French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. In 2020, Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the development of a method for genome editing'
WWII: Pacific Theater, Navy, USS Atlanta (CL-51). Survivor of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in which the Atlanta was sunk in the fiercest night battle of the war
American Former Female Chef, Author & TV Personality. Known As Queen of Creole Cuisine. Novel - 'The Dooky Chase Cookbook' (1990), 'And Still I Cook' (2003), 'Down Home Healthy: Family Recipes Of Black American Chefs' (1994)
WWII: ETO. Recon scout in Cannon Company 303rd Infantry Regiment 97th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Battle of the Ruhr pocket (Siegburg, Solingen. Dusseldorf) in April 1945, end of war in Czechoslovakia
American stand-up comedian and writer with stage and screen credits in eight countries, and author of the comic memoir The 188th Crybaby Brigade, about his year as a tank soldier in the Israeli Army
29 year old story analyst at 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride. He took a bus from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi where he was arrested, at the Trailwa
WWII: Greek fighter pilot in the Hellenic Air Force, serving in North Africa, Italy, Yugoslavia. 336th Combat Squadron. One of the pilots who provided air protection to Churchill and FDR to meet with Stalin at the Tehran Conference
WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Severely wounded twice. 276th Infantry Reg, 70th Infantry Div. 37 combat missions as a B-29 pilot In Korea. Vietnam: Wrote Air Force history flying the B-52's 1st combat mission on June 18, 1965 (Op. Arc Light)
Is a centenarian and is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1962 to 1981, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Edward Schreyer
Brig. Gen. E. Daniel Cherry is commander, U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service, and deputy chief of staff for recruiting service and commissioning programs, Headquarters Air Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. currently retired
Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire (7 September 1917 ? 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War.Among the honours Cheshire received as a pilot is the Victoria Cross
WWII: PTO. Invasion of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, Invasion of the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo Bay. USS West Virginia 1944-1946
Chinese - Born American Former Male Centenarian World War 2 Veteran. He Was One Of Only Two Surviving CNAC Pilots. Moon died on 9 May 2023, at the age of 110
South African - Born Female Former Zimbabwean Politician - 'Minister of National Resources and Tourism' (1982-1990), 'Minister of Education', 'Minister of Information' (Both 1988-1990), 'Minister of Posts and Telecommunications ' (1990)
WWII - Nurse during the siege of Bastogne. She and fellow nurse Renee Lemaire (who died Dec. 24, 1944) treated injured soldiers during Battle of the Bulge. Shortly portrayed as 'Anna' in 'Band of Brothers'. Honorary Member 101st Airborne
Polish Former Female Sailor And Naval Engineer. First Woman To Sail Solo Around The World. She Sailed From The Canary Islands On 28 March 1976, And Returned 21 April 1978, Completing A Circumnavigation Of 31,166 Nautical Miles (57,719 km) In 401 days
American contemporary theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist. Internationally recognized as a director, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist, and is considered a seminal figure in Asian American theatre
English Former Female Women's Royal Naval Service WWII. Worked At Code Cracking Centre Bletchley Park On The Worlds First Electronic Computer - Colossus
UK WWI Navy vet (1901-2011). Last male veteran of WWI, and the last to see action. Moved to Australia, and served in their Navy in WWII. So also the last vet to serve in both wars. Death left Florence Green as the very last WWI vet
Last surviving revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid. The raid was an attempt on April 18, 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury in Bengal, British India. He lives in Chittagong, India and is now 102
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
US Centenarian, born 1913. She, her dad, 3 siblings contracted the 1918 Flu, nursed to health by her mother, who then also got it and died days later. Became a teacher, but said to be touched by the Flu and her lost mother every day since
American Female Red Cross Donut Dolly. Vietnam War. She Said; 'Whenever Anybody Was Going Back Home They'd Play Leaving On A Jet Plane'. They Listened To Soldiers. Played Games And Records At The Base Rec Centres. Their Job Was To Lift The Guys Spirits
4th Baronet GBE CB DSO MC 1893-1993, British commander WW2. Sept, 1945 Christison deputised for Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as commander of SEAC and took the surrender of the Japanese 7th Area Army & Japan's South Sea Fleet at Singapore
WWII: Christopher flew 49 missions (in the PBM-5 Seaplane in the Pacific Theatre (Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa) from 1944 to 1945. VPB-27 Squadron, plane 'Dina Might' (Crew E-2)
Uzbekistan Male Jewish Soviet WWII Veteran - Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Order of the Red Star and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War
WWII: ETO. Co B, 301st Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division: Northern France and Germany. Transferred to the 26th Reg., 1st Div., after Germany surrendered, assigned as guard for Lt. Gen. Roman Rudenko, the chief prosecutor for the USSR at Nuremberg
Geneticist, molecular engineer/Successfully copied woolly mammoth genes into the genome of an Asian elephant/Will have reproduced the extinct Wooly Mammoth in the next three years
Jamaican - Born American Lawyer And Jurist. 'Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia' (2014- )Judge Over Criminal Trial Of Donald Trump Over Attempts To Overturn Result Of 2020 Presidential Election
DT1, USMM & USN
Merchant Marine delivered supplies and ammunition at Iwo Jima, Midway and Guadalcanal
Witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri
Oncologist who developed the CD34 monoclonal antibody, which made it possible for the first time to identify, isolate and collect hematopoietic stem cells, the immature cells in the human body that grow into mature blood, marrow and immune cells
(Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran. Stormed Normandy Beach. Units included 29th Infantry Division, 30th Infantry Division, 84th Infantry Division, and Third Army. Bronze Star Recipient
Retired Lt. Gen. US Air Force, Director of Nat. Intelligence. Served director of Defense Intel Agency from 92-95. 1st Director Defense Intel within Office of Director of National Intelligence & Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
A Detective in the Dallas Police Force , Barnard was one of the policemen who guarded Jack Ruby immediately following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald
WWII: PTO. 25th Infantry Division. Col. Clark was awarded the Silver Star medal for gallantry in action at Guadalcanal. He later was wounded on Aug. 5, 1943, on New Georgia Island, and again in the Korean War. 2 Purple Hearts
Survivor of 9/11 - a volunteer firefighter for his floor and one of only four people in the South Tower to escape from a floor above the plane's impact
Carl Clark, a veteran whose actions of wartime heroism deserved a medal for heroism but was denied the recognition for more than 60 years because he was African American. He was born in 1916
American Female Historic Figure - On 11/22/1963 - Downtown Fort Worth - Aged 10. President Kennedy Stood Before Her, Her Sister and Mother. They Got To Shake His Hand, And The Hands Of The Governor And The Vice President Before He Went To Dallas
12/9/1889-12/13/1963 US federal judge, sitting on the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 1939-1963/1/5/1939 was nominated by President Franklin D Roosevelt to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2 Purple Hearts
WW2/WASP Women Air Force Service Pilots/Class 44-1/Author Dear Mother & Daddy: WW2 Letters Home from a WASP/After training, stationed Las Vegas Army Air Base/Flew PT-19, BT-13, AT-11, AT-6, P-39, P-63 fighter & copilot B-17 & B-26 bombers
The world's oldest travelling preacher, born in 1903. He witnessed the 1921 race riot in Tulsa and worked for movie stars Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin. He also worked at Joan Crawfords home as a butler. He is now 108 and lives in the USA
A member of the Dallas Police Dept. , Richard participated in the police line-up at which Helen Markham identified Oswald as the man who shot Officer Tippitt . Clark was # 3 in the line-up
Met President John Kennedy 11/22/1963. Standing In Front Of Barricade, Aged 7, Downtown Fort Worth School With Her Sister And Mother. They Got To Shake His Hand, And Also The Governor And Vice President Before He Went To Dallas. May 1956 Fort Worth, Texas
American Former Female Historic Person - On 11/22/1963 At Fort Worth. Stood In Front Of Barricade And President John Kennedy Shook Hands With Her And Her 2 Daughters. They Also Shook Hands Of The Governor And The Vice President Before He Went To Dallas
Author 'A Spy for All Seasons'/senior operations officer for USA's CIA. Best known in mid-1980s for role in the Contra end of Iran-Contra Affair. Reputed planner of the clandestine mining of Nicaragua's harbors during Nicaraguan Revolution
American theoretical and experimental physicist. He was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger
American Former Female Historic Person. Billie Stood On The North Sidewalk Of Elm Street, In Front Of The Pergola, To Watch The Motorcade Of President John Kennedy And Just Shortly After Passing Her She Heard A Shot
American Former Female Engineer And NASA Astronaut. ' NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate' (2005-2007). Missions In Space - 'STS-61-B Atlantis' (1985) And 'STS-30 on Space Shuttle Atlantis' (1989)
American Female Law Professor, Author, And Former Activist - 'Black Panther Party' (1960's). Novel - 'Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party' (2001), 'Black Women's Autobiographies' (Editor)(2022). Movie - 'Zabriskie Point' (1970)
American Former Female Historic Person. American Centenarian Who, At The Time Of Her Death, Was The Second - Oldest Known Survivor Of The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (109 Years, 132 Days)
American Female Former Air Force Major General (1978-2012). Was Director, Logistics and Sustainment, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright - Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; US Army 19th Infantry, 24th & 25th Division, Schofield Barracks. Later in the war, he was sent to the Philippines.
As a model, Mr. Clune was one of the highest paid models of the 50s, making $1 per minute. He most famously modeled for Marlboro as a Marlboro Man, but also modeled for Winston, Vogue, That Man fragrance, and many others
American Former Female Aviator. Part of Mercury 13 NASA Testing. World Record For Non - Stop Long - Distance Flight (1959). World Light - Plane Speed Record (1959). World Altitude Record For Lightweight Aircraft Of 37,010 Feet (1960)
American Former Female Biologist, Cancer Researcher, Professor, Dean, And Academic Administrator. She Contributed To The Field Of Cancer Research By Studying The Cure For Melanoma
He and Ross Perot Jr. on 30 September 1982, completed the 1st around-the-world helicopter flight when they landed Spirit of Texas at their starting point at Dallas, Texas
WWII: ETO. 2679th HQ Co, Psychological Warfare Branch (a precursor to the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency), Allied Force HQ Italy. In service since June 1941. Eyewitness to Mussolini's Death
American Female Astrophysicist - 'NASA Ames Research Center' (2014-2017), 'High - level Data Product Manager' - Worked On The Kepler And K2 Projects Searching For Potential Exo - Planets (2017-2020), 'SETI Institute' - Research Scientist (2019- )
Last survivor of a group of four teenage boys who discovered the Cave of Lascaux in 1940. Simon Emmanuel Coencas, born January 28, 1927 in Saint - Denis, France
Professional Speaker/1966, while flying combat missions over N. Vietnam, Captain Gerald Coffees reconnaissance jet was downed by enemy fire. He parachuted but was captured immediately & spent the next 7 years as a Prisoner of War in the Hanio Hilton
American Female Lawyer - Best Known, Along With Sarah Weddington, For Arguing The Precedent - Setting United States Supreme Court Case 'Roe v. Wade' (1971-1973)
American Female Author, Scientist, Teacher, Naturalist, State Park Ranger, National Park Ranger, Cruising Sailor, And Photographer - Novel - 'Intelligent Life On Earth? The Search Continues' (2013)
Mary Cohen was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23, 1923. WWII - WAC (Women's Air Corps); 'Rosie The Riveter'; repaired battle-worn B-29s in Tucson, later recruited young men for the Army
US WWII veteran, born 1919. Part of the campaigns in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and St Lo. Served under Patton and Eisenhower, eventually serving as an aide under Eisenhower
WWII: D-Day. Utah Beach. 90th Infantry Division. Was in 5 major battles, including the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. In Czechoslovakia at the end of the war
01/04/1920-04/27/1996 Director of Central Intelligence (DCI/C.I.A.) from September 1973 to January 1976/During World War II Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services
WWII: ETO. 729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. B-17 pilot. 30 combat missions. Met then-16year-old actress Jean Simmons while in London
June 19, 1904 - August 15, 1985, American screenwriter/Joined the American Communist Party. He became one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted. Between 1932 & 1947 Cole wrote more than forty screenplays that were made into motion pictures
WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942. Also aboard for the Doolittle Raid and the Battle of Midway (May 1942)
American Female Former Astronaut, United States Air Force Colonel, Engineer, And Chemist. 'STS-73' Space Shuttle (1995), 'STS-93' Space Shuttle (1999), 'Aquarius Underwater Laboratory' NEEMO 7, 'Expedition 26' (2015)
From Brooklyn, NY, he played center and end for the first OSU National Championship team. As with most of his teammates, his Buckeye career was disrupted by military service during WWII. He was awarded 3 Purple Hearts & 14 Battle Ribbons!
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Bagley (DD-386). He broke open the 50 caliber forward port ready service locker, opened fire and hit the first two Japanese Torpedo Bombers. Also in the Battle of the Coral Sea
American Female Academic And University Administrator - 'The 6th President Of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona)(2015- )
American Female Former Astronaut, And Air Force Colonel. Space Shuttle Missions Pilot - 'STS-63' Discovery (1995), 'STS-84' Atlantis (1995), 'STS-93' Columbia (1999), 'STS-114' Discovery (2005). First Female To Pilot The Space Shuttle
(Born 1931) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
Washington, DC, police officer assigned to escort King onto the podium for the 'I have a dream' speech in Washington (March on Washington, August 1963), seen in the speech and in photographs behind Dr. King
American Former Female Philanthropist - Founder Of The Non - Profit Organization 'Literacy Volunteers of America', Now Called 'ProLiteracy Worldwide' In Syracuse, New York (1962)
WWII - Mine Platoon of the Anti-Tank Company, 69th Infantry Division, 271st Regiment. First combat at the 'Siegfried Line' in February 1945; crossed the Rhine on March 27, 1945; arrived at the KZ Buchenwald one day after its liberation
American lawyer who served as the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 2013 until May 2017. Comey has been a registered Republican for most of his life, but is now independent/Fired by Donald Trump
101st Airborne Band of Brothers in WW2 // Lead Prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. // California Appeals Court Judge
A 48-year employee of the John Sexton Food Company, Conine worked in their warehouse at 411 Elm Street - later known as the Texas School Book Depository - for nine years. He shared his knowledge about the building's history and layout
American author & LGBTQ activist known for his autobiography Boy Erased recounting his childhood as part of a fundamentalist family in Arkansas that enrolled him in conversion therapy. he book was adapted into the 2018 film Boy Erased
Flew P-51's with the 261FS/357FG Yoxford Boys. He flew 71 missions, 270 combat hours and had one enemy aircraft destroyed, on the ground, many box cars, engines, armored vehicles and trucks destroyed, crashed one P51 at Brussels, Belgium
WWII - US Army; aided in the defence of Bataan, Luzon Island, Philippines; after the US surrender on April 9, 1941, he evaded capture and organized a guerrilla force in the mountains west of Clark Field; subject of the book "Resolve"
(January 12, 1919 - July 27, 1994) was a sergeant in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor after leading a platoon of 36 men attached to the 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division against German positions, defended by snipers and ma
As a Marine officer, Justin volunteered for deployment to Iraq in 2006, and served as a Civil Affairs Team Leader while attached to an infantry battalion. While on a routine combat patrol, Justin was shot in the head by a sniper. Although the original pro
WWII: D-Day. USS Thompson (joined Task Group 124.7, Convoy O-1, bound for Omaha Beach), Conte was firing at German positions at Omaha Beach, including supporting the Rangers on Pointe-du-Hoc
Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
James 'Jimmy C' Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988
Director/actor/writer 'Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story' 'Random Passage'/4 years Naval officer in WW2. Landing craft officer-Boat Group Commander for my ship-landing assault troops on the beaches of six Japanese island strongholds
Parzival Copes, OC (born 22 January 1924) is a Canadian economist with a particular interest in regional science and specialization in fisheries economics and management
Jamye Flowers Coplin worked in the astronaut office during the Apollo program. As a secretary to the astronauts, Coplin wrote their frequent travel orders, ran interference when outsiders wanted access & traveled with them to the Cape for launches
WWII Rosie the Riveter, born 1923. One of 17 siblings, sent by her father to aid the war effort by working at the Curtiss-Wright aviation company in Buffalo, NY. Was a 'bucker', a final step in the riveting process
WW2 OSS Officer/Technical adviser to the film 'OSS' (1946)/He was trained at the famous 'Camp X' in Canada/As a spy he once lived with an Italian family just 450 yards from a German base
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 1921) US Army WW2 Veteran. fought along the Mussolini Canal in Italy. Wounded by Mortar fire out in Italy. Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient
KCB, CBE, DSO, MC 5/27/1887-1985) British Army officer & linguist. Lieutenant-General in charge of air defense of Great Britain. 1940 he went to France to help evacuate British troops from Cherbourg, boarding the last ship to leave port
WWII: 59th Coast Artillery Regiment. Escaped the infamous Bataan Death March by swimming, only to be captured again at Corregidor, Fort Mills, in the Philippines on May 6, 1942. POW at Camp Omori, Tokyo Bay
US WWII Army vet, born 1926. Tank commander, Patton's 773rd Tank Destroyer Batt. On furlough, passed over to see Nuremburg Trial, as only an NCO. But Russian scientist showed him the evidence room, was his guest for 3 days of the Trials
Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.
WWII: He served with the First Marine Division in the Guadalcanal Campaign and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in an enemy ambush during a jungle patrol following the Battle of Edson's Ridge
Eastman Kodak engineer, worked on the camera team for NASA's Lunar Orbiters that photographed the moon, and mapped landing spots for the Apollo missions. Led to the first photo of the earth from the moon, a B&W grainy one, in 1966
Test pilot! Named 1966 Pilot of the Year by the International Order of Characters, Cotton has been awarded a Legion of Merit, Air Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal and the Aerospace Walk of Honor (1997)
Last witness to see 'The Humber Monster', the East Coast's answer to the Loch Ness Monster. He saw it himself as a small child before WW2. The last sighting of it was 80 years ago. Now 86 and lives in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, UK