Commander William Donald Aelian 'Bill' King, DSO & Bar, DSC (born 23 June 1910), is a retired British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop around the world yacht race
Former Chief of Public Information and Public Affairs Officer for NASA. Named 'the Voice of NASA' as he was the voice of launch control for every mission from Gemini 4 to Apollo 15 including Apollo 11
Newscaster KBOX radio 1963, went live on the air moments after assassination & fired for it/Witnessed Oswald's shooting. Later, he covered the Jack Ruby trial/WW2 POW Corregidor/Wrote 'Alamo of the Pacific'
WW2 Canadian airman and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 91
13th US V. President (1786-53). Rumored gay partner of future Pres. James Buchanan. US Congressman/Senator. 45 days as Pierce's V.Pres. then died of tuberculosis. Only inauguration oath ever given on foreign soil, in Cuba for TB treatment
Bloodline/Granddaughter of Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King/Daughter of Arndrea & Martin Luther King III; Spoke March 24, 2018 at the March for Our Life's Rally in Washington DC
(1875-1934) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934. King Albert was killed in a mountaineering accident in eastern Belgium in 1934, at the age of 58, and he was succeeded by his son Leopold
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
American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana U. Best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), as well as the Kinsey scale
The last man alive who built the Roanoke Star, the world's largest freestanding illuminated man-made star, and actually switched it on for the first time on November 23, 1949
WW2 Army Vet/Bronze Star/Member of Company K, 143 Infantry Regiment, 36th Division/Battle of Cassino, Blood River picked by Gen. Mark Clark/National Guard Texas/National Commander DAV/Injured arm in battle/finished out war in Texas
Possible UFO abductee, as a 14 year old, in a well-known event on 9/1/69 in Berkshire County, MA. Other locals had their own stories, one other child abductee claiming to have seen her on the ship with him, though they were then strangers
Former CIA analyst/case officer, former Sr. investigator Senate Foreign Relations Committee, & former counter-terrorism consultant ABC News & author. 1st U.S. official to confirm use of waterboarding Al-Qaeda prisoners as interrogation technique
WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by the U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
WW2 POW who built a pinhole camera from cardboard scraps & used smuggled-in photo supplies to take photographs of fellow malnourished Marines/risked death from Japanese captors to build the camera, to document the horrors the POW's endured
JFK - USAF Pipe Band; played at various events in the Kennedy presidency, including the visit of the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Sean Lemass in October 1963 (where Kirkpatrick met JFK) and the funeral of JFK
Ukrainian-American scientist born November 18, 1900. Leader of X Division at 'Manhattan Project', later President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor.
Belarusian-American rocket scientist (Born: 1910) In the mid-1950's he began his scientific activities in the field of astronautics. For 25 years he worked in the American space research program. He lives in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany
JFK - Secret Service agent, Vice-Presidential (VPD) detail LBJ, lead agent for Lady Bird Johnson. Was in the VP follow-up car on November 22, 1963, in the Kennedy Dallas motorcade
(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. He was wounded by a RPG in a firefight losing his leg. He was saved by Dale Edge who he finally got to meet him again in 2021 after over 53 years since the incident
Surviving a plane crash in 1963, she spent 49 days of winter in the Yukon before being rescued; author of 'Hey, I'm Alive' about her ordeal; appeared on To Tell The Truth and the Mike Douglas Show
Received the 2017 National Jewish Book Award for Lioness. First woman to carry a Torah to the Western Wall. Former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America which voted to ordain women as rabbis and cantors in 1983
WWII: ETO. Last survivor of B-24 bomber 'Arsenic & Lace' that was shot down on December 17, 1944, over Olomouc (now Czech Republic). He was taken POW until end of the war (Stalag Luft 1)
WWII: 46th Field Artillery Battalion in Northern Ireland on June 6, 1944 (he was NOT a Ranger at Point-du-Hoc and NO D-Day veteran as he admitted in late 2017). Earned Bronze Star/Purple Heart; seriously wounded in combat near Moselle on 17 Nov 1944
Served as a developmental advisor for Sesame Street and HBO films for children. Appears regularly on Good Morning America. Author of How Toddlers Thrive. Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development
(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Medic. 90th Infantry Medic. Was at the Battle of the Bulge, Utah Beach, Belgium, and Germany. Purple Heart and Bronze Star Recipient
