Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) — dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) — Spanish artist (1904–1989)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) — 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Walt Disney (1901–1966) — American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
George Orwell (1903–1950) — British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — American author and journalist (1899–1961)
James Joyce (1882–1941) — Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)