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2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75
1997 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82 1996 W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82 1996 Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82 1996 Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76 1996 Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72 1996 Duncan Stuart Wilson Fighter pilot-MacDonald, dies at 83 1995 Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80 1995 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74 1995 James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74 1995 Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82 1995 Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79 1994 Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88 1994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 1994 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77 1994 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies 1994 Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33 1994 John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81 1994 [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79 1994 Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81 1994 Knut Haukelid, Norway/U.S. resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82 1993 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80 1993 Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80 1993 Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies 1993 Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered 1993 Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies 1993 Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87 1992 Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies 1991 Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies 1991 John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies 1990 J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies 1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1982 Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered 1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq 1980 Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73 1978 Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86 1977 Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies 1976 Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89 1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82 1972 Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82 1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 1966 Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter 1963 Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68 1961 Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60 1961 Sophie Winter, actress, She's a Good Fighter 1959 USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter 1959 Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze 1953 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68 1951 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden 1949 Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66 1948 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh 1945 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina 1945 Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident 1945 Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies 1945 Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47 1945 J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed 1945 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29 1945 Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 1945 J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police 1945 J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39 1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman 1945 H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald 1945 Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm 1945 HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen 1945 Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed 1945 J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme 1945 George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau 1945 Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1945 Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1944 Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 1944 JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies 1944 EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies 1944 Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies 1944 Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22 1944 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies 1944 Jaap P Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis 1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands 1944 Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63 1944 Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered 1944 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen 1944 Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1944 Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies 1944 Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death 1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter 1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 1944 John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed 1944 Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies 1944 Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London 1944 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed 1944 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28 1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested 1944 Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1944 Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison 1944 Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested 1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death 1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down 1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested 1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59 1944 J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1943 Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1943 Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed 1943 Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35 1943 John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 1943 Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19 1943 Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36 1943 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42 1943 C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50 1943 Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed 1943 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed 1943 C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed 1943 Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 1st jet fighter is tested 1943 Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies 1943 Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 1943 Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded 1943 Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis 1943 Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 1942 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed 1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight 1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight 1942 Adolf Opalka, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot down 1942 John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28 1942 Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot by Heydrich 1942 Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50 1942 Captain Moravec, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide 1941 Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps 1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40 1941 Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36 1941 Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter, executed at 35 1941 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves 1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins 1941 A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague 1941 Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies 1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group 1940 Fighter Command loses 39/Luftwaffe 41 airplanes 1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49 1932 Elsa Martinelli, Grosseto Italy, actress, Indian Fighter 1929 Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author, Ipcress File, Fighter 1924 Julius Moormann, student/resistance fighter, WW II 1922 Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter 1922 Boy Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter 1922 Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter 1921 Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter 1921 Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter 1920 Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter 1920 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman 1920 James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot 1920 Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter 1919 Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician 1919 John Noorda, resistance fighter 1918 Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter 1918 Willem Oosterheers, resistance fighter 1918 Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter, Die Weisse Rose 1918 Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor, Ciske de Rat 1918 John Intoxication, resistance fighter 1917 Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter 1917 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes 1917 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter 1917 Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter, WW II 1917 Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, dies 1916 Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter 1916 John de Young, resistance fighter 1916 Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter 1916 George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter, Willemsorde/Madurodam 1916 Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1915 Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot 1915 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter, Mensch op Weg 1915 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter 1915 Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter 1915 Christian Beyers Naude, South African anti-apartheid fighter 1915 Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter, Skoven 1914 Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front 1914 Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter 1914 [Hendrik] Jan Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist, Parool 1914 W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot 1914 Max Manus, resistance fighter 1913 Omer Vanaudenhoven, Flemish industrial/resistance fighter 1913 Ben[jamin S] Polak, born in Netherlands, physician/communist/resistance fighter 1913 John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter 1912 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP 1912 Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper, The Typhoon 1912 Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, attacked Heydrich 1912 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter 1912 Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot 1912 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot 1911 Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer 1910 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot 1910 Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter, Orange Newspaper 1910 Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter, WW II 1910 Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter, WW II 1909 Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter 1909 Simone Weil, born in Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter, WW II 1908 Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter, Witte Ko, communist 1906 Jo Vis, resistance fighter, Yad Vashem-distinction 1906 Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter, passage fight 1905 Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter 1905 Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Netherlands resistance fighter in France 1904 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician, SDAP, resistance fighter 1902 Gerrit Jan van der Veen, Wolffensperger, Dutch resistance fighter 1901 Jan H de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder, Free Netherlands 1901 Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, Dutch resistance fighter/chairman, Feyenoord 1901 H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter 1899 Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter 1898 Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter 1898 Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter 1896 Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter 1895 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix 1895 Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter 1894 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91 1893 Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter 1892 Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter 1891 Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and resistance fighter 1891 Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter 1889 Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter 1889 Frits Slomp, Frits de Rover, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter 1888 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter 1886 Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter 1884 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician and resistance fighter 1883 Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1883 Hubert Harrison, born in St. Croix, Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter 1882 Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter, Hot printing 1881 Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter, Frau Helga von Staveren 1880 Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader, OD 1871 Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches 1852 Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter 1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter 1830 Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies 1828 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35 1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies 1816 Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66 1815 John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70 1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed 1809 Christopher "Kit" Carson, Kentucky, Union Brigadier-General/indian fighter 1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter, Risorgimento, unified Italy 1807 Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter, dies at 80 1792 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter 1750 Francisco A G de Miranda, Venezuelan freedom fighter 1745 John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter, Gov/Rep-Tn 1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter, lead the Green Mtn Boys 1726 Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter 1725 John Lovewell, U.S. indian fighter, dies in battle 257 Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies |
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