WWII: CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin. Barely survived being bombed, later helped to pull men from the USS Arizona a.o. ships out of the water. Transferred to USS Mugford in 1943
(born 10 July 1942) is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space:Soyuz 13,Soyuz 18,Soyuz 30
(born 1918) is a retired Israeli scientist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in Israel. The case of Klingberg is regarded one of the most destructive spy scandals in the history of the State of Israel
WWII: Flew his F4U Corsair with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 in support of the Battle of Okinawa. During operations he flew into Marine Corps history when he used his propellor to chop off the tail of Japanese aircraft
US WWII vet, born 1916. Horse cavalry in 1934, called back for WWII in the 331st Infantry regiment in the 83rd division as a Master Sergeant. Landed in Normandy couple weeks after D-Day, fought through Europe. Rode a horse in FDR's 1937 Inaugural Parade
Knapp was an 18 yr. old member of the police line-up at which William Whaley identified Oswald as the man he had driven from the Greyhound bus station minutes after the assassination
NASA/MIT: Computer Programmer; coded, debugged and documented the navigation program P23, which the astronauts used to correct spacecraft drift between the earth and the moon
One of the last survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history
'Procet Manhattan' (Trinity); worked on the RaLa Experiment at Los Alamos, which was crucial to developing the spherical implosion necessary for the plutonium bomb
WWII: PFC Knowles was in the troops that liberated Reims, France, and guarded SHAEF (the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force) where Dwight Eisenhower was located, and witnessed the end of the war there
US Army Air Force WWII vet (1926-2021). B-29 Tail Gunner in the South Pacific. HIs plane escorted the Enola Gay, and he witnessed Hiroshima from about a mile away in the air. Days later, he had the same role, witnessing Nagaski's bombing
(Born 1938) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 4 Legion of Merits, Distinguished Flying Cross, 4 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - 53 3/4 Hotdogs, Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Contest; in 2004 he ate 69 Krystal hamburgers, and in 2005, ate 67 hamburgers in eight minutes. Speed-eating contest in Hong Kong in August 2005, Kobayashi consume
WWII. ETO: Battle of Normandy. On Aug. 11th, 1944, he was shot through the neck while engaged in heavy combat, then taken POW and eventually sent back in an soldiers exchange. Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
German-Peruvian biologist, born in Peru to German emigrants, who was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest
WWII Kogawa was born in Masuda City, Shimane in 1923. During World War II, he was stationed in Malay as a platoon leader for the 3rd Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was in an internment camp in Thailand before returning to Japan
American technical wreck diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring shipwrecks since 1980. Together with John Chatterton, Kohler was a co-hosts of the television series Deep Sea Detectives on the History Channel
NASA scientist and leader in the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions.He is also an author, game developer, lecturer,photographer and environmentalist
ABMA/NASA. Joined the Werner von Braun rocket team in 1959. Worked on Mercury, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Manning a console in the Firing Room for most of the Apollo launches, including Apollo 7 through 13
Russian female cosmonaut who was the third woman to travel to space and the first to make a long-duration spaceflight.She is now a member of the Russian parliament
(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran ETO. 89th Division, 354th Anti-Tank Unit. Helped in the liberation of concentration camp Ohrdruf. Bronze Star recipient
Juliana C. Young Koo is a Chinese American diplomat who served as first head of the UN Protocol Department, supercentenarian and third wife of diplomat and politician Wellington Koo
Speaker, 21 year marine officer and author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava. Client success executive at AirStrip. Has appeared frequently on both network (Fox, NBC) and local television news
Convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of abortion Dr. Barnett Slepian. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
Holocaust Survivor/Nazis stormed into the Latvian city where he lived with his family, and penned the Jewish population into a ghetto/Deported to the Stutthof work camp/Escaped 1945/Husband of Eva Moses Kor
WWII - 6th Naval Beach Battalion, Navy corpsman at Omaha Beach (D-Day), also in the Battle of Okinawa. His memories are incorporated into Max Hasting's epic book 'Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944'
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
WWII: The only surviving Polish squadron commander in the UK; served in the Polish Air Force in Poland (defense of Poland 1939), France (starting July 1941) and Britain and later served in the Royal Air Force.
