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Clay Allison
Robert Clay Allison (1841-1887), "Wolf of the Washita," was a Confederate veteran, Texas-New Mexico rancher and gunfighter. Known for the Griego killing at Cimarron, the Las Animas dance-hall shootout, and death in a 1887 wagon accident near Pecos.
Conrad Heyer
Conrad Heyer (April 10, 1749 or 1753 – February 19, 1856), Maine farmer and Revolutionary War veteran of the 25th Continental Regiment, photographed in 1852; credited as earliest-born American photographed, though the Delaware crossing claim is unsupported.
Cor van Gogh
Cor van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's youngest brother, a railway engineer and goldfield worker in the Transvaal who served the Boers and died in Brandfort in 1900.
Cyril Holland
Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 1885-1915), elder son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd; name changed after the 1895 trial; Royal Field Artillery officer killed by a sniper at Aubers/Festubert, 9 May 1915.
Daniel A. Dailey
Daniel A. Dailey, 15th Sergeant Major of the Army (January 2015 to August 2019), career infantryman and combat veteran of Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom who drove NCO development reforms including STEP and the Basic Leader Course, later an AUSA vice president.
Darrell Powers
Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (1923–2009), Easy Company sharpshooter, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Foy sniper, tree-spotting at Bastogne, Band of Brothers veteran from Clinchco, Virginia.
David Isom
David L. Isom is a U.S. Navy SEAL and the 6th Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since June 2025; also a Georgetown law librarian and folk musician of the same name.
David Kenyon Webster
David Kenyon Webster (1922-1961), Harvard-educated Easy Company rifleman of the 101st Airborne in Normandy and Market Garden, author of the posthumous memoir Parachute Infantry, portrayed in Band of Brothers by Eion Bailey; lost shark fishing in 1961.
Davorjanka Paunović
Davorjanka Paunović, cover name Zdenka (Zdenka Horvat), Tito's wartime secretary and lover; born 1921, died 1 May 1946 of tuberculosis at Golnik, buried at the White Palace, Dedinje, secret until Dedijer's 1981 publication.
Death of LaVena Johnson
Death of LaVena Johnson: 2005 death of Army PFC Lavena Lynn Johnson, 19, in Balad, Iraq, ruled a suicide by M-16 gunshot; her family disputes the finding, alleging rape, murder, and a cover-up.
Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин)
Dmitry Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин), call sign 'Wagner', was a retired GRU lieutenant colonel and field commander of the Wagner Group, which took its name from his nom de guerre; he died in the August 2023 plane crash with Prigozhin.
Dmytro Yarosh
Dmytro Yarosh (Дмитро Ярош, born 1971) is a Ukrainian nationalist politician who led Right Sector 2013–2015, commanded the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK) in Donbas, ran for president in 2014, and founded the Ukrainian Volunteer Army.
Donald Malarkey
Donald Malarkey (1921-2017), Astoria, Oregon paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; Bronze Star at Brecourt on D-Day; portrayed by Scott Grimes in Band of Brothers.
Doug Hegdahl
Doug Hegdahl (Douglas Brent Hegdahl III, born 1946), U.S. Navy seaman apprentice and Vietnam War POW at the Hanoi Hilton, called "The Incredibly Stupid One" for feigning illiteracy, memorized about 256 fellow prisoners' names to "Old MacDonald" and disclosed them after his August 5, 1969 release.
Edan Alexander
Edan Alexander (עידן אלכסנדר), Israeli-American Golani Brigade soldier from Tenafly, New Jersey, seized October 7, 2023 and Hamas's last living American hostage, freed May 12, 2025 after 584 days via US-Hamas backchannel talks.
Eddie Gallagher (Navy SEAL)
Eddie Gallagher is a retired US Navy SEAL chief whose 2019 court-martial over the death of an Islamic State prisoner in Mosul ended in acquittal of murder but conviction for posing with the corpse, followed by Trump's intervention restoring his rank and Trident.
Edward Heffron
Edward James "Babe" Heffron (1923-2013) was a World War II paratrooper of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, who fought at Market Garden and Bastogne, co-wrote Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends, and was portrayed in HBO's Band of Brothers by Robin Laing.
Ella van Heemstra
Ella van Heemstra, Baroness van Heemstra (1900, Velp – 1984, Tolochenaz), Dutch aristocrat; mother of Audrey Hepburn; married Quarles van Ufford then Joseph Ruston in 1926; did Resistance work in occupied Netherlands.
Eoin McGonigal
Eoin Christopher McGonigal (1920–1941), Irish Royal Ulster Rifles lieutenant, No. 11 Commando and original SAS officer; died of wounds aged 20 on Operation Squatter in Libya, commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.
Floyd James Thompson
Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (1933–2002), U.S. Army Special Forces colonel, was captured in South Vietnam on March 26, 1964 and held 3,278 days, the longest of any American POW in history, released March 16, 1973.
Frank James
Frank James (Alexander Franklin James, 1843-1915), older brother of Jesse James, Confederate guerrilla with Quantrill at Lawrence, James-Younger Gang bank and train robber, acquitted at 1883 Gallatin trial, later Wild West showman.
Gabriela Silang
Gabriela Silang (Maria Josefa Gabriela Cariño Silang), Filipina revolutionary, led the Ilocos Revolt against Spain for about four months after her husband Diego Silang's 1763 assassination; executed September 20, 1763; first woman to lead a Philippine revolt.
George Cornwallis-West
George Cornwallis-West (1874-1951), born George Frederick Myddelton West, was a Scots Guards officer and author who married Lady Randolph Churchill in 1900 and Mrs Patrick Campbell in 1914, was declared bankrupt, sold the Ruthin Castle and Newlands estates, and died by suicide on 1 April 1951.
Geronimo Pratt
Elmer "Geronimo" ji Jaga Pratt (1947-2011), Black Panther Party leader in Los Angeles, wrongly imprisoned 27 years for a 1968 murder; conviction overturned in 1997 over concealed informant evidence, $4.5 million settlement followed.
Ghassan Duhine
Ghassan Duhine (غسان الدهيني) leads Gaza's Popular Forces, also called the Counterterrorism Service, in east Rafah. He succeeded Yasser Abu Shabab after the founder's December 2025 killing and directs anti-Hamas tunnel dismantling.
Gilad Shalit (גלעד שליט)
Gilad Shalit (גלעד שליט), born 1986, Israeli armored corps soldier captured by Hamas in June 2006 at Kerem Shalom and freed October 18, 2011 in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including Yahya Sinwar.
Graham Hayes
Captain Graham Hayes (1914–1943), Border Regiment officer and Small Scale Raiding Force commando, MC winner for Operation Postmaster, executed at Fresnes prison 13 July 1943; distinct from AIF namesake Graham Frederick Hayes.
Gregor MacGregor
Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845), Scottish soldier and Cazique of Poyais, invented the fictional Central American country of Poyais, floated a £loan on the London market in 1822, and sent settlers to a jungle where most died.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (گلبدین حکمتیار)
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (گلبدین حکمتیار), Afghan Islamist leader and founder of Hezb-e Islami, chief ISI-favored mujahideen recipient in the 1980s, 'Butcher of Kabul' in the 1992-96 civil war, post-2001 insurgent, and 2016 peace-deal returnee.
Hannie Schaft
Hannie Schaft (Jannetje Johanna Schaft, 1920-1945), Dutch resistance fighter and law student, one of few armed female resisters with Truus and Freddie Oversteegen; known as the girl with the red hair; executed near Overveen 17 April 1945, three weeks before liberation.