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Nobel physics laureate 1999
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First Women to climb MT Everest
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Alleged thief of Binion silver
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 96th Infantry Division
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Son of Anthony Taccetta
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Mobster
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American lawyer, media personality and professional sports executive. He is a personal attorney for former U.S. president Donald Trump
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Born 1895. One of oldest people in world. Lives in Guadeloupe
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Was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to find 'the most beautiful Aryan baby' in 1935. Taft's image was subsequently distributed widely by the Nazi party in a variety of materials, despite being Jewish
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Grandson of President William Howard Taft
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Son Of Robert Taft Jr
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Great Great grandson of Pres. William HowardTaft.Son of William Howard Taft IV
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Former Governor of Ohio (1999-2007) born 1942, Great Grandson Of President William Howard Taft
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Survivor of the Nuclear bomb in nagasaki
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Scotlands Oldest Living Man/WW1 Veteran(enlisted at end of War) Born: 06/28/1900
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Retired General
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Witness of the assassination of John F. kennedy in Dallas. Wounded in the cheek by a sidewalk fragment from a bullet fired at the President
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USMC SGT being held prisoner in Mexico
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One of two of Holocaust last living survivors of Nazi death camp Treblinka/Estimated that between 800.000 and 1.2million prisoners were taken to Treblinka/Lives in Israel
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Creator of Pokemon and founder of Gamefreak
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WWII Japanese Pilot
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Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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WWII: One of the few survivors of the Japanese Navy who were involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Survived the sinking of the Hiryu during the Battle of Midway in 1942, and almost starved on the Pacific Island Chuuk
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Retired General
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Bloodline/Vietnam Vet/Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Eagle Scout/Great grandfather killed in battle of Little Big Horn/Genus IQ 245
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vietnam war air force hero
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JFK/Kennedy Honor Guard Death Watch/Death watch at White House & Capital Grounds
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Cosmonaut from Cuba, is now the director of international relationships at the Deparment of Defense in Cuba
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Oldest man in the world as of 2007. Born Sept 18, 1895. Lives in Miyakonojo, Japan.
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Japanese Supercentenarian. Born: 05/20/1899. 32nd Oldest Person in the World
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Japanese aircraft and automotive engineer. Japanese WWII Veteran
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002
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Wasp wwii pilot
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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. He is now 76
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American historian, biographer, and journalist. His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Lakeland Flying Tigers AAA
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Vietnamese Minister of Justice during the Vietnam War era, now living in Exile in France
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army general
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Joseph 'Joey Flowers' Tangorra (born August 2, 1949) is a Lucchesse soldier, and former capo of the 'Bensonhurst Crew'. In September 2000, Tangorra was indicted along with acting boss Steven Crea
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WWII: Finnish Fighter Ace
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astronaut
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1926 in California, moved to Japan at age 6. Drafted into the Japanese army during WWII, he was helping to dig an air raid shelter into a hill about a mile and a half from Hiroshima's center when the bomb hit. He emerged to see
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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Coast guard author
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John Tanner (3)State attorney that prayed with Ted Bundy prior to his execution
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Astronaut
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Noted American Zoologist. Associated with BYU for most of his teaching and career. Born: 12/17/1909
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. Interrogated numerous Nazi officials involved in art operations, incl. Albert Speer and Walter Hofer. At Berchtesgaden, he worked to recover the objects from Hermann Göring's collection
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Figher ace iwo jima p-51
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Former Soviet military leader, doctor of technical sciences, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
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Firefighter caught in the World Trade Centre attacks on September 11 2001. Survived the collapse and is featured in the Naudet documentary, 9/11
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Soviet Astronaut
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WWII: ETO. Falaise Pocket, Battle of the Bulge, Maginot Line, 'West Wall', Rhine crossing, Nuremberg, Austria. 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Blue Ridge Infantry Division
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Argentine human rights activist. A founding member of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1917) was a volunteer of the Republican army, becoming an official. He fought in Madrid and the Battle of Teruel. One of the last surviving Republican officers. Now 99
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American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research. She is credited with coining the term 'brown dwarf' for the classification of stars with insufficient mass to sustain hydrogen fusion
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WWII: Nurse on hospital ship USS Solace
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Author/Retired Brigadier General
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Supercentenarian born 1906 5th oldest person living in France
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British-born American paleoanthropologist, author and curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Tattersall is currently working with the Templeton Foundation
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Retired General
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Fought at Iwo Jima.Veteran featured on the HBO miniseries The Pacific
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nobel chem. laureate 1983
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Born 1896 #71 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Germany.
