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American mobster
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8 Times World Memory Champion
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JFK - Retired Judge O'Brien met Kennedy first during his campaign in 1960, and repeatedly therafter, and later was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa by JFK. Flew 30 mission over Europe (WWII, lead bombardier) and earned the DFC
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medal of honor marines korean war
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John O'Brien (6)
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WWII: USMC. Crew chief at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. He took care of the famous Vought F4U Corsair 'Number 13' that was flown by aces KennetH Walsh and Pappy Boyington. He knew both men very well. Later served on Guam and Iwo Jima
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Phoenix (CL_46)
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Michael O'brien (5)Streaker in famous 1974 photograph. Currently a businessman in Australia
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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William O'Brien (2) D - Day landings veteran. Born: 1917. Also known as Admiral Sir William O'Brien
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Okinawa
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Navy Admiral
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Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army, Heavy Machine Gunner
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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astronaut
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army general
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Retired Brigadier General. Canadian Member of Parliament for Carleton-Mississippi Hills. Minister of Defence 2006-2007, Minister of National Revenue 2007-2008
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Michael O'Connor (6)(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. UH-1 Huey pilot with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Hearts
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Billy O'Dell (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Cathy O'Donnell (2)13 yr. old student , went to Love Field for arrival of Presidential party and shook hands with both Kennedys and Johnsons
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Running for United States Senate 2010, social advocate from Delaware
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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Mountain climber
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Miss Missouri 2016; first openly gay Miss America contestant
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air force hero
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Dee was the first nurse to America's first Astronauts.
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Born May 3, 1983, American engineer and NASA astronaut (NASA Astronaut Group 22 (Turtles))
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A H.S. student in '63 , he was with friends at Dallas Love Field, Stemmons Freeway and Parkland . He was present in nurse's classroom for official announcement of Pres. Kennedy's death
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2/2/1911-2/16/1994 US Navy submarine commander WW2, Medal of Honor for service on Tang. Served Wahoo, as executive & approach officer. Participated more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other sub officer during war
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USMC Ace during WWII-[7 victories] Member of VMF-323
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American neuroscientist and a professor He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 together with May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser
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10th Administrator of NASA
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(Born 1961) US Army Special Forces Veteran and Author. Participated in many operations during his career. He was in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Grenada. Bronze Star Recipient. Has written many books about the Revolutionary War
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The Major and the Minor (1942), Military Academy (1940) and Mountain Rhythm (1943)
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astronaut
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WWII: PTO. USMC. 4th Raider Battalion (personal radio operator for Col. James Roosevelt). Guam
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JFK - Secret Service WHD (White House Detail) starting 1960
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Former General & Commander Air Force Logistics Command
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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FBI Agent operative true story Robert Hanssen Russian spy case, movie Breach
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JFK - FBI agent that attended the autopsy of John F. Kennedy at Bethesda Naval Hospital
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WWII: Arctic convoy duty on the HMS Sumba
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Professional Speaker, Swift boat commander in Vietnam during 1969 and 1970
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Ww2 fighter ace
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Ex-SEAL who revealed himself as bin Laden shooter
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Terry O'Neill (2)President of National Organization of Women
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From 1975 to 1983, O'Neill served as Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Witnessed the surrendering of Hitler's Atlantic fleet of U-boat's on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry at the end of WW2. (Born:1932) He is now 84 and lives in Derry, Northern Island. Also known as Father Arthur O'Reilly
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Historian
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JFK: 22-year career as a Secret Service agent working for JFK and LBJ in the White House and on special assignment to Ford, Nixon, Carter and Bush pere. He was in the detail that awaited JFK at Fort Worth the night of November 21, 1963
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102-year-old great-grandmother is he world's oldest skydiver after plunging 14,000 feet (4,300 metres) through the South Australian sky
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WW2 air ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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Frederick attended Beauregard Junior High in New Orleans at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald . He recruited Oswald into the Civil Air Patrol in 1955 when assassination suspect David Ferrie was the squadron commander
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WWII: Last surviving Akwesasne Mohawk Code Talker during WWII. Fought in the South Pacific, New Guinea and Philippines theatres as one of 33 Mohawk code talkers
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Sciencetist, New York Times Best-Selling Author of Mind For Numbers
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air force general businessman
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) on a ration boat filled with tins of pineapple, boxes and cigarettes
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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Plaintiff in landmark US Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the recognized same sex marriage
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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german pilot of second world war
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UK WW1 Veteran
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On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district, defeating the incumbent, DCC Chair Joseph Crowley, in what has been described as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election season
