Albert III (German: Albrecht) (27 January 1443 â 12 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony. He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
AbbÄs I, byname Ê¿AbbÄs the Great, (born Jan. 27, 1571âdied Jan. 19, 1629), shah of Persia from 1588 to 1629, who strengthened the Safavid dynasty by expelling Ottoman and Uzbek troops from Persian soil and by creating a standing army.
Lieutenant General Richard Taylor was a Confederate commander during the American Civil War. The son of President Zachary Taylor, Richard Taylor saw service in the 1862 Valley Campaign before moving through several posts in the West where he defeated the Union Red River Campaign. The commander of the Army of Tennessee at the end of the conflict, Richard Taylor surrendered on May 8, 1865.
Robert Sanford Foster (January 27, 1834 â March 3, 1903) was a Union general from Indiana who served during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in the Siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign. After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, Foster was selected later that year to serve as a member of the Military Commission established to try the conspirators accused of the murder.
Marshal-Admiral the Marquis TÅgÅ HeihachirÅ (æ±é· å¹³å
«é; 27 January 1848 â 30 May 1934), served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan’s greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904â1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called TÅgÅ “the Nelson of the East”.
Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 â July 8, 1986) was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office.
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