Winston Churchill
1874–1965
Wartime prime minister and writer
St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire
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Alan Turing
1912–1954
Mathematician, codebreaker, founder of computer science
Memorial in Sackville Gardens, Manchester; his ashes were scattered at Woking Crematorium
Florence Nightingale
1820–1910
Founder of modern nursing
St Margaret's Church, East Wellow, Hampshire
William Shakespeare
1564–1616
Playwright and poet
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Charles Darwin
1809–1882
Naturalist who described evolution by natural selection
Westminster Abbey, London
Louis Braille
1809–1852
Inventor of the reading system for the blind
The Panthéon, Paris (his hands rest at Coupvray)
Claude Monet
1840–1926
Painter who gave impressionism its name
Church cemetery of Sainte-Radegonde, Giverny, Normandy
Simone Veil
1927–2017
Auschwitz survivor, minister, first president of the European Parliament
The Panthéon, Paris
Louis Pasteur
1822–1895
Chemist who proved that germs cause disease
Crypt of the Institut Pasteur, rue du Docteur-Roux, Paris
The Seneca Falls Convention
1848
1848 · the first women's rights convention in the United States
Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, New York
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
1906
1906 · some 3,000 dead, most of the city burned
San Francisco, California
The March on Washington
1963
1963 · a quarter of a million people at the Lincoln Memorial
Steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
1911
1911 · 146 garment workers died, most of them young women
Brown Building, Washington Place and Greene Street, New York City
The First Powered Flight
1903
1903 · twelve seconds at Kitty Hawk
Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
The Gettysburg Address
1863
1863 · two minutes, 272 words
Soldiers' National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania