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Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels was the wife of Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and poli…
Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (born 1901)
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led Italy as Il Duce from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He founded the fascist movement…
Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1883)
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the N…
Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, dictator of Nazi Germany (born 1889)
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933…
Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)
Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and a war criminal. Bormann gained immense power b…
Martin Bormann, German politician (born 1900)
Joseph Aloysius Corbett was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played in the National League. He was born in San Francisco, California.
Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (born 1875)
Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock was a German Generalfeldmarschall who served in the German Army during the Second World War. Bock served as the commander of Army Gro…
Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (born 1880)
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Edward Bourne OBE DCM was a decorated British soldier and the last living survivor of the defence of Rorke's Drift during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. He also …
Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (born 1854)
Julius Hirsch was a German international footballer. A Jew, he was executed at Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. He helped the Karlsruher FV win the 1910 German fo…
Julius Hirsch, German footballer (born 1892)
Friedrich Wilhelm Rediess was a German Nazi official who served as the SS and police leader during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War. He was also the commande…
Wilhelm Rediess, German SS officer (born 1900)
Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued …
Bernhard Rust, German lieutenant and politician (born 1883)
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Essen and the Reichskommissar for Norway during the Germa…
Josef Terboven, German lieutenant and politician (born 1898)
Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, la…
Richard Glücks, German SS officer (born 1889)
Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia, before World War II. After Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia, he became the Gauleiter …
Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (born 1898)
Alfred "Tubby" Hall was an American jazz drummer.
Tubby Hall, American drummer (born 1895)
Heber Jeddy Grant was an American religious leader who served as the seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Grant worked as a bookkeeper and a cashie…
Heber J
Wolfgang Lüth was a German U-boat captain of World War II who was credited with the sinking of 46 merchant ships plus the French submarine Doris sunk during 15 war patrols, for a t…
Wolfgang Lüth, Latvian-German captain (born 1913)
Elizabeth Isis Pogson, was a British astronomer and meteorologist who was one of the first women to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist (born 1852)
Frederick Joseph Ricketts was an English composer of marches for band. Under the pen name Kenneth J. Alford, he composed marches which are considered to be great examples of the ar…
Kenneth J
Charles Walter Stansby Williams was an English poet, novelist, playwright, theologian and literary critic. Most of his life was spent in London, where he was born, but in 1939 he m…
Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (born 1886)
Philipp Bouhler was a German senior Nazi Party functionary who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also the SS official responsi…
Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (born 1889)
Robert Ritter von Greim was a German Generalfeldmarschall and First World War flying ace. In April 1945, in the last days of World War II in Europe, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim co…
Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (born 1892)
Enno Lolling was a Nazi doctor. As a member of the SS, he served as a Lagerarzt at Dachau concentration camp. He later headed up the medical division for all the SS concentration c…
Enno Lolling, German physician (born 1888)
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globočnik was a Nazi Party official and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. A high-ranking member of the SS, Globočnik was the leader of Operation Reinhard, the org…
Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer (born 1904)