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  1. On the morning of November 22, 1963, young John Sparks joined his fellow high school band members to play 'Hail to the Chief' for President John F. Kennedy. Hours later like the rest of the world, Sparks learned of Kennedy's assassination
  2. British Victoria Cross awardee for his actions in the Korea War
  3. Army General
  4. USS Pueblo
  5. United States Air Aces
  6. Nazi officer
  7. WWII: Fighter Pilot , 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, show down, became POW, escaped
  8. Dr. Wernher von Braun rocket scientist team. Marshal Space Flight Center. Among other functions, he was chairman of Marshall's Saturn System Evaluation Working Group
  9. Architect, son of nazi officer Albert Speer
  10. Former High-School/College Basketball coach for Arkansas State Univ. Played at the Arkansas State Univ. Also is a World War 2 Veteran
  11. 101st airborne, band of brothers ww2
  12. nobel economics laureate 2001
  13. Pioneer in underwater archaeology (Born: 1947) who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published author. He was twelve years old when he found his first five shipwrecks. He discovered the SS Georgiana in 1965
  14. WWII: US Navy; 20mm anti-aircraft gunner on the Liberty ship SS Julius Olson. Murmansk Run veteran
  15. Famed Defense Attorney/Legal Commentator, best-selling author of the books, 'How To Argue and Win Every Time' and 'OJ: The Last Word'
  16. 'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Binbrook'
  17. One of the last few survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, born 1917. She lives in Canada
  18. American murderer who carried out a shooting spree from her home in San Diego, California on January 29, 1979. Spencer is best known for saying 'I don't like Mondays,' which inspired the song 'I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats
  19. WWII Ace (9.5 kills) 361st Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
  20. WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
  21. John Spencer  (5)
    WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines) who fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal and later on the battles of Operation Forager (Mariana and Palau Islands battles)
  22. Larry Spencer  (2)
    Air Force General
  23. WWII: ETO. Bombardier with the 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
  24. WWII: Belgian WWII veteran who was in the Belgian Resistance and joined the 512th MP Battalion of Patton's 3rd Army after the liberation of Antwerp, being in the Battle of the Bulge and also entering the Buchenwald concentration camp
  25. WWII: Infantryman machine gunner, H Company, 501st PIR, 101st AB. Battle of the Bulge (Siege of Bastogne), soldier who (unintentionally und unknowingly) created the 'Airborne Beer' in Belgium. Occupation duty in Austria
  26. WWII veteran with the 75th Division, 291st Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion. Went to the beaches of Normandy 5 months after D-Day
  27. Former British military officer, later employee of Sandline International, a private military company, wrote a book called 'An Unorthodox Soldier' about his life
  28. B-17 Pilot during WWII. Known for developing artificial/fake trees in the early 1970's. Lives in New York
  29. Electrical engineer. Father of Steven Spielberg
  30. Retired German general
  31. Retired General
  32. American lawyer, historian, and lecturer
  33. WWII: N. Africa, Sicily, Normandy (Utah Beach, D-Day+4, Battle of Bulge, Battle of Remagen (1945), Rhine Crossing. 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
  34. Cassini Project Scientist Enceladus Moon around Saturn and its rings
  35. WW2 Veteran/100th Infantry Division & 82nd Airborne Division/July 1944, reassigned to 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Infantry Glider Regiment, Company C/Remembers seeing smoke from guns below crossing the English Channel toward Holland
  36. Inventor of the board game Operation
  37. Survived the Almonte Train Wreck, 27 December 1942
  38. US Army vet, born 1925. 'Undesirable' discharge for being gay, 1948. Hid the anguish from his family, until he married his partner of decades in 2009 and fought years for an honorable discharge, which came at the age of 91 in 2017
  39. WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
  40. Forensic pathologist and author; worked on investigations of assassinations of John F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King Jr. Also testified at Phil Spector, OJ Simpson, and JonBenét Ramsey trials
  41. Radio operator, 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
  42. Former Governor of New York (2007-2008), Former State Attorney General
  43. Norwegian psycologist specializing in sex
  44. Political activist and pediatrician
  45. German ww2 pilot
  46. astronaut
  47. WWII: British soldier of the 56th (Highland) Medium Regiment who survived 4 days under fire at the beaches of Dunkirk and was evacuated on board J86, the minesweeper HMS Salamander
  48. Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
  49. Tuskegee Airmen
  50. Is a former officer in the United States Marine Corps and the proprietor of The Globe and Laurel Restaurant in Stafford, Virginia. He served in the Marine Corps for over 29 years and is called 'the living historian of the Marine Corps'
  51. WWII: Gunner on the USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady') . Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), when he spent 10 hours in the Pacific before being picked up. Later served on submarine USS Jack
  52. WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
  53. medal of honor army vietnam
  54. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Patrol Squadron 23 (PBY Patrol plane), Kaneohe Bay
  55. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
  56. Co-Designer of the F-16, founder of Mapleshade Records
  57. retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut
  58. US Navy vet, born 1940. Assigned to the USS Lake Champlain in 1961, participated in the recovery of Alan Sheperd and Freedom 7. Helped make the bed that the recovered capsule was set upon
  59. Astronaut Sts-29 Sts-38
  60. The last surviving woman to have flown on the Hindenburg, born in 1925. Her flight was in Sept. 1936, her mother named it's 1,000th passenger. She grew up to be one of South Carolina's leading environmentalists
  61. Currently the official underboss of the Gambino crime family.As of May 2008, Squitieri is still incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts. His projected release date is November 12, 2011.
