American paleontologist known for the discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990 largest specimen of a T. rex found and one of the most complete skeletons
(born 1950) is an American astronomer and ufologist. UFO historian Jerome Clark calls him 'one of the most skilled investigators in the history of UFO research.' He was the main investigator for the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
(17 October 1926 - 5 October 1993) was an astronomer, NASA astronaut, space scientist, and professor at Northwestern University. He flew on Space Shuttle Challenger in July 1985. He was in the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15 & Skylab 4
Last survivor of the sinking of HM Submarine Truculent that sank in the Thames Estuary, with 64 men dead and only 15 survivors, in January 1950. Born: 1925. He lives in Chatham, Kent, UK
WW2/79th Regiment, demolition squad, His company had 3 platoons that were involved with communications, ammunitions and engineering/Henley's regiment was headed to capture the seaport town of Cherbourg France when D-Day invasion had begun
Age 89/American teacher most notable for teaching Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School, located in New Orleans
WWII vet - served as part of a black/African American unit that didn't fight combat in battle of Iwo Jima but still saw the raising of the flag. Survived COVID-19 at the age of 100
Black WWII US Army vet (1923-2020), spent decades fighting his biased 'blue discharge' release. Finally upgraded to an honorable discharge in 2019. Died of COVID-19 in 2020
Fiona Herbert, 8th Countess of Carnarvon (also known as Lady Carnarvon) is the wife of George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon)
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon) is the great-grandson of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the man who, alongside Howard Carter, discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun
WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Later Submarine Service (USS Finback, USS S-27, USS Picuda, USS Amberjack). He was onboard S-27 when it grounded and sunk off Amchitka
11 year old witness to the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion. Helping his dad work on the car, he saw the mushroom cloud in the distance. Survived cancer, but lost many family and friends in the area downwind of the test site
JFK - American attorney, activist, and leader in the Mexican American civil rights movement; met and introduced President John F. Kennedy at a speaking engagement before a LULAC assembly on November 21, 1963 In Houston
American photojournalist, born 1927. Covered the Korean War, presidents, Krushchev, sports, NASA, and more. Named one of AP's Top 10 Civil Rights photographers. Took iconic photos of Rosa Parks' and Martin Luther King's arrests
Talk Show Host, Philanthropy, Author, Adviser
Julia Roberts played her in ?Charlie Wilson?s War?, but the real-life Texan is far more interesting than any movie could capture
Col, U.S. Army (Ret.) is an author and retired counterintelligence officer with extensive interrogation experience in three wars (Vietnam, Operation JUST CAUSE, and Operation DESERT STORM/Fall of Saigon evacuee
(1909-1999) Philatelic writer, collector, and dealer. Known for books Nassau Street: a Quarter Century of Stamp Dealing (1960), Fun and Profit in Stamp Collecting (1962), Stories to Collect Stamps by (1968), and many more
December 25, 1904 - March 3, 1999/Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 for contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure & geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals'. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic & molecular spectroscopy
JFK - Secret Service agent that was in the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; began his career under Eisenhower; also traveled to China with Nixon; pictured with LBJ
Political scientist, Presidential advisor (born 1933). Speechwriter on Eisenhower's White House Staff, later served and advised Nixon, Ford, and Carter
French diplomat, former ambassador, and French resistance fighter and BCRA agent. He participated in the drafting of 'the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' of 1948 ; born in 1917
Along with her husband , Charles , Beatrice was sitting on the grass on the north side of Elm St .on Nov. 22 , 1963 , in Dallas when they heard two shots . They thought the shots came from the TSBD
President and CEO of Fair Food Network, a non-profit organization based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems and the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
WWII Veteran, his Army Air Corps unit provided air cover for Army General George S. Patton. Hetzel was a part of five major battles in the war in Europe with the Battle of the Bulge being his last
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pelias. Went on to serve in both the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns, including seven successful round-trip escorts aboard the USS Hissem and the USS O?Reilly to Europe and North Africa
