- Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history. - James Dean
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, "Rebel Without a Cause", in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in "East of Eden", and as the surly, racist farmer Jett Rink in "Giant". - Gary Gordon
Master Sgt. Gary Ivan Gordon (August 30, 1960-October 3, 1993) is a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. At the time of his death, he was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army's special operations unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1SFOD-D), or "Delta Force." He earned the Medal of Honor for actions he performed during the Battle of Mogadishu in October 1993. - Randy Shughart
Sgt. First Class Randall 'Randy' David Shughart (August 13, 1958-October 3, 1993) is a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. At the time of his death, he was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army's special operations unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1SFOD-D), or "Delta Force." He earned the Medal of Honor for actions he performed during the Battle of Mogadishu in October 1993. - Baldomero Lopez
Baldomero Lopez was a First Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for smothering a hand grenade with his own body during the Inchon Landing, on September 15 1950. Baldomero Lopez was born in Tampa Bay, Florida. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, and upon graduating June 6, 1947, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He attended The Basic School at Quantico, Virginia, … - Isaac C. Kidd
Isaac Campbell Kidd (March 26, 1884 - December 7, 1941) was an American Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who was killed on the bridge of the USS "Arizona" during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was the father of Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr.. He was a posthumous recipient of his nation's highest military honor - the Medal of Honor. - Walter Scott
Walter "Wacka" or "Wat" Scott was a former Australian rules footballer in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in the early 20th century. Scott was a high marking defender who had a large influence during a very successful part of the Norwood Football Club's history. Playing his early football in the Adelaide Hills, in 1920 Scott was lured to play in Adelaide as a result of his employment. - Shelby M. Jackson
Shelby M. Jackson (November 20, 1903-- January 1972) was a Democratic superintendent of public education in Louisiana who served from 1948-1964. In the early 1960s, he tried in vain to block federally-authorized school desegregation. Jackson was posthumously honored in 1994, by the naming of the "Shelby M. Jackson Memorial Campus" of Louisiana Technical College in Ferriday in his native Concordia Parish. - Paul Ray Smith
Paul Ray Smith (September 24, 1969-April 4, 2003) was a United States Army Sergeant First Class who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Operation Iraqi Freedom while serving with B Company, 11th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, Iraq. He was also the first recipient of the Medal of Honor Flag. - Gilbert du du Motier marquis de La Fayette
Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, initially the Marquis de La Fayette (September 6, 1757–May 20, 1834) was a onetime French aristocrat and military officer who participated in both the American and French revolutions. In 2002, he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; one of only six persons so honored. He permanently renounced the title "Marquis" before the French National Assembly in June, … - Roy M. Wheat
Roy Mitchell Wheat (b. July 24 1947, Moselle, Mississippi - d. 1967, Vietnam) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in August 1967. Roy Wheat attended public schools in Ellisville, Mississippi; leaving high school in 1965, after two years. In September 1966, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at Jackson, Mississippi. Wheat then reported to Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina. - Vladislav Volkov
Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Владислав Николаевич Волков; born November 23, 1935, Moscow - June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. He was a member of the second crew to die during a space flight on Soyuz 11. After a normal re-entry, the capsule was opened and the crew was found dead. - Addison Baker
Lieutenant Colonel Addison Earl Baker was commander of the 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) in the U.S. Army Air Forces who led the group on the low-altitude Allied bombing mission of oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania, Operation Tidal Wave. On August 1, 1943, the 93rd Bomb Group, one of three from the 8th Air Force sent to the 9th Air Force especially for this mission, took to the air at Benghazi, Libya. Piloting "Hell's Wench", a B-24 Liberator (Serial 42-40994), … - Edward Mannock
