| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ethan Allen |
Military |
10-Jan-1739 |
12-Feb-1789 |
Fighter with the Green Mountain Boys |
| Joseph Alsop |
Journalist |
11-Oct-1910 |
28-Aug-1989 |
Matter of Fact |
| Robert Bárány |
Doctor |
22-Apr-1876 |
8-Apr-1936 |
Studied inner ear, equilibrium system |
| Anthony Barber |
Politician |
4-Jul-1920 |
16-Dec-2005 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1970-74 |
| Pope Benedict XVI |
Religion |
16-Apr-1927 |
|
Roman Catholic Pontiff |
| John Birch |
Religion |
28-May-1918 |
25-Aug-1945 |
Missionary to China killed during WW2 |
| Heinrich Böll |
Novelist |
21-Dec-1917 |
16-Jul-1985 |
The Train Was On Time |
| Walther Bothe |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1891 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Pioneer of nuclear spectroscopy |
| Charles G. Boyd |
Military |
15-Apr-1938 |
|
Retired General, US Air Force |
| Lloyd Bucher |
Military |
1-Sep-1927 |
28-Jan-2004 |
Commander of USS Pueblo |
| John Burgoyne |
Military |
1722 |
4-Jun-1792 |
Defeated at the Battle of Saratoga |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Photographer |
22-Aug-1908 |
2-Aug-2004 |
Renowned photographer, photojournalist |
| James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
| Maurice Chevalier |
Actor |
12-Sep-1888 |
1-Jan-1972 |
Love Me Tonight |
| Winston Churchill |
Head of State |
30-Nov-1874 |
24-Jan-1965 |
WWII Prime Minister of England |
| Melville Cooper |
Actor |
15-Oct-1896 |
31-Mar-1973 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| Rupert Davies |
Actor |
22-May-1916 |
22-Nov-1976 |
Inspector Maigret |
| Bud Day |
Activist |
24-Feb-1925 |
|
Former POW |
| John Demjanjuk |
Victim |
3-Apr-1920 |
|
Retired auto worker hounded for war crimes |
| Jeremiah Denton |
Military |
15-Jul-1924 |
|
US Senator from Alabama, 1981-87 |
| Otto Dix |
Painter |
2-Dec-1891 |
25-Jul-1969 |
Expressionist vividly depicted WWI |
| Karl Doenitz |
Military |
16-Sep-1891 |
2-Dec-1980 |
U-Boat admiral |
| Charles Durning |
Actor |
28-Feb-1923 |
|
The Muppet Movie |
| Denholm Elliott |
Actor |
31-May-1922 |
6-Oct-1992 |
A Room with a View |
| Arthur Franz |
Actor |
29-Feb-1920 |
17-Jun-2006 |
The Sniper |
| Roland Freisler |
Government |
30-Oct-1893 |
3-Feb-1945 |
Headed the Reich Ministry of Justice |
| Charles de Gaulle |
Head of State |
22-Nov-1890 |
9-Nov-1970 |
President of France 1958-69 |
| Hans-Dietrich Genscher |
Government |
21-Mar-1927 |
|
German Foreign Minister, 1974-92 |
| Geronimo |
Military |
16-Jun-1829 |
17-Feb-1909 |
The last Indian to surrender |
| Kurt Gerstein |
Military |
11-Aug-1905 |
25-Jul-1945 |
Holocaust collaborator and whistleblower |
| Hermann Goering |
Military |
12-Jan-1893 |
15-Oct-1946 |
Founder of the Gestapo |
| Günter Grass |
Author |
16-Oct-1927 |
|
German novelist, The Tin Drum |
| R. M. Hare |
Philosopher |
21-Mar-1919 |
29-Jan-2002 |
Moral Thinking |
| Heinrich Harrer |
Author |
6-Jul-1912 |
7-Jan-2006 |
Subject of biopic Seven Years in Tibet |
| Werner Heisenberg |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1901 |
1-Feb-1976 |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
| Rudolf Hess |
Government |
26-Apr-1894 |
17-Jul-1987 |
Deputy Fuhrer flew unauthorized to Scotland |
| Richmond Pearson Hobson |
Military |
17-Aug-1870 |
16-Mar-1937 |
Spanish-American War hero |
| Saddam Hussein |
Head of State |
28-Apr-1937 |
30-Dec-2006 |
Former despot, spider hole resident |
| Andrew Jackson |
Head of State |
