Famous people born in the year 1906

James Emory Jim Boyd was an American physicist, mathematician, and academic administrator. He was director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1957 to 1961, president of West Georgia College from 1961 to 1971, and acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1971 to 1972.....
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Humberto da Silva Delgado, GCL was a General of the Portuguese Air Force and politician.....
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Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was as famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, as for his music.....
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Oscar Nemon was a Croatian sculptor who was born in Osijek, Croatia, but eventually settled in England. He is best known for his series of more than a dozen public statues of Sir Winston Churchill.....
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Vice Admiral James Henry Jimmy Flatley Jr. was a World War II naval aviator and tactician for the United States Navy.....
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Greta Nissen was a Norwegianborn American film and stage actress.....
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Greta Nissen was a Norwegianborn American film and stage actress.....
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Dorothy Jordan was an American movie actress who had a short but successful career beginning in talking pictures in 1929.....
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Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist influential for her work on Paleoindian and Alaska Native art and archaeology in the American northwest and Alaska.....
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Sir Douglas Ralph Doug Nicholls, KCVO OBE was a prominent Aboriginal Australian from the Yorta Yorta people. He was a professional athlete, Churches of Christ pastor and church planter, ceremonial officer and a pioneering campaigner for reconciliation.....
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Otto Vincon was a highly decorated Major of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. He was also awarded the very rare Close Combat Clasp in Gold one of only 631 awards....
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Alexander Mieceslaus Zaleski was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lansing from 1965 until his death in 1975.....
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General Paul DeWitt Adams was a General in the United States Army.....
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Billy Wilder was an Austrianborn American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than fifty years and sixty films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywoods golden age. With The Apartment, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film.....
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Nicholas Ulrich Mayall was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 19341960, except for a brief period at MITs Radiation Laboratory during World War II.....
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Leonard James Beecher CMG was an Englishborn Anglican Archbishop. He was the first Archbishop of the Province of East Africa, comprising Kenya and Tanzania, from 1960 to 1970.....
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Ukrainian , 19 December 1906 160 10 November 1982 was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteenyear term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in duration. During Brezhnevs rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part because of the expansion of the Soviet military during this time. His tenure....
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Janet Gaynor was an American film, stage and television actress and painter.....
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Isadore Friz Freleng , often credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer and composer famous for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ....
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Paul Bernard Wurtsmith was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II.....
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