Civil Rights activist, born 1922. led the Cambridge Movement. One of the few women honored at the 1963 March on Washington, tho the mike was taken from her as she started to speak, due to efforts to keep women in the background at the time
WWII: PTO. Edson's 1st Marine Raider Battalion. Tulagi, New Georgia, and Guadalcanal (Battle of Bloody Ridge, first and second Matanikau, Tasimboko Raid)
Flew three sorties over the coast of Normandy on D-Day--the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. About 600 feet below his P-38 Lightning, more than 180,000 Allied troops came ashore in what became known as the ?Longest Day.?
Was one of the Greensboro Four. On February 1, 1960, they sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store, challenging the store's policy on segregation. This event was a major milestone in the African-American
American Engineer, born 1927. JPL/NASA Project manager for first US satellite, Explorer I. First person to get it's communication that it was in orbit. Left for private career in engineering and consultation
Civil Rights activist, born 1943. Worked with SNCC, the Selma march, and the Black Panthers. In Mississippi after James Meredith was shot, he coined the term 'Black Power!' which his friend Stokely Carmichael then helped popularized
TCU Professor & Author/'Lone Star Leaders: Power and Personality in the Texas Congressional Delegation' (TCU Press, 2011), 'The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of Democratic House Leadership, 1937-1989'
(Born 1949) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts
Retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Boatswain's Mate - WWII and Atomic veteran, served from 1940-1966, skipper of LCU-974, participated in four nuclear weapon test operations: Castle, Wigwam, Redwing, and Hardtack I
Veteran, born 1943, of the 101st Airborne, 327th Division that was called into service by President Eisenhower to protect the Little Rock Nine students integrating the high school in 1957
WWII - D-Day paratrooper. 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR, General Gavin's staff. His responsibilities included determining the drop zones for the Normandy invasion. 2nd combat jump (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge
WWII: Battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. NASA: Explorer I (first US satellite 1958), Alan Shepard (Mercury-Redstone 3), Chief Engineer/Deputy Director for Apollo Space Program, Skylab, director Launch Operations Apollo-Soyuz '75
WWII: ETO, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. Featured in a famous Robert Capa photograph that appeared in Life magazine on May 14, 1945, taken on April 18, 1945, during fighting in Leipzig
WWII: D-Day. 29th Infantry Division. Severely wounded in the Battle of St. Lo (July 1944); returned to combat in the Battle of the Bulge and was Goering's MP at the Nuremberg Trials
Became part of the Texas Rangers in 1947 and was assigned with Company B in Gainesville/After 30 years of service Rigler retired, and lived to be the second oldest living retired-Ranger/His Book; 'In The Line of Duty'
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal (AR-4). Later served at Italy, France, the Battle of Casablanca, and also was a witness to the a-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot; Korea: napalm runs at the Chosin Reservoir; Vietnam: flying for the CIA (Air America); stunt flights for the 2001 movie 'Pearl Harbor'
Flight Attendant , was a Pan Am stewardess aboard the White House Press Plane during the Kennedy Years , was at Love Field the day of the assassination
Inventor - High resolution radar & sonar. Inducted into the National Inventors Hall Of Fame in 1994. Composer for Broadway & Off-Broadway productions. Retired lecturer from M.I.T
(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Served on the USS West Virginia. Went to Leyte Gulf, Sulu Sea, Lingayen Gulf, Surigao Strait, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Witnessed the Kamikaze attack on the West Virginia. At Tokyo Bay for the Surrender of Japan
NASA pilot - X-57 Maxwell, NASA's first all-electric experimental aircraft, DC-8 flying science lab, (SOFIA) Boeing 747SP, the F/A-18, the Beechcraft B200 Super King Air and the remotely piloted X-56 multi-utility technology testbed
WWII Nazi war criminal; worked as guard with an SS-trained attack dog at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for women; deported from US to Germany in 2006; only female Nazi war criminal to be caught & deported; now living with her sister in Viersen, Germany
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
(Born 1931) US Navy Korean War and Vietnam War veteran. Corpsman during Korea getting 2 Purple Hearts. Was a Navy Seal during Vietnam. 2 Bronze stars and 5 Purple Hearts
Asst Mgr Citibank in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) April 1975- the month that Americans evacuated (then) South Vietnam. Realizing that his co-workers at Citibank would likely face death after a Communist take over-he figured out how to get all 105 of them
Spanish writer and linguist. 8th Count of Casa Dávalos and Grandee of Spain. President of the 'Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona' since 1965 and one of the last surviving veterans of The Spanish Civil War. He is now 98 and lives in Spain