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew on four space shuttle missions
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Oldest College Graduate (95 years old)
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astronaut
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Romanian WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battles off Philippine Sea, New Guinea, Luzon
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Kamikaze pilot WW2/Book, 'Memoirs of a Kamikaze', born on 11 December, 1926 in village Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi's graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan's occupation of China
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Journalist, author, and media consultant. Media columnist for Business of Fashion, and reg contributor to The Cut, Refinery29, Vulture, and other publications. Former editor of Cosmopolitan.com. Named 1 of Forbes ?30 Under 30' in 2015
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Witness to Hindenburg crash. American Airlines employee, had driven Hindenburg official to site to pick up crew luggage
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U.S. General
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American activist, born Nathanial Burns in 1944. Joined Malcolm X's OAAU in 1965, then the Black Panthers, and later the Black Liberation Army. One of the 'Panther 21' accused by the feds of various violent acts. Caught in 1981, imprisoned until 2014
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B.1937 Odio provided testimony to Warren Commission investigating assassination of JFK that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of 3 men who visited her Dallas, Texas apartment in September 1963 to solicit money for the anti-Castro cause
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army general
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American woman who was shot along with Pope John Paul II in 1981
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astronaut
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Author, horticulturist, and historian
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US Centenarian, WWII and Civilian Conservation Corps vet, born 1917. CCC New Deal Program 1934-36 in Massachusetts, then an Army officer in the South Pacific during WWII
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German ww2 pilot
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Spanish Civil War Veteran Germany, Legion Condor, Born: 10/24/1913. Mainly U-boat commander
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'F-16' & 'F-111' Test Pilot!
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust'
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Family historian and grand-daughter of the great character actor and stuntman Cap Somers [ 1893 - 1970 (77) ] of him from the docks of New Jersey
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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In 1963 , Dennis worked at Jaguars-Chiles-Stovall with Lee Harvey Oswald
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World War II Japanese fighter pilot. Lives in Tokyo
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Ogden was co-pilot on one of the flights of the first trip around the world by plane
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Neosho (AO-23)
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Supreme Court: involved in the landmark case Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
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Sociologist in Japan, an outspoken proponent of women's equality, and one of the developers of the 'milieu' approach to social categories
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1931 in Canada, moved to Japan when he was nine. Survived Hiroshima at 14, and then moved back to Canada
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German Unesco Charity-Lady
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WWII - Fighter Ace (6 aerial victories, 17 ground victories, 155 missions) of the 2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group; received a citation for his escort action during Operation Tidal Wave (aka 'Ploesti Raid) in 1943
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Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy. 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Supercentenarian born 1896 Lives in Japan
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Japanese and American vet, born 1926 in the US. Raised in Japan, fought for Japan in the last days of WWII. Taken POW by Russia,18 months in a Siberian gulag. Released, later returned to the US, Served in the US Army during the Korean War
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president biafra/army general
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One of the oldest survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. She is now 89
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One of the many survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. She is now 84
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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Hiroshima bomb survivor
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Oldest living woman and second oldest living person in the world. One of only two people born in the year 1987 living today
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Physicist
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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1994 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
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Member of Pappy Boyington's VMF-214 ''Black Sheep Squadron''
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U.S. Army Air Corps 1939-1945
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Polish WWII Veteran, lives in Canada
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WWII Flying Tigers, Judge in the Charles Manson Case
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(Born 1926) WW2 and Korean War USAAF Veteran. Was in a B-24 Liberator and a tail gunner on a B-29. Witnessed the mushroom cloud from Nagasaki off in the distance in 1945. POW during the Korean War for 2 years
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WWII Ace[17 victories] and shot down four jets in Vietnam
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Enginieer, constructor PZL M-28 Dromader
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WWI era Veteran Lives in Chicago
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Military leader in Bay of Pigs invasion force
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Flight astronaut sts-117
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Whistleblower
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Friend of Jack Ruby, a singer at Ruby's Carousel Club and the adjacent Colony Club, and co-author of Nightmare in Dallas/accompanied Jack Ruby to New Orleans where she met Mafia bosses Johnny Roselli and Carlos Marcello/The Babushka Lady
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2024 Libertarian presidential candidate. 2022 Libertarian candidate for GA US Senate, 2020 Libertarian candidate for GA-5
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One of the last British lighthouse keepers before automation took over. Former lighthouse keeper at Kinnaird Head lighthouse, Fraserburgh, Scotland, UK
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One of three surviving WWII Navajo Code Talkers; he lives in Phoenix. Born: 1923
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Born 1920 is the oldest licensed lobsterwoman in the state of Maine in US, and local historians describe her as perhaps the oldest active one in the world
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Filipino chemist known for discovery of many cone snail toxins important for neuroscience
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Spain' Lives in Barbastro, Born: 1919
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co-pilot bockscar b-29 that dropped the bomb on nagasaki japan in ww2
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Tuskegee Airman