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Harold has been cited in several books and publications chronicling the history of the war for heroism in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. Purple Heart
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Army Medical Department
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 101st Airborne Division
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WWII: Escaped the German Army in the 'Miracle of Dunkirk', May/June 1940. 13th Lysander Squadron RAF, but dispatched to the Royal Signals of the Army before Dunkirk as they were in need of wireless operators like him
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WWII: Signalman on HMS Palomares in the ill-fated PQ17 arctic convoy in July 1942 when 25 of 36 ships were lost to enemy actions
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Known as professor splash--he jumps from high hights Down in a pool With only 30 cm of water--has been on Americas got talent
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American aviator, notable for being in the late summer and early fall of 1976 the first person in history to successfully fly a homebuilt aircraft around the world. World War II Veteran
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Environmental sociologist and author. Research involves environmental history, justice, & policy, leisure and recreation, gender and development, urban affairs, race relations, collective action and social movements, etc
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Dallas Police Detective in '63 , he helped to arrest Oswald at Texas Theatre
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Hudson Taylor (2)Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization Athlete Ally, former wrestling coach at Columbia University and a prominent straight ally and civil rights activist of LGBT rights
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Founder of Enterprise Rental cars, pilot aboard the USS Enterprise during WW2
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Medal of honor army vietnam, born 1937
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nobel physics laureate 1993
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Ken Taylor (3)
Former Canadian Ambassador To Iran, Helped a Group Of American Avoid Capture -
Pearl Harbor Suvivor 'Battleship California'
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Army Captain Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient. Was awarded by President Biden in September of 2023 for his actions Ap Go Cong, South Vietnam in 1968. (Born 1942)
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WW2 veteran who helped plan the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also the first woman to get the Legion d'Honneur. She is now 98 and lives in London, UK
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Army General
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TV/movie actress of the 1960s + 70s: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Peter Gunn, Dragnet (1958), Flight = 1 ep. 'Enemy Agent' of: 'Gen. Kenny that introduced the episodes was the commander of the 5th Air Force under MacArthur in WWII'; + 'Three Men in a Boat'
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nobel physics laureate 1990
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Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Arctic convoys
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942; also a Malta convoys veteran
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Is the founder and president of the Antique Airplane Association Inc. as well as co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Airpower Museum. Also is a World War II Veteran
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Thomas Taylor (5)(Born 1923) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. Worked on a destroyer escort
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS California
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WWII: PTO. USS Bannon, USS West Virginia, USS Alabama
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French Freedom Fighter WW2 Born c. 1916
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Distinguished correspondent at NBC who helped integrate TV news. Worked as a radio news writer, sports copy editor, reporter, anchorman and producer for more than three decades. Authored books exploring race in American society
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Retired General
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WWII: PTO. USS Laurens APA-153, USS George K. MacKenzie DD-836
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WWII Veteran from Kansas. He served in the 98th Infantry Division at the end of WWII as a replacement for the original infantry and trained for deployment in Japan. He was one of 15,000 replacements for the Division at the end of the war.
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WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March
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Spanish soldier, tried a coup-etat in Spain in 1981 but failed
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businessman
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physicist/scientist
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(Born 1950) US Marine Crops Vietnam Veteran. A combat engineer with Company D, 11th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973
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Supercentenarian, born 1874
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941; survived the sinking of 4 ships in WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Navy radioman third class stationed at Ford Island
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Daughter of Cumbrian (UK) firefighter called - Jim Templeton, is the little in the famous photo of the 'Solway Firth Spaceman'
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The only African-American female to pilot the U-2 spy plane
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust'
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust'
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Independent writer, speaker, historian, and consultant on technology and culture. His book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences has been an international bestseller
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WWII - Bataan Death March Survivor/192nd Tank Battalion, U.S. Army,made to march for 8 days after his capture/Former professor of economics at Arizona State University
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Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during Queen Victoria's reign. 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', 'Break, Break, Break', 'Crossing the Bar'
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Soviet War Veteran (Red Army) Born: 07/12/1915
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Spanish Civil War Veteran. Spanish Republic. Lives in Berlin. Born: 11/26/1918
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2022 special election Libertarian nominee for FL-20
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Bolivian army sergeant, who executed Che Guevara in 1967
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Closest living relative of Nikola Tesla and a Founding Director, Chairman of the Executive Board and, since 1998, Executive Secretary of the Tesla Memorial Society, Inc
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1919, he joined 615 RAuxAF in March 1938. Called up in 1939, he flew on Beaufighters throughout the Battle of Britain. He is now 96 and lives in Wheldrake near York, UK
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US AF pilot during the Berlin Air Lift 1948
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Spiritual Leader
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* 6.3.1937 in Maslennikowo former sowiet cosmonaut. In 1963 first woman in space
