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Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- George H. W. BushOn the 9th of June 1943, George Herbert Walker Bush became one of the youngest pilots ever commissioned in the United States Navy, a distinction that would…
- Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza Pahlavi entered the world on the 26th of October 1919 in Tehran. He was born to Reza Khan, a Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade…
- Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, on the 14th of October 1890. His family moved to Abilene, Kansas, the following year and lived there for…
- Chiang Kai-shekOn the 31st of October 1887, a boy named Chiang Jui-yüan was born in the small town of Xikou. This place sat at the foot of the Wuling Mountains in Fenghua…
- François MitterrandFrançois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was born on the 26th of October 1916 in Jarnac, Charente. His family was devoutly Catholic and conservative.
- Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur was born on the 26th of January 1880 at Little Rock Barracks in Arkansas. His father Arthur MacArthur Jr. served as a U.S.
- HirohitoHirohito was born on the 29th of April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo. He entered the world as Prince Michi during the reign of his grandfather…
- Josip Broz TitoJosip Broz was born on the 7th of May 1892 in Kumrovec, a small village in northern Croatia. At that time, the land belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- George H. W. BushOn the 12th of June 1943, a young man named George Herbert Walker Bush stood on the deck of the USS San Jacinto. He was only nineteen years old and had just…
- Urho KekkonenUrho Kekkonen was born on the 3rd of September 1900 inside a small log cabin called Lepikon torppa in Pielavesi. His father Juho worked as a forestry manager…
- Archduke Charles, Duke of TeschenFlorence, Tuscany, the 5th of September 1771 marked the birth of Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Lawrence. His father held the title Grand Duke of Tuscany…
- Gebhard Leberecht von BlücherGebhard Leberecht von Blücher was born on the 16th of December 1742 in Rostock. He entered military service at age sixteen as a hussar in the Swedish Army…
- Michael Andreas Barclay de TollyMichael Andreas Barclay de Tolly entered the world in 1761 within the Polish, Lithuanian Commonwealth. His family belonged to a Baltic German lineage that…