WWII US Army veteran, born 1917. Went through Africa, Italy, and in France worked with the French Resistance. Helped in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
One of the many survivors and eyewitnesses to the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He treated survivors as a medical doctor and wrote about the effects of radiation on the human body. He is now 94
WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Military Intelligence Service, 96th Division. Grew up on Okinawa and used his Okinawa dialect to convince local non-combatants hiding inside to surrender peacefully and without harm during the battle
American conservative political activist, author, and former U.S. Navy SEAL. Regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, and Newsmax. Best known for promoting the birther conspiracy theory about Barack Obama
WWII: MTO/ETO. Landed in North Africa, Sicily and southern France. 431st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 44th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
US Politician, Georgia (1823-82) Confederate Gov. of Georgia 1862-65, US House 1875-77, US Senate 1877-82. Named 'The Peerless Orator.' Close friend to Jefferson Davis who spoke at Hill's Statue dedication in Atlanta after his death
UFO figure (1919-2004). Wife in the couple that claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1961. The first widely reported alien abduction, it led to a popular book and TV movie
Member of 'The Essex', a R&B group, the only active duty military personnel to record a number one hit while on active duty ('Easier Said Than Done', 9 July 1963)
Born: 1932. Ex Secret Service Agent in President Kennedy's motorcade during the assassination. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963
USAF, (Ret) Original Tuskegee Airman/One key event took place while working in crash & rescue. During one aircraft incident, heroically helped remove, then Col B. O. Davis Jr, from his damaged plane upon landing at locbourne Air Force Base
JFK - Dallas police officer who went to the TSBD where he and 2 others found the shooter's perch and 3 spent shell casings; then assigned to the J.D. Tippit site, from there to Texas Theatre where he and other officers apprehended Oswald
A member of the Dallas Police Dept.in 1963 he , ten minutes after the assassination , directed attention to the second upper-right-hand corner window of the TSBD from where he believed the shots came
The only known British survivor of the International Brigades who fought with left-wing forces against General Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. He now lives in Australia
Born: 1934. Jamaican-born writer, journalist and historian. He is best known for his work on the West Indian Gazette and his books portraying the West Indian community in Britain such as 'Journey to an Illusion'. He lives in the UK
WWII/JFK - Iwo Jima survivor; also fought at Choiseul Island Raid (1943), serving directly under Charles Krulak, later Marine Corps commander), Land Battle of Vella Lavella (1943). During the Raid on Choiseu, he met John F. Kennedy
Hinton was falsely arrested and held on Alabama's Death Row for nearly 30 years. His 1985 conviction was thrown out in 2014 after the Supreme Court found his case to be lacking any proof and found the defense did not act properly
Father of A I. Formerly at Google. In 2024, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Hopfield 'for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.'
WWII combat veteran who served as a Quartermaster aboard the USS Blessman DE69/APD48 crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans numerous times. He participated in the landings at Normandy, Lingayen Gulf and Iwo Jima
German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)
WWII - US Marines, Iwo Jima 1945. Purple Heart. Was hit by shrapnel as he stepped off the Higgins Boat onto Iwo, got his wounds patched by corpsman John Bradley, one of the famous flag-raisers. Hipps guarded both flag-raisings
Author, Chairman & former CEO of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer. Chairman and founding Partner of Just Label It and Organic Voices. serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations under Obama
One of the participants in the Up documentary film series, that follows participants every 7 years starting in 7 Up in 1964 when they were 7 years old. Latest installment was 63 Up in 2019
Singaporean WWII vet, born 1920. Last surviving Singaporean pilot of the Flying Tigers. Served in the Chinese American Composite Wing, assigned to the 14th US Air Force. 18 B-25 missions. Career as Captain with Malaysia-Singapore Airlines
BBC engineer who worked in television in it's early years and was part of a production team who transmitted the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on TV screens in 1953
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
Jerry T. Hodges Jr was born on June 29, 1925 in Tennessee. He became one of many Tuskegee Airmen. He went into WW2 from 1944 to 1945 and became a businessman after the war
American politician, notable for being the titular defendant in the landmark civil rights case Obergefell v. Hodges, which he lost, resulting in the legalization of gay marriage everywhere in the United States.
