American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century.

A new exhibition at the Dali Museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida, plays tribute the friendship and influence of the painter and fashion designer. Dali is seen as one of the founders of the Surrealist art movement with his "paranoiac-critical method."

Irving Berlin was one of the most prolific and popular songwriters of the 20th century, counting among his many hits "White Christmas" and "Cheek to Cheek."

In celebration of "I Love Lucy Day" on October 15, learn more about America's favorite redhead and her pioneering role in comedy.

Gilda Radner was an award-winning actress and comedian known for her work on 'Saturday Night Live.' She was married to fellow comedian Gene Wilder.

Nicolae Ceausescu was the leader of Communist Romania for more than two decades until his execution in 1989.

Laurence Olivier was one of the most acclaimed actors of the 20th century, known for his numerous Shakespeare roles on stage and screen as well as memorable turns in more modern classics.

Alvin Ailey was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York in 1958.

Bette Davis is remembered as one of Hollywood's legendary leading ladies, famous for her larger-than-life persona and for her nearly 100 film appearances.

Andrei Sakharov was a leading physicist in the development of the Soviet atomic bomb. He was also an ardent critic of the Soviet nuclear-arms program and the regime’s lack of political freedom.

20th century Irish novelist, playwright and poet Samuel Beckett penned the play Waiting for Godot. In 1969, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Considered one of the greatest boxers of all time, Sugar Ray Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and by 1958, he had become the first boxer to win a divisional world championship five times.

John Cassavetes was an Oscar-nominated actor and director best known for creating influential films like ‘Faces,’ ‘Husbands’ and ‘A Woman Under the Influence.’

Jim Backus was a film and TV actor known for his roles in Rebel Without a Cause and Gilligan’s Island, as well as being the voice of Mr. Magoo.

Hirohito was Japan's longest-reigning emperor, holding the throne from 1926 to 1989. He was a controversial figure who announced Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945.

Ayatollah Khomeini became the supreme religious leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, following many years of resistance to Shah Pahlavi.

As a fashion journaist who worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, Diana Vreeland was an influential figure in American fashion during the 20th century.

Barbara Tuchman, American historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is best known for writing The Guns of August and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45.

American poet Robert Penn Warren was one of the founders of New Criticism and is the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry.

Virgil Thomson was a composer, conductor and musical critic known for his work in opera.

William B. Shockley was an engineer and co-winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor, considered one of the greatest breakthroughs in technological history.

Sir Anthony Quayle was a revered actor of stage and screen known for work that included Hamlet, Lawrence of Arabia and Anne of the Thousand Days.

Scientist Hermann Oberth was an influential figure in modern astronautics with his trailblazing ideas on rocket flight.

Known for running a corrupt, undemocratic regime, Ferdinand Marcos was the president of the Philippines from 1966 to 1986 before fleeing to the United States.