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Knight of the Legion of Honour
7,260 memorials
Order of Lenin
5,932 memorials
Officer of the Legion of Honour
3,945 memorials
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
3,826 memorials
Order of the Red Star
3,520 memorials
Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
3,307 memorials
Memorial
03/25/1928 – 08/07/2025
97 years
American astronaut
12/19/1944 – 01/02/2022
77 years
kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
07/28/1922 – 11/01/2008
86 years
Swiss oceanographer
06/22/1906 – 02/07/2001
94 years
American aviator and writer
02/06/1913 – 12/09/1996
83 years
02/10/1903 – 02/10/1977
74 years
12/18/1908 – 11/25/1968
59 years
08/15/1875 – 04/28/1946
70 years
10/17/1933 – 06/07/2024
90 years
American astronaut and lunar explorer
11/02/1931 – 11/12/2023
92 years
American oceanographer
03/14/1928 – 11/07/2023
95 years