| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ralph Abercromby |
Military |
7-Oct-1734 |
28-Mar-1801 |
British general |
| Benedict Arnold |
Military |
14-Jan-1741 |
14-Jun-1801 |
Betrayed colonists to British |
| William Baffin |
Explorer |
c. 1584 |
23-Jan-1622 |
Tried to find North-West Passage |
| Julius W. Becton, Jr. |
Government |
29-Jun-1926 |
|
FEMA Director, 1985-89 |
| Paul Bocuse |
Chef |
11-Feb-1926 |
|
Bocuse d'Or, nouvelle cuisine |
| Daniel Boone |
Military |
22-Oct-1734 |
26-Sep-1820 |
Legendary frontiersman |
| Edward Boscawen |
Military |
19-Aug-1711 |
10-Jan-1761 |
British admiral, Seven Years' War |
| Georges Boulanger |
Military |
29-Apr-1837 |
30-Sep-1891 |
French general-turned-politician |
| Jim Bowie |
Military |
10-Apr-1796 |
6-Mar-1836 |
Knife fighter, Alamo combatant |
| Neville Brand |
Actor |
13-Aug-1920 |
16-Apr-1992 |
Birdman of Alcatraz |
| Don Carlos Buell |
Military |
23-Mar-1818 |
19-Nov-1898 |
Union Army General |
| Smedley Butler |
Military |
30-Jul-1881 |
21-Jun-1940 |
Exposed the 1933 coup plot |
| Evans F. Carlson |
Military |
26-Feb-1896 |
27-May-1947 |
Carlson's Raiders |
| Willis Carto |
Activist |
17-Jul-1926 |
26-Oct-2015 |
Founder of Liberty Lobby, IHR |
| Miguel de Cervantes |
Novelist |
29-Sep-1547 |
22-Apr-1616 |
Don Quixote |
| Maurice Chevalier |
Actor |
12-Sep-1888 |
1-Jan-1972 |
Love Me Tonight |
| Wesley Clark |
Military |
23-Dec-1944 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 |
| Mangas Coloradas |
Military |
c. 1792 |
18-Jan-1863 |
Apache Chief and warrior |
| George Armstrong Custer |
Military |
5-Dec-1839 |
25-Jun-1876 |
Battle of the Little Big Horn |
| Bud Day |
Activist |
24-Feb-1925 |
27-Jul-2013 |
Former POW |
| James Doohan |
Actor |
3-Mar-1920 |
20-Jul-2005 |
Scotty on Star Trek |
| Charles-François Dumouriez |
Military |
25-Jan-1739 |
14-Mar-1823 |
French general, intriguer |
| Jubal Early |
Military |
3-Nov-1816 |
2-Mar-1894 |
Confederate General |
| Hanns Eisler |
Composer |
6-Jul-1898 |
6-Sep-1962 |
German radical composer |
| Paul K. Feyerabend |
Philosopher |
13-Jan-1924 |
11-Feb-1994 |
Against Method |
| Horatio Gates |
Military |
26-Jul-1727 |
10-Apr-1806 |
Defeated General Burgoyne at Saratoga |
| John White Geary |
Politician |
30-Dec-1819 |
8-Feb-1873 |
Governor of Kansas and Pennsylvania |
| Ivor Gurney |
Poet |
28-Aug-1890 |
26-Dec-1937 |
War's Embers |
| Winfield Scott Hancock |
Military |
14-Feb-1824 |
9-Feb-1886 |
Union General, presidential candidate |
| Rutherford B. Hayes |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1822 |
17-Jan-1893 |
19th US President, 1877-81 |
| Ernest Hemingway |
Author |
21-Jul-1899 |
2-Jul-1961 |
The Old Man And The Sea |
| A. P. Hill |
Military |
9-Nov-1825 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Confederate General |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
Judge |
8-Mar-1841 |
6-Mar-1935 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1902-32 |
| Joseph Hooker |
Military |
13-Nov-1814 |
31-Oct-1879 |
Union Army General |
| Oliver O. Howard |
Military |
8-Nov-1830 |
26-Oct-1909 |
Headed the Freedmen's Bureau |
| Stonewall Jackson |
Military |
21-Jan-1824 |
10-May-1863 |
Robert E. Lee's "right arm" |
| Albert Sidney Johnston |
Military |
2-Feb-1803 |
6-Apr-1862 |
Confederate General felled at Shiloh |
| Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
Military |
3-Feb-1807 |
21-Mar-1891 |
Confederate General, surrendered to Sherman |
| Gaston Julia |
Mathematician |
3-Feb-1893 |
19-Mar-1978 |
Creator of the Julia Sets |
| Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov |
Inventor |
10-Nov-1919 |
23-Dec-2013 |
Inventor of Kalashnikov rifle |
| Philip Kearny |
Military |
2-Jun-1815 |
1-Sep-1862 |
US Civil War general |
| Laurence M. Keitt |
Politician |
4-Oct-1824 |
2-Jun-1864 |
Congressman from South Carolina, 1853-60 |
| Chris Kyle |
Military |
8-Apr-1974 |
2-Feb-2013 |
Subject of American Sniper |
| Pierre Charles L'Enfant |
Architect |
2-Aug-1754 |
14-Jun-1825 |
Designed Washington, DC |
| Marquis de Lafayette |
Military |
6-Sep-1757 |
20-May-1834 |
French revolutionary in America |
| Samuel W. T. Lanham |
Politician |
4-Jul-1846 |
19-Jul-1908 |
Governor of Texas, 1903-07 |
| John Laurens |
Military |
28-Oct-1754 |
27-Aug-1782 |
Military aide to George Washington |
| T. E. Lawrence |
Author |
16-Aug-1888 |
19-May-1935 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
| John Walker Lindh |
Criminal |
9-Feb-1981 |
|
The American Taliban |
| James Longstreet |
Military |
8-Jan-1821 |
2-Jan-1904 |
Confederate Army General |
| José Martí |
Activist |
28-Jan-1853 |
19-May-1895 |
Cuban hero |
| Robert H. Michel |
Politician |
2-Mar-1923 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1957-95 |
| Nelson A. Miles |
Military |
8-Aug-1839 |
15-May-1925 |
Army volunteer promoted to Commanding General |
| Roger Q. Mills |
Politician |
30-Mar-1832 |
2-Sep-1911 |
US Senator from Texas, 1892-99 |
| James Monroe |
Head of State |
28-Apr-1758 |
4-Jul-1831 |
5th President of the U.S. |
| Lord Nelson |
Military |
29-Sep-1758 |
21-Oct-1805 |
Most celebrated British admiral |
| Mohammed Omar |
Terrorist |
1959 |
|
Head of the Taliban |
| George Orwell |
Author |
25-Jun-1903 |
21-Jan-1950 |
1984 and Animal Farm |
| Nicolas-Charles Oudinot |
Military |
25-Apr-1767 |
13-Sep-1847 |
Napoleonic General |
| Enver Pasha |
Government |
22-Nov-1881 |
4-Aug-1922 |
Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities |
| Thomas Pinckney |
Politician |
23-Oct-1750 |
2-Nov-1828 |
Governor of South Carolina, 1787-89 |
| John Wesley Powell |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
| Casimir Pulaski |
Military |
7-Mar-1745 |
11-Oct-1779 |
Polish General in the American Revolution |
| Ernie Pyle |
Journalist |
3-Aug-1900 |
18-Apr-1945 |
Scripps-Howard war correspondent |
| Comte de Rochambeau |
Military |
1-Jul-1725 |
12-May-1807 |
French hero of American Revolution |
| François de la Rochefoucauld |
Author |
15-Sep-1613 |
16-Mar-1680 |
Maxims |
| Deborah Sampson |
Military |
17-Dec-1760 |
29-Apr-1827 |
Woman who fought in US Revolutionary War |
| Antonio López de Santa Anna |
Military |
21-Feb-1794 |
21-Jun-1876 |
Hero of Tampico |
| Jonas Savimbi |
Military |
3-Aug-1934 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Angolan UNITA rebel |
| Robert B. Sherman |
Songwriter |
19-Dec-1925 |
5-Mar-2012 |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| Jeb Stuart |
Military |
6-Feb-1833 |
12-May-1864 |
Confederate cavalry officer |
| Kurt Student |
Military |
12-May-1890 |
1-Jul-1978 |
Luftwaffe General |
| Sten Sture the Younger |
Government |
1492 |
3-Feb-1520 |
Regent of Sweden, 1530-20 |
| Thomas Sumter |
Military |
14-Aug-1734 |
1-Jun-1832 |
Revolutionary War general |
| David S. Terry |
Judge |
8-Mar-1823 |
14-Aug-1889 |
California Chief Justice, 1857-59 |
| Pat Tillman |
Military |
6-Nov-1976 |
22-Apr-2004 |
NFL player turned Army Ranger |
| Joseph Warren |
Government |
11-Jun-1741 |
17-Jun-1775 |
American patriot killed at Bunker Hill |
| James Wolfe |
Military |
2-Jan-1727 |
13-Sep-1759 |
Hero of Quebec |
| William Jenkins Worth |
Military |
1-Mar-1794 |
7-May-1849 |
Namesake of Fort Worth, TX |
