Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Ralph Abercromby |
Military |
7-Oct-1734 |
28-Mar-1801 |
British general |
Crispus Attucks |
Activist |
1723 |
5-Mar-1770 |
First man killed in the American Revolution |
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés |
Military |
15-Feb-1519 |
17-Sep-1574 |
Founder of St. Augustine, Florida |
William Baffin |
Explorer |
c. 1584 |
23-Jan-1622 |
Tried to find North-West Passage |
George Bascom |
Military |
c. 1837 |
21-Feb-1862 |
Launched Cochise on the warpath |
Boabdil |
Royalty |
c. 1459 |
1527 |
Last sultan of Granada |
Cesare Borgia |
Religion |
Sep-1476 |
12-Mar-1507 |
Cardinal of Valencia |
Brian Boru |
Royalty |
940 AD |
23-Apr-1014 |
High King of Ireland, 1002-14 |
Jim Bowie |
Military |
10-Apr-1796 |
6-Mar-1836 |
Knife fighter, Alamo combatant |
Edward Braddock |
Military |
c. 1695 |
13-Jul-1755 |
General in the French and Indian War |
Eduard Buchner |
Chemist |
20-May-1860 |
13-Aug-1917 |
Cell-free fermentation |
Robert Capa |
Photographer |
22-Oct-1913 |
25-May-1954 |
War photographer |
King Charles XII |
Royalty |
17-Jun-1682 |
30-Nov-1718 |
King of Sweden, 1697-1718 |
Cleon |
Politician |
? |
422 BC |
Opponent of Pericles |
Mangas Coloradas |
Military |
c. 1792 |
18-Jan-1863 |
Apache Chief and warrior |
Rachel Corrie |
Activist |
10-Apr-1979 |
16-Mar-2003 |
US activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer |
Critias |
Politician |
c. 460 BC |
c. 403 BC |
Athenian orator and poet |
George Armstrong Custer |
Military |
5-Dec-1839 |
25-Jun-1876 |
Battle of the Little Big Horn |
Richard Deane |
Military |
8-Jul-1610 |
1-Jun-1653 |
Signed Charles I's death warrant |
Decius |
Royalty |
201 AD |
251 AD |
Roman Emperor, 249-51 AD |
Duncan II |
Royalty |
? |
1094 |
King of Scotland, 1093-94 |
Buenaventura Durruti |
Anarchist |
14-Jul-1896 |
20-Nov-1936 |
Spanish anarchist, killed in Civil War |
Theodore Eicke |
Military |
17-Oct-1892 |
26-Feb-1943 |
Inspector of Concentration Camps |
Epaminondas |
Military |
c. 418 BC |
c. 362 BC |
Theban general, checked Sparta |
Bernard Fall |
Journalist |
19-Nov-1926 |
21-Feb-1967 |
Scholar of the Vietnam conflict |
Roland Freisler |
Government |
30-Oct-1893 |
3-Feb-1945 |
Headed the Reich Ministry of Justice |
Enrique Granados |
Composer |
27-Jul-1867 |
24-Mar-1916 |
Goyescas |
Cyrus the Great |
Royalty |
c. 576 BC |
Jul-529 BC |
King of Persia, conquered Babylonia |
Gustav Adolph the Great |
Royalty |
9-Dec-1594 |
6-Nov-1632 |
King of Sweden 1611-32 |
Julian Grenfell |
Poet |
30-Mar-1888 |
26-May-1915 |
Into Battle |
Frederick Griffith |
Biologist |
c. 1877 |
16-Apr-1941 |
Discovered the transforming principle |
Haakon I Adalsteinsfostre |
Royalty |
c. 920 AD |
961 AD |
King of Norway, 946-61 AD |
Hamilcar |
Military |
c. 270 BC |
c. 228 BC |
First Punic War |
John Hampden |
Politician |
1594 |
24-Jun-1643 |