WWII - Contemporary witness "Operation Elster", a Nazi German mission to gather intelligence on and sabotage the Manhattan Project. Nazi agents landed in Maine on Nov. 30, 1944. Herbert's brother's vigilance led to their fast arrest
One of the two women who as teenagers were the focus of the activity during the Enfield Haunting. She is now 52 and lives in the UK. Now the subject of the film 'The Conjuring 2'
American NYT bestselling author and the creator of the Mara Dyer Trilogy, consisting of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, and The Retribution of Mara Dyer. Formerly an attorney who worked in anti-terrorism litigation
WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21), the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944. Served on the next USS Block Island (CVE-106) until the end of the war
US Realtor/Businessman, born 1943. Ambassador to Portugal (2005-2007), Republican operative. Met Eisenhower in the Oval Office while a military cadet in 1953
Hoffman was Director of Nursing at Parkland Memorial Hospital when new their new facility opened on Harry Hines Boulevard in 1954. While attending a conference in San Antonio, she saw President Kennedy during his visit to the city on November 21, 1963
(Born 1941) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1971 to 1973. Recipient of Defense Superior Service Medal, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 3 Purple Hearts
Centenarian and an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is noted for his recordings of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn
US supercentenarian (1889-2000). Born to a Union Civil War vet, named after the new President, lived most of his life as an Oklahoma farmer, working well past 100. Once the world's oldest living man, now listed as the 65th oldest man to have ever lived
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor (PBY - Squadron VP23/ Ford Island), Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, later B-24 flight engineer for anti - submarine patrols off the coast of France. Born December 13, 1921
One of the last survivors from the sinking of The RMS Laconia in 1942. The RMS Laconia was struck and sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat off the coast of west Africa. He was a Merchant seaman at the time and is now 90
USN Test Pilot School Instructor/Chief, Human Systems Engineering Branch/USAF Test Pilot School Academic Instructor/Participated as a geophysicist on a remote field expedition to the Antarctic
WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill?s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Bronze Star
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
JFK - Assassination witness on 22 November 1963; stood at her window at the Texas School Book Depository and watched the motorcade as the fatal shots rang out; can be seen in picture taken a few seconds after Kennedy was shot
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Mr. Hollis was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Born Nov 4 1924
WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
22 year old Morehouse College student,later a SNCC voter registration worker in the mid-1960s. Freedom Rider from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi as part of a May 24, 1961 Freedom Ride. He was arrested the following day in Jackson for his invo
WWII: 11th Armored Division, 1943-1946. Advanced through Germany and overran both Mathausen and Gusen. A Finnish immigrant, Holma was preparing to leave for D-Day but was pulled off the loading ramp to avoid fighting his birth country
Early experimental research test pilot for the X-1 aircraft and other aircraft. In 1952, Holtoner became the commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base
Husband of Anna Mitchell-Hedges. In 1924, Anna Mitchell-Hedges was in southern Belize, Central America when she claims to have found 'The Crystal Skull'.
(born 31 January 1917), is an archaeologist and academic. He was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1954 to 1962, and led the excavations at Knossos from 1957 to 1961. He turned 100 in January 2017
One of the last survivors of 'The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake'. Born in 1906, she is now 107 and lives in Santa Clara, California. She is one of three remaining survivors of the 1906 earthquake
The oldest person in Britain, now 112. Born in 1903 in Dulwich, London. She was a concert pianist and was close friends with Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator. She lives in the coastal town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight
(Born 1946) US Army Vietnam Veteran. 220th Aviation Company in South Vietnam from September 1968 to March 1969, when he was wounded in combat. Silver Star Recipient
Bob Hoover was Chuck Yeager's backup pilot in the Bell X-1 program, and he flew chase in a Lockheed P-80 when Yeager first exceeded Mach 1(broke the sound barrier)on October 14, 1947.
