Famous people born in the year 1909

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Homi J Bhabha

Homi J Bhabha


Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as father of the Indian nuclear programme, Bhabha was the founding director of two wellknown research institutions, namely the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Trombay Atomic Energy Establishment both sites were the cornerstone of Indian development of nuclear weapons which Bhabha also supervised as its director.....
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Gordon Bunshaft

Gordon Bunshaft


Gordon Bunshaft, FAIA , was an American architect, a leading proponent of modern design in the midtwentieth century. A partner in the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings amp Merrill , Bunshaft joined in 1937 and remained for more than 40 years. The long list of his notable buildings includes Lever House in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the National Commercial Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,....
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Horst Niemack

Horst Niemack


Horst Niemack was a German general in the infantry, serving during World War II and in the Bundeswehr. 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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Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman


Benjamin David Benny Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as the King of Swing.....
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Ettore DeGrazia

Ettore DeGrazia


Ettore Ted DeGrazia was an American impressionist, painter, sculptor, composer, actor, director, designer, architect, jeweler, and lithographer. Described as the worlds most reproduced artist, DeGrazia is known for his colorful images of Native American children of the American Southwest and other Western scenes. DeGrazia also painted several series of exhibitions like the Papago Legends, Padre Kino, Cabeza de Vaca.....
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Maksim Sedej

Maksim Sedej


Maksim Sedej was a Slovene painter, one of the key figures of the mid20thcentury art scene in Slovenia.....
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Graham Stuart Thomas

Graham Stuart Thomas


Graham Stuart Thomas OBE , was an English BSc botanist, best known for his work with garden roses, his restoration and stewardship of over 100 National Trust gardens and for writing 19 books on gardening, many of which remain classics today.....
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Donald Sinclair hotel owner

Donald Sinclair hotel owner


Donald William Sinclair was the coproprietor of the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, England. He helped manage the hotel after an extensive career as an officer in the Merchant Navy and the Royal Navy. During World War 2, he twice survived the sinking of the ship he was serving on.....
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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia


Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia was the second daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna. She married Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia.....
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Frank Glasgow Tinker

Frank Glasgow Tinker


Frank Glasgow Tinker was an American mercenary fighter pilot for the Spanish Republican Air Force, during the Spanish Civil War. He was the top American ace during the Spanish Civil War.....
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Nawab Singh Chauhan

Nawab Singh Chauhan


Nawab Singh Chauhan was an Indian politician. He was member of 6th Lok Sabha from the Aligarh constituency. He used the pen name Kanj as poet.....
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Aleksandar Rankovi

Aleksandar Rankovi


Aleksandar Rankovi was a Yugoslav communist of Serb origin, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito and Edvard Kardelj. Rankovi was a proponent of a centralized Yugoslavia and opposed efforts that promoted decentralization that he deemed to be against the interests of Serb unity he ran Kosovo as a police state and made Serbs dominant in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovos nomenklatura. Rankovi supported a hardline approach against Albanians in K....
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Bernard P Brockbank

Bernard P Brockbank


Bernard P. Brockbank, Sr. was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1962 to his death. Brockbank was an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve from 1962 to 1976 and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy from 1976 to 1980. One of his major contributions was heading the Mormon Pavilion at the New York Worlds Fair in 1964 and 1965.....
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Everett Sloane

Everett Sloane


Everett H. Sloane was an American character actor who worked in radio, theatre, films and television. He was also a songwriter and theatre director.....
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Bernd Rosemeyer

Bernd Rosemeyer


Bernd Rosemeyer was a German racing driver.....
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Bernhard Grzimek

Bernhard Grzimek


Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek was a renowned German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar WestGermany.....
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Lawrence Lee

Lawrence Lee


Lawrence Stanley Lee was a British stained glass artist whose work spanned the latter half of the 20th160century. He was best known for leading the project to create ten huge windows for the nave of the new Coventry Cathedral. His other work includes windows at Guildford and Southwark Cathedrals as well as a great number of works elsewhere in the UK, and some in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.....
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Don Figlozzi

Don Figlozzi


Don Figlozzi was an American animator and cartoonist. A veteran of Fleischer Studios and member of the National Cartoonists Society, he spent the first half of his career in animation and the second half at the New York Daily News, where his cartoons, signed Fig, became a fixture. Historian Harvey Deneroff of the Savannah College of Art and Design suggests that Figlozzi may have created the first animations to be used on television.....
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Ewald Kluge

Ewald Kluge


Ewald Kluge had a difficult upbringing. At the age of twelve, his mother died and he was forced to stay at home, working for his fathers company. At fourteen, he sought a teaching position but was unsuccessful and ended up washing cars, which led to an apprenticeship as a mechanic in a garage. At the age of nineteen he was made redundant and started working as a taxi driver in Dresden.....
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Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai


Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20thcentury Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human , are considered modernday classics in Japan. With a semiautobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazais stories have intrigued the minds of many readers. His books also bring about awareness to a number of important topics such as human nature, mental illness, social relationships, ....
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