Killam professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Hayden is best known for his research in Huntington disease (HD)
General Counsel as well as the interim President and CEO of the NAACP in 2005 and from 2007 to 2008/Criticized George W. Bush's Social Security reform proposals & Major League Baseball's recruitment efforts of black baseball players
WWII veteran, last known survivor of the Coast Guard's USS Taney, which responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor, though the Taney itself was stationed near Honolulu when the attack began
JFK - Motorcycle cop that rode several cars behind JFK on Nov. 22, 1963; not yet on Elm Street when JFK was shot; pictured in several photos running up the Grassy Knoll immediately after the assassination, meets James Tague, later at TSBD
WWII: 159th Port Company. Served as a cook in Port Moresby, Australia, before a reassignment to New Hebrides. As of July 2019, Haymon is the second oldest WWII veteran in America, having been born 8 November 1909
US Marines, WWII/Chinese Civil War/Korea/Vietnam, born 1930. Enlisting in 1945, he was sent to China to help return Japanese soldiers at wars end, and then to Okinawa to rid remaining (and still fighting) Japanese there
T. Cullen Davis Murder Trial Lawyer, involved in landmark cases such as The State of Texas v. John Hill (a basis for the book Blood and Money), and the notorious T. Cullen Davis murder trial. He also represented Morganna, a.k.a. 'The Kissing Bandit.'
B. February 16, 1920 was the first woman in the U.S. Military to be promoted to a general officer rank. She was promoted on June 11, 1970, after being appointed by President Richard Nixon on May 15, of that year.
US Navy, Vietnam era, born 1947. Met Navy vet husband while working at a stateside shipyard, soon married. Pregnant, successfully fought against then-mandatory immediate dismissal for any pregnant vet. Worked until birth was close
Vietnam era US Navy vet (1965-71), born 1948. Served on the USS North Hampton, working on global communication innovations and improvements during the Vietnam War. Palmyra, NY town historian with his Navy vet wife
Along with her boyfriend Jens Soering both killed Haysom's parents In March 1985, Haysom's parents Derek and Nancy were murdered and Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom were arrested in England the following year. Initially both claimed to be guilty of the
Vietnam - Last Flight From Da Nang, pilot. Ken is the pilot of the famous 'Last Flight from Da Nang' on March 29, 1975, when World Airways owner Ed Daly took his 727-100 to Da Nang which had become Vietcong-controlled
Author of The Great Dissent, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Hugh M. Hefner Free Speech Award. Professor of law at Seton Hall Law School
(January 27, 1908 - May 14, 1993), Pulitzer Prize-winning editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers/Won a Pulitzer Prize for his interview with Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev/Son of publisher William Randolph Hearst
American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions. Nobel Prize in Chemistry o2010
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia (BB-48); one of two men who survived the direct hit of a Japanese bomb on Turret No. 3; lived through 13 sea battles in World War II; saw combat in the Korean War
(Born 1946) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. While serving aboard the USS Canberra, Hegdahl was blown overboard off the deck of the ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and was taken as a Prisoner of War by the North Vietnamese. POW from 1967 to 1969
US Marine, 2 Vietnam tours of duty. Stationed on the USS Hornet in 1969 during it's Apollo 11 recovery, served as a guard of the crew and later,
the command module. Held a rifle at attention as Nixon welcomed the quarantined crew back
WWII: 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Broup; Herbert Heilbrun piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress and was escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen. 32 missions including Linz, Austria, and Brux, Czechoslovakia, After the war test pilot at Wright Field, Dayton Ohio
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps, 31st Bomb Squadron, Hickam Field. Then B-17 pilot Europe. 78 fighter-unsupported missions over Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany (Leader for the 2nd Bombd Group, 20th Squ). DFC, Purple Heart
Claims the Pattinson / Gimlin 1967 Bigfoot footage a hoax, Claims to have appeared in the famous video dressed as Bigfoot, now retired and living in Yakima, Washington
American aeronautical engineer who worked on several development projects for Boeing and NASA, including serving a head of the Boeing Lunar Orbiter 1 team (wich produced the famous 'Earthrise' photograph)
American author, speaker and leadership coach. In 1995 she published The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, which has been heralded as having introduced the language of inclusion into the work environment
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany (on June 17, 1954)
Witness to the revolt because he is one of two figures caught in an archive photo of young men hurling stones against the Soviet tanks
Plaintiff in the landmark case Heller vs District of Columbia, the first Supreme Court case to decide whether the 2nd Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for self-defense
WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21) that was the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944 by U-549 by 3 torpedo hits
Super Bowl Sunday 1969 he hijacked United Airlines flight to Havana. A former Green Beret, his mission to get Fidel Castro. Reds boarded a 727 from Miami forced pilot to fly to Cuba. He had the pilot send a message, 'Tell Fidel, El Rojo is coming.'
