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U.S. Marine Corps in 1980, in 91, joined HMX1 flying George H. W. Bush & Clinton. In 2006 became Commanding Officer flying Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Retired 2011
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Born 1895 One of oldest people in the world. Lives in Fance
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French physicist, and professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics
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One of the last surviving scientists of the Manhattan project 31 December 1946
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Flight scientist, ISS flight director
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political and social activist
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Military
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WWII Veteran
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Author. Daughter of Pierre & Marie Curie
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NASA Lead Flight Director - Artemis I
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Former East-German Politician, Member of the Central Committee of the East-German party SED, lives in Leegebruch
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US Army 4 Star General
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WWII: ETO. B-17 pilot, 8th Air Force, 548th Bomb Group. 35 missions
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Italian mountaineer, 1st Person to reach K2
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Flight scientist
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British ace from WW2
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Civil rights figure, Montgomery bus boycott. Her mother was a lifelong childhood friend of Rosa Parks, and Lacey as a young woman worked as an assistant to the MIA, led by Martin Luther King to organize the bus boycott after Parks' arrest
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Member of the French maquis in WW2
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Vietnam/Army/Dust Off Medic/1968-1971/Unit of Service254th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance), 44th Medical Brigade Location of Service II Corps; Nha Trang, Phan Thiet, Vietnam Tuy Hoa Air Base, Vietnam; Ban Me Thuot/Highest Rank E-5
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Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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US WWII Navy electrician, born 1927. Roamed Nagasaki 6 weeks after being bombed while his transport ship unloaded. 'Atomic vet' in 1946, witnessing Operation Crossroad atomic tests in the Bikini Atoll from his ship
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Civil Rights figure (1926-2016). Montgomery Police Department (1948-70), Officer and Police Chief. Pictured in iconic photo of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also seen in a photo booking Martin Luther King Jr. the follow
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in wayne,in but not now?
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee
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Seal Team 3, Author The Last Punisher
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Israeli world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering; born April 2, 1936 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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WWII: Veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. B-1-8, 2nd MarDiv. First Lieutenant Dean Ladd was shot in the stomach shortly after jumping into the water from his boat
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WWII: CBI theater. Distinguished Flying Cross. C-87 pilot, 30 'Hump' round-trips
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Former Ralph Nader running mate
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5). Also participated in the invasions of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, also Guam and Saipan
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infamous teacher caught in scandal
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Civil Rights Activist
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Worked for Ronald Reagan, best known for the Laffer Curve
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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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Member of The White Rose anti-Nazi resistance in WWII
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French World War One Veteran
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Son of Alcatraz Island corrections officer, Author of Battle at Alcatraz, Alcatraz Justice, The Other Alcatraz, and Guarding the Rock
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity. 17th Airborne Division, 513th PIR
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WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition Team 3, USMC
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Scientist
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Diplomat. was the senior American official held hostage during the Iran hostage crisis
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WW2/Radio & Radar Operator on Avenger Torpedo Bomber, which carried a crew of three
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WWII - 6 victories; 8,285 Total Flight Hours; the only known U.S. Navy ace to shoot down both German and Japanese planes during World War II. Flew Hellcat, F4U Corsair,, Banshee and Phantom
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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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Dallas Morning News photographer who, among other pics, took the photo of Jackie Kennedy leaving Parkland Hospital to ride in the hearse carrying President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's body to Love Field
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories; VF-2 (Pacific); flew the Hellcat off of the USS Hornet Mar 1944. Got his first victory during what is called the 'Great Marianas Turkey Shoot'
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Centenarian (1895-2002). One of the last US WWI veterans. Served as Army Infantryman in France
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Centenarian (1899-2005). One of the last living Canadian WWI veterans
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Holocaust Survivor deported to Auschwitz concentration camp from hometown of Lodz Poland in 1944, aged 14 on arrival at camp, was originally separated her from twin sister Miriam by camp physician Josef Mengele and sent to the crematorium
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WWII: Last living survivor from the sinking of the HMS Barham, 25 November 1941. Second-highest loss of life from a U-boat attack, behind troop transport Laconia
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Creator of Cirque De Soleil, Astronaut
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Mountaineer
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(22 July 1924 - 1 July 2000) was a Sikkimese Indian 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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Bank of Commerce (Savannah, GA)August 15 1860Gazaway Bugg Lamar (G.B. Lamar) (bottom right)Lamar (1798-1874) was simultaneously President of the NYC based Bank of the Republic and Georgia based Bank of Commerce but most of his investments were in the
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Officer and pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during WWII. (Born 1918). Buchenwald concentration camp survivor
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WWII Fighter pilot. Shot down a German ME 262 jet figher and a German Arado AR 234 jet bomber. Flew with the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group (1944/1945) to April 1945) 61 combat missions (167:40 combat hours in a P-47, 107:50 in a P-51)
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Aerobatics pilot
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US WWII vet, 511th Paratooper, born 1923. New Guinea, Philippines. Witness to the Japanese Surrender. Swim records in high school and college before drafted. Picked up again after retiring, and holds many records for 80/90 year olds
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Nobel Prize for Physics 1955
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Aviation History!