English Parliamentarian |
Harald III |
Royalty |
1015 |
25-Sep-1066 |
King of Norway, 1046-66 |
King Harold II |
Royalty |
c. 1022 |
14-Oct-1066 |
King of England, 1066 |
Hasdrubal |
Military |
c. 245 BC |
207 BC |
Carthaginian general, son of Hannibal |
Frank Abney Hastings |
Military |
1794 |
1-Jun-1828 |
Fought in Greek Revolution |
A. P. Hill |
Military |
9-Nov-1825 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Confederate General |
Leslie Howard |
Actor |
3-Apr-1893 |
1-Jun-1943 |
Pygmalion |
Elbert Hubbard |
Author |
19-Jun-1856 |
7-May-1915 |
Founder of Roycroft Press |
T. E. Hulme |
Poet |
16-Sep-1883 |
28-Sep-1917 |
Modernist poet and critic |
Qusay Hussein |
Royalty |
17-May-1966 |
22-Jul-2003 |
Saddam Hussein's younger son |
Uday Hussein |
Royalty |
18-Jun-1964 |
22-Jul-2003 |
Saddam Hussein's barbarous eldest son |
Stonewall Jackson |
Military |
21-Jan-1824 |
10-May-1863 |
Robert E. Lee's "right arm" |
James IV |
Royalty |
17-Mar-1473 |
9-Sep-1513 |
King of Scotland, 1488-1513 |
James II |
Royalty |
16-Oct-1430 |
3-Aug-1460 |
King of Scotland, 1437-60 |
Albert Sidney Johnston |
Military |
3-Feb-1803 |
6-Apr-1862 |
Confederate General felled at Shiloh |
Julian the Apostate |
Royalty |
331 AD |
26-Jun-363 AD |
Roman Emperor, 361-63 AD |
Philip Kearny |
Military |
2-Jun-1815 |
1-Sep-1862 |
US Civil War general |
Joyce Kilmer |
Poet |
6-Dec-1886 |
30-Jul-1918 |
Trees |
Horatio Herbert Kitchener |
Military |
24-Jun-1850 |
5-Jun-1916 |
Field Marshal, Secretary of State for War |
Osama bin Laden |
Terrorist |
10-Mar-1957 |
1-May-2011 |
Head of al Qaeda terrorist organization |
John Laurens |
Military |
28-Oct-1754 |
27-Aug-1782 |
Military aide to George Washington |
Francis Ledwidge |
Poet |
19-Aug-1887 |
31-Jul-1917 |
Songs of the Fields |
Juan Ponce de León |
Explorer |
1460 |
1521 |
Sought the Fountain of Youth |
Macbeth |
Royalty |
c. 1005 |
15-Aug-1057 |
King of Scotland, 1040-57 |
Ferdinand Magellan |
Explorer |
1480 |
27-Apr-1521 |
Circumnavigated the globe |
José Martí |
Activist |
28-Jan-1853 |
19-May-1895 |
Cuban hero |
Maurice of Saxony |
Royalty |
21-Mar-1521 |
9-Jul-1553 |
Elector of Saxony, 1547-53 |
Maxentius |
Royalty |
c. 283 AD |
312 AD |
Roman Emperor, 306-12 |
Larry McDonald |
Politician |
1-Apr-1935 |
1-Sep-1983 |
Congressman from Georgia, 1975-83 |
Richard Montgomery |
Military |
2-Dec-1736 |
31-Dec-1775 |
Revolutionary general felled at Quebec |
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley |
Physicist |
23-Nov-1887 |
10-Aug-1915 |
Confirmed importance of atomic number |
H. H. Munro |
Novelist |
18-Dec-1870 |
14-Nov-1916 |
Reginald |
Lord Nelson |
Military |
29-Sep-1758 |
21-Oct-1805 |
Most celebrated British admiral |
Richard Neville |
Military |
22-Nov-1428 |
14-Apr-1471 |
Earl of Warwick |
Nicephorus I |
Royalty |
? |
26-Jul-811 AD |
Byzantine Emperor, 802-11 AD |
Olaf I Tryggvason |