WWII: PTO. USS McFarland, USS Bradford. He was aboard the USS McFarland on the night of Dec. 6, 1941. On the night watch, he reported a flare no one could identify (now thought to be from a Japanese mini-sub assisting the Pearl attack)
Ret. Lt. General of the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. STS-54 (1993) ,STS-64 (1994) , STS-78(1996) ,STS-101 (2001) - ExpediciÃ-³n 2 (2001)
JFK/John F. Kennedy/ One of the last people on the face of the Earth to see President Kennedy alive.? Student in Oak Cliff in 1963. She saw the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street
WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. He is now the last verified surviving aircrew of the Battle of Britain. He lives in a retirement home near Dublin, born 17-07-1919
Civil Rights/was in the forefront of the civil rights battle as he bravely stepped up to participate in the sit - in at the Woolworth?s diner. 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit in
Scottish molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank
Like witnesses Carolyn Walther and Arnold Rowland , Ruby saw two men on the sixth floor of the TSBD five minutes before President Kennedy was shot , one of whom had a rifle
American paleontologist known for the discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990 largest specimen of a T. rex found and one of the most complete skeletons
(born 1950) is an American astronomer and ufologist. UFO historian Jerome Clark calls him 'one of the most skilled investigators in the history of UFO research.' He was the main investigator for the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
(17 October 1926 - 5 October 1993) was an astronomer, NASA astronaut, space scientist, and professor at Northwestern University. He flew on Space Shuttle Challenger in July 1985. He was in the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15 & Skylab 4
Last survivor of the sinking of HM Submarine Truculent that sank in the Thames Estuary, with 64 men dead and only 15 survivors, in January 1950. Born: 1925. He lives in Chatham, Kent, UK
WW2/79th Regiment, demolition squad, His company had 3 platoons that were involved with communications, ammunitions and engineering/Henley's regiment was headed to capture the seaport town of Cherbourg France when D-Day invasion had begun
Age 89/American teacher most notable for teaching Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School, located in New Orleans
WWII vet - served as part of a black/African American unit that didn't fight combat in battle of Iwo Jima but still saw the raising of the flag. Survived COVID-19 at the age of 100
Black WWII US Army vet (1923-2020), spent decades fighting his biased 'blue discharge' release. Finally upgraded to an honorable discharge in 2019. Died of COVID-19 in 2020
Fiona Herbert, 8th Countess of Carnarvon (also known as Lady Carnarvon) is the wife of George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon)
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon) is the great-grandson of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the man who, alongside Howard Carter, discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun
WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Later Submarine Service (USS Finback, USS S-27, USS Picuda, USS Amberjack). He was onboard S-27 when it grounded and sunk off Amchitka
11 year old witness to the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion. Helping his dad work on the car, he saw the mushroom cloud in the distance. Survived cancer, but lost many family and friends in the area downwind of the test site
JFK - American attorney, activist, and leader in the Mexican American civil rights movement; met and introduced President John F. Kennedy at a speaking engagement before a LULAC assembly on November 21, 1963 In Houston
American photojournalist, born 1927. Covered the Korean War, presidents, Krushchev, sports, NASA, and more. Named one of AP's Top 10 Civil Rights photographers. Took iconic photos of Rosa Parks' and Martin Luther King's arrests
Talk Show Host, Philanthropy, Author, Adviser
Julia Roberts played her in ?Charlie Wilson?s War?, but the real-life Texan is far more interesting than any movie could capture
Col, U.S. Army (Ret.) is an author and retired counterintelligence officer with extensive interrogation experience in three wars (Vietnam, Operation JUST CAUSE, and Operation DESERT STORM/Fall of Saigon evacuee
(1909-1999) Philatelic writer, collector, and dealer. Known for books Nassau Street: a Quarter Century of Stamp Dealing (1960), Fun and Profit in Stamp Collecting (1962), Stories to Collect Stamps by (1968), and many more
December 25, 1904 - March 3, 1999/Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 for contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure & geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals'. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic & molecular spectroscopy
JFK - Secret Service agent that was in the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; began his career under Eisenhower; also traveled to China with Nixon; pictured with LBJ
Political scientist, Presidential advisor (born 1933). Speechwriter on Eisenhower's White House Staff, later served and advised Nixon, Ford, and Carter
French diplomat, former ambassador, and French resistance fighter and BCRA agent. He participated in the drafting of 'the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' of 1948 ; born in 1917
Along with her husband , Charles , Beatrice was sitting on the grass on the north side of Elm St .on Nov. 22 , 1963 , in Dallas when they heard two shots . They thought the shots came from the TSBD
President and CEO of Fair Food Network, a non-profit organization based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems and the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
