Famous people born in the year 1922
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Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun , Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit film trilogy , and Count Dooku in the final two films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy .....
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Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer
HeinzWolfgang Schnaufer was a German Luftwaffe night fighter pilot and is the highest scoring night fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during combat. All of his 121 victories were claimed during World War II at night, mostly against British fourengine bombers, for which he was awarded the coveted Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds on 16 October ....
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Heinz Sachsenberg
Heinz Wimmersaal Sachsenberg was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe. 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. Sachsenberg was credited with 104 aerial victories.....
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George W Dunaway
George W. Dunaway was the second Sergeant Major of the Army. He was sworn in on September 1, 1968 and served until his term ended in September 1970. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 24, 1922 and died on February 6, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.....
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Delbert Black
Delbert D. Black was the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, from 13 January 1967 to 1 April 1971.....
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Gerd Koch
Gerd Koch was a German cultural anthropologist best known for his studies on the material culture of Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific. He was associated with the Ethnological Museum of Berlin His field work was directed to researching and recording the use of artefacts in their indigenous context, to begin to understand these societies.....
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Gerhard Thyben
Gerhard Theben was a German former Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.....
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Claude Hall
Claude Hampton Hall, Sr. , was an historian of primarily American diplomacy who spent his entire academic career at Texas AampM University in College Station, Texas. In 1963, he published the definitive biography of former United States Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur.....
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A Durai Arasan
A. Durai Arasan was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Arantangi constituency in 1962, and 1967 elections.....
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Aage Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr 19 June 1922 9 September 2009 was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Mottelson and James Rainwater for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection. Starting from Rainwaters concept of an irregularshaped liquid drop model of the nucleus, Bohr and Mottelson developed a detailed theory th....
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Desiderio Hern ndez Xochitiotzin
Desiderio Hernndez Xochitiotzin was a Mexican artist best known for his largescale mural work inside the State Government Palace in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico, the last large scale mural of the Mexican muralism movement.....
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Aaron Shikler
Aaron Abraham Shikler was an American artist noted for portraits of American statesmen and celebrities like Jane Engelhard and Sister Parish.....
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Erich Hartmann
Erich Alfred Hartmann , nicknamed Bubi by his German comrades and The Black Devil by his Soviet adversaries, was a German fighter pilot during World War II and is the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions. He claimed, and was credited with, shooting down 352 Allied aircraft345 Soviet and 7 Americanwhile serving with the Luftwaffe. During the course of his career, Hartmann was forced ....
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Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes was an American actress, artist and childrens author, whose career spanned six decades. She was best known for her starring role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Miss Ellie Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie. Her notable films included Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo and I Remember Mama . She was the recipient of several acting awards and nominations throughout her career.....
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Cliff Young athlete
Albert Ernest Clifford Cliff Young, OAM was an Australian potato farmer and athlete from Beech Forest, Victoria, best known for his unexpected win of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at 61 years of age.....
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Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 270 episodes of the longrunning Perry Mason television series. She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason movies for television.....
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Hermann Lang SS officer
Hermann Lang was an Oberscharfhrer, in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. This was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.....
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Abdul Razak Hussein
Tun Abdul Razak Hussein was the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, ruling from 1970 to 1976.....
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Eric Willis
Sir Eric Archibald Willis KBE, CMG was an Australian politician, Cabinet Minister and the 34th Premier of New South Wales, serving from 23 January 1976 to 14 May 1976. Born in Murwillumbah in 1922, Willis was educated at Murwillumbah High School and the University of Sydney, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts with double honours. Enlisting during the Second World War, Willis served on the homefront and later served in New Guinea and the Philippines. He continued to serve the Citizen Military....
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