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1755 Armand-Michel Bacharetie de Beaupuy (14 July 1755 â 19 October 1796) was a French soldier. He rose in rank to command an infantry division during the Wars of the French Revolution. He was killed at the Battle of Emmendingen. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 18.
1818 Nathaniel Lyon (July 14, 1818 â August 10, 1861) was the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. He is noted for his actions in Missouri in 1861, at the beginning of the conflict, to forestall secret secessionist plans of the governor Claiborne Jackson.
1831 William Dwight, Jr. (July 14, 1831 â April 21, 1888), was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Raised in Massachusetts, he came from a notable family of military leaders.
1913 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 â December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. The leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, he later served as the 40th vice president of the United States from 1973 to 1974. When Nixon resigned in 1974, Ford succeeded to the presidency. He was defeated for election to a full term, in 1976. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, serving from 1942 to 1946; he left as a lieutenant commander.
1922 Robin Olds (July 14, 1922 â June 14, 2007) was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the United States Air Force. He was a “triple ace”, with a combined total of 17 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general, after 30 years of service.
1947 Claudia Jean Kennedy (born July 14, 1947) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. She is the first woman to reach the rank of three-star general in the United States Army. She retired in 2000 after 31 years of military service.
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