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Shrapnel Injury
EVENT
Wounded (perhaps mortally) by bomb fragments or other explosion debris.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
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First Blood |
| Bob Dole |
Politician |
22-Jul-1923 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Forger, murderer |
| Ralph Hopton |
Military |
1596 |
Sep-1652 |
Royalist commander, English Civil War |
| John Kerry |
Politician |
11-Dec-1943 |
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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 |
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US Senator from Arizona |
| Benito Mussolini |
Head of State |
29-Jul-1883 |
28-Apr-1945 |
Fascist Dictator of Italy |
| Mohammed Omar |
Terrorist |
1959 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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JFK |
| Richard E. Taylor |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1929 |
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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 |
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Co-Anchor, World News Tonight |
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