Inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel dabbled in this creative art with little success.

This president ordered the U.S. flag to fly over the White House and other government buildings and urged the all American schools to do the same, a custom still followed.

Dr. Charles Drew, who discovered how to preserve human blood for transfusion, directed American and British blood-plasma programs at the beginning of this war.

This great composer was married for the last 16 years of his life though left his wife a few weeks after the wedding.

Better known for his other published works, this Yale alumnus, journalist, lawyer, and six-year member of the Connecticut House of Representatives published his modern translation of the Bible in 1833.

Former child star and U.S. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black was asked by this president to oversee the arrangements for his inauguration and inaugural ball although they were of different political parties.

The first Native American to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this member of the Navajo nation received it in 1963 from President Lyndon Johnson.