  62. flight scientist
  63. 'Nobel Prize for Physics'
  64. One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
  65. navy admiral
  66. British ace from WW2
  67. Granddaughter of Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland)
  68. US Navy 'Atomic Veteran', born 1928. Operation Crossroads atomic tests witness in 1946. Enlisted 1945, but recruiter held him off since he had four brothers serving. But ended up exposed to radiation, fighting skin cancers later in life
  69. Retied USMC General
  70. Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained for W
  71. World's tallest living man, from Ukraine, at 8' 5'
  72. 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Swedish'
  73. Reality star, Explorer, Naked and Marooned
  74. astonaut air force general
  75. American woman who was convicted in 1989 of murdering her husband, Russell Stager, in 1988
  76. A British Royal Air Force meteorologist who notably persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II, from the 5th of June to the 6th of June 1944
  77. Flight astronaut
  78. JFK: Witnessed the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 23, 1963
  79. WWII - D-Day Utah Beach, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Before that, he was sent to the Pacific Theater, where he survived the sinking of the SS President Coolidge on 26 Oct 1942
  80. Retired American police officer who infiltrated the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the late 1970s. He was the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department.'
  81. Charles 'Chuck' Ollin Stalnaker was a WW2 Veteran in the Navy from 1945 to 1946 as an anti - aircraft gun loader on the USS Boise. After he worked on building ships until 1947 (B: March 16, 1927)
  82. Centenarian American scientist specializing in preventive cardiology and the study of the influence of various risk factors on coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases
  83. USS Indianapolis survivor
  84. German Flying Ace Of World War II
  85. WW2 air ace - 10 Kills - USAAF
  86. Head Nurse of emergency rooms at Parkland Memorial and assisted with care of Gov. Connolly in Trauma Room 2 on Nov. 22 , 1963
  87. British ace from WW2
  88. WWII: Fighter Pilot, 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
  89. army field marshal england
  90. Retired U.S.-Marine General, USMC
  91. Planet of the Apes - 1968 as Astronaut Stewart (uncredited) Speedway - 1968, as 3rd Waitress (uncredited), Bad Girls for the Boys -1966
  92. WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March survivor
  93. Director FOrce Structure J-8
  94. RAF ace from 'Battle of Britain', currently residing in the U.K., 7
  95. WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
  96. Croatian World War II pilot, born 1916, lives in Pancevo, Serbia
  97. WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist of the 91st Bomb Group, also painted the 'Memphis Belle'
  98. World war 2 fighter ace- 7 kills
  99. WW2 POW 31st Infantry Regiment U.S. Army, was captured & shipped to Yokkaichi city in Japan where was forced to shovel coal at copper mill/suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, but recovered & held career as corrections officer in Conn
