Speaker, author of 'Believing in Magic' and wife of Magic Johnson. Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Magic Johnson Foundation. Founder of CJ by Cookie Johnson, a premium denim line
WWII: Combat Information Center, USS Killen, DD-593. Battle of Surigao Strait (25 October 1944). Johnson's job was to figure out the torpedo trajectory for the attack that eventually sank the Japanese battleship Yamashiro
Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge worker, born in 1925. Worked as a 'Calutron Girl' during WWII, unknowingly helping to produce Uranium for the Hiroshima bomb
Test pilot. Set the world altitude record in 1958 by flying to 91,249 feet in an F-104 Starfighter. He?s clocked 7,000 hours in 15 fighter planes, trained pilots in World War II, and flew fighter planes in Korea and Vietnam
'Hidden Figure' African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the US aeronautics and space programs with early application of digital electronic computers at NASA
Journalist and Vegas PR career, born 1933. Korean War vet, guarded MacArthur. Raced cars, friends with James Dean. Danced in 'Jailhouse Rock' title number with Elvis, who became a friend since they shared an interest in martial arts
Last surviving inhabitant of St Kildan Island, Scotland that was evacuated in 1930, 84 years ago. She is now 91 and lives in a nursing home in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
WW2 vet, born 1921, and the last surviving member of Richard Byrd'sThird Antarctic Expedition in 1939. Also returned with Byrd on his 1946 and 1947 expeditions
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
WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack). Read his story at http://leftfieldperspectives.blogspot.co.at/2006/11/meet-doc-johnson.html
Arkansas Lawyer, Politician (1814-1879) US Rep. (1847-53), US Senator (1853-61). Strong Southern supporter, served as Arkansas' Confederate Senator during the Civil War
World War II veteran. Was a North American Aviation test pilot during the Apollo Program. After the Apollo 1 fire, Mr. Johnson was asked by his employer North American Aviation to enter another module and try to figure out what happened
Born 18.4.1925
Presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, speaker and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013
WWII - First Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) to qualify as instructors on electrically-operated .50-calibre machine gun turrets
Photographer Washington Post, Johnston was working for Austin bureau of United Press International in 1963. In basement of Dallas police headquarters, captured image of Lee Harvey Oswald approximately one second before he was fatally shot
NASA Apollo Engineer, born 1942. Flight Controller for the EMU (Space Suit) through Apollo 13. Helped design, analyze, and test the suits. NASA medical requirements led to his doctorate and career as a Seattle OB-GYN
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
WW2 veteran (born: 1919). He was one of the last soldiers to get off the beach at Dunkirk. He also witnessed the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944. He lives in Bolton, UK and recently celebrated his 100th birthday
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
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; NAS Kanoehe Bay. He is the man working on and bending over a rope in the famous photograph of December 7, 1941, with wreckage and burning planes all around, trying to save a PYB
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
U.S. Secret Service agent assigned White House detail during Kennedy years/Guarded Kennedys at Hyannis Port during the summer of 1963. At the time of the assassination, he was guarding young John F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C. In 1964
D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in the UK. He was a former machine gunner with the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry. Also known as Robert
WWII: PTO. 1st Marine Division. Saw action saw action in New Guinea, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa, and the Ryukyu Islands. 2 Bronze Stars
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
(October 23, 1916 - April 15, 1998) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and a highly decorated veteran of three wars, receiving the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He was a battalion commander in World W
Politician & leader of the Civil Rights movement. 1st African American elected to Senate & 1st southern black female elected to the US House of Representatives. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom
Author, american business executive & civil rights activist who worked for various civil rights organizations & law firms before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton. Former executive director of the United Negro College Fund
Cuban exile of the 1960's (Born: 1936), anti-Castro, and Bay of Pigs Invasion participant who is co-founder and president of the Cuban American National Foundation. Age: 80
The oldest living female World War II Veteran and a former Army Nurse. She nursed soldiers who had been wounded on Iwo Jima during the brutal and bloody battle to capture the island. She is now 109 and lives in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A
WWII - Navy. Served on the USS Hornet (CV-8) from her first to her last day, supporting the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and surviving the sinking in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 27 October 1942
Grandson of James Joyce, the famous Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He lives in the French town of La Flotte, on the Île de Ré, off the Atla
Won the 2010 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
American Director at DeepMind Technologies. Jumper and Demis Hassabis were awarded half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their predictions in protein folding
Supercentenarian, born on 10 June 1906. Longest-lived validated person in the history of Poland, currently the 28th oldest validated person of all time, 3rd oldest living person, and the last known person born in 1906
Apollo structural engineer who began work on the program in 1963. He was one of five engineers in charge of constructing the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), which still holds the record for largest single story building
NASA/MIT: Rendezvous Engineer; he worked on the rendezvous system, which was bringing the Lunar and Command Modules back together in orbit. The system was in use starting Apollo 7. Later worked at the Skylab and Space Shuttle programs
