2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75
1997 Shoichi Yokoi, Jap 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 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 PM (1950-52) 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 Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze
1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
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 Neth
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, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28
1942 Josef Gabcik, Czech resistance fighter, shot by Heydrich
1942 Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50
1942 Captain Moravec, Czech 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, Fren 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 PM 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 [Segundo JA] 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 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, Neth, physician/communist/resistance fighter
1913 John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter
1912 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP
1912 Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper, The Typhoon
1912 Josef Gabcik, Czech 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, Czech physician, stage, author/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 Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
1852 Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter
1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
1830 Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies
1828 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35
1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-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 brig-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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