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heart surgeon
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Combat Air Crewman in Patrol Bombing Squadron VP-63. He was sent to Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Bay of Biscayne, Africa, England, and Gibraltar
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Hiroshima survivor. 8yo, knocked out in her garden by the blast. Woke to mother calling family together, 'Let's all die together!' Began to learn English at 80, so she could tell her story to more people
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Uday Hussein's Body Double; Basis of movie 'The Devil's Double' based off his Book
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Criminal: accused of helping to kill her husbands three daughters and his first ex-wife
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Russian/Soviet WWII Veteran
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nobel medicine 1977
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One of the oldest people in the world. Lives in Japan. Born 1895
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Member of 442 combat team
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Survived both the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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31st oldest person in the world born 1894 lives in Japan
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Japanese physician. In 2012 he along with John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
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Flight astronaut, JAXA
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Japanese-born American scientist, who was a pioneer in the cloning and fertilization. Led the team that cloned the first animal cloned from adult cells that survived adulthood. Also pioneered in vitro fertilization
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nobel physics 1957
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China First Female Astronaut
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Inventor of PSP
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One of Seven Farmers who discovered the Terra Cotta Army
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Works With Cloning
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2015 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Served in K Company with U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. His unit liberated German-held towns in Italy and France
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army general
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US Woman Marine of WWII, born 1923. Served 1944-46 at a Post Exchange at Parris Island, SC where male Marines where trained and sent overseas. Career working for the NYS Mental Health Department
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Andrea Pia Yates is a former resident of Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Test pilot
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air force general
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American lawyer. She served as a United States Attorney and later United States Deputy Attorney General, having been appointed to both positions by President Barack Obama/Fired by Donald Trump while serving the White House
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Touching the Void is based on his and his partners esperiences.
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The last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the fall of the Soviet Union (on 28 April 1990) Born: 1924. He is now 94
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First Mach 1.0 flight in history 'Test Pilot'
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A U.S. Secret Service Agent who did advance work on the Houston leg of President Kennedy's trip to Texas in 1963
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Wife of General Chuck Yeager/Dedicated her name to his aircraft
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Voyager Co-Pilot w/ Dick Rutan
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Brigadier General/ 1st woman to take command of a US Army infantry division at Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, California/She served as UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Farragut
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Invented the Router
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Military spaceflight engineer astronaut
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WWII (Pacific Theater) - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Astoria during the Battle Of Savo Island, 9 August 1942
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He captured Kennedy motorcade on film with Kodak Brownie movie camera from NW corner of Main & Market street. Later received a firsthand account of assassination from coworker, Charles Brehm, who saw shooting from only a few feet away
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WW II pilot One of only two Chinese American Fighter Pilots in WWII
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The Soupman - 'Basis for 'The Soup Nazi' on Seinfeld'
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(1937-1994) was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight. He died from a heart attack in 1994. The asteroid 8450 Egorov is named in his honor
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SR-71 Blackbird pilot
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(born July 13, 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10
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WWII - Yellin is the fighter pilot who flew the 1st land-based fighter mission (from Iwo Jima) over Japan on Apr. 7, 1945, as well as the last mission of WWII on Aug. 14, 1945, and witnessed the last US death of the war, his best friend
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Yen Yen Chinese restaurant proprietor in Cocoa Beach where he and Alan Shepard concocted the recipe for the 1st Moon Shot drink
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger
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Asteroid Hunter for NASA,One of TIME magazines 100 most influential people in the world for 2013
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army general
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Red Guard during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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1956 Vice Presidential Candidate with American 3rd Party
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WWII: US Merchant Marine. Served on a T/2 oil tanker in the South-Pacific, including in the Battle of Okinawa
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WWII veteran, one fo about 200 men on the Remagen Bridge as it collapsed after repeated attacks by German forces trying to prevent its use as an Allied route in to Germany. Ran from the trembling bridge, hitting the river bank as 28 others were killed, an
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot). BT-13, PT-19 and B-25
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2009 Nobel Prize chemistry
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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. He was one of only 14 people to live after being within 750m of the hypocentre of the explosion. He is now 80
