“Not even a doctor…gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than…’devoted and obedient.’…This definition might even do for a horse.” 143) Florence Nightingale The Woman Who Pioneered Modern Nursing Born: 12 May 1820, Florence, Italy Died: 13 August 1910, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom Florence was born to a wealthy British family living…
142) Dorothea Dix Mental Health Advocate and Nursing Coordinator Born: 4 April 1802, Massachusetts, United States of America (Present-day Hampden County, Maine, United States of America) Died: 17 July 1887, Trenton, New Jersey, United States of America Original Name: Dorothea Lynde Dix She also recruited nurses for the Union Army during the War Between the…
141) Juliet Opie Hopkins Confederate Nurse During the War Between the States Born: 7 May 1818, Jefferson County, Virginia (Today West Virginia), United States of America Died: 9 March 1890, Washington D.C., United States of America She was known as the Florence Nightingale of the South and was once injured during the war rescuing wounded…
150) Fritz Bauer The Jewish Judge who was Essential in Launching the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials Born: 16 July 1903, Stuttgart, Germany Died: 1 July 1968, Frankfurt, Germany He became the youngest judge in Germany in 1930 at the age of twenty-seven. In 1933, he was sent to a concentration camp and after nine months was…
149) Rolf Mengele Son of the Nazi Doctor Nicknamed The Angel of Death Born: 16 March 1944, Freiburg, Germany He Openly despises the things his father did and has spent his life trying to do whatever he can to make sure no one thinks he is anything like this father. In 1977, Rolf traveled to…
148) Simon Wiesenthal The Nazi Hunter Born: 31 December 1908, Buczacz, Ukraine (Present Day Buchach, Ukraine) Died: 20 September 2005, Vienna, Austria He was a Shoah Survivor and Writer known as the Nazi Hunter. After the war, Simon made it his personal mission to hunt down and bring to justice the thousands of Nazi War…
147) John Harington If Anyone was a Secret Love Child of Queen Elizabeth I, He is the Most Likely Suspect Born: 4 August 1561, Kelston, Somerset, England (Today a part of the United Kingdom) Died: 20 November 1612, Kelston, Somerset, England (Today a part of the United Kingdom) John was a courtier, Author, Translator, and…
146) Lieutenant Simo “White Death” Häyhä Possibly the Deadliest Sniper Ever Born: 17 December 1905, Karelia, Finland, Present Day Russia (However, some sources dispute this) Died: 1 April 2002, Hamina, Kymenlaasko, Finland Historians use the word Possibly because his actual number of kills are in dispute. He was nicknamed The White Death by the Soviet…
“There is no doubt that I was indelibly traumatized by my experiences as a war crimes investigator of Nazi extermination centers. I still try not to talk or think about the details.” 145) Ben Ferencz The Last Living Prosecutor From the Nuremburg Trials at the time of his death Born: 11 March 1920, Present-day Transylvania,…
144) Hiroo Onoda Japanese Soldier During World War II who Refused to Surrender Until 1974 Born: 19 March 1922, Wakayama, Japan Died: 16 January 2014, Tokyo, Japan Original Name: Hirō Onoda Refused to surrender isn’t really the right word for it. In actuality, Hiroo had been abandoned in the Jungle for nearly thirty years and…