WWII Veteran, his Army Air Corps unit provided air cover for Army General George S. Patton. Hetzel was a part of five major battles in the war in Europe with the Battle of the Bulge being his last
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pelias. Went on to serve in both the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns, including seven successful round-trip escorts aboard the USS Hissem and the USS O?Reilly to Europe and North Africa
WWII US Army veteran, born 1917. Went through Africa, Italy, and in France worked with the French Resistance. Helped in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
One of the many survivors and eyewitnesses to the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He treated survivors as a medical doctor and wrote about the effects of radiation on the human body. He is now 94
WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Military Intelligence Service, 96th Division. Grew up on Okinawa and used his Okinawa dialect to convince local non-combatants hiding inside to surrender peacefully and without harm during the battle
American conservative political activist, author, and former U.S. Navy SEAL. Regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, and Newsmax. Best known for promoting the birther conspiracy theory about Barack Obama
WWII: MTO/ETO. Landed in North Africa, Sicily and southern France. 431st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 44th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
US Politician, Georgia (1823-82) Confederate Gov. of Georgia 1862-65, US House 1875-77, US Senate 1877-82. Named 'The Peerless Orator.' Close friend to Jefferson Davis who spoke at Hill's Statue dedication in Atlanta after his death
UFO figure (1919-2004). Wife in the couple that claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1961. The first widely reported alien abduction, it led to a popular book and TV movie
Member of 'The Essex', a R&B group, the only active duty military personnel to record a number one hit while on active duty ('Easier Said Than Done', 9 July 1963)
Born: 1932. Ex Secret Service Agent in President Kennedy's motorcade during the assassination. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963
USAF, (Ret) Original Tuskegee Airman/One key event took place while working in crash & rescue. During one aircraft incident, heroically helped remove, then Col B. O. Davis Jr, from his damaged plane upon landing at locbourne Air Force Base
JFK - Dallas police officer who went to the TSBD where he and 2 others found the shooter's perch and 3 spent shell casings; then assigned to the J.D. Tippit site, from there to Texas Theatre where he and other officers apprehended Oswald
A member of the Dallas Police Dept.in 1963 he , ten minutes after the assassination , directed attention to the second upper-right-hand corner window of the TSBD from where he believed the shots came
The only known British survivor of the International Brigades who fought with left-wing forces against General Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. He now lives in Australia
Born: 1934. Jamaican-born writer, journalist and historian. He is best known for his work on the West Indian Gazette and his books portraying the West Indian community in Britain such as 'Journey to an Illusion'. He lives in the UK
WWII/JFK - Iwo Jima survivor; also fought at Choiseul Island Raid (1943), serving directly under Charles Krulak, later Marine Corps commander), Land Battle of Vella Lavella (1943). During the Raid on Choiseu, he met John F. Kennedy
Hinton was falsely arrested and held on Alabama's Death Row for nearly 30 years. His 1985 conviction was thrown out in 2014 after the Supreme Court found his case to be lacking any proof and found the defense did not act properly
Father of A I. Formerly at Google. In 2024, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Hopfield 'for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.'
WWII combat veteran who served as a Quartermaster aboard the USS Blessman DE69/APD48 crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans numerous times. He participated in the landings at Normandy, Lingayen Gulf and Iwo Jima
German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)
WWII - US Marines, Iwo Jima 1945. Purple Heart. Was hit by shrapnel as he stepped off the Higgins Boat onto Iwo, got his wounds patched by corpsman John Bradley, one of the famous flag-raisers. Hipps guarded both flag-raisings
Author, Chairman & former CEO of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer. Chairman and founding Partner of Just Label It and Organic Voices. serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations under Obama
One of the participants in the Up documentary film series, that follows participants every 7 years starting in 7 Up in 1964 when they were 7 years old. Latest installment was 63 Up in 2019
Singaporean WWII vet, born 1920. Last surviving Singaporean pilot of the Flying Tigers. Served in the Chinese American Composite Wing, assigned to the 14th US Air Force. 18 B-25 missions. Career as Captain with Malaysia-Singapore Airlines
BBC engineer who worked in television in it's early years and was part of a production team who transmitted the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on TV screens in 1953
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
Jerry T. Hodges Jr was born on June 29, 1925 in Tennessee. He became one of many Tuskegee Airmen. He went into WW2 from 1944 to 1945 and became a businessman after the war
American politician, notable for being the titular defendant in the landmark civil rights case Obergefell v. Hodges, which he lost, resulting in the legalization of gay marriage everywhere in the United States.