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Last survivng Tahitian WWII veteran
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British WWI soldier. Born: 06/23/1903
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Flight scientist, NASA/Voyager scientist , discovered several moons of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Abingdon'
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Clinical Sexologist-Sex Therapist to the Stars,Playboy April 1996
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Musician, Presidential Candidate ,Anti-Gay and Pro-Life Activist. Founded Operation Rescue. Got glitter bombed by Vermin Supreme during a debate
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Tuskegee Airmen, WW2; helped found Tuskegee Airmen Inc
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Grand-grandchild of the one of world's greatest inventor's, Nikola Tesla. In 1968, he wrote the book 'Tesla about Tesla'
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One of the youngest descendant of the man who invented the 20th century, Serbian-born American immigrant Nikola Tesla. She is 20 and lives in Smederevo, Serbian town near Belgrade
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WWII D-Day veteran, served on LCT transporting troops and supplies to the beaches under heavy fire. Also met Babe Ruth as a 5 year old in 1928 when his uncle played for the Red Sox
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Mobster
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran, born 1921, secretary general of the Chugoku Kikansha Renrakukai (Chukiren) until it was dissolved in 2002
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Part of the Wernher von Braun Rocket team; arrived in the USA in 1953 as part of then still active 'Operation Paperclip'
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German inventor of board game - The Settlers of Catan
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Vietnam war army hero 'Medal of Honor'
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Test pilot - Flew a F-82 Twin Mustang from Honolulu to New York
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa
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NASA astronaut (retired) five space flights
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American economist and the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to Behavioral economics
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Super Centenarian born June 6, 1897 lives in Nebraska
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #7 Engineer/Gunner
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US Supercentenarian (1891-2005). A 1918 Flu survivor and most likely the last living person to have visited and have memories of the 1901 Pan Am Exposition
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artic explorer skier
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Fighter ace world war 2 6 1/2 kills
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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german astronaut
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Witness 1937 Hindenburg Disaster. Lives in Pompton Lakes, NJ
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Pearl Harbor Survivor; sight-setter on a battery gun of the USS Ward, the ship that fired the first American shots in WWII and sank a Japanese submarine on Dec. 7, 1941
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Canadian Astronaut
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Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Flying Training School Cranwell
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Latino-American author of young adult novels, best known for the book Cemetery Boys which was a New York Times bestseller and won numerous awards. Thomas is transgender and uses the he and they pronouns
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WASP, flew the a-24, a-25, b-34, UC-78, at-7, at-11
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu
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Australian Astronaut. Four Space Shuttle Missions
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US Air Force SR-71, U-2 and RB-57F Test Pilot
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army general
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Member of the 'Skyrocket' Crew
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American astronaut
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nobel med. laureate 1990
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Edward Thomas (4) World War 2 Vet was a Pfc and fought in Iwo Jima
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Air force General
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US Marine Corps 4 Star General
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US WWII Navy vet, born 1925. Served on the USS Bush. Hit and sunk by kamikazes at Okinawa. Last living survivor of the sinking
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Attorney and conservative activist. Wife of Clarence Thomas
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Civil Rights Activist, member of CORE, Freedom Rider on bus that was firebombed in 1961
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
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American writer, broadcaster and traveler. The man who made 'Lawrence of Arabia' famous. Fictionalized as 'Jackson Bentley' in the David Lean film 'Lawrence of Arabia'
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WWII: MTO/ETO. US Navy. Sicily, Naples, Sardinia
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Tuskegee Pilot
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(Born 1943) US Army Band player during Vietnam. Played in the band for fallen soldiers funerals
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WWII ETO: D-Day. Operation Market Garden, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge. 101st Airborne Division
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Dancer, performed with Bob Hope in his USO tours during World War Two
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Tuskegee Airman
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Puerto Rican-Cuban writer and poet whose memoir Down These Mean Streets about rampant racism in his NY barrios was banned in some places but considered required reading in others. Spent 7 years in prison for attempted armed robbery
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Fighter ace
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Creator of the first computer virus known as 'Creeper' at BBN in 1971
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US Navy Admiral
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Eating Competition Champion
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Became the first deaf person to work as an undercover investigator doing lip-reading of suspects for the Federal Bureau of Investigation/Autobiography entitled Silent Night/TV series Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
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Wife of Lowell Thomas. Lives in Alaska
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Black female NASA Data Analyst. She invented the illusion transmitter
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WWII: CBI theater, Hump flyer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the USS Mannert Abele in the Battle of Okinawa
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Navy Admiral
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US Centenarian, born 1912. Lived through the 1918 Flu and COVID-19. WWII Navy veteran, patrolled the Aleutian Islands