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Historian, author, genealogist. Appeared on the History Detectives on PBS twice. And a national speaker on the topics of genealogy
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SSgt, US Army, veteran, born 1922
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D-Day veteran and author of 'Every Man A Hero'
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Ryan Lambert (2)Astronomer
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Mobster, cleaned up after the Kray Twins
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Cryptologic Technician Chief on the USS Liberty when it was attacked by the Israelis in 1967
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Pearl Harbor survivor from Wisconsin born 1922; served on USS Nevada on Dec. 7, 1941
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam War Veteren. Served from 1967 to 1968
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Flight scientist, Flight Director at NASA
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air force general
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father of the navy's f-14 tomcat
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Computer scientist, author, hardware engineer, and game programmer, known for writing books about game development. Author of multiple books on computer programming and game design, including Windows Game Programming for Dummies
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Retired Air Force member, worked as an VIP Air Force Crew Member, served various times on Air Force One, Air Force Two, and First Lady Missions. Lead Usher for President George H W Bush Funeral. Traveled w/several Presidents, First Ladies and other distin
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hypnotist
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Film historian, author of the 'Whatever Became of....?' series of books regarding past celebrities
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Swedish chemist , battery inventor & entrepreneur/PhD in inorganic chemistry , founded battery company Boston Power, Founder & owner of the company until 2012. Now she & her husband Per started a new business together, it's called Cloteam
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Astronaut
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Arizona
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Pilot, first pilot to eject from a British aircraft
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British airway pilot that survived crash
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Spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in both hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia after graduating from university with a degree in Mental Health. Now a full-time writer living in West London
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Austria'Born: 04.19.1921
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WWII Veteran, paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. Drafted in June of 1942. Jumped into Normandy on D-Day. Texas A & M Student
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One of only two known surviving US World War I veterans
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JFK Secret Service
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WWII: Later General Landon led one of the two unfortunate groups of B-17s to Pearl Harbor to arrive in the midst of the attack on Dec. 7, 1941
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Poet/Writer/Holocaust Survivor/'Threads : Poetry of a Survivor of Auschwitz' by Maria Landowska (1985)
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Former Assistant Administrator of Parkland Hospital, on duty at time of JFK and Oswald shootings. Coordinated the hospital's response. Gave his jacket to bloodied Clint hill, who had put his over Kennedy on arrival. Made calls to get a priest and a casket
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Was photographed in the Pulitzer Prize Photo The Soiling of Old Glory Taken by Stanley Forman. 1977
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Flight scientist, Systems Dynamics Laboratory. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WWII Pearl Harbour 7 December 1941. Survivor of both the USS Arizona and later USS Nevada
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Lz xray 1965
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Legion of Merits, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and a Purple Heart
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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Meet Kennedy in Fort Worth on the 22nd, 1963 & shook his hand/Arlington Heights student
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Author and collabor with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Art historian, essayist, curator, and performer. Research Associate at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC
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The fifth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1900
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Richard Lang (2)
WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. USMC -
Worlds smartest man.
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Author and youngest police officer ever hired on the Omaha Police Department at age 18. He worked as a uniformed officer and as a detective in the Burglary, Vice, and Narcotics Units retired after a twenty-six-year career
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Ensign US Navy, USS Arizona Survivor, last survivng Battleship officer from Pearl Harbor
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Flight scientist, NASA
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WWII German Naval Officer Born 1916
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German World War II Luftwaffe 70-victory flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He held the position of Geschwaderkommodore of fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 51
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det. o.j. simpson case
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Survivor of the Sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff
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Inducted for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Inductee Inventor Hall of Fame; revolutionized biomedical technology through the development of a controlled drug delivery system; one of history's most prolific inventors in medicine
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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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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Gunner's mate aboard the USS Shaw
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German 1968 student leader
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Television journalist, anchor, & author/Became friends with Muhammad Ali & F. Lee Bailey, & considered Martin Luther King, Jr. to be a personal mentor/Roomed with Mahalia Jackson/wrote Anne and Emmett/1st black 'weathergirl' for WBBM-TV
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Lt. Gen. Michael Langley is set to become the first Black four-star general in the Marines' 246-year history
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WWII: D-Day. 82nd AB, 505th PIR; landed in St. Mere-Eglise, featured in the movie 'The Longest Day'; wounded and captured June 30th, 1944, forced to work in a coalmine in today's Czech Republic by the SS, from where he escaped after months
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII: Iwo Jima. Seabee
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Ohio native, age 119 (born 1892); cannot be verified as a world record due to no birth certificate
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Alien encounter participant, born 1943. Hidden under a bed with his siblings while adult family and friends fought off unusual beings outside their house during the 'Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter' of 1955
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Bunker Hill
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Vietnam War - Flew helicopters for Air America in Vietnam from 1970 to 1975; he is the helicopter pilot whose advice saved the famous 'Last Flight From Da-Nang' (see Kenneth Healy)
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Miss America 1925
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Wife of former mobster Meyer Lansky
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American mobster
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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Current Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
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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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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Partner of Pablo Picasso, born in 1926
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army general
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army general
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Whistleblower..reported plutoniun handling, won 250,000 lawsuit
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Scottish-Australian WWII veteran. Last living survivor of Battle of Hong Kong
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JFK - US Secret Service 1959-1983; Kennedy detail 1961-1963, after that assigned to Jacqueline Kennedy detail
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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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Author
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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During the Vietnam War' David Larsen Took On 50 Enemy Troops With Just An M60 Machine Gun and was awarded the Navy Cross
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Bataan Death March Survivor, wrote 'Footprints of Courage'!
