Famous Military

This list currently contains 154 personalities among which there are for example, Adolf Hitler, Napoléon Ier, Charles de Gaulle, Jeanne d'Arc, Philippe de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Mouammar Kadhafi, Philippe Pétain, Fidel Castro, Heinrich Himmler, Hugo Chávez, Klaus Barbie, George Patton, Hosni Moubarak, Idi Amin Dada, ...

Nobel Peace Prize (soldiers) Soldiers of the First World War Soldiers of the Second World War

Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné

† at 78 years

Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné

1552 • 1630

Born 100 years ago in 2025

† at ~78 years

~ 1925 • 2003

† at 63 years

1882 • 1946

George Armstrong Custer

† at 36 years

George Armstrong Custer

1839 • 1876

Robert Baden-Powell

† at 83 years

Robert Baden-Powell

1857 • 1941

† at 79 years

1921 • 2001

† at 77 years

1913 • 1991

† at ~64 years

~-247 • ~-183

Baron de Münchhausen

† at 76 years

Baron de Münchhausen

1720 • 1797

Novel characters

Fulgencio Batista

† at 72 years

Fulgencio Batista

1901 • 1973

Francis Beaufort

Born 250 years ago in 2024

† at 83 years

Francis Beaufort

1774 • 1857

Chadli Bendjedid

† at 83 years

Chadli Bendjedid

1929 • 2012

† at 94 years

1916 • 2010

† at 47 years

Simón Bolívar

1783 • 1830

Joseph Bonaparte

† at 76 years

Joseph Bonaparte

1768 • 1844

Louis Bonaparte

† at 67 years

Louis Bonaparte

1778 • 1846

Nobility and royalty

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

† at 23 years

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte

1856 • 1879

Nobility and royalty

† at 95 years

1928 • 2023

Houari Boumédiène

† at 46 years

Houari Boumédiène

1932 • 1978

Josip Broz Tito

† at 87 years

Josip Broz Tito

1892 • 1980

Pierre Cambronne

† at 71 years

Pierre Cambronne

1770 • 1842

† at 58 years

1809 • 1868

† at 90 years

1926 • 2016

Ahmed Chah Massoud

† at 48 years

Ahmed Chah Massoud

1953 • 2001

Nicolas Chauvin

Nicolas Chauvin

~1790

Fictional characters

† at 58 years

1954 • 2013

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

† at 61 years

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

1741 • 1803

Jean-Loup Chrétien

Jean-Loup Chrétien

Winston Churchill

Born 150 years ago in 2024

† at 90 years

Winston Churchill

1874 • 1965

Michael Collins

† at 90 years

Michael Collins

1930 • 2021

† at 49 years

1786 • 1836

Oliver Cromwell

† at 59 years

Oliver Cromwell

1599 • 1658

Dwight D. Eisenhower

† at 78 years

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1890 • 1969

† at ~19 years

~1412 • 1431

Charles d'Éon de Beaumont

† at 81 years

Charles d'Éon de Beaumont

1728 • 1810

Pierre Daumesnil

† at 56 years

Pierre Daumesnil

1776 • 1832

Maximilien de Béthune

† at 82 years

Maximilien de Béthune

1559 • 1641

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

† at 81 years

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

1729 • 1811

Charles de Gaulle

† at 79 years

Charles de Gaulle

1890 • 1970

Philippe de Gaulle

† at 102 years

Philippe de Gaulle

1921 • 2024

François de La Rochefoucauld

† at 66 years

François de La Rochefoucauld

1613 • 1680

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (vicomte de Turenne)

† at 63 years

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (vicomte de Turenne)

1611 • 1675

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

† at 62 years

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

1889 • 1952

Patrice de Mac Mahon

† at 85 years

Patrice de Mac Mahon

1808 • 1893

† at ~35 years

~1405 • 1440

José de San Martín

† at 72 years

José de San Martín

1778 • 1850

Pierre de Villiers

Pierre de Villiers

† at 68 years

1952 • 2021

Aristide Denfert-Rochereau

† at 55 years

Aristide Denfert-Rochereau

1823 • 1878

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

† at 48 years

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

1758 • 1806

† at 75 years

1859 • 1935

Bertrand du Guesclin

† at ~60 years

Bertrand du Guesclin

~1320 • 1380

Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette

† at 76 years

Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette

1757 • 1834

Nobility and royalty

Thomas Edward Lawrence

† at 46 years

Thomas Edward Lawrence

1888 • 1935

† at 56 years

1906 • 1962

Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali

† at 83 years

Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali

1936 • 2019

Bachar el-Assad

Bachar el-Assad

† at 69 years

1930 • 2000

Gnassingbé Eyadema

Died 20 years ago in 2025

† at 69 years

Gnassingbé Eyadema

1935 • 2005

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi

† at 106 years

1914 • 2021

† at 77 years

1851 • 1929

Richard Francis Burton

† at 69 years

Richard Francis Burton

1821 • 1890

Joseph Gallieni

† at 67 years

Joseph Gallieni

1849 • 1916

Giuseppe Garibaldi

† at 74 years

Giuseppe Garibaldi

1807 • 1882

† at 53 years

Hermann Göring

1893 • 1946

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

† at 83 years

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1867 • 1951

Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard

† at 74 years

Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard

1818 • 1893

Georges Guynemer

† at 22 years

Georges Guynemer

1894 • 1917

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Reinhard Heydrich

† at 38 years

Reinhard Heydrich

1904 • 1942

Heinrich Himmler

† at 44 years

Heinrich Himmler

1900 • 1945

† at 56 years

1889 • 1945

Roger Holeindre

† at 90 years

Roger Holeindre

1929 • 2020

Henri Ier de Guise

† at 37 years

Henri Ier de Guise

1550 • 1588

Nobility and royalty

Tokugawa Ieyasu

† at 73 years

Tokugawa Ieyasu

1543 • 1616

Jacques II de Chabannes de La Palice

Died 500 years ago in 2025

† at ~55 years

Jacques II de Chabannes de La Palice

~1470 • 1525

† at 78 years

1767 • 1845

† at 78 years

1852 • 1931

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

† at 76 years

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

1760 • 1836