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David Thompson (8)2012 inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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WWII: B-24/B-17 bombardier in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombt Group, 8th Air Force (Lavenham base). 30 missions (incl. D-Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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WWII: Piloted B-4, B-17 and P-51 planes in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th AF(Lavenham base). 30 missions (including D - Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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Dorothy 'Auntie Dottie' Thompson, who helped found and direct the Merrie Monarch Festival, Hawaii's most prestigious showcase for hula
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Supercentenarian, Lives in Flordia, Born: 04/05/1899. 4th Oldest person in the world
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Served on the USS Tennessee prior to WWII and the USS Missouri during WWII, ultimately witnessing the end of WWII/His story got 5 million views on facebook
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JFK - Honor Guard in the State funeral of President Kennedy; also stood Death Watch and as such pictured in the famous photograph of Jackie and Caroline Kennedy kneeling at the coffin
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F-86 Sabre pilot assigned to the 39thFighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group during the Korean Conflict. Besides gaining 2 aerial victories over MiG-15s
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Drug lord turned evangelist
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Naval Housing, Ford Island. Thompson was 13 on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was stationed on the seaplane tender Curtiss, anchored in Pearl Harbor
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John Thompson (5)Former owner of the ' Oswald House ' where Marina snapped photo of husband holding rifle in the backyard
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John Thompson (6) WWII: Guadalcanal. Led an air attack on Japanese forces at Guadalcanal's Bloody Ridge
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Died June 7th 2005. Alcatraz convict who became author, lecturer on crime & a celebrity on the Rock. Bank robber and hardened criminal who spent 24 years prison including four years of hard time in the famous Alcatraz Prison. Signed books can be Found
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Nurse at Methodist Hospital in Dallas and attended Officer J.D. Tippit when he was admitted
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(1893 - April 12, 1953) was a private secretary and personal aide to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a pioneer of the East Wing staff, being the first staffer for a First Lady of the United States who was not a social secretary
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Mark Thompson (6)TV Presenter/Astronomer
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Author and explorer
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Fighter ace 31st fighter group
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American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia. World War II Veteran
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Australian Politician
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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air force general
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Former U.S. Army helicopter pilot who rescued unarmed Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during what became known as the My Lai massacre,
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Director, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
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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 4 WW1
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Astronaut
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Former Governor of Nebraska (1979-1983)
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Author, Official Major League Baseball Historian
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen. 78th Infantry Division
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Governor of Pennsylvania (1979-87); U.S. Attorney General (1988-91)
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American theoretical physicist. In 2017, Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'
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Former British Airways cabin crew member (Born: 1927) who worked on the first jet flight from London to New York in 1958 on the de Havilland Comet 4
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(February 11, 1953 - May 24, 1986), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate.Thorne was killed in an aircraft accident of a stunt plane -in which he was a passenger- on May 24, 1986
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American Photojournalist, born 1939. Pulitzer for his 1966 photo of James Meredith being shot. Based in Mississippi, he covered many historic civil rights moments, including the Mississippi Burning murders, Selma, and Martin Luther King's funeral
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United States Air Aces
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Crew chief for the 332nd Fighter Group
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Air Force One Pilot for LBJ 1968 and 1969
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USAF General
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew four space shuttle missions. Helped repair Hubble on STS-61
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Medal of Honor, US Navy Vietnam, born 1949
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The woman whose conception led to the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case, has revealed herself publicly for the first time as the 'Roe baby.'
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astroanut
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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First person to count cards in Blackjack. Invented the system
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Dep Asstiant Secretary of Defense
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Air Force Medal of Honor Recipeint - Vietnam
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British condensed-matter physicist. 2016 Nobel Prize for physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
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Melchior, Balthazar and Caspar, Biblical people, also bring gifts during the Holidays to children in Latin America and Spain (on January 6th every year), akin to Santa Claus in those areas
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Survivor of the Mai Lai Massacre
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European Parlament member
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Young swedish climate activist
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USAF Demonstration Squadron
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CBS Radio typist, born 1930. Typed the scripts for various radio stars and their shows, including Burns and Allen and Jack Benny
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navy admiral
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astronaut
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Is a centenarian and is a Canadian politician and judge. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953
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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 83
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US Army General
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air force general
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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WWII: PTO. One of the two Marines smoking in the famous photo from the Battle of Peleliu
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-6 victories, USAAF, 356 Fighter Group, 361 Fighter Squadron
