Born on June 12

Austrian painter, draughtsman and lithographer, a major figure of Viennese Expressionism. A pupil and protégé of Gustav Klimt, he developed a raw and tormented style centered on the body and self-portraiture, before dying of the Spanish flu at the age of 28.

Italian astrophysicist born in Florence in 1922, she directed the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste for thirty years. A pioneer of stellar spectroscopy and a gifted science communicator, she made astronomy accessible to the general public.

Anne Frank (1929-1945) was a young Dutch-Jewish girl whose diary, written in hiding during the Nazi occupation, became a poignant testimony of the Holocaust. She died in deportation at Bergen-Belsen, and her work remains a major source for understanding persecution and humanity in the face of horror.