W. C. Handy was an African American composer and musician from Florence, Alabama, who notated and popularized blues music for wider audiences. His 1914 composition "St. Louis Blues" became one of the most recorded songs in history. Though blues music predated him, Handy was the first to codify its distinctive structure and bring it to mainstream American culture.

José Saramago was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. His novels — including Blindness and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ — challenged political and religious authority with dense, hypnotic prose. Born into poverty, he worked as a mechanic before becoming a writer in his forties.

Tiberius was the second Roman emperor, inheriting the vast empire built by his stepfather Augustus Caesar. A capable general and administrator, he grew increasingly reclusive and paranoid in his later years, retreating to the island of Capri and ruling through fear. His reign saw the execution of Jesus Christ and the rise of the Praetorian Guard as a political force.

Paul Hindemith was one of the leading composers of the twentieth century, known for his neoclassical style and prolific output across nearly every musical form. His opera Mathis der Maler was banned by the Nazis as 'degenerate art,' forcing him into exile. He eventually settled in the United States and became a major figure in American music education.

Oswald Mosley was a former Conservative and Labour MP who founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932, modeling it on Hitler and Mussolini's movements. His 'Blackshirt' rallies provoked violent confrontations, most famously the 1936 Battle of Cable Street in London where anti-fascist protesters blocked his march. He was interned during World War II without trial under Defence Regulation 18B.