Silvio Piola

Silvio Berlusconi

Entrepreneur · Mediaset · media

1936–2023 · Italy

$6.8Bolder estimate, as of 2023 · Forbes

Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.

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Erivan Haub

Entrepreneur

1932–2018 · Germany

$6.4Bolder estimate, as of March 2018 · Forbes

Erivan Karl Matthias Haub was a German billionaire businessman, and the managing director and part owner of Tengelmann Group, one of Germany's largest retailers. At the time of his death in March 2018, his net worth was estimated at US$6.4 billion.

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Ian McShane

Actor

1942 · United Kingdom

Ian David McShane is an English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy, Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021).

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Enrico Fermi

Inventor

1901–1954 · United States

Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.

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Lech Wałęsa

Politician

1943 · Poland

Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995.

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Jon Fosse

Author

1959 · Norway

Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."

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