Earnest Everett Just was an African-American biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially in fertilization.

James D. Watson is a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and researcher credited with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.

Ed Asner is an American actor best known as gruff-but-lovable newsman Lou Grant, who debuted on the television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Eliot Ness was a law enforcement official in Chicago, best known for his efforts to enforce Prohibition as head of 'The Untouchables.'

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

Actress Danica McKellar played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years.' She has also written a series of best-selling books about math, including 'Math Doesn't Suck.'

Philip Glass is an Oscar-nominated avant-garde composer whose notable works include 'Einstein on the Beach,' 'The Hours' and 'Notes on a Scandal.'

Carl Sagan was probably the most well-known scientist of the 1970s and 1980s. He studied extraterrestrial intelligence, advocated for nuclear disarmament, and co-wrote and hosted 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.'

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.

Euphemia Lofton Haynes became the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1943.

Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer and secretary of war best known as the first-born son of President Abraham Lincoln.

John Scopes is best known as the Tennessee educator found guilty of breaking the law for teaching evolution in his class room.

Astronomer Edwin Hubble revolutionized the field of astrophysics. His research helped prove that the universe is expanding, and he created a classification system for galaxies that has been used for several decades.

Katharine Graham was America’s first female Fortune 500 CEO. As the renowned publisher of 'The Washington Post,' she guided the newspaper to national prominence, most notably when it published The Pentagon Papers and reported on the Watergate scandal.

Roger Ebert was an American film critic best known as one half of the popular Siskel and Ebert film critic television show.