Famous people born in the year 1901

Lon Gard was a French painter and art critic.....
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Emperor Shwa was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Akihito, upon his death. Although better known outside Japan by his personal name Hirohito , in Japan, he is now referred to primarily by his posthumous name Emperor Shwa. The word Shwa is the name of the era that corresponded with the Emperors reign, and was made the Emperors own name upon his de....
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence was a pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uraniumisotope separation for the Manhattan Project, for founding the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.....
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Beauford Delaney was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in the 1950s. Beaufords younger brother, Joseph, was also a noted painter.....
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Ernest William Gibson, Jr. was the 67th Governor of Vermont, a United States Senator and a U.S. federal judge.....
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Phyllis Virginia Daniels, known professionally as Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer.....
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Jacqueline Logan was a star of the silent motion picture screen who was on board William Randolph Hearsts yacht the Oneida in 1924 when film director Thomas Ince died. The young actress was under contract to Ince at the time. Logan was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922. She was born in Corsicana, Texas on November 30, 1904. Her father was a noted architect and her mother was briefly an opera singer.....
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Ignatius Kung PinMei was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, China, from 1950 until his death. He spent 30 years in Chinese prisons for defying attempts by Chinas Communist government to control Roman Catholics in the country through the governmentapproved Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.....
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Florence Lowe Pancho Barnes was a pioneer aviator, the founder of the first movie stunt pilots union. In 1930, she broke Amelia Earharts air speed record. Barnes raced in the Womens Air Derby and was a member of the NinetyNines. In later years, she was known as the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a bar and restaurant in the Mojave Desert, Southern California, catering to the test pilots and aviators who worked nearby.....
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Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian film and stage actor, director and comedian.....
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Johanna Maria Magdalena Magda Goebbels was the wife of Nazi Germanys Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion and political supporter of Adolf Hitler. Some historians refer to her as the unofficial First Lady of Nazi Germany, while others give that title to Emmy Gring.....
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Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was born in the canton Graubndens southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia, as the eldest of four children to Giovanni Giacometti, a wellknown postImpressionist painter. Coming from an artistic background, he was interested in art from an early age.....
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Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, S.J. , popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado , was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker and writer of Basque origin, founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation. He was canonized on October 23, 2005, by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his countrys second saint.....
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Jalaluddin , aka Jalal Baba , was a politician and supporter of the Pakistan independence movement. Born in Abbottabad, Hazara, Jalaluddin started his career as a driver for the British, and rose to become a leading transporter. He joined the AllIndia Muslim League in 1935 and eventually became President of the Hazara branch of the Muslim League during the 1940s.....
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Orie Frank Frankie Trumbauer was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played the Cmelody saxophone which, in size, is between an alto and tenor saxophone. He also played alto saxophone, bassoon, clarinet and several other instruments.....
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Eugenie Gershoy was an American sculptor and watercolorist.....
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Commander Donald Arthur Gary was an officer of the United States Navy during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the fires on USS160Franklin on March 19, 1945.....
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Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, OBE was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge. Field Marshal Montgomery is recorded as saying that without the Bailey bridge, we should not have won the war.....
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Frank Woodruff Buckles was a United States Army soldier and the last surviving American veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 at the age of 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe.....
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna.....
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