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Shrapnel Injury

EVENT

Wounded (perhaps mortally) by bomb fragments or other explosion debris.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Guillaume Apollinaire
Poet
26-Aug-1880 9-Nov-1918 Alcools, Calligrammes
Boris Berezovsky
Business
23-Jan-1946 23-Mar-2013 Russian oligarch, Putin critic
Benazir Bhutto
Head of State
21-Jun-1953 27-Dec-2007 Former prime minister of Pakistan
Ed Bradley
Journalist
22-Jun-1941 9-Nov-2006 60 Minutes
Eduard Buchner
Chemist
20-May-1860 13-Aug-1917 Cell-free fermentation
Jack Buck
Sports Journalist
21-Aug-1924 18-Jun-2002 Voice of the Cardinals
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Chemist
31-Mar-1811 16-Aug-1899 Spectrum analysis, bunsen burner
Art Carney
Actor
4-Nov-1918 9-Nov-2003 Ed Norton on The Honeymooners
Maurice Chevalier
Actor
12-Sep-1888 1-Jan-1972 Love Me Tonight
Harry Crookshank
Politician
27-May-1893 17-Oct-1961 Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55
Gustaf Dalén
Inventor
30-Nov-1869 9-Dec-1937 Automatic sun valve
Brian Dennehy
Actor
9-Jul-1938   First Blood
Bob Dole
Politician
22-Jul-1923   US Senator from Kansas, 1969-96
Charles Durning
Actor
28-Feb-1923 24-Dec-2012 The Muppet Movie
Giuseppe Marco Fieschi
Assassin
1790 19-Feb-1836 Attempted assassin of Louis-Philippe
John Ford
Film Director
1-Feb-1894 31-Aug-1973 How Green Was My Valley
Günter Grass
Author
16-Oct-1927 13-Apr-2015 German novelist, The Tin Drum
Robert Graves
Poet
24-Jul-1895 7-Dec-1985 I, Claudius
Chuck Hagel
Politician
4-Oct-1946   US Secretary of Defense, 2013-15
F. A. Hayek
Economist
8-May-1899 23-Mar-1992 Austrian economist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
21-Jul-1899 2-Jul-1961 The Old Man And The Sea
Reinhard Heydrich
Military
7-Mar-1904 4-Jun-1942 Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
Walter Hieber
Chemist
18-Dec-1895 29-Nov-1976 Metal carbonyl chemistry
Mark W. Hofmann
Criminal
7-Dec-1954   Forger, murderer
Ralph Hopton
Military
1596 Sep-1652 Royalist commander, English Civil War
John Kerry
Politician
11-Dec-1943   US Secretary of State
Etheridge Knight
Poet
19-Apr-1931 10-Mar-1991 Poems from Prison
T. E. Lawrence
Author
16-Aug-1888 19-May-1935 Lawrence of Arabia
C. S. Lewis
Novelist
29-Nov-1898 22-Nov-1963 Chronicles of Narnia
Hugh Lofting
Novelist
14-Jun-1886 26-Sep-1947 The Story of Dr. Dolittle
John McCain
Politician
29-Aug-1936   US Senator from Arizona
Benito Mussolini
Head of State
29-Jul-1883 28-Apr-1945 Fascist Dictator of Italy
Mohammed Omar
Terrorist
1959   Head of the Taliban
William H. Parker
Government
21-Jun-1902 16-Jul-1966 Chief of LAPD, 1950-66
Sir Walter Raleigh
Explorer
c. 1552 29-Oct-1618 Favorite of Queen Elizabeth I
Charles Rangel
Politician
11-Jun-1930   Congressman, New York 15th
Erich Maria Remarque
Novelist
22-Jun-1898 25-Sep-1970 All Quiet on the Western Front
Dale Robertson
Actor
14-Jul-1923 27-Feb-2013 Tales of Wells Fargo
Rod Serling
Author
25-Dec-1924 28-Jun-1975 Creator of The Twilight Zone
Eric Shinseki
Military
28-Nov-1942   US Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2009-14
Sargent Shriver
Activist
9-Nov-1915 18-Jan-2011 First Director of the Peace Corps
John Steinbeck
Novelist
27-Feb-1902 20-Dec-1968 The Grapes of Wrath
Oliver Stone
Film Director
15-Sep-1946   JFK
Richard E. Taylor
Physicist
2-Nov-1929   Verified existence of quarks
Claus von Stauffenberg
Military
15-Nov-1907 20-Jul-1944 Tried to kill Hitler in 1944
Bob Woodruff
Journalist
18-Aug-1961   Co-Anchor, World News Tonight




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