Famous people born in the year 1915

Frank Dascoli was a professional baseball umpire who worked in the National League from 1948 to 1961. Dascoli umpired 2,056 major league games in his 14 year career. He umpired in three World Series and two AllStar Games .....
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Hughie LeeSmith was an American artist and teacher whose signature works were slightly surreal in mood, often featuring distant figures seen under vast skies in desolate urban settings.....
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Hugh Bradner was an American physicist at the University of California who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving.....
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Ingeborg Viktoria Inge King AM was a Germanborn Australian sculptor. She received many significant public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best known work is Forward Surge at the Melbourne Arts Centre. She became a Member of the Order of Australia in January 1984.....
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Malouf Abraham, Jr. Betty Abraham Cooper ....
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Evelyn Ernest Owen was an Australian who developed the Owen submachine gun which was used by the Australian Army in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.....
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Hugh Reilly was an American actor who performed on the Broadway stage, in films, and on television. He is best remembered for costarring from 1958 to 1964 as the father, Paul Martin, in the CBS television series, Lassie.....
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Frank McLardy MPS , born George Francis McLardy, was a member of the British Union of Fascists, a British Nazi collaborator and an Unterscharfhrer in the WaffenSS British Free Corps during the Second World War.....
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George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three in theatre, most notably Caesar , a Broadway adaptation of William Shakespeares Julius Caesar in radio, the 1938 broadcast The War of the Worlds, one of the most famous in the history of radio and in film, Citizen Kane , consistently ranked as one of the alltime greatest films.....
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Francis Henry Frank Pullen was an English businessperson and racehorse owner.....
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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE , also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar and soldier who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War. He was widely regarded as Britains greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as A Time of Gifts . A BBC journalist once described him as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene. The Patrick Leigh Fermor Society was formed in 2014.....
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Knut SchmidtNielsen was a prominent figure in the field of comparative physiology and Professor of Physiology Emeritus at Duke University. ....
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Francis Albert Frank Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. Sinatras music has been considered timeless by many. He is one of the bestselling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, he began his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He found success as a solo artist after being s....
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Humberto Sousa Medeiros was a Portuguese American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1970 until his death in 1983, and was created a cardinal in 1973. An ecclesiastical conservative, Cardinal Medeiros was considered a champion of the immigrant worker, the poor and minorities.....
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Charles Manning Hope Clark AC , an Australian historian, was the author of the bestknown general history of Australia, his sixvolume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as Australias most famous historian, but his work has been the target of much criticism, particularly from conservative and classical liberal academics and philosophers.....
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OskarHubert Dennhardt was a highly decorated Major 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. Dennhardt served in the Landtag of SchleswigHolstein as a Christian Democratic Union politician after World War II. He rejoined the military service in the West German Bundes....
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Hu Yaobang was a highranking official of the Peoples Republic of China. He achieved his most senior status within the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1987, first as Party chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1982 to 1987. Hu joined the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s, and rose to prominence as a comrade of Deng Xiaoping. During the Cultural Revolution , Hu was purged, recalled, and purged again, following the political career of Deng.....
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Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the chairman of the Christian Social Union, member of the federal cabinet in different positions and longtime ministerpresident of the state of Bavaria. Strauss is also credited as a cofounder of European aerospace conglomerate Airbus.....
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William Owen Bradley was an American record producer who, along with Chet Atkins and Bob Ferguson, was one of the chief architects of the 1950s and 1960s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly.....
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Eleanora Fagan , professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singersongwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Holiday was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited rang....
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