Major Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock, VC, DSO and Two Bars, MC and Bar (24 May, 1887 - 26 July, 1918) was a British First World War flying ace and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross. Mannock was regarded as one of the greatest fighters and patrol leaders of WWI, though he was not as well known by the public as the likes of Manfred von Richthofen or Albert Ball. - Herbert A. Littleton
Private First Class Herbert A. Littleton (1930-1951) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing his life to save his comrades during the Korean War. Littleton was born on 1 July 1930, in Mena, Arkansas. His family then lived in Black Hawk, South Dakota. He attended high school in Sturgis, South Dakota, where he played basketball and football. He was employed by Electrical Appliance Corporation, Rapid City, South Dakota, … - Bruce van Voorhis
Bruce Avery Van Voorhis (29 January 1908 - 6 July 1943) was a United States Navy aviator who was shot down in the Pacific theater during World War II. For his heroic action on July 6 1943, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. - Douglas E. Dickey
Private First Class Douglas Eugene Dickey (1946-1967) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during Operation Beacon Hill 1, on 26 March 1967, while serving as a rifleman with Company C, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade, 3nd Marine Division, in the Republic of Vietnam. Douglas Dickey was born on 24 December 1946 in Greenville, Ohio. - John Painter
John Painter (Tennessee, September 20, 1888 - March 1, 2001) was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran, as a result of the USA's SSA supercentenarian study. Painter was also the last surviving veteran of the First World War to be born in the 1880s. Only recently he was also proclaimed to have been the world's oldest man at the time. The June 1900 Census listed him as born in September 1888, … - Vasily Degtyaryov
Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov (January 2, 1880, Tula - January 16, 1949, Moscow) was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1940), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1940, he received the second such award in the history just two weeks later than Joseph Stalin himself). He became a CPSU member in 1941. Vasily Degtyaryov was the one to head the first Soviet firearms design bureau. - Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya (September 13, 1923 in the village of Osino-Gay, Gavrilovsky District, Tambov Oblast - November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). - Robert R. Scott
Robert R. Scott was born in Massillon, Ohio, on 13 July 1915 and enlisted in the United States Navy on 18 April 1938. Machinist's Mate First Class Scott was assigned to USS "California" (BB-44) when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The compartment containing the air compressor to which Scott was assigned as his battle station was flooded as a result of a torpedo hit. The remainder of the personnel evacuated the space, but Scott refused to leave, … - Mike Pondsmith
Michael A. "Maximum Mike" Pondsmith is a roleplaying game and video game designer. He is best known for his work with R. Talsorian Games and more recently with Microsoft in their Xbox division. In 2006 he was inducted into the Origins Awards Hall of Fame, along with Jolly R. Blackburn, Rodger MacGowan, Dennis Mize (posthumously), Aaron Allston, and the game Star Fleet Battles. He has a wife, Lisa, and a son, Cody. - Andre Lucas
Lieutenant Colonel Andre Cavaro Lucas (born October 2, 1930 - died July 23, 1970) was killed in action on while serving as the commanding officer, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, United States Army, at Fire Support Base Ripcord, Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam. He was born in Washington D.C. and was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, class of 1954, … - James A. Graham
Captain James Albert Graham (1940-1967) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the highest U.S military honor - the Medal of Honor for his heroism and sacrifice of life in June 1967, during the Vietnam War. James Albert Graham was born on 25 August 1940, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended to high school in Brandywine, Maryland. - Kei Tomiyama
"', born "', was a veteran seiyuu born on October 31, 1938 in Manchukuo. Tomiyama died of pancreatic cancer on September 25, 1995. At the time of his death he was represented by Production Baobab. In 2007 he was posthumously awarded a Special Achievement Award at the first Seiyū Awards. - Jose F. Valdez
Private First Class Jose F. Valdez (January 3, 1925-February 17, 1945) was a United States Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor - the United States' highest military decoration for his actions near Rosenkrantz, France during World War II. - James I. Poynter
James Irsley Poynter (1 December 1916- 4 November 1950) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decoration - the Medal of Honor - for his action on 4 November 1950, in which he was killed while he singled handedly eliminated three enemy machine gun crews. He was the eleventh Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Korea. Poynter was a Marine veteran of World War II and father of six children. - Henry A. Courtney Jr.
