Joe Rosenthal

Joseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.

9 October 1911

Born on the same birth day (9 October): Alfred Dreyfus • Charles Read (RAAF officer) • Charles Rudolph Walgreen • Craig Brackins • Leopold V, Archduke of Austria • Peter Mansfield • Reichi Nakaido • Sarah Lovell • Steve McQueen (director) • Wayne Bartrim

Born in the same month (October 1911): Clare Hollingworth • Mary Blair • Michael Hordern • Pierre Dansereau • Sid Gillman • Sonny Terry • Sorley MacLean • Vaughn Monroe