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A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary. In most languages, "soldier" includes commissioned and non-commissioned officers in national land forces.
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), and eponym of the era of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1767
Date of death:
- Jun 8, 1845 (age 78 years)
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (pronounced /ˈɛskɨləs/ or /ˈiːskɨləs/, Greek: Αἰσχύλος, Aiskhulos, c. 525 BC/524 BC – c. 456 BC/455 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians...
Date of birth:
- 525 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 456 B.C.E. (age 69 years)
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army general and later head of state as president. He was the Commander in Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1915
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 2006 (age 91 years)
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. He was also a Major General in the U.S. Air...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1909
Date of death:
- May 29, 1998 (age 89 years)
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1883
Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1967 (age 84 years)
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz (pronounced /ˈklaʊzəvɪts/; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1780
Date of death:
- Nov 16, 1831 (age 51 years)
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (traditional Chinese: 蔣中正 / 蔣介石; simplified Chinese: 蒋中正 / 蒋介石; pinyin: Jiǎng Jièshí; but see names below) (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1887
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1975 (age 87 years)
Colin Powell
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was sworn in as the 65th
Secretary of State in 2001 after unanimous confirmation by the U.S.
Senate. He served in the military for 35 years, and rose to the rank of
4-star General. His last assignment, from...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1937 (age 72 years)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 14, 1890
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1969 (age 78 years)
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ( listen (help·info)) (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) (known as the Desert Fox, Wüstenfuchs, listen (help·info)), was perhaps the most famous German Field Marshal of World War II.
He was a highly decorated officer...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1891
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1944 (age 52 years)
George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797)....
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1732
Date of death:
- Dec 14, 1799 (age 67 years)
John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker, PC, CH, QC, FRSC, FRSA (September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 21, 1957 to April 22, 1963. A criminal defence lawyer by profession, he established the Canadian Bill of...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1895
Date of death:
- Aug 16, 1979 (age 83 years)
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War.
A West Point graduate, Davis fought...
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1808
Date of death:
- Dec 6, 1889 (age 81 years)
Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1897
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 1972 (age 75 years)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c. 63 BC–12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and defense minister to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus. He was responsible for most of Octavian’s military...
Date of birth:
- 63 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 12 B.C.E. (age 51 years)
Mark Antony
Marcus Antonius (in Latin: M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N) (c. January 14, 83 BC–August 1, 30 BC), known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and General. He was an important supporter and the loyal friend of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 83 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 30 B.C.E. (age 52 years)
Thomas Mifflin
Thomas Mifflin (January 10, 1744 – January 20, 1800) was an American merchant and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1744
Date of death:
- Jan 20, 1800 (age 56 years)
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1874
Date of death:
- Jan 24, 1965 (age 90 years)
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1773
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1841 (age 68 years)
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was a English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer.
Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine...
Date of birth:
- 1552
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1618 (age 66 years)
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the 12th President of the United States.
Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1784
Date of death:
- Jul 9, 1850 (age 65 years)
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain (b. c. 1580 – d. December 25, 1635) ( IPA: [samɥɛl də ʃɑ̃plɛ̃] ), "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat and chronicler. He founded...
Date of birth:
- 1580
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 1635 (age 56 years)
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English and Welsh poet and soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1893
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1918 (age 25 years)
Emilio Lussu
Emilio Lussu (December 4, 1890 - March 5, 1975) was a Sardinian soldier, politician and a writer.
Lussu was born in Armungia, province of Cagliari (Sardinia) and graduated with a degree in law in 1914. Lussu married Joyce Salvatori, a notable poet,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1890
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1975 (age 84 years)
Željko Ražnatović
Željko Ražnatović (Serbian cyrillic: Жељко Ражнатовић, pronounced [ʒêːʎko raʒnâːtovitɕ]), widely known as Arkan (Аркан) (April 17, 1952 - January 15, 2000), was a Serbian career criminal and later a paramilitary leader who was notable for organizing...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1952
Date of death:
- Jan 15, 2000 (age 47 years)
Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai (simplified Chinese: 袁世凯; traditional Chinese: 袁世凱; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; Wade-Giles: Yüan Shih-k'ai; Courtesy Wèitíng 慰亭; Pseudonym: Róng'ān 容庵, also named after birthplace Yuán Xiàngchéng 袁项城) ( 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was an...
