Famous people born in the year 1923

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Edward Mulhare

Edward Mulhare


Edward Mulhare was an Irish actor whose career spanned five decades.....
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Harold Gould

Harold Gould


Harold Vernon Gould was an American actor best known for playing Miles Webber on the 19851992 sitcom The Golden Girls and Martin Morgenstern in the 19741978 sitcom Rhoda. Gould acted in film and television for nearly 50 years, appearing in more than 300 television shows, 20 major motion pictures, and over 100 stage plays, and received Emmy Award nominations five times. He is known for playing elegant, welldressed men , and he regularly played Jewish characters and grandfathertype figures on tel....
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Edwin Bramall Baron Bramall

Edwin Bramall Baron Bramall


Field Marshal Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall, KG, GCB, OBE, MC, JP, DL is a retired senior British Army officer. He served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982, and as Chief of the Defence Staff, professional head of the British Armed Forces, from 1982 to 1985. He developed the concept of the Fifth Pillar pulling together the activities of defence attachs to form a structure for intervention in smaller countries.....
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Ed Grothus

Ed Grothus


Edward Bernard Grothus was an American machinist and technician at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1950s and 1960s. In later life he became the owner of a surplus store which he used as a base for peace and antinuclear activism.....
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Harry Reasoner

Harry Reasoner


Harry Truman Reasoner was an American journalist for ABC and CBS News, known for his inventive use of language as a television commentator, and as a founder of the 60 Minutes program.....
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Harry Seidler

Harry Seidler


Harry Seidler, AC OBE was an Austrianborn Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernisms methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.....
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David M Gonzales

David M Gonzales


Private First Class David M. Gonzales was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor the United States highest military decoration for his actions during World War II. On April 25, 1945, at age 21, PFC Gonzales was killed in action in the Philippines while, in the face of enemy machine gun fire, digging out fellow soldiers who had been buried in a bomb explosion.....
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Elizabeth Eisenstein

Elizabeth Eisenstein


Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19thcentury France. She is well known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media between the era of manuscript culture and that of print culture, as well as the role of the printing press in effecting broad cultural change in Western civilization.....
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Elizabeth Jolley

Elizabeth Jolley


Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an Englishborn writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three nonfiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many wellknown writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.....
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Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly


Ellsworth Kelly was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hardedge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing simplicity of form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.....
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Henryk Chmielewski comics

Henryk Chmielewski comics


Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski , also known under his pseudonym Papcio Chmiel, is a Polish comic book artist and journalist.....
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Henryk Jasku a

Henryk Jasku a


Henryk Jaskua is a yachtsman, sailing captain, and electrician. He was the first Pole to perform a singlehanded nonstop circumnavigation of the globe. He achieved it on the yacht Dar Przemyla.....
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Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager


Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager is a retired brigadier general in the United States Air Force and recordsetting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.....
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Gerardus Mooyman

Gerardus Mooyman


Gerardus Leonardus Mooyman was a Dutch volunteer in the WaffenSS.....
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Henry F Warner

Henry F Warner


Henry F. Warner 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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Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger


Henry Alfred Kissinger is an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. For his actions negotiating the ceasefire in Vietnam , Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest. After his term, his advice has been sought by world leaders including....
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Henry Leach

Henry Leach


Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Conyers Leach GCB, DL was a Royal Navy officer who, as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff during the early 1980s, was instrumental in convincing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that retaking the Falkland Islands from Argentina was feasible. On account of the determination he showed in the matter, journalist and political commentator Andrew Marr described him as Thatchers knight in shining gold braid.....
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Balram Jakhar

Balram Jakhar


Balram Jakhar was an Indian politician, a parliamentarian and Governor of Madhya Pradesh.....
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Cleto Rodriguez

Cleto Rodriguez


Cleto L. Rodrguez was an American who served in both the U.S. Army, and in the U.S. Air Force, and received the Medal of Honor for actions in Manila, Philippines during World War II.....
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Giorgio Albertazzi

Giorgio Albertazzi


Giorgio Albertazzi was an Italian actor and film director.....
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