  100. Historial and constitutional expert
  101. WW1 Veteran (Royersford, Pa.)
  102. army general
  103. USN Admiral
  104. WWII - Navigaor and OOD (Officer of the Deck) of the USS Missouri. It was his job to greet US and Japanese military officials as they boarded to sign the papers of surrender, and his job to set up the ceremony
  105. world war 2 fighter ace (6 kills)- USAAF
  106. Lawyer for Donald Trump's impeachment/White House Independent Counsel
  107. Classmate of John F. kennedy , waiting to have lunch with him on Nov.22 , 1963 , part of Dallas Citizen's Council
  108. Doctor/Pioneer in Organ Transplant. Performed the first human liver transplant. Called 'The Father of Modern Transplant'
  109. WWII: PTO. Normandy, Okinawa and Southern France. USS Harding
  110. Bismarck survivor
  111. Liechtenstein Scientist, memory training
  112. Son of World War II colonel and resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg
  113. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Barnett
  114. navy admiral england
  115. U.S. Navy 4-Star Admiral; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (2009-2013); Commander, U.S. Southern Command (2006-2009)
  116. (Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Served as a Hospital Corpsman with Marines. Recipient of a Silver Star and 4 Purple Hearts
  117. WWII - D-Day, Battle of The Bulge, Nuremberg Trails. 1st Infantry Div, 26th Infantry Regiment. 1st wave on Omaha Beach. Occupational duty of guarding the top 12 high ranking German officials, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess
  118. American serial killer currently on death row for the 1999 murders of four women in Mariposa County near Yosemite, California
  119. WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Jamaica). Part of the bodyguard at Yalta, when Churchill met Roosevelt and Stalin
  120. American pilot, winner of many awards and races, one of the Mercury 13 female astronauts proposed in 1961
  121. (Born June 22, 1922) is an American government official, World War 2 Veteran, aviator and author
  122. skydiver
  123. Air Force General
  124. WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VT-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater
  125. Italian World champion boxer and convicted criminal
  126. Former General (Generaloberst) of the German Democratic Republic (DDR)
  127. WWII Marine, born 1924, fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. Went on to a career as a lawyer and circuit judge
  128. Astrophysicist, SETI
  129. Ben Steele  (2)
    WWII Bataan Death March Survivor
  130. British intelligence officer & founding director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-intelligence firm. Author of a controversial 2016 report calming Russia collected a file of compromising information on Donald Trump that was paid for by Democrats
  131. Michael Dane Steele (born September 15, 1960) is a retired colonel of the United States Army. He was a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the Somalia mission Operation Gothic Serpent
  132. WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, Guadalcanal, Battle of the Bloody Ridge
  133. WW2 Marine Corps Veteran 1st Lieutenant VMSB-245
  134. WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tawara, Saipan, Tinian
  135. army general
  136. Bataan Death March Survivor
  137. WW2 Veteran : Army 37th Infantry Division
  138. Centenarian (1901-2006). US vet of WWI and WWII. 4 WWI battles in France. Named Provost Marshal of Hawaii, living through Pearl Harbor. Oldest living West Point grad (1925) and only WWI vet still on (honorary) active duty at his death
  139. Born 1895. #42 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Connecticut.
  140. Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad - WW2
  141. American centenarian, born 1918. Survived the 1918 Flu as an 8 month old infant. Became an art teacher, and learned to fly a plane in the 1940s before she learned to drive
  142. Astronomer, planetary scientist. Co-discoverer of Pluto's moons Nix and Hydra in 2005
  143. WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Knapp. Witnessed the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay
  144. WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the c-45
  145. WWII: U.S.S. L.S.T. 1046, U.S. Navy. He saw combat at Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and at the invasion of Okinawa
  146. Polar explorer, author
  147. Head launch vehicle division project Was senior scientist NASA Administrator. In the mid 1960s, In 1971 he became a senior aerospace and technology advisor on undersea technology at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  148. WWII: D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion; was the third man to climb Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day
  149. Physician, Politician. 2016 Green Party Canidate for president
  150. One of the last surviving members of The Manhattan Project. Chemical engineer. In 1945, transferred to Los Alamos (Manhattan Project) where he worked under Dr. Morris Kolodney to produce plutonium for the Gadget and Fat Man bombs
  151. Baseball historian. Author of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the Yankees. Received the 2007 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, honoring authors of the best articles or papers on baseball history or biography
  152. Author, speaker, professor and historian. Publications have focused on the intersection of environmental, social, and legal history. 2-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. Has appeared on numerous radio and television shows
  153. Nobel physics laureate 1988
  154. Social Activist,Feminist Author,American Journalist,Founded Ms.Magazine,Playboy October 1984
  155. Last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Born in 1908 and lives in a retirement home in Illinois
  156. Soldier of Fortune anf French Foreign Legion Paratrooper veteran
  157. Former Surgeon General 1969-1973