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O.f.c tempe police dept. arizona
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Retired Navy Admiral
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NASA test pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, and is assigned to Armstrong's F/A-18, F-15, T-34 research and mission support aircraft and DC-8 airborne science aircraft
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Jack Larson (2)WW2 D-Day veteran and was given the Legion of Honor and Bronze Star. Also has be featured on many YouTube channels such as MrBeast (born 1923)
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WW2 Veteran in the G3 V Corps and TikTok Sensation from sharing his stories. Also author of book The Luckiest Man Alive: Stories from the Life of Papa Jake (Born 1922) D - Day Veteran
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WWII US Navy Electrician, born 1926. Served on the USS San Jacinto, arriving during the Battle of Leyte
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Founder of GOProud
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Project manager (following Richard Fimmel) of NASA's legendary Pioneer 10, the first Jupiter and Deep Space mission (1972-2003)
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WWII: USS Yorktown, Battle of Midway
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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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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Holocaust/Classmate of Anne Frank/Carson Productions executive served as executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman & Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Native of Fort Myers, Florida, was a retired Commander in the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator. As a Lieutenant, he received the Medal of Honor for his rescue of two downed Naval Aviators while piloting a search and rescue helicopter in Vietnam
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The tenth of the 10 Aces of the Deep and the only one still living. He sank 26 ships for 156,082 tons. Born: 05/12/1915
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Born 1943 US Navy Vietnam and Gulf War Veteran. POW in Vietnam from May 1972 to March 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, 3 Legion of Merit's, and Distinguished Flying Cross
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US Marine Corps Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran. Purple Heart Recipient
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WWII:Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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British SOE Agent in occupied France 1944
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Korean war ace - USAF - 5 Kills
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Centenarian (1895-2000). US WWI veteran. Army engineer, built camps in France
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German ww2 pilot
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; was a pharmacist mate at the Naval hospital at the time of the attack
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Lieutenant General Donald Currie Laubman, AOE, DFC & Bar, CD (born 16 October 1921) began his military career in December 1939. In 1942 he was posted to 133 Squadron in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, Canada. In 1943 he was sent to Red Hill/Staplehurs
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American billionaire, author, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estee Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune. Co - founder and chairman of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
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Former president of Guatemala (1974 - 1978)
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flying tiger
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University
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COO and formerly Vice - President of security, Delta Airlines
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Worked closely with the Navajo Code Talkers. 5th Marine Division, 27th Regiment
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Army captain helped plan invasion of Normandy
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Wisconsin State Attorney General (2003-07)
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Medicine Nobel Prize 2003 (IRM inventor)
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Former C.I.A. Case Officer/Author 'Left of Boom'
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Lz xray 1965 nam somewhere in murphysboro,illinois
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Youngest survivor on Schindler's List. Currently known as Eva Rac-Levi and lives in Givatayim, Israel
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Spanish Civil War Veteran. Bomber Pilot. (Red Army) Born: 1914
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Holds the Record Speed for the Fastest on a Mini Bike
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Australian explorer
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Centenarian (1898-2005). US WWI veteran, last WWI vet in Nevada. Barely survived the 1918 Flu on shipride to France, but recovered. Drove a truck in France transporting sick/injured to hospitals
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WWII: At age 19, staff sergeant Don Lawhorn was an experienced B-17 tail gunner flying more than two-dozen sorties over occupied Europe for the 12th/15th F, 99th Bombardment Group , 346th Bombardment Squadron. Mission to Southern Germany and Austria
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Peleliu. First Marine Division K/3/5 ('The Old Breed')
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WW2 fighter ace - 11 Kills - USAAF
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Army Air Corp Medal of Honor Recipient, WWIIPassed away in 1999
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WWII - RAF pilot, one of the surviving members of 'The Few' (termed by Winston Churchill, using a Shakespeare quote, bestowed on the pilots that fought the Battle of Britain)
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army general
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British Army officer who fought and was severely wounded in the Falklands War, wrote a book called 'When the Fighting Is Over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain and Its Aftermath' about his experiences
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Flight astronaut sts-67,86,91,114
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navy admiral
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (Murmansk Run); HMS Mermaid, HMS Lapwing
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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James Lawson (2)
United Methodist pastor and civil rights activist -
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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British Army officer, who served as General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and later as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe
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air force general
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Tuskegee Airmen original pilot
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Secret Service agent for Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. Planned advance details for JFK trips to Ireland, Berlin, and Dallas. Drove the lead motorcade car ahead of Kennedy's limo when shooting occurred
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Last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania Born: 02/1915 Lives in Northamptonshire, England
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JFK - Secret Service 1962-1982. In Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated
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British WW1 Veteran
