an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being credited as the inventor of radio,

a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history,

a German novelist, literary theorist and translator

an Italian ultra-nationalist, poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and army officer during World War I.

an English mathematician and biostatistician. Credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics, he founded the world's first university statistics department.

a French pharmacist and chemist. He was the discoverer of both chromium and beryllium.