1844-1929
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, president and prime minister of Pakistan in the 1970s and father to Benazir Bhutto, founded the Pakistan People’s Party and was executed.
1928-1979
1791-1883
Roger Ebert was an American film critic best known as one half of the popular Siskel and Ebert film critic television show.
1942-2013
Barney Ewell was one of the leading sprinters of the 1940s, and won three medals at the 1948 Olympics.
1918-1996
1730-1774
James Hanratty was hanged in 1962 after being convicted of shooting a couple near London, but his guilt is still disputed.
1936-1962
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States (1841) and the first to die in office.
1773-1841
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
1929-1968
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a 20th century clergyman and U.S. representative who was a major force in establishing civil rights for African Americans.
1908-1972
Artist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth became the king of California custom car culture in the 1950s and '60s with his Beatnik Bandit model and characters like Rat Fink.
1932-2001
1834-1923