Lz xray Vietnam/Decorations include Silver Star, Legion of Merit (1 OLC), Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star (1 OLC), Meritorious Service Medal (3 OLC), Air Medal (3OLC), Purple Heart, & Distinguished Unit Citation/Served twice in Vietnam between 1962 and 1965
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
Writer and award winning journalist. Co-wrote WE : A Manifesto For Women Everywhere with Gillian Anderson. Co-founded the campaign group Compassion in Politics. Contested several elections as a candidate for the Green Party
Afghanistan and Iraq War US Marine Corps Veteran. Received the Silver Star for actions during
Operation Enduring Freedom. Silver Star and Purple Heart Recipient
(born 31 October 1943) is an Indian space scientist and a former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India
Indian writer and historian of science, who has authored several works critiquing the influence of Hindutva, postcolonialism and postmodernism on science, and the flourishing of pseudoscience and vedic science
WWII - D-Day. US Navy shipfitter who landed with LST (Landing Ship Tank) 501 at Utah Beach, after being redirected while approaching Omaha Beach due to heavy resistence
US WWII Army veteran, born 1916. Tank mechanic with 276th Armored Field Artillery in Patton's Third Army. Ardennes, Luxembourg, the Rhineland, Battle of the Bulge
Pioneer Civil Rights Movement/1960 chairperson of student sit-in movement in Nashville?the first southern city to desegregate its lunch counters/arrested for civil rights activities culminated in imprisoned 30 days in 1961 while pregnant
Mathematician, Professor at Princeton U, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics - 1994 - for game theory, Subject of the Academy Award winning film, 'A Beautiful Mind' starring Russell Crowe as Nash
Ralph Natale is a former American mobster. He was the leader of the Philadelphia crime family from 1995 until 1999, when he became the first American Mafia boss to turn state's evidence.[1][2]
Described by himself as a friend of former Philadelphia bos
Italian centenarian and one of the worlds oldest people (Born: 1907) She was also the last known survivor of the 1908 Messina earthquake that struck on 28 December in Sicily, southern Italy. She lived in San Donato. Milanese, Italy
Member of the WW2 761st Negro 'Black Panthers' Tank Battalion that worked with General George Patton. Recieved Silver Star & Purple Heart! Featured in book 'Brothers in Arms'!
Last living male Titanic survivor (1908-2001). French child, sailed with a brother and father. Father went down on the ship, the brothers were called 'the Titanic orphans' until reunited with their French mother
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
NASA pilot - flies the Lockheed ER-2 high - altitude science jet, SOFIA, Gulfstream III, C-20A (G - III) science aircraft carrying NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's synthetic aperture radar and the TG-14 research motorglider
Historian and award-winning author of the NYT bestseller, Rocket Men, as well as, The Age of Radiance (a finalist for the PEN Award). Former VP and executive editor of Harper & Row, Hyperion, and Random House
NASA pilot - flies NASA's high-altitude ER-2 Earth science aircraft and the C-20A, a modified Gulfstream III business jet that carries a sophisticated synthetic aperture radar on environmental science missions
Georgia Athletics Association Professor of History at UGA. formerly the Legum Professor of History at William and Mary. historian of the American Civil War and the Gilded Age. specializes in African-American history and Labor history
WWII: Radio man in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. They deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there. Less than 30 of the 1100 Ghost Army men are still living as of 2017
Won an American Book Award for her memoir, A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile, the story of her family's flight from their native Latvia, survival through the horrors of World War II, and immigration to the United States
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
American integrated circuit designer, video game designer, and programmer. contributed to the logic design of Atari's POKEY chip, 1979 video game Star Raiders.
