Birth Date Cake O'Clock Birth Date Clock

John Basilone

John Basilone
John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)

John Basilone was a United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle for Henderson Field in the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Navy Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was the only enlisted Marine to receive both of these decorations in World War II.

4 November 1916

Random

Born on the same birth date (4 November 1916): Ruth Handler • Walter Cronkite

Born on the same birth day (4 November): Alon Day • Amadou Toumani Touré • Barry Crocker • Carlos Gutierrez • Charles Despiau • Clark Graebner • Garo Aida • Igor Liba • La Belle Otero • Laura Bush • Marcell Jansen • Roger Wilbraham • Thomas Klestil • Yurii Bieliaiev

Born in the same month (November 1916): Dena Epstein • Evelyn Keyes • Forrest J Ackerman • Jean Papineau-Couture • Louis le Brocquy • Martha Settle Putney • Michael J. Ingelido • Paul Emery • Ramón José Velásquez • Roger Apéry • Sherwood Schwartz • Sid Luckman • Walter Cronkite