Howard H. Aiken was a 20th century mathematician and engineer who came up with the idea behind the Mark I, a forerunner to modern computing devices.
1900-1973
1912-2007
1895-1976
George Eastman invented the first Kodak camera, helping make photography accessible to the public. His company remains one of the largest in the industry.
1854-1932
Lucretia Garfield was the wife of President James Garfield and, thusly, first lady of the United States for nine months.
1832-1918
Peter Graves was an enormously successful film and TV actor. He is known for his role in Airplane! and for hosting A&E's signature series Biography.
1926-2010
Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activists who helped African Americans register to vote and who cofounded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
1917-1977
1902-1980
Film actress Susan Hayward earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for her role in Smash-Up, and later won for her performance in I Want to Live.
1917-1975
German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism.
1818-1883
1907-1997