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Pilot of Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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WWII: D-Day, etc., 82nD AB, 505th PIR
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US Admiral
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Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, author of 'Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life & Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast' and director and screenwriter of the documentary 'We Are All Smith Islanders'
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American convicted murderer, who confessed to shooting dead a wealthy 81 year-old widow, Marjorie 'Marge' Nugent, in Carthage, Texas on Nov. 19, 1996. The murder is the subject of the 2011 film Bernie, starring Jack Black as Tiede
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Member of the Annex Security Team that fought the Battle of Benghazi, Libya, from September 11 to September 12, 2012. 13 Hours Movie Basis
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1931-2018. Finnish psychiatrist and professor at the University of Oulu. Responsible for the Finnish Adoptive Study, which studied schizophrenia rates compared to adoption (nature versus nurture)
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P-61 Pilot during WWII-(15 victories)
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation, in Japan
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Vietnam/UH-60 Medivac Pilot Huey Cobra Medical Ambulance
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Son of Charles Tigard, Founder of Tigard, Oregon Born 1909 WWII veteran
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Mexican American activist
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Canadian Scientist best known for demonstrating, with Ernest McCulloch, the existence of stem cells
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Clerk/typist for the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. Subject of the documentary 'The Typist', as the trial's last living typist
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Sgt. Major of Army on 6/23/2000-1/15/2004. Service; Vietnam, Awards; Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3), Bronze Star w/V Device, Meritorious Service Medal (2), Commendation Medal (3), Achievement Medal(3) & Presidential Unit Citation
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French philanthropist
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Super Centenarian Age:114, Oldest Person in the World
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Retired Air Force Colonel; Flew Air Force One
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Tuskegee Airmen/477th Bomber Group/'LA Chapter'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMT Lancastria during Operation Ariel (17 June 1940). It is estimated that there were 6.500 fatalities, representing a greater loss of life than the Titanic and Lusitania disasters combined
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(June 11, 1906 - September 23, 1992) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
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La Drang Valley, LZ-Xray Vietnam Way
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WWII Veteran, F Co, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division) Has a video on YouTube you can checkout 'The Day I Was Saved By A German Medic' December 2nd, 1944
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Motorcade spectator who filmed the Kennedys at the corner of Main and Harwood Streets in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963
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Nobel physics laureate 1976
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Astronaut
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Us airman, fighter ace in spanish was in 36-38
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American free speech activist known for his role in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case, which ruled that School could not punish her for wearing a black armband in school in support of a truce in the Vietnam War
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American free speech activist known for the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines. The case set a precedent for student speech in schools
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Apollo: One of the engineers who built the Lunar Rover; he, Rutledge Mills, Dick Wiser, and Walt Fahey built the prototype of the rover, named 'Grover', themselves
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The world's oldest man, as of April 2024. Aged 112
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CCC. WWII: PTO. 2nd Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian and Tarawa
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Air Force General
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Former Prime Minister of Thailand, Army General
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Member of the Band of Brothers / 506th Easy Company
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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Daughter of slain Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald 11/23/1963 after JFK/John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated
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Youngest Son of slain Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald 11/23/1963 after JFK/John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated
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Wife of Officer J.D. Tippit, Murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII: ETO, tail gunner on B-17 42-31720 'The Blue Blazing Blizzard' (379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force). His B-17 was shot and exploded at 25.000 feet while on a raid to Ludwigshafen, Sept 8, 1944; survived, was taken POW
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French professor of economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2014 for his analysis of market power and regulation of large companies
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Hungarian Physicist Born: 07/07/1907
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Lz xray nam 1965
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First Space Tourist mars mission 2018 flyby
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(1935-2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space
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cosmonaut
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Battle of Remagen. 303rd Medical Battallion, 78th Infantry Division
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German WWII Veteran
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Desert Storm/Shield US Army Veteran. Served from 1979 to 2000
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WWII - D-Day, Ranger 5HQ, in the 1st Wave on Omaha Beach
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WW2/from Poole in Dorset, Wren in Bletchley Park Naval Section working on ?Allied Plot?. A chart of the world covering all 4 walls & Wrens plotted the movement of all the allied ships and their German, Italian and Japanese opposite numbers
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A Dallas County Deputy Sheriff in '63 , Todd observed the Kennedy motorcade and was then involved in the initial search of the TSBD
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English centenarian and one of the top 30 oldest people in Britain and the oldest person in the North West. She is now 109 and lives in Ashton, Preston, Lancashire, UK. Her father worked on the construction of 'The Blackpool Tower' in the 1890's
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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
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As a girl, was one of the students connected to the Topeka, KS Brown v. Board of Education case. Her mother was the adult plaintiff on her behalf, along with several other Topeka area families. Her mother was also actively involved in organizing the case
