Born on October 22

Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist (1811–1886), Liszt revolutionized piano technique and invented the symphonic poem. A central figure of musical Romanticism, he profoundly influenced Wagner and European music as a whole.

An African-American mathematician, Dorothy Vaughan joined the NACA in 1943 as a "human computer." She became the agency's first Black supervisor in 1949, leading the West Area Computing unit. A computing pioneer, she taught herself FORTRAN and prepared her teams for the era of electronic computers.

Robert Capa (1913-1954) was a photographer and war correspondent of Hungarian origin. A co-founder of the Magnum Photos agency, he covered five major conflicts of the 20th century and embodies war photojournalism.

A British actress born in 1917 in Japan and died in 2013, Joan Fontaine became a major Hollywood star in the 1940s. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion, cementing her place among the great stars of classic American cinema.

Doris Lessing (1919-2013) was a British novelist born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia. A major figure of 20th-century literature, she is best known for The Golden Notebook. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

Robert Rauschenberg was an American visual artist and a major figure of post-war art. A pioneer of the “Combines” that blended painting with everyday objects, he paved the way for Pop art and blurred the boundary between art and life.

Bobby Seale is an African American activist who, in 1966, co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton. A leading figure in the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement, he championed a revolutionary program to defend Black communities in the United States.

French actress born in 1943, Catherine Deneuve is one of the greatest stars in world cinema. She played iconic roles in films by Truffaut, Buñuel, and Demy, becoming a symbol of French elegance.

A pioneering American filmmaker, Julie Dash is best known for *Daughters of the Dust* (1991), the first feature film by an African American woman director to receive a national theatrical release in the United States. Her work explores memory, identity, and the cultural heritage of the African American diaspora.