Scientist Rosalind Franklin made the first clear X-ray images of DNA’s structure in 1951

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"

Audie Leon Murphy became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war

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

Francis Ford Coppola and his daughter Sophia on the set of "The Godfather: Part II", 1974

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 1928

Bobby Kennedy taking a break from brother John's 1960 presidential campaign

They were first cousins. Their mothers were sisters. They could almost pass as twins. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of England

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

Kay-bah-nung-we-way (aka John Smith) – Ojibwa. He lived to be 128 years of age, 1920

Houdini before his near fatal jump and escape from the icy water below the Queen Street bridge in Melbourne, Australia, 18 February 1910

Nasiruddin, Shah of Persia in regal attire, with his scimitar, 1880s

Roza Shanina in 1944, a Soviet sniper, credited with fifty-four confirmed hits, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his" — General George Patton

Captain Flora Sandes, the only British woman to serve as a front-line soldier in World War I

Alexandre Dumas père wrote The Three Musketeers in 1844. He is one of the most widely read French Authors and his works have been made into over 200 movies

Helmuth Hübener was one of the youngest opponents to the Third Reich. In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets

John Wilkes Booth was Abraham Lincoln's assassin and was an actor

The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Shah Pahlavi, poses with his son, Prince Reza, and wife, Farah, following his coronation in 1967