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Supercentenarian (1889-2002), one of the last Italian WWI veterans, and at the time of his death, the world's oldest man
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French flight astronaut sts-93
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WW II Japanese propogandist 'Tokyo Rose'
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(born October 29, 1952) Russian cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, was born October 29, 1952 in the town of Kap-Yar, Astrakhan Oblast and currently resides at Star City, Moscow Region. He has traveled to space twice and has perfor
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cosmonaut
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WWII: ETO. 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Fought in the famous 'Battle of the Lost Battalion'
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Former high-profile Soviet-era test pilot who initially came to public attention as a test pilot for the Buran space shuttle
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Navajo Code Talker/3rd Battalion/9th Regiment
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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Courtroom Judge-Divorce Court
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2024 Green Party candidate for US President, 2024 Green Party candidate for US Senate from Florida
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One of the first five African American F-4 Phantom II pilots to serve under the famed Tuskegee Airman Gen. Daniel 'Chappie' James
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Retired Israeli Air Force officer. During WWII he served in a group of Palestinian Jewis Royal Air Force pilots. Back in Israel he served in the Israeli Air Force
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Company A, 2nd Rangers Battalion; landed near to the heavily fortified village of Vierville where he was seriously wounded while getting ashore
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WWII: PTO. B-24 Liberator nose gunner, 40 missions
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Pussy Riot member/Political Activist
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One of the survivors and witnesses to The Chernobyl disaster, that occurred on 26 April 1986 in Ukraine, Russia. He was fishing at the shore of the cooling water channel and witnessed the explosion. Lives in Russia
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Russo-British monarchist and historian. He is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party and is the current nominal head of the House of Tolstoy, a Russian noble family. Direct descendant of Leo Tolstoy
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American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930
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WW2, Korean & Vietnam Wars/Medal of Honor Recipient & Awarded Purple Heart U.S. Army/Rank Colonel/1st lieutenant in Company I, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. At Saulx de Vesoul, France location for actions awarding him MOH
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WWII: D-Day, USS Barnett (APA-5), Utah Beach. Wounded in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943). Later in the Invasion of Souther France (August 1944) and also in the Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart, French Legion of Honor Medal
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'Father' of e-mail; came up with the idea of using the '@' sign in e-mail addresses
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot of VMF-214 'The Swashbucklers'. Southwest Pacific and Guadalcanal to join Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214, known as the 'Swashbucklers.' Guadalcanal, Solomon and Russell Islands
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Hero Co-Pilot for Aloha Airlines Flight 243
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Counselor for Political Affairs, held at Iranian Foreign Ministry Office
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WWII Vet, lives in Wisconsin
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Czech who took part in The Great Escape from Stalag Luft POW camp
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Nobel medicine laureate 1987
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Peace Corps volunteer Jim Toner relates the story of his 74-year-old Irish-Catholic father's unexpected visit to Sri Lanka in Serendib
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Owner national millinery company based in Dallas, attended Adolphus Hotel luncheon on 11/4/1960, where LBJ & Lady Bird were heckled by bystanders. On November 22, 1963, Tonkon observed the President's motorcade on Cedar Springs Road
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USMC General
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Award-winning author and professor of education policy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Chairman of education companies in Ghana (Omega Schools Franchise Ltd) and India creating low cost chains of low cost private schools
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WWII: PTO. US Navy Flight Nurse in the Pacific
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Survivor of the of HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow in 1939
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3rd Most Successful German U-Boot Commander WWII
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British Police Chief involved with solving the Moor Killers
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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Shot down me-262 in ww2ww2 fighter ace
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World renowned polygrapher, frequent Howard Stern guest
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JFK - Secret Service 1937-1967
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Finnish World War 2 Hero. Birth Name: Lauri Allan Torni. aka. Larry Thorne Born: 05/28/1919
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(Born 27 July 1924) was a Feldwebel in the German Army who served as Adolf Hitler's personal dog-handler. He was one of the last people to occupy the Führerbunker when it was captured by Soviet Red Army troops. Living in Paulinenhof in Hervest, part
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NASA pilot - high-altitude ER-2 Earth science aircraft and the C-20A, a modified Gulfstream III business jet that carries a sophisticated synthetic aperture radar on environmental science missions
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(Born 1924) US Mairne Corps WW2 and Korean War Veteran. In Guam, Major General Graves Erskine, head of the 3rd Division, presented the Purple Heart
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Artist and veteran of the Spanish Civil War
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Mobster
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Puerto Rican convicted drug trafficker
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Last survivor of the "Morro Castle" passenger ship disaster of 1934
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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 4 WW1
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Finnish software engineer, initiated the development of the Linux kernel; Author
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WWII: 4th Marine Division. Iwo Jima. Bronze Star. Purple Heart
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One of six teens that went to JFK Airport to see the Beatles in 1964 and Ringo Starr took a picture of them. Pictured in Starr's book 'Photograph'
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navy admiral
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WWII: ETO. 8th Air Force Fighter Pilot
