Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) was an Italian explorer. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic ocean and began the widespread European colonization of the Americas.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a German pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. He was opposed to Hitler’s genocide of the Jews, and ran “underground seminaries” during the war. In 1943 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer was executed in the spring of 1945.