Henry Alexius Courtney, Jr. (6 January 1916 - 15 May 1945) was an officer of the United States Marine Corps Reserve during World War II, and a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. Courtney was born 6 January 1916, at Duluth, Minnesota. Before entering the service, he had been admitted to the bar in Minnesota and Illinois, having received his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his doctor's degree from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. - Carleton B. Hutchins
Carleton Barmore Hutchins (1904-1938) was a U.S. Naval aviator who lost his life in a mid-air collision in 1938. Mortally injured, he was able to remain at the controls and allow his surviving crew to parachute to safety. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Hutchins was born in Albany, New York, 12 September 1904 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1926. After serving in battleship "Pennsylvania" (BB-38) until 1928, … - Larry W. Maysey
Sergeant Larry Wayne Maysey was a United States Air Force Pararescueman who was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross, the Air Force's second-highest decoration (after the Medal of Honor). On 8 November 1967 two HH-3E Jolly Green Giants were launched on a night mission to extract five survivors of a Special Forces reconnaissance team. The site was known to be hot, surrounded by a well-disciplined, crack North Vietnamese Army (NVA) battalion. - Thomas E. Creek
Thomas E. Creek (1950-1969) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during February 1969 in Vietnam. Creek was born on 7 April 1950, in Joplin, Missouri. He grew up in Amarillo, Texas, and attended Forest Hill Elementary School, Horace Mann Jr. High School, and Palo Duro High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on 16 January 1968. He completed recruit training with the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, … - Charles L. Thomas
Charles Leroy Thomas (17 April 1920-15 February 1980) was United States Army officer who was awarded the awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II as a first lieutenant in Company C, 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Towed). In 1997, Major Thomas was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, 50 years after he retired from the Army. The 614th was attached to the 103rd Infantry Division for much of its time in combat. Lt. - John D. New
Private First Class John Dury New (1924-1944) was a United States Marine who for his gallantry in action at the cost of his life on Peleliu on 25 September 1944, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. John D. New was born on 12 August 1924 in Mobile, Alabama, and attended St. Joseph's Parochial School and the public schools of that city. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on 8 December 1941, the first Mobile man to enlist after Pearl Harbor. - Darrell R. Lindsey
Darrell Robins Lindsey was a bomber pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. Lindsey was born in Jefferson, Iowa, to Jesse Lyle and Grave Alice Lindsey. After attending Buena Vista University from 1937 to 1941, he enlisted as an aviation cadet at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, January 16, 1942. He trained at Visalia, Lemoore, and Victorville Fields, California, … - Piru Singh
Company Havildar Major Piru Singh Shekhawat was a Senior NCO in the Indian Army. For his valour in battle, CHM Piru Singh was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra during the Jammu and Kashmir Operations of 1947. He born on 20 May 1918 in Rajasthan. - Tufail Mohammad
Tufail Mohammad (1914 - 7 August, 1958, born in Hoshiarpur, Punjab) was commissioned in the 16th Punjab Regiment in 1943. On 7 August 1958, Mohammad, a Company Commander in the East Pakistan Rifles, encircled an Indian post, which allegedly violated the internationally recognized boundary between the two countries, in the Lakshmipur area. Though mortally wounded in the hand-to-hand encounter that followed, … - Fleur Lombard
Fleur Lombard QGM (1974 - 1996) was the first female firefighter to die on duty in peace time Britain. On 4 February 1996, when she was 21 years old, she was fighting a supermarket fire in Staple Hill, near Bristol, when she and her partner, Robert Seaman, were caught in a flashover. She was killed as a direct result of the intense heat and her body was found just a few yards from the exit. She was posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal. - Mark Wright
Corporal Mark William Wright, GC (22 April 1979 - 6 September 2006) was a soldier in the British Army. He served in the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan. He died in Helmand Province in Afghanistan after entering a minefield in an attempt to save the lives of other injured soldiers. It was announced on 14 December 2006 that he would be posthumously awarded the George Cross for his actions. Wright lived in Edinburgh. - Herbert Shughart
Herbert Shughart was the father of Randall Shughart, an American soldier who was killed during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, October 3, 1993. Shughart opposed the conflict and received some media attention in 1994 when, on May 29, he refused to shake hands with President Bill Clinton, during the presentation of a posthumous Medal of Honor for his son's service. - William G. Windrich
Staff Sergeant William Gordon Windrich (1921-1950) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for outstanding heroism as a platoon sergeant during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Staff Sergeant Windrich was killed in action the morning of 2 December 1950, near Yudam-ni, North Korea, following a savage night battle. He had refused to be evacuated even after being wounded twice, once when a grenade fragment ripped through his helmet.
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