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WWII: USS Yorktown, Battle of Midway
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Lz xray 1965 nam was in windham,oh but not now
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WWII, Berlin Air Lift 1948. He was a radio operator and Assistant Chief of Operations for the Berlin Air Lift
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English locomotive engineer who was part of the team that built the Flying Scotsman and the Mallard during 'The Golden Age of Steam'. Born: 1923. He is now 93 and lives in the UK
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Assassination witness , James photographed the ' Umbrella Man ' and the ' Dark Complected Man ' on Elm St . moments after the shooting
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Inventor of Laser, Nobel laureate in Physics, Born July 28, 1915
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Tuskegee Airman born May 1919
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist for the 32nd Bomb Squadron
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Cavaly officer civil war, lawyer, us ghose of reprsenatives, colorado
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John Townsend (2) Former Goddard Space Flight Center director
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The proprietor of an Indiana-based store selling eighteenth-century-style clothing and accessories, is also the host of a popular YouTube series
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#22 oldest person in the world lives in Japan born 1894
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navy admiral
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WWII. PTO: Fire Controlman 3rd Class on Escort Carrier USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111). Credited with shooting down 3 Japanes 'Zeros' in the last weeks of the war. Visited atom-bombed Nagasaki during occupation duty
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One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
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navy admiral
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marine corps general
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Rcaf fighter ace world war 2 -401 sq
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Founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha sauce/Vietnamese businessman and former Major in the army of South Vietnam
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Swedish author, Nobel Price 2011
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One of the last surviving 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in WW2. He is 96 and lives in Brassall, Australia
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. B Battery 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft)
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Original Rosie the Riviter in wwii posters saying ' we can do it' over 100 yrs old lives in Pennsylvania
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German pilot
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JFK - President John F. Kennedy's personal physician
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(1920-2009) entrepreneur & civil rights activist, historian & author on African American history, politics, social issues & music/when serving as president of the NAACP Chicago chapter in 1959 coordinated Dr. King?s 1st march in Chicago
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Dust Bowl survivor
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WWII: PTO. SBD Bomber Pilot. U.S.S. Yorktown, U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Saratoga
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Civil Rights Activist/ Sept 11, 1963, along with 2 other courageous students, seized the opportunity to change dark traditions of segregation at University of South Carolina & became 1st African American students to attend the university
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WWII: B-17 bomber pilot (B-17G Flying Fortress My Mary Myrtle 42-97827), 8th Air force, 1st Division, 457th Bomb Group, 751st Sqdn.; flew 20 missions to Berlin a.o. places between the end of 1944 and June 1945
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Australian WWII veteran and one of the few surviving members of Z-Special unit, the group of Special Forces that assisted downed American airmen. Now lives in Clapham, South Australia. Sometimes known as Jonathan Tredrea
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Retired General
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One of the last survivors of German battleship Bismarck that was sunk on 27 May 1941. He and Otto Peters are now the two last survivors. He is now 90 and lives in Germany
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Scientist national medal of science 2011
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US Marine, born 1928. WWII (Okinawa) and the Korean War (Chosin Reservoir)
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Austrian mountaineer, actor an author 1892-1990
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cosmonaut
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WW2 veteran, RAF pilot, policeman and one of the UK's oldest people (Born: 1914) Worked on the John Christie murder case in the 1940/50's. He is now 102 and lives in Perthshire, Scotland, UK. Also known as Leonard Trevallion
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In '63 he was a 2nd year medical student at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas . On Nov. 22 he waited with fellow students outside of the emergency entrance at Parkland Memorial to hear word of President Kennedy's condition
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A NASA propulsion engineer. His career with NASA spanned from Mercury into the shuttle program
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Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard. Taught Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, John Roberts, Elena Kagan
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Radio operator on Air Force One on President's trip to Dallas in 1963
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Arizona's official historian, author
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astronaut
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One of the last surviving veterans of The Contestado War, which was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners that lasted from 1912 to 1916. She is now 105 and lives in Lebon Régis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier (AV-8); manned a machine gun to shoot at incoming Japanese planes. Later saw service in Guadalcanal, Battle of Midway, Wake Island, Battle of the Coral Sea, a.o. Also invasion of Inchon (Korean War)
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(Born 1932) US Korean War Navy Veteran. Served on the USS Gayuga Count. Was put on a operation and helped save over 3400 Korean refugees
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Iwo Jima
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The last surviving child of an American Civil War soldier (Born: 1930) She collects $876 a year from the government as thanks for her father taking part in the war, which ended 151 years ago. She is now 86 and lives in the USA
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U.S. Civil Servant known for her involvement with the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. In the 2nd wave as part of 6th Engineer Special Brigade
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WWII: ETO. 355th Bomb Squadron, 350th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Waist-gunner/Ball-turret gunner on B-17 'Heaven And Earth'. 35 combat missions, including the huge Berlin raid on Feb. 3, 1945
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Daughter of Andre and Magda Trocme. Recognized as a 'Righteous Gentiles.'
