Famous people born in the year 1913

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Claude Simon

Claude Simon


Claude Simon was a MalagasyFrench author and academic, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.....
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Clemens Heinrich Graf von Kageneck

Clemens Heinrich Graf von Kageneck


ClemensHeinrich Graf von Kageneck was a highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded PanzerAbteilung 503. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Desmond Piers

Desmond Piers


Rear Admiral Desmond William Piers, CM DSC CD was a rearadmiral in the Royal Canadian Navy. Born in Halifax and longtime resident of Chester, Nova Scotia, Piers served in the RCN from 1932 to 1967. In 1930, he was the first graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada to join the RCN. He became agent general of Nova Scotia in the United Kingdom in 1977.....
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Florence S Jacobsen

Florence S Jacobsen


Florence Smith Jacobsen was the sixth general president of the Young Womens Mutual Improvement Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1961 to 1972.....
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Hilary Baumann Hacker

Hilary Baumann Hacker


Hilary Baumann Hacker was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bismarck from 1957 to 1982.....
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M rsk Mc Kinney M ller

M rsk Mc Kinney M ller


Arnold Mrsk McKinney Mller was a Danish shipping magnate.....
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Hiromichi Shinohara

Hiromichi Shinohara


Hiromichi Shinohara was the highestscoring fighter ace of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service . On 27 June 1939 he set a Japanese record by downing 11 planes on a single day. He was shot down and killed on 27 August 1939, having claimed 58 victories in only three months of combat. He scored all his aerial victories while flying a Nakajima Ki27.....
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Bear Bryant

Bear Bryant


Paul William Bear Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25year tenure as Alabamas head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships. Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for most wins as head coach in collegiate football history with 323 wins. The Paul W. Bryant Museum, Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive, and BryantDenny ....
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Alana Ladd

Alana Ladd


Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns such as Shane and film noirs where he was often paired with Veronica Lake, such as This Gun for Hire , The Glass Key and The Blue Dahlia . Other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast , Whispering Smith and The Great Gatsby . His popularity diminished in the late 1950s, though he continued to appear in popular films until his ac....
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Jacobo rbenz

Jacobo rbenz


Colonel Jacobo rbenz Guzmn , nicknamed also The Big Blonde or The Swiss for his Swiss origins, was a Guatemalan military officer and progressive politician who served as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954. He was previously the Minister of Defense from 1944 to 1951. He was a major figure in the Guatemalan Revolution.....
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Frances Farmer

Frances Farmer


Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress and television host. She is perhaps better known for sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to a mental hospital. Farmer began her career as a stage actress, performing stock theater in New York and later appearing on Broadway. She made her film debut in Too Many Parents , and was subsequently featured in a starring role in the musical western, Rhythm on the Range opposite Bing Crosby, and The Toast of New York ....
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Frances Langford

Frances Langford


Julia Frances Langford was an American singer and entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades.....
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Laird Cregar

Laird Cregar


Laird Cregar was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known for his villainous performances in films such as I Wake Up Screaming and The Lodger.....
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Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd


Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns such as Shane and film noirs where he was often paired with Veronica Lake, such as This Gun for Hire , The Glass Key and The Blue Dahlia . Other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast , Whispering Smith and The Great Gatsby . His popularity diminished in the late 1950s, though he continued to appear in popular films until his ac....
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Kai Uwe von Hassel

Kai Uwe von Hassel


KaiUwe von Hassel was a German politician from SchleswigHolstein associated with the Christian Democratic Union . He served as Minister President of SchleswigHolstein from 1954 to 1963, as Federal Minister of Defence from 1963 to 1966, and as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims from 1966 to 1969. From 1969 to 1972 he was the 4th President of the Bundestag.....
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Macdonald Carey

Macdonald Carey


Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBCs soap opera Days of Our Lives. For almost three decades, he was the shows central cast member.....
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Ernst Stuhlinger

Ernst Stuhlinger


Ernst Stuhlinger was a Germanborn American atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Brauns team for the US Army, and later was a scientist with NASA. He was also instrumental in the development of the ion engine for longendurance space flight, and a wide variety of scientific experiments.....
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Kai Holst

Kai Holst


Kai Christian Middelthon Holst was a Norwegian seaman, fur farmer and resistance fighter during World War II. When the leadership of Milorg was torn up by the Gestapo in 1942, he acquired a leading role in the organisation and participated in reestablishing the central leadership of Milorg together with Jens Christian Hauge. Holst had to flee Norway in the autumn of 1943 and stayed in Sweden until the liberation of Norway in 1945.....
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Godfried Bomans

Godfried Bomans


Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans was a popular Dutch author and television personality and a prominent Dutch catholic. Much of his work remains untranslated into English.....
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Albert Camus

Albert Camus


Albert Camus 7 November 1913 4 January 1960 was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.....
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