WWII WAVES vet, born 1921. Raised pigeons as a girl, accepted into the Navy's pigeon program. Pigeons used mainly to communicate with blimps used for scouting enemy subs and more, avoiding the possible detection of radio messages
Canadian D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1923. He was in the first landing craft ashore and was the second man to hit the beach. He is now 91 and lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
Last surviving Bletchley Park codebreaker who cracked a German cipher machine in WW2. He was among four members of the Testery section tasked with breaking the German Tunny code. Also known as 'Raymond 'Jerry' Roberts'
Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
Green Beret presumed dead after his helicopter was shot down in a 1968 secret mission over Laos, has been found more than four decades later in south-central Vietnam/Can only speak Vietnamese
WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
Born December 25, 1951, designed interactive computer graphics software and developed Adventure, the first graphical adventure video game for Atari 2600
Author of the memoir Look Me in the Eye, detailing his life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and savant abilities. Created the signature special effects guitars played by the band KISS. Brother of memoirist Augusten Burroughs
Vietnam US Army Airborne Infantry Vet/deployed 1969/Bronze Star for valor, Combat Infantry Badge, National Defense Service Medal, Sharpshooter Medal with auto rifle & rifle bars, Marksman Medal with machine gun bar & Parachutist's Badge
American Chemist who studied the effect of temperature on a baseball. In 2017 Rocks conducted an experiment studying the effect temperature has on a baseball, with Paul DeJong as his laboratory assistant.
British WW2 veteran who was captured at the Fall of Singapore, he was sentenced to 15 years at Sakai Prison in Osaka and faced the the firing squad, only to be saved at the last second. Born: 1916. Recently turned 100. Lives in Canada
(Born 1959) US Air Force Gulf and Kosovo War Veteran. With three air-to-air combat victories, he joined 3 other USAF pilots as the closest to becoming a flying ace of any U.S. pilot since the Vietnam War. Flew F-15 Eagle's
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
Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia b.5/31/1941 former CIA officer known for involvement in Bay of Pigs Invasion, in interrogation & execution of Marxist guerilla Che Guevara & his ties to George H. W. Bush during Iran-Contra affair
Author/illustrator, dancer/choreographer, rapper, environmentalist, teaching artist. Themes range from anti-bullying to understanding children with autism to environmental awareness
Former janitor at the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001, attacks and was in the basement of the North Tower when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the building.
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
98-Year-Old nonagenarian athlete born 11/1917 who set the World Indoor 1500 Meter Record. He now owns every age group world indoor track record from the 800 meters up
WWII: D-Day, Juno Beach. Royal Engineers, British 21st Army group. Landed in support of the 3rd Canadian Army Div where he would spend over a month under almost constant artillery/machine gun fire, helping bring ashore vital supplies
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, Rogo claims he waved at one of the pilots, who waved back. Unbeknownst to him, this pilot was Japanese
World War II veteran pilot who attained the rank of LGen and was the person credited with effectively removing Rommel from the war. Address is
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WWII Veteran Floyd Rolf enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December of 1942. He initially trained to fly P-38s but ultimately flew C-47 troop carriers. Before he left for Europe in October of 1944, Rolf proposed to Peg, his high- school sweetheart. Th
German born psychologist and parapsychologist who in 1958, alongside J.G Pratt defined a 'poltergeist' as a paranormal phenomenon which consists of events alluding to the manifestation of an imperceptible entity. He is now 85 and lives in Georgia, USA
WWII vet, born 1913. Served in the Philippines and Australia. In his life, saw Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, and met Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa. At 24, drove himself to see a famous airship land, and ended up witnessing the Hindenburg explode
American astronomer who was one of the first female executives at NASA. She is known to many as the 'Mother of Hubble' for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. First Chief of Astronomy in NASA's Office of Space Science
(born August 1, 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, spening a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut
(born August 1, 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, spending a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut
American economist, a pioneer of endogenous growth theory, and a co-recipient with William D. Nordhaus of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; chief turret officer USS Oklahoma, calling the crew the General Quarters rather unceremoniously with the words 'All hands, man your battle stations! This is no shit, Goddamn it! Jap planes are bombing us!'
Polish Holocaust Survivor (1924-2023) Plaszow, Pionki and Sachsenhausen Camps. Survived with parents, brother died. Later moved to Israel and the US. Chance meeting with a fellow Pionki survivor in 2022 led to friendship, and a documentary
Norwegian Army officer and broadcaster. He is known for his resistance work during World War II and his post-war war information work. He is also the last veteran of the legendary WW2 'Heroes of the Telemark' raid. He is now 96
Lt. Colonel, Christian, husband, father of 5 girls, Founder of Folds of Honor Foundation, USAFR Fighter Pilot, Washington Speakers Bureau, PGA professional and author
CM Sgt. Ronald Roos 'Air Force Honor Guard/ Death Watch/'I was there when the presidents body was taken off Air Force one, I saw Mrs. Kennedy, still in the blood stained dress, standing in the doorway,' Roos said
US WWII Navy WAVE, born 1923. Too young for service, she began as a munitions worker Rosie in 1941. Joined the WAVES a couple years later, and worked as a mechanic in the Navy's Blimp program
Explorer/Byrd: geographic, air reconnaissance and photogrammetric officer to Admiral Byrd on two antarctic expeditions and served as Byrd's scientific advisor
Centenarian (1900-2003). One of the last living women to vote in the 1920 election, and one of the last to have visited the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
JFK - Doctor at Parkland Hospital who would have been part of the autopsy team if it would have been done in Texas; conducted Oswald's autopsy, as well as those for J.D Tippit and later Jack Ruby
Former United States Army officer and a Vietnam War veteran. For his actions during the war, Rose is scheduled to be presented the Medal of Honor on 23 October 2017 by United States President Donald Trump
Writer/Anti-abortion activist founder & president of anti-abortion organization Live Action. Conducted undercover, investigative exposés of abortion facilities in the US, including affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation
WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1920, he claimed three victories during the Battle of Britain and flew three or four sorties each day. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
British born TV presenter and Antarctic explorer. He is also an experienced and popular public speaker, science support and field logistics expert, polar guide, professional diver and instructor, mountaineer and yacht skipper
1961 left college to join the Congress of Racial Equity (CORE) as Freedom Rider, traveled on buses throughout South to protest segregation and challenge the lack of enforcement of laws that made segregation on buses illegal/born 1940
President & CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the U.S. Constitution. Professor of law at George Washington University Law School
Scientist in the space programs Apollo and NASA. Key to development of Vanguard and Viking Rocket Programs which led to success of landing on the moon. Born 07/25/1915
1950s Army Veteran and gay husband of Hubert Spires. He helped fight for a honorable discharge for Spires and they succeeded in 2017 when Spires got a honorable discharge from the US Military after over 60 years
Former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Alphabet Inc. management team and board. Featured in an Academy Award-winning documentary about espionage in the digital age. Coauthor of How Google Works
American fighter pilot (Ret.)/As captain in the US Air Force, flew 30 missions in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the Persian Gulf War. His book about his experiences in the war, titled Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot
1896-1973 U.S. lawyer, judge, Democratic political figure, and presidential speechwriter/Was FDR Special Counsel upon FDR's death Truman asked him to stay on, initially through V-E Day, then through V-J Day, and finally into 1946
WWII - D-Day, 2nd Battalion, The Glostershire Regiment. Frank's regiment was tasked to take the French town of Bayeux, 12 miles from Gold Beach, and fought in the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles, where some of the toughest combat took place
1921-2000 co-inventor zeolite catalyst that was commercially useful in petroleum industry for catalytic cracking of petroleum into products like gas. Inventor or co-inventor of 76 US patents & was inducted into the National Inventors HOF
US WWII Merchant Marines (1928-2024). Joined the MM in 1942 at 14 years old, served in the S. Pacific and Atlantic. One of the last MM to attend the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Merchant Marines in 2022
American diplomat, speaker and author. Served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush and the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton
Officer of the United States Navy who received the first Medal of Honor of World War II. This award was made for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
WWII: Highly decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Brigadier General. He is most noted for his service with the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa. He placed the American flag at Mt. Shuri
WWII: Survivor of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion 1944, 320 dead; mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.) Later on the USS Ancon where he rejected an order and was given right by the white Captain
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
Was one of the last surviving French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day to initiate the liberation of their homeland
American economist. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design'
Professor of Biomedical Sciences. Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof)
Holocaust survivor, born 1932. Mother, sister killed in a train wreck by saboteurs, father gassed at Auschwitz. He and a brother hid with various people throughout the war. Saw Hitler in Vienna, and Churchill in a victory parade in Belgium
Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (born January 4, 1970) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted of murdering her son, five-year-old Damon. She was never charged with the murder of her other son, six-year-old Devon.
(No Kum-Sok) Sept 1953 2 months after Korean War ended with an armistice, a 21-year-old North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield with a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane
WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa. The Lindsey was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes that crashed into her killing 57 sailors and wounding another 57
Witness that said he saw another man with a gun in the Sixth Floor Book Depository Building and stuck by the story when questioned by the Warren Commission. He was a high school student and worked for Pizza Inn at the time
Last survivor of the Gresford mine disaster of 1934. It is one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters. He was a teenager at the time. Also a WW2 veteran. He recently celebrated his 100th birthday. He lives in the UK
US Army Korean War Veteran. He was a POW from 1951 to 1953 in North Korea. 333 people of his battalion including him were taken as POWs and only 117 made it
Founder, and owner of The Royal Treatment Veterinary Center. Internationally-renowned pioneer in complementary medicine and physical rehabilitation.Author and advocate of common sense and cutting-edge approaches to optimal animal health
WWII WAVES veteran, born 1915. She worked coding and decoding ship movements while based in San Francisco. Later used the GI Bill to get an education and become a teacher
NASA: Worked in communications for NASA during the Apollo 11 mission by relaying information about the spacecraft's location. Royston, pictured, points to the Apollo 11 patch in his collection from working on different Apollo missions
Vietnam 1965 flew into Landing Zone X-Ray Ia Drang Valley on supply helicopter/Was supply officer for 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile during 1st full-scale battle between American & North Vietnamese troops
British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma; full name is Richard Arthur Rubinstein
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. During the attack, Rubien helped burn classified documents, then picked up a gun and ammo and began shooting. Later served at Saipan, Guam, and the Marshall Islands
American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. She is now 84 and lives in U.S.A
WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of USS Helena (CL-50) in the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. Also Night Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 1942 and the Battle of Cape Esperance (Oct. 1942) where he saw the USS Juneau (Sullivan brothers) sink
Female WWII veteran, snuck away from home to join the WAACs in 1942, becoming a WAC in 1943. Ran a night flight simulator for pilot training. Later in life had a nursing career
German nurse (Born: 1929) who was stationed at Hitler's bunker during the final days of WW2. She was 15 at the time and met Joseph Goebbels and his family on the day Hitler committed suicide. She is now 88 and lives in Germany
Businessman and co-Founder of Citizens for Eisenhower which propelled DDE into the presidency. Later a White House aide to Eisenhower. An heir to the Colgate-Palmolive fortune, and first husband of actress Dina Merrill
Murderer responsible for the deadliest shooting inside a private residence in American history. On March 30, 1975, He murdered 11 family members in what is referred to as the Easter Sunday Massacre
WWII: Navy fighter carrier pilot, flying in combat during World War II and the Korean War; including dive-bomber support for the First Marine Division during the battle of Guadalcanal, flying off the USS Saratoga
Captain Elizabeth (Liz) Ruth is an American pilot who is the only woman to fly the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. She works at Armstrong Flight Research Center. She has flown for the United States Air Force, flying Boeing T-43 and North
Marine Guard of Honor, JFK funeral/ enlisted in 1960 Two years after enlisting, they found themselves on separate boats off coast of Cuba, part of a flotilla that was prepared to invade the island if Cuban missile crisis came to a head
Prosecution witness, Police Reporter for the Dallas Morning News in the Jack Ruby Trial for murder of Lee Harvey Oswald who slated to have assassinated JFK/Said he saw Ruby at police headquarters at least 3x night of Nov. 22
WWII: D-Day, landing near Ste. Marie Eglise, captured on D-Day; POW at Stalag 4B near the Czech border. Earlier combat jump in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943) and combat in Salerno, Italy. 505th PIR, HQ Company, 82nd Airborne Division
American molecular biologist. Ruvkun was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Survived having a frozen turkey (thrown out the window by teens for a thrill) shattering her windshield and smashing her face. Awoke several weeks later with no knowledge of what had happened. Created the Forgiveness Project
A stringer for the Chicago Tribune in '63 , he took photos at Dealey Plaza , at Parkland and Love Field . His image of Air Force One leaving Dallas was published the next day
American academic administrator who most notably served as the President of Indiana University for sixteen years. Appeared as himself in the film, BREAKING AWAY
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
Baby featured in Dorothea Lange's famous photo 'Migrant Mother' with her mother and two of her siblings; taken in 1936 during the Great Depression; sister of Katherine McIntosh
One of the oldest women in the UK. Born: 1907. Recently celebrated her 109th birthday. Also one of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918. Lives in Stanmore, London, UK
Retired United States Air Force veteran, video game artist and game programmer.
Sachs was the lead artist on the groundbreaking Amiga computer game Defender of the Crown from Cinemaware. He is also the author of the game Saucer Attack