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WWII - Survivor of the Bataan Death March; spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea before liberation in 1945. Author of WWI book "Some survived"
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WWII Veteran, Tuskegee Airmen. Wilkerson completed his training after the end of the war, so he did not have the chance to fly in combat
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Mathematician, born 1926. Knew Einstein, worked on the Manhattan Project (WWII). Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986
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WWII: PTO. Coxswain 3rd Class, US Navy. Helming a Higgins Boat in the Battle of Peleliu, landing members of the 1st Marine Division on Peleliu Island
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Member of the famed ''Flying Tigers'' before and during WWII.
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Flying Tiger Pilot
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Jonestown survivor, author of the book 'Seductive Poison'
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, LSM 208. Battle of Okinawa
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USS Pueblo
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SR-71 test pilot
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UFO scientist who claims to have worked in Area 51
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 96th Infantry Division. 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Seabees
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Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Illustrator, war correspondent, portraitist, novelist, historian and easel painter
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 5th Marines
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navy admiral england
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WWii: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS California
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '301st Fighter Squadron & 332nd Fighter Group' flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-6, p-39, p-40, p-47, p-51, at-11, b-25
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Flew missions in Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia. Protected at least twice bomber pilot Herbert Heilbrun, also listed her on Startiger
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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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Anthropologist
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WWII: Scouting Squadron Six, USS En'terprise CV-6. POW
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Former american pilot,flown over 150 types of Aircraft,has had 18 world speed records--his father was bill lear invented the lear jet
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British bomber pilot awarded the Victoria Cross in August 1940
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Author/'Flyers of Barron Field'
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Battle of the Bulge and Operation Varsity. 17th Airborne Division
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WWII - Tuskegee Airman
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Dallas Police Detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald at the moment he was shot by Jack Ruby, Pearl Harbor Veteran on the USS Whitney on December 7,1941
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Miss America 1935
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Marine police dog handler and the subject of the Megan Leavey story
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, Hickam Fiel, 7 December 1941
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United States Air Force general officer. She became the United States Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing
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Sergeant, USA, Co. I, 398th Inf. Regt. 100th Infantry Div. Motor Messenger - Combat Infantryman European Theater
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle, participating in the infamous 'Icecream Incident' while the ship was abandoned
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WWII: U.S. Army nurse (Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge)
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk. Lives in Canada, possibly Toronto, born May 1, 1923 in Vitebsk
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NASA: Design Engineer Apollo era, designing the Propulsion Servicing Systems for the 2ndStage of the 3-stage Saturn V Rocket who put men on the moon eventually. Later Lead Design of Main Propulsion Systems of the Space Shuttle
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1924. USS Indianapolis Survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Puerto Rican nationalist took part in the assault on the US House of Representatives in 1954
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JFK - Filmed JFK on Main Street in Dallas, 22 Nov 1963; you still can see Clint Hill riding the presidential car
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WW2 Iwo Jima Marine/Combat engineer, had the job of sneaking up and hurling satchels loaded with explosives into Japanese machine-gun nests and caves
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US WWII era veteran, born 1928. Enlisted at 18 in 1946, served as a guard at Sugamo prison during the Tokyo Trials (the Nuremburg counterpart for Japanese war criminals), became the Chief Jailer there
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Women's equality activist; inspiration of President Obama's Fair Pay Act
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Nobel medicine laureate 1958
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Nobel physics laureate 1988
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Invented the CT scan; Natl Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Amanda Lee (2)Lee became the first female demonstration pilot for the Navy's famed Blue Angels team
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Former drug dealer convicted of espianoge against the USA for the Soviet Union-friend of Chris Boyce
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Civil rights figure, born 1937. First integrated class of a Tennessee public school, 1955. Later, did local sit-ins. Career developing lasers, semiconductors and fiber optics. Saw Eisenhower at Union Station during a DC trip in the 1950s
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US Navy WWII vet, born 1925. One of the last surviving Navy blimp pilots of WWII. Convoy duty over the Caribbean/Panama Canal, stationed at a US airbase in Jamaica
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David Lee (5) Nobel physics laureate 1996
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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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Oldest Marine - Deceased 2004
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Chief Engineer for the Solar System Exploration Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California
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WWII WASP Women Pilot
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forensic expert, court tv's case files of dr. henry lee,
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Navy photographer's mate on the USS Neosho (AO-23)
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medal of honor marines vietnam war
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Canadian veteran of World War II who was the only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
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Opened the first drop-in center for children in Hollywoo
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retired astronaut
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Irish retired nurse and activist, lives in St. Albans, England (born March 24, 1933) Main character of a true story based on the book 'The Lost Child of Philomena Lee' by Martin Sixsmith. The book was filmed in 2013 as a 'Philomena'
