Famous people born in the year 1912
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George Devol
George Charles Devol, Jr. was an American inventor who was awarded the patent for Unimate, the first industrial robot. Devols patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represented the foundation of the modern robotics industry.....
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George Gosse
George Gosse GC was a mine clearance specialist in the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed between 8 May and 19 May 1945 in Bremen Harbour in Germany. His citation was published in the London Gazette on 30 April 1946.....
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George Henry Speltz
George Henry Speltz was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Winona and Bishop of St. Cloud .....
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Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. He is best known for being on the fourman climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland, and for his books Seven Years in Tibet and The White Spider .....
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DeLesseps Story Morrison
deLesseps Story Chep Morrison, Sr., was an attorney and politician, the mayor of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961. He also served as an appointee of U.S. President John F. Kennedy as the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States between 1961 and 1963.....
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Fernand Pouillon
Ferdinand Pouillon was a French architect, urban planner, building contractor and writer.....
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Feroze Gandhi
Feroze Gandhi was an Indian politician and journalist. He served as the publisher of the The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow. He was the husband of Indira Gandhi and the soninlaw to Jawaharlal Nehru.....
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Gerhard Sch pfel
Gerhard Schpfel was a German World War II Luftwaffe 45victory flying ace and 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. He held the position of Geschwaderkommodore of fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 26.....
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Clara Petacci
Clara Petacci, known as Claretta Petacci was the mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and was executed with him by partisans.....
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Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell, MBE was a British politician, classical scholar, linguist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament , Ulster Unionist Party MP , and Minister of Health .....
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A Bertram Chandler
Arthur Bertram Chandler was a BritishAustralian science fiction author, writing under his own name and the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M.....
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A E van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadianborn science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular, influential, and complex science fiction writers of the midtwentieth century the Golden Age of the genre.....
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Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia
Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia was an officer in the Italian Royal Navy , and was the highestscoring Italian submarine captain of World War II. Of Genoese ancestry, he bore the nickname Ursus atlanticus affectionately given by his crews.....
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Herbert Schmidt Fallschirmj ger
Herbert Schmidt was a member of the Fallschirmjger during World War II and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross.....
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Abb Pierre
Abb Pierre, OFM Cap, GOQ was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement .....
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Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker was a German politician who, as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until the weeks preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. From 1976 onward he was also the countrys official Head of State as Chairman of the State Council following Willi Stophs relinquishment of the post.....
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Hermann Friedrich Joppien
HermannFriedrich Joppien was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 70 enemy aircraft shot down in roughly 270 combat missions. He claimed 42 victories over the Western Front, of which 23 were Supermarine Spitfires, the remaining victories were recorded over the Eastern Front.....
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Barbara Hutton
Barbara Woolworth Hutton was an American debutantesocialite, heiress and philanthropist. She was dubbed the Poor Little Rich Girl, first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.....
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Hermann Graf
Hermann Graf was a German Luftwaffe World War II fighter ace. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. He served on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. He became the first pilot in aviation history to claim 200 aerial victoriesthat is, 200 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft. He claimed 212 aerial victories in over 830 combat missions, 202 of which were on the Eastern ....
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