Challenge: Death Masks pt. 1

Found these randomly on the internet, thought they were pretty interesting.

Nicola Tesla, 1943

Beethoven 1812

Isaac Newton

Dante Alighieri

Queen Mary

Goethe

More here:
http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/C0770/


P.S. I don't know if this was a specifically European-American practice, but the death masks are overwhelmingly white men...