Author and youngest police officer ever hired on the Omaha Police Department at age 18. He worked as a uniformed officer and as a detective in the Burglary, Vice, and Narcotics Units retired after a twenty-six-year career
German World War II Luftwaffe 70-victory flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He held the position of Geschwaderkommodore of fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 51
Inductee Inventor Hall of Fame; revolutionized biomedical technology through the development of a controlled drug delivery system; one of history's most prolific inventors in medicine
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
Television journalist, anchor, & author/Became friends with Muhammad Ali & F. Lee Bailey, & considered Martin Luther King, Jr. to be a personal mentor/Roomed with Mahalia Jackson/wrote Anne and Emmett/1st black 'weathergirl' for WBBM-TV
WWII: D-Day. 82nd AB, 505th PIR; landed in St. Mere-Eglise, featured in the movie 'The Longest Day'; wounded and captured June 30th, 1944, forced to work in a coalmine in today's Czech Republic by the SS, from where he escaped after months
Alien encounter participant, born 1943. Hidden under a bed with his siblings while adult family and friends fought off unusual beings outside their house during the 'Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter' of 1955
Vietnam War - Flew helicopters for Air America in Vietnam from 1970 to 1975; he is the helicopter pilot whose advice saved the famous 'Last Flight From Da-Nang' (see Kenneth Healy)
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
NASA test pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, and is assigned to Armstrong's F/A-18, F-15, T-34 research and mission support aircraft and DC-8 airborne science aircraft
WW2 Veteran in the G3 V Corps and TikTok Sensation from sharing his stories. Also author of book The Luckiest Man Alive: Stories from the Life of Papa Jake (Born 1922) D - Day Veteran
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
Holocaust/Classmate of Anne Frank/Carson Productions executive served as executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman & Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Native of Fort Myers, Florida, was a retired Commander in the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator. As a Lieutenant, he received the Medal of Honor for his rescue of two downed Naval Aviators while piloting a search and rescue helicopter in Vietnam
Born 1943 US Navy Vietnam and Gulf War Veteran. POW in Vietnam from May 1972 to March 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, 3 Legion of Merit's, and Distinguished Flying Cross
Lieutenant General Donald Currie Laubman, AOE, DFC & Bar, CD (born 16 October 1921) began his military career in December 1939. In 1942 he was posted to 133 Squadron in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, Canada. In 1943 he was sent to Red Hill/Staplehurs
American billionaire, author, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estee Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune. Co - founder and chairman of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
Centenarian (1898-2005). US WWI veteran, last WWI vet in Nevada. Barely survived the 1918 Flu on shipride to France, but recovered. Drove a truck in France transporting sick/injured to hospitals
WWII: At age 19, staff sergeant Don Lawhorn was an experienced B-17 tail gunner flying more than two-dozen sorties over occupied Europe for the 12th/15th F, 99th Bombardment Group , 346th Bombardment Squadron. Mission to Southern Germany and Austria
WWII - RAF pilot, one of the surviving members of 'The Few' (termed by Winston Churchill, using a Shakespeare quote, bestowed on the pilots that fought the Battle of Britain)
British Army officer who fought and was severely wounded in the Falklands War, wrote a book called 'When the Fighting Is Over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain and Its Aftermath' about his experiences
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
British Army officer, who served as General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and later as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe
Secret Service agent for Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. Planned advance details for JFK trips to Ireland, Berlin, and Dallas. Drove the lead motorcade car ahead of Kennedy's limo when shooting occurred
WWII - Survivor of the Bataan Death March; spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea before liberation in 1945. Author of WWI book "Some survived"
WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Flew missions in Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia. Protected at least twice bomber pilot Herbert Heilbrun, also listed her on Startiger
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: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
Dallas Police Detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald at the moment he was shot by Jack Ruby, Pearl Harbor Veteran on the USS Whitney on December 7,1941
United States Air Force general officer. She became the United States Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing
WWII: Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle, participating in the infamous 'Icecream Incident' while the ship was abandoned
NASA: Design Engineer Apollo era, designing the Propulsion Servicing Systems for the 2ndStage of the 3-stage Saturn V Rocket who put men on the moon eventually. Later Lead Design of Main Propulsion Systems of the Space Shuttle
US WWII era veteran, born 1928. Enlisted at 18 in 1946, served as a guard at Sugamo prison during the Tokyo Trials (the Nuremburg counterpart for Japanese war criminals), became the Chief Jailer there
