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2000 Death - Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75

1997 Death - Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82

1996 Death - W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82

1996 Death - Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82

1996 Death - Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76

1996 Death - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72

1996 Death - Duncan Stuart Wilson Fighter pilot-MacDonald, dies at 83

1995 Death - Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80

1995 Death - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74

1995 Death - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74

1995 Death - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82

1995 Death - Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79

1994 Death - Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88

1994 Death - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84

1994 Death - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77

1994 Death - Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies

1994 Death - Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33

1994 Death - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81

1994 Death - [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79

1994 Death - Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81

1994 Death - Knut Haukelid, Norway/U.S. resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82

1993 Death - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80

1993 Death - Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80

1993 Death - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies

1993 Death - Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered

1993 Death - Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies

1993 Death - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87

1992 Death - Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies

1991 Death - Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies

1991 Death - John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies

1990 Death - J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies

1985 Event - U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody

1982 Death - Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered

1981 Event - French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq

1980 Death - Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73

1978 Death - Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86

1977 Death - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies

1976 Death - Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89

1973 Death - Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82

1972 Death - Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82

1971 Event - Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

1968 Death - Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83

1966 Death - Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies

1964 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter

1963 Death - Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68

1961 Death - Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60

1961 Birthday - Sophie Winter, actress, She's a Good Fighter

1959 Event - USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter

1959 Birthday - Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze

1953 Death - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68

1951 Event - Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden

1949 Death - Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66

1948 Death - Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43

1947 Event - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh

1945 Event - Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina

1945 Death - Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident

1945 Death - Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies

1945 Death - Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47

1945 Death - J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed

1945 Death - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29

1945 Death - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29

1945 Death - J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies

1945 Event - Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police

1945 Death - J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39

1945 Event - Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman

1945 Death - H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald

1945 Death - Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26

1945 Death - Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm

1945 Death - HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen

1945 Death - Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26

1945 Death - ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed

1945 Death - J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme

1945 Death - George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau

1945 Death - Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26

1945 Death - Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1945 Death - Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1944 Death - Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26

1944 Death - JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies

1944 Death - EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies

1944 Death - Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed

1944 Death - Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies

1944 Death - Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22

1944 Death - Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies

1944 Death - Jaap P Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis

1944 Event - Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands

1944 Death - Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63

1944 Death - Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered

1944 Event - 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen

1944 Death - Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed

1944 Death - Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1944 Death - Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies

1944 Death - Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death

1944 Event - Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter

1944 Event - 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor

1944 Event - 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262

1944 Death - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed

1944 Death - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies

1944 Event - Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London

1944 Death - French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed

1944 Death - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28

1944 Event - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested

1944 Death - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41

1944 Event - Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison

1944 Death - Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37

1944 Event - Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested

1944 Event - 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death

1944 Event - 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down

1944 Event - Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death

1944 Event - Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested

1944 Event - Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested

1944 Event - Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested

1944 Event - Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1944 Death - J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1943 Death - Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed

1943 Death - Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32

1943 Death - Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27

1943 Death - Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26

1943 Death - Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24

1943 Death - Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed

1943 Death - Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22

1943 Death - Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24

1943 Death - Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27

1943 Death - Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20

1943 Death - Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22

1943 Death - Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35

1943 Death - John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23

1943 Death - Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20

1943 Death - Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21

1943 Death - Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27

1943 Death - Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23

1943 Death - Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32

1943 Death - Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19

1943 Death - Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36

1943 Death - Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42

1943 Death - C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies

1943 Death - J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies

1943 Death - J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies

1943 Death - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50

1943 Death - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed

1943 Death - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed

1943 Death - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed

1943 Death - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1943 Death - Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Death - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 Event - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau

1943 Event - 1st jet fighter is tested

1943 Death - Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged

1943 Death - Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged

1943 Death - Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged

1943 Death - Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded

1943 Death - Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded

1943 Death - Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded

1943 Death - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies

1943 Death - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24

1943 Death - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded

1943 Death - Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis

1943 Death - Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40

1942 Death - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed

1942 Event - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight

1942 Event - Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight

1942 Death - Adolf Opalka, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot down

1942 Death - John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28

1942 Death - Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot by Heydrich

1942 Death - Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50

1942 Death - Captain Moravec, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide

1941 Event - Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps

1941 Death - Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40

1941 Death - Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36

1941 Death - Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter, executed at 35

1941 Event - Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves

1941 Event - Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins

1941 Death - A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1941 Death - Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1941 Death - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1941 Death - J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1941 Event - 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague

1941 Death - Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies

1940 Event - Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst

1940 Event - Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group

1940 Event - Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes

1938 Death - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49

1932 Birthday - Elsa Martinelli, Grosseto Italy, actress, Indian Fighter

1929 Birthday - Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author, Ipcress File, Fighter

1924 Birthday - Julius Moormann, student/resistance fighter, WW II

1922 Birthday - Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter

1922 Birthday - Boy Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter

1922 Birthday - Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter

1921 Birthday - Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter

1921 Birthday - Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter

1920 Birthday - Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter

1920 Birthday - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman

1920 Birthday - James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot

1920 Birthday - Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter

1919 Birthday - Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician

1919 Birthday - John Noorda, resistance fighter

1918 Birthday - Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter

1918 Birthday - Willem Oosterheers, resistance fighter

1918 Birthday - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter, Die Weisse Rose

1918 Birthday - Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor, Ciske de Rat

1918 Birthday - John Intoxication, resistance fighter

1917 Birthday - Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter

1917 Event - 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes

1917 Birthday - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter

1917 Birthday - Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter, WW II

1917 Death - Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, dies

1916 Birthday - Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter

1916 Birthday - John de Young, resistance fighter

1916 Birthday - Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter

1916 Birthday - George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter, Willemsorde/Madurodam

1916 Death - Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed

1915 Birthday - Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot

1915 Birthday - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter, Mensch op Weg

1915 Birthday - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter

1915 Birthday - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter

1915 Birthday - Christian Beyers Naude, South African anti-apartheid fighter

1915 Birthday - Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter, Skoven

1914 Birthday - Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front

1914 Birthday - Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter

1914 Birthday - [Hendrik] Jan Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist, Parool

1914 Birthday - W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot

1914 Birthday - Max Manus, resistance fighter

1913 Birthday - Omer Vanaudenhoven, Flemish industrial/resistance fighter

1913 Birthday - Ben[jamin S] Polak, born in Netherlands, physician/communist/resistance fighter

1913 Birthday - John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter

1912 Birthday - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP

1912 Birthday - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper, The Typhoon

1912 Birthday - Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, attacked Heydrich

1912 Birthday - Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter

1912 Birthday - Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot

1912 Birthday - Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot

1911 Birthday - Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer

1910 Birthday - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot

1910 Birthday - Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter, Orange Newspaper

1910 Birthday - Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter, WW II

1910 Birthday - Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter, WW II

1909 Birthday - Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter

1909 Birthday - Simone Weil, born in Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter, WW II

1908 Birthday - Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter, Witte Ko, communist

1906 Birthday - Jo Vis, resistance fighter, Yad Vashem-distinction

1906 Birthday - Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter, passage fight

1905 Birthday - Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter

1905 Birthday - Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Netherlands resistance fighter in France

1904 Birthday - Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician, SDAP, resistance fighter

1902 Birthday - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, Wolffensperger, Dutch resistance fighter

1901 Birthday - Jan H de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder, Free Netherlands

1901 Birthday - Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, Dutch resistance fighter/chairman, Feyenoord

1901 Birthday - H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter

1899 Birthday - Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter

1898 Birthday - Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter

1898 Birthday - Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter

1896 Birthday - Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter

1895 Birthday - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix

1895 Birthday - Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter

1894 Death - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91

1893 Birthday - Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter

1892 Birthday - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter

1891 Birthday - Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and resistance fighter

1891 Birthday - Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter

1889 Birthday - Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter

1889 Birthday - Frits Slomp, Frits de Rover, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter

1888 Birthday - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter

1886 Birthday - Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter

1884 Birthday - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician and resistance fighter

1883 Birthday - Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1883 Birthday - Hubert Harrison, born in St. Croix, Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter

1882 Birthday - Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter, Hot printing

1881 Birthday - Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter, Frau Helga von Staveren

1880 Birthday - Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader, OD

1871 Event - Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches

1852 Birthday - Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter

1837 Birthday - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter

1830 Death - Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies

1828 Death - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35

1817 Death - Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies

1816 Death - Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66

1815 Death - John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70

1811 Death - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed

1809 Birthday - Christopher "Kit" Carson, Kentucky, Union Brigadier-General/indian fighter

1807 Birthday - Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter, Risorgimento, unified Italy

1807 Death - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80

1792 Birthday - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter

1750 Birthday - Francisco A G de Miranda, Venezuelan freedom fighter

1745 Birthday - John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter, Gov/Rep-Tn

1738 Birthday - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter, lead the Green Mtn Boys

1726 Birthday - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter

1725 Death - John Lovewell, U.S. indian fighter, dies in battle

257 Death - Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies













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