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2000 Libertarian nominee for Vice President
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English Mathematician & Politician
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 505th PIR, 82nd AB
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Cold War: RB-47 reconnaissance pilot flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
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Swedish criminal who was involved in the bank robbery that coined the 'Stockholm Syndrome', is probably living in Belgium and now uses the name Daniel Demuynck
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Unitarian Minister who was attacked with Rev. James Reeb in 1965 during the Selma March campaign. Reeb died and became a martyr to the cause
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(Born 1931) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1953 to 1976 and retired as a Colonel. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and Silver Star
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WASP Pilot during WWII, flew the p-40, bt-13, at-6, at-11, uc-78, a-24, sbd, p-51, p-38, a-20, c-2, p-14, p-39
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Astronaut, Spaceflight Participant
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Tallest Known Woman Living in America,Playboy July 1991
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Pilot, founder of Sun Country Airlines
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inventor (magnetic core memory)
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona. survivor of USS Lexington as it was sinking during the Battle of the Coral Sea; took part in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests after the war
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coast guard admiral educator
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(Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran
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USN Admiral
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WWII - Navy
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Part of the first generation of female military pilots, eventually accumulating nearly 4,000 hours of flying time/Iraq/Running for Congress in 2020/aviation leader, commander
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Reid, 11 December 1944
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Former SLA member, arrested many years later
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Canadian serial killer who confessed to killing two children and nine youths in the early 1980's
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Secret Service Agent on duty in Dallas on Nov. 22 , 1963 , Ernest accompanied the body of President Kennedy back to Washington
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Swedish criminal, was invovled in the bank robbery that later coined the 'Stockholm Syndrome', is now living in Helsingborg in Sweden
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American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and humanitarian
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Dr. Omalu was the first to identify, describe and name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] as a disease entity in football players and wrestlers. He is currently the Chief Medical Examiner of San Joaquin County, California, and is the President and Med
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Former Hacker. Helped hacking team Lizard Squad with the hack that took PlayStation offline
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
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A six-year-old in Dallas in 1963, Onassis was with her mother on Stemmons Freeway when they were passed by the presidential limousine on its way to Parkland Memorial Hospital
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American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher
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Astronaut
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Japanese WWII Veteran, chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a Japanese sushi restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
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Japanese soldier from WW2 who hid in the jungle for 30 years refusing to surrender to the Allies; is now living in Brazil; author of 'No Surrender: My Thirty Year War'
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cosmonaut
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US-based software developer along with two others managed to crack Z340, a 340-character cipher that's one of four such codes attributed to the Zodiac Serial Killer. unknown for 51 years
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British WWII veteran. Served in the Women's Auxillary Corps in the Indian Air Force. Flew a glider at 99 years old for charity
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army general
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Bombardier in the 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
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U.S, Congressman (R) /Former Navy Seal from 1988 to 2014, small time actor/Drunk who gained coverage for verbally accosting & screaming profanities at several Senate Pages in the United States Capitol
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Convicted for the murders at Orderud gård a famous murder trial in norway
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Convicted for the murders at Orderud gård a famous murder trial in norway
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Author 'VIETNAM Marine Infantry - One Year in Vietnam'/Trained as a corpsman he was attached to a Marine unit and saw duty on the front lines of the war
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Military, Pearl harbour survivor, West Mifflin 98th Coast Art, Battery F, artillery
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Vacuum Guy/WW2 B-29 Navigator
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American-born Israeli scholar, historian, author and the Israeli ambassador to the United States
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Mobster
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FBI agent, responded to the assassination attempt on George Wallace and interviewed Wallace during his recovery. One of the figures who helped head the investigation into possible group effort
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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Former Packers Defensive End. Played 1949-1951. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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(Born 1986) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross Recipient
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Born Dec. 21, 1944 in the Holocaust Death Camp of Auschwitz/Lives in Montreal, Canada. Full name Angela Orosz - Richt
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Fire Investigator in prison for arson
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Orr stood on the north side of Elm St. between the TSBD and the steps to the pergola and was one of the closest eyewitnesses to the president at the time of the assassination
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Author historian
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WWII - His B-24 was shot down on a bombing mission to Ploesti in July 1944 (not the famous Ploesti Raid). For five weeks, with the help of locals and Serbian Chetniks, he escaped Nazis soldiers and was saved during 'Operation Halyard'
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Guam, Battle of Iwo Jima
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran and YouTuber
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Former Colonel of the United States Marine Corps who served from 1975 to 2005. He did 3 tours as a commanding officer and 1 tour in Iraq in 2004. He graduated college in 1996 with 5 degrees (3 master and 2 undergraduate)
