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Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan: 1915-1959), an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter, nicknamed "Lady Day". Photo by C...
The German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, oil on canvas, 1820
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), photo by Harris and Ewing, 1932
T E Lawrence (Thomas Edward Lawrence: 1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia. Photograph by Lowell Thomas, 1919
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) in Brookly Dodgers uniform, 1950. Robinson was the first black player in Major League Baseball.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) and Anne Sullivan. Phototgraph of the deaf-blind author and political activist with her teach and co...
Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler: 1914-2000), publicity photograph of the Austrian born American actress taken for film ...
Frida Kahlo de Rivera (1907-1954), the Mexican painter, photographed in 1932 by Guillermo Kahlo
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). Portrait of the Welsh poet and playwright by Rosalie Thorne McKenna
Archimedes (c. 287-c.212 BC). Engraving of the Greek mathematician from around 1584
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), the Scottish scientist famous for the discovery of penicillin. Photo taken between 1939 an...
Ada Lovelace. Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 1815-1852), an English mathematician and writer, chiefl...
Daguerrotype of 12th US President Zachary Taylor, c 1843-5
Wright brothers first powered fligh in the Wright Flyer at Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on 17th December 1903...
British Prime Minister Sir Wiinston Churchill, c.1942
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the USA, c.1907
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the USA, c.1907
Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, US Pesident Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, meeting at the "B...
The title page of William Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, with copper engraving of the author by Martin Droeshout
The Russian religious mystic and faith healer, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, who wielded great influence in the court of Tsar ...
Image of Earth taken on July 29, 2015 by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image is...
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, hanging in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking at an anti-war demonstration in New York City, 1967
Karl Marx, the German born socialist philosopher, economist and writer. Photo c.1875
Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527
Thomas Cromwell. Portrait of Sir Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532
General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the...
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the bison hunter, scout and showman. Photo c.1880
Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, c.1785
Bodies of dead Federal soldiers on the battlefield at Gettysburg after the first day's battle, American Civil War, July 1863....
Simone de Beauvoir. Portrait of the French writer and philosopher, Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (1908-19...
Sigmund Freud. Portrait of the Austrian psychoanalyist, Sigismund Schlomo Freud (1856- 1939) by Max Halberstadt, 1921
Olaudah Equiano. Portrait of the writer and abolitionist known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (c. 1745-1797) by Dani...
Malcolm X. Portrait of the Muslim human rights activist Malcolm X ( b. Malcolm Little, 1925-1965), photo by World Telegram & ...
Hannah Arendt. Portrait of the German-born American political theorist, Hannah Arendt (b. Johanna Arendt, 1906-1975), in 1933
Claudette Colvin (b.1939). Portrait of the pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement, taken in 1954. On March 2, 1955, she ...
Alfred Hitchcock. Portrait of the English film director, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980), studio publicity shot
Mata Hari. Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (1876-1917), known by the stage name Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and cour...
Albert Einstein, c.1947
W E B Du Bois. Portrait of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) by James E. Purdy, 1907. Du Bois was an American soci...
The Mask of Tutankhamun; c. 1327 BC;
Joseph Stalin, Premier and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Portrait of Sojourner Truth (born Isabella "Belle" Baumfree c. 1797-1883) by the studio of Mathew Brady, c.1864.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b.1933) testifying at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committ...
Rabindranath Tagore (born Robindronath Thakur, 1861-1941), portrait of the Bengali artist, painter and composer, c.1916
Qin Shi Huang (259 BC-210 BC). Portrait of the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China, 19th cent...
Mug shot of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, taken in Medellin in 1976
Josef Mengele. Photograph of Richard Baer, Josef Mengele and Rudolf Höss at Auschwitz in 1944
Marilyn Monroe with billowing skirt. Iconic shot of the American actress taken in 1954, whilst whe was filming The Seven Year...
US President Richard Nixon shaking hands with Chinese communist party chairman Mao Zedong. The photo was taken during Nixon's...