American virologist. Along with Michael Houghton and Harvey J. Alter, he was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 'for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus'
United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions during the Battle of Hurtgen Fo
First officer of the French Navy and joined on 16 August 1927 to the Compagnie Generale Aeropostale , a French airmail company, from which, after the nationalization in 1933, Air France emerged. He participated in the first postal service
Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1920) Second Spanish Republic. Mobilized in 1936. Secretary general of JSU of Alcala in Peguerinos's zone in 1936. Affiliated to Communist Party of Spain. Age: 96. Lives in Spain
American aeronautical engineer & founder of AeroVironment & designer of human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could 'Do more wit
One of the last five known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. She is now 101 years old and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Irish-American activist against crime and violence and author of his memoir, All Souls: A Family Story From Southie. He helped to start Boston's gun-buyback program, and founded the South Boston Vigil group
WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining. The war ended soon after his training was complete and he was deployed in post-war China to guard surrendered Japanese officers
WWII: CBI. Sergeant Major in the Royal Rifles of Canada who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war
WWII:PTO. Served as a rifleman in the legendary K/3/5 (Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division) in the Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa with E.B. Sledge (HBO's The Pacific)
Lt. General, Retired, United States Army 1981-2018
Deputy Commander, TRADOC
III Corps
1st Armored Division
1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
2nd Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment
Gulf War
Iraq War
Battle of Ramadi
War in Afghanistan
Retired Marine Corps officer who served as National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan from 1983-1985. Was a leading architect of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Pleaded guilty to charges related to the Iran-Contra affair
British historian, director of the British Museum 2002-, Director of the National Gallery London 1987-2002, Editor of the Burlington Magazine 1981-1987
1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
WWII: PTO. US WWII veteran, born 1923. Served in the Navy on the USS Gillespie, supporting the invasions of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Peleliu, Buna, New Hollandia, Biak, Rabaul, Battle of Leyte Gulf
American psychiatrist, parapsychologist, writer, & professor at Harvard Medical School. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, a leading researcher and writer on alien abduction experiences
WWII: CBI. Of HQ Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Rifles of Canada, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war
One of the few surviving witnesses of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination in New Delhi, India in 1948. He was only 24 years old at the time, when he was a witness to the assassination. He is now 87 and lives in New Delhi
Author/military interrogator who orchestrated & participated in a Delta Force team's raid of a fish pond in Iraq he hoped would turn up something that might lead the team to Saddam Hussein & did
American architect, born 1923. WII veteran, serving as a 'Buffalo Soldier' in the segregated US Army 92nd Infantry Division. Purple Heart for combat wounds in Italy, December 26, 1944
German lawyer & advocate radical ideals. Was extreme-left militant, Founder of Red Army Faction (RAF). Became Maoist & shifted to extreme-right. Convicted of Volksverhetzung incitement of popular hatred & Holocaust denial serving 12-year prison sentence
Author of 9 books, including 6 on the Civil War. His research has brought to Civil War enthusiasts original accounts, letters and diaries of Union soldiers who were present at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Chancellorsville, etc
WWII: 2 years in the CCC. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena (CL-50). Battle of Cape Esperance, Night Battle of Guadalcanal. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Helena in the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. Later served on the USS Munsee
Former licensed practical nurse, and serial killer from Clinton, Indiana who was convicted of murdering his patients. Though he was only tried for six murders, he is believed to have committed as many as 130 between 1993 and 1995
WWII: ETO. 322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group ('The Ragged Irregulars'). Radio Operator on B-17 'Chief Sly's Son (B-17G #42-31076). Shot down 1 January 1944 on return from mission to Oschersleben. POW for 15 months
British-Australian astronomer and photographer, who has conquered the depths of cosmos with stunning photography taken from the Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia
