Famous people born in the year 1923

Diane Arbus was an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalized peopledwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal.....
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Hershel Woodrow Woody Williams is a retired United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. He is also the last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor from that battle.....
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Floyd M. Tab Talbert was known for being a paratrooper in the United States Army during World War II. Talbert was portrayed by Matthew Leitch in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers . Talbert was among those featured in Stephen Ambroses 1992 book of the same title, and his life story was featured in the 2010 book A Company of Heroes Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us.....
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Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev or Geidar Aliev , also spelled Haydar Aliev or Geidar Aliev was the third President of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from October 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him. From 1969 to 1982, Aliyev was also the leader of Soviet Azerbaijan, effectively dominating the political life of Azerbaijan for many years. His personality cult has developed in Azerbaijan following his death.....
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Giovanni Narcissus Hakkenberg was a Dutch marine of IndoEuropean descent, and decorated war hero and knight of the Military Order of William. The Military William Order is the highest honour in the Netherlands, bestowed for performing excellent acts of Bravery, Leadership and Loyalty in battle.....
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Forrest Lee Vosler, a Boeing B17 Flying Fortress radio operator, was the second enlisted U.S. airman to ever receive a Medal of Honor.....
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Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao , popularly known as N. T. Rama Rao or by his initials NTR, was an Indian film actor, writer, director, producer, and politician who also served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for three terms.....
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Pieter Kenyon FlemingVoltelyn van der Byl, ID was a Rhodesian politician who served as his countrys Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1979 as a member of the Rhodesian Front . A close associate of Prime Minister Ian Smith, Van der Byl opposed attempts to compromise with the British government and domestic black nationalist opposition on the issue of majority rule throughout most his time in government. However, in the late 1970s he supported the moves which led to majority rule and internationally ....
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Hjalmar Hjallis Johan Andersen was a speed skater from Norway who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games of Oslo, Norway. He was the only triple gold medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics, and as such, became the most successful athlete there.....
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Sidney Aaron Paddy Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay .....
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Alan John Beale , more commonly known as John Beale, was a leading expert on vaccines and viruses. While working for Glaxo, he was responsible for starting the industrial scale production of Jonas Salks vaccine against polio.....
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Gloria Grahame was an American stage, film and television actress.....
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Gloria Henry is an American actress, best known for her role as Alice Mitchell, Denniss mother, from 1959 to 1963 on the CBS family sitcom, Dennis the Menace.....
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Ernst Nolte is a German historian and philosopher. Noltes major interest is the comparative studies of fascism and communism . Originally trained in philosophy, he is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 until his 1991 retirement. He was previously a Professor at the University of Marburg from 1965 to 1973. He is best known for his seminal work Fascism In Its Epoch, which received widespread acclaim when it was published in 1963. Nolte....
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Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Al Shepard, Jr., was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in May 1961 became the second person and first American to travel into space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit.....
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Palden Thondup Namgyal was the 12th and last Chogyal of the Kingdom of Sikkim.....
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Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten is a Dutch economist, and Emeritus Professor General Economics and Economic History at Tilburg University, known for his work concerning macroeconomic modelling.....
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Estelle Getty was an American actress and comedian, who appeared in film, television, and theatre. She was best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls from 1985 to 1992, which won her an Emmy and a Golden Globe, on The Golden Palace from 1992 to 1993, and on Empty Nest from 1993 to 1995. In her later years, after retiring from acting, she battled Lewy body dementia.....
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Albert Almoznino is an Israeli hand shadow artist. He gained international recognition in the years 19581975 when he performed his hand shadow skills in front of thousands of people at Radio City Music Hall New York, Paris Olympia, Reno Nevada, The Ed Sullivan Show and other places.....
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Larry Grayson , born William Sulley White, was an English comedian and television presenter who was best known in the 1970s and early 80s. He is best remembered for hosting the BBCs popular series The Generation Game and for his high camp and English music hall humour.....
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