  158. Current captain of the USS Illinois
  159. Worldwar II aircraft fighter - Writer
  160. German pilot
  161. WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943
  162. Scientist
  163. Nobel Prize 2009
  164. EDL (entry descent landing) engineer ofMars robot 'Curiosity' (MSL)
  165. North Dakota State Attorney General (2001-present)
  166. (Born 1922) US Army WW2 Veteran. 423nd Infantry Regiment, 106 Infantry Division. Taken as a POW after the Battle of the Bulge
  167. One of the pioneers of living under the sea. In 1962, he stayed for 26 hours at 200 feet, in 1964, for 49 hours at 432 feet
  168. American aviatrix who held the women's record for outside loops
  169. British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
  170. WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 246th Signal Operation Company
  171. Dallas Policeman, at the Dallas Trademart when JFK shot. On the scene days later when Oswald was shot
  172. First British Woman to Conquer Everest
  173. WWII: USS Indianapolis (CA-35) survivor
  174. WW2/Battle of the Bulge/101st FA 26 Yankee Division
  175. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
  176. Born: 1937. Activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England. His campaigns were instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act, in 1965. He lives in the UK
  177. US WWII Navy vet, born 11 Jan 1921. Served on the USS Wichita, part of the Murmansk Runs to Russia, incl. the disastrous Convoy PQ-17. Later in the Pacific
  178. WWII - Yeoman aboard the submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238); sole survivor of the sinking of the Wahoo (11 Oct 1943) as he was miraculously transferrd just 45 mins before Wahoo sailed on her last and fatal voyage. Author of 'Wake of the Wahoo'
  179. Astrophysicist, planetary scientist. Leader of the New Horizons mission to the planet Pluto in 2015
  180. Goddaughter of President Kennedy. Her late father, James A. Reed, and John F. Kennedy were longtime friends, having met in the South Pacific during World War II. Reed served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1962 to 1965
  181. American Woman Born 1910. One of the Oldest People in America
  182. WW2/Member of Ritchie Boys, a military intelligence unit composed of German, Austrian, & Czech refugees & immigrants to the US, mostly Jewish. Member of (interrogators of prisoners of war) Team 37. For this he gained the Bronze Star Medal
  183. Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor born 1922
  184. (Born 1950) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
  185. WWII: ETO. 345th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th AF. B-24 Liberator 'The Sandman' (#42-40402). Pilot & Squadron Commander. 50 Combat missions. DFC for Operation Tidal Wave (1 Aug 1943), the bombing of the oil refineries at Ploesti
  186. Snakemaster
  187. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Medusa, 7 December 1941
  188. WWII: ETO. B-17 Bombardier, 509th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 34 missions over Germany, occupied France, Belgium and Holland (14 Jun - 22 Sep 1944), incl. Buchenwald, Munich, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, St. Lo, Berlin. DFC
  189. Invented magnetic computer disc drive
  190. 13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), 2012-2016
  191. C-17 Test Pilot
  192. PhD, Historian of American medicine & health policy
  193. Lawyer, Libertarian political activist. Patron of the Stonewall Inn, participant in the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
  194. Author of 'Just Mercy', Civil RIghts Leader
  195. WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. Headquarters, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, USMC. Silver Star
  196. Tuskegee Airman WWII, received Distinguished Flying Cross
  197. Author
  198. Brian Stewart  (5)
    MI6 officer who blew up Panzers in Normandy and was the service man in the Far East
  199. WWII: PTO. Battle of Bougainville
  200. WWII: Guadalcanal, New Guinea
  201. Scottish tv presenter of the BBC show 'Earth : The Power Of The Planet' Iain Stewart is also a lecturer in geology in the school of the Earth,Ocean and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth
  202. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
  203. John Stewart  (4)
    Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Drove bus through Saigon & pick up eligible to leave. Saw anger growing among those on the streets as people realized the end was near & U.S. was pulling out. A rocket hit near the bus & was shaken by shrapnel
  204. Actress born 12/14/1919 was in films from 1942 to 1945 usually as eye candy. is 88-89 now and has supported the troops since WWII
  205. (Born 1921) African American WW2 D - Day veteran
  206. NASA astronaut (retired); US Army brigadier general
  207. sports guy now in jail..
  208. WWII B-24 pilot of the last plane to return from the Ploesti Refineries raid - DSC
  209. Former Surgeon General 1965-1969
  210. WW2 Tuskegee Airmen. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issues of National Geographic. Flew P-51 / P-47 / P-40
  211. Israel: Business man and pilot. Member of First all-private space flight crew AX-1
  212. WWII Dunkirk/D-Day: British soldier of the Green Howards; was blown up at Dunkirk (1940), had his ID tags taken off and left for dead, but then saved by the men around him. He was wounded again when his landing ship was blown up on D-Day+2
  213. German ww2 me262 pi,ot
  214. nobel enconomics laureate 2001
  215. WWII - Flying Tigers, crew chief
  216. WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Tennessee
  217. My Three Sons, The Munsters, The Reluctant Astronaut
  218. Black Sharecropper during the Depression Era/Author 'My RememberS: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression'
  219. US Army General (Ret). Co-authored 'Shadow Warriors' With Tom Clancy. Former Commander Of U.S. Special Operations Command.