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Robert E. Lee (2) Civil War general. Fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Australian WWII Veteran
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Tuskegee Airman
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Stephen Lee (4)South African Anti-Apartheid activist. Escaped from Pretoria Local Prison in 1979. Played by Daniel Webber in the film Escape from Pretoria
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nobel physics laureate 1957
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Retired Marine Officer who served on the ?Death Watch? for President John F. Kennedy?s casket following the assassination
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nobel chemistry laueate 1986
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) (flew the bt-13, at-6, c-47, co-pilot on lockheed electra and dc-3)
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Was 11 years old on 1963 March on Washington DC
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self-acclaimed witch
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Astronaut NASA . STS-41G , STS-28 , STS-45
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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PVT, USA, 120th General Hospital Surgical Technician New Guinea and Philippines Campaigns Witnessed the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri Appearing Sunday
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American physician-scientist best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors, for which, with Brian Kobilka, he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Spy/Lt. Gen. Mary Legere, current Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence US Army, could be poised to make history. Is the leading candidate to take over as chief of the Pentagon?s main spy organization, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
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Nobel laureate physics 2003
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WWII: Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force and one of the youngest pilots to survive the Battle of Britain
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French writer and military
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Member of the French maquis inWW2
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Private Secretary of Franklin Roosevelt & aledged mistress. This is supported by his Son Elliot
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Hitlers messenger boy, author, peace activist
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Noted Mathematican
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nobel chemistry laureate 1987
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ward. Later in the war, he also was a Kamikaze attack survivor
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, U.S. Navy, 1st Class Torpedoman, USS Monahan
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Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Tang. Born: 1924. SS Tang was a WW2 submarine that was sunk during the last engagement by a circular run of her final torpedo in 1944. He is now 94-95
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USN Admiral
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WWII: Welsh soldier who was evacuated from Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) in 1940
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Great-grandson of David Mitchell, the train driver who perished in the Tay Bridge Disaster, December 28, 1879.He was one of 59 who died in the tragedy, considered the most catastrophic structural failure in British history. Lives in Scotland, UK
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French lecturer, survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen - Belsen camps and witness to the Holocaust. Born in 1932
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Food Manager In Military Hospitals, Battle of Stalingrad. Lives in Canada, possibly Calgary, Alberta, Calgary
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Shuttle Launch Director at NASAs John F. Kennedy Space Center
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(born 18 July 1921) was a highly decorated Leutnant der Reserve of the Brandenburgers in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was Rommel's personal and favorite combat driver
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Daughter of Lord Reith, the founder of the BBC
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Pioneering gay rights activist and writer, born 1935. President of NYC Mattachine Society in the 60s, the premiere gay rights group before Stonewall. Led 1966 NYC gay 'Sip-In' protest, and covered Stonewall as a reporter, whose on-scene account was the fi
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Finnish WWII Veteran. Featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall-combat-with-the-red-army-c8e397466ce8
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army general
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US Air Force Gen. & VP running mate of George Wallace in 1968/ credited designing & implementing effective, but controversial systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of WW2/headed Berlin airlift
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(Born 1934) US Marine Corps Korean War Veteran. Purple Heart Recipient
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Friend of Linda Thompson, former secretary of Vernon Presley (Elvis' father)
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Mobster
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Scientist
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Former reporter and author of the NYTs best-seller 'Breakfast at Sally's', a memoir detailing his fall from affluence to homelessness. Currently speaks around the country and advocates for helping the homeless
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German politician
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Female pilot during WWII (WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor who met Shirley Temple in 1945 at Camp Adair, OR, where was recuperating from wounds received in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Army General
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Supreme Court: Social worker and civil rights activist, lead plaintiff in the landmark First Amendment case Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
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'Medal of Honor Recipient' 'Purple Heart Recipient' 'US Army,Vietnam' Author of Beyond The Medal
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Army General
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Author, underwater archaeologist
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Nurse on duty at Parkland Memorial on Nov. 24/63 , Sally assisted Dr. Gustafson with emergency treatment of Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII: Last survivor of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). On Oct. 25, 1944, in the battle of Samar, the Samuel B. Roberts steamed through a gauntlet of incoming shells, scored torpedo and gunfire hits before finally being sunk
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astronaut
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories (between 23 May 1944 and 14 June 1944), plus a probable 3 damage claims. 49th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th Air Force; European Theater
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Medical Artist and Nurse who worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital in England during WW2
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WW2 Japanese POW Survivor/1940, Bob was assigned to the USS Seawolf (SS197) & USS Perch (SS 176) Submarine http://www.orgsites.com/ar/twin-lakes-base/-pgg1.php3
