One of America's best-loved comediennes, Gracie Allen developed the Burns and Allen weekly radio program with husband George Burns.
1905-1964
Le Corbusier was a Swiss-born French architect who belonged to the first generation of the so-called International school of architecture.
1887-1965
1598-1664
W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most important African-American activists during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and supported Pan-Africanism.
1868-1963
During his career, jurist Charles Hughes became the governor of New York, U.S. secretary of state and the 11th Supreme Court justice.
1862-1948
Garrett Morgan blazed a trail for African-American inventors with his many patents, including those for a hair-straightening product, a breathing device, and an improved sewing machine and traffic signal.
1877-1963
Nicholas II was pope of the Holy Roman Empire from 1059 to 1061. His reforms included the official ban on clerical marriage.
990-1061
1901-1958
Janie Porter Barrett was a social worker and reformer who established a school for previously incarcerated African-American girls.
1865-1948
Emperor Haile Selassie I worked to modernize Ethiopia for several decades before famine and political opposition forced him from office in 1974.
1892-1975
Brandon Tartikoff was the president of NBC Television during its rise to the top from 1980 till 1991.
1949-1997
A preeminent bluesman, award-winning guitarist and singer Stevie Ray Vaughan earned critical and commercial success during the 1980s.
1954-1990