Famous people born in the year 1911

Klaus Bargsten was the captain and sole survivor of sunken U521. 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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Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who, in 1950, was convicted of supplying information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons, and later, early models of the hydrogen bomb.....
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Neel Ernest Kearby was a U.S. Army Air Corps Colonel and P47 Thunderbolt pilot in World War II who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat.....
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Bern von Baer was a highly decorated Oberst i.G in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a Generalmajor in the Bundeswehr. 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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George Huntington Hartford II was American businessman, philanthropist, stage and film producer, and art collector. He was also heir to the AampP supermarket fortune.....
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Leah Goldberg was a prolific Hebrewlanguage poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature.....
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James Hilliard Polk was a United States Army fourstar general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Army Europe from 1967 to 1971. He was one of the last senior commanders in the army to have served in the horse cavalry.....
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James Henry Schmitz was an American science fiction writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents.....
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Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill DSO amp Two Bars, MC was an officer of the British Army, who served as commander of the 3rd Parachute Brigade, part of the 6th Airborne Division, during World War II. Born in Bath, Somerset, Hill was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst before joining the British Army in 1931 and being commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers. He commanded a platoon for a short period, and was then attached to the command post of Field Marsh....
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Konrad Hupfer was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant 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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Grote Reber was a pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Janskys pioneering work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies.....
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Otto Baum, was an SSOberfhrer of the WaffenSS. He was a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords . 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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Otto Oscar Binder was an American author of science fiction and nonfiction books and stories, and comic books. He is best known for his many scripts for Captain Marvel Adventures and other stories involving the entire superhero Marvel Family.....
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Lee J. Cobb was an American actor. He is best known for his performances in 12 Angry Men , On the Waterfront , and one of his last films, The Exorcist . He also played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Millers 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. On television, Cobb costarred in the first four seasons of the Western series The Virginian. He typically played arrogant, intimidating, and abrasive characters, but often had roles as res....
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James Marvin Masters, Sr. was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general who during the course of his career served as a China Marine, fought in numerous battles in the Pacific during World War II and commanded units from platoon to division size. He received the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa and was also a recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal during a military career that spanned the 35 years between 1933 and 1968. He died at his home in Washington, D.C. ....
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Otto von Blow was a German Uboat commander in World War II, and a captain in the Bundesmarine. 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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Joseph Vernon Joe Turner, Jr. , best known as Big Joe Turner, was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri, United States. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, Rock and roll would have never happened without him. While he had his greatest fame during the 1950s with his rock and roll recordings, particularly Shake, Rattle and Roll, Turners career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s. Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, with the Hall laudi....
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William Meade Lindsley Billy Fiske III was the 1928 and 1932 Olympic champion bobsled driver and, following Jimmy Davies, was one of the first American pilots killed in action in World War II. At the time Fiske was serving in the Royal Air Force . He was one of 11 American pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940, thereby qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp to the 193945 campaign star.....
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Gustavo Daz Ordaz Bolaos was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.....
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Paul Goodman was an American novelist, playwright, poet, literary critic, and psychotherapist, although now best known as a social critic and anarchist philosopher. Though often thought of as a sociologist, he vehemently denied being one in a presentation in the Experimental College at San Francisco State in 1964, and in fact said he could not read sociology because it was too often lifeless. The author of dozens of books including Growing Up Absurd and The Community of Scholars, Goodman was an....
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