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WWII: 549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group ('Van's Valiants'), 92nd Wing, 8th Air Force. Based near Ipswich, England. Flew 29 missions as a B-17 Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner including the huge March 18, 1945, mission to Berlin
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The alleged boss of the Genovese crime family,currently imprisoned
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WWII: PTO. Ghost Army
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace.
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Ewa Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS)
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Spotted Comet Leonard
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the Kamikaze attack at the USS Bunker Hill
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WWII - honorary member of Doolittle's Raiders
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American businessman who is the current president and CEO of Stew Leonard's, a supermarket chain based in CT and NY. Founded the Stew Leonard III Children's Charities. Released a series of children's books featuring Stewie the Duck
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Navy, USS Nemasket
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WWII: ETO. Radio operator/gunner on B-24H #42-7567 'Wacky Donald'. 445th Bomb Group, 8th AF. Met and flew a training session with Jimmy Stewart at Tibenhall, England. Was shot down over Holland on Feb. 24, 1944 and eventually taken a POW,
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Retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major general (Born: 1934) On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk
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Russian cosmonaut / astronaut, first man in space
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French geophysicist, born 1937. Plate tectonics expert. A lead investigator on the Project Famous study of the Atlantic Ocean basin in the 1970s, where the N. American and European plates are pushed apart by new magma
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Aka the Dancing Cop, retired American police officer who danced while directing traffic in Providence, Rhode Island during the December holiday season
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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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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age five time of fire
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Former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Division. Congress ordered her to testify about the IRS-Tea Party Scandal, she pleaded the 5th Amendment
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Born 1924, WW2 Veteran, Ritchie Boy
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Michael Lerner (3) American political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley
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Scientist. Writer and presenter of Channel 4's Human Mutants.
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Canadian Lawyer & Judge
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. B-29 Navigator. Missions to Japan
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Centenarian (1897-2001). US WWI veteran, one of the last surviving black vets. Cleared fields of trees and thickets in France to allow fire against the Germans
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(Born 1935) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Started his naval career in 1958. He flew with VA-176 from 1961 to 1964, which included a deployment during the Cuban Missile Crisis. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973
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payload specialist
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Grand-daughter of Scottish lighthouse engineer Charles Stevenson. Lives in the UK
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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Retired Admiral
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NASA pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, F-15, F-18, T-34 and King Air, as well as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, British Battalion, Lives in London, Born: 1915
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German veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942
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Historian, writer
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Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame, born 1923. WWII RCAF pilot, flew cover on D-Day. Post war flew for Canada's NATO and Air Defense Command, made Brig. General in 1970
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American author of mainly books about horses including the #1 NYT bestseller The Eighty-Dollar Champion. Formerly worked as a riding instructor and competed in equestrian events. Served in the Peace Corps. Brother is a retired tennis player
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Crew member onboard the famous WWII submarine that was awarded 7 battle stars for sinking enemy ships
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (USS Neosho AO-23)
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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T4, USA, 625th Ordnance Base Automotive Maintenance, 10th Army Pacific Theater veteran
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Russian Cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz TM-4 / Soyuz TM-3. Was selected as cosmonaut on 12.07.1977. Test pilot for the Soviet Shuttle program; was assigned as double for the first Buran test flight; died on the complications of a brain tumor
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Former Russian KGB major who defected to the United States in 1979. He obtained U.S. citizenship in 1989. Levchenko published his English-language autobiography, On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB, in 1988
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Physics professor who has investigated crop circles for more than a decade in the UK and USA. He is a member of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network
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Attorney for the Wounded knee fiasco.. AIM
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Mercury 13 Female Candidate & Aviator
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WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill. Survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945, when nearly 400 shipmates died
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Canadian journalist and former speechwriter for the Israeli Delegation to the United Nations and for an Anglophone audience for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Co-founder of the software company Figure 1
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Attorney General under Ford
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Holocaust Survivor - Schindler's List
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nobel med. laureate 1986
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French Anthropologist, Born: 11/28/1908
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Rewriting Florida's Medicaid Third-Party Recovery Act allowing the state of Florida to sue the tobacco industry; benefactor of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, manager of Roy Jones Jr., philanthropy
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Author, art historian
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American engineer, most famous for The Viking Program space probes sent to Mars. He is also the founder of Spherix and is now 88 and lives in U.S.A
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Attorney, Court Reporter - 'The People's Court' (TV series), Emmy award - winning journalist/creator/producer -'Celebrity Justice' (tv series)/TMZ, Host - OBJECTified (Fox News)
