Famous people born in the year 1915

Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.....
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Claudia Jones, ne Claudia Vera Cumberbatch , was a Trinidadborn journalist and activist. As a child she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a political activist and black nationalist through Communism, using the false name Jones as selfprotective disinformation. As a result of her political activities, she was deported in 1955 and subsequently resided in the United Kingdom. She founded Britains first major black newspaper, The West Indian Gazette , in 1958.....
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Henry Ziegler Steinway was the last member of the Steinway family to be president of the piano company Steinway amp Sons.....
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Erich Brenfnger was an officer in the German Army during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, awarded to by Nazi Germany to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. In the final days of the war, Brenfnger was commander of several defense sectors during the Battle of Berlin he committed suicide on 2 May 1945.....
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Clifford Morris Hardin was an American politician and was the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1969 to 1971 under President Richard Nixon.....
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Barbara Billingsley was an American film, television, voice, and stage actress.....
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M B Etheredge was awarded the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor by the Texas Legislature for his actions during battle in World War II. House Concurrent Resolution No. 27 conferring the honor was adopted by both the House and Senate in May 2003 and approved by Governor Rick Perry in June 2003.....
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Air Commodore Glen Albert Cooper, CBE, DFC, AFC was an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force . During the Second World War, he commanded No. 80 Squadron in the New Guinea campaign and then No. 80 Wing in the Borneo campaign. He commanded No. 78 Wing during the Malayan Emergency, earning the Air Force Cross for his leadership. Following his retirement from the RAAF in 1970, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.....
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Paddy Mayne DSO amp Three Bars was a British Army soldier, solicitor, Ireland rugby union international, amateur boxer, and a founding member of the Special Air Service . During the course of the Second World War he became one of the British Armys most highly decorated soldiers. He was controversially denied a Victoria Cross.....
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Ernst Kruse was a highly decorated Oberfhnrich in the Wehrmacht during World War II. 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. Ernst Kruse was killed on 15 October 1944 near Serock, Poland.....
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NancyBird Walton, AO, OBE, DStJ was a pioneering Australian aviator, and was the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots Association.....
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Alan John Sayers, MNZM is a former journalist, photographer and athlete who represented the New Zealand Herald prior to World War II. When the war was over he was invited to join the Auckland Star where he was the first reporter in New Zealand to receive a personal byline. In 1953 he was an official journalist on the tour of Queen Elizabeth 11 to the Pacific Islands and New Zealand.....
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Nancy Circelli Kominsky was an ItalianAmerican artist and television presenter, who found fame in Britain with her paintalong series in the 1970s.....
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended SeaburyWestern Theological Seminary, where he received a masters degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the facu....
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Erzsbet Vass was a Hungarian politician, who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1963 and 1967. She was the first woman who held this position in Hungary.....
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Jacques Hnizdovsky , was a UkrainianAmerican painter , printmaker, sculptor, illustrator and lettering designer.....
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Honappa Bhagavatar, also known as C. Honnappa Bhagavathar , was a Kannada Tamil theatre artist, film actor, producer, musician and singer. He was best known as a singer and as one of the pioneers of Kannada cinema. His son Bharath Bhagavathar was also an actor who worked in Kannada films and serials.....
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Sidney Charles Bartholemew Ben Gascoigne AO was a New Zealandborn Australian optical astronomer and expert in photometry who played a leading role in the design and commissioning of Australias largest optical telescope, the AngloAustralian Telescope, one of the worlds most important astronomical facilities. Born in Napier, New Zealand, Gascoigne trained in Auckland and at the University of Bristol, before moving to Australia during World War II to work at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory at M....
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Eugene Sternberg was an Czechborn American architect known for his passionate commitment and contribution to contemporarymodernist architecture and town planning in Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states between 1950 and 1990. He designed over 400 building projects and subdivisions, many of them iconic examples of Modernist architecture. Since his focus was on improving the quality of life of the general population, the structures he built were beautiful, useful, and costeffective. Most of hi....
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Frank S. Blair, Jr. was a broadcast journalist for NBC News, known for being a news reader on the Today program from 1953 to 1975.....
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