Famous people born in the year 1922

Technician Fourth Grade Eugene Gilbert Roe, Sr. was a noncommissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II.....
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Albert William Watson was a DemocratturnedRepublican state and U.S. representative from South Carolina. He is best known for his losing 1970 campaign for governor, which has been described as the last openly segregationist campaign.....
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James B. McGovern Jr. was a World War II fighter ace and later Central Intelligence Agency pilot. He and copilot Wallace Buford were the only Americans to die in combat in the First Indochina War. At the time, they were officially employees of Civil Air Transport.....
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Howard Malcolm Mac Baldrige Jr. was an American businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from 1981 until his death in 1987.....
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Bernardin Gantin was a prominent Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cotonou and then at the Vatican in the service of the Holy See as President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and then as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops. Ultimately, he served as Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, a post his French consecrator as a bishop once held and the same position Joseph Ratzinger had....
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Kiyoshi K. Muranaga was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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Mehmet Nazim Adil , commonly known as Shaykh Nazim, was a Turkish Cypriot Sufi Muslim sheykh and spiritual leader of the Naqshbandi tariqa.....
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Frank Kelly Freas was an American science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He was known as the Dean of Science Fiction Artists and he was the second artist inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.....
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Neal Paul Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, and arranger. He composed the theme music for the Batman television series of the 1960s, and scored the 1968 film The Odd Couple and the subsequent TV series also titled The Odd Couple.....
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EwaldHeinrich von KleistSchmenzin was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998. A member of the von Kleist family and an officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, his parents were active in the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. Kleist was designated to kill Hitler in a suicide attack and was the last surviving member of the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.....
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Oscar Pettiford was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom.....
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Oscar Randolph Fladmark was an American fighter pilot who flew 164 noinjury combat missions in World War II and the Korean War. Fladmark received the Distinguished Flying Cross during his military career. Just a few years after the Korean War, Major Fladmark, at 33 years of age, was in an automobile accident near Yuma, Arizona on July 27, 1955 and died while being flown to the San Diego Naval Hospital.....
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Manolis Glezos is a Greek left wing politician and writer, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance.....
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Doris Day is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.....
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Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American film and theatre actress, singer and dancer. She is perhaps best known for being the first AfricanAmerican actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1954 film Carmen Jones. Dandridge performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters and appeared in a succession of films, usually ....
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Dorothy Donegan was an American classically trained jazz pianist primarily known for performing in the stride piano and boogiewoogie style. She also played bebop, swing jazz, and classical music.....
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Lee and Lyn Wilde, sometimes billed as The Wilde Twins, are twin sisters, who appeared in films of the early to mid1940s.....
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Otto Otl Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. He is best known for having designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich that proved influential on the use of stick figures for public signage, as well as designing the typeface Rotis. Aicher also cofounded the Ulm School of Design.....
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James William Kitching was a South African vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the worlds greatest fossil finders.....
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Betty White Ludden , known professionally as Betty White, is an American actress, animal rights activist, author, comedian, radio host, singer, and television personality. Regarded as a pioneer of television, White was one of the first women to have control both in front of and behind the camera and is recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom, which contributed to her receiving the honorary title as the Mayor of Hollywood in 1955.....
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