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2005 David Hackworth, American Soldier
2004 Pat Tillman, soldier/pro football player, dies at 27 2002 Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier 2000 Bruce Palmer, Jr., American Soldier 1997 Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91 1997 Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76 1996 Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95 1996 Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, soldier/polititican, dies at 86 1996 Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85 1996 Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier, dies at 70 1996 Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85 1996 Henry Ralph Carr, soldier, dies at 82 1996 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87 1996 Tran Van Tra, soldier, dies at 77 1996 Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier, dies at 95 1996 U San Yu, soldier/politician, dies at 77 1996 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer, dies at 83 1995 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67 1995 Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71 1995 Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79 1995 Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83 1994 Heinz Ruhmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92 1994 Charles A. Beckwith, American Soldier 1993 Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58 1992 James Van Fleet, American Soldier 1992 Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39 1989 Last Vietnamese soldier leaves Cambodia 1989 William Stephenson, Canadian Soldier 1988 Pappy Boyington, American Soldier 1986 U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing 1986 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story), dies 1983 Jessica Lynch, American Soldier 1982 Douglas Bader, British Soldier 1982 Nathan F. Twining, American Soldier 1981 Charles Fuller's "Soldier's Play," premieres in New York City 1981 Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier 1978 Kurt Student, German Soldier 1977 George Kenney, American Soldier 1977 Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976) 1975 Anthony McAuliffe, American Soldier 1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended 1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War 1973 L C William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral 1972 Franz Halder, German Soldier 1971 Norman Cota, American Soldier 1970 Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, U.S. soldier, Iraqi POW 1966 Chief Nipo Strongheart, Native Amer actor (Pony Soldier), dies at 75 1966 Chester W. Nimitz, American Soldier 1959 George C. Marshall, American Soldier 1959 William Halsey, American Soldier 1959 William D. Leahy, American Soldier 1958 Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies 1956 Mark Collie, Waynesboro, Tennessee, country singer, Another Old Soldier 1955 Ira Hayes, American Soldier 1954 Heinz Guderian, German Soldier 1954 Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83 1953 Janis Karpinski, American Soldier 1953 Henriette J. Toll, actress, Soldier of Orange 1953 Gerd von Rundstedt, German Soldier 1951 Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies 1951 John Abizaid, American Soldier 1950 Archibald Wavell, British Soldier 1948 John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier 1948 Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier 1947 Lex van Delden, Dutch actor, Soldier of Orange 1947 "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater New York City after 69 performances 1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater New York City for 69 performances 1946 Alfred Jodl, German Soldier 1945 George S. Patton, American Soldier 1945 Tommy Franks, American Soldier 1945 Michael V. Hayden, American Soldier 1944 Wesley Clark, American Soldier 1944 Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier 1944 R. Lee Ermey, American Soldier 1943 Oliver North, American Soldier 1942 Eric Shinseki, American Soldier 1942 Barry McCaffrey, American Soldier 1942 Hugh Shelton, American Soldier 1940 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier 1940 Johnny Giles, Irish Soldier 1940 Smedley Butler, American Soldier 1939 Charles Fuller, U.S. writer, Zooman, Soldier Story 1938 Jay Garner, American Soldier 1937 Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48 1937 Thomas Monaghan, British Soldier 1935 Michel Aoun, born in Haret Hreik, Lebanon, Lebanese soldier and politician 1935 Ray Manzarek, keyboardist, Doors-Light My Fire, Unknown Soldier 1934 Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86 1934 Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier 1934 Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier and explorer in Sudan, dies at 70 1931 Thomas K "Tom" van Brook, actor/interpreter, Soldier of Orange 1931 John Monash, Australian Soldier 1931 Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, U.S., sci-fi author, Soldier of Arete 1930 David Hackworth, American Soldier 1930 George Haven Putnam, American Soldier 1930 Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier 1929 Charles A. Beckwith, American Soldier 1928 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian 1928 "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin 1927 James D. Watkins, American Soldier 1926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st U.S. Jewish soldier to die in WW I 1925 Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier 1925 Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier 1923 Henny Alma, Hendrika den Broek, Dutch actress, Soldier of Orange 1923 Ira Hayes, American Soldier 1923 Jaroslav Hasek, Czechoslovakian writer, Good Soldier Schweyk 1923 Jaroslav Hasek, Czechoslovakian writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39 1922 John W. Vessey, Jr., American Soldier 1921 President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary) 1921 Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk 1919 Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies 1918 Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe 1917 John W. Foster, American Soldier 1917 Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier 1916 Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured 1915 Denis Harding, soldier 1915 William Throsby Bridges, Australian Soldier 1915 Harry Banks, English Soldier 1914 Henry Ralph Carr, soldier 1914 Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier 1913 Bruce Palmer, Jr., American Soldier 1912 Pappy Boyington, American Soldier 1912 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer 1912 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, soldier/politician 1911 Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/landowner 1911 Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier 1911 Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician and historian 1910 Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier 1910 Arthur Hazlerigg, born in England, Lord Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, awarded Military Cross, judge, Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, soldier, served during World War II, life peer 1910 Douglas Bader, British Soldier 1909 Ricardo Sanchez, American Soldier 1908 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist 1907 Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier 1906 Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist 1906 Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer 1905 Lew Wallace, American Soldier 1904 William Hall, Canadian Soldier 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier" 1901 Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier 1901 Maxwell D. Taylor, Soldier 1901 Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier 1900 Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier 1900 Hyman Rickover, Soldier 1898 Anthony McAuliffe, American Soldier 1897 Nathan F. Twining, American Soldier 1897 John B. Glubb, British commandant/writer, A soldier with the Arabs 1897 William Stephenson, Canadian Soldier 1896 Harry Banks, English Soldier 1893 Norman Cota, American Soldier 1893 Omar N. Bradley, Soldier 1892 Hoot Gibson, Tekamah NE, western actor, Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw 1892 James Van Fleet, American Soldier 1891 Rooney Lee, American Soldier 1891 Chief Nipo T Strongheart, Yakima, Washington, U.S. indian actor, Pony Soldier 1890 John Charles Fremont, American Soldier 1890 Kurt Student, German Soldier 1890 Alfred Jodl, German Soldier 1889 Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer, Soldier Suhren 1889 Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier 1889 George Kenney, American Soldier 1888 Herman McNeile, Cornwall England, soldier/novelist, Bull-Dog Drummond 1888 Heinz Guderian, German Soldier 1887 Bernard Law Montgomery, British Soldier 1887 Alvin York, famed U.S. soldier with 25 kills in WW I 1886 John A. Logan, American Soldier 1885 George S. Patton, American Soldier 1885 George McClellan, American Soldier 1885 George B. McClellan, American Soldier 1885 Chester W. Nimitz, American Soldier 1884 Franz Halder, German Soldier 1884 Claude Auchinleck, British Soldier 1883 Archibald Wavell, British Soldier 1882 William Halsey, American Soldier 1881 Smedley Butler, American Soldier 1880 George C. Marshall, American Soldier 1879 Billy Mitchell, American Soldier 1879 John B. Hood, American Soldier 1876 George Armstrong Custer, American Soldier 1875 Gerd von Rundstedt, German Soldier 1875 William D. Leahy, American Soldier 1870 Robert E. Lee, American Soldier 1870 John P. Kennedy, American Soldier 1870 Ethan A. Hitchcock, American Soldier 1869 John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier 1869 Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer 1869 Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier 1869 Max Hoffmann, German Soldier 1865 John Monash, Australian Soldier 1863 Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier and explorer, Sudan 1863 John Buford, American Soldier 1863 Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier 1863 Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier 1861 William Throsby Bridges, Australian Soldier 1853 George Cockburn, British Soldier 1847 Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier 1844 George Haven Putnam, American Soldier 1840 Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier 1839 Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier 1837 Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier 1837 Rooney Lee, American Soldier 1836 John W. Foster, American Soldier 1833 William Bainbridge, American Soldier 1833 Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier 1831 John B. Hood, American Soldier 1830 Henry Rutgers, American Soldier 1828 Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier 1827 William Hall, Canadian Soldier 1827 Lew Wallace, American Soldier 1826 George B. McClellan, American Soldier 1826 John Buford, American Soldier 1826 John A. Logan, American Soldier 1825 William Hull, American Soldier 1824 Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier 1821 William Floyd, U.S. soldier/signer of Declaration of Independence, dies at 86 1821 Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier 1818 Joshua Barney, American Soldier 1817 Andre Massena Duc de Rivoli, soldier, dies 1816 Daniel Waters, American Soldier 1813 John Charles Fremont, American Soldier 1811 William Eaton, American Soldier 1807 Robert E. Lee, American Soldier 1806 Henry Knox, American Soldier 1805 Lord Nelson, British Soldier 1802 Daniel Morgan, American Soldier 1798 Ethan A. Hitchcock, American Soldier 1797 Lord Amherst, British Soldier 1796 Anthony Wayne, American Soldier 1795 John P. Kennedy, American Soldier 1795 William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies 1795 Henry Havelock, British soldier, War in Afghanistan 1838-39 1792 John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies 1792 Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies 1782 Charles Napier, London, soldier 1774 William Bainbridge, American Soldier 1772 George Cockburn, British Soldier 1764 William Eaton, American Soldier 1760 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer, Marseillaise 1759 Joshua Barney, American Soldier 1758 Lord Nelson, British Soldier 1753 William Hull, American Soldier 1750 Henry Knox, American Soldier 1746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Declaration of Independence 1745 Henry Rutgers, American Soldier 1745 Anthony Wayne, American Soldier 1738 Charles Lord Cornwallis, soldier/statesman "fire when ready Gridley" 1736 Daniel Morgan, American Soldier 1734 William Floyd, U.S. soldier/signer, Declaration of Independence 1731 Daniel Waters, American Soldier 1717 Lord Amherst, British Soldier 1710 David Wooster, American Soldier 1689 John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies 1680 Thomas Blood, English Soldier 1679 Roger Boyle, British Soldier 1638 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies 1628 Francois de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier 1621 Roger Boyle, British Soldier 1614 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64 1596 Francis Drake, English Soldier 1574 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies 1560 Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies 1554 Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier, Arcadia 1550 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint 1528 Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/soldier/politician 1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31 1401 Francesco Sfoza, soldier 1364 Henry Percy, Harry Hotspur, British soldier/politican 290 [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated 290 [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed |
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