Google Doodle is honoring Max Born’s 135 birthday today. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist helped develop quantum mechanics -- a branch of physics that’s led to the development of many major technologies including lasers, computers and MRIs.

English author Virginia Woolf wrote modernist classics including 'Mrs. Dalloway' and 'To the Lighthouse,' as well as pioneering feminist texts, 'A Room of One's Own' and 'Three Guineas.'

James Joyce was an Irish, modernist writer who wrote in a ground-breaking style that was known both for its complexity and explicit content.

Count Dracula was Actor Bela Lugosi's most famous role. Lugosi played him in stage productions and in the 1931 Universal Pictures film Dracula.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to be elected four times. He led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II.

Influential Russian composer Igor Stravinsky created such famed works as 'The Rite of Spring,' 'Symphony in C' and 'The Rake's Progress.'

Lili Elbe was a transgender Danish painter who was among the first-ever documented recipients of sex reassignment surgery.

Arnold Rothstein was a Jewish-American mob boss who inspired a character in 'The Great Gatsby' and was portrayed in the HBO series 'Boardwalk Empire.'

English writer A.A. Milne is best known for his children's stories about the adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Charles Ponzi was best known for the financial crimes he committed when he conned investors into giving him millions of dollars, and paid them returns with other investors' money.

N.C. Wyeth was a U.S. painter and illustrator known for the art he provided for titles like Treasure Island, The Last of the Mohicans and The Yearling.

Leopold Stokowski was a composer and organist whose strong advocacy of new music did much to broaden American musical taste.

Rose Schneiderman was a labor activist, union leader and social reformer. She held labor-related positions in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration during the Great Depression.

Corruption-fighting politician Fiorello La Guardia was New York City's mayor from 1934 to 1945. He also served in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser capitalized on U.S. mobilization for WWII and grew his ship building company into a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Artist Edward Hopper was the painter behind the iconic late-night diner scene Nighthawks (1942), among other celebrated works. 

American physicist Robert H. Goddard built the world's first liquid-fueld rocket in 1926 and is best known as the founding father of modern rocketry.

Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter was a noted law scholar who served as the high court's leading exponent of the doctrine of judicial self-restraint.

As literary editor for The Crisis, Jessie Fauset supported many new voices during the Harlem Renaissance. She also authored novels, essays and poems.

Irish revolutionary Eamon de Valera (1882-1975) was the head of Sinn Féin, and the third president of an independent Ireland.

Georges Braque was a 20th century French painter best known for inventing Cubism with Pablo Picasso.

American actor John Barrymore, called “The Great Profile,” is remembered for his roles as a debonair leading man and for his interpretations of Shakespeare.

Robert Hichens was a British mariner best known for being at the wheel of the RMS Titanic when it hit the iceberg that resulted in its sinking.

Controversial Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas seized power after leading a revolution in 1938.