu1935–2015 · Turkish chemist
- Omar al-Mukhtar1858–1931 · Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation
- Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei1914–1986 · Sultan of Brunei
- Omar Bongo1935–2009 · Gabonese politician
- Omar Sharif1932–2015 · Egyptian actor
- Omar Torrijos1929–1981 · Panamanian military leader and de facto ruler
- Orhan Kemal1914–1970 · Turkish novelist
- Orhan Veli Kanık1914–1950 · Turkish poet
- Orson Welles1915–1985 · American actor and filmmaker
- Oscar Peterson1925–2007 · Canadian jazz pianist
- Oswaldo Guayasamín1919–1999 · Ecuadorian painter
- Otis Redding1941–1967 · American singer and songwriter
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- Pablo Escobar1949–1993 · Organized crime in Colombian history
- Pablo Picasso1881–1973 · Spanish painter and sculptor
- Patrice Lumumba1925–1961 · Congolese politician and independence leader
- Paul Dirac1902–1984 · British theoretical physicist
- Paul Newman1925–2008 · American actor
- Pelé1940–2022 · Footballer
- Percy Lavon Julian1899–1975 · African-American chemist
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš1813–1851 · Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
- Peter Kenilorea1943–2016 · Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands
- Peter Sellers1925–1980 · British actor and comedian
- Peyami Safa1899–1961 · Turkish journalist and writer
- Philibert Tsiranana1912–1978 · First President of Madagascar
- Pierre Curie1859–1906 · French physicist and chemist
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer1925–2006 · Indonesian writer
- Prince1958–2016 · American musician
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893 · Russian composer
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- Qaboos bin Said Al Said1940–2020 · sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020
- Qian Xuesen1911–2009 · Chinese rocket scientist
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- Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941 · Poet, writer, composer and educator
- Rachel Carson1907–1964 · American marine biologist and conservationist
- Rainier III, Prince of Monaco1923–2005 · Prince of Monaco from 1949 to 2005
- Rainis1865–1929 · Latvian poet
- Raj Kapoor1924–1988 · Indian actor and filmmaker
- Ramón Amaya Amador1916–1966 · Honduran author
- Rashid Behbudov1915–1989 · Soviet Azerbaijani singer and actor
- Ravi Shankar1920–2012 · Indian sitar player
- Ray Charles1930–2004 · American singer, pianist and songwriter
- Reşat Nuri Güntekin1889–1956 · Turkish writer
- Richard Burton1925–1984 · Welsh actor
- Richard Feynman1918–1988 · American theoretical physicist
- Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw1916–1978 · Saint Kitts and Nevis political leader and labour activist
- Robin Williams1951–2014 · American actor and comedian
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain1880–1932 · Bengali feminist writer and social reformer
- Rómulo Gallegos1884–1969 · Venezuelan politician and writer
- Roque Dalton Garcia1935–1975 · Salvadoran journalist and poet
- Rosa Parks1913–2005 · civil rights activist
- Rosalind Franklin1920–1958 · British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
- Rubén Darío1867–1916 · Nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat
- Ruhi Su1912–1985 · Turkish country music singer
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- Sabahattin Ali1907–1948 · Turkish novelist
- Sadri Alışık1925–1995 · Turkish actor
- Sadriddin Ayni1878–1954 · Tajik writer
- Safiye Ayla1907–1998 · Turkish singer
- Sait Faik Abasıyanık1906–1954 · Turkish writer of short stories and poetry
- Sālote Tupou III of Tonga1900–1965 · Monarch of Tonga
- Salvador Dalí1904–1989 · Spanish artist
- Sam Cooke1931–1964 · American singer and songwriter
- Sam Nujoma1929–2025 · President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005
- Samora Moisés Machel1933–1986 · 1st President of Mozambique
- Saparmyrat Nyýazow1940–2006 · President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006
- Sarojini Naidu1879–1949 · Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from1947 to 1949
- Satyendra Nath Bose1894–1974 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
- Sean Connery1930–2020 · Scottish actor
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam1900–1985 · politician, statesman and philanthropist and the first prime minister of Mauritius
- Seretse Khama1921–1980 · First President of Botswana
- Serge Gainsbourg1928–1991 · French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director
- Sergei Prokofiev1891–1953 · Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor
- Sergei Rachmaninoff1873–1943 · Russian composer, pianist and conductor
- Sergio Leone1929–1989 · Italian filmmaker
- Shiing-Shen Chern1911–2004 · Chinese-American mathematician and poet
- Siaka Stevens1905–1988 · Prime Minister of Sierra Leone
- Sidney Poitier1927–2022 · Bahamian and American actor and diplomat
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike1916–2000 · Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000
- Sobhuza II1899–1982 · King of Swaziland
- Souphanouvong1909–1995 · Laotian politician
- Sridevi1963–2018 · Indian actress
- Srinivasa Ramanujan1887–1920 · Mathematician
- Stanley Kubrick1928–1999 · American filmmaker and photographer
- Stephen Hawking1942–2018 · British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1910–1995 · Indian-American astrophysicist
- Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio1902–1963 · President of Togo
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- Tarık Akan1949–2016 · Turkish actor and film producer
- Teatao Teannaki1936–2016 · President of Kiribati
- Thakin Kodaw Hmaing1876–1964 · Burmese politician
- The Notorious B.I.G.1972–1997 · American rapper
- Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022 · Buddhist teacher, poet and peace advocate
- Thomas Sankara1949–1987 · Military officer and head of state of Burkina Faso
- Toaripi Lauti1928–2014 · First Prime Minister of Tuvalu
- Toni Morrison1931–2019 · Writer and university professor
- Toshirō Mifune1920–1997 · Japanese actor
- Tosiwo Nakayama1931–2007 · President of Federated States of Micronesia
- Tuncel Kurtiz1936–2013 · Turkish actor and director
- Tunku Abdul Rahman1903–1990 · first Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Tupac Shakur1971–1996 · American rapper and actor
- Turgut Uyar1927–1985 · Turkish poet
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- Uzeyir Hajibeyov1885–1948 · Composer and musicologist
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- V. S. Naipaul1932–2018 · Trinidadian-British writer
- Václav Havel1936–2011 · Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic
- Vagif Mustafazadeh1940–1979 · Azerbaijani musician
- Vere Bird1910–1999 · Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
- Vincent van Gogh1853–1890 · Dutch painter
- Violeta Parra1917–1967 · Composer, folk music collector and visual artist
- Vivien Leigh1913–1967 · British actress
- Võ Nguyên Giáp1911–2013 · Vietnamese general and communist politician
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- Walter Lini1942–1999 · Anglican priest and politician
- Wangari Muta Maathai1940–2011 · Biologist and environmental advocate
- Werner Heisenberg1901–1976 · German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner
- Whitney Houston1963–2012 · American singer, actress, and film producer
- William Tubman1895–1971 · Liberian politician, 19th president of Liberia
- Wisława Szymborska1923–2012 · Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–1791 · Austrian composer of the Classical period
- Wolfgang Pauli1900–1958 · physicist, Nobel prize winner
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- Yanka Kupala1882–1942 · Belarusian writer
- Yaşar Kemal1923–2015 · Kurdish writer and human rights activist
- Yasunari Kawabata1899–1972 · Japanese novelist
- Yılmaz Güney1937–1984 · Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor
- Yukio Mishima1925–1970 · Japanese author
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- Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan1918–2004 · Sheikh of Abu Dhabi from 1966 to 2003
- Zeki Müren1931–1996 · Turkish musician