Famous people born in the year 1917

Oliver Reginald Tambo was a South African antiapartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress from 1967 to 1991.....
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Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design.....
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Rabbi Albert L. Lewis was a leading American Conservative rabbi, scholar, and author President of the Rabbinical Assembly , the international organization of Conservative rabbis and VicePresident of The World Council of Synagogues. In 2009, the awardwinning author, Mitch Albom, wrote about Lewis, his childhood rabbi, as the main character in the nonfiction book, Have a Little Faith. The book, hailed as a story of faith that inspires faith in others, concludes with the eulogy that Albom deliver....
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Park Chunghee was a South Korean president, and military general who led South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979. Park seized power through the May 16 coup, a military coup dtat that overthrew the Second Republic of South Korea in 1961 and ruled as a military strongman at the head of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction until his election and inauguration as the President of the Third Republic of South Korea in 1963. In 1972, Park declared martial law and recast the con....
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Howard Morton Metzenbaum was an American politician who served for almost 20160years as a Democratic member of the U.S.160Senate from Ohio . He also served in the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate from 1943 to 1951.....
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Francis Alick Frankie Howerd, OBE was an English comedian and comic actor whose career, described by fellow comedian Barry Cryer as a series of comebacks, spanned six decades.....
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Ben Kuroki was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. He flew a total of 58 combat missions over Japan, Europe and North Africa during World War II.....
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Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.....
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ne Nehru 19 November 1917 31 October 1984 was a key 20thcentury stateswoman, a central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only child of Indias first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the secondlongestserving Prime Minister after her father.....
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Evan Peter Aurand was a decorated naval officer with the rank of Vice Admiral. He was a son of Lieutenant general Henry Aurand.....
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Wing Commander Eric James Brindley Nicolson VC DFC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.....
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Bernard Leon Barker was a Watergate burglar. He had a long career as an undercover operative.....
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Frank Hirao Ogawa was a civil rights leader and the first Japanese American to serve on the Oakland City Council in which he served from 1966 until his death in 1994. Upon his death, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to rename City Hall Plaza in his honor as the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. The plaza displays a bronze bust of Ogawa.....
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Lieutenant Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai is an Indonesian National Hero who commanded Indonesian forces in Bali against the Dutch during the Indonesian War of Independence. He was killed in the Battle of Margarana.....
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Technician Fourth Grade Frank J. Perconte was a noncommissioned officer during World War II with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in the United States Army. He was portrayed by James Madio in the HBOBBC miniseries Band of Brothers.....
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Ossie Davis was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist.....
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Douglas Baulch was one of Australias talented and naturally gifted artists from the Prahran Technical College but less known as he was very reserved.....
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Douglas Edwards was an American network news television anchor. He anchored CBSs first nightly news broadcast from 19481962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News.....
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Nesuhi Ertegun was a TurkishAmerican record producer and executive of Atlantic Records and WEA International.....
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Otto Menges was a highly decorated Leutnant in the Fallschirmjger during World War II and a Oberst in the Bundeswehr. 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. Otto Menges was killed in action on 24 May 1944 near Cassino, Italy. He was posthumously promoted to Leutnant and on 9 June 1944 was awarded the Knights Cross.....
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