The younger brother of the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski His memoir, Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family. Donated the $1 million dollar reward to the victims of the Unabomber
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
American Nobel Laureate who is professor of medicine. He is a 2019 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine with Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza
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
US Banker, Businessman, Arts Patron (1867-1934) Chairman of the Board, Metropolitan Opera. Financial supporter of Gershwin, the Marx Bros. and Fanny Brice
Brazilian con artist and former soccer player, signed to numerous clubs from 1979 - 1992, without playing a single game, his real name is Carlos Henrique Raposo
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
26-year Navy career in the Cold War, Master Bomb Disposal Technician; he helped disarm an errant U.S. nuclear bomb off the coast of Spain from a B-52 bomber that crashed there after a mid-air collision in 1966
Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and its successor Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Arthur B. McDonald
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
SS-Obersturmführer Søren Kam (b. November 2, 1921 in Copenhagen) is a former Danish Waffen-SS officer, an SS-foreign volunteer, who served with the 5.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking during World War II rising to the rank of Obersturmfuhrer
(born Argentina on 1 October 1925) former French Resistance, specializing in forgery of identity documents, who later went on to assist Jewish emigration to Israel and then to forge identity documents for the National Liberation Front
Computer hacker who exposed the illicit global mobile phone tracking of all users, regardless of GPS or Location Services settings, on the Apple iPhone, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone mobile devices
Coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their report, Climate Change 2007, assessing man-made global warming
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
Hungarian - American biochemist who specializes in RNA - mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro - transcribed mRNA for protein therapies. 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Drew Weissman
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
American journalist and historian, who reported on the Vietnam War in its entirety and covered the story of The 1955 Le Mans disaster that resulted in the most catastrophic accident in motorsports history. He now lives in Washington, D.C., USA
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
Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for 'the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems'
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.'
'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
Canadian engineer whose achievements include designing the first digital game-playing machine, and the world's first automated traffic signalling system
President of the Loukoumi Make A Difference Foundation and author of the Loukoumi children's Books. President and co-founder of the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund
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
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
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work
WWII Air Force Veteran from Arizona. Just turned 97, was covered on a GMA episode for carrying 100lbs of weights and vigorously working out to stay healthy
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
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
WWII: Tuskegee Airman, Trained to be a bomber pilot for the 477th Bombardment Group, he never saw combat as the war ended before he was deployed. Trained in T-6. B-25
US WWII Marine, born 1924. Served in the Battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Worked under Werner von Braun in the 50s, absorbed into the newly formed NASA. Knew and worked with astronauts back to the original 7. Retired in 1985
WWII: German pilot. Leader of the IV. NJG 101 (Night fighters), in 1945 transferred to Oskar-Heinrich Bär's Jagdverband 44 (JV 44) (Air fighter unit flying the Me-262 - the world's first fighter jet). One of the last Me-262 pilots alive
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
(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company D, 1st Battalion, 315th Infantry Regiment. Became a POW until he escaped on foot 600 miles. Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient
US Politician, Louisiana (1830-1918) Studied law in Illinois, friends with Lincoln. Given New Orleans position in meeting with Lincoln before he left for Ford's Theater. Early 'carpetbagger' but elected its Gov., Congressman and Senator
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
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: 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
American author & historian. Won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Founding dir of the Anti-Racist Research & Policy Center at American University
WWII - C-47 Squadron Commander who flew paratroopers into their dropzones. Operation Husky (Sicily 1943); D-Day Normandy; CO of the 44th Troop Carrier Squadron after D-day; for Market Garden, General Gavin selected Kendig to be his pilot for the jump
WWII: ETO. 351st Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Tailgunner on B-17 'The Brass Hat'. Flew at the end of the war (December 1944 to April 1945, incl. Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund)
(April 18, 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 1, 2003, Austin, Texas) was an American composer, author, educator, and professor/World War II, when he served as a bandmaster for the United States Army
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
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
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
WWII: Royal Canadian Navy. Escorted Arctic Murmansk convoys. With HMS Naiad, he was in the evacuation of Greece, the Battle of Crete, in Malta convoys, eventually torpedoed on 11 March 1942. Later HMNZS Gambia (Battle of Okinawa, Tokyo Bay)
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
b.07/04/51 American attorney, Lt.Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. Ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. 2010 chair of the non-profit American Bridge, eldest of RFK and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, eldest grandchild of Joseph & Rose Kennedy
One of the captains of the 1981 North Carolina Tar Heel that reached the NCAA finals - was a chemistry major and attended medical school after graduation.