The fourth oldest person in the UK (Born: 1906) Recently celebrated her 111th birthday. Also one of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918. Lives in King's Lynn, Norfolk, UK
* 1933 in Karlsruhe, German electrical engineer who in the 1960s developed a trackball control similar to the later computer mouse at Telefunken. Douglas Engelbart is usually considered the inventor of the mouse
American theoretical physicist, academic, and author. He has taught physics at the University of Connecticut since 1975. He is best known for his scientific position on the possibility of time travel
Navy seal, born 1945, one of the four frogmen to help recover the Apollo 11 crew and their returned capsule. The strongest swimmer, he swam with an equipment bag for the collected moon rocks to be taken out in
Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/US Marine/Personal Protective Security Unit (PPSU), the bodyguard for Ambassador Martin/beaten, bewildered & dazed when lifted from the roof of the American Embassy in a CH-46 Helicopter
WWII - 388 Fighter Squadron, 365th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force. Flew strafing and bombing cross-channel missions on D-Day over Utah Beach. Shot down June 18, avoided the Germans, 'escaped' the British. 2 victories
Grand daughter of Georges Méliès who was a French filmmaker famous for many innovative special effects in early cinema. His grand daughter is now 88 and lives in France
A lobbyist and political consultant. He was an adviser to the presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, and was a national chairman of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump
Centenarian (1900-2001). One of the last Australian WWI veterans. Fought in many battles. Gassed, leaving him deaf and blind for weeks, later wounded by shrapnel
Italian born US WWII veteran and centenarian, born 1912. Through Ellis Island in 1919. Started working as a barber in the early 1920's, still a working barber at the age of 108
Michael Mancuso (born 1955), is an American mobster. He is a member of the American Mafia (Cosa Nostra) and the boss of the Bonanno crime family, one of Five Families in New York City
WWII: ETO. Served with the 761st Tank Battalion (5th Tank Group), aka 'Black Panthers', the first black armored unit to enter combat on Nov. 8, 1944, fighting in France, Luxemburg, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria
British mercenary and former British Army officer, who participated in the failed coup d'etat in 2004 in Equatorial Guinea, was released from prison Nov. 2009 and is living in England again
Former English cricketer and naval officer (Born: 1914) He was born in Exeter, Devon, the son of Sir Errol Manners KBE, who was an admiral and an author on theology
Former US soldier, formerly known as Bradley Manning. He/She was in prison for betraying the country and giving Top Secret classified info to WikiLeaks
Italian-American mobster from Providence, Rhode Island. He is the former boss of the New England-based Patriarca crime family, which is part of La Cosa Nostra
Is a retired Air Force General. Fought in World War 2 as a P-47 Fighter PilGeneral Manor is perhaps best known as task force commander of Operation Ivory Coast, a special forces raid on the prisoner of war camp at Son Tay, Vietnam on November 21, 1970. Bo
Author/'Cruisers for Breakfast : War Patrols of U. S. S. Darter and U. S. S. Dace'/WWII. He piloted landing craft that picked up US Marines off the islands of Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal
Civil rights activist, born 1925. After her children had been jailed during schoolkid civil rights protests, she felt the need to stand with them. She participated in the Selma march of 1965. She was one of the marchers tear gassed on 'Bloody Sunday', aft
Civil Rights Activist during the Selma campaign. Was jailed as a tenth grader after student protests, and later tear gassed with his family during the Bloody Sunday March in 1965
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
One of the last known survivor;'s of the Armenian Genocide (Born: 1906) He was about nine years old when the genocide began in 1915. He is now 110 and lives in Los Angeles, USA
Whistleblower who realized Bernie Madoff's system couldn't have worked as claimed after he analyzed the reports about the financial gains Madoff obtained for his clients
Warsaw, Poland Holocaust survivor/14 years old at time of Holocaust/Her mother went to German headquarters where they were greeted by SS Officer BrigadefÃ?hrer Johannes SchÃ?fer/posed as non-Jews
Female Polish Army WWII vet, born 1926. Sent to Siberia by Soviets weeks after Germany invaded Poland. Released when she was 14, lied about her age to join the Army, Served in Iraq, N. Africa, and then as a truck driver on the Italian front
Polish WWII vet, (1942-48), born 1920. Soviets sent his family to a labor camp, until Stalin granted amnesty to Poles who'd fight for Poland. Fought all over Europe and Africa. Badly burned when his tank was hit, then taught English to Polish troops
Attorney/WWII: PTO. US Fleet Marine (20MM anti - aircraft gunner) on the USS Enterprise; he was the last Marine to join the U.S.S. Enterprise in 1943 when it sailed out of dry dock to the South Pacific and he participated in 12 of naval engagements
Spanish military historian. He wrote more than 35 books about the Great War and WW2. He met several German tank commanders, especially Otto Carius. His most famous book is 'Otto Carius, the hero of the Tiger 217'
WWII - D-Day Seaman 1st Class on Landing Ship Tank LST 281 towing landing craft to Utah Beach on June 6, 1944; later in April 1945 on the same LST-281 fighting off Kamikazes in Battle of Okinawa
US WWII P-47 Fighter pilot, 345th Fighter Squadron, 350th Fighter Group. Flew 97 missions over Africa, Italy. Shot down on his 94th, got three more missions in before the war ended. He was born in 1921
WWII: Battles of Guam and Iwo Jima. Rifleman in the 3rd Marine Div, 9th Reg, F Co, 2nd Bn. Out of of the 250 men in his company, he was one of three or four who survived - all others were killed
Wife of former ABC newsman Murphy Martin, Joyce Martin sat in on every day of Jack Ruby trial, taking notes for husband while he conducted interviews outside the courtroom. Knew Jack Ruby's sisters & always sat with them during the trial
(alias Musculito) was a member of the anti-Castro movement in 1960s & later was one of 5 men recruited by G.Gordon Liddy & E. Howard Hunt in 1972 for Memorial Day weekend Watergate Burgleries 1st breakin at Democratic National Committee/DNC headqu
WWII: 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), 506th PIR, D Company. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Berchtesgaden (Eagles' Nest), occupation duty in Austria
Italian supercentenarian Born: 11/29/1899 who is, at the age of 116 years, 0 days, the oldest living person in Italy and Europe, and the oldest living person in the world. Last known living person born in the 1800's. Lives in Verbania, Italy
WWII: ETO/PTO. US Navy Bell Diver/Combat Swimmer/Frogman of Underwater Demolition Team #3 (UDT-3), forefathers of the Navy Seals. He carried 100 lbs of dynamite up the beaches for the Marines to retrieve and use in battle
Master Jewel Thief. Stole from the likes of Phyllis Diller, Robert Goulet, Johnny 'Tarzan' Weissmuller, Truman Capote & others netting him around $35 million dollars. Operated 1960-1990, world-wide
Donald Francis Mason was a U.S. Navy pilot with Patrol Squadron Eight-Two (VP-82), stationed at Argentia, Newfoundland.Responsible for the saying 'Sighted Sub, Sank Same.
WWII: D-Day. UK veteran. Landed (second wave) with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Gold Beach. Also El Alamein, Sicily, a.o. battles in the MTO (Mediterranean Theater of Operations)
Age 91/Hartford Ringling Brother's Circus Fire/Featured on the front page of the newspaper July 7, 1944 as a young nurse helping with the injured and identifying the deceased
Joseph 'Joey Bang Bang' Massaro is a Lucchese soldier. He was a member of the 'Harlem Crew' and reported to capo Anthony Baratta. During the early 1980s, Massaro extorted Long Island topless bars starting a feud with the Bonanno crime family.
WWII: ETO. Tail Gunner, B-24 Liberator 'B.T.O.' (Big Time Operator, #42-7627). 702nd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force (Dec. 1943 to Dec. 1944). Became a POW in Sweden. DFC
Last survivor of the final Royal Naval vessel to be sunk in WW2. He was a sailor on HMS Vestal, an Algerine-class minesweeper and part of the East Indies Fleet. Vestal was sunk on July 26, 1945. Now age 92 and lives in Newark-on-Trent, UK
WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
Japanese woman who sent a set of traditional dolls to US President John F Kennedy more than 50 years ago/Caroline Kennedy played with the dolls as a child and now has the set on display at her official residence in Tokyo/Lives in Kitami
WWII - fought with the legendary K/3/5. Fought at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Cape Gloucester, Borgen Bay, Talasea and Peleliu as a Marine. Also received a Purple Heart
American veteran (1916-2011). Served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade, and in the US Army during WWII. Joined the Young Communist League in the 1930s
Born 18 March 1970 in St. Wendel, Saarland, German European Space Agency astronaut and materials scientist, who was selected in 2015 to take part in space training. In September 2021 scheduled for SpaceX Crew-3
Author of the book 'The Training and Experience of a Quaker Relief Worker'. Worked as a relief worker in post-war Germany during the aftermath of WW2. Born: 1920. Lives in West Hagley, Worcestershire, England. Now aged 96
WWII: ETO. Tail gunner in B-24 'Wild Pussy' (B-24H-15-FO #42-52529). 786th Squadron, 466th Bomb Group, 8th AF. 31 combat missions (Feb. 6 1944-Aug. 16, 1944), incl. 2 to Berlin and 2 on D-Day, almost being killed on his last one to Hamburg
WWII veteran (Born 1925), shrapnel broke thorough his thigh during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in Nov. 1944. During 40 months of difficult recovery, often near death, he met with a visiting Helen Keller, which left him awed and inspired
WWII: British D-Day (Sword Beach) vet, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Later injured while fighting in the Netherlands. He is the last living knight from WWII of the exclusive Military William Order, the highest honour of the Netherlands
