| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Follen Adams |
Poet |
21-Apr-1842 |
8-Mar-1918 |
Leedle Yawcob Strauss |
| 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 |
| Ion Antonescu |
Head of State |
15-Jun-1882 |
1-Jun-1946 |
Pro-Nazi dictator of Romania |
| J. G. Ballard |
Author |
18-Nov-1930 |
19-Apr-2009 |
Empire of the Sun, Crash |
| 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 |
|
Pope Emeritus |
| Joseph Beuys |
Artist |
12-May-1921 |
23-Jan-1986 |
German conceptual artist |
| John Birch |
Religion |
28-May-1918 |
25-Aug-1945 |
Missionary to China killed during WW2 |
| Boabdil |
Royalty |
c. 1459 |
1527 |
Last sultan of Granada |
| Heinrich Böll |
Novelist |
21-Dec-1917 |
16-Jul-1985 |
The Train Was On Time |
| Derek Bond |
Actor |
26-Jan-1919 |
15-Oct-2006 |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| Walther Bothe |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1891 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Coincidence method |
| Robert O. Bowen |
Novelist |
7-May-1920 |
9-Jun-2003 |
The Weight of the Cross |
| Charles G. Boyd |
Military |
15-Apr-1938 |
|
Retired General, US Air Force |
| Pappy Boyington |
Military |
4-Dec-1912 |
11-Jan-1988 |
World War II flying ace |
| Fernand Braudel |
Historian |
24-Aug-1902 |
27-Nov-1985 |
La méditerranée |
| 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 |
| King Charles I |
Royalty |
19-Nov-1600 |
30-Jan-1649 |
King of England, Scotland, Ireland 1625-49 |
| 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 |
| George Rogers Clark |
Military |
19-Nov-1752 |
13-Feb-1818 |
Kentucky frontier military leader |
| Cochise |
Military |
c. 1810 |
8-Jun-1874 |
Native American warrior |
| Mangas Coloradas |
Military |
c. 1792 |
18-Jan-1863 |
Apache Chief and warrior |
| 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 |
27-Jul-2013 |
Former POW |
| Charles de Gaulle |
Head of State |
22-Nov-1890 |
9-Nov-1970 |
President of France, 1958-69 |
| Hans G. Dehmelt |
Physicist |
9-Sep-1922 |
|
Co-Inventor of the ion trap |
| John Demjanjuk |
Criminal |
3-Apr-1920 |
17-Mar-2012 |
Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past |
| Jeremiah Denton |
Military |
15-Jul-1924 |
28-Mar-2014 |
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-François Dumouriez |
Military |
25-Jan-1739 |
14-Mar-1823 |
French general, intriguer |
| Charles Durning |
Actor |
28-Feb-1923 |
24-Dec-2012 |
The Muppet Movie |
| Denholm Elliott |
Actor |
31-May-1922 |
6-Oct-1992 |
A Room with a View |
| Ernst Otto Fischer |
Chemist |
10-Nov-1918 |
23-Jul-2007 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| Fritz Fischer |
Historian |
5-Mar-1908 |
1-Dec-1999 |
Blamed Germany for World War I |
| Werner Forssmann |
Doctor |
29-Aug-1904 |
2-Jun-1979 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Erich Gimpel |
Spy |
25-Mar-1910 |
3-Sep-2010 |
Agent 146 |
| Hermann Goering |
Military |
12-Jan-1893 |
15-Oct-1946 |
Founder of the Gestapo |
| Michael Goodliffe |
Actor |
1-Oct-1914 |
20-Mar-1976 |
A Night to Remember |
| Alexander Granach |
Actor |
18-Apr-1893 |
14-Mar-1945 |
Nosferatu |
| Günter Grass |
Author |
16-Oct-1927 |
13-Apr-2015 |
German novelist, The Tin Drum |
| Otto Hahn |
Chemist |
8-Mar-1879 |
28-Jul-1968 |
Demonstrated fission |
| 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 |
| Odd Hassel |
Chemist |
17-May-1897 |
11-May-1981 |
Conformational analysis |
| Derick Heathcoat-Amory |
Politician |
26-Dec-1899 |
20-Jan-1981 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1958-60 |
| Werner Heisenberg |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1901 |
1-Feb-1976 |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
| Percy Herbert |
Actor |
31-Jul-1920 |
6-Dec-1992 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 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 |
President of Iraq, 1979-2003 |
| Robert G. Ingersoll |
Author |
11-Aug-1833 |
21-Jul-1899 |
Orator, politician, agnostic |
| Prentiss Ingraham |
Novelist |
22-Dec-1843 |
16-Aug-1904 |
Dime novelist wrote 600 Old West novels |
| Andrew Jackson |
Head of State |
15-Mar-1767 |
8-Jun-1845 |
7th US President, 1829-37 |
| Frank James |
Criminal |
10-Jan-1843 |
18-Feb-1915 |
Bank robber, with James Gang |
| Leander Starr Jameson |
Head of State |
9-Feb-1853 |
26-Nov-1917 |
Last Prime Minister of Capetown |
| Joan of Arc |
Religion |
6-Jan-1412 |
30-May-1431 |
Maid of Orleans, burned at the stake |
| Sam Johnson |
Politician |
11-Oct-1930 |
|
Congressman, Texas 3rd |
| Nicholas Katzenbach |
Government |
17-Jan-1922 |
8-May-2012 |
US Attorney General, 1965-66 |
| Ed Kemmer |
Actor |
29-Oct-1921 |
9-Nov-2004 |
Cmdr. Buzz Corry on Space Patrol |
| 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 |
| Hans Kohn |
Historian |
15-Sep-1891 |
16-Mar-1971 |
The Idea of Nationalism |
| 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 |
| Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
Author |
23-Dec-1896 |
23-Jul-1957 |
Il gattopardo |
| Max von Laue |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1879 |
23-Apr-1960 |
X-ray crystallography |
| 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 |
Novelist |
17-Mar-1926 |
7-Oct-2014 |
Deutschstunde |
| Leopold III |
Royalty |
3-Nov-1901 |
25-Sep-1983 |
Abdicated King of Belgium |
| Robert W. Levering |
Politician |
3-Oct-1914 |
11-Aug-1989 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1959-61 |
| Francis Lewis |
Politician |
21-Mar-1713 |
30-Dec-1802 |
Signatory to Declaration of Independence |
| Eli Lilly |
Business |
8-Jul-1838 |
6-Jun-1898 |
Founder of Eli Lilly & Co. |
| 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 |
| Ferdinand Marcos |
Head of State |
11-Sep-1917 |
28-Sep-1989 |
Disgraced Philippine dictator |
| 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 |
| Willy Messerschmitt |
Engineer |
26-Jun-1898 |
17-Sep-1978 |
Designer of Nazi fighter planes |
| 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 |
| Jose Maria Morelos |
Military |
30-Sep-1765 |
22-Dec-1815 |
Mexico's war for independence |
| Fred Morrison |
Business |
23-Jan-1920 |
9-Feb-2010 |
Invented the frisbee |
| Manuel Noriega |
Head of State |
11-Feb-1938 |
|
Panamanian dictator |
| Ronald G. W. Norrish |
Chemist |
9-Nov-1897 |
7-Jun-1978 |
Rapid chemical processes |
| Osceola |
Military |
c. 1804 |
30-Jan-1838 |
Seminole Indian chief |
| Paul Paray |
Conductor |
24-May-1886 |
10-Oct-1979 |
Music Director, Detroit Symphony, 1951-62 |
| 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 |
| William Quantrill |
Criminal |
31-Jul-1837 |
6-Jun-1865 |
Quantrill's Raiders |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1905 |
15-Apr-1980 |
Nausea, No Exit |
| Pierre Schoendoerffer |
Film Director |
5-May-1928 |
14-Mar-2012 |
The Anderson Platoon |
| Albert Schweitzer |
Activist |
14-Jan-1875 |
4-Sep-1965 |
Humanitarian and theologian |
| Ronald Searle |
Cartoonist |
3-Mar-1920 |
30-Dec-2011 |
St. Trinian's |
| Claude Simon |
Novelist |
10-Oct-1913 |
6-Jul-2005 |
Le Tricheur |
| Sitting Bull |
Military |
c. 1831 |
15-Dec-1890 |
Warrior Chief of the Sioux |
| Paul-Henri Spaak |
Head of State |
25-Jan-1899 |
31-Jul-1972 |
Belgian Prime Minister, NATO chief |
| Patrick Steptoe |
Doctor |
9-Jun-1913 |
21-Mar-1988 |
In vitro fertilization |
| James Stockdale |
Military |
23-Dec-1923 |
5-Jul-2005 |
H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President |
| George Stoneman |
Military |
8-Aug-1822 |
5-Sep-1894 |
Civil War general, California governor |
| John Sullivan |
Military |
18-Feb-1740 |
23-Jan-1795 |
Revolutionary War general |
| Dolph Sweet |
Actor |
18-Jul-1920 |
8-May-1985 |
Chief Carl Kanisky on Gimme a Break! |
| Orson Swindle |
Government |
8-Mar-1937 |
|
Federal Trade Commissioner, 1997-2005 |
| Nikolaas Tinbergen |
Zoologist |
15-Apr-1907 |
21-Dec-1988 |
Grand Master of Ethology |
| Josip Broz Tito |
Head of State |
7-May-1892 |
4-May-1980 |
Communist dictator of Yugoslavia |
| Valerian |
Royalty |
c. 190 AD |
260 AD |
Roman Emperor, 253-60 AD |
| Laurens van der Post |
Author |
13-Dec-1906 |
15-Dec-1996 |
The Lost World of the Kalahari |
| Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher |
Military |
16-Dec-1742 |
12-Sep-1819 |
Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo |
| 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 |
| Mary Edwards Walker |
Doctor |
26-Nov-1832 |
21-Feb-1919 |
First female US Army surgeon |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosopher |
26-Apr-1889 |
29-Apr-1951 |
Destroyed metaphysics |
| Georg Wittig |
Chemist |
16-Jun-1897 |
26-Aug-1987 |
Wittig Reaction |
| Peter Wyngarde |
Actor |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Jason King |
