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Ernest Edward Ernie Kovacs was an American comedian, actor, and writer.....
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ErnstWilhelm Reinert was a German former Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords 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. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Madhav Prasad Ghimire is a Nepali poet. He is best known for Gauri, Malati Mangale, Himal Pari Himal Wari, Aswathama, Rajeshwari and Shakuntala. He was honoured as the Rashtra Kavi of Nepal.....
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General Jacques Alfred Dextraze CC, CMM, CBE, DSO amp Bar, KStJ, CD was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the Defence Staff from 19721977.....
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Francis Charles Flaherty was an officer in the United States Naval Reserve and a recipient of Americas highest military decoration the Medal of Honor. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for helping his crewmates escape the sinking USS160Oklahoma160 at the expense of his own life, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.....
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Hauptmann HorstGnther von Fassong was a German World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. 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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James William Ike Altgens was an American photojournalist and field reporter for the Associated Press based in Dallas, Texas. Altgens began his career with the AP as a teenager and, following a stint with the United States Coast Guard, worked his way into a senior position with the AP Dallas bureau. While on assignment for the AP on November 22, 1963, Altgens made two historic photographs during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including the image of Jacqueline Kennedy and Secre....
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Bartolom Maximiliano Mor , known as Benny Mor, was a famous Cuban singer. Due to his fluid tenor voice and his great expressivity, he was known variously as El Brbaro del Ritmo and El Sonero Mayor. Mor was a master of most Cuban popular genres, such as the bolero, son montuno, mambo, and guaracha. Mor formed and led the Banda Gigante, one of the leading Cuban big bands of the 1950s, until his death in 1963.....
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Graham Boynton Purcell, Jr. , was a United States representative from Texas 13th congressional district.....
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Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE was an English film, television, and stage actor. His most notable film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in most of the Halloween series, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape and George in Culdesac.....
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Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft, baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres, becoming a major force in popular music for three decades. Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a national television variety show, The Nat King Cole Show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death from lung cancer in Februar....
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Eva Gabor was a Hungarianborn American socialite, actress, and singer. She was widely known for her role on the 196571 television sitcom Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Alberts character, Oliver Wendell Douglas. She voiced Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disneys The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. Gabor was successful as an actress in film, on Broadway and on television. She was also a successful businessperson, marketing wigs, clothing an....
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Frank George Gross, OMC was a philanthropist awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship one month after his death in 2006. He is the only ChathamKent resident to be recognized by the Government of Ontario for humanitarianism.....
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Ellen Muriel Deason , known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. She broke down a female barrier in country music with her 1952 hit recording, It Wasnt God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.....
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Grant Frederick Timmerman was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War II.....
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Mara Eva Duarte de Pern was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Pern and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Pern , or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.....
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Patricia Paz Maria Medina was an English actress. Her father Ramn Medina Nebot was Spanish from the Canary Islands, and her mother was English. Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, Medina began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s. She worked her way up to leading roles in the mid1940s and left England for Hollywood.....
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Lauri Allan Trni , later known as Larry Thorne, was a Finnish Army captain who led an infantry company against the Soviet Union in the Finnish Winter and Continuation Wars and moved to the United States after World War II. He fought under three flags Finnish, German , and American when he served in U.S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.....
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Major Everett Parker Pope was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his conspicuous gallantry on Peleliu in September 1944 while leading his men in an assault on a strategic hill, and for holding it, with rocks and bare fists when ammunition ran low, against Japanese suicide attacks.....
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Eve McVeagh was an American actress of film, television, stage, and radio. Her career spanned 52 years from her first stage role through her last stage appearance. McVeaghs roles included leading and supporting parts as well as smaller character roles in which she proved a gifted character actress.....
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