With her trademark suits and little black dresses, fashion designer Coco Chanel created timeless designs that are still popular today.

Ralph Bunche was a Nobel Peace Prize–winning academic and U.N. diplomat known for his peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East, Africa and the Mediterranean.

Louis Armstrong was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian. Considered one of the most influential artists in jazz history, he is known for songs like "Star Dust," "La Via En Rose" and "What a Wonderful World."

The most decorated U.S. soldier of World War II, Audie Murphy returned home a hero and became an actor, starring in his own story, To Hell and Back.

Jim Morrison was the charismatic singer and songwriter for the 1960 rock group the Doors until his death in Paris at age 27.

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

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.

Nathan Leopold is best known for teaming with Richard Loeb to murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924, with a resulting trial that spared them both the death penalty.

Edie Sedgwick was a socialite and model who became a muse to Andy Warhol in the 1960s.

Army nurse Florence Blanchfield is best known for her struggle to attain full military rank, and for equal rights in the military.

Joseph Valachi was a part of Lucky Luciano's mob family from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Civil rights leader Whitney Young Jr., head of the National Urban League, was at the forefront of racial integration and African-American economic empowerment.

Ogden Nash published more than 20 collections of humorous poetry. His first collection, Hard Lines, was published in 1931.

Comedian Harold Lloyd was a star of silent film era, appearing in notable movies Just Nuts, Girl Shy and The Freshman.

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev publicized Stalin's crimes, was a major player in the Cuban Missile Crisis and established a more open form of Communism in the USSR.

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentinian doctor whose research on the role of pituitary hormones regulating blood sugar won him a Nobel Prize.

John Jacob Astor V, the fifth member of the American Astor family to bear the name John Jacob, became owner and chairman of The Times of London in 1922.

Photographer Diane Arbus's distinctive portraits showed the world how crazy (and beautiful) New Yorkers were in the 1950s and '60s. She was married to actor Allan Arbus.

In 1897, Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to a newspaper asking whether Santa Claus existed, to which she received the iconic response, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."

Slide guitar great Duane Allman cofounded The Allman Brothers Band and recorded with artists like Wilson Pickett and Eric Clapton.

Philo T. Farnsworth was an American inventor best known as a pioneer of television technology.

One of the first African-American college football stars, Kenny Washington was one of two black athletes to reintegrate the NFL in 1946.