Born on March 24

Eighteenth-century English chemist, theologian and philosopher, famous for isolating oxygen in 1774. A dissenting minister, he was also a liberal thinker forced into exile in the United States.

Chika Kuroda (1884-1968) was a pioneering Japanese chemist, one of the first women in Japan to earn a university degree in science. She made her mark with her research into the structure of natural pigments.

An American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent film era, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was one of Hollywood's biggest comedy stars of the 1910s. His career was destroyed by a legal scandal in 1921, despite his acquittal.

Clyde Barrow is an American criminal from the Great Depression. With his companion Bonnie Parker, he forms the Barrow gang, which multiplies robberies and murders across the central United States before being killed in a police ambush in 1934.

Yánis Varoufákis is a Greek economist and politician, a professor of economics renowned for his work on game theory. He served as Greece's Minister of Finance in 2015, at the heart of the debt negotiations during the eurozone crisis.