Fra’ Jean “Parisot” de la Valette (4 February 1495[?] â 21 August 1568) was a French nobleman and 49th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, from 21 August 1557 to his death in 1568. As a Knight Hospitaller, joining the order in the Langue de Provence, he fought with distinction against the Turks at Rhodes.
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (4 February 1740 â 28 August 1793) was a French general. As a young officer in the Bourbon Royal army, he served in the Seven Years’ War. In the American Revolutionary War he joined Rochambeau’s Expédition Particulière (Special Expedition) supporting the American colonists. He was guillotined in Paris in 1793 for inadequacy in command of the French revolutionary armies fighting continental monarchist armies.
Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura KoÅciuszko (English: Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko was a Polish army officer and statesman who gained fame both for his role in the American Revolution and for his leadership of a national insurrection in his homeland.
Halbert Eleazer Paine (February 4, 1826 â April 14, 1905) was a lawyer, politician, and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he was elected to three terms as U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin.
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, (born Feb. 4 [Jan. 23, Old Style], 1881, Verkhneye, Russiaâdied Dec. 2, 1969, Moscow), military and political leader of the Soviet Union who served as head of state after the death of his close friend and collaborator Joseph Stalin.
Johann Baptist Albin Rauter (4 February 1895 â 24 March 1949) was a high-ranking Austrian-born SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era. He was the highest SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands and therefore the leading security and police officer there during the period of 1940â1945. He was responsible for the repression of the Dutch resistance and supervised the deportation of the Dutch Jews to the concentration and death camps. In March 1945 he was severely wounded by an attack of the Dutch resistance. After the war he was handed over to the Dutch government by the British Army. He was tried by a special Dutch court and sentenced to death.
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