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Oscar Wilde, Irish-born playwright and wit, c1891 (1956)
 
Edward Whymper, British mountaineer, 1865 (1956)
 
Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, 1908 (1956)
 
Brigham Young, American Mormon leader, 19th century (1956)
 
Anarchism: Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist, 19th century (1956)
 
Cult of the individual: Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque artist, 1640 (1956)
 
Miracles: the legend of the Wolf of Gubbio, c1437-1444 (1956)
 
Dramatic unities: Euripides, Greek playwright, 5th century BC (1956)
 
Enthusiasm: Edward Irving, Scottish clerygyman, 19th century, (1956)
 
Deism: Lord Herbert of Cherbury, c1603-1605 (1956)
 
Sanctity: St Francis in Meditation 1635-1639 (1956)
 
Nihilism: Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 19th century (1956)
 
Wide open spaces: James Fenimore Cooper, American author, 19th century (1956)
 
Vitalism: Henri Bergson, French philosopher, early 20th century, (1956)
 
Superman': Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 19th century (1956)
 
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, British politician, 18th century (1956)
 
Honore Daumier, French artist, c1870s (1956)
 
Charles Dickens, British novelist, 19th century (1956)
 
Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman, 19th century (1956)
 
Gustave Courbet, French artist, 19th century (1956)
 
Edward Gibbon, British historian, 1773 (1956)
 
El Greco, Greek painter active in Spain, c1604 (1956)
 
Thomas Edison, American inventor, c1878 (1956)
 
Maxim Gorky, Russian author, c1930 (1956)
 
William Ewart Gladstone, British Liberal statesman, 19th century (1956)
 
Friedrich Holderlin, German poet, 19th century (1956)
 
Goethe, German poet, 19th century (1956)
 
Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, 19th century (1956)
 
Hokusai, Japanese artist, 1839 (1956)
 
Henry James, American-born British novelist, 1890 (1956)
 
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and theologian, c1840 (1956)
 
Death mask of Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence, 1492 (1956)
 
William Morris, British artist and designer, 19th century (1956)
 
John Stuart Mill, British philosopher and social reformer, 19th century (1956)
 
Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist, 19th century (1956)
 
John Ruskin, British artist, poet and critic, 1872 (1956)
 
Voltaire, French writer, 18th century (1956)
 
Samuel Palmer, British artist, 19th century (1956)
 
Giaochino Rossini, Italian composer, 19th century (1956)
 
John D Rockefeller, American industrialist, late 19th century (1956)
 
Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer, 1825 (1956)
 
Arthur Rimbaud, French poet and adventurer, 1895 (1956)
 
The Duke of Wellington, Irish-born British soldier and statesman, 19th century (1956)
 
James McNeill Whistler, American-born British artist, 1878 (1956)
 
Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, 19th century (1956)
 
Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, c1900 (1956)
 
Telescope from Selenographia, 1647 (1956)
 
William Blake, English mystic, poet, artist and engraver, 19th century (1956). Creator: Unknown
 
Ludwig von Beethoven, German composer, c1818-1822 (1956)
 
Effigy of Jeremy Bentham with his embalmed head, University College, London, 1956
 
Honore de Balzac, French novelist, 19th century (1956). Creator: Unknown
 
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Deputy in the National Assembly, Versailles, 1789 (1956)
 
The Painter and the Connoisseur c1565 (1956)
 
Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and politician, 1782 (1956)
 
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, 1857 (1956).Artist: Robert Howlett
 
Sir Edwin Chadwick, British physician and social reformer, 19th century (1956)
 
William Jennings Bryan, American politician, 1900
 
John Wesley, 18th century English non-conformist preacher.Artist: W Holl
 
Pius VII, the Roman Pontiff Artist: James Gardner
 
Otto Lilienthal makes one of his last flights, 1896 (1956)