A child from an Italian immigrant family, Al Capone, also known as "Scarface," rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit, an organized crime syndicate during the Prohibition era.

One of America's foremost industrialists, Henry Ford revolutionized assembly-line modes of production for the automobile.

Swedish businessman and diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is best known for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II.

When Frances Cleveland married Grover Cleveland, she became the youngest first lady ever and the first to be married in the White House.

Iconic mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel built the Flamingo casino in Las Vegas, igniting an era of glamour, gambling and gangsters in the desert.

Maxwell Perkins was an influential editor who worked with such authors as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.

Nicknamed "the Black Dahlia," Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered in Los Angeles in 1947, her body cut in half and severely mutilated. The Black Dahlia's killer was never found, making her murder one of the oldest cold case files in L.A. to date, and the city's most famous.

Victor Lustig was a con artist who became known at "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower."

British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s Treatise on Universal Algebra extended Boolean symbolic logic. He received the Order of Merit.

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.

George II was the king of Greece twice, from 1922 to 1924 and 1935 to 1947. Ioannis Metaxas seized power in 1936, claiming communists threatened Greece.

William C. Durant was an American industrialist who founded General Motors.

Anton Denikin was a decorated Russian general who became leader of the White Army against Vladimir Lenin's Red Army forces.

Women’s rights activist and suffragette Carrie Chapman Catt came up with the “Winning Plan” to pass the 19th amendment in 1920.

Willa Cather was a writer of poetry and novels known for such works as O Pioneers! and My Antonia.

Stanley Baldwin was a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister three times between 1923 and 1937.

James Larkin was an Irish labor organizer and activist who founded the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union.

Blind Willie Johnson was a singer who performed on Southern streets, noted for the power of his singing and for his ingenious guitar parts.