Astronaut & Test Pilot, selected in 1963 as a Military Astronaut - Class-3, later selected as MOL (Manned Orbiting Laboratory) pilot in 1965, when the MOL program cancelled in 1969, became Vice Commander, Tactical Air Warfare Center, Eglin AFB, Fl.,
Hiroshima survivor. Japanese schoolgirl pressed into making combat boots for soldiers, she was on her way to work when the bomb hit. Mother died days later. Married an American soldier and moved to the US
Women's Royal Naval Service veteran who witnessed the surrendering of Hitler's Atlantic fleet of U-boat's on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry at the end of WW2. (Born:1924) She lives in Derryhale, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra. The battle from 31 January - 1 March 1941, resulted in the capture of Kufra by Free French Forces and the British Long Range Desert Group from the Italian and Libyan garrison
American inventor and microscopist (Born: 1915) He invented the shadow X-ray microscope and is one of the founders of the Microscopy Society of America
American game designer, best known for being the designer and lead developer of the 1982 pioneering arcade game Joust. He designed, animated, and produced multiple games for Williams Electronics, Midway Games, Cybiko, and MumboJumbo
Author, journalist, and multifaceted scholar who has published a variety of works that present multidimensional portraits of African American life. in 1992, she was on the NY Newsday reporting team awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News
One of the oldest survivors of 'The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake'. Born in 1901, she is now 110 and lives at Pebble Beach, California, U.S.A.She is now one of two known earthquake survivors still living
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 Marine Sgt./Vietnam/Last out before the fall of Saigon/sent to attache office to guard millions of dollars before cash was burned & compound blown up by the Americans to keep the enemy from raiding it and obtaining classified documents
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
Former Central Intelligence Agency officer, who in 1997 was convicted of selling U.S. intelligence to Russia. He is the highest ranking CIA official ever convicted for spying for a foreign country
Content director for Densho and editor of the Densho Encyclopedia. Formerly a curator and administrator for both the Japanese American National Museum and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i
(1929-2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was an ethnic Chuvash. Nikolayev flew on two space flights: Vostok 3 and Soyuz 9. On both, he set new endurance records for the longest time a human being had remained in orbit
Translator/TV programs in Romania under Communist regime, known for secretly dubbing over 3,000 banned movies on VHS tapes smuggled from West. During Cold War, tapes spread throughout Romania, her voice became known throughout the country
Witness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. His filming of the event is considered nearly as important as the more famous Abraham Zapruder film
Descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous English civil engineer who built the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway. He lives near Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK
WWII: 837th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 33 missions (22 in B-24,11 in B-17) from 9 May to 9 September 1944. One of the few pilots to fly both the B-17 and the B-24. DFC w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster
WWII - 101st Airborne, 506th PIR, F Company. Paratrooper that landed in Normandy together with Easy Company. Fought at Carentan, Bastogne, Battle Of The Bulge. Completed his duty in Austria. Wounded twice. Pictured in a famous D-Day photo
Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy (birth name Dominic Noonan, born 1964) is an English gangster. With his brother Desmond 'Dessie' Noonan, he headed a criminal organisation or 'crime firm' in Manchester, England during the 1980s and 1990s
American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is, together with Paul Romer, one of the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
WWII veteran of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. Later served as a Presidential Honor Guard in the last days of FDR. FDR cancelled a dinner with the Guard members days before his death in Georgia
WWII: PTO. B-17 pilot. He was the last of MacArthur's personal pilots; among other flights, he flew Gen. MacArthur to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
American general officer U.S. Army &Air Force/assistant chief of staff for operations (A-3) of the Twelfth Air Force, going to England with it the following month in support of Operation Husky, and to Algiers, North Africa in October 1942
WWII: Hobo in the 1930s, then 2 years at the CCC. In 1940, he was at the USS Oahu, a Yangtze River Patrol boat stationed at Shanghai, China. Departed for Corregidor end of 1941, was sunk by enemy gunfire 5 May 1942. POW, Hell Ship survivor
10/4/1981 Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin removed from grave & Dr. Linda Norton, headed team who examined remains at Baylor University Medical Center determined body's identity mainly by comparing its teeth with Oswald's Marine dental records
One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana), the deadliest tornado in American history, which occurred on March 18, 1925
Is an American historian, best known for writing That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life
Fighter ace ww2 born 2/22/1920. 317th FS, 325th FG. He is credited with 8 confirmed victories. Awards include Distinguished Flying Cross and 15 Air Medals
WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8); Doolittle Raid witness (Apr. 1942); Battle of Midway (June 1942); Battle of Santa Cruz (Oct. 1942) when the Hornet was sunk (part of the salvage team who were the last men to leave the ship)
(Born June 21, 1921) is an American former field hockey player and a pilot in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Flew Stearman and AT-6 Planes
Former Trump Aid subpoenaed from Mueller seeking Nunberg's appearance before a grand jury and records of years of correspondence with people associated with Trump
Spanish veteran (Born 1904) and the last surviving veteran of The Rif War of the 1920's, and one of the last of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. As of August 2017, he became the world's oldest living man, and the 21st longest living man in documented h