15-Mar-1767 |
8-Jun-1845 |
7th US President, 1829-37 |
| Sam Johnson |
Politician |
11-Oct-1930 |
|
Congressman, Texas 3rd |
| Nicholas Katzenbach |
Government |
17-Jan-1922 |
|
US Attorney General, 1965-66 |
| Yahya Khan |
Head of State |
4-Apr-1917 |
10-Aug-1980 |
President of Pakistan, ordered Bengali genocide |
| Klaus Kinski |
Actor |
18-Oct-1926 |
23-Nov-1991 |
Nosferatu the Vampyre |
| Marquis de Lafayette |
Military |
6-Sep-1757 |
20-May-1834 |
French revolutionary in America |
| Henry Laurens |
Politician |
24-Feb-1724 |
8-Dec-1792 |
Captured negotiating treaty with Holland |
| Robert E. Lee |
Military |
19-Jan-1807 |
12-Oct-1870 |
Confederate General |
| Siegfried Lenz |
Author |
17-Mar-1926 |
|
Deutschstunde |
| Francis Lewis |
Politician |
21-Mar-1713 |
30-Dec-1802 |
Signatory to Declaration of Independence |
| Desmond Llewelyn |
Actor |
12-Sep-1914 |
19-Dec-1999 |
"Q" in James Bond films |
| Konrad Lorenz |
Zoologist |
7-Nov-1903 |
27-Feb-1989 |
Founder of modern ethology |
| Jessica Lynch |
Victim |
26-Apr-1983 |
|
PFC captured by Iraq, rescued |
| John McCain |
Politician |
29-Aug-1936 |
|
US Senator from Arizona |
| Lachlan McIntosh |
Military |
17-Mar-1725 |
20-Feb-1806 |
Killed Button Gwinnett in a duel |
| Josef Mengele |
Doctor |
16-Mar-1911 |
7-Feb-1979 |
The Angel of Death |
| Olivier Messiaen |
Composer |
10-Dec-1908 |
27-Apr-1992 |
Turangalîla-Symphonie |
| Marcel Minnaert |
Astronomer |
12-Feb-1893 |
26-Oct-1970 |
Solar spectrophotometry |
| François Mitterrand |
Head of State |
26-Oct-1916 |
8-Jan-1996 |
President of France, 1981-95 |
| Manuel Noriega |
Head of State |
11-Feb-1938 |
|
Former dictator sentenced to US prison |
| Ronald G. W. Norrish |
Chemist |
9-Nov-1897 |
7-Jun-1978 |
Studied fast chemical reactions |
| Friedrich Paulus |
Military |
23-Sep-1890 |
1-Feb-1957 |
Surrendered to Russians at Stalingrad |
| Pete Peterson |
Diplomat |
26-Jun-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Vietnam, 1997-2001 |
| Phaedo |
Philosopher |
c. 415 BC |
? |
Founded a school in Elis |
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
Government |
25-Feb-1746 |
16-Aug-1825 |
Not one cent for tribute |
| Donald Pleasence |
Actor |
5-Oct-1919 |
2-Feb-1995 |
The Great Escape |
| Pythagoras |
Mathematician |
c. 580 BC |
c. 500 BC |
Pythagorean Theorem |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1905 |
15-Apr-1980 |
Nausea, No Exit |
| Albert Schweitzer |
Activist |
14-Jan-1875 |
4-Sep-1965 |
Humanitarian and theologian |
| Ronald Searle |
Cartoonist |
3-Mar-1920 |
|
St. Trinian's |
| Sitting Bull |
Military |
c. 1831 |
15-Dec-1890 |
Warrior Chief of the Sioux |
| Paul-Henri Spaak |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1899 |
31-Jan-1972 |
Belgian Prime Minister, NATO chief |
| James Stockdale |
Military |
23-Dec-1923 |
5-Jul-2005 |
H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President |
| Orson Swindle |
Government |
8-Mar-1937 |
|
Federal Trade Commissioner, 1997-2005 |
| Josip Broz Tito |
Head of State |
7-May-1892 |
4-May-1980 |
Communist dictator of Yugoslavia |
| Laurens van der Post |
Author |
13-Dec-1906 |
15-Dec-1996 |
The Lost World of the Kalahari |
| Carl von Clausewitz |
Military |
1-Jun-1780 |
16-Nov-1831 |
On War |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| Jonathan M. Wainwright |
Military |
23-Aug-1883 |
2-Sep-1953 |
Commander of the Philippines |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosopher |
26-Apr-1889 |
29-Apr-1951 |
Destroyed metaphysics |
