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2003 Rick Husband, astronaut, commander of Columbia, STS-107
1999 Andrew Keith, writer, Wing Commander, dies at 41 1996 Peter Winter, naval commander, dies at 78 1996 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101 1993 Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide 1989 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies 1988 Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71 1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos 1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 1987 Maxwell D Taylor, U.S. commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85 1986 Stephen D Thorne, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33 1986 Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Commander USN, astr, dies in Challenger 1984 Hans Speidel, German gen/NATO-supreme commander (1957-64), dies at 87 1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army 1983 Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR 1979 Kurt Kasznar, actor (Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium 1974 U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe 1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9 1971 Thomas C Heart, U.S. admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies 1971 Thomas C Hart, U.S. admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94 1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment 1970 Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered 1970 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4 1964 Stephen N Frick, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1963 Lisa M Nowak, Washington D.C., Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1963 Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper, St. Paul, Minnesota, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1961 Susan Leigh Still, Augusta, Georgia, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-83, 94 1961 William C McCool, born in San Diego, California, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1961 Daniel C Burbank, born in Manchester, Connecticut, Lieutenant Commander USCG/astronaut 1961 Laurel B. Clark, born in Ames Iowa, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1959 Kathryn P Hire, Mobile Alabama, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, sk: STS-90 1959 Scott D. Altman, born in Lincoln, Illinois, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, sk: STS-90 1958 Brent W. Jett, Jr., Pontiac, Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-72, sk:81 1958 John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka, Oklahoma, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, born in Madrid, Spain, Lieutenant Commander/astronaut, STS-73, sk 92 1958 Joe Frank Edwards, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-89 1957 Daniel W. Bursch, born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Commander USN/Astronaut, STS-51, 68, 77 1955 Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-36, 49, 62 1955 Jerry M Linenger, Mount Clemens, Michigan, PhD/Commander USN/astronaut, STS-81/84 1953 Michael Baker, born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-43, 52, 68, 81 1953 Stephen D. Thorne, born in Frankfurt-on-Main, West Germany, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76 1952 James D Wetherbee, Flushing, New York, Lieutenant Commander USN/astr, STS-32, 52, 63, 86 1952 Lee M Morin, Manchester, New Hampshire, Commander USN/astronaut 1952 Jonathan Frakes, actor, Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen 1952 Mario Runco, Jr., born in Bronx, New York, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-44, 54, 77 1951 Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed 1951 Charles E. Brady, Jr., Pinehurst, North Carolina, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-78 1951 Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr., Patuxent R, Maryland, Commander USN/astro, STS-48, 60 1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander 1950 U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe 1950 Winston E Scott, born in Miami, Florida, USN Commander/astronaut, STS-72, 87 1949 Bruce E Melnick, New York City, Commander USCG/astronaut, STS-41, STS-49 1949 Frank L Culbertson, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-38 1948 Dale A Gardner, Fairmont, Minnesota, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-8, STS-51A 1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet 1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen 1946 Michael Wilkes, commander, UK Field Army 1946 Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander 1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan 1945 Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa 1945 Michael J. Smith, born in Beaufort, North Carolina, Commander USN, astronaut, 51L-Challenger disaster 1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1945 Field Marshal Kesselring succeeds von Rundstedt as commander 1945 Betram Home Ramsay, English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61 1944 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force 1944 Commander Cody, singer/pianist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen 1944 General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet 1944 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1943 Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia 1943 Michael J McCulley, born in San Diego, California, Commander USN/astronaut, STS-34 1943 Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed 1942 Lieutenant-General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java 1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa 1942 General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe 1942 Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander, HQ Aldershot Garrison 1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1941 GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies 1940 General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander 1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army 1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet 1939 Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies 1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army 1936 Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander 1935 Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1935 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980- 1934 Norman Schwarzkopf, born in Trenton, New Jersey, nicknamed, Stormin' Norman, The Bear, Commander, Coalition Forces in the Gulf War, 1991, retired U.S. Army General 1934 Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander, Europe 1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany 1932 David Scott, born in San Antonio, Texas, astronaut, commander of Apollo 15 mission, seventh person to walk on the Moon, first person to drive on the Moon 1931 Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies 1929 Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" 1926 Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander 1924 David Loram, British Vice-Admiral, Supreme Allied Commander 1923 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD 1921 Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe 1920 Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies 1918 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs 1918 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns 1917 Peter Winter, naval commander 1915 Andrew J Goodpaster, U.S., general/supreme commander, NATO-Europe 1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army 1914 John French appointed British supreme commander 1913 Kurt Kaszner, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants 1907 Lauris Norstad, U.S. gen, NATO commander and CEO, Owens-Corning Fiberglass 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in South Africa 1899 Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa 1897 Iwan S. Konew, Russian marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw 1897 Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander 1896 Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy 1895 Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer 1886 Raymond A. Spruance, U.S. admiral/fleet commander/ambassador 1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral and supreme commander of Japanese fleet 1883 Alexander Papagos, Greek Field Marshal/supreme commander 1883 William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle 1883 Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces 1879 Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland 1876 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940 1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land 1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces 1860 John J, Blackjack, Pershing, U.S. commander, WW I 1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion 1852 Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy, 1910-18 1851 Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War 1842 William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1840 Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander 1825 John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander 1821 Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curaeaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39 1812 John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy 1812 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy 1811 John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy 1811 Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy 1810 James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy 1809 William Radford, Commander Union Navy 1809 Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy 1809 William David Porter, Commander Union Navy 1808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy 1808 Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy 1808 Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy 1808 Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy 1808 Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy 1807 James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy 1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy 1806 Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander, Confederacy 1804 John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy 1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy 1803 Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy 1802 James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy 1802 Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy 1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy 1801 Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy 1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 1800 William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy 1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy 1798 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy 1798 Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy 1798 Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy 1796 Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy 1795 John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy 1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy 1794 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy 1786 August Keppel, 1st viscount/naval commander/politican, dies 1782 Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet 1775 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander 1765 William August duke of Cumberland, English supreme commander, dies at 44 1759 James Wolfe and the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed 1734 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander, Dutch Guyana 1711 Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander 1676 Paulus Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63 1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander 1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution 1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander 1630 Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein 1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander, drowned 1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander 1621 Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony 1612 Paul Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander 1608 Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle 1598 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander 1596 Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java 1571 Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle 1547 Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 1528 Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded 1356 Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies 69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
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