Famous people born in the year 1900
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Ivan Fedyuninsky
Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky was a Soviet military leader and Hero of the Soviet Union .....
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J sei Toda
Jsei Toda was a teacher, peace activist and second president of Soka Gakkai from 1951 to 1958. Imprisoned for two years during World War II under the charge of lsemajest, he emerged from prison intent on rebuilding the Soka Gakkai. He has been described as the architect of the Soka Gakkai, the person chiefly responsible for its existence today. Toda was the disciple of Tsunesabur Makiguchi and mentor of Daisaku Ikeda, respectively the first and third presidents of the Soka Gakkai. Todas leader....
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J Willard Marriott
John Willard Marriott, Sr. was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation , the parent company of one of the worlds largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies. The Marriott company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C. in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to its first motel in 1957. By the time he died, the Marriott company operated 1,400 restaurants and 143 hotels and resorts worldwide, including two ....
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Jack Cornwell
John Travers Cornwell VC , commonly known as Jack Cornwell or as Boy Cornwell, is remembered for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland. Having died at the age of only 16, he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Cornwell is the thirdyoungest recipient of the VC after Andrew Fitzgibbon and Thomas Flinn.....
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G nther Gumprich
Gnther Gumprich was a Kapitn zur See of Nazi Germanys Kriegsmarine who, during World War II, commanded a merchant raider. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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H O West
Herman O. West, known as H. O. West , was the cofounder and later owner of a chain of thirtythree department stores in mostly north Louisiana and southern Arkansas. From 1923 until his death, West was based at company headquarters in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.....
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Gabriel Fern ndez Ledesma
Gabriel Fernndez Ledesma was a Mexican painter, printmaker, sculptor, graphic artist, writer and teacher. He began his career working with artist Roberto Montenegro then moved into publishing and education. His work was recognized with two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Jos Guadalupe Posada medal and membership in the Saln de la Plstica Mexicana.....
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Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi Party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Hitlers personal lawyer. After the invasion of Poland, Frank became Nazi Germanys chief jurist in the occupied Poland General Government territory. During his tenure throughout World War II , he instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population and became directly involved in the mass murder of Jews and Poles. At the Nuremberg trials, he was found guilty of war crimes and....
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Edward Ardizzone
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE, RA was an English artist and creator of childrens books.....
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Hanut Singh
Rao Raja Hanut Singh was a British Indian Army soldier and polo player.....
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Harald Freiherr von Elverfeldt
Harald Max Gustav August Freiherr von Elverfeldt was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 9 Panzer Division. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Gene Austin
Gene Austin was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first crooners. His 1920s compositions When My Sugar Walks Down the Street and The Lonesome Road became pop and jazz standards.....
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Harry Diamond engineer
Harry Diamond was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and namesake for Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratories.....
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George Antheil
George Antheil was an American avantgarde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds musical, industrial, mechanical of the early 20th century.....
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Chiune Sugihara
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as ViceConsul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania. During World War II, he helped 6,000 Jews to leave the country by issuing transit visas so that they could travel to Japanese territory, risking his career and his familys lives. The Jews who escaped were refugees from Germanoccupied Western Poland or Russianoccupied Eastern Poland, as well as residents of Lithuania. In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions....
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David Marshall Williams
David Marshall Williams was the American firearms designer of the floating chamber and the shortstroke piston. Both designs used the high pressure gas generated in or near the breech of the firearm to operate the action of semiautomatic firearms like the M1 Carbine.....
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David Maxwell Fyfe 1st Earl of Kilmuir
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir GCVO PC QC , known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as the Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain....
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Christine Buisman
Christine Johanna Buisman was a Dutch phytopathologist who dedicated her short career to the research of Dutch elm disease and the selection of resistant elm seedlings. In 1927, Buisman provided the final proof that Graphium ulmi was the causal agent of the disease, concluding the controversy which had raged among Dutch and German scientists since 1922.....
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George Kistiakowsky
George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky was a UkrainianAmerican physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhowers Science Advisor.....
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