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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ralph Abercromby
Military
7-Oct-1734 28-Mar-1801 British general
Crispus Attucks
Activist
1723 5-Mar-1770 First man killed in the American Revolution
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Military
15-Feb-1519 17-Sep-1574 Founder of St. Augustine, Florida
William Baffin
Explorer
c. 1584 23-Jan-1622 Tried to find North-West Passage
George Bascom
Military
c. 1837 21-Feb-1862 Launched Cochise on the warpath
Boabdil
Royalty
c. 1459 1527 Last sultan of Granada
Cesare Borgia
Religion
Sep-1476 12-Mar-1507 Cardinal of Valencia
Brian Boru
Royalty
940 AD 23-Apr-1014 High King of Ireland, 1002-14
Jim Bowie
Military
10-Apr-1796 6-Mar-1836 Knife fighter, Alamo combatant
Edward Braddock
Military
c. 1695 13-Jul-1755 General in the French and Indian War
Eduard Buchner
Chemist
20-May-1860 13-Aug-1917 Cell-free fermentation
Robert Capa
Photographer
22-Oct-1913 25-May-1954 War photographer
King Charles XII
Royalty
17-Jun-1682 30-Nov-1718 King of Sweden, 1697-1718
Cleon
Politician
? 422 BC Opponent of Pericles
Mangas Coloradas
Military
c. 1792 18-Jan-1863 Apache Chief and warrior
Rachel Corrie
Activist
10-Apr-1979 16-Mar-2003 US activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer
Critias
Politician
c. 460 BC c. 403 BC Athenian orator and poet
George Armstrong Custer
Military
5-Dec-1839 25-Jun-1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn
Richard Deane
Military
8-Jul-1610 1-Jun-1653 Signed Charles I's death warrant
Decius
Royalty
201 AD 251 AD Roman Emperor, 249-51 AD
Duncan II
Royalty
? 1094 King of Scotland, 1093-94
Buenaventura Durruti
Anarchist
14-Jul-1896 20-Nov-1936 Spanish anarchist, killed in Civil War
Theodore Eicke
Military
17-Oct-1892 26-Feb-1943 Inspector of Concentration Camps
Epaminondas
Military
c. 418 BC c. 362 BC Theban general, checked Sparta
Bernard Fall
Journalist
19-Nov-1926 21-Feb-1967 Scholar of the Vietnam conflict
Roland Freisler
Government
30-Oct-1893 3-Feb-1945 Headed the Reich Ministry of Justice
Enrique Granados
Composer
27-Jul-1867 24-Mar-1916 Goyescas
Cyrus the Great
Royalty
c. 576 BC Jul-529 BC King of Persia, conquered Babylonia
Gustav Adolph the Great
Royalty
9-Dec-1594 6-Nov-1632 King of Sweden 1611-32
Julian Grenfell
Poet
30-Mar-1888 26-May-1915 Into Battle
Frederick Griffith
Biologist
c. 1877 16-Apr-1941 Discovered the transforming principle
Haakon I Adalsteinsfostre
Royalty
c. 920 AD 961 AD King of Norway, 946-61 AD
Hamilcar
Military
c. 270 BC c. 228 BC First Punic War
John Hampden
Politician
1594 24-Jun-1643 English Parliamentarian
Harald III
Royalty
1015 25-Sep-1066 King of Norway, 1046-66
King Harold II
Royalty
c. 1022 14-Oct-1066 King of England, 1066
Hasdrubal
Military
c. 245 BC 207 BC Carthaginian general, son of Hannibal
Frank Abney Hastings
Military
1794 1-Jun-1828 Fought in Greek Revolution
A. P. Hill
Military
9-Nov-1825 2-Apr-1865 Confederate General
Leslie Howard
Actor
3-Apr-1893 1-Jun-1943 Pygmalion
Elbert Hubbard
Author
19-Jun-1856 7-May-1915 Founder of Roycroft Press
T. E. Hulme
Poet
16-Sep-1883 28-Sep-1917 Modernist poet and critic
Qusay Hussein
Royalty
17-May-1966 22-Jul-2003 Saddam Hussein's younger son
Uday Hussein
Royalty
18-Jun-1964 22-Jul-2003 Saddam Hussein's barbarous eldest son
Stonewall Jackson
Military
21-Jan-1824 10-May-1863 Robert E. Lee's "right arm"
James IV
Royalty
17-Mar-1473 9-Sep-1513 King of Scotland, 1488-1513
James II
Royalty
16-Oct-1430 3-Aug-1460 King of Scotland, 1437-60
Albert Sidney Johnston
Military
3-Feb-1803 6-Apr-1862 Confederate General felled at Shiloh
Julian the Apostate
Royalty
331 AD 26-Jun-363 AD Roman Emperor, 361-63 AD
Philip Kearny
Military
2-Jun-1815 1-Sep-1862 US Civil War general
Joyce Kilmer
Poet
6-Dec-1886 30-Jul-1918 Trees
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Military
24-Jun-1850 5-Jun-1916 Field Marshal, Secretary of State for War
Osama bin Laden
Terrorist
10-Mar-1957 1-May-2011 Head of al Qaeda terrorist organization
John Laurens
Military
28-Oct-1754 27-Aug-1782 Military aide to George Washington
Francis Ledwidge
Poet
19-Aug-1887 31-Jul-1917 Songs of the Fields
Juan Ponce de León
Explorer
1460 1521 Sought the Fountain of Youth
Macbeth
Royalty
c. 1005 15-Aug-1057 King of Scotland, 1040-57
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer
1480 27-Apr-1521 Circumnavigated the globe
José Martí
Activist
28-Jan-1853 19-May-1895 Cuban hero
Maurice of Saxony
Royalty
21-Mar-1521 9-Jul-1553 Elector of Saxony, 1547-53
Maxentius
Royalty
c. 283 AD 312 AD Roman Emperor, 306-12
Larry McDonald
Politician
1-Apr-1935 1-Sep-1983 Congressman from Georgia, 1975-83
Richard Montgomery
Military
2-Dec-1736 31-Dec-1775 Revolutionary general felled at Quebec
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
Physicist
23-Nov-1887 10-Aug-1915 Confirmed importance of atomic number
H. H. Munro
Novelist
18-Dec-1870 14-Nov-1916 Reginald
Lord Nelson
Military
29-Sep-1758 21-Oct-1805 Most celebrated British admiral
Richard Neville
Military
22-Nov-1428 14-Apr-1471 Earl of Warwick
Nicephorus I
Royalty
? 26-Jul-811 AD Byzantine Emperor, 802-11 AD
Olaf I Tryggvason
Royalty
969 AD 1000 AD King of Norway, 995-1000 AD
St. Oswald
Royalty
c. 605 AD 5-Aug-642 AD King of Northumbria, 633-42
Wilfred Owen
Poet
18-Mar-1893 4-Nov-1918 Dulce Et Decorum Est
Enver Pasha
Government
22-Nov-1881 4-Aug-1922 Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities
Pelopidas
Military
? 364 BC Theban statesman and general
Sir Henry Percy
Military
20-Mar-1364 21-Jul-1403 Hotspur
Philip the Arab
Royalty
? 249 AD Roman Emperor, 244-49 AD
Zebulon Pike
Military
5-Jan-1779 27-Apr-1813 Lent his name to Pike's Peak
Leonidas Polk
Military
10-Apr-1806 14-Jun-1864 Confederate general
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
Muammar Qaddafi
Head of State
1942 20-Oct-2011 Dictator of Libya
King Richard III
Royalty
2-Oct-1452 22-Aug-1485 King of England, 1483-85
King Richard the Lionheart
Head of State
8-Sep-1157 6-Apr-1199 King of England, 1189-99
Robert I
Royalty
c. 865 AD 15-Jun-923 AD King of France, 922-23
John Rolfe
Agriculturalist
1585 22-Mar-1622 First Virginia tobacco baron, husband of Pocahontas
Quentin Roosevelt
Relative
19-Nov-1897 14-Jul-1918 Theodore Roosevelt's son
Jonas Savimbi
Military
3-Aug-1934 22-Feb-2002 Angolan UNITA rebel
Sir Philip Sidney
Author
30-Nov-1554 17-Oct-1586 The Defence of Poesie
Charles Ferguson Smith
Military
24-Apr-1807 25-Apr-1862 Union Army General, died after Shiloh
Spartacus
Military
c. 110 BC 71 BC Led slave uprising
Jeb Stuart
Military
6-Feb-1833 12-May-1864 Confederate cavalry officer
Thomas Stucley
Military
c. 1525 4-Aug-1578 English military adventurer
Sten Sture the Younger
Government
1492 3-Feb-1520 Regent of Sweden, 1530-20
Tecumseh
Royalty
1768 5-Oct-1813 Shawnee Indian Chief
Pat Tillman
Military
6-Nov-1976 22-Apr-2004 NFL player turned Army Ranger
Vlad the Impaler
Royalty
Dec-1431 Dec-1476 Dracula, rather fancied impaling folk
Manfred von Richthofen
Military
2-May-1892 21-Apr-1918 The Red Baron
Joseph Warren
Government
11-Jun-1741 17-Jun-1775 American patriot killed at Bunker Hill
Anton Webern
Composer
3-Dec-1883 15-Sep-1945 Atonal composer
James Wolfe
Military
2-Jan-1727 13-Sep-1759 Hero of Quebec
Archibald Yell
Politician
9-Aug-1797 23-Feb-1847 Congressman and Governor of Arkansas
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Terrorist
20-Oct-1966 7-Jun-2006 Former top al Qaeda operative in Iraq
Huldrych Zwingli
Religion
1-Jan-1484 11-Oct-1531 Swiss-Protestant Reformation



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