Famous people born in the year 1907

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the ModernistBrutalist style.....
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Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Beppo Occhialini ForMemRS was an Italian physicist, who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pimeson decay in 1947, with Csar Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell . At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol.....
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Ernesto Beckmann Geisel 3 August 1907 12 September 1996 was a Brazilian Army officer and politician, who was President of Brazil from 1974 to 1979, during the Brazilian military government.....
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Lyon Sprague de Camp known as L. Sprague de Camp was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, nonfiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of nonfiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction during the genres heyday in the 1930s and 1940s.....
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Hirsch Schwartzberg was a Jewish leader of Holocaust survivors under the American occupation of Berlin.....
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Oberst Dr. jur. Ernst Kupfer north of Thessaloniki in the Kerkini mountain range was a German World War II Luftwaffe Stuka ace. He was also 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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Alberto Moravia , born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the antifascist novel Il Conformista , the basis for the film The Conformist directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962 Il Disprezzo , filmed by JeanLuc Godard a....
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Magomet Imadutinovich Gadzhiyev was a Soviet Navy submarine commander and Hero of the Soviet Union. He fought and died during World War II.....
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Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a Nazi Party activist known for writing the lyrics to the HorstWesselLied. His death in 1930 was used by the party for propaganda purposes.....
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Bennett Lester Benny Carter was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. Carter performed with major artists from several generations of jazz, and at major festivals, such as his 1958 appearance with Billie Holiday at the Monterey Jazz Festival.....
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Ilya Bolotowsky was a leading early 20thcentury painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.....
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Howard William Hunter was an American lawyer and was the fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1994 to 1995. His ninemonth presidential tenure is the shortest in the churchs history. Hunter was the first president of the LDS Church born in the 20th century. He was sustained as an LDS apostle at the age of 51, and served as a general authority for over 35 years.....
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Imogen Clare Holst CBE was an English composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. She was also a prolific writer on music, producing composer biographies, much educational material, and several books on the life and works of her father.....
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Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna. She was born in Coburg when her parents were in exile because their marriage had not been approved by Tsar Nicholas II. She was generally called Marie, the French version of her name, or by the Russian nickname Masha. The family returned to Russia prior to World War I, but was forced to flee following the Russian Revolution of 1917.....
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Field Marshal Sir Archibald James Halkett Cassels GCB, KBE, DSO was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army. As well as being a firstclass cricket player, he served in World War II, commanded the 1st Commonwealth Division in the Korean War and was Director of Operations in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. He later advised the British Government on the implementation of the 1966 Defence White Paper.....
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James Francis Marion Jones , also known as the Rt. Rev. Dr. James F. Jones, D.D and as Prophet Jones, was a black religious leader, televangelist, faith healer and pastor who led the religious movement that developed into the Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, Inc. from 1938 until his death in 1971.....
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Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho , known as Oscar Niemeyer , was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Braslia, a planned city that became Brazils capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. His exploration of the aesthetic possibilities of reinforced concrete was h....
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James Angus Graham, 7th Duke of Montrose ID , styled Earl of Kincardine until 1925 and Marquess of Graham between 1925 and 1954, was a Rhodesian politician of British origin. Born in Scotland, he maintained a lifelong interest in politics and was a lover of all things Scottish. He lived in southern Africa for fiftyfive years, farming several properties. He served as Minister of Agriculture in the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith, and in 1965 was a signatory to Rhodesias Unilateral Declaration o....
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle OM KBE CB FRS FRAeS was an English Royal Air Force engineer air officer. He is credited with singlehandedly inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for a similar invention however, this was technically unfeasible at the time. Whittles jet engines were developed some years earlier than those of Germanys Hans von Ohain who was the designer of the first jet engine to be used to actually power an aircraft.....
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Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.....
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