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Manhattan Project scientist, born 1921. Harvard chemistry grad recruited to work at the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge facility to help enrich Uranium 235, used in the Hiroshima bomb. Continued his work into the Cold War era
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WWII - 82nd Airbone Division. Landed as the division's only weather observer in a glider on D-Day, transmitted the first weather report famous from Ste. Mere-Eglise
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach, 90th Infantry Division. He was wounded and eventually taken POW at the Battle of Monte Castro (Hill 122) in July 1944
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He is the oldest American living veteran, Born on November 13, 1905
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American Astronomer and planetary scientist specializing in planetary dynamics. He currently works at the Southwest Research Institute, U.S.A. and studies planetary orbits and their evolution through solar system history
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One of the last witnesses to The Battle of Cable Street that took place in 1936 in Cable Street,London. (Born: 1915) He lives in London, UK
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American-British-Israeli biophysicist and a professor. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
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Staff writer at The New Yorker magazine & the author of the books The Rules do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, & The NYT
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Canadian Astronomer
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Scientist
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Author on antibiotic use and resistance - The Antibiotic Paradox
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Retired General
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Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin is a Dutch astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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famous White House intern
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Prof. Lewis is a retired soldier. He served with the 9th Infantry Division and the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington/Wrote 'Omaha Beach'
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WWII: Battle of Midway, USS Balch. Helped rescue survivors of the sinking of the USS Yorktown
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Time Team
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Bronze team Nasa Flight Director for the Apollo program
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US WWII veteran, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division in Italy. Served alongside Bob Dole in WWII
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One of the many survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. She was 13 years old when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. She is now 88 and lives in Harvest, Alabama, USA
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Libertarian Party's Vice-Presidential nominee (1983) in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, sharing the party ticket with David Bergland.[1] The ticket received 228,111 votes (0.3%) to finish third overall
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Jeanette Lewis (2)RN at Parkland Memorial Hospital in '63 , an ER supervisor asked her to get a body bag for the President
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Jim was the USMC Pilot who nearly saved Gus Grissom's ill fated Liberty Bell 7, as it flooded with water and sank to the bottom of the sea following it's splashdown on 7/21/61, author - Short Tales By A Tall Pilot (2013)
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Kent State student shot in the stomach and leg during the 1970 shooting, the closest to the line of fire of all the students hit
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WWII: Dunkirk. A Royal Engineer who fought a rearguard action to enable the evacuation at Dunkirk. He was ordered to blow up a bridge, which he did, but eventually was taken POW until the end of the war
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WII: MTO. Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Fiji (C58) in the Battle of Crete on 22 May 1941
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A Dallas Police Det. in 1963 , Lewis administered a polygraph exam to Oswald witness Buell Wesley Frazier on Nov. 22 , '63 ,
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Ronald Lewis (2)Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Assassination witness , employee at Texas School Book Depository , said he heard three shots fired at JFK's motorcade
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Canadian Politician, Humanitarian and AIDS Activist
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WWII US Army veteran, 9th Horse Cavalry, born 1922. One of the last of the segregated 'Buffalo Soldiers' of WWII
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Ted Lewis (3)One of the many survivors of the Blitz, a series of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. He was a teenager at the time. He is now in his eighties and lives in London
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Walter Lewis (4)Scientist
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P-38 Lightning Ace during WWII-[7 victories] Member of the 475th Fighter Group
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German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor
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German pilot
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Youngest of schindler's list holocaust survivors. mr. leyson was born in poland and went to work in schindler's factory at age 13. he died january 12, 2013 in california at age 83
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Retired General
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CIA Leak Scandal, former chief of staff
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Retired USMC General
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Commander USAF Mobility Command
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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Professor predicted Trump's election/Expert witness in more than 75 civil & voting rights cases. Author, White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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NASA/MIT: Software Engineer and 'Rope Mother' (supervisor) for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) from 1961 to 1968 (Apollo 8)
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Survivor of the '1953 North Sea flood'. (Born: 1947) She was six years old at the time of the flood and remembers when the North Sea came crashing inland. She lives in Canvey Island, Essex, UK
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Author, speaker and U.S. Navy SEAL. Served as chief advisor for Counter Terrorism for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Son of G. Gordon Liddy
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JFK - Assistant counsel to the Warren Commission
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Inventor of DVD
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NASA Apollo era Flight Director EECOM
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Apollo-Skylab Flight Controller; played by Clint howard in APOLLO 13
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Manhattan Project
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Holocaust Survivor/Age 14 when sent to Auschwitz/Allowed to leave a few months after arriving because of a clerical error regarding her birthday & was sent off to do hard labor in various parts of the country/Age 85
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(Born July 9,1920) received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1947. His thesis was on the discharge mechanism of Geiger'Müller counters. Liebson received a US Navy award for developing the first equipment used to identify enemy radar.
