HONOR

Founded in 1875 by Emperor Meiji, the Order of the Rising Sun is Japan's second most prestigious order. Until 2003 the order consisted solely of men.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Konrad Adenauer	Politician	5-Jan-1876	19-Apr-1967	Chancellor of West Germany, 1949-61
Momofuku Ando	Business	5-Mar-1910	5-Jan-2007	Inventor of instant noodle soup
Roger Baldwin	Activist	21-Jan-1884	26-Aug-1981	Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Maurice Béjart	Choreographer	1-Jan-1927	22-Nov-2007	Innovative ballet choreographer
Herbert C. Brown	Chemist	22-May-1912	19-Dec-2004	Discovered organoboranes
Leo Esaki	Physicist	12-Mar-1925		Electron tunneling
William E. Frenzel	Politician	31-Jul-1928		Congressman from Minnesota, 1971-91
Kenichi Fukui	Chemist	4-Oct-1918	9-Jan-1998	Frontier orbitals
Henry B. Jackson	Military	21-Jan-1855	14-Dec-1929	Radio telegraphy
Jigoro Kano	Sports Figure	28-Oct-1860	4-May-1938	Founder of Judo
Masatoshi Koshiba	Physicist	19-Sep-1926		Detected cosmic neutrinos
Tsung-Dao Lee	Physicist	25-Nov-1926		Violations of parity law
Curtis LeMay	Military	15-Nov-1906	1-Oct-1990	USAF General
Douglas MacArthur	Military	26-Jan-1880	5-Apr-1964	General of the Army
Mike Mansfield	Politician	16-Mar-1903	5-Oct-2001	US Senator from Montana, 1953-77
Thomas McInerney	Military	1937		Fox News military analyst
George A. Olah	Chemist	22-May-1927		Isolated carbonium ions
Józef Pilsudski	Military	5-Dec-1867	12-May-1935	Military dictator of Poland, 1926-35
Ilya Prigogine	Chemist	25-Jan-1917	28-May-2003	Theory of dissipative structures
U Aung San	Government	13-Feb-1915	19-Jul-1947	Secured independence from Britain for Burma
Jacob Schiff	Business	10-Jan-1847	25-Sep-1920	New York banker
Wendell M. Stanley	Chemist	16-Aug-1904	15-Jun-1971	First to crystallize a virus
Robert B. Woodward	Chemist	10-Apr-1917	8-Jul-1979	Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.

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