Famous people born in the year 1920
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Elmer Charles Bigelow
Elmer Charles Bigelow was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of Americas highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.....
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Elmo Zumwalt
Elmo Russell Bud Zumwalt Jr. was an American naval officer and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations, Zumwalt played a major role in U.S. military history, especially during the Vietnam War. A decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed U.S. Navy personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32year Navy career, he launched an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Se....
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Dedan Kimathi
Dedan Kimathi Waciuri born Kimathi wa Waciuri, was a leader of the Mau Mau which led an armed military struggle known as the Mau Mau uprising against the British colonial government in Kenya in the 1950s.....
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Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman who was the unwitting donor of cells from her cancerous tumor that was biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. These cells were cultured by George Otto Gey to create the first human immortal cell line, now known as the HeLa cell line, which is still used for medical research.....
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DeForest Kelley
Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer known for his roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.....
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Gerald J Gallinghouse
Dr. Gerald J. Gallinghouse, Jr. Van LeMaire Gallinghouse....
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Henry Chadwick theologian
Henry Chadwick, KBE, FBA was a British academic and Church of England priest. A former Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and as such, head of Christ Church, Oxford he also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, becoming the first person in four centuries to have headed a college at both universities.....
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Gerda Lerner
Gerda Hedwig Lerner was an Austrianborn American historian and author. In addition to her numerous scholarly publications, she wrote poetry, fiction, theater pieces, screenplays, and an autobiography. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 198081. In 1980 she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of WisconsinMadison, where she taught until retiring in 1991.....
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Fiorenzo Magni
Fiorenzo Magni was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.....
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Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.....
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Enoch T Nix
Enoch Talton Nix was a banker and civic figure from Bossier City, Louisiana, who served for thirty years on the elected Louisiana State Board of Education and its successor organization established under the Louisiana State Constitution of 1974, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.....
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Hermann Greiner
GeorgHermann Greiner was a German former Luftwaffe night fighter ace, recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and a squadron commander in the prestigious Nachtjagdgeschwader 1, translated in English as the 1st Night Fighter Wing, the most successful Night Air Superiority unit of any nation during World War II. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was the fourth grade of Nazi Germanys highest award for military galantry and was awarded to r....
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Basil L Plumley
Basil L. Plumley was a career soldier and airborne combat infantryman in the United States Army who eventually achieved the rank of Command Sergeant Major. A veteran of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, he is most famous for his actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam.....
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L Martin Griffin Jr
L. Martin Griffin, Jr., widely known as Marty Griffin, is an environmentalist and conservationist in Northern California and author of the book Saving the MarinSonoma Coast. He has also been a doctor, director of the Sonoma Developmental Center, head of the Marin Audubon Society, board member of the Marin Municipal Water District, and owner of Hop Kiln Winery in Sonoma County.....
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Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
Lieutenant Junior Grade Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II.....
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Jack Turner racing driver
Jack Turner was an American racecar driver. He was nicknamed Cactus Jack.....
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Jack Warden
Jack Warden was an American character actor of film and television. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait . He received a BAFTA nomination for the former movie and won an Emmy for his performance in Brians Song .....
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K R Narayanan
Kocheril Raman Narayanan 27 October 1920 9 November 2005 was the tenth President of India.....
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