  220. One of the last surviving construction workers who worked on The Shasta Dam which began construction in 1938. He is now 93 years old and lives in Anderson, California, U.S.A
  221. Was on the swing horse for the caisson for President Kennedy's funeral
  222. 95 Year Old World War II Veteran. US Army
  223. WWII Pacific - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in the Battle of Savo Island , 9 August 1942
  224. One of the 591 American prisoners of war who were returned during Operation Homecoming, in 1973; featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph 'Burst of Joy' taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California
  225. WWII Veteran
  226. Cpl, USA, E Co., 2nd Bn., 33rd Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Div. M4 Sherman Tank Gun Loader Purple Heart First unit to pierce the Siegfried Line Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland Campaigns
  227. adult star world largest breasts/guinness
  228. Glamorous jet-setting model, mistress of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling who recorded his racist remarks
  229. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
  230. Admiral USN, retired Medal Of Honor recipient Vietnam
  231. WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
  232. Serial killer
  233. Scottish chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
  234. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
  235. President and CEO Planned Parenthood, Minnesota
  236. Former Chief Scientist of NASA (2013-2016)
  237. Crusader For Disabled Rights,First Disabled Woman To Pose For Playboy July 1987/January 1989
  238. NASA Astronaut
  239. Author of 'Dracula the Un-dead' and the great-grand nephew of Bram Stoker
  240. WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers born 1922
  241. 1950s black student protester at Robert Russo Moton High School, born 1931. Led to one of the five cases part of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Career as a teacher and principal
  242. WW2 VF-14 Hellcat Fighter Ace - 8 Kills - US Navy
  243. Chief Electrician USS Darter (SS-227) in October 1944, during Ambush at Palawan Passage. Then, Bill was the Chief Electrician when the Menhaden was commissioned in June of 1945
  244. Born October 30, 1922, in Kishinev, Romania is the sole survivor of the torpedo-sinking of the Holocaust refugee ship the Struma by a Soviet submarine, the Shchuka 213 in the Black Sea in the early morning of February 24, 1942
  245. Former gatekeeper at Graceland
  246. American journalist and magazine editor. He's most well known for his work at Time magazine, met with Abraham Zapruder to get the rights for the Zapruder film
  247. Flight scientist
  248. Member of the Tuskegee Airmen (Born 1924) Author
  249. USN Admiral
  250. Lawyer and runs the LegalEagle YouTube channel
  251. Ed Stone  (2)
    Worked on the Voyager 1 and 2 that went into Space in 1977
  252. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was aboard USS Pyro (AE-1) (moored at West Loch in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked) and hardly survived being strafed; later served on submarine USS Bumper (SS-333)
  253. One of the last witnesses of The Battle of Cable Street, London. She is now 96 and lives in London, UK. Possibly deceased, needs confirming
  254. WW2 veteran and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 89
  255. WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Also witness to the surrender ceremony at Tokyo Bay. US Army
  256. medal of honor korean war
  257. U.S. Marines 1943-1951 in WWII and Korean War
  258. Michael Stone  (3)
    Psychologist/doctor on the history televisions hit tv series 'Most Evil'
  259. Political consultant, lobbyist, and strategist, born 1952.Began in the Nixon administration, and became a major adviser to Donald Trump
  260. Spencer Stone  (2)
    US Airman First Class who helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received the US Soldier's Medal and France's Legion of Honor
  261. British WW1 Veteran Born: 09/23/1900
  262. NASA Recovery Team leader for missions from John Glenn through Apollo 12. Briefed Nixon during his welcome home meeting with the Apollo 11 crew on the USS Hornet
  263. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks, 65th Engineer Battalion, Company B, 25th Division. Later served in Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Luzon (Philippines), New Guinea a.o. places
  264. WWII: ETO. Veteran of the 5th Army, Company F, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry 'Texas' Division. He fought in Naples and the battle of Monte Casino, where he was taken a POW on February 14th, 1944
  265. Member of the famous Doolittle Raiders -Surprise bombing of Tokyo during WWII 'Co-Pilot Crew #10'
  266. Alias Murad Storm & Murad Storm Ad-Denemarki, Danish former agent of Danish Security & Intelligence Service (PET) operated in Islamic militant circles. Identity became public knowledge 2012 when he came forward in newspaper Jyllands-Posten
  267. Astronaut: STS-128, Expedition 20, Expedition 21, STS-129, STS-133; astronaut who painted the first watercolor in space
  268. Took the only known photo of Marilyn Monroe and JFK together
  269. Pearl Harbor survivor, one of the last 6 living survivors of the USS Utah during the attack
  270. Noted aeronautical and hydrodynamics engineer and consultant. Stout was the designer of the world's first ever supersonic seaplane, the Navy F2Y-1 Sea Dart
