WAbdullah II bin Al-Hussein is King of Jordan, reigning since 7 February 1999. He is a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since 1921, and is a 41st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad.
WFrancisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral, GCTE was a Portuguese naval commander and politician.
WUrban Jacob Rasmus Børresen was a Norwegian rear admiral and industry leader.
WChristian Conrad Sophus Danneskiold-Samsøe, normally referred to as Christian Danneskiold-Samsøe, was a Danish count, landowner and administrative leader of the Royal Danish Theatre.
WJean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army".
WCount Carl August Ehrensvärd was a Swedish Navy admiral, politician and Minister for Naval Affairs 1907–1911.
WBernard Emié is a senior French diplomat who currently serves as the Director of the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE), France's main external intelligence agency.
WNikolai Ottovich Essen, better known as Nikolai Ottovich von Essen, was a Russian naval commander and admiral descended from the Baltic German noble Essen family. For more than two centuries, his ancestors had served in the Imperial Russian Navy, and seven had been awarded the Order of St. George, the highest military award of the Russian Empire. Essen was regarded as one of the most prominent admirals of the Russian naval force during World War I (1914-1918).
WPrince George Valdemar Carl Axel of Denmark was a Danish prince. He was a second cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
WPrince Matila Costiescu Ghyka, was a Romanian naval officer, novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher, academic and diplomat. He did not return to Romania after World War II, and was one of the most significant members of the Romanian diaspora. His first name is sometimes written as Matyla.
WHans Aimar Mow Grønvold was a Norwegian civil servant and music writer.
WAndreas Peter Hovgaard was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer.
WBaron Kataoka Shichirō was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
WRudolf von Leuthold was a German medical officer and academic.
WLiang Cheng, courtesy name Liang Chentung, also known as Liang Pi Yuk, and later as Chentung Liang Cheng, was a Chinese ambassador to the United States during the Qing dynasty. He was primarily responsible for negotiating the return payment by the US of its share of the Boxer Indemnity for the establishment of Tsinghua University and the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program.
WFinn Lied was a Norwegian military researcher and politician for the Labour Party. He was particularly known for work on the establishment of the Norwegian state oil company Statoil. His effort to ensure that a large part of the revenues from the oil industry that explored the petroleum deposits under the Norwegian continental shelf was taxed by the Norwegian state was of great importance.
WJohan Egeberg Mellbye was a Norwegian farmer and politician who served as the first leader of the Norwegian Centre Party from 1920–1921. He also served as Minister of Agriculture 1904–1905, then representing the Conservative Party.
WJoaquín León Milans del Bosch y Carrió was a Spanish military officer. The change in ideological orientation of the Milans del Bosch family was completed with his generation; traditionally, they had been liberal military officers, but during the twentieth century they aligned themselves with reactionary forces.
WGraf Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke, also known as Moltke the Younger, was a German general and Chief of the Great German General Staff. He was also the nephew of Generalfeldmarschall Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke who is commonly called "Moltke the Elder" to differentiate the two.
WRisto Heikki Ryti served as the fifth president of Finland from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period. He made a wide range of international contacts in the world of banking and within the framework of the League of Nations. Ryti served (1939-1940) as prime minister during the Winter War of 1939-1940 and the Interim Peace of 1940-1941. Later he became president during the Continuation War of 1941-1944. After the war, Ryti was the main defendant in the Finnish war-responsibility trials (1945-1946).
WBernhard Gottfried Max Hugo Eberhard, Graf von Schmettow, usually shortened to Eberhard Graf von Schmettow, was a German general of World War I.
WHeinrich Karl Sigismund Schroeter, as of 18 January 1901 von Schroeter, was a Prussian Landrat and chief of police.
WShiba Gorō was a samurai of Aizu Domain and later a career officer and general in the Meiji period Imperial Japanese Army.
WMajor-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.
WHeinrich "Heinz" Trettner was a German general who served in the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II and the Cold War. From 1964 to 1966 he served as Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, the head of the military of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was the last living general of the Wehrmacht.
WFrancisco Maria da Veiga, GCNSC, was a Portuguese judge and pro-monarchist.
WShigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954. Yoshida was one of the longest-serving Japanese Prime Ministers, and is the third-longest serving Prime Minister of Post-occupation Japan.