Famous people born in the year 1902

Frank Alton Armstrong, Jr. was a lieutenant general of the United States Air Force. As a brigadier general in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, he was the inspiration for the main character in the novel and subsequent film, Twelve OClock High. After the war, he held a variety of senior leadership positions prior to and following the establishment of the USAF as an independent service in 1947. Promoted to major general in 1950, he advanced to lieutenant general in 1956 and r....
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Donald Prentice Booth was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. During World War II he was the US Armys youngest theater commander. After World War II he was known for his commands of the 28th Infantry Division, the 9th Infantry Division and the Fourth United States Army. In addition, he served as High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands from 1958 to 1961.....
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Bernard Lige Austin was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War and command of submarines and surface ship forces, during which he became a distinguished combat commander of destroyers. He also commanded the United States Second Fleet, held numerous diplomatic, educational, and administrative staff positions, and a served a lengthy tour of duty as President of the Naval War College.....
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Frank Harold Spedding was a Canadian American chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.....
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Donald Steele Potter was an English sculptor, wood carver, potter and teacher.....
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Patrocio Barela, also known as Patrocinio Barela or Patrocino Barela , was a selftaught wood carver. Because of the religious nature of his subjects he was called a santero, but he did secular work too. His work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with other artists of the Federal Art Project and he was feted as a discovery. He was the first Mexican American artist to receive national recognition.....
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Bessie Smith Jones was an African American gospel and folk singer credited with helping to bring folk songs, games and stories to wider audiences in the 20th Century. Alan Lomax, who first encountered Jones on a field recording trip in 1959, said, She was on fire to teach America. In my heart, I call her the Mother Courage of American Black traditions.....
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Sir George Oswald Browning Gubby Allen CBE was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches. In firstclass matches, he played for Middlesex and Cambridge University. A fast bowler and hardhitting lowerorder batsman, Allen later became an influential cricket administrator who held key positions in the Marylebone Cricket Club, which effectively ruled English cricket at the time he also served as chairman of the England selectors.....
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Frederick Mackay Fred Trapnell was a United States Navy admiral and aviation pioneer. Trapnell was the first US Navy pilot to fly a jet aircraft, was considered the best, most experienced naval test aviator of his generation, cofounded the branchs first test pilot school, and played a pivotal role in both the development of future Naval aircraft and the survival of the postWorld War II Navys air arm.....
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Leland Hayward was a Hollywood and Broadway agent and theatrical producer. He produced the original Broadway stage productions of Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific and The Sound of Music.....
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Marcel Lajos Breuer , was a Hungarianborn modernist, architect and furniture designer. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer extended the sculptural vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the worlds most popular architects at the peak of 20thCentury design.....
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Helene Bertha Amalie Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress, dancer, and propagandist for the Nazis.....
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, and spent the last decade of his life at Florida State University.....
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Gustav Frhlich was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Langs 1927 film Metropolis. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s.....
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Paul Karl Maria Harteck was a German physical chemist. In 1945 under Operation Epsilon in the big sweep throughout Germany, Harteck was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces for suspicion of aiding the Nazis in their nuclear weapons program and he was incarcerated at Farm Hall, an English house fitted with covert electronic listening devices, for six months.....
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Paul Kelpe was a Germanborn American abstract painter. His constructions integrating found objects into paintings were the first such works created in the United States and he painted two of the five Williamsburg murals, the first abstract murals in the United States. In addition to his mural work for various American government projects, he was an innovative independent painter and university art professor. He was a pioneer of American abstract art, including his work in Chicago during a perio....
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William Powell Bill Lear was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the 8track cartridge, an audio tape system. Throughout his career of 46 years, Lear received over 120 patents.....
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Gaetano Alberto Guy Lombardo was a CanadianAmerican bandleader and violinist of Italian descent.....
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Fuad Chehab was the President of the Lebanese Republic from 1958 to 1964.....
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Marguerite Henry ne Breithaupt was an American writer of childrens books. Her fiftynine books based on true stories of horses and other animals captivated entire generations. She won the annual Newbery Medal for one of her books about horses and she was a runnerup for two others. One of the latter, Misty of Chincoteague , was the basis for several sequels and for the 1961 movie Misty.....
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