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Burials at sea
- Jiang ZeminJiang Zemin was born on the 17th of August 1926 in the city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu. His family home lay in the village of Jiangcun within Jingde County, Anhui…
- J. Robert OppenheimerJulius Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd of April 1904, in New York City to Ella Friedman and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer.
- Francis CrickFrancis Harry Compton Crick was born on the 8th of June 1916 in Weston Favell, a small village near the English town of Northampton.
- Alan ShepardAlan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was born on the 18th of November 1923, at 64 East Derry Road in Derry, New Hampshire. His father worked in the Derry National Bank…
- Neil ArmstrongNeil Alden Armstrong was born on the 5th of August 1930 in rural Washington Township, Auglaize County, Ohio. His father worked as an auditor for the state…
- Francis DrakeFrancis Drake was born at Crowndale Farm in Tavistock, Devon, England. His birth date remains uncertain, though estimates place it around 1540 or 1541 based…
- Wally SchirraWalter Marty Schirra Jr. was born on the 12th of March 1923 in Hackensack, New Jersey. His family history stretched back to the Italian-speaking village of…
- Zhou EnlaiZhou Enlai was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, on the 5th of March 1898. He entered the world as the first son of his branch of the Zhou family.
- Zheng HeMa He entered the world in 1371 within a Muslim Hui family located in Kunyang, Kunming, Yunnan. His father held the title hajji and had made the pilgrimage…
- Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of BurmaEdwina Cynthia Annette Ashley entered the world on the 28th of November 1901 in London. Her father Wilfrid Ashley served as a Conservative member of…
- Hideki TojoHideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on the 30th of December 1884. He entered a world where society remained rigidly divided into four…