Famous people born in the year 1918

Ibrahim Likmetaj Kodra was an Albanian painter. An internationally known painter, he is regarded as one of the greatest Albanian artists.....
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Ida Lupino was an English actress and singer who became a pioneering director and producerthe only woman working within the 1950s Hollywood studio system to do so. With her independent production company, she cowrote and coproduced several of her own socialmessage films and was the first woman to direct a film noir, The HitchHiker in 1953. In her 48year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight others, mostly in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. The majority of he....
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Ernest Lalor Ern Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australias most famous literary hoax. He and his entire body of work were created in one day in 1943 by conservative writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart in order to hoax Max Harris and his modernist magazine Angry Penguins, which he coedited with John Reed of Heide, Melbourne. Imitating the modernist poetry they despised, the hoaxers deliberately created what they thought was bad verse and submitted sixteen poems to Ang....
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Kakuei Tanaka was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives from 26 April 1947 to 24 January 1990, and as the 64th and 65th Prime Minister of Japan from 7 July 1972 to 9 December 1974 .....
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Erwin Kremann was a Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Alberto Ascari was an Italian racing driver and twice Formula One World Champion. He was a multitalented racer who completed in motorcycle racing before switching to cars. Back to back World titles in 1952 and 1953 sandwiched an appearance in the Indianapolis 500 in 1952. Ascari also won the legendary Mille Miglia in 1954. He once admitted that he warned his children not to become extremely close to him because of the risk involved in his profession. So this proved when he was killed during a t....
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Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi was an American sociologist, best known for his principled resistance to the Japanese American internment during World War II, and the court case which bears his name, Hirabayashi v. United States.....
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Jaja Anucha Wachuku , a Royal Prince of Ngwaland, descendant of 20 generations of African chiefs in the Igbo country of Eastern Nigeria, was a PanAfricanist, and a globally distinguished Nigerian statesman, lawyer, politician, diplomat and humanitarian. He was the first Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, as well as first Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations . Wachuku was also the first Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs.....
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Albert Gerald Lewis DFC amp Bar was a South African fighter ace during the Battle of Britain, who was featured in a Life magazine article about the Battle of Britain.....
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Olive Deering was an American actress of film, television, and the stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio, as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder.....
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Daniel Miles Champ Branton Parey P. Pepper Branton, Jr. Two grandchildren....
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Howard McGhee was one of the first bebop jazz trumpeters, together with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast fingers and very high notes. What is generally not known is the influence that he had on younger hard bop trumpeters, together with Fats Navarro.....
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Albert A. Seedman, , was an officer with the New York City Police Department for 30 years. At the end of his career he was the departments chief of detectives, the only Jewish officer to ever hold that position. After his retirement he was the chief of security for a New York area department store chain before retiring to South Florida.....
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Harold Edward James Aldridge was an AustralianBritish writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and nonfiction works, including war and adventure novels and books for children.....
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Donald Kenneth Schwab was a United States Army veteran of World War II and recipient of the U.S. Medal of Honor.....
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Donald Thomas Don Regan was the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury, from 1981 to 1985, and White House Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987 in the Ronald Reagan Administration, where he advocated Reaganomics and tax cuts to create jobs and stimulate production. Before serving in the Reagan administration, Regan served as Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch from 1971 to 1980. He had worked at Merrill Lynch since 1946 and before this he had studied at Harvard University and served in the Unit....
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Donald John Wiseman OBE FBA FSA was a biblical scholar, archaeologist and Assyriologist. He was Professor of Assyriology at the University of London from 1961 to 1982.....
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Granville Oral Roberts was an American MethodistPentecostal televangelist and a Christian charismatic. He founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University.....
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Frank Joseph Petrarca was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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Evelyn Ankers was a British actress born in Chile. She often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most notably The Wolf Man at age 23 opposite Lon Chaney, Jr., a frequent screen partner. Known as the Queen of the Screamers, her other films include The Ghost of Frankenstein , Captive Wild Woman , Son of Dracula , The Mad Ghoul , Jungle Woman , Weird Woman , The Invisible Mans Revenge and The Frozen Ghost . Ankers also ....
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