Matthew Henson was an African American explorer best known as the co-discoverer of the North Pole with Robert Edwin Peary in 1909.
Danish silversmith Georg Jensen was one of the first people to use steel for cutlery and recognize modern silverware as profitable.
Russian-born painter Wassily Kandinsky is credited as a leader in avant-garde art as one of the founders of pure abstraction in painting in the early 20th century.
Ramsay MacDonald was the first Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in Labour governments and the national coalition government.
John Ringling co-founded the Ringling Bros., and later co-owned the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Anne Sullivan was a teacher who, at age 21, taught Helen Keller, who was deaf, mute, and blind, how to communicate and read Braille.
H.G. Wells was a writer of science-fiction works—including The Time Machine and War of the Worlds—who had a great influence on our vision of the future.