Roger Fenton was a British photographer best known for his 1855 documentation of the ravages of the war in Crimea.
Jean Foucault was a French physicist and inventor best known for inventing the Foucault pendulum.
Inventor Elias Howe patented his plans for the first practical sewing machine in 1846, and successfully sued Isaac Singer for the rights in 1854.
Herman Melville wrote the classic American novel Moby-Dick (1851), a whaling adventure which regarded as one of the greatest literary works of all time.
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-born detective and founder of a famous American private detective agency, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Prince Albert married his first cousin, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, at the age of 20, and after his untimely death at age 42, the queen's memory of him guided her for the next 40 years.
Queen Victoria was queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901—the longest reign of any other British monarch in history.
Julia Ward Howe was a women's rights activist, abolitionist and writer who penned the poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in the history of American literature.