Lord Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and is best known for his amorous lifestyle and his brilliant use of the English language.
French physicist Pierre Curie was of founding fathers of modern physics and is best known for being a pioneer in radioactive studies.
Charles Darwin is best known for his work as a naturalist, developing a theory of evolution to explain biological change.
Dame Daphne du Maurier was a novelist and playwright whose famous works Rebecca and The Birds were made into films by Alfred Hitchcock.
Musician and singer Levon Helm was a member of the influential rock group, The Band, and a Grammy Award-winning solo artist.
African-American chemist Percy Julian was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs such as cortisone, steroids and birth control pills.
Mohammad Ayub Khan was president of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969, giving birth to modern-day Pakistan. He introduced a system of basic democracies in 1960.
Cult leader David Koresh led the Branch Davidians in a deadly 51-day stand-off against the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Robert II was king of Scotland from 1371 to 1390, and is best known for his largely ineffectual reign.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, along with brother Dzhokhar, was named a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013. He was fatally shot by police officers four days later.