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465 famous people found
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Charles SURUGUE
Oldest French soldier to enlist in WWI
1839 - 1921 -
Alexander Haig Jr.
59th United States Secretary of State
1924 - 2010 -
Joseph DARNAND
French soldier, leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer
1897 - 1945 -
Manfred VON RICHTHOFEN
German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I
1892 - 1918 -
Erwin ROMMEL
German Field Marshal of World War II
1891 - 1944 -
Paul VON HINDENBURG
German field marshal, statesman, and politician
1847 - 1934 -
Honoré d'ESTIENNE d'ORVES
French Navy officer, reputed "first martyr of Free France" and one of the major heroes of the French Resistance
1901 - 1941 -
Roland GARROS
French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I
1888 - 1918 -
Chuck YEAGER
United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot
1923 - 2020 -
Grace HOPPER
American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
1906 - 1992 -
John Brown GORDON
American attorney, planter, and general in the Confederate States Army
1832 - 1904 -
Leo SHARP
American World War II veteran, world-renowned horticulturist, and drug courier for a branch of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel
1924 - 2016 -
Antonin BROCARD
French general
1885 - 1950 -
Ferdinand WALSIN-ESTERHAZY
Officer in the French Army
1847 - 1923 -
Claus VON STAUFFENBERG
German army officer, one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler
1907 - 1944 -
Henri Mathias BERTHELOT
French general during World War I
1861 - 1931 -
Gérard DE CATHELINEAU
French military officer
1921 - 1957 -
Joseph Simon GALLIENI
French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies
1849 - 1916 -
Charles NUNGESSER
French ace pilot and adventurer
1892 - 1927 -
Raoul DE BOISDEFFRE
French army officer
1839 - 1919