Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a revolutionary who helped establish the Republic of Turkey. He was Turkey's first president, and his reforms modernized the country.
1881-1938
Arthur Davidson was one of the four founders of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company.
1881-1950
1881-1954
Cecil B. DeMille was an actor, director and producer who became a giant of the 20th century film industry, known for epics like The Ten Commandments.
1881-1959
Alexander Fleming was a doctor and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1945.
1881-1955
1881-1953
1881-1934
1881-1957
1881-1955
Anna Pavlova was a famous Russian prima ballerina and choreographer. The company she founded in 1911 was the first to tour ballet around the world.
1881-1931
Spanish expatriate Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism.
1881-1973
British social anthropologist A.R. Radcliffe-Brown had a profound impact on British and American social anthropology through his version of Functionalism.
1881-1955
Branch Rickey was an innovative baseball executive known for his groundbreaking 1945 decision to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, thereby breaking the color barrier.
1881-1965
Washington Roebling was an engineer and a notable victim of the Titanic disaster.
1881-1912
1881-1946
1881-1975
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian writer and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
1881-1942