Jim Henson was an American puppeteer best known for creating TV characters, including the Muppets, and for his work on the popular children's show Sesame Street.

• Screenwriter, Inventor, Filmmaker
  (1936–1990)

Canadian-American actor Phil Hartman is best known for his performances on Saturday Night Live.

• Film Actor, Screenwriter, Comedian, Television Actor
  (1948–1998)

American short-story writer and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his turbulent personal life and his famous novel 'The Great Gatsby.'

• Author
  (1896–1940)

Blind Lemon Jefferson was best known for his singing and song writing as a blues guitarist.

• Guitarist, Singer
  (1893–1929)

Severo Ochoa was a Spanish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who was co-awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an enzyme that enables the synthesis of RNA.

• Academic, Chemist, Scientist
  (1905–1993)

African-American jazz trumpet virtuoso Fats Navarro was one of the founders of bebop. He struggled with a heroin addiction and tuberculosis.

• Trumpet Player, Saxophonist
  (1923–1950)

John Marshall became the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1801. He is largely responsible for establishing the Supreme Court's role in federal government.

• Supreme Court Justice
  (1755–1835)

Jim McKay was an Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and sportscaster known for his Olympics coverage and hosting duties on Wide World of Sports.

• Journalist, Television Personality
  (1921–2008)

Linda McCartney was a photographer who became widely known as the wife of Beatle Paul McCartney.

• Photographer, Animal Rights Activist
  (1941–1998)

Lou Dobbs is a conservative television journalist, business writer and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight.

• Journalist, News Anchor
  (1945–)

Poet and orator Frances E.W. Harper, the child of two free black parents, publicly advocated for abolition and education through speeches and publications.

• Poet
  (1825–1911)

Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier blazed a trail in the 1940s and '50s for African-American academics who studied black culture.

• Sociologist
  (1894–1962)