Charles Addams was an American cartoonist whose work was frequently featured in The New Yorker. His most famous creation was the humorously macabre Addams Family.
W.H. Auden was a literary chameleon known for his poetry but who also wrote librettos, essays and verse dramas.
Tom Bradley was a lawyer and police officer who became the first African-American mayor of Los Angeles, serving from 1973 to 1993.
Charles of Blois was a rival duke of Brittany in the mid-1300s.
Willem Einthoven was a physiologist who discovered the electrical properties of the heart and developed the EKG.
Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements.
Lois Maxwell was an actress best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film series.
The work of Carson McCullers, author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding, is must-read southern gothic fiction.
Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam in 1967, but was forced to flee when his government surrendered to the North in 1975.