  271. Born 1896 #61 oldest person in the world. Lives in Tennessee.
  272. (Born 1944) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Got the Air Force Cross. Retired as a Brigadier General
  273. WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 78th Lightning Infantry Division, 311th Infantry Regiment, Timberwolf Company
  274. Flight scientist, NASA Flight Director
  275. WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oklahoma
  276. WWII: USS Augusta, messmate of President Harry Truman, pictured in an official 'All Hands' Naval Informantio Bulletin
  277. One of the Watergate Seven
  278. WWII - Bombing Squadron Pilot (VB-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet and at Guadalcanal
  279. American WWII Fighter Ace (13.5 Victs.) - 356th Fighter Group - USAAF
  280. WWII: ETO. 506th PIR, 101st AB
  281. Fighter ace 40th Fighter Squadron of the 35th
  282. Donut Dolly Vietnam War/An American Red Cross Donut Dollie with the 9th Infantry Division and Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam
  283. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
  284. Youngest to climb world 7 summits at 17
  285. WWII - Pilot of the B-17 'Big Yank', 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
  286. Retired Admiral of the US Navy former President of the Naval War College
  287. (Born June 12, 1919) is an American aviator.Last living ATAGIRL
  288. (Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran. Was sent to Scotland, Belgium, and Germany during his service. Purple Heart Recipient
  289. Pearl Harbor Survivor - USS Arizona - suffered severe burns from ship explosion
  290. First Director Of WW2 Coast Guard Womens Reserve
  291. US Navy Vietnam POW
  292. Vietnam war veteran. Straub spent 14 months in Vietnam, taking part in the Tet offensive. Now 73, Straub is fighting in Ukraine, quite possibly the oldest of the foreign volunteers to join the resistance forces there
  293. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
  294. Retired Navy Admiral
  295. Vice Admiral Bernard M. Strean executed the United States Navy's first circumnavigation of the world by nuclear-powered surface warships from July 31, 1964-October 3, 1964
  296. English mountaineer/army officer who took part in the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition. He is now living in retirement
  297. (born 18 July 1917) is an economics professor. He was a professor at Boston University, US until his retirement. He has been a distinguished academic working on development economics since the 1950s. Published 7+ books
  298. Centenarian (1895-2002). US Army WWI veteran. Wounded by shrapnel in France during battles there. Spent time also in Belgium and Germany
  299. WWII: WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
  300. 100 Year old World War II veteran and former prisoner of war. He lives in Bedford, N.H
  301. Former general of the German Democratic Republic's Army. Also a German WWII Veteran. Served in the Wehrmacht during the war
  302. Canadian physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate, who is a pioneer in the field of lasers. She is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with her former PhD adviser, Gérard Mourou of France
  303. WWII: USMC corpsman in the Battle of Guam 1944
  304. Autopsy on John F Kennedy
  305. WWII: ETO. Dutch veteran. No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF
  306. WWII: ETO. D-Day. Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He is the man Eisenhower talks to in the famous pre-D-Day photograph
  307. W.A.S.P/Women army Service Pilot ww2,flew the b-26, p-39, at-6, pt-19, b-17
  308. WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
  309. US Navy and participated in four invasions in the European Theater
  310. Kennedy campaign volunteer shot in the assassination of Robert Kennedy by Shirhan Sirhan in 1968
  311. WWII: PTO. Battles of Tarawa, Tinian and Saipan. 2nd Marines Div, 6th Regimental Scouts and Snipers
  312. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. US Navy
  313. Austrian and Canadian businessman and politician. Founder of the Austrian political party Team Stronach
  314. attorney/association executive
  315. Centenarian (1905-2008), witness of 2 major aviation events. In the 1909 crowd that watched O.Wright demonstrate his plane for the US military. Married to WWII Marine, lived on hill near Pearl Harbor in 1941, first bomb hit nearby house
  316. Explorer
  317. army general
  318. Designed and implemented the C++ programming language. Professor of Computer Science in Columbia University in New York City
  319. 'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
  320. American author, pastor, and former US Army Ranger who was involved in the Battle of Mogadish. He was awarded a silver star for his actions. In the film based on the battle, Black Hawk Down, Struecker is portrayed by Brian Van Holt
  321. One of the oldest women in Britain. She is now 109 and when she was a small girl, waved off the Titanic at Southampton. She now lives in Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
  322. WWII: Chaplain with the USMC . He made four landings in the Pacific theatre, the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima
  323. Politican
  324. Tuskegee Airmen
  325. WWII: PTO. US Navy, Underwater Demolition Team
  326. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Hull