Civil rights figure, born 1937. First integrated class of a Tennessee public school, 1955. Later, did local sit-ins. Career developing lasers, semiconductors and fiber optics. Saw Eisenhower at Union Station during a DC trip in the 1950s
US Navy WWII vet, born 1925. One of the last surviving Navy blimp pilots of WWII. Convoy duty over the Caribbean/Panama Canal, stationed at a US airbase in Jamaica
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
Irish retired nurse and activist, lives in St. Albans, England (born March 24, 1933)
Main character of a true story based on the book 'The Lost Child of Philomena Lee' by Martin Sixsmith. The book was filmed in 2013 as a 'Philomena'
PVT, USA, 120th General Hospital
Surgical Technician
New Guinea and Philippines Campaigns
Witnessed the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri
Appearing Sunday
American physician-scientist best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors, for which, with Brian Kobilka, he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Spy/Lt. Gen. Mary Legere, current Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence US Army, could be poised to make history. Is the leading candidate to take over as chief of the Pentagon?s main spy organization, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Tang. Born: 1924. SS Tang was a WW2 submarine that was sunk during the last engagement by a circular run of her final torpedo in 1944. He is now 94-95
Great-grandson of David Mitchell, the train driver who perished in the Tay Bridge Disaster, December 28, 1879.He was one of 59 who died in the tragedy, considered the most catastrophic structural failure in British history. Lives in Scotland, UK
(born 18 July 1921) was a highly decorated Leutnant der Reserve of the Brandenburgers in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was Rommel's personal and favorite combat driver
Pioneering gay rights activist and writer, born 1935. President of NYC Mattachine Society in the 60s, the premiere gay rights group before Stonewall. Led 1966 NYC gay 'Sip-In' protest, and covered Stonewall as a reporter, whose on-scene account was the fi
Finnish WWII Veteran. Featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall-combat-with-the-red-army-c8e397466ce8
US Air Force Gen. & VP running mate of George Wallace in 1968/ credited designing & implementing effective, but controversial systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of WW2/headed Berlin airlift
Former reporter and author of the NYTs best-seller 'Breakfast at Sally's', a memoir detailing his fall from affluence to homelessness. Currently speaks around the country and advocates for helping the homeless
WWII: Last survivor of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). On Oct. 25, 1944, in the battle of Samar, the Samuel B. Roberts steamed through a gauntlet of incoming shells, scored torpedo and gunfire hits before finally being sunk
WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories (between 23 May 1944 and 14 June 1944), plus a probable 3 damage claims. 49th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th Air Force; European Theater
WW2 Japanese POW Survivor/1940, Bob was assigned to the USS Seawolf (SS197) & USS Perch (SS 176) Submarine http://www.orgsites.com/ar/twin-lakes-base/-pgg1.php3
WWII: 549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group ('Van's Valiants'), 92nd Wing, 8th Air Force. Based near Ipswich, England. Flew 29 missions as a B-17 Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner including the huge March 18, 1945, mission to Berlin
American businessman who is the current president and CEO of Stew Leonard's, a supermarket chain based in CT and NY. Founded the Stew Leonard III Children's Charities. Released a series of children's books featuring Stewie the Duck
WWII: ETO. Radio operator/gunner on B-24H #42-7567 'Wacky Donald'. 445th Bomb Group, 8th AF. Met and flew a training session with Jimmy Stewart at Tibenhall, England. Was shot down over Holland on Feb. 24, 1944 and eventually taken a POW,
Retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major general (Born: 1934) On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk
French geophysicist, born 1937. Plate tectonics expert. A lead investigator on the Project Famous study of the Atlantic Ocean basin in the 1970s, where the N. American and European plates are pushed apart by new magma
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 political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley
Centenarian (1897-2001). US WWI veteran, one of the last surviving black vets. Cleared fields of trees and thickets in France to allow fire against the Germans
(Born 1935) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Started his naval career in 1958. He flew with VA-176 from 1961 to 1964, which included a deployment during the Cuban Missile Crisis. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973
NASA pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, F-15, F-18, T-34 and King Air, as well as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame, born 1923. WWII RCAF pilot, flew cover on D-Day. Post war flew for Canada's NATO and Air Defense Command, made Brig. General in 1970
American author of mainly books about horses including the #1 NYT bestseller The Eighty-Dollar Champion. Formerly worked as a riding instructor and competed in equestrian events. Served in the Peace Corps. Brother is a retired tennis player
Russian Cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz TM-4 / Soyuz TM-3. Was selected as cosmonaut on 12.07.1977. Test pilot for the Soviet Shuttle program; was assigned as double for the first Buran test flight; died on the complications of a brain tumor
Former Russian KGB major who defected to the United States in 1979. He obtained U.S. citizenship in 1989.
