Famous people born in the year 1901

Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20thcentury composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custommade instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music .....
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Harry Sweet was an American actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in 57 films between 1919 and 1932. He also directed 54 films between 1920 and 1933, including one Harry Langdon short, two of the Tay Garnett penned comedies Stan Laurel made for Joe Rock, and fifteen of the earliest entries in the Edgar Kennedy Average Man series. ....
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George Edward Pendray was an American public relations counselor, author, foundation executive, and an early advocate of rockets and spaceflight.....
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John Christopher Wood also known as Kit Wood was an English painter born in Knowsley, near Liverpool.....
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George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface , Each Dawn I Die , and Billy Wilders 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot, as a dancer in Bolero , and a truck driver in They Drive by Night .....
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Deane Keller was an American artist