Mansa Musa -- Mali
Musa I, commonly referred to as Mansa Musa, was the tenth mansa, ("king of kings" or "emperor"), of the Malian Empire. The Malian Empire consisted of territory formerly belonging to the Ghana Empire and Melle (Mali) and immediate surrounding areas, and Musa held many titles, including Emir of Melle, Lord of the Mines of Wangara, and conqueror of Ghanata, Futa-Jallon, and at least another dozen states. His leadership of Mali, a state that stretched across two thousand miles from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Chad, ensured decades of peace and prosperity in Western Africa.
Emory C. Malick -- USA
Emory Conrad Malick was born on 12 Dec 1881, and grew up in central Pennsylvania, first in Seven Points, then in nearby Sunbury, where he built his own gliders and flew them across the Susquehanna River to his job as a farmhand and carpenter on Cattie Weiser’s farm. By 1910, Malick worked as a carpenter and master tile layer in Philadelphia, he also worked for Flying Dutchman Air Service, which offered flight instruction, passengers flights and he took aerial photographs for Dallin Aerial Surveys.
Malick attended the Curtiss Aviation School on 
North Island, San Diego California, and earned his International Pilot’s License (Federation Aeronautique Internationale, or F.A.I., license), #105, on 20 March 1912. Making him the first licensed African American aviator, at the age of 31 years old, he was also the first black person to get a pilot’s license in the United States.