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Recipients of the Order of the White Lion

  • 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…
  • Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
  • Bill ClintonWilliam Jefferson Clinton was born on the 19th of August 1946 at the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. His father died three months before his birth…
  • Che GuevaraOn the 14th of May 1928, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born into an upper-class family in Rosario, Argentina. His father, a staunch supporter of…
  • Benito MussoliniBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on the 29th of July 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì.
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • Willy BrandtHerbert Ernst Karl Frahm was born on the 18th of December 1913 in the Free City of Lübeck. His mother Martha Luise Wilhelmine Frahm worked as a cashier for a…
  • 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…