Famous people born in the year 1921

Forrest Morton Bird was an American aviator, inventor, and biomedical engineer. He is best known for having created some of the first reliable massproduced mechanical ventilators for acute and chronic cardiopulmonary care.....
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Rear Admiral Basil Charles Godfrey Place VC, CB, CVO, DSC , known as Godfrey Place, was an officer in the Royal Navy and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.....
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Lopold Reichling, was a Luxembourg biologist and naturalist.....
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Ruth Bazy Tankersley was an American breeder of Arabian horses and a newspaper publisher. She was a daughter of Senator Joseph Medill McCormick. Her mother was progressive Republican Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick, making Tankersley a granddaughter of the late Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio. Although Tankersley was involved with conservative Republican causes as a young woman, including a friendship with Senator Joseph McCarthy, her progressive roots reemerged in later years by the 21st century....
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Jack Joseph Valenti was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential procopyright lobbyists in the world.....
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Jack Warren Mathis was a United States Army Air Forces officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the United States militarys highest decoration, for his actions in World War II.....
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Alan Hale Jr. was an American film, stage, character and television actor and a restaurant owner. Hale Jr. was the son of character actor Alan Hale Sr. Hale Jr.s television career, which spanned four decades, was most noted for his costarring role in the 1960s series Gilligans Island. He also appeared on several talk and variety shows.....
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Ernst Haas was a photojournalist and a pioneering color photographer. During his 40year career, the Austrianborn artist bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. In addition to his prolific coverage of events around the globe after World War II, Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were widely disseminated by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first singleartist exhibitio....
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Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His bestknown composition, the ballad Misty, has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him one of the most distinctive of all pianists and a brilliant virtuoso. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd.....
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Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, known as Dirk Bogarde , was an English actor and writer. Initially a matine idol in films such as Doctor in the House for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in arthouse films. In a second career, he wrote seven bestselling volumes of memoirs, six novels and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph.....
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Nancy Jane Kulp was an American character actress best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on the popular CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies.....
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Nancy Davis Reagan was an American actress and the wife of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.....
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Lana Turner was an American film and television actress. Discovered in 1937 by a reporter as she sipped a soda in a Hollywood ice cream parlor and signed to a film contract by MetroGoldwynMayer at the age of 16, Turner first attracted attention in They Wont Forget , and later starred in featured roles, often as an ingenue.....
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Benjamen Chinn was an American photographer known especially for his black and white images of Chinatown, San Francisco and of Paris, France in the late 1940s and early 1950s.....
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General Kamal Hassan Ali was an Egyptian politician and military hero.....
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Esther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives.....
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Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer and actress.....
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Dobrosav Dobrica osi was a Serbian writer, as well as a political theorist. He was the first president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1993. Admirers often refer to him as the Father of the Nation, due to his influence on modern Serbian politics and national revival movement in the late 1980s opponents often use that term in an ironic manner.....
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Christiaan Karel Appel 25 April 1921 3 May 2006 was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avantgarde movement Cobra in 1948.....
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Albert Scott Crossfield was an American naval officer and test pilot. In 1953, he became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound.....
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