Robert Adamson was a Scottish chemist and photographer who is best known for producing 2500 Calotype photographic prints with painter David Octavius Hill.
1821-1848
John James Audubon was an American ornithologist, artist and naturalist known for his studies, drawings and paintings of North American birds.
1785-1851
As Emperor of Rome from 161-180, Marcus Aurelius kept the empire safe from the Parthians and Germans, but is best known for his intellectual pursuits.
121-180
Carol Burnett is a comedian and actress who had a long-running sketch and variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, in the 1960s and '70s.
1933-
Marie de' Medici is best known for serving as queen consort of Henry IV of France.
1575-1642
Eugène Delacroix, considered one of the greatest French Romantic painters, was influential in the development of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.
1798-1863
Adolf Hitler appointed Rudolf Hess deputy of the Nazi party in 1939. Following World War II, Hess was convicted at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to life in prison.
1894-1987
Comedian and actor Kevin James is best known for his nine-season turn as Doug Heffernan on the CBS sitcom, The King of Queens.
1965-
Jet Li is an actor and martial artist who has starred in a number of Chinese and English-language action films.
1963-
Former Army soldier Jessica Lynch was held captive by Iraqi soldiers at Saddam Hospital in Nasiriya then rescued by U.S. troops. A media firestorm followed.
1983-
Bernard Malamud was an American writer known for his novels and short stories of the Jewish-American life in the first half of the 20th century.
1914-1986
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted helped design many U.S. public parks. His first project was Central Park in New York City.
1822-1903
I.M. Pei is a Chinese-born American architect, perhaps best known for his controversial glass pyramid in the courtyard at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
1917-
1886-1939
Channing Tatum is an American actor who's starred in films like Coach Carter, 21 Jump Street and Dear John.
1980-
1943-