Collects fifty biographies from around the world--including authors, musicians, scientists, and activists--who were born between 1790 and 2003.

Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou text by Lisbeth Kaiser. All other text by Maria Isabel Snchez Vegara.a Original concept of the series by Maria Isabel Sachez Vegara, published by Alba Editorial, s.I.u. Additional text by Claire Saunders and Robin Pridy. Includes index.

1790 -- 1885. Mary Shelley ; Ada Lovelace ; Harriet Tubman ; Emmeline Pankhurst ; Marie Curie ; Mahatma Gandhi ; Maria Montessori ; Ernest Shackleton ; Lucy Maud Mongomery ; Coco Chanel -- 1885 -- 1920. Georgia O'Keeffe ; Agatha Christie ; Amelia Earhart ; Josephine Baker ; Frida Kahlo ; Astrid Lindgren ; Alan Turing ; Rosa Parks ; Jesse Owens ; Ella Fitzgerald -- 1920 -- 1940. David Attenborough ; Maya Angelou ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Audrey Hepburn ; Anne Frank ; Corazon Aquino ; Jane Goodall ; Rudolf Nureyev ; Wilma Rudolph ; John Lennon -- 1940 -- 1947. Pelé ; Bruce Lee ; Vivienne Westwood ; Bob Dylan ; Stephen Hawking ; Muhammad Ali ; Aretha Franklin ; Billie Jean King ; Dolly Parton ; David Bowie -- 1947 -- 2003. Elton John ; Zaha Hadid ; Evonne Goolagong ; Steve Jobs ; Prince ; Ayrton Senna ; Jean-michel Basquiat ; Mindy Kaling ; Malala Yousafzai ; Greta Thunberg.