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Highly respected parasitologist, veteran of the Polish Armia Krajowa during World War II, poet, fisherman, translator and scientific administrator
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The Unabomber Terrorist
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College student in 1963, Kadleck worked part-time at the Terminal Annex building in Dealey Plaza. Standing at the corner of Main and Houston Streets, he heard shots fired at the presidential limousine
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Miss America 2012, Miss Wisconsin 2011
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German businessman, nearly blind, his life story made into the movie 'Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben' with Kostja Ullmann
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Was a student at Kent State University, Ohio, when he was shot in the back while lying on the ground and paralyzed for life by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 while walking to class, nor protesting
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Joseph Kahn (2)
Spanish Civil War Veteran International Brigade, Lives in London, England, Born: 1915 -
US Banker, Businessman, Arts Patron (1867-1934) Chairman of the Board, Metropolitan Opera. Financial supporter of Gershwin, the Marx Bros. and Fanny Brice
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JFK/Worker at time of assassination at the school book depository/Worker there 2 years starting August 24th 1962/Knew Oswald only by site/Testimony of Frankie Kaiser was taken @ 3:40 p.m, on April 8, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney
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American-born Hirsohima survivor, born 1938. Staying with his grandparents in Japan less than a mile away when the bomb hit. Returned to the US in 1948 and became a computer engineer
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Born Elisabeth Marchtrenkerin, she was Maid to Adolf Hitler at his vacation home The Berghof, 1943-1945. As of 2015 she is 89 years old
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1st female Prime Minister to Estonia/Chairwoman of Reform Party
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One of the last survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915. She is now 106 and lives in Marseille, France
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Commercial Officer
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WW2 Veteran, Private that belonged to the 1st Infantry Division 26th Infantry Regiment. Fought in Belgium in 1944
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Spy/Central Intelligence Agency employee during the Cold War/1977, he stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual. Afterwards, resigned from his job, flew to Greece, & sold the manual to the Russian Embassy in Athens in return for $3,000
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Author and political activist; created Kwanzaa in 1967
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Trumpgate/Law Professor/Appeared in House impeachment hearings for Donald J. Trump
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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
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2011 Nobel Prize winner
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Officer US Army Reserve (RET.) Notable for having commanded forces that operated Abu Ghraib & other prisons in Iraq in 2003 & 2004, at time of scandal related to torture & prisoner abuse. Commanded 3 prisons in Iraq & forces that ran them
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One of the survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. She was 13 years old when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945
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Teenager see in iconic 1967 anti-war photo by Marc Riboud, clasping a flower and gazing at bayonet-wielding soldiers. Photo was in Dec 1969 edition of Look magazine under title 'The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet.'
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'JFK'/Social studies teacher Bryan Adams High School in 1963. Member of the Dallas Police Reserves, spent the weekend of the assassination at police headquarters. Was working crowd control on Commerce Street at the time of Oswald shooting
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Freelance UPI photographer & contributing Time-Life & People Magazine photographer, Katz covered every presidential election from 1960 to 2008. Katz photographed Jack Ruby & part of Life team that investigated findings of Warren Commission
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AP Photographer/Took some of the final press photos of JFK
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Holocaust Survivor, Dachau Concentration Camp/He's depicted in the film 'The Hour Of The Liberators' on the History Channel
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Michael Kaufman (2)Andy Kaufman's brother
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World's fastest centenarian. Holds world record for people over 100 for the 100m race
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American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a supposed July 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr
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Known as Hawaii's 'last princess', she is the last surviving descendant of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii
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JFK - Eyewitness to the November 1963 visit of President Kennedy to Fort Worth; pictured in the crowd of the Parking Lot Speech
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Radium Girl (Born: 1906) who in 1917, contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey. She is now 107. Lives in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
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Supercentenarian (1893-2005). One of the last living women voters of the 1920 election. Also witnessed a flight demonstration by the Wright Brothers in Indiana as a young woman
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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Rear Admiral. World War 2 veteran.Oldest Living Naval Academy Graduate
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General, Born April 7, 1952
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Holocaust Survivor, MS St. Louis
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Among the six men who raised the flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, recently identified by Marines
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Senior Editor At Task And Purpose Media. Contributing Editor At Pacific Stand
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JFK - Secret Service; Kellerman is the agent who was in the front passenger seat of the Presidential car on 22 November 1963 in Dallas
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Met JFK in 1960/attended his speech at Hotel Texas on 11/22/1963/In following years maintained close ties to LBJ & John Connally families/Air Force Officer Korean War/Worked in the office of Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn
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Inventor of the External Frame Backpack
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Adolf Hitler's Chauffeur
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Ex-Charlie Sheen Goddess. Activist for marijuana
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Dallas Times Herald photographer who took recognized picture of 12-year - old student's tearful reaction to news of JFK?s death in November 1963/Also took pictures of Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby & attorney Melvin Belli for Life magazine & beyond
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Also know as 'Radio', the subject of a film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr
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1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident a missile equipped with a nuclear warhead exploded in Damascus, Arkansas, in 1980. The silo was part of the 374th Strategic Missile Sq./He entered launch complex that day for readings of fuel concentrations
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Daughter of George C. Wallace, former governor of Alabama who became known as one of America's most ardent segregationists of the 1960's/She is Currently a Civil Rights Activist & Author & Speaker
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Retired engine driver who drove the Flying Scotsman, one of the world's most famous locomotives from 1956 until it was retired in 1963. He is now 83 and lives in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK
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US First Lady, book editor (1929-94)
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Son of John F. Kennedy, President of the US; founder of 'George' magazine
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Born 24 November 1908 electrical welder from Plymouth, England during the Second World War. She is notable for being the first woman in Great Britain to be given equal pay.