  327. WWII: PTO/ETO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Hickam Field. Flew B-17 known as 'Jack the Ripper' over Germany (1943-44) and was shot down close to Munster. He was a POW in STALAG LUFT 1
  328. Retired Navy Admiral
  329. WWII: 25th Infantry Division. Pearl Harbor survivor, sw action at Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Northern Solomons, Luzon, and the Philippines
  330. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
  331. Navy Admiral
  332. Author veteran
  333. Physicist who played an important part in the development of rocket intrumentation
  334. Kentucky Speaker of the House (2009-present)
  335. medal of honor army vietnam
  336. astronaut
  337. WWII: ETO. Top Turret Gunner of B-17 'Fifinella' (42-107030); 322nd Squadron, 91st Bomb Group. Flew 20 missions from June 17, 1944. Was shot down on the Aug. 13, 1944 south of Paris. Spent 314 days as a POW, mostly at Stalag Luft IV
  338. Philanthropist, historian is a great-granddaughter of 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the granddaughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  339. Witness to JFK assassination from a 4th story window in the Texas School Book Depository, close to Oswald's window. Figure in the controversial timing of Oswald's departure from the building
  340. Retired German general
  341. Nobel Prize winner: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
  342. Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/Staff Sgt./Military Police, US Army, Defense Attaché's Staff
  343. WWII - Fighter Ace, 8 victores. 357th Fighter Group ('The Yoxford Boys')
  344. American professor, UCSD
  345. Fighter ace
  346. WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
  347. American Serial Killer
  348. Flight scientist, ISS project manager
  349. Last performer at the 1st NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen 3 January 1951
  350. Lz xray 1965 nam
  351. Son of Chiune Sugihara, the Chinese 'Oskar Schindler', living in Antwerp, Belgium
  352. 'Rocketman' from the 1984 Olympic Opening Ceremonies
  353. The Octomom; California woman famous for having octuplets and a total of fourteen children via in vitro fertilisation,Starred in Adult Movie 'Home Alone'
  354. Pilot for US Airway Flight 1549 which was successfully landed in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan six minutes after departing from LaGuardia Airport
  355. JFK: Secret Service agent for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter as well as Vice Presidents Agnew and Rockefeller. Korean War veteran
  356. Invented the CPAP machine; essential to premie birth survival
  357. Former U.S. -General, U.S. Air Force
  358. Army General And Former U.S. Army Chief Of Staff
  359. General Gordon Russell Sullivan-Retired Army general officer, who served as the 32nd Chief of Staff of the United States Army & member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/Army Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart & Legion of Merit
  360. Flight aviator, pilot SR-71 Speed Run-New York to London
  361. 2001/American electrician best known for operating a fully robotic limb through a nerve-muscle graft, making him one of the first non-fictional cyborgs
  362. astronaut
  363. Detective/Creator of SAFEKIDS
  364. Lead prosecutor for the John Wayne Gacy case; author of the book 'Killer Clown'
  365. WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Oakland from 1942 to 1946. Was in many battles in the Pacific incl. Coral Sea, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; near the USS BUnker HIll when she was hit by 2 Kamikaze; watched the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
  366. 2005 Disney Legend
  367. 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  368. English former footballer, who played in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Starred in the WWII movie, ESCAPE TO VICTORY
  369. Icthyologist for 'Finding Nemo'
  370. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
  371. Writer, broadcaster and historian and great niece of Sandy Irvine, the most famous Everest mountaineer of the 1920s
  372. JFK - Assassination witness clearly seen in the Zapruder movie, just a few yards from the incident, as the man diving to the ground as the shots rang out
  373. WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Mahan (DD-364) and survived the Kamikaze attack on Dec. 7, 1944 (Battle of Ormac Bay) between Leyte and Ponson Island, when 3 out of 7 Kamikaze hit the ship
  374. Retired General
  375. American Science Populariser - Childrens Television
  376. Kiribati businessman, CEO of Coral Sun Airways
  377. WW2/Sumwalt was aboard the light cruiser USS Phoenix CL-46 and also saw action in the Pacific
  378. Businessman and Co-founder of Lime Bikes
  379. First 4-star general in the history of ROK Armed Forces, fought in the Korea War
  380. Former Alcatraz Inmate. He is currently free and lives somewhere in Pittsburg. He was a good friend of Whitey Bulger at Alcatraz. AZ-1431
  381. WWII: British veteran of the Arctic convoys (Murmansk runs)
  382. Centenarian (1896-2004). One of the last US Navy veterans of WWI. Served on the USS Charleston transporting supplies/soldiers across the Atlantic, and played sax in the ship's band
  383. American comedian, Paralympian, motivational speaker and author. He lost his left leg to Ewing's sarcoma at age nine and later became a Paralympic ski racer. Chosen as 1 of CNN's 2007 Heroes, in recognition of his work with amputees
