an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers

a Spanish author novelist biographer and physician, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98

an avant-garde Belgian dramatist.. His works often deal with the extremes of human experience, from death and degradation to religious exaltation

a Swedish Romantic composer. He made his living as an orthopedist became more appreciated as a composer after his death than he had been in his lifetime.

an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.

a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright.