Famous people born in the year 1917

Clarisse Leite was a Brazilian composer, pianist and music educator. She was born in So Paulo and studied in So Paulo and France. After completing her studies, she worked as a professor of music at Academia Internacional, Rio de Janeiro.....
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Endel Ruberg was an EstonianCanadian artist, naturalist, and humanitarian. He is best known for his leather and watercolour artwork as well as his volunteer work with children.....
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Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III , better known as Desi Arnaz or Desi Arnaz, Sr., was a Cubanborn American musician, actor, television producer, writer and director. He is best remembered for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American television series sitcom I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time. Arnaz was also internationally renowned for leading his Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. He and Ball are generally credited as the inventors of the ....
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Barry Commoner was an American biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He ran for president of the United States in the 1980 U.S. presidential election on the Citizens Party ticket. He served as editor of Science Illustrated magazine.....
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Ieoh Ming Pei , commonly known as I.160M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect. In 1948, Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf. There he spent seven years before establishing his own independent design firm I. M. Pei amp Associates in 1955, which became I. M. Pei amp Partners in 1966 and later in 1989 became Pei Cobb Freed amp Partners. Pei retired from fulltime practice in 1990. Since then, he has taken on work as an architectural consultant primarily from his son....
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Ermes Effron Borgnino, known as Ernest Borgnine was an American film and television actor whose career spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1955 for Marty. On television, he played Quinton McHale in the 19621966 series McHales Navy and costarred in the mid1980s action series Airwolf, in addition to a wide variety of other roles. Borgnine earned an Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the s....
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Ian William Geddes Johnson CBE was an Australian cricketer who played 45160Test matches as a slow offbreak bowler between 1946 and 1956. Johnson captured 109160Test wickets at an average of 29.19160runs per wicket and as a lower order batsman made 1,000160runs at an average of 22.92160runs per dismissal. He captained the Australian team in 17160Tests, winning seven and losing five, with a further five drawn. Despite this record, he is better known as the captain who lost consecutive Ashes serie....
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Jack Soo was a Japanese American actor. He is best known for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television sitcom Barney Miller.....
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Marudhur Gopalan Ramachandran , popularly known by the acronym MGR, was an Indian actor, director, producer, and politician who worked primarily in Tamil films and also served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu successively for three terms. MGR is a cultural icon in Tamil Nadu and is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors the Tamil film industry ever produced.....
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Ernst Germer was a highly decorated Oberleutnant in the Fallschirmjger 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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Jacob Lawrence was an AfricanAmerican painter known for his portrayal of AfricanAmerican life. But not only was he a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he also was an educator. Lawrence referred to his style as dynamic cubism, though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. He brought the AfricanAmerican experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught, and spent 15 years as a professor at ....
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Dallas McCord Mack Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Dallas Ross, Mark Mallory, Clark Collins, Dallas Rose, Guy McCord, Maxine Reynolds, Bob Belmont, and Todd Harding. His work is noteworthy for its focus on socioeconomic speculation, usually expressed in thoughtprovoking explorations of Utopian societies from a radical, sometime satiric, perspective. He was a considerably popular author from the 1950s to the 1970s, especially with readers of science fictio....
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Madeleine Zoe Damerment was a World War II spy and Special Operations Executive agent.....
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Homer Lee Wise was a United States Army soldier who received the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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John Birks Dizzy Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer.....
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Francis Brown Wai was a captain in the United States Army and received the Medal of Honor for actions during the recapture of the Philippines from Japan in 1944. As a youngster, Wai liked to surf and he played several sports in high school and college. He graduated from college with a degree in finance. Although he initially planned to work with his father, he joined the Hawaii National Guard, commissioned a lieutenant. Wai was sent with his unit to fight in World War II and he was killed durin....
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Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes.....
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Mara Esther Fernndez Gonzlez, better known as Esther Fernndez , was a Mexican film and television actress. She was one of the first female major stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1930s and 1940s.....
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Oliver F. Ollie Atkins was an American photographer who worked for the Saturday Evening Post and as personal photographer to President Richard Nixon.....
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Karan Dewan was an Indian cinema actor in Hindi films. He worked in over seventy films from 194179. He started as a journalist while still in college, editing a filmbased magazine in Urdu. His brother was a film producer and director, Jaimani Dewan.....
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