a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test.

an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman. Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"

a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light

an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays

a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.