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(Born 1945) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Company D, 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1966 and then released in 1968. Recipient of a Purple Heart
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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One of the last witnesses to The Battle of Cable Street, London in 1936. (Born: 1917) She is now 99 and lives in London, UK
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Commander Mid Atlantic Regional Maintance Center
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#20 oldest person in the world lives in Japan born 1894
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Test pilot
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Pilot of US reconnaissance plane downed in China
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Classic car historian, author, consultant and writer.Appears also on Jay Leno Garage
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WWI veteran
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WWII Rosie the Riveter
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Noted and trained Kindergarden teacher. Born: in Berlin 05/20/1913
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Author
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JFK: Boy scout representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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American (1915-2008), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade. Had joined the Communist party in the 1930s, later hassled by the FBI and HUAC. Left the party when he saw Stalin's actions. Worked also in the civil rights movement
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nobel physics laureate 1996
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American historian. Won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story
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Russian military pilot, downed Korean Air Lines (Korean Air) flight 007
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Captain Joellen Drag Oslund, USNR (Ret.) The U.S. Navy?s Fourth Woman Naval Aviator and First Woman Helicopter Pilot on April 19, 1974
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Scientist
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USCG Kukui, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 575th Field Artillery, 7th Army
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WWII: Battle of Midway, USS Balch
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USN WWII Wave, in the communications department, she learned of the end of WWII several hours before it was announced
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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2009 Nobel Prize winner for Economics; first woman to the prize in that field
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German ww2 pilot
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navy admiral england
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Brother of Lee Harvey Oswald alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy
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astronaut
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Supercentenarian
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army general
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Retired General
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American writer of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo, Newton, Bohr, and stories about physicist Richard Feynman
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Dutch Engineer/Inventor - Compact Cassette Player/Recorder
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WWII: Served in the Pacific Theater
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Aerospace engineer; Project Engineer (Flight Operations) for the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle and for the X?15 Rocket Aircraft served as the flight test Propulsion Engineer. Founder of ALETRO in 2008
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Worked as a 'Rosie the Riveter' woman worker in airplane plants during WWII, starting in 1942. Still active and on the job in 2014 when in her 90's
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. PT boat cook
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Algerian WWII Veteran, 109 years old. During WWII he fought in the French Army and participated in the invasion of Italy and Germany
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hal moore rto in lz xray-ia drang valley battle-we were soldiers fame
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Holocaust Survivor/Born in Salonika, Greece/April 1943, With her family & most of Jews of Salonika, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At Birkenau, Bella & sister Sylvia remained together while the rest of their family was sent to gas chamber
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Ovchinin born 28 September 1971 in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian SFSR is a Russian Air Force Major and cosmonaut, who was selected in 2006
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Scientist
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. B Battery 200th Coast Artillery
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Was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D.
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Dutch WWII Resistance. As a teenager she and her sister Truus would flirt with Nazi Collaborators and lead them to their deaths
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Dutch WWII Resistance. As a teenager she and her sister Freddie would flirt with Nazi Collaborators and lead them to their deaths
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Ww2 p-51 pilot; chased fw190 under eiffel tower
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Pilot of 1st operational overflight of Soviet Union
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Fighter ace F-86 Sabre ace of the Korean War
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America's oldest living World War II veteran. He lives in East Austin, Texas . Oldest living man in the United States
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One of the last of three known survivors of The Halifax Explosion that devastated the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1917. He is now 95 and lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Mark Owen (2)Participated in the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden
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Air Force General
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Worked at Jaggers-Chiles-Stoval Typesetting Co. the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald
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Ww2 Fighter ace3 war vet ww2/korea/nam
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navy admiral
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William A. Owens (2) (1905-1990) folklorist, author, & professor/Author; 'This Stubborn Soil' 'A Season of Weathering' 'Walking on Borrowed Land'/In 1942 joined the United States Army as a buck private & was assigned to the intelligence branch
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WWII: Australian veteran, 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion. Palestine, Libya, Greece, Crete, Syria, Tobruk
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JFK: A Deputy in the Dallas Co. Sheriff's Dept . in '63 , he and several other deputies carried out a search of the Paine home at which time the ' infamous blanket ' was found in the garage. He also was close by the TSBD and heard the shots fired
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Psychiatrist (Born: 1914) who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
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doolittle's radiers, crew #3 navigator
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Swede who spent 30+ years in prison after her boyfriend killed two people in california, she is now released and is giving lectures in sweden
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Swedish author, who wrote about life in prison and has spent many years behind bars, a.ka Hinsehäxan
