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Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun

  • Julia GillardJulia Eileen Gillard was born on the 29th of September 1961 in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Her father John Oliver Gillard worked as a psychiatric nurse…
  • Hermann GöringHermann Wilhelm Göring was born on the 12th of January 1893 at the Marienbad Sanatorium in Rosenheim, Bavaria. His father Heinrich Ernst Göring had served as…
  • Józef PiłsudskiJózef Klemens Piłsudski was born on the 5th of December 1867 at the manor of Zulov, now known as Zalavas in Lithuania. His family had been part of the Grand…
  • Bill GatesIn 1970, a group of students at Lakeside School in Seattle gathered around a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal. Bill Gates was one of them.
  • Sepp BlatterJosef Blatter arrived in the world on the 10th of March 1936 within the Swiss village of Visp. He studied business and economics at the University of…
  • Karl DönitzOn the 2nd of July 1918, Karl Dönitz took command of the submarine UB-68 in the Mediterranean Sea. He operated near Malta while attacking a convoy that…