1888-1957
Philo T. Farnsworth was an American inventor best known as a pioneer of television technology.
1906-1971
Alexander Fleming was a doctor and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1945.
1881-1955
A popular film actress of the 1940s and 1950s, Betty Hutton starred in such films as Annie Get Your Gun and Greatest Show on Earth.
1921-2007
Victor Lustig was a con artist who became known at "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower."
1890-1947
Slobodan Milosevic was a politician best known as the Serbian and Yugoslavian president in the late 1980s through the '90s. After losing power in 2000, he was charged for crimes against humanity.
1941-2006
Silent film director F.W. Murnau created the first major vampire film with 1924's Nosferatu, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stroker.
1888-1931
1889-1970
Charles Sumner was a U.S. Representative best known an anti-slavery advocate who authored the nation’s first civil rights legislation.
1811-1874
1783-1820
1921-1971