Levchenko published his English-language autobiography, On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGB, in 1988
Physics professor who has investigated crop circles for more than a decade in the UK and USA. He is a member of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network
Canadian journalist and former speechwriter for the Israeli Delegation to the United Nations and for an Anglophone audience for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Co-founder of the software company Figure 1
Rewriting Florida's Medicaid Third-Party Recovery Act allowing the state of Florida to sue the tobacco industry; benefactor of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, manager of Roy Jones Jr., philanthropy
Manhattan Project scientist, born 1921. Harvard chemistry grad recruited to work at the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge facility to help enrich Uranium 235, used in the Hiroshima bomb. Continued his work into the Cold War era
WWII - 82nd Airbone Division. Landed as the division's only weather observer in a glider on D-Day, transmitted the first weather report famous from Ste. Mere-Eglise
American Astronomer and planetary scientist specializing in planetary dynamics. He currently works at the Southwest Research Institute, U.S.A. and studies planetary orbits and their evolution through solar system history
American-British-Israeli biophysicist and a professor. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
Staff writer at The New Yorker magazine & the author of the books The Rules do Not Apply and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, & The NYT
One of the many survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. She was 13 years old when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. She is now 88 and lives in Harvest, Alabama, USA
Libertarian Party's Vice-Presidential nominee (1983) in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, sharing the party ticket with David Bergland.[1] The ticket received 228,111 votes (0.3%) to finish third overall
Jim was the USMC Pilot who nearly saved Gus Grissom's ill fated Liberty Bell 7, as it flooded with water and sank to the bottom of the sea following it's splashdown on 7/21/61, author - Short Tales By A Tall Pilot (2013)
WWII: Dunkirk. A Royal Engineer who fought a rearguard action to enable the evacuation at Dunkirk. He was ordered to blow up a bridge, which he did, but eventually was taken POW until the end of the war
One of the many survivors of the Blitz, a series of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. He was a teenager at the time. He is now in his eighties and lives in London
German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor
Youngest of schindler's list holocaust survivors. mr. leyson was born in poland and went to work in schindler's factory at age 13. he died january 12, 2013 in california at age 83
Professor predicted Trump's election/Expert witness in more than 75 civil & voting rights cases. Author, White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Survivor of the '1953 North Sea flood'. (Born: 1947) She was six years old at the time of the flood and remembers when the North Sea came crashing inland. She lives in Canvey Island, Essex, UK
Author, speaker and U.S. Navy SEAL. Served as chief advisor for Counter Terrorism for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Son of G. Gordon Liddy
Holocaust Survivor/Age 14 when sent to Auschwitz/Allowed to leave a few months after arriving because of a clerical error regarding her birthday & was sent off to do hard labor in various parts of the country/Age 85
(Born July 9,1920) received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1947. His thesis was on the discharge mechanism of Geiger'Müller counters. Liebson received a US Navy award for developing the first equipment used to identify enemy radar.
