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Order of the Rising Sun

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.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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