From: Boston, MA

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, free-mason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat

Died: October 3, 1867, Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Elias Howe, Jr. was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.

Died: March 14, 1883, London, United Kingdom
Karl Marx was a German-born scientist, philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy.

Died: January 8, 1825, New Haven, CT
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South

Died: August 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

Died: May 23, 1937, Ormond Beach, FL
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history.

Died: February 24, 1815, New York City, NY
Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Claremont.