  384. Politician, Comedian, and Presidential Canidate
  385. Retired Russian cosmonaut and politician
  386. Tuskegee Airmen, '99th', 'Bronze Star', 'Mechanic'. April 1941-June 1946!
  387. WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
  388. The Yorkshire Ripper, mass murderer
  389. Fighter ace world war 2
  390. Supercentenarian Born 1906 Oldest person living in Nebraska
  391. WWII - Gunner in the Dambusters Raid of 1943
  392. 2016 Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
  393. WWII German Sniper with 209 kills
  394. WWII: PTO. Electrician's Mate, USS Enterprise
  395. Joe Sutter  (2)
    American born chief engineer for the development of the Boeing 747. Worked as an engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company. He is now 90 and resides in West Seattle
  396. Former District Attorney Of Bristol County MA. Was the Prosecuting Attorney for NFL football star Aaron Hernandez murder trial
  397. U.S. bank robber
  398. Blue Angel pilot turned pro hockey player
  399. Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979
  400. Scientist, Environmentalist
  401. WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
  402. WWII: Fighter pilot of the VMF 451 ('Blue Devils') stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids. Survived Kamikaze attack at the Bunker Hill (11 May 1945). 3 victories, 2 assists. Flew F4U Corsair
  403. Politics
  404. Robert Swan  (3)
    Polar Explorer and Environmental campaigner
  405. Born Jan. 28, 1954 Was A Honor Guard (?) and helped Betty Ford at Gerald Ford's funeral
  406. American serial killer and former licensed physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he admitted to only causing four deaths
  407. Psychic Spy for the CIA. From 1978-1991 worked as the head of the CIA's ''remote Viewing'' department, very covert.Info was declassified about five or six years ago.
  408. The second Disneyland Ambassador (1966)
  409. Pearl Harbor Attack Survivor; was at Hickam Field with the Army Air Corps. Later also survived the Battle Of Midway when his B-17E Flying Fortress was shot down on 5 June 1942 and he was one of three survivors
  410. astronaut
  411. Survivor and eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. She is the wife of William A. Swanson
  412. Survivor and eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. Maybe still living, not sure
  413. B.1927 Former FBI Special Agent from 51-77, author FBI Secrets & To Kill a President/Served Navy during WW2/Began career doing "black bag jobs" on Communists in Chicago. In Kentucky & NYC, spent years doing serious criminal investigations
  414. WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
  415. 'Royal Air Force Seaplane Pilot'
  416. Pearl Harbor Survivior 'Crew Member U.S.S. Ward 139'
  417. United States Army Air Force pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Author of War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
  418. Joe Sweeney  (2)
    WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
  419. John Sweeney  (3)
    WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal. First Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. Navy Cross
  420. Wwii: pto. us navy
  421. US Navy makes history as US Navy's 1st Black female fighter pilot LT. JG Madeline Swegle
  422. US WWII veteran, born 1914. Served as a cook for the Army?s 569th Field Artillery in Europe
  423. American former biathlete. In 1984, she was a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. relay team at the first women's Biathlon World Championships. In July 1984 she was kidnapped by two 'Mountain Men' near Bozeman, Montana and held captive for 18 days.
  424. 2013 Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient- saved 12 soldiers in Afghanistan in 2009
  425. 9th Oldest Person in the World
  426. Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II, Ace (15 kills)
  427. Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Kansas City, MO
  428. Vietnam Army pilot with 118th Assault Helicopter Co. stationed Bien Hoa, Republic of Vietnam. During his flying combat missions, awarded 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Star, 23 awards of The Air Medal, & Vietnam Cross of Gallantry
  429. U.S. Navy officer, Guantanamo Bay attorney
  430. Astronaut on Apollo 13
  431. One of Anne Frank's friends lives in Amstelveen today
  432. JFK - pilot of Air Force One in the early 1960s; also flew Kennedy's body back to Washington in the hours after his assassination in Dallas
  433. Vietnam Marine/POW Hanoi Hilton/Shared prison cell with John McCain/Awarded two Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts, Legion of Merit with Combat 'V' Prisoner of War Medal/Retired at rank of lieutenant colonel
  434. iditerod racing
  435. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Medical Corpsman
  436. Former USMC that served in the US Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper Platoon during the Gulf War. He was apart of STA Platoon 2 Blatoon 7th Marines. Author of Jarhead and many novels
  437. German ww2 pilot
  438. German-American biochemist. He is the co-awardee of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with James Rothman and Randy Schekman) for work on vesicle trafficking.)
  439. 'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Brampton'
  440. US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Through the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and meeting the Soviets at Elbe. After, served as a guard at the Nuremburg Trials
  441. air force general
  442. Dust bowl survivor and WWII veteran, born 1917. Fought in campaigns including Tunisia, Sicily, and Rome (where he met the Pope), and later helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp
  443. Commanding Officer, 101st Airborne Division
  444. US Navy Admrial
  445. WWII - South Pacific. Fighter Ace, 5 victories. VFM-112 Squadron
  446. Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
  447. WWII: ETO. HQ Co, 1st Battalion Rangers. Dieppe Raid, D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
  448. Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
  449. Nobel Prize 2009 of Medicine
  450. WW II Marine, born 1924. Purple Heart in the Battle of Iwo Jima
  451. Politician