Famous people born in the year 1905

Elias Canetti was a German language author, born in Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and nonfiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power.....
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Hedda Zinner, or Hedda ErpenbeckZinner was a German political writer, actress, comedian, journalist and radio director.....
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Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow leftarm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956160wickets in firstclass cricket at an average of 14.90 and 144 wickets in 40160Tests at an average of 24.37. Named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1932, he is regarded as one of the most effective slow leftarm bowlers to have played cricket. Never someone who spun the ball sharply, he achieved success through the accuracy of his bowl....
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Helen Newington Wills , also known as Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She became famous around the world for holding the top position in womens tennis for a total of nine years 192733, 1935 and 1938. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her career, including 19 singles titles.....
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Colonel Elmer Ellsworth Kirkpatrick, Jr., was a United States Army Quartermaster Corps and Army Corps of Engineers officer who worked on the Alaska Highway, the Canol project, and the Manhattan Project during World War II.....
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Elizabeth Muriel Gregory Elsie MacGill, OC , known as the Queen of the Hurricanes, was the worlds first female aircraft designer. She worked as an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft construction during her years at Canadian Car and Foundry in Fort William, Ontario. After her work at CCampF she ran a successful consulting business. Between 19671970 she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, ....
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Emilio Gino Segr was an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959. From 1943 to 1946 he worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a group leader for the Manhattan Project. He found in April 1944 that Thin Man, the proposed plutonium guntype nuclear weapon would not work because of the presence of plutonium240 impurities.....
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Henry Jaynes Fonda was a celebrated American film and stage actor with a career spanning more than five decades.....
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Emmanuel Mounier was a French philosopher, theologian and essayist.....
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Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to talkies after 1927. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname The It Girl. Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.....
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Gertrude Caroline Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world recordholder in five events. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Among other nicknames, the press sometimes called her Queen of the Waves.....
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Nawab Nisar Ahmed Khan, Bahadur Yar Jung was an Hyderabadi Muslim who argued for the separation of Muslim states in India during the British Raj.....
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Henry Talmage Hammerin Hank Elrod was a US Marine Corps aviator. He was the first aviator to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II, for his heroism in the defense of Wake Island.....
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Henry Wilcoxon was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMilles films, also serving as DeMilles associate producer on his later films.....
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Gilbert Roland was a Mexicanborn American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964, and inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.....
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Clifford Charles Cliff Arquette was an American actor and comedian, famous for his TV role as Charley Weaver.....
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Erich Lorenz was a highly decorated Oberst of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht who commanded the 85. InfanterieDivision during World War II. 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 designation, were awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery, or successful military leadership. He was also awarded the rare Close Combat Clasp in Gold, one of only 631 such decorations awarded during Worl....
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Mary Elizabeth Jones Brocato Three grandchildren Annette B. Seamands Rickey Joseph Brocato....
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Dhyan Chand was an Indian field hockey player, who is widely considered as the greatest field hockey player of all time. Chand is most remembered for his extraordinary goalscoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals in field hockey, during an era where India was the most dominant team in Hockey.....
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Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency.....
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