Noble Prize winner Alexander Fleming was a great Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who made way for antibiotic medicines with his discovery of penicillin from the mould "Penicillium notatum"
Grigory Rasputin was the infamous "holy man" whose ability to heal the Tsar and Tsarina's son Alexis led to his being adopted as a supreme mystic at court, 1900
Henry Ford with his first car in 1896. After more than two years of experimentation, Ford, at the age of 32, had completed his first experimental automobile
Albert Ball, decorated British flying ace during World War I. Died at the age of 20 while pursuing the brother of the infamous Red Baron through a cloudbank
Civil War Veteran Jacob Miller of the 9th Indiana Infantry was shot in the forehead, 19 Sep 1863. He survived the shot, later writing that he had a constant reminder of the Chickamauga Battlefield
Orli Wald was a member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany. She was arrested in 1936. Because of her helpfulness to Jewish and other prisoners, was called the "Angel of Auschwitz"
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in Algeria. Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts
Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker. She helped save 2 500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them with false documents and sheltering them in children’s homes