Juliette Gordon Low is best known as the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.

(1860–1927)

Sally Hemings was an enslaved African American woman who’s believed to have had several children with one-time U.S. president Thomas Jefferson.

(c. 1773–1835)

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Aviator Charles Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927.

(1902–1974)

Otto Frank, 90, is shown in London, England, for the 50th anniversary tribute to his daughter Anne Frank, Tuesday, May 15, 1979. Frank still has to battle in court to defend the authenticity of his daughter's diary's from attacks by Nazi sympathizers. (AP Photo)

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Jewish businessman Otto Frank hid his family during the Holocaust and published daughter Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl' after his release from Auschwitz.

(1889–1980)

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Philanthropist and activist Molly Brown was best known for her social welfare work on behalf of women, children and workers. She was also a survivor of the sinking of the 'Titanic.'

(1867–1932)

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Eva Braun was the mistress and later the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun and Hitler killed themselves on April 30, 1945, the day after their wedding—a decided alternative to falling into the hands of enemy troops.

(1912–1945)

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Pocahontas, later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Native American who assisted English colonists during their first years in Virginia.

(c. 1595–c. 1617)

Newton Knight Photo via Wikicommons and MS History Now

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Newton Knight, a white Mississippi farmer, led armed opposition to the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War, creating “The Free State of Jones,” a county that supported the Union in the war.

(1837–1922)

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Johnny Appleseed is a folk hero based on frontier nurseryman John Chapman, who established orchards throughout the American Midwest.

(1774–c. 1845)

epa01986514 (FILES) A file photo dated 3 June 1986 of Miep Gies holding the original Diary of Anne Frank. Giess, the office secretary who defied the Nazi occupiers to hide Anne Frank and her family for two years and saved the teenager's diary, died 11 January 2010, aged 100. EPA/STF

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Hermine Santruschitz Gies, better known as Miep Gies, helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, and saved her diaries.

(1909–2010)

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Captain Edward J. Smith played a role in one of the most famous disasters at sea in history, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

(1850–1912)

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Millvina Dean was the youngest of the 705 survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and lived to be the last survivor.

(1912–2009)

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Mileva Einstein-Maric was the first wife of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein.

(c. 1875–c. 1948)

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Elsa Einstein was physicist Albert Einstein's second wife, supporting his work, nursing him back to health, and moving with him from Germany to the United States in 1933.