Born on September 29

François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman, and engraver, a leading figure of the Rococo style. First Painter to King Louis XV and protégé of the Marquise de Pompadour, he embodied the refined, gallant art of the 18th century.

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was a British admiral and hero of the Napoleonic Wars. His decisive victory at Trafalgar in 1805, where he was killed, secured the United Kingdom's naval supremacy for more than a century.

Spanish writer and philosopher, a major figure of the Generation of '98. Rector of the University of Salamanca, in his work he explores existential anguish and the “tragic sense of life.”

Italian physicist (1901–1954), Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938. He achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942 and was one of the fathers of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.

A major Italian filmmaker of the post-war era, Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) reinvented the language of cinema by exploring the inability to communicate and the existential emptiness of modern life. His films break with classical storytelling in favor of dead time and visual composition.

An electrician at the Gdańsk shipyards who became the leader of the independent trade union Solidarność, the first free trade union in the Soviet bloc. A major figure in the fall of communism in Poland, he was elected the first president of the Polish Republic by universal suffrage (1990-1995).

Michelle Bachelet, born in 1951 in Chile, is a physician and politician who became the first female president of Chile (2006–2010, then 2014–2018). A human rights activist, she also led UN Women and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.