WWII USMC Ace. On 4/22/1945 he shot down 6 Japanese Vals and had 2 probables to become an 'Ace in a Day'. He was awarded the Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross and 3 Air Medals. Passed away 7/20/2008
Alabama State Trooper; while protecting George Wallace on the campaign trail, he was unintentionally shot in the stomach by Arthur Bremer during the attempt on Wallace's life
WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. B-24 bombardier in the 31th Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group of the 13th Air Force. 6 combat operations against Japanese forces in and around the Philippines
American biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, for which she won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier
An employee of TSBD , Dougherty saw Lee Harvey Oswald arrive on the morning of the assassination . He told the Warren Commission that he didn't think Oswald was carrying anything
Boeing Company engineer, born 1937. Worked on the Lunar Orbiter, mapping the moon for the Apollo program. Worked at a Madrid, Spain tracking station where he helped receive the first ever photo of the earth taken from the moon
As a 12 yr. old watched Pres. Kennedy's motorcade on Harwood St. in Dallas and then heard the shots in Dealey Plaza , friends with Officer J.D. Tippet's son
Donald Trump's lawyer/Special Counsel to the Commissioner of Baseball and author of a report that led to the banning of Major League Baseball player Pete Rose
Korean War US Army Veteran in an all black regiment. Wounded in combat in July of 1950 and was among the visitors of his hospital was General MacAurthur in Japan. Left in 1951
American author & historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the National Book Award for Nonfiction & the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Executive producer of Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
WWII: ETO. Bombardier/Navigator in the 703rd Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th AF, actor Jimmy Stewart was his Flight Leader. Became a POW in 1944 (Stalag Luft I camp), shot down on 9/27/44 on Kassel mission in B-24 'Frigid Bridget' #4251342
WWII veteran, born in 1913, believed to be the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor. He served on the USS W> Virginia during the attack, and later served in the Korean War
Author and former head men's basketball coach at both Kingswood - Oxford School and at Trinity College. Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport. Found guilty of embezzling more than $1 million from his foundation
WW2 Veteran 'Made famous Bataan Death March' Awarded medals for his service December 2008, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, POW Medal & Asiatic-Pacific Campain medal!
Author 'Life On a Short Fuse' /War or Conflict
Korean War, 1950-1953 Air Force/Korea/Vietnam War, 1961-1975/Lieutenant Colonel/Served as a Fighter Pilot; a Command Pilot; a Test Pilot; and an Instructor Pilot
American astronomer who is best known as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1961
WWII: USMC infantry man. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Guam (Silver Star), assistant squad leader in the Battle of Iwo Jima in the second wave (Purple Heart). Silver Star, 2 Bronze Sars, 2 Purple Hearts
Victoria Manalo Draves, the first woman to win two gold medals in diving in the same Olympics ? in the three-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform competitions in London in 1948 and the first Asian American to win an Olympic medal
Alfred Dregger (December 10, 1920 - June 29, 2002) was a German politician of the Cdu. He was mayor of Fulda from 1956 to 1970 and chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 1982 to 1991
Motor Machinst's Mate 2nd Class Edmund T. Drewitch served aboard PT 109 along with then Lt (jg) and future President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy; due to injury, he was not aboard PT-109 when it was sunk
Jesse Ray Drowley (September 9, 1919 - May 20, 1996) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
(born October 14, 1917) is a Canadian educator known for teaching computer classes at the age of 101. Manitoba Teachers? Society honoured Dryden in their magazine's March issue. City of Winnipeg presented her with a Community Service Award
Newsman for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covered many 20th century events. Was in the JFK motorcade when Kennedy was killed and later witnessed Oswald being shot. In the 70s, he covered Cambodia and was held as a civilian prisoner of war for a time, and w
US Army WWII veteran, served under MacArthur in the Philippines. Press liaison for the trials of Generals Homma & Yamashita in Manilla after the war's end, and both their executions
French American economist. She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty'
Robert was a sergeant in the Dallas Police Dept .He was stationed at the Trade Mart on Nov. 22 '63 . Later he stood guard outside Trauma Room #1 as JFK was treated
Former blackjack player with MIT Blackjack Team/Played with Strategic Investments & one of founding members & team leaders on Amphibian Investments exploits chronicled in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas & referred to in Bringing Down the House
First surgeon to receive President John F. Kennedy after being shot and taken to Dallas Parkland Hospital, & attended to the wounds of then Texas Governor John Connally, who was shot at the same time John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
WWII: Atlantic. Corsair pilot on escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60). They sank 3 German subs in the North Atlantic, and captured U-505 on 4 June 1944. It was the first enemy warship captured on the high seas by the US Navy since 1815
WWII: PTO. USS Vincennes (CA-44). Witness to the Doolittle Raid (April 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), Guadalcanal, survived the sinking of his ship in the Night Battle of Savo Island (August 9, 1942)
U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail during the Kennedy years, Duncan served as the advance agent for Fort Worth during the Texas visit in November 1963
Supercentenarian Born 1907 Went to school at Bath Consolodated School. Was at home sick when the Bath School Massacre took place in 1927, which killed 38 children and 6 adults
WWII:Battle Of Iwo Jima. 5th Marine Division, 27th Marine Regiment. Pictured in a photo from the battle directing mortars and artillery against Japanese positions
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
Centenarian (1899-2001). US WWI Army veteran, served in the ambulance corps in France. Later became a freelance writer, writing books in the 1920s, including WWI experiences. One of 8 WWI vets profiled by Life magazine on the 80th anniversary in 1998
Author - 'Caught in the Act', The true story of his life. He was caught in the '80's helping people escape from East to West Germany. He spent several years in a Prison in Budapest
Former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. Now an attorney in Miami.
On October 29, 1994, fired 29 rounds from an SKS rifle at the White House. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate United States President Bill Clinton and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Assisted discovery of H2 receptor class of drugs, cimetidine, which inhibits production of stomach acid. Cimetidine is commonly used to treat acid reflux and stomach ulcers to this day. Inducted National Inventors HOF 1990
Turkish Air Force Captain who in 1959, took the first photograph of a strange formation on Mount Ararat, believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark. He was still alive in 2007, not sure if he still is now
Engineer 1st working American gasoline-powered car & co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. In Springfield Charles & his brother Frank produced & road-tested America's 1st gasoline-powered car
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
One of Russia's most notable specialists in the investigation of unidentified flying objects. He works as a coordinator at The Science and Research center Kosmopoisk (Search of Cosmos), Russia
American economist. Dybvig was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Douglas Diamond and Ben Bernanke, 'for research on banks and financial crises'
real-life Vietnam war hero turned actor - often typecast as General, Cpt., Lt., Col. in film: Platoon (1986), Casualties of War (1987), Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), JFK (1991), Saving Private Ryan (1997), Band of Brothers (t.v. mini-series, 2001)
'Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (born May 7, 1918) is a Swiss-American mountaineer and film maker. He was the leader of the successful American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963, which placed six climbers on the summit.'
a former cosmonaut who made five flights: Soyuz 27,Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T-12 and Soyuz T-13.
In all he had spent 145 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes in space over these five missions