Famous people born in the year 1903

George John Dufek was an American naval officer, naval aviator, and polar expert. He served in World War II and the Korean War and in the 1940s and 1950s spent much of his career in the Antarctic, first with Admiral Byrd and later as supervisor of U.S. programs in the South Polar regions. Rear Admiral Dufek was the director of the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Virginia after his retirement from the Navy in 1959.....
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Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables.....
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Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr. was an American character actor, probably best remembered as the gunsel Wilmer, who tries to intimidate Humphrey Bogarts Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. His acting career spanned more than 60 years, with roles in films such as The Big Sleep, Shane, The Killing, and House on Haunted Hill.....
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Eric Arthur Blair , who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.....
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Ferenc Nagy was a Hungarian politician of the Smallholders Party. He was a Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary from 29 November 1945 to 5 February 1946 and a member of the High National Council from 7 December 1945 to 2 February 1946.....
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Emilio Giuseppe Dossena was an Italian painter who was born in Cavenago dAdda, Italy and died in Milan, Italy. He was also known simply as Giuseppe Dossena.....
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Empress Kjun , born Princess Nagako , was empress consort of Emperor Shwa of Japan. She was the mother of the present emperor, Akihito.....
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Claudette Colbert was an American cinema actress, and a leading lady in Hollywood for over two decades, who has been called The epitome of chic sophistication....
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Herbert Charles Hoover Jr. was a successful engineer, businessman, and politician. He served as United States Under Secretary of State from 1954 to 1957. His father was President Herbert Hoover.....
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Barbara Bedford was an American actress who appeared in dozens of silent movies. Her career declined after the introduction of sound, but she continued to appear in small roles until 1945.....
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Erich Walther was a German general of the Fallschirmjger who served during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Herman Edward Ed Hollis was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent. As an FBI special agent in the 1930s, Hollis worked with agents Melvin Purvis, Samuel P. Cowley and others fighting bank robbers, gangsters and organized crime in the Chicago area during the Great Depression. Hollis is best known for being killed in the line of duty during an intense shootout with Chicagoarea bank robber Lester Gillis, a.k.a. Baby Face Nelson, at the Battle of Ba....
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Florence Owens Thompson , born Florence Leona Christie, was the subject of Dorothea Langes famous photo Migrant Mother , an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirtytwo. Nipomo, California.....
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Eric William Ravilious was an English painter, designer, book illustrator and wood engraver. He grew up in East Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs. He served as a war artist, and died when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.....
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Frdrique Petrides , , was a BelgianAmerican conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York. It consisted of women musicians and premiered works by then relatively untried American composers, such as Paul Creston, Samuel Barber and David Diamond, that are now widely played and celebrated. She also edited and published the groundbreaking newsletter, Women in Music, which highlighted the activities of professional women musicians throughout the ag....
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Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. He is best remembered for portraying Napaloni in Chaplins The Great Dictator , receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.....
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Parker Otto Ackley was a prolific American gunsmith, author, columnist, and wildcat cartridge developer. The Ackley Improved family of wildcat cartridges are designed to be easily made by rechambering existing firearms, and fireforming the ammunition to decrease body taper and increase shoulder angle, resulting in a higher case capacity. Ackley improved not only standard cartridges, but also other popular wildcats, and was the first to create a .17 caliber centerfire cartridge.....
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Kumarasami Kamaraj , better known as K. Kamaraj , was a leader of the Indian National Congress, widely acknowledged as the Kingmaker in Indian politics during the 1960s. He served as Congress president for four years between 19641967 and was responsible for the elevation of Lal Bahadur Shastri to the position of Prime Minister of India after Indira Gandhi turned down the same at the time of Jawaharlal Nehrus death. Kamaraj was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu during 19541963 and a Member of Parl....
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Alan Dower Blumlein was an English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered as one of the most significant engineers and inventors of his time.....
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Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel was a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, doctor of geographical sciences , and Hero of the Soviet Union . Amateur radio callsigns U3AA, UA3AA, RAEM.....
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