The U.S. government awarded Pappy Boyington a Medal of Honor for his service in World War II as a Marine Corps pilot. He shot down 28 Japanese planes.

• Military Leader, Journalist
  (1912–1988)

General George Patton led the Third Army in a very successful sweep across France during World War II in 1944. He was skilled at tank warfare.

• General
  (1885–1945)

Louis Bromfield was a novelist and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for his novel Early Autumn.

• Journalist, Author
  (1896–1956)

Saul Bellow was a celebrated novelist who won the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award for Fiction three times.

• Author, Historian
  (1915–2005)

Steve Kroft is an award-winning broadcast journalist known for his longtime stint with the program 60 Minutes.

• News Anchor, Journalist
  (1945–)

Davy Crockett was a frontiersman, legendary folk hero and three-time Congressman. He fought in the War of 1812 and died at the Alamo in the Texas Revolution.

• U.S. Representative, Folk Hero
  (1786–1836)

Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator prior to World War II. He was killed in 1945.

• Dictator
  (1883–1945)

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Eisenhower commanded the Allied forces in the Normandy invasion. He went on to become the 34th president of the United States, and promoted Atoms for Peace at the United Nations General Assembly in order to ease Cold War tensions.

• U.S. President, General, Journalist
  (1890–1969)