Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity, an achievement for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm was a stage actor and well-known figure in English theater. He both managed and produced several plays in London including Charles Dickens and Shakespearean classics.
Calamity Jane was a woman of the Wild West who was respected for her talent with a gun and kindness toward others.
Charles W. Fairbanks was a U.S. attorney and senator who was the country’s 26th vice president under Theodore Roosevelt.
Antoni Gaudí was a Barcelona-based Spanish architect whose free-flowing works were greatly influenced by nature.
Irish dramatist Lady Gregory, also known as Isabella Augusta, collaborated with William Butler Yeats and J.M. Synge to found the Irish National Theater and the Abbey Theater company.
I.L. Peretz was a Jewish author who gained fame after writing folktales, ballads and plays about the ideals of Judaism.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish histologist and professor whose work led to the discovery of neurons.