Princess Soraya Esfandiary the second wife of The Shah of Iran, 1950s

Astronaut David Scott stands in the open hatch of the Apollo 9 Command Module Gumdrop, 6 March 1969

Haile Selassie I – King of Ethiopia, Africa's last Emperor. He opposed the Italian invasion in World War II

Sima Izadjou, first Miss Iran in history, 1965

Lonnie Johnson. This NASA engineer invented the Super Soaker

Qiu Jin, a radical women’s rights activist. She became the first female martyr for China’s 1911 Revolution and is celebrated as a national heroine today

Charles Darwin, English naturalist. Proposed the theory of natural selection in evolution. Described as one of the most influential figures in human history

Andrea Motley Crabtree is the first female US Army deep sea diver

Two sports giants of the 20th Century. Heavyweight boxing champ, Joe Lewis and olympic athlete, Jesse Owens, 1935

David Unaipon was the first Australian Aboriginal writer to have a book published in Australia, 1929

Technician Ken Crow attaches a plaque bearing the names and signatures of the Apollo 16 crew to the front leg of the lunar module's descent stage, 10 April 1972

Thomas Edison spoke on the radio for the first time, May 19, 1926

Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, marking a seminal moment in the American civil rights movement, April 9, 1939

John Quincy Adams – 6th President of U.S. – son of John Adams (2nd President). He reportedly had the highest IQ of any American President

Isom Dart is one of those black cowboys whose adventures are often left untold. Born a slave in Arkansas and later freed by the Civil War he rode West

Queen of Iran Farah Pahlavi, amongst the Nomads of Persia

Jesse Owens was the most successful athlete at the 1936 Olympics, a victory more poignant and often noted because Adolf Hitler had intended the 1936 games to showcase his Aryan ideals and prowess

American poet Emily Dickinson. Her poems were published posthumously and received widespread literary praise for their bold and unconventional style

Astronaut Russell Schweickart, Lunar Module pilot, stands in "golden slippers" on the Lunar Module "Spider's" porch during his extravehicular activity, March 6, 1969

Dr. Goebbels is visiting wounded soldiers in a base hospital in Berlin, 1939