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The highest ranking US military officer ever accused of spying by the United States. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895 Lives in France
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navy admiral
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WWII - Iwo Jima, 5th Marine Division, Headquarters Company; radio operator working with the Navajo Code Talkers. Later occupation duty in Japan
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Civil rights figure. Father a plaintiff on her behalf in Delaware's Belton v. Gebhart case that was part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit
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WW2 Navy fighter Ace, VF-29 - 7 Kills
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1/7/1906-1/24/2003 Early female aviator, notable for pioneering flying activities & participated in Women's Air Derby of 1929, dubbed Powder Puff Derby/Flew 1st Women's Transcontinental Air Derby with aviators including Amelia Earhart
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Former British Secret Service Agent/Professor in physics and expert in secret warfare by means of microwaves
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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Author vi
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Assistant Dallas District Attorney in 1963, Troy saw President's motorcade on Main Street. As part of the prosecution team during the Ruby trial in 1964, Troy prepared witnesses and sat in on every day of the trial
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Gambino mafiosa, son of Ronnie Trucchio
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Criminal
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WWII: ETO. D - Day. Canadian paratrooper who was taken POW on D - Day
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ralph Talbot
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Founding member of the Hells Angels in Quebec
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Canadian Historian/Writer. Born: 05/29/1917
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Flight aviator, Mercury 13
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and landed in a glider in Operation Varsity (24 March 1945, largest airborne operation in history to be conducted on a single day and in one location)
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Fighter ace 63rd FS, Halesworth
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NASA astronaut (retired), Administrator of NASA 1989-1992
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JFK - Lee Harvey Oswald's supervisor at the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), Dallas; interviewed and hired Oswald on October 15, 1963. Can be seen in several photographs and movies from 22 November 1963
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Political Scientist
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Former President of the US
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Mystery Author. Daughter of Harry S. and Bess Truman
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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American writer, born 1947. Military family, descended from Thomas Jefferson. 'Dress Gray', novelist. Village Voice writer, stumbled upon the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and one of the first journalists to cover it
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Was an attorney for former President Donald Trump
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astronaut
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USMC General
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division. Was captured at the fourth day of the battle and spend the rest of the war as a POW in Czechoslovakia
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Author of the labyrinth of dangerous hours and survivor of auschwitz
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Inventor of N-95 Mask technology
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Boston Marathon bomber
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German entrepreneur and billionaire who co-founded the German software giant SAP AG in 1972 together with Hans-Werner Hector, Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner and Claus Wellenreuther
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US Vietnam POW, born 1935. Held for 7 1/2 years, from July 1965 to February 1973. Photo featured on Time 12/7/70 cover on POWs
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Mountain climber
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Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2008
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WWII: PTO. Navajo code Talker
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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
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nobel physics laurate 1998
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO/ETO. Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor and later a member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers, 442 Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service. He was the first Japanese American to graduate from Yale Law School
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 306th Headquarters Intelligence Detachment, XXIV Corps
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Vietnamese Retired Cosmonaut
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Daughter Of Winston Churchill
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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.)
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Test Pilot : Tested the X-4 and others.
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Pulitzer Prize winner , ditorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a syndicated colu
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JFK - Secret Service agent since 1959, mainly for the Kennedy family ('Kiddie detail'); later at the Chicago field office; in service up to Nixon era
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Historian
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Author and attorney
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Jackie Kennedy's White House social secretary
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WWII: ETO. P-47 Thunderbolt pilot. OOer 100 missions. Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross
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Dutch officer of the Royal Army and Knights of the Military Order of William, the highest order of chivalry of the Netherlands
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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Dallas high school student, Tullius took photographs at Love Field & along motorcade route. Following the assassination, he met other amateur photographers and collected a number of slides, which he later donated to The Sixth Floor Museum
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(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Flew the F-105. 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing. Shot down in 1965 in Vietnam and recused
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Lz xray 1965 nam, k.i.a. 1969 nam
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(August 9, 1900-June 15, 1984), private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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WWII: D-Day veteran, Omaha Beach, POW (escaped)
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor; 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division
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WWII: Aviation Machinist assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT) 8 (USS Hornet): Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway. Later on USS Kitkun Bay in the Battle of Leyte
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WWII Pacific Marine vet (born 1924), featured in iconic WWII photo, covered in dirt after a fight in the Marshall Islands, and holding a cup of coffee in front of him
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Finnish WWII Veteran
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Nigerian WWII Veteran
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US Navy vet, born 1927. Witness to Operation Crossroads atomic tests in 1946
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Super-centenarian. Born: 09/19/1898
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy Merchant Marine veteran; was in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy (27 June - 10 July 1942) when 24 out of 35 ships were sunk by Nazi - German forces
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WWII: ETO/PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee. Later D-Day veteran
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Army General
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Flight aviator
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Production Manager at local independent KTVT-TV in '63 , he directed their pool coverage of Pres. Kennedy's breakfast speech in Fort Worth and , for NBC outside the Dallas County Jail
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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An officer in the Navy Ceremonial Guard , he helped unload President Kennedy's casket from Air Force One on its return from Dallas . On Monday he marched in funeral procession to Arlington Nat'l Cemetery
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Former Ohio State Senator, running in special election for congress in 2021, Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate
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Scott Turner (2)Current Pilot of Air Force One
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Battles of Buna-Gona (Papua), Sanananda and the Driniumor River and at the battles of the upper Ormoc Valley (Leyte) and Luzon in the Philippines.Company G, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division
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army general
