Samantha Smith-13-peace activist/goodwill ambassador between The US and the Soviet Union during the cold war. At age 10
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Thanatos — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 12:25 AM)
Samantha Smith-13-peace activist/goodwill ambassador between The US and the Soviet Union during the cold war. At age 10 she wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov and was invited to visit. She became very famous in the Soviet Union after she traveled there. Had a monument built to her, a commemorative stamp, asteroid named after her, Per Nørgård composed a concerto in her memory, a diamond, a cultivator of tulips and dahlias and a ship all named after her. She also started peacemaking with Japan. Traveling back home after visiting Japan and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone her plane crashed. She gave a voice for children of the world.
“Maybe it’s because I have traveled a lot and maybe it’s because I’ve met so many wonderful people who look a little different from the way I look – maybe their skin, or their eyes, or their language is not like mine – but I can picture them becoming my best friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche-55
Paul Muni-71-The Story of Louis Pasteur, Scarface, The Life of Emile Zola, The Good Earth
Alfred Kinsey-62-professor of entomology and zoology, sexologist
Truman Capote-59-novelist/screenwriter/playwright-In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Ted Kennedy-77-US senator for 47 years, brother of JFK
Niven Busch-88-novelist/screenwriter-The Postman Always Rings Twice, Duel in the Sun, Belle Starr, The Furies
Neil Armstrong-82-first person to walk on the moon
Carl Barks-99-cartoonist/painter-writer and authoer of first Donald Duck stories, creator of Scrooge McDuck
Aaliyah-22-singer/actress-Queen of the Damned
John McCain-81-US senator/war hero-Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross
Philippe Léotard-60-La Balance, French Connection II
Hans van Tongeren-27-Spetters-played a character who committed suicide, was just given a role in an upcoming movie where character commits suicide. A few days later he committed suicide.
Marvin Kaplan-89-character actor
Henri Becquerel-55-discovered radioactivity
Jack Nitzsche-63-musician/composer-Performance, The Exorcist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cruising, An Officer and a Gentlemen, Starman, co-wrote "Up Where We Belong"
William W. Seay-19-Vietnam War hero, Medal of Honor, Purple Heart-in one 9 hour ambush he killed one sniper, shot two enemies, while under fire retrieved 2 grenades and threw them back at the enemy killing many, while being severely wounded stood up and killed 3 more of the enemy using his left hand. As a result of this he was killed by another sniper. All at the age of 19.
Archibald "Moonlight" Graham-baseball player/doctor-made famous in the novel "Shoeless Joe" and the movie "Field of Dreams". Every year he would get eye glasses and give free checkups and glasses to the miner's children.
Louise Clarke-62-member of the dance troupe Pan's People from Tops of the Pops
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NZer — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 12:50 AM)
Neil Armstrong knew how to fly airplane before he got a driver’s license
There are no really good pictures of Neil Armstrong on the moon
He was more concerned about landing on the moon rather than walking on it
When Armstrong surveyed the surface of the Moon, he carried a bag worth $1.8 million.
Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo 11 astronauts had to spend three weeks in Quarantine.
Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut’s millions of admirers around the globe.