Date of birth:
- Sep 16, 1859
Date of death:
- Jun 6, 1916 (age 56 years)
William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1877
Date of death:
- Apr 1918 (age 40 years)
Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈɦaʃɛk]; April 30, 1883–January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist best known for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1883
Date of death:
- Jan 3, 1923 (age 39 years)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. In these fictional works he is featured...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1619
Date of death:
- Jul 28, 1655 (age 36 years)
Folke Bernadotte
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II. In 1945, he received a German...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1895
Date of death:
- Sep 17, 1948 (age 53 years)
Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (born December 2, 1924) is a retired United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford....
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1924 (age 85 years)
Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Along with James Madison, he was the second-longest serving Secretary of State,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1909
Date of death:
- Dec 20, 1994 (age 85 years)
Davy Crockett
David Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; referred to in popular culture as Davy Crockett and often by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier.” He...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1786
Date of death:
- Mar 6, 1836 (age 49 years)
Kazimierz Pułaski
Kazimierz Pułaski (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimʲɛʂ puˈwaski] ( listen); full name: Kazimierz Michał Wacław Wiktor Pułaski) of Clan Ślepowron, often written Casimir Pulaski in English in the USA (March 4, 1745 – October 11, 1779), was a Polish...
Date of birth:
- Mar 4, 1746
Date of death:
- Oct 11, 1779 (age 33 years)
George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army....
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1826
Date of death:
- Oct 29, 1885 (age 58 years)
Sejanus
Lucius Aelius Seianus (20 BC – October 18, 31 AD), commonly known as Sejanus, was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. An equestrian by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard,...
Date of birth:
- 20 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 31 C.E. (age 50 years)
Flavius Valerius Severus
Flavius Valerius Severus (or rarely Severus II) (died 16 September 307) was a Western Roman Emperor from 306 to 307.
Officer in the Roman army Severus was of humble birth, born in the Illyrian provinces around the middle of the third century AD. He...
Date of birth:
- 250 C.E.
Date of death:
- Sep 16, 307 C.E. (age 57 years)
Kantaro Suzuki
Baron Kantarō Suzuki (鈴木 貫太郎, Suzuki Kantarō, 18 January 1868 - 17 April 1948) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and 42nd Prime Minister of Japan from 7 April 1945 to 17 August 1945.
Suzuki was a key voice in favor of Japan's acceptance...
Date of birth:
- 1867
Date of death:
- 1948 (age 81 years)
Francis Ledwidge
Francis Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was an Irish war poet from County Meath. Sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I.
Ledwidge was born at Janeville...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1887
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1917 (age 29 years)
John D. Sloat
John Drake Sloat (July 6, 1781 – November 28, 1867) was a commodore in the United States Navy and, in 1846, claimed California for the United States.
He was born in Sloatsburg, New York, of Dutch ancestry, and orphaned at an early age, his father...
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1781
Date of death:
- Nov 28, 1867 (age 86 years)
Henry Ireton
Henry Ireton (1611 - 26 November 1651), was an English general in the army of Parliament during the English Civil War. He was the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell.
He was the eldest son of German Ireton of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, and was...
Date of birth:
- 1611
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1651 (age 40 years)
Charles Fleetwood
Charles Fleetwood (c. 1618 – 4 October 1692), was an English Parliamentary soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1652-55, where he enforced the Cromwellian Settlement. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity as among...
Date of birth:
- 1618
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1692 (age 74 years)
John Lambert
General John Lambert (Autumn 1619 - March 1684) served as an English Parliamentary general in the English Civil War.
Lambert, born at Calton Hall, Kirkby Malham, near Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, of a long-established family, studied law...
