20th-century historians

Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)

Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)

President of Paraguay (1897-1966)

Senegalese and Guinean writer and historian (1932–2021)

Surinamese novelist

Burkinabé historian, politician and writer (1922-2006)

Maltese archaeologist, historian, medical doctor, academic, and writer (1864-1935)

Russian writer, poet, mystic (1906–1959)

Malian writer and historian (1938-1988)

Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (1881-1962)

Malian historian

African philosopher (1912-1981)

Algerian politician (1898-1983)

Ethiopian politician (1878–1938)

Burkinabe writer, poet, lawyer and museum curator

Crimean Tatar, folklorist

Congolese writer (1941 - 1985)

Kenyan historian (1929-2025)

South Korean writer

Jordanian historian (1919–2008)

Kyrgyzstani politician

Beninese writer and translator

Bosnian historian (1908-1990)

Mauritanian writer

Iraqi politician

Kenyan historian

South Korean historian (1924-2004)

American anthropologist

Paraguayan historian (1907-1989)

Tanzanian historian

Costa Rican politician, writer and historian

uzbek politician

Nicaraguan writer

Motswana politician (1932-2010)

Israeli historian (1932-2019)

Israeli academic

Somali polymath (1917–1980)

Tongan historian (1927-1995)

Honduran historian

Romanian historian

Ivorian historian, writer and politician