101 years after the Armistice, 11/11/1918, anyone, famous or not, with a World War I connection
Wilfred Owen
Maurice Ravel
Umberto Boccioni
Henry Ford
Lena Guilbert Ford
Edwin Hubble
Ernest Hemingway
Christy Mathewson
Alice Fitzgerald
Harry S Truman
Winston S. Churchill
Edith Cavell
J.R.R. Tolkien
His later writings were hugely influenced by his experiences on the Western Front, with Mordor basically a stand-in for No-Man’s-Land and Samwise Gamgee modeled on the devoted noncoms who served with him.