WWII - Contemporary witness "Operation Elster", a Nazi German mission to gather intelligence on and sabotage the Manhattan Project. Nazi agents landed in Maine on Nov. 30, 1944. Herbert's brother's vigilance led to their fast arrest
One of the two women who as teenagers were the focus of the activity during the Enfield Haunting. She is now 52 and lives in the UK. Now the subject of the film 'The Conjuring 2'
American NYT bestselling author and the creator of the Mara Dyer Trilogy, consisting of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, and The Retribution of Mara Dyer. Formerly an attorney who worked in anti-terrorism litigation
WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21), the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944. Served on the next USS Block Island (CVE-106) until the end of the war
US Realtor/Businessman, born 1943. Ambassador to Portugal (2005-2007), Republican operative. Met Eisenhower in the Oval Office while a military cadet in 1953
Hoffman was Director of Nursing at Parkland Memorial Hospital when new their new facility opened on Harry Hines Boulevard in 1954. While attending a conference in San Antonio, she saw President Kennedy during his visit to the city on November 21, 1963
(Born 1941) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1971 to 1973. Recipient of Defense Superior Service Medal, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 3 Purple Hearts
Centenarian and an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is noted for his recordings of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn
US supercentenarian (1889-2000). Born to a Union Civil War vet, named after the new President, lived most of his life as an Oklahoma farmer, working well past 100. Once the world's oldest living man, now listed as the 65th oldest man to have ever lived
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor (PBY - Squadron VP23/ Ford Island), Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, later B-24 flight engineer for anti - submarine patrols off the coast of France. Born December 13, 1921
One of the last survivors from the sinking of The RMS Laconia in 1942. The RMS Laconia was struck and sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat off the coast of west Africa. He was a Merchant seaman at the time and is now 90
USN Test Pilot School Instructor/Chief, Human Systems Engineering Branch/USAF Test Pilot School Academic Instructor/Participated as a geophysicist on a remote field expedition to the Antarctic
WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill?s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Bronze Star
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
JFK - Assassination witness on 22 November 1963; stood at her window at the Texas School Book Depository and watched the motorcade as the fatal shots rang out; can be seen in picture taken a few seconds after Kennedy was shot
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Mr. Hollis was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Born Nov 4 1924
WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
22 year old Morehouse College student,later a SNCC voter registration worker in the mid-1960s. Freedom Rider from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi as part of a May 24, 1961 Freedom Ride. He was arrested the following day in Jackson for his invo
WWII: 11th Armored Division, 1943-1946. Advanced through Germany and overran both Mathausen and Gusen. A Finnish immigrant, Holma was preparing to leave for D-Day but was pulled off the loading ramp to avoid fighting his birth country
Early experimental research test pilot for the X-1 aircraft and other aircraft. In 1952, Holtoner became the commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base
Husband of Anna Mitchell-Hedges. In 1924, Anna Mitchell-Hedges was in southern Belize, Central America when she claims to have found 'The Crystal Skull'.
(born 31 January 1917), is an archaeologist and academic. He was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1954 to 1962, and led the excavations at Knossos from 1957 to 1961. He turned 100 in January 2017
One of the last survivors of 'The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake'. Born in 1906, she is now 107 and lives in Santa Clara, California. She is one of three remaining survivors of the 1906 earthquake
The oldest person in Britain, now 112. Born in 1903 in Dulwich, London. She was a concert pianist and was close friends with Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator. She lives in the coastal town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight
(Born 1946) US Army Vietnam Veteran. 220th Aviation Company in South Vietnam from September 1968 to March 1969, when he was wounded in combat. Silver Star Recipient
Bob Hoover was Chuck Yeager's backup pilot in the Bell X-1 program, and he flew chase in a Lockheed P-80 when Yeager first exceeded Mach 1(broke the sound barrier)on October 14, 1947.