The Greatest Japanese Military Leaders

Birthdate: March 19, 1922

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Kainan, Wakayama, Japan

Died: January 16, 2014

Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer who had served in World War II and was the penultimate Japanese soldier to surrender. He hid in the Philippines for 29 years, unable to figure out the war had ended, until he was officially relieved from duty. He later wrote an autobiography.