Leslie Morshead

Leslie Morshead

male, deceased (1959)
Légion d'honneur recipient, German, Second Battle of El Alamein, Siege of Tobruk, Lieutenant General, Recipient of Virtuti Militari
Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED (September 18, 1889 – September 26, 1959) was an Australian soldier with a di...
Abbé Pierre

Abbé Pierre

male, deceased (2007)
Founder of non-governmental organizations, Légion d'honneur recipient, Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, poll, Abbés, Homelessness…Croix de guerre recipient
L'Abbé Pierre was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during the World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP). H...
Barney Danson

Barney Danson

male, 88 years old
plastics industry, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, second world war, Légion d'honneur recipient, Companion of the Order of Canada
Barnett Jerome (Barney) Danson, PC, CC, LL.D (born February 8 1921) is a former Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. Barney Danson was born to...
Athanase David

Athanase David

male, deceased (1953)
quebec mna, Terrebonne, Business Person, Stanley Cup champion, Légion d'honneur recipient, Quebec lawyer…legion of honor
Louis Athanase David was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman. Born in Montreal, Athanase David received a law degree from Université L...
Simon Fraser 15th Lord Lovat

Simon Fraser 15th Lord Lovat

male, deceased (1995)
Old Amplefordian, Order of Suvorov, Shinty player, Territorial Decoration, Légion d'honneur, British Military…Recipient of the Military Cross, Légion d'honneur recipient, Croix de guerre recipient
Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, DSO, MC, TD, Order of Suvorov (Soviet Union), Légion d'honneur (France), Croix de guerre (...
Jules Dumont D'Urville

Jules Dumont D'Urville

male, deceased (1842)
Légion d'honneur recipient, explorer, French, pacific, navy admiral, antarctica
Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer, who explored the south and western Pacific, Au...

Benoît Mandelbrot

male, 85 years old
Chaos theorist, fractal, geometry, fellow, emeritus, Légion d'honneur recipient…Wolf Prize in Physics recipient
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, PhD, (born November 20, 1924) is a Franco-American mathematician, best known as the "father of fractal geometry". Benoît Ma...
Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray

male, deceased (1992)
Visva-Bharati University alumni, Filmfare Awards winner, Akira Kurosawa Award winner, cannes, cannes film festival, film director…Bharat Ratna recipient, Légion d'honneur recipient, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award recipient
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker regarded as one of the greatest film directors of the twentieth century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then...
Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal

male, deceased (2005)
Honorary British knighthoods, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, architectural engineering, Galician, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Mauthausen…Légion d'honneur recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, (Buczacz, December 31, 1908 - Vienna, September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi...
Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn

male, 70 years old
cryptand, cryptands, supramolecular chemistry, Légion d'honneur recipient, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, French
Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987...