Annie Jump Cannon was a pioneering astronomer responsible for the classification of hundreds of thousands of stars.
Franz Ferdinand's assassination on June 28, 1914, at the hand of a Serbian terrorist group the "Black Hand," led to the beginning of World War I.
One of America's foremost industrialists, Henry Ford revolutionized assembly-line modes of production for the automobile.
William Randolph Hearst is best known for publishing the largest chain of American newspapers in the late 19th century, and particularly for sensational "yellow journalism."
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter who has become widely known for his iconic pre-Expressionist painting The Scream.
Charles Ringling co-founded the Ringling Bros., and later co-owned the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian stage actor and director who developed the naturalistic performance technique known as the "Stanislavsky method," or method acting.
Mary Church Terrell was a charter member of the NAACP and an early advocate for civil rights and the suffrage movement.