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To receive MOH/Led several helicopter trips to help evacuate wounded soldiers near Duc Pho & returned to LZ without additional aerial support to rescue stranded soldiers pinned down by enemy fire. Helped save the lives of 40 soldiers
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Father of slain Muslim Army captain challenged for Donald Trump at the DNC/His bold speech was well received
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Spiritual Leader
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Saudi Arabian weapons dealer, living in Monaco
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Father of the Palestinian boy who donates his organs to an Israeli
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Son of Nikita Khruschev
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First woman named as US House of Representatives chaplain/Rear Adm./Bronze Star recipient, will replace Rev. Pat Conroy who has served in the ceremonial role since 2011/ Presbyterian minister, entered active duty in the US Navy in 1986
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Former Butler to the Queen & friend of the late Princess Diana
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Parachutest who broke soundbarrier on free fall
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At the age of 116, is currently the world's oldest living man/person. The last person left living born in the year 1897. He now lives in Kyoto prefecture, Japan
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British Olympic decathlete who was later an author, corporate director, corporate board member and specialist in Olympic marketing and sports development. Current British national pentathlon record holder
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Minister, speaker. Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr
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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
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Director of Shuttle Processing for NASA
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Dallas Police captain in 1963 , an aid to Chief Curry , helped to interrogate Jack Ruby
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African American/WW2 6888 Central Postal Battalion in US Army, know as Six Triple Eight
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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'
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newsmaker
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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
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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
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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Great-great-grandson of Grenville M. Dodge, the famous American Civil War officer and U.S.A Congressman. He lives in Monterey, California, U.S.A
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JFK - Kennedy Secret Service; driver of the follow-up car on Nov 22, 1963
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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
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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
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Assistant who worked for Dudley M. Hughes Funeral Home , company that picked up Officer Tippitt on Nov. 22 , 1963 in Dallas , Texas
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Master whiskey blender
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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
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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
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Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Moscow and all Russia
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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
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Vietnam US Army Vet 1969-1971/Assigned to LZJamie, later a artillery & the radio operator with infantry/Received Bronze Star
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Iran Hostage Crisis/U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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Supercentenarian oldest person in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture Born 1905
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Set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
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Highway patrol officer who gave Hank Williams' driver Charles Carr a speeding ticket on December 31,1952
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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
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One of oldest people in world. Born 1895. Lives in Japan
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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
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Only player of the Pokemon Trading Card Game to win multiple World Championships, first in 2006, again in 2008, and most recently in 2013
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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
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Helped hide Anne Frank
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UCLA student Charlie Klein is often credited as being the first person to send a message over the internet, on Oct. 29, 1969
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One of the doctors who tried to save JFK's life after being shot
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(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
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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
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David Knapp (2) 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
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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
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Born 1895 #48 oldest document person in the world. Lives in Scotland.
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American software engineer who created Adobe Photoshop
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USDA agent who took part in the Michael Vick investigation
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Fmr First Lady of Alaska
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An American classicist, author, and critic born in England. He was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Spanish Civil War veteran
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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
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One of Atari's early coin-op designers. later co-founded Polygames
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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
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Forensic anthropologist, Author - The Bone Woman: Among the Dead in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo
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One of the many survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. She is now 84
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Survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Supercentenarian. Born: 10/31/1897. 7th Oldest Person in the World. One of only 5 living people left born in the year 1897
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One of the survivors of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. He now promotes world peace
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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
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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
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Elizabeth Koshy (2)Famous Indian Shooter who's team placed 6th worldwide in 2011 in Germany
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam
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Former roommate/friend of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, one of the first employees of Apple Computer
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Employed by McGraw-Hill Publishing at TSBD in November of 1963 , Dolores was a witness to Pres. Kennedy's assassination
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Maurice L. Kowal was part of Lt/JG John F. Kennedy's orginal PT-109 crew, but, due to earlier injury, not aboard when PT-109 was sunk
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Husband of Annette Kowalski and former CIA
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American supercentenarian and the world's oldest Jewish person. Born in 1899
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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
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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
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'Rosie the Riveter' Worked on B-17 and B-29 bombers
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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
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German Journalist/Author, Russia Expert
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2008 Nobel Prize in Economics; NY Times columnist
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Last crew member of Self-propelled barge T-36
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Helped hide Anne Frank
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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
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Last surviving culprit of the Beslan School Hostage Crisis 09/01/2004
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895. Lives in Japan
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Born 1938, son of actress Brigitte Helm, who played Maria in the 1927 Sci-Fi movie 'Metropolis'
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Broadcaster at KBOX Radio in '63 , he reported from Parkland Hospital and police headquarters . Had a brief exchange with Oswald during press showing
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Communications Officer and Electronics Specialist
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Veteran of WW2 - both Soviet and US Armies
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Ugandan politician, Health Minister under the dictator Idi Amin. Also an author, 'State of Blood.' Born December 1939
