Marshal Georgy Zhukov, "father" of the Soviet victory over the Nazi in 1945

Colonel James Stewart receives the Croix de Guerre from the French government for his military service in Europe. He served with the US Army Air Force from 1941 – 1945

Winston Churchill as a Subaltern in the 4th Hussars, February 1895

During his teens, Stephen Hawking, along with several friends, constructed a computer out of recycled parts for solving rudimentary mathematical equations

Murad V is deposed as sultan of the Ottoman Empire, just 93 days after he became sultan, August 31, 1876

Peter Tazelaar, Dutch resistance fighter, original inspiration for James Bond, May 2, 1945

Ed White became the first American astronaut to walk in space. His "walk" lasted 23 minutes and he remained tethered to the space capsule for the duration, June 3, 1965

Ruth Law, bought her first airplane from Orville Wright in 1912 at age 21. First woman to do a loop-de-loop. First woman authorized to wear a uniform by the US Military

Lenin and Stalin in Gorky. Stalin with pockmarks, 1922

From left to right: Nernst, Einstein, Planck, Millikan and von Laue at a dinner given by von Laue in Berlin on November 11, 1931

Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was one of the most influential exponents of Art Nouveau, the movement which spread throughout Europe in the late 19th Century

Dr. Lisa Randall is the most cited theoretical physicist in the world

Barack Obama with mother Ann Dunham, 1985

Marlene Dietrich making one of the first transatlantic telephone calls from Hollywood to her daughter in Berlin, 1930

Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB then General Secretary of the Soviet Government from November 1982 until his death from kidney failure in February 1984

The Beatles reading fan mail, 1964

Last queen of Rwanda, Rosalie Gicanda, married King Mutara Rudahigwa in 1942

Franz Kafka in 1888 at the age of 5

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was taking selfies in 1914

Bert Williams, Vaudeville comedian and the best-selling black recording artist before 1920