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.
WWII - D-Day Utah Beach (4th Infantry Division, Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion); also survivor of 'Exercise Tiger', the D-Day dress rehearsal, April 28, 1945, that turned into disaster as being attacked by German forces
WWII Bataan Death March Survivor, (1920-2022) Enlisted in the US Army in 1938, taken POW after the Death March. Then served 21 years in the US Air Force after WWII
American former soldier, police officer, consultant, 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department, author and convicted felon for which he obtained the presidential pardon in 2020
WWII: Drafted into the German Wehrmacht late in 1944, he was bombed out of two homes, strafed by British fighter planes, shot at and shelled on the European battlefields and eventually held as a POW - all before his 18th birthday
World War II veteran and purple heart recipient, fought on D-Day. Two bronze stars for valor, two purple hearts, 5 combat stars, presidential citation, the French croix du guerre, the Belgian croix du guerre
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
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
NASA: Assistant Flight Controller Apollo 11; started during the Mercury program in 1963 and worked through the end of Apollo in the mid-1970s and on the Space Shuttle into the early 1980s
Pashtun-American lawyer and writer. Worked as an interpreter for defense attorneys representing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. She wrote of her experiences in My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
American artist, activist, and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights
American author and social entrepreneur. Served as SEO of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program he co-founded. Led two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. Senator from MA. Founded and worked with numerous social and political orgs
Indian-American Biochemist (1922-2011), 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his work with Nucleic Acids. Honored on 2018-1-9 with a Google Doodle on his 96th birthdate
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
Served 26 years as a U.S. Marine - was a drill sergeant in WWII at Montford Point, served with the 11th Marines in the Korean War, and survived being in the 1st Battalion 9th Marines - nicknamed 'The Walking Dead' during the Vietnam War
American journalist, producer and author of history titles, including Signing Their Lives Away, Signing Their Rights Away and The Girls of Atomic City. Married to author, historian and journalist Joseph D'Agnese
Born 17 March 1913 was a highly decorated Major in the Luftwaffe during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II
Finnish WWII Veteran. Trained with the Panzerfaust, a German anti-tank weapon. He ambushed a Soviet Tank, which took a hit and caught fire. His story is featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall
Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert who is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates. 2005-2006: was Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the US State Department
1915-1967 Folklorist/professor at SMU Dallas. Kilpatrick interviewed Cherokee folk healers in 60s, collected manuscripts of traditional medicine. Books including Friends of Thunder 1964 Walk in Your Soul 1965 Run Toward the Nightland 1967
Served in the Navy Radar Man in WWII, also served in the Korean War. USS Hornet (CV-12), USS President Hayes (APA-20), USS Laning (APD-55), USS Cronin (DEC-704)
WWII - Capt Kimball was the Lead Navigator of the 100th Momb Group ('The Bloody 100th') of the 8th Air Force in Europe; receiving Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Three Oak Clusters, the Croix de Guerre. Also served in Korea
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
WWII: Radio operator on a B-24 Liberator as part of the 455th Bombardment Group stationed in Italy and was part of 29 bombing missions to various sites in the European Theatre of WWII
WWII: D-Day. UK veteran. Wireless operator in a Sherman tank; B Company, East Riding Yeomanry, 27 Armoured Division. Landed on Juno Beach on LST 3204. Saw combat in France (incl. Pegasus Bridge and Caen) and later Belgium, Holland, Germany