Famous people born in the year 1900
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George L Fox
George Lansing Fox was a Methodist minister and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester during World War II.....
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Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL was an English author of novels, short stories and childrens books as Elizabeth Goudge. She won the Carnegie Medal for British childrens books in 1946 for The Little White Horse. She was a bestselling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s through the 1970s.....
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Helen Gahagan Douglas
Helen Gahagan Douglas was an American actress and politician. She was the third woman and first Democratic woman elected to Congress from California her election made California one of the first two states to elect female members to the House from both parties.....
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Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes MacArthur was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered the nickname First Lady of American Theatre and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award . Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americas highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986.....
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Henry Breault
Henry Breault was a United States Navy submarine sailor who received the Medal of Honor for his actions while serving aboard the submarine USS160O5160. He was the first submariner and he remains the only enlisted submariner to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions aboard a United States submarine.....
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Ghislaine Dommanget
Ghislaine Marie Franoise Dommanget was a French comedy actress and the Princess consort of Monaco from 1946 to 1949.....
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Henry Somerset 10th Duke of Beaufort
Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort KG, GCVO, KStJ, PC , styled Marquess of Worcester until 1924, was an English peer, Gloucestershire landowner, leading figure in the equestrian world, and society figure. A relative and very close friend of the Royal Family, he held the office of Master of the Horse for fortytwo years , longer than anybody else. He also founded the Badminton Horse Trials. The greatest foxhunter of the twentieth century, his long tenure as Master of the Be....
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Clayton McMichen
Clayton McMichen was an American fiddler and country musician.....
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Herbert Emery Schonland
Herbert Emery Schonland was a United States Navy Rear Admiral and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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Barbara Morgan photographer
Barbara Morgan was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers. She was a cofounder of the photography magazine Aperture.....
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Fr d ric Joliot Curie
Jean Frdric JoliotCurie , born Jean Frdric Joliot, was a French physicist, husband of Irne JoliotCurie and Nobel laureate.....
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Francisco J Serrano
Francisco J. Serrano y Alvarez de la Rosa was a Mexican civil engineer and architect.....
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Madeleine Renaud
Lucie Madeleine Renaud was a French actress best remembered for her work in the theatre. She did though appear in several films directed by Jean Grmillon including Remorques and Lumire dt .....
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Alastair Sim
Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE was a Scottish character actor who began his theatrical career at the age of thirty, but quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. He also appeared in more than fifty British films, starting in 1935.....
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Honor Fell
Dr Dame Honor Bridget Fell, DBE, Ph.D, D.Sc, FRS was a British scientist and zoologist. Her contributions to science included the development of experimental methods in organ culture, tissue culture, and cell biology.....
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Jacques Pr vert
Jacques Prvert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the Frenchspeaking world, particularly in schools. His best regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis .....
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Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi was a political activist from Bihar.....
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Narciso Ramos
Narciso Rueca Ramos was a journalist, lawyer, assemblyman and ambassador. He was the father of former Philippine President Fidel Ramos.....
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Olga Zhekulina
Olga Anatolyevna Zhekulina was a noted Russian painter and one of the famous Soviet puppeteers.....
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