Juliette Gordon Low is the founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.

• Philanthropist
  (1860–1927)

Barbara Jordan was a U.S. congressional representative from Texas and was the first African American congresswoman to come from the Deep South.

• U.S. Representative, Civil Rights Activist
  (1936–1996)

Murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by a volunteer firing squad in 1977. His death inspired Norman Mailer’s nonfiction book 'The Executioner’s Song.'

• Murderer, Criminal, Thief
  (1940–1977)

Bobby Fischer was a record-setting chess master who became the youngest player to win the U.S. Chess Championship at 14, and the first American-born player to win the World Chess Championship.

• Chess Player, Author
  (1943–2008)

Zhao Ziyang was a Chinese politician and prime minister best known for introducing radical and successful market-oriented reforms to his country's economic system in the 1970s and '80s.

• (1919–2005)

Son of Tiffany & Co. founder Charles Tiffany, Louis Tiffany was an internationally renowned glass maker and a leader of the Art Nouveau movement.

• Artist
  (1848–1933)

Johnny Otis was a bandleader, drummer, vibraphonist, singer, producer and promoter who discovered artists like Etta James, Jackie Wilson and Big Mama Thornton.

• (1921–2012)

Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the United States and oversaw the end of the rebuilding efforts of the Reconstruction.

• U.S. President, U.S. Representative, Military Leader, Governor, Lawyer
  (1822–1893)

Francis Galton was an English explorer and anthropologist best known for his research in eugenics and human intelligence. He was the first to study the effects of human selective mating.

• Inventor, Scientist, Explorer, Anthropologist
  (1822–1911)

Gregory Corso was a troubled youth who spent time in prison and grew up to become one of the leading voices of the Beat poetry movement.

• Poet
  (1930–2001)

Art Buchwald is known for writing humor columns for Paris newspaper The Herald Tribune, and for winning a Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982.

• Journalist
  (1925–2007)

George Bancroft was known as the "father of U.S. history." His work, History of the United States, was the first comprehensive study of U.S. History.

• Historian, Journalist
  (1800–1891)

English writer T.H. White became known for his series of novels about King Arthur, which were collected together in The Once and Future King (1958).

• Author, Educator, Poet, Journalist
  (1906–1964)

Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, calling for national unity and overall African independence.

• Prime Minister, Civil Servant, Activist
  (1925–1961)