Famous people born in the year 1910

Sgt. Alexander Albert Drabik was the first American soldier to cross the Rhine river in World War II. He led two other enlisted men across the bridge, running 398 metres while under fire, knowing that the demolition charges attached to the bridge could be detonated at any moment. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his action.....
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Captain Konstantin Sergeyevich Badygin , sometimes also transliterated Badigin, was a Soviet naval officer, explorer, author, and scientist.....
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Dorothy Mary Hodgkin OM FRS , known professionally as Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin or simply Dorothy Hodgkin, was a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.....
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Alexander Sandy Bonnyman, Jr. was a United States Marine Corps officer who was killed in action at Betio, Tarawa during World War II. A combat engineer, he received the Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, AsiaticPacific Campaign Medal with three Bronze Stars and the World War II Victory Medal posthumously for his actions during the strategically important assault on a Japanese bombproof shelter during the Battle of Tarawa.....
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Otto Benzin was a Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II, and one of only 882 recipients 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 killed on 29 June 1944 at Babruysk, Belarus during Operation Bagration.....
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Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader b d r CBE, DSO amp Bar, DFC amp Bar, FRAeS, DL was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.....
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PaulWerner Hoppe was an SSObersturmbannfhrer and was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September 1942 until April 1945.....
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Paulette Goddard was an American actress. A child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl, she became a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charles Chaplins leading lady in Modern Times, and Chaplins subsequent film The Great Dictator. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in So Proudly We Hail . Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredi....
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James McCormack, Jr. was a United States Army officer who served in World War II, and was later the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.....
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Ne Win was a Burmese politician and military commander. He was Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974 and also head of state from 1962 to 1981. He founded the Burma Socialist Programme Party in 1962 and served as its chairman until 1988. He was the military leader of Burma for 26 years.....
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James W. Rodgers was an American who was sentenced to death by the state of Utah for the murder of miner Charles Merrifield in 1957. In his final statement before his execution by firing squad in 1960, Rodgers requested a bulletproof vest. His execution by firing squad would be the last to be carried out in the United States before capital punishment was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court. The death penalty was reinstated in 1976 and the first person executed in Utah subsequent to that date was G....
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Gus Hall was a leader and Chairman of the Communist Party USA and its fourtime U.S. presidential candidate. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the socalled Little Steel Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nations smaller, regional steel manufacturers. During the Second Red Scare, Hall was indicted under the Smith Act and was sentenced to eight years in prison. After his release, Hall led the CPUSA for over 40 years, often taking an orthodox MarxistLeninist stance.....
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Commander William Donald Aelian Bill King, DSO amp Bar, DSC was a British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo nonstop, aroundtheworld yacht race, the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the only person to command a British submarine on both the first and last days of World War II. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving British World War II submarine commander.....
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Kurt Meyer, nicknamed Panzermeyer served as an officer in the WaffenSS during the Second World War. He saw action in many major battles, including the Invasion of France, Operation Barbarossa, and the Battle of Normandy. Meyer was awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Upon promotion on 16 June 1944 at the age of 33 years, Meyer became one of the youngest divisional commanders in the WaffenSS during the Second World War.....
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Friedrich Lier was a German officer 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.....
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Friedrich Rgelein was a highly decorated Oberst 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.....
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Friedrich Richter was a highly decorated Oberst 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.....
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Gyula Kllai was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Peoples Republic of Hungary from 1965 to 1967 and as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary 19671971. He was President of National Council of the Patriotic Peoples Front from 1957 to 1989.....
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Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having in fact created the term. Moreover, he excelled in all fields of speculative fiction, writing awardwinning work in fantasy, horror, and science fiction.....
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Leslie William Les Coffelt was an officer of the White House Police, who was killed while defending U.S. President Harry S. Truman against an armed attack on November 1, 1950 at Blair House, where the president was living during renovations at the White House.....
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