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1633 S̩bastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Seigneur de Vauban, later Marquis de Vauban, (May 04, 1633 РMar 30, 1707) commonly referred to as Vauban, was a French military engineer who served under Louis XIV. He is generally considered the greatest engineer of his time, and one of the most important in Western military history.
1786 Dimitrios Koliopoulos Plapoutas (Greek: ÎημήÏÏÎ·Ï ÎολιÏÏοÏ
Î»Î¿Ï Î Î»Î±ÏοÏÏαÏ) (May 15, 1786 â July 1865) was a Greek general who fought during the Greek War of Independence against the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
1788 James Gadsden (May 15, 1788 â December 26, 1858) was an American diplomat, soldier and businessman after whom the Gadsden Purchase is named, pertaining to land which the United States bought from Mexico, and which became the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico. James Gadsden served as Adjutant General of the U. S. Army from August 13, 1821 â March 22, 1822. Between 1853 and 1856, he served as U. S. Minister to Mexico. He was known commonly as General Gadsden, although he never had a rank above Colonel.
1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble (May 15, 1802 â January 2, 1888) was a United States Army officer, a civil engineer, a prominent railroad construction superintendent and executive, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War, most famous for his leadership role in the assault known as Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg .
1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (May 15, 1819 â October 23, 1893) was a lawyer, politician, and Union general during the American Civil War.
1917 Christian James Lambertsen (May 15, 1917 â February 11, 2011) was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen’s rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare. Lambertsen designed a series of rebreathers in 1940 (patent filing date: 16 Dec 1940) and in 1944 (patent issue date: 2 May 1944)[1] and first called his invention breathing apparatus. Later, after the war, he called it Laru (portmanteau for Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit) and finally, in 1952, he changed his invention’s name again to SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus).[2] Although diving regulator technology was invented by Ãmile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943 and was unrelated to rebreathers, the current use of the word SCUBA is largely attributed to the Gagnan-Cousteau invention. The US Navy considers Lambertsen to be “the father of the Frogmen”.
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