Political Commentator. Political Strategist. Frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor. Great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover
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
American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University. In 2024 Hopfield, along with Geoffrey Hinton, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational contributions to machine learning,
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
WWII: CBI. Assiniboine code talker 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
WWII: D-Day. 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He is the paratrooper on the famous Life cover dated August 14, 1944
Young chemist when her husband, Don Hornig, was personally asked by George Kistiakowsky to come to Los Alamos to work on a secret project. At first she worked on plutonium chemistry, then the explosives group. A witness to the Trinity test
Convicted muderer, who while serving a life sentence for murder, was given a weekend furlough pass. He did not return and committed assault, armed robbery and rape.Made famous through George Bush's 1988 campaign adds against Michael Dukakis
The Ohio State University police officer who took down the alleged assailant in Monday?s attack on the Columbus campus is being praised by authorities for his quick actions, he fatally shot suspect Abdul Razak Ali Artan
JFK - FBI agent that was blamed for JFK's death by Hoover as Hosty was responsible for handling the Oswald case *before* Kennedy was assassinated and saw no reason to detaon Oswald for that day
Volunteered in 1937. Served as a Transport driver. Granted Spanish honorary citizenship on July 9, 2009. One of the fewer than 25 Americans still alive from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Born: 1916
Marine Corps Staff Sergeant when he led an eighteen-man reconnaissance patrol in a fierce battle against a battalion of Viet Cong in June 1966. As a result of his heroic actions, Howard became the sixth U.S. Marine to be awarded the Nation?s highest
American lawyer and best-selling writer. Written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the workings of society. Formed Common Good, a nonpartisan national coalition dedicated to restoring common sense to America
NASA pilot - remotely pilots the Global Hawk, X-56 and Resilient Autonomy unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and also flies missions for Armstrong's King Air research testbed and T-34 mission support aircraft
WWII: PTO. USMC 1943-1945. Battle of Peleliu. After the war, friend to actors like Roy Rogers, Michael Landon, Charles Ingalls, Jonathan Smith or George Lindsey
WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill's Marauders, aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long-range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
WWII served as commanders of 2nd Battalion/13th Armor Regiment (1943)/13th Armor Regiment (1943?44); 1st Armored Division, Italy (44?45)/ Bri. Gen. in 1952 Assistant Commanding Gen., 2nd Armored Div., European Command, until 1954
Ukrainian Soldier, 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. On the first day of the invasion, Snake Island was attacked. After a Russian Warship demanded that he surrender, he famously responded 'Russian Warship, Go F*** yourself. Taken POW
WWII: D-Day. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. The 110th AAA would be credited as the first US unit to enter Paris
American political aide, White House Press Secretary. She is the daughter of former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and former Arkansas first lady Janet Huckabee
WWII: Hudgins joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos after writing a letter to Dorothy McKibbin as a chemist and metallurgist with the Special Engineer Detachment. He was born in 1924
Korea, Vietnam: Captain Hudner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War, by intentionally crash-landing his plane
Author and former driver/trainer who grew up in the harness racing industry. Official for the NBC Golf Channel's AM Tour in Washington D.C. and Baltimore. Spoken on Capitol Hill on representing the harness racing industry on equine welfare
One of the last survivors of The Halifax Explosion, which occured on on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the world's largest man-made explosion. She is 101 and lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
WWII - D-Day, Paratrooper of 507th PIR who, due to being dropped quite away from his dropzone, ended up fighting together with the famous Easy Company (Band of Brothers)
KRLD radio TV newsman/broadcast television's 1st murder on CBS from police garage when Jack Ruby shot Lee Oswald, interviewed slain assassin's mother. Was Warren Commission witness, & covered Jack Ruby's murder trial & finally his death
WWII US Army, born 1921. Training as a nurse in 1944 when her husband shot down, killed in Europe. Went on to serve as a nurse in the Philippines thru the war's end
One of the last crew members and survivors from the sinking of RMS Lancastria in 1940 during WW2. He is now 93 and lives in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, UK