Famous people born in the year 1916

Barney Fushimi Hajiro was an American combat veteran of World War II who had received the Medal of Honor, the highest United States military award for valor.....
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Sir Barrie Heath, DFC, AE was a World War II Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war he had a successful career in industry, rising to become chairman of the industrial conglomerate GKN. In 1978 he received a knighthood for services to export.....
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Forrest J Ackerman was an American magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom, a leading expert on science fiction and fantasy films, and acknowledged as the worlds most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia. He was based in Los Angeles, California.....
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Hilary Koprowski was a Polish and American virologist and immunologist, and the inventor of the worlds first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or coauthored over 875 scientific papers and coedited several scientific journals. Koprowski received many academic honors and national decorations, including the Belgian Order of the Lion, the French Order of Merit and Legion of Honour, Finlands Order of the Lion, and Polands Order of Merit.....
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John Herbert Jackie Gleason was an American comedian, actor, and musician who developed a style and characters in his career from growing up in Brooklyn, New York. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, exemplified by his character Ralph Kramden in the television series The Honeymooners. By filming the episodes with Electronicam, Gleason later could release the series in syndication, building its popularity over the years with new audiences. He also developed The Jackie Glea....
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Kroly Szab was an employee of the Swedish Embassy in Budapest from 1944 to 1945. He was a supporter of Raoul Wallenberg and had a significant role in making contact with the representatives of the Hungarian police and other state officials. He was arrested without legal proceedings 1953 in Budapest in a Raoul Wallenberg secret trial.....
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Lo Ferr was a Monegasque French poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit singles, particularly between 1960 and the midseventies. Some of his songs have become classics of the French chanson repertoire, including Avec le temps, Cest extra, Jolie Mme or Paris canail....
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Franois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand 26 October 1916 8 January 1996 was a French politician who was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the longestserving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the first figure from the left elected President under the Fifth Republic.....
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Perry Elmo Futrell Jr. , was a real estate broker and appraiser who served from 1962 to 1966 as the Democratic mayor of Pineville, a city located east of the Red River across from Alexandria in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana.....
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Jack Clifford Smith was a Los Angeles journalist, author, and newspaper columnist. His daily column, which ran in the Los Angeles Times for 37 years, expressed keen observations of the life he loved in eversurprising Southern California and was described by former Los Angeles Times Editor Shelby Coffey III as one of the abiding highlights of the Los Angeles Times. Smith was the author of 10 books, many of them based on his columns, and won the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional....
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John Holbrook Jack Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote 9 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and one each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Some editions of his published works give his year of birth as 1920.....
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Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Glenn Ford was a Canadianborn American actor from Hollywoods Golden Era with a career that lasted more than 50 years. Although he played many different roles, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances.....
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Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi , also known as M.S., was a Carnatic vocalist. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, Indias highest civilian honour. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asias Nobel Prize, in 1974 with the citation reading Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semiclassical songs in the carnatic tradition of South India.....
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Dirk John Vlug was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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Erwin Cohrs was a highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II. 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.....
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General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, PVSM was an officer of the Indian Army who served as the 9th Chief of Army Staff. In a long service spanning four decades, Bewoor saw action during World War II and later was involved in Indian Army operations during the 1965 as well as 1971 IndoPakistani war. He succeeded Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw as the Army chief in January 1973 and following his retirement from the army, served as the Indian Ambassador to Denmark till 1979. He was a recipient of the third hi....
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Horace Seaver Stump Carswell, Jr. was a United States Army major who was killed in action while serving as a member of the Army Air Forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.....
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Horacio de la Costa was the first Filipino Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines, and a recognized authority in Philippine and Asian culture and history.....
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Olivia Mary de Havilland is a BritishAmerican actress whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in fortynine feature films, and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Classical Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Gone with the Wind , and her later awardwinning performances in To Each His Own , The Snake Pit , and The Heiress . Born in Tokyo to English parents, de160 Havilland and her younger sister, ....
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Howard Finster was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Gardens, a folk art sculpture garden with over 46,000 pieces of art. His creations include outsider art, nave art, and visionary art. Finster first came to widespread notice in the 1980s with his album cover designs for R.E.M. and Talking Heads.....
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