Memorials & famous biographies

English novelist and poet best known for her iconic novel Wuthering Heights

American industrialist and entrepreneur who founded the Ford Motor Company, pioneering affordable automobiles for the middle class through the system of Fordism

American actor and comedian widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman

Long-serving American politician, lawyer, and U.S. Army officer who represented Kansas in Congress and was a Republican presidential nominee

American realist painter and printmaker renowned for his iconic depictions of modern American life and landscapes

American actress best known for her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Italian Catholic priest, mathematician, and astronomer renowned for establishing the Palermo Observatory and discovering the dwarf planet Ceres

British politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and was a leading Whig statesman throughout the 18th century

Pope of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1670 to 1676, who previously served as a diplomat, Catholic priest, and bishop

German astronomer and mathematician who pioneered stellar parallax measurements and introduced Bessel functions

German physicist and university teacher who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom

American actor and stand-up comedian known for his iconic roles as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and Ralph Furley on Three's Company, earning five Emmy Awards

American lawyer, orator, and politician known as "the Great Agnostic" who championed free thought and agnosticism

American geneticist and Nobel Laureate who helped found the field of evolutionary developmental biology through his discoveries on genetic control of early embryonic development

American inventor, biochemist, and microbiologist who discovered streptomycin and many other antibiotics, including the first effective against tuberculosis

American writer and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry and biography of Abraham Lincoln, widely regarded as a major figure in contemporary literature

German aristocrat, military officer, and resistance fighter known for his attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler during Operation Valkyrie

Scotland's national poet and lyricist, celebrated worldwide for his works in the Scots language and his contributions to poetry and song

Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012, making him the first head of state to die in office

American tennis player, author, and military officer who became the first Black man to win singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open

American jazz and traditional pop singer, actor, and painter, recipient of 20 Grammy Awards and founder of arts education initiatives

American composer, conductor, and bandleader known for his innovative film and television scores across nearly 50 years and over 200 productions

American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the antiproton

American astronaut, first American in space, and lunar explorer who walked on the Moon at age 47