a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders,

a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.

a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.

a French engineer and industrialist from Besançon, and inventor of artificial silk.

a French chemist often considered the discoverer of the element actinium

a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson