Served in World War II on the U.S.S. Borie (destroyer) and the U.S.S. Darter (submarine) Machinist in the engine room of this submarine, which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf involving 32 Japanese warships
Centenarian American physicist, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford. Known for his work on the synthesis of novel materials of interest to several areas of physics and many interdisciplinary sciences
WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st Airborne, 501 PIR, G Company Trained at Camp Toccoa (Band of Brothers). Mission Albany at D-Day (drop at Sainte-MÚre-Ã-glise). Wounded on June 8, 1944
Administrative Assistant at Parkland Hospital, helped coordinate media relations and family arrangements during the JFK and Oswald shootings. Spent time with Jack Ruby during his stay at Parkland in 1966
American (1910-2009), served in the Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War. Held as a POW from Jan 1938 to April 1939 in Spain. Had joined the Young Communist League in the early 1930s after a student trip to the Soviet Union
US WWII veteran, born 1918, served in the OSS in England, France, and behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany. Helped in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
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
Last surviving soldier of the '800 Heroes', better known as 'The Battle of Shanghai'. The military defensive took place from October 26 to November 1, 1937. He is now 90 and lives in Sichuan Province
American neuroscientist and author. Self-published debut novel Still Alice, about a Harvard University professor who suffers early onset Alzheimer's disease. The book was adapted into a film & won the Best Actress Oscar for Julianne Moore
German astrophysicist. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for physics 'for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy', which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose
WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and a Legion of Merit
WWII: CBI Theater. 3rd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit Provisional aka Merrill's Marauders, a long-range penetration special ops warfare unit. Fought in the jungles of Burma, witnessed massive casualties and endured machine gun wounds
Is a centenarian and is a Canadian psychologist and educator. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1996
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS Pennsylvania, quartermaster; was there for the invasion to Leyte Gulf (when MacArthur returned to the Philippines) as well as when the Pennsylvania was hit by a torpedo which barely missed him
American astronomer and professor. In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half of the prize being awarded to Roger Penrose)
Author/Essayist. Daughter of Refugees. Immigrant. Scientist. Cook. Immigration-Journeys Explorer. Conversation-Maker. Extroverted-Introvert (also, socially-awkward). Roots in New Delhi and San Diego
WWII P-51 fighter pilot Dick Gibbs flew 43 combat missions during WWII. Sunday Dick shares the stories of shooting down four German aircraft. He explains that of all the medals and awards he received, he was most pleased to receive the Distinguished
Child involved with the 1950's Briggs v. Elliott case incorporated as part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education Decision. His mother was the last living adult defendant when she died.
One of nearly 30 'Rosies' who traveled to Washington, D.C. to accept the Gold Congressional Medal of Honor for their service to the nation during World War 2. She worked at Todd Pacific Shipyard during World War 2. Born 1926
Anesthesiologist who attached the heart monitor to President John F. Kennedy in a Parkland's hospital emergency room and interviewed wounded Texas Gov. John Connally for surgery
Centenarian, probably the last living woman to have marched in a suffragette parade and one of the last early Girl Scouts (in 1914). Voted in the first open election of 1920, plus later became a charter member, and President of the Republican National Wom
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
WWII: Headquarters Company, 2nd Bn, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne. Wounded in the chest on Jan. 15, 1945 in the Battle of Noville
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
An American military officer who helped develop strategic bombing theory and practice. Giles was named commanding general of the Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean Area in April 1945 and was in charge of planning the final B-29 Superfortress air attacks
WWII - D-Day: Crew member of minesweeper YMS-348, reached Normandy at 03:30 AM at D-Day and exploded Gernan shallow-water mines so Allied forces could land on the beachheads
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Gillespie attended Brentwood College School, McGill University and then Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. After receiving a business degree from the University of Toronto, he went on to a senior role in the educati
One of only nine survivors from the sinking of The SS Athenia, that was the first casualty of WW2. The unarmed passenger liner was torpedoed by a U-boat just eight hours after war broke out. He is now 84 and lives in Canada
Center Director 1978-1981/Acting Director-1977-1978 NASA Photo Director of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration's Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA's major field Center for flight testing of high speed aircraft and experimental vehicles.
British WWII Veteran. Royal Engineer, cleared landmines. Served in Egypt, Libya, Burma as part of the Chindits, an Anglo-Indian special operations unit working behind Japanese lines. He fought in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge
American paleontologist (born: 1946) whose research focuses on vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene-Eocene eras. He is an expert on the evolution of primates and whales
WWII - 101st AB, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment; Bronze Star. Operation Market Garden, Bastogne/Battle of the Bulge, Germany, Berchtesgaden, liberated Landsberg Concentration Camp, finished the war in Austria
Author Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight. In 1965, as a college freshman, Answered MLK, Jr.'s call for students to come to the South after the attack on voting rights marchers in Selma on Bloody Sunday
Staff Sergeant, U.S Army, first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor
Polish fighter ace from WW2, now living in the USA (Seattle, WA area). Fought with the Polish Air Force, the RAF, and the 56th Fighter Group in WW2. 18+ victory 'ace'
Comic book artist, born: 1924, aboard the U.S.S. Stevens during WWII, and so to his 'Savage Tales' comics, plus: Carlton's 'Hercules', 'Flying Saucers', 'Outdoor Life' Magazine, and 'Adirondack Stories' I + II
WWII: USMC fighter pilot in the Pacific (USS Enterprise). Marshall Islands, Wake Island, the battle of the Solomons, battle of Santa Cruz and the battle of Guadalcanal. Distinguished Flying
Las Vegas casino owner and front-man for various organized crime families in the Las Vegas 'Skim operation'. Argent Corp. 'Portrayed by Kevin Pollak as (Phillip Green) in Martin Scorcese's 1995 film (Casino)'
American radio announcer famous for broadcasting the Knicks, Giants & Jets. Member of the US track & field team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Basketball HOFer
WWII: USS Breeman (DE-104) a destroyer escort of the USS Block Island in 1943 that left the Task Group in order to evacuate the gold of the Bank of Poland (30 tons) in March 1944 from Africa to NY to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis
'Girl in Blue'/Standing on a concrete pedestal at the corner of Houston & Elm Streets in Dealey Plaza, eleven-year-old Toni Glover witnessed 1963 assassination
WWII - D-Day, 9th Parachute Battalion (UK). On D-Day his glider was hit by flak and he was wounded in both legs, became a POW, later escaped with help of the French Resistance
WWII: Served on the USS Balch (DD-363) from late 1943 to 1945 at Guadalcanal and in several trans-Atlantic convoy escort crossings to various North African ports
WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
Roboticists Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
(born 24 September 1917), is a physician, professor and politician in Durham Region. He served as an Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for two years in the Ontario legislature
WWII: Godwin joined the Navy in 1935. In 1937, he was on the USS Lexington as she searched for the remainder of Earhart's missing plane. He then transferred to the Air Corps, flying 34 missions with the 567th Squadron, 389th Bomb Group
Member of The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)a work relief program for young men from unemployed families, started on 03/21/1933, by Pres. F.D.R. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression
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
Replacement for fallen Reverend from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in CHARLESTON, S.C. where shootings lead to Confederate Flag reform
An armored car driver for Armored Car Service Co. , he drove one of the two cars sent to move Lee Harvey Oswald from the City Jail to the County Jail on Nov. 24 , 1963
Croatian-born US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Wounded 3x -Anzio, Vosges Mtns, and near the Rhine. South France invasion. Spent night under dead buddies in a foxhole, tumbled down a hill in the morning under hail of German bullets to escape
Theoretical physicist; worked at Manhattan Project; friend of Robert Oppenheimer; then working at Caltech (whose president he became) with Enrico Fermi + Edward Teller; spearheaded development of the 10-m-telescope at Keck Observatory, HI
Former president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) & CEO of United Paramount Theatres. Turned ABC into a media conglomerate. His innovations/media synergy w/ ABC had lasting implications on the American television industry
Lieutenant General Harry Edgar Goldsworthy (born April 3, 1914) is a centenarian and was an American Air Force lieutenant general who was deputy chief of staff for systems and logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C
JFK - Chaplain at Bishop Dunne High School in 1963, he took a photograph of President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade approaching the Adolphus Hotel just 4 blocks from Dealey Plaza
South African SCUBA diver, holder of the Guinness World Record deep dive. He is also a renowned cave diver and holds the current world record for the deepest cave dive, done in Boesmansgat cave ,South Africa in 1996
Birth name Gabriel Ramos Gomez, and better known by his showman name as 'Larry the Wolf Boy', a native of Mexico, is a sideshow performer and TV celebrity that has appeared in sideshows across the world, including the Mexican National Circus.
Cuban boy who became famous during 1999-2000 when custody battle arose between his Cuban-American relatives in Miami and his Cuban dad in Cuba. He was repatriated to his dad and later became friends with Cuban President Fidel Castro
Florida High School Student & Activist for Gun Control/Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student, quickly become one of the country?s most visible gun violence prevention activists at just 18 years old
U.S. Secret Service agent in 1963, Gonzalez was assigned to guard duty for President Kennedy's limousine after its arrival in Washington, D.C., on the evening of the assassination
Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1920) who served in the International Brigades. Volunteered in 1936. Was captured on 2 November 1938 in 'Puebla de Masaluca' and was a prisoner of war until 1 April 1939. Born 1920. Lives in the UK
One of 1st inductees to Black Aviation Hall of Fame/Became a part-time stunt flyer with the legendary airshow impresario Bill Sweet/Member of the Kansas Senate
Sculptor who designed the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the United States in 2000. Also designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial located in Washington, DC
Tuskegee Airmen, Involved in the Freeman Field mutiny where a racist commander not allowing blacks & whites to talk to each other, & not allowing the black officer into the officer club. Also led to 162 black officers walked into the club and arrested
American materials scientist and solid-state physicist. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and, at 97 years old, became the oldest Nobel laureate in history
United States Capitol Police Officer. During the 2021 Capitol Riot, he diverted rioters from the United States Senate Chamber. Goodman is also a veteran of the 101st airborne who fought in the Iraq War
American woman from Chicago who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as Furthest Eyeball Popper; can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm (0.47 in) beyond her eye sockets
WWII - Guadalcanal (2nd Marines), Tarawa (6th Marines), Iwo Jima (5th Marines). Was severely wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima on March 10, 1945, by a machine gun
A Jr. at Jesuit High School in Dallas , Miles was at Dallas Love Field and Parkland Memorial on Nov. 22 , and for several hours that day he assisted a CBS cameraman covering the assassination
1938. KGB double agent who provided information to the British Intelligence Service. Exfiltrated from the Soviet Union in 1985 and currently lives in an undisclosed location in London
WW2 began to find his religious faith in squalor of 1942 & forced with thousands of other captives to build a railroad through the jungles of Burma & Siam (now Myanmar and Thailand) along the famous Kwai River/'Author Through the Valley of
WWII: PTO. Naval Aviator. DFC. Torpedoed and sank the underwater Japanese freighter I-52 in 1944 in the Atlantic, which was to carry German radioactive uranium oxide that would eventually be used to target San Francisco and the Panama Canal
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
US WWII WAC (1920-2020). Aircraft radio mechanic, then trained to decode msgs, sent to Europe to work in a US military court. Flew to bring back a secretary of Hitler's to face military charges, made a trip to view Dachau alone, toured of Hitler's bunker
WWII - Stormed Utah Beach, Normandy on D-Day with the 531st Special Brigade. Later fought in the Battle of the Rheinland, Ruhr River, and Battle of the Bulge
British journalist and historian who was working as as a freelance journalist in Cuba in 1963 and interviewed revolutionary Che Guevara and later confirmed his body in 1967. He was the only witness in Bolivia who had actually met Che Guevara
German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht.He fought throughout Europe, initially in the Soviet Union. In 1942 he joined the Afrika Korps and fought across North Africa. In 1943 he returned to Europe. He was captured by American soldiers in Bavaria in 1945 Born 1922
Special Consultant to Sol Wachtler, former Chief Judge of the NY State Court of Appeals. Former Chairman of the NY State Courts Ethics Commission. Co-author of Blood Brothers. Son of Morton Gould, composer of scores for Broadway shows, ballet, films, TV
American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation/Winner of numerous awards
Recently verified French WWI Veteran Born: 12/31/1899 and called to service on April 19, 1918. Was not officially recognized by the French government as he served less than 90 days
Survivor of the 1970 Kent State shootings. Shot in the ankle during the attack on students, he rode in the ambulance alongside one of the victims killed, Sandy Sheuer, as she was pronounced dead
Reverend to Rosa Park's Church; Secretary of the MIA aka Montgomery Improvement Association that helped support the boycott, appeared at meetings led by MLK
President Trump's longtime secretary and a senior vice president at the Trump Organization, she has worked at Trump Tower for near 30 years, has acted as gatekeeper to Trump
WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS South Dakota. Battle of Santa Cruz
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Youngest U.S. serviceman to serve and fight during World War II at the age of 12
USAF & NASA pilot - director for Safety and Mission Assurance at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards. For USAF - tested A-10, F-15, F-16
American publisher Leader of Washington Post, more than 2 decades, overseeing famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to resignation of President Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998
One of the last two survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Born 1912. She was five years old in 1917 when the explosion took place. She is now 107 and lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
US WWII Navy tugboat veteran, born 1922. After the war, became an Atomic veteran when he was part of the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests. Became a writer and voice for Atomic veterans and their health problems
Author and Chairman and CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, a company that advises private and public companies. Served in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Served as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council under Bush, Jr
American radio host. Veteran of broadcasting in NYC, Grant is considered a pioneer of the conservative talk radio format and was one of the early adopters of the 'combat talk' format
JFK - Secret Service agent, assisted in the Dallas advance, was stationed at the Trade Mart at the time of the assassination; Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Vice Presidents, Rockefeller, and Mondale
Former Mafia Underboss of the Gambino Crime Family under John Gotti. Turned Government witness against Gambino Family Boss John Gotti who would later die in prison. Gravano is the highest ranking member of La Cosa Nostra to turn Government Witness
Astronaut (NASA selection group 1965), he actually never flew into space, but earned his nickname 'Space Doc' due to his role as the Mercury Medical Flight Controller and through his space medicine research
British born Canadian historian and author. The Winnipeg Free Press has called her 'one of Canada's best-loved writers of popular history and literary biography.'
Civil rights lawyer, preacher (born 1930). Defended Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, and the MIA during the Montgomery bus boycott. Worked with Martin Luther King and defended him in court. Named National Bar Association president in 1985
2012 Libertarian nominee for Vice President, 2020 Libertarian candidate for President, Judge on Superior Court of Orange County, 2004 Libertarian nominee for US Senate from California
Australian WW2 veteran and politician. He wrote about his experiences in Kokoda Lieutenant: The Triumph of the 21st Brigade 16th Battalion. He is the earliest Australian Member of Parliament alive
US WWII vet, born 1923. Third Wave on D-Day,Omaha Beach, St. Lo, Bulge. Stayed with Eisenhower while installing phone lines in his personal quarters. Last known witness to German surrender ceremony in Reims, France on May 7, 1945
American solo vocalist with the United States Army Band. An accomplished performer, particularly of the US national anthem, Green is often called upon to sing at important sporting events, diplomatic functions and military ceremonies
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
Last living WWI Veteran (1901-2012). Member of the UK's Women's Royal Air Force during WWI, and it's very last veteran of any type when she died at 110
21 year old student at Middlebury College in Vermont when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride from Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi on June 10, 1961
Vietnam War: Photographer of the famous photograph 'Help From Above'. Medivac helicopter 'Dustoff 65' was shot down by a rocket in April 1968 which led to the famous 'Rescue of Dustoff 65'
Senior archivist at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Greenwell joined their staff in 1976. As a Dallas school girl, she saw President's motorcade on November 22, 1963/Saw him just minutes before the assassination
June 28, 1955 American ufologist and retired physician who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project
WWII pilot, born 1920. First mission was as a dive bomber at the Battle of Midway, Battle of Guadacanal and Battle of Tokyo. Flew SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber
WW2 veteran/author who fought in the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, 1942. Born: 1920. He was a rifleman during the conflict. He is now 96 and lives in Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, UK, 'Dresden: A Survivor's Story,' 'Rifleman: A Front-Line Life'
Member of the successful British team which made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, he was in charge of stills photography. Now lives in Australia
NASA astronaut (retired) three space shuttle missions. Bloodline/nephew of Charles Drew, inventor of blood bank; First African American to command a spaceflight
Acquainted with Oswald's June 1962, spent significant amount of time with Oswalds providing transportation, going on excursions, taking Russian language lessons from Marina. Saw the Oswalds on November 22, 1962/Questioned by Secret Service
Civil Rights Activist/Former Black Panther, While with them, was involved in a bank robbery & served 12 years in prison. /As teenager Griffin was outside of Hotel Texas to greet the Kennedy's when they arrived in Fort Worth on November 21
Former lawyer and American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. Her best known works are Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only
11th Administrator of NASA, American physicist and aerospace engineer, Former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (2018 to 2020)