Royalty |
969 AD |
1000 AD |
King of Norway, 995-1000 AD |
St. Oswald |
Royalty |
c. 605 AD |
5-Aug-642 AD |
King of Northumbria, 633-42 |
Wilfred Owen |
Poet |
18-Mar-1893 |
4-Nov-1918 |
Dulce Et Decorum Est |
Enver Pasha |
Government |
22-Nov-1881 |
4-Aug-1922 |
Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities |
Pelopidas |
Military |
? |
364 BC |
Theban statesman and general |
Sir Henry Percy |
Military |
20-Mar-1364 |
21-Jul-1403 |
Hotspur |
Philip the Arab |
Royalty |
? |
249 AD |
Roman Emperor, 244-49 AD |
Zebulon Pike |
Military |
5-Jan-1779 |
27-Apr-1813 |
Lent his name to Pike's Peak |
Leonidas Polk |
Military |
10-Apr-1806 |
14-Jun-1864 |
Confederate general |
Casimir Pulaski |
Military |
7-Mar-1745 |
11-Oct-1779 |
Polish General in the American Revolution |
Ernie Pyle |
Journalist |
3-Aug-1900 |
18-Apr-1945 |
Scripps-Howard war correspondent |
Muammar Qaddafi |
Head of State |
1942 |
20-Oct-2011 |
Dictator of Libya |
King Richard III |
Royalty |
2-Oct-1452 |
22-Aug-1485 |
King of England, 1483-85 |
King Richard the Lionheart |
Head of State |
8-Sep-1157 |
6-Apr-1199 |
King of England, 1189-99 |
Robert I |
Royalty |
c. 865 AD |
15-Jun-923 AD |
King of France, 922-23 |
John Rolfe |
Agriculturalist |
1585 |
22-Mar-1622 |
First Virginia tobacco baron, husband of Pocahontas |
Quentin Roosevelt |
Relative |
19-Nov-1897 |
14-Jul-1918 |
Theodore Roosevelt's son |
Jonas Savimbi |
Military |
3-Aug-1934 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Angolan UNITA rebel |
Sir Philip Sidney |
Author |
30-Nov-1554 |
17-Oct-1586 |
The Defence of Poesie |
Charles Ferguson Smith |
Military |
24-Apr-1807 |
25-Apr-1862 |
Union Army General, died after Shiloh |
Spartacus |
Military |
c. 110 BC |
71 BC |
Led slave uprising |
Jeb Stuart |
Military |
6-Feb-1833 |
12-May-1864 |
Confederate cavalry officer |
Thomas Stucley |
Military |
c. 1525 |
4-Aug-1578 |
English military adventurer |
Sten Sture the Younger |
Government |
1492 |
3-Feb-1520 |
Regent of Sweden, 1530-20 |
Tecumseh |
Royalty |
1768 |
5-Oct-1813 |
Shawnee Indian Chief |
Pat Tillman |
Military |
6-Nov-1976 |
22-Apr-2004 |
NFL player turned Army Ranger |
Vlad the Impaler |
Royalty |
Dec-1431 |
Dec-1476 |
Dracula, rather fancied impaling folk |
Manfred von Richthofen |
Military |
2-May-1892 |
21-Apr-1918 |
The Red Baron |
Joseph Warren |
Government |
11-Jun-1741 |
17-Jun-1775 |
American patriot killed at Bunker Hill |
Anton Webern |
Composer |
3-Dec-1883 |
15-Sep-1945 |
Atonal composer |
James Wolfe |
Military |
2-Jan-1727 |
13-Sep-1759 |
Hero of Quebec |
Archibald Yell |
Politician |
9-Aug-1797 |
23-Feb-1847 |
Congressman and Governor of Arkansas |
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi |
Terrorist |
20-Oct-1966 |
7-Jun-2006 |
Former top al Qaeda operative in Iraq |
Huldrych Zwingli |
Religion |
1-Jan-1484 |
11-Oct-1531 |
Swiss-Protestant Reformation |