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June

Miles Davis. Portrait of the American Jazz trumpeter, Miles Dewey Davis III (1926-1991) at the Three Deuces, New York, 1947. ...
Rita Hayworth. Portrait of the American actress and dancer, Rita Hayworth (b. Margarita Carmen Cansino, 1918-1987), studio pu...
Albert Einstein, c.1947
Mata Hari. Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (1876-1917), known by the stage name Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and cour...
Olaudah Equiano. Portrait of the writer and abolitionist known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (c. 1745-1797) by Dani...
Hannah Arendt. Portrait of the German-born American political theorist, Hannah Arendt (b. Johanna Arendt, 1906-1975), in 1933
Sigmund Freud. Portrait of the Austrian psychoanalyist, Sigismund Schlomo Freud (1856- 1939) by Max Halberstadt, 1921
Malcolm X. Portrait of the Muslim human rights activist Malcolm X ( b. Malcolm Little, 1925-1965), photo by World Telegram & ...
Alfred Hitchcock. Portrait of the English film director, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980), studio publicity shot
Claudette Colvin (b.1939). Portrait of the pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement, taken in 1954. On March 2, 1955, she ...
Simone de Beauvoir. Portrait of the French writer and philosopher, Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (1908-19...
Bodies of dead Federal soldiers on the battlefield at Gettysburg after the first day's battle, American Civil War, July 1863....
Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, c.1785
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the bison hunter, scout and showman. Photo c.1880
General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the...
Thomas Cromwell. Portrait of Sir Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532
Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527
Karl Marx, the German born socialist philosopher, economist and writer. Photo c.1875
Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking at an anti-war demonstration in New York City, 1967
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, hanging in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Image of Earth taken on July 29, 2015 by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image is...
The Russian religious mystic and faith healer, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, who wielded great influence in the court of Tsar ...
The title page of William Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, with copper engraving of the author by Martin Droeshout
Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, US Pesident Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, meeting at the "B...
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the USA, c.1907
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the USA, c.1907
British Prime Minister Sir Wiinston Churchill, c.1942
Wright brothers first powered fligh in the Wright Flyer at Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on 17th December 1903...
Daguerrotype of 12th US President Zachary Taylor, c 1843-5
Ada Lovelace. Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 1815-1852), an English mathematician and writer, chiefl...
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), the Scottish scientist famous for the discovery of penicillin. Photo taken between 1939 an...
Archimedes (c. 287-c.212 BC). Engraving of the Greek mathematician from around 1584
Helen Keller (1880-1968) and Anne Sullivan. Phototgraph of the deaf-blind author and political activist with her teach and co...
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) in Brookly Dodgers uniform, 1950. Robinson was the first black player in Major League Baseball.
T E Lawrence (Thomas Edward Lawrence: 1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia. Photograph by Lowell Thomas, 1919
Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler: 1914-2000), publicity photograph of the Austrian born American actress taken for film ...
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). Portrait of the Welsh poet and playwright by Rosalie Thorne McKenna
Frida Kahlo de Rivera (1907-1954), the Mexican painter, photographed in 1932 by Guillermo Kahlo
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), photo by Harris and Ewing, 1932
The German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, oil on canvas, 1820
Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan: 1915-1959), an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter, nicknamed "Lady Day". Photo by C...
Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796), known as Catherine the Great, was the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning fr...
The American writer, Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; 1809-1849). Portrait by William Sartain, 1896
Illustration of a Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) from a publication by G Kearsley on George Shaw's zoological lectures delivered at...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815- 1902), an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early w...
The American poet, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886) Daguerrotype, 1846-7
John Arthur "Jack" Johnson (1878-1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer, who became the first African Am...
The American sprinter Jesse Owens at the start of his record breaking 200m race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Photo from "Die ...
Noel Coward (1899-1973). Photo from Bain News Service, c.1925.
The 18thC Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759-1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist, widely regar...