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Order of the Rising Sun
HONOR Founded in 1875 by Emperor Meiji, the Order of the Rising Sun is Japan's second most prestigious order. Until 2003 the order consisted solely of men.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Konrad Adenauer |
Politician |
5-Jan-1876 |
19-Apr-1967 |
Chancellor of West Germany, 1949-61 |
| Momofuku Ando |
Business |
5-Mar-1910 |
5-Jan-2007 |
Inventor of instant noodle soup |
| Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| Maurice Béjart |
Choreographer |
1-Jan-1927 |
22-Nov-2007 |
Innovative ballet choreographer |
| Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
| Leo Esaki |
Physicist |
12-Mar-1925 |
|
Electron tunneling |
| William E. Frenzel |
Politician |
31-Jul-1928 |
|
Congressman from Minnesota, 1971-91 |
| Kenichi Fukui |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1918 |
9-Jan-1998 |
Frontier orbitals |
| Henry B. Jackson |
Military |
21-Jan-1855 |
14-Dec-1929 |
Radio telegraphy |
| Jigoro Kano |
Sports Figure |
28-Oct-1860 |
4-May-1938 |
Founder of Judo |
| Masatoshi Koshiba |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1926 |
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Detected cosmic neutrinos |
| Tsung-Dao Lee |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1926 |
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Violations of parity law |
| Curtis LeMay |
Military |
15-Nov-1906 |
1-Oct-1990 |
USAF General |
| Douglas MacArthur |
Military |
26-Jan-1880 |
5-Apr-1964 |
General of the Army |
| Mike Mansfield |
Politician |
16-Mar-1903 |
5-Oct-2001 |
US Senator from Montana, 1953-77 |
| Thomas McInerney |
Military |
1937 |
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Fox News military analyst |
| George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
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Isolated carbonium ions |
| Józef Pilsudski |
Military |
5-Dec-1867 |
12-May-1935 |
Military dictator of Poland, 1926-35 |
| Ilya Prigogine |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1917 |
28-May-2003 |
Theory of dissipative structures |
| U Aung San |
Government |
13-Feb-1915 |
19-Jul-1947 |
Secured independence from Britain for Burma |
| Jacob Schiff |
Business |
10-Jan-1847 |
25-Sep-1920 |
New York banker |
| Wendell M. Stanley |
Chemist |
16-Aug-1904 |
15-Jun-1971 |
First to crystallize a virus |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
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