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US WWII Army Air Corps radioman, born 1925. Flew over Hiroshima the day after the bomb hit, and also witnessed the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, as part of the air support for Bockscar, the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki
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vietnam war air force hero
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world war 2 fighter ace (5 kills) of the 359th Fighter Group - USAAF
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Born 1923 Japanese-American WW2 veteran of the 442nd infantry regiment
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WWII: Japanese spy in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941; rented a flat overlooking the harbour, taking notes on Fleet movements + security measures, dived in the harbour, rented planes to observe military installations
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Japanese chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough
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WWII Japanese fighter pilot; Pearl Harbor, Midway
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Japanese WWII Navy plane navigator, born 1918. Last living survivor of the Japanese attack force on Pearl harbor
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Nuclear Test Photographer, Stood directly under a exploding nuclear warhead July 19, 1957
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Chinese linguist, 'Father of Pinyin', Supercentenarian Born January 13, 1906
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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U.S. Representative from Georgia (1973-77); U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1977-79); Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (1982-90)
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Australian WWII Veteran
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Oldest American at 110 (Albany)
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Tuskegee Airman nicknamed 'The Fox'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Passing ammunition on board the USS Pennsylvania shortly before the attack
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WWII Home Front: She was a 'Rosie The Riveter' on '5 Grand', the 5,000th B-17 built after Pearl Harbor which carried the signatures of all the people who built her
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WWII: CBI Theater. Hump flyer
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. 1st Marine Division. Pictured in the iconic photo of the Peleliu landing
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astronaut - Gemini 3 & 10, Apollo 10 & 16 (walked on the moon), STS-1 & 9)
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Oldest known user of the Internet
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Ken Young (3)WW2 US Navy Lieutenant who was in the Battle of Okinawa. He went to countries Japan, Philippines, and New Guinea
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Born December 31, 1978. Played College Basketball for Hargrave Military Academy. Was drafted by the Detroit Pistons 2nd round 1998. Played in NBA 1998-1999, and played in other pro leagues around the world till 2005
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First african american to fly an F-14. Father of Dmitri and Delmon Young
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astronaut
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(Born 1923) WW2 Women Airforce Service Pilot. Served from 1942 to 1946. Flew PT-17, BT-13, AT-6
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2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash 'for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
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NASA test pilot
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Hiroshima survivor Hiroko Tsutsumi, then 18 years old. Later married an American, moved to the US, and became known as Rose
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Author of trapped at pearl harbor and survior of the sinking of the oklaboma
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South Texas Bureau Chief for UPI , Terry secured an interview with Parkland physician , Malcolm Perry , within days of the assassination
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War vet Subject of 'Body of War' documentary
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Tulsa race riot survivor. Lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Australian World War One Veteran
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor
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He was a POW in the Iraq Freedom war
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Civil Rights Leader
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JFK - Secret Service agent, LBJ detail, best known for using his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963
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WWII: Phone Connector during WWII, once connected President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General MacArthur
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British Major-General, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers from 1974 to 1979, also known as Tony Younger, was awarded the DSO and OBE
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. Battles of Philippine Sea, Luzon
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WWII - 3rd Army. Battle of the Bulge, liberation of Austrian Mauthause-Gusen concentration camp
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Politics
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Pakistani school pupil and education activist, shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in 2012. Also the author of I am Malala
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Algerian football player, ASO Chlef, won the ALP1 championship in 2011 as well as the World Military Cup championship for Algeria in 2011 too
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Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
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Astronaut
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Born 1985. Russian Poltican and Journalist. Currently resides in Russia
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Nobel Peace Prize 2006
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cosmonaut
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Miss Spain 2013, runner up Miss Universe 2013, first openly lesbian beauty queen
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Sailor of the Samuel B. Roberts, Battle off Samar 25 October 1944. He was featured in WWII in HD on the history Channel
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Former Soviet spy, a mole in the KGB, spying for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1970s and 1980s before being caught and imprisoned/Would take pictures of sensitive documents using a tiny CIA camera disguised as a cigarette lighter
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(Born 1939) Civil Rights Activist, US Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (2009-2013), Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
