Famous people born in the year 1920

Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD worked professionally as a lawyer, but is best known as a historian for his study of ballet. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dance for twenty three years and has been a VicePresident since 1993 and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust. In 1997 he was made a Doctor of the University by the University of Surrey, its highest honorary doctorate.....
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He performed with many famous jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden, Sarah Vaughan and Benny Goodman, with whom he went on several international tours.....
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Daniel Chappie James Jr. was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, who in 1975 became the first African American to reach the rank of fourstar general. He is the third person of SubSaharan origin to become highestranking officer in the Western world after ThomasAlexandre Dumas and Toussaint Louverture .....
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Donato Joseph Danny Cedrone was an American guitarist and bandleader, best known for his work with Bill Haley amp His Comets on their epochal Rock Around the Clock in 1954.....
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Daniel P. Pierce was a painter, printmaker and sculptor. He founded the University of Alaskas art department in 1960 and retired as professor emeritus of art from the University of Wisconsin, Millwuakee. In 2012, he received an honorary doctorate of arts from the University of AlaskaFairbanks in recognition of his accomplishments as an artist and educator and for his contributions to the practice of art in Alaska.....
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Colonel Gail Seymour Hal Halvorsen is a retired career officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He piloted C47s and C54s during the Berlin airlift from 19481949, where he became well known as the original Candy Bomber or the Rosinenbomber in Germany and received the Congressional Gold Medal.....
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King Farouk was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.....
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Jannetje Johanna Schaft was a Dutch communist resistance fighter during World War II. She became known as the girl with the red hair . Her secret name in the resistance movement was Hannie.....
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HansArnold Stahlschmidt was a German fighter pilot and ace. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. He scored all of his 59 victories against the Western Allies in North Africa flying the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Stahlschmidt was a close friend of the prominent ace HansJoachim Marseille .....
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HansJoachim Frster was a German Uboat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross . He is credited with the sinking of two merchant ships for a total of 12,846160gross register tons160 plus two warships for a total of 1,775160GRT, including the HMCS160Alberni and HMS160Loyalty. He and the entire crew of U480 were killed when U480 was sunk between 18 and 24 February 1945 in a minefield in position 502204N 014410W 50.36778N 1.73611W 50.36778 1.73611 ....
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Dattopant Bapurao Thengadi, was a Hindu Ideologue, Indian trade union leader, and founder of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. He was born in the village of Arvi in Wardha district in Maharashtra.....
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Edward Andrew Bennett, Jr. was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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David Warren Dave Brubeck was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including In Your Own Sweet Way and The Duke. Brubecks style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mothers attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.....
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Hans Reiter was a Untersturmfhrer in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.....
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Charles Charlie Parker, Jr. , also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.....
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Genevive de GaulleAnthonioz was a member of the French Resistance and served as president of ATD Quart Monde. Her uncle was General Charles de Gaulle.....
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Gene Davis was an American painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color.....
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Harold Elwood Bunny Comstock was a World War II fighter ace in the 56th Fighter Group and a career fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. After a test flight of the Republic P47 Thunderbolt on 13 November 1942, Republic Aviation issued a press release on 1 December 1942, claiming that he and fellow pilot, Lt. Roger Dyar had exceeded the speed of sound.....
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Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura , and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven .....
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Alan Geoffrey Page DSO, OBE, DFC amp Bar , known as Geoffrey Page, was a British flying ace of the Second World War, and a founding member of the Guinea Pig Club.....
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