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
WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne Operation Market Garden. 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), he was General Maxwell Taylor's radioman and later an accomplished WWII Author '(Hell's Highway', 'D-Day With The Screaming Eagles' a.o.)
Professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics
American anti-war activist, United States Marine Corp veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July
WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the largest aircraft carrier ever built, the HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944. This marks also the largest ship wver sunk by a submarine
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Engineer with the 5th Transportation Company in Vietnam from March 1968 until he was captured in Cambodia and taken as a POW while serving aboard a landing craft
Hungarian-Austrian physicist working in attosecond science. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
US Navy vet on the USS Randolph, born 1940. Participated in the Mercury mission recoveries of Gus Grissom and John Glenn. Served to escort and guide members of the onboard press onboard during the recoveries
Survivor of the Hartford Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States
American development economist. In 2019 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Assigned to a port anti-aircraft battery and was blown into the water when a torpedo hit. He swam around the damaged USS West Virginia and made it to safety on Ford Island
Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured at Oneui on July 26, 1950, marched 40 miles south of the Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men
Israeli supercentenarian and recognized as the oldest man alive (Born: 1903) A confectioner by profession, he experienced World War I as a child, and World War II as an adult. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to Israel. Now 112
US Army veteran (4-star general) of 3 wars: WWII ('Colmar Pocket', Battle of Jebsheim 1945, 254th Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division, Korea (187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team), Vietnam (23rd Inf.Div). On Sept. 15, 1981, he was injured in an RAF attack
WWII - Germany; paratrooper of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment ('Green Devils'), fought at the Normany and many battles. Direct line of combat to the US 502nd and 506th PIR (Easy Company)
(1935-2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme
WWII veteran, born August 21, 1914. Believed to be the oldest living survivor of Iwo Jima by his 100th birthday. Wounded by shrapnel at Iwo, hospitalized and sent back to the states
WWII: Mr. Kudzik completed 14 war patrols, 8 aboard Nautilus 168 (WWII sub), 6 aboard USS Gar (SS-206). Battle of Midway (the Nautilus was co-credited sinking a Japanese ship), Makin Island Raid (they transported Marine Raiders to and back from the raid)
Respondent in Supreme Court case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier(1988), that held public school student newspapers are subject to a lower level of 1A protection
Born 1947 US Air Force Vietnam and Iraq Veteran. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973. 2 Legion of Merits, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and 1 Bronze Star
Daughter of Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, best known for his expedition to investigate the Tunguska event, the largest impact event in history, which had occurred on June 30, 1908
WWII P-38 Lightning Fighter Pilot. 2 aerial victories before being shot down over Aachen Germany on 16 September 1944. Also flex B17, B-24, B-25, B-26, P-39, P-47, P-51, P-59A, P-63, Wildcat, Hellcat, P80 and P-84
The 26 year secret.. It was that long for an innocent man to be freed from prison, because of attorney cliet ethics. Upon clients death. Kunz/Coventry law firm
US Army General. Participated in the Iraq, Gulf, and Afghanistan wars and operations Just Cause and Inherent Resolve. Recipient of Army Distinguished Service Medal (2), Legion of Merit (2), Bronze Star (5), Purple Heart (2)
Turkish Air Force Lieutenant, best known for his 1960 aerial photograph of an outline of a ship on the peak of Mount Ararat, which is thought to be the site of Noah's Ark
Historian/Southeastern Louisiana University professor emeritus of history/known for research into assassination of JFK in which Kurtz theory Oswald did not act alone/'Crime Of Century: Kennedy Assassination From A Historian's Perspective'
WWII - Navy radio man on LSM (Landing Ship Medium) 241 during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today he is (along with Joe Demler) one of the 'ambassadors' of the original Honor Flight
WWII: Joined the Army Air Corps and served in the 9th Air Force as a radar plotter; being a very talented artist, she painted the nose art many of the 9th AF B-26 Bombers
Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. Co-authored the 10 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled 'The Untold History of the United States' with Oliver Stone
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
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
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
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
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
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
Israeli world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering;
born April 2, 1936 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
(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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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