WWII: USS Bunker Hill. Last of the Bunker Hill crew rescued, surviving two kamikazes crashing 30 seconds apart into the Bunker Hill on 11 May 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa
Known for her appearance in a newsreel filmed in 1945. She is directing traffic behind the Brandenberg Gate. Is said to be living in the village of Zvonaryovka in the Saratov region of Russia
Author/Iran Hostage Crisis/Political Officer/Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy in August 2006 after retiring from the Foreign Service with 33 years of service and the rank of Minister-Counselor
Attorney, V.P. & Council - GIC; 'pitcher' on the front of the 2008 Topps baseball card titled 'Kazuo Uzuki' that was released by Topps as an April Fools Day joke for this former Law Blog Student
Swedish scientist specialising in cancer research.In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
Author and Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy
Retired engineer/oilman (Born: 1948) who was part of the team who found the the first 'black gold' in the North Sea in 1970. Lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Also known as Rob 'Swede' Lingard
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
Witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952 and caused the deaths of 4,000 people. It is considered the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom. He was 7 at the time and is now 71
US Military officer, civil servant (1887-1971) Army Capt. for WWI airmail service. Transferred to PO's first airmail supervisor in 1918. Then into private aviation, known as the father of commercial aviation
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, KCVO 05/10/1848?10/2/1931 Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage was a self-made man, merchant & yachtsman. Created the Lipton tea brand & was the most persistent challenger in history of America's Cup
Vietnam Helicopter Pilot/(by his own estimation, nearly the worst helicopter pilot in his class), recounts the events leading up to & during a daring 7-hour rescue mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail that he organized on Easter Sunday, 1967
Murdered his family in New Jersey in 1971 and was captured after 18 years with the help of America's Most Wanted; subject of the 1993 film 'Judgment Day: The John List Story'
Secretary General/co-founder of the Council of Women World Leaders, which is composed 72 of women presidents, prime ministers, and heads of government. International, award-winning speaker/author re leadership, diversity, women in politics
Chronicled in Captain Carole: How One of the Navy's First Female Pilots Fought Sexism, Saved 114 Souls on US Airways Flight 70, and Exposed a Coverup (by Carole Leigh Litten with Maynard Poland and David Demers)
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
(Born 1943) US Army Paratrooper Vietnam Veteran. 101st Airborne Division, 327th Infantry. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts and a Bronze ( a V as in Valor) and Silver Star
JFK - Secret Service, White House starting 1963; protected LBJ's youngest daughter on the day of President Kennedy?s assassination. 35th Sgt. at Arms, House of Representatives; he announced 'Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States'
WWII: ETO. 262nd Regiment, 66th Infantry Division. Eyewitness to the sinking of the SS Leopoldville by torpedo as he was aboard the HMS Cheshire, which was right behind in the convoy. Bronze Star
JFK related/Bay of Pigs Frogman/Stated; 'Ammunition was all we needed,' Chiqui Llama says. 'We blamed Kennedy. I think Kennedy was yellow.' Lives in Puerto Rico
Last surviving witness to 'The Sutton Hoo excavation' in 1939, considered to be one of the most important excavation's made in British archaeological history. She lives in Chester, UK and is now 84 years old
WWII: ETO 351st BS, 100th BG, 8th AF ('Bloody Hundredth'). Flew 19 mission from February 25, 1945 (Munich) to April 19, 1945 (Oarnienburg). Also picking up French slave workers from Linz, Austria, after the war and flying them home
WWII: WWII Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Pilot; one of only 6 'Attagirls' still alive. Joined the ATA in 1943, flew 100s of ferry missions in Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster Bombers
American and former National Guard soldier who was a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
Author and former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy who was one of the first fully qualified female naval aviators to fly the F-14 Tomcat. Lohrenz has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and NPR, and gives nationwide lectures on leadership
Vince Lombardi was born on January 26, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Little Orphan Annie (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and Military Academy (1940)
Australian WWII veteran and a member of Semut 1, a group of undercover allied operatives lead by the eccentric English Major Tom Harrisson in Borneo in 1945. Now lives in Bayswater, West Australia with his wife Margery
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Kaneohe Bay, VP-12. Later served at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal in the famous 'Cactus Air Force' and Ãn the Battle of Midway
US WWII vet, born 1927. Training stateside in the 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) when the war ended. Sent with the occupying force to Germany, so the vets who fought there could come home. Used GI Bill to become a chiropractic doctor
WWII: Navy; gunner's mate aboard the USS Tisdale DE-33, Pacific. In the battles of Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa