Lived to 100

He was one of four Tuskegee Airmen who shot down three enemy planes in a single day.

Cummings was both a national swimming champion and a World War II pilot.

She co-founded the nation’s first nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado.

She was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation.

He was the last remaining crew member of the USS Utah.

He was a Navy medic who rushed to help the victims of the attack.

She was a Holocaust survivor who competed in her first Olympics at 31 years old.

Carter was the longest-lived president in U.S. history.

She loved to champion the work of young, up-and-coming designers.

Fernandez was just 17 when the Pearl Harbor attack was launched in Hawaii.