Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and from 1 May 1876 the first Empress of India until her death. Her reign as Queen lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch to date. The period centred on her reign is known as the Victorian era.
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John von Neumann

John von Neumann (Hungarian: margittai Neumann János Lajos) (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields. He is generally regarded as one of the foremost mathematicians of the 20th century. The mathematician Jean Dieudonné called von Neumann “the last of the great mathematicians.” Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as one of the few originally appointed), and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata and the universal constructor. Along with Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb.
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Richard Wayne “Dick” Van Dyke

Richard Wayne “Dick” Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades.[1] He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder.
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Yosano Akiko

Akiko Yosano (与謝野 晶子 Yosano Akiko, Akiko Yosano? 7 December 1878 - 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in late Meiji period, Taishō period and early Showa period Japan. Her real name was Yosano Shiyo. She is one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan.
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Zapata Salazar Emiliano

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (August 8, 1879–April 10, 1919) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South.
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Villa Pancho

Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 20, 1923), better known as Francisco or “Pancho” Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary general. In his own version of his life at the age of 16 he shot an older man, the son of a big landowner, who had tried to rape Pancho’s younger sister Martina. After this, being pursued for murder, he escaped. (This version is debunked - see Jeff Howell at References below.) During the following years, first living as an outlaw, then working his way up to a position as a division’s commander, not many details are known.
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Zappa Frank

Zappa, Frank (1940-1993), American composer and rock musician, recognized as a master of a wide variety of musical styles. Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His family moved often throughout his childhood. During his teenage years, his musical development was shaped by two divergent musical influences: 20th-century classical music (especially the works of French composer Edgard Varèse) and 1950s rhythm and blues. At the age of 14, Zappa joined a band as a drummer. When he was 18 years old, he began playing the guitar instead. In 1959 he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked at a variety of jobs while writing music and playing in bands.
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Uribe Vélez Álvaro

Álvaro Uribe Vélez (IPA: ['alβ̞aɾo u'ɾiβ̞e v'̞eles], born July 4, 1952 in Medellín), is a Colombian politician and lawyer who is currently the 39th President of the Republic of Colombia for the term 2006 – 2010. Uribe finished Law in the University of Antioquia, then he did a course in management at Harvard University. After he finished his period as governor of Antioquia in 1998, he won the Simón Bolívar Scholarship of the British Council and was nominated Senior Associate Member at the Saint Antony’s College in the University of Oxford.
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Velasco Raúl

Raúl Velasco (April 24, 1933 - November 26, 2006) was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. For 30 years, he was the Mexican host/[[Television producer|producer]] of Siempre en Domingo (Always on Sunday) which is his hallmark contribution to the Latin American world and eventually to other parts of the world where Spanish entertainment programs are broadcast. While IMDB incorrectly lists Siempre en Domingo[1] as originating in 1984, Raúl Velasco began this program as co-host of a Sunday afternoon special in 1969 called Domingos Espectaculares (Sunday’s Specials). One of Raúl Velasco’s catch phrases was, “Aun hay mas” (”There’s more to follow”). For a short while, Siempre en Domingo was known as Aun hay mas because Raúl Velasco would always say these words prior to each intermission or commercial, with the hand gesture that corresponds to a request for a commercial break, similar to what Frank Sinatra might have said or sung, The best is yet to come. . . The phrase and hand gesture became popular in Mexico as a result. (y aún hay más… amigos!)
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Wilde Oscar

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900), Irish-born writer and wit, who was the chief proponent of the aesthetic movement, based on the principle of art for art’s sake. Wilde was a novelist, playwright, poet, and critic.
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