Date of birth:
- 1619
Date of death:
- Mar 1684 (age 65 years)
Hannah Snell
Hannah Snell (1723–1792) was a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier.
Hannah Snell was born in Worcester, England on 23 April, 1723. Locals claim that she played a soldier even as a child. In 1740, she moved to London and...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1723
Date of death:
- 1792 (age 68 years)
Peter Muhlenberg
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (October 1, 1746 – October 1, 1807) was a clergyman, a soldier and a politician of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Post-Revolutionary eras in Pennsylvania.
Muhlenberg was born to Anna and Henry Muhlenberg in Trappe,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1746
Date of death:
- Oct 1, 1807 (age 61 years)
Henry Knox
Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 – October 25, 1806) was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War.
Henry Knox was born in Boston to parents of Scots...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1750
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1806 (age 56 years)
John A. Quitman
John Anthony Quitman (b. September 1, 1798, Rhinebeck, New York – July 17, 1858) was an American politician and soldier. He served as Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 as a Whig and again from 1850 to 1851 as a Democrat.
John A. Quitman...
Date of birth:
- 1798
Date of death:
- 1858 (age 60 years)
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (Latin: L•CORNELIVS•L•F•P•N•SVLLA•FELIX) (c. 138 BC – 78 BC), or simply Sulla, was a Roman general and politician, holding the office of consul twice as well as the dictatorship.
Sulla's dictatorship came during a high...
Date of birth:
- 138 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 78 B.C.E. (age 60 years)
Franz von Papen
Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen (help·info) (29 October 1879 – 2 May 1969) was a German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1879
Date of death:
- May 2, 1969 (age 89 years)
Eric Shinseki
Eric Ken Shinseki (born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army four-star general who is currently serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. His final U.S. Army post was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999...
Date of birth:
- Nov 28, 1942 (age 67 years)
Charles de Saint-Évremond
Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond (April 1, 1610 - September 29, 1703), was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1610
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1703 (age 93 years)
Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkahəɫ̪ bˠɾˠuː]; born Charles William St. John Burgess) (18 July 1874 – 7 July 1922) was an Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1874
Date of death:
- Jul 7, 1922 (age 48 years)
D'Artagnan
Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan (c. 1611 Lupiac - 25 June, 1673 Maastricht) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalized account of his...
Date of birth:
- 1611
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1673 (age 62 years)
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur (and abbé) de Brantôme (c. 1540 – 15 July 1614) was a French historian, soldier and biographer.
Brantôme was born in Perigord, Aquitaine, the third son of the baron de Bourdeille. His mother and maternal grandmother...
Date of birth:
- 1540
Date of death:
- Jul 15, 1614 (age 74 years)
Philip Schuyler
Philip John Schuyler (November 20, 1733 - November 18, 1804) was a general in the American Revolution and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler.
Philip...
Date of birth:
- Nov 20, 1733
Date of death:
- Nov 18, 1804 (age 71 years)
Ziaur Rahman
Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam, Hilal-i-Jurat (Bengali: জিয়াউর রহমান Ziaur Rôhman) (January 19, 1936 – May 30, 1981) was a charismatic Bangladeshi war hero, politician and statesman. He was the President of Bangladesh from 1976 until...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1936
Date of death:
- May 30, 1981 (age 45 years)
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914) fought in the United States Army in the Mexican–American War and in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He later served as the thirtieth governor of Kentucky.
After...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1823
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1914 (age 90 years)
Edward Sexby
Colonel Edward Sexby or Saxby (1616 - 13 January, 1658) was an English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell. Later he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination.
Edward Sexby was born in Suffolk in 1616 but little...
Date of birth:
- 1616
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 1658 (age 42 years)
Kurt von Schleicher
Kurt von Schleicher (help·info) (7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic.
Schleicher was born in Brandenburg an der Havel, the son of a Prussian officer and a...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1882
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 1934 (age 52 years)
James Oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe (December 22, 1696 – June 30, 1785) was a British general, a philanthropist, and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer in Britain, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors'...
Date of birth:
- Dec 22, 1696
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 1785 (age 88 years)