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Next Belgian ESA astronaut
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
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WWII: 'Rosie the Riveter' at McDonnell Douglas, Long Beach, CA, during WWII. She worked on B-17s
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Current NASA Administrator (Acting) since Jan 20th, 2017
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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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Inventor
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Supercentenarian Born 1906 3rd oldest person in France
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WWII: Polish fighter in the huge Warsaw Uprising of 1944 which was eventually crushed by Nazi-Germany
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top ace of the world-353 kill ww2-russian front
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WWII: USS Bunker Hill. Last of the Bunker Hill crew rescued, surviving two kamikazes crashing 30 seconds apart into the Bunker Hill on 11 May 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa
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Scientist
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Known for her appearance in a newsreel filmed in 1945. She is directing traffic behind the Brandenberg Gate. Is said to be living in the village of Zvonaryovka in the Saratov region of Russia
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Author/Iran Hostage Crisis/Political Officer/Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy in August 2006 after retiring from the Foreign Service with 33 years of service and the rank of Minister-Counselor
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War hero, Victoria Cross receiver
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Host of 'Lost Cities Revealed' on National Geographic Channel, Explorer, Author, Speaker
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Architect, designed Vietnam memorial in Washington
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Attorney, V.P. & Council - GIC; 'pitcher' on the front of the 2008 Topps baseball card titled 'Kazuo Uzuki' that was released by Topps as an April Fools Day joke for this former Law Blog Student
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WWII: PTO. Chief Fire Controlman on the USS Chicago (CA-29). Battle of Savo Island, Battle of Rennell Island (when the Chicago was sunk)
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Britt Lincoln (2)Award winning daredevil aerobatic pilot
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Oldest Living Arkansan Born:09/30/1897
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astronaut
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Swedish scientist specialising in cancer research.In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
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WWII: PTO. Battel of Okinawa. Seabee
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member of the original Iwo Jima Flag Raisers
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Aviator, American Icon
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aviator grandson of charles lindbergh
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Flight scientist
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WWII Veteran, survived attack at Pearl Harbor, technical advisor for the film - Pearl Harbor (2001)
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Astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Seabee
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WW2 USN Flying Ace, 8 Victories!
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Retired Army General
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Author and Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy
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Vertebrate Zoologist with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Astronaut - Space Shuttle Pilot for STS-87 and STS-95; Commander of Shuttle missions STS-104, STS-121, and STS-133
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First lady to get breast implants, in 1962
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Detroit (CL-8)
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Swedish aeronautical engineer
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astronaut space station mir.
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Scientist
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Retired engineer/oilman (Born: 1948) who was part of the team who found the the first 'black gold' in the North Sea in 1970. Lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Also known as Rob 'Swede' Lingard
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WW2 Veteran-Omaha Beach
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, was at Wheeler Field when attack started
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Served on USS Growler during WW II
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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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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the battleship Nevada, 7 December 1941
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NASA Astronaut
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astronaut
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Witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952 and caused the deaths of 4,000 people. It is considered the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom. He was 7 at the time and is now 71
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army general
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Scientist
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navy admiral
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1976. Born: 12/09/1919
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JFK - Aide to General Wehle and as such often briefing President Kennedy about visitors; also a witness to the autopsy of JFK
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US Military officer, civil servant (1887-1971) Army Capt. for WWI airmail service. Transferred to PO's first airmail supervisor in 1918. Then into private aviation, known as the father of commercial aviation
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Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, KCVO 05/10/1848?10/2/1931 Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage was a self-made man, merchant & yachtsman. Created the Lipton tea brand & was the most persistent challenger in history of America's Cup
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Doctor at Methodist Hospital in Dallas , Texas who pronounced Officer Tippitt dead on Nov. 22 , 1963
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Downes