Pearl Harbor Survivor, Kaneohe NAS. On guard watch at Hangar 3, he emptied the Colt 45 he'd been issued at a Japanese Zero plane that strafed the ground around him, though he didn't hit the grinning pilot
Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He is co - laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5); later, serving on the USS Samaritan (AH-10), in the Battles of Midway and Iwo Jima
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948 - January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
In 1985, she was selected from more than 11,000 ap
Dallas Police Lieutenant stationed at the Trade Mart, later part of team that investigated shooting of Oswald. Also served in the Marine Corps in the Korean War and was one of 'The Chosin Few'
WWII: D-Day. Navy gunner on the USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
On February 21, 1945, as a captain, he earned the Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima, while leading an assault team across exposed ground to wipe out positions holding up the advance of his company
JFK - Niece of the Ambassador Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Charles and Margaret Kennedy Burke, cousin of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Edward Moore Kennedy
JFK - Witness to the Kennedy motorcade in San Antonio, 21 November 1963; 'immortalized' in a rather unique photograph of that day that shows JFK in the motorcade and McClellan standing on a pickup truck waving at the President
WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
Centenarian (1899-2008). One of the last women alive who voted in 1920, a 1918 Flu survivor, and the oldest Olympic torch bearer on the road to Salt Lake City in 2002
A student at Jesuit High School in Dallas in 1963, McCone and friends were at Love Field for the president's arrival and later went to Parkland Memorial Hospital after learning of the shooting
Was the medical officer of the day at the Pentagon on Nov.22/63 . Later he worked in the pathology department at Parkland Memorial and was present for Jack ruby's autopsy
B.7/26/1924 Former CIA agent, later involved, as electronics expert, in Watergate burglaries which precipitated the Watergate scandal. Arrested during the second break-in to DNC Headquarters. Wrote; 'A piece of tape; the Watergate story: fact and fiction'
US Army Air Corps WWII veteran. Bombadier on a B-29 crew based in Saipan, flew 13 missions over Japan. Part of the fly-over during the Japanese Surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
US centenarian (1903-2011), contracted and survived the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Entire family delirious with fever, nursed by healthy family boarders. Became a banker, dealt with the 1929 Stock Market crash and the Great Depression
African-American author of Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter which describes her return to VA to learn her family history, as well as stories of her grandfather, CSA General John R. Jones
WWII: USS Gridley (DD-380 ). Entered Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941, the morning after the attack, together with the USS Enterprise. Also served in the Aleutian Campaign in 1942
Retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He served in the Medical Corps and from 1992-1995 was Commander of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia. Appeared on the US reality show Mole 2: The Next Betrayal
Vietnam infantry platoon leader in the legendary 173d Airborne Brigade, military theorist who has helped shape the post-Cold War army?s thinking, author of Platoon Leader, The Defense of Hill 781, and The Limits of Glory
Served prison time for Whitewater controversy. Her refusal to answer '3 questions' for grand jury about whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court
Dallas historian/Was recent graduate of Southern Methodist University and working at university when she decided to go see the presidential motorcade. Years later, as Dallas historian, she worked on photographic research for The Sixth Floor
In 1963, McElroy was a funeral director and embalmer at Oneal Funeral Home in Dallas. He was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the presidential limousine arrived, and he later helped carry President Kennedy's casket into the hospital
WWII: B-17 bomber pilot in the Pacific. Bomber Barons, 5th BG, 13th AF. 58 missions. Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon
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
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
Co-inventor of popular drugs in tetrahydropyridimine family such as pyrantel, morantel & oxantel. Drugs commonly used for the treatment of intestinal parasitic worms, most popularly in veterinary fields for pin, round, and heart worms
(November 19, 1925 - March 3, 1999) was a United States Naval officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions while in command of the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean on June 8, 1967 during the Six-Day War
POW of War - VietnamAuthor of 'Prisoner of War: 6 years in Hanoi'which give a graphic account of the terribl punishments endured by the US Soldiers (and Heroes!!)
1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world