Civil rights activist Ella Baker worked with the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Bing Crosby sang such hit songs as the ever-popular holiday classic "White Christmas." The beloved crooner was also a star of radio, movies and television.

Bob Hope was a entertainer and comic actor, known for his rapid-fire delivery of jokes and for his success in virtually all entertainment media.

Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig played for the New York Yankees in the 1920s and 1930s, setting the mark for consecutive games played. He died of ALS in 1941.

George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic most famous for his novels 'Animal Farm' (1945) and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949).

Eliot Ness was a law enforcement official in Chicago, best known for his efforts to enforce Prohibition as head of 'The Untouchables.'

Soviet spy William Fisher, a.k.a. Rudolf Abel, was convicted of espionage in the U.S. in 1957 and later exchanged for imprisoned American Francis Gary Powers.

Writer Countee Cullen was an iconic figure of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his poetry, fiction and plays.

English writer Evelyn Waugh is regarded by many as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day. His works include 'The Loved One' and 'Brideshead Revisited.'

John Dillinger was an infamous gangster and bank robber during the Great Depression. He was known as "Jackrabbit" and "Public Enemy No. 1."

Louis Leakey, with wife Mary, was a famed paleoanthropologist who greatly contributed to world knowledge about humanity’s early ancestors.

Marc Rothko is best known as one of the central figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art in the 1950s and '60s.

Tunku Abdul Rahman was chief minister of the Federation of Malaya (1955–1957), the first prime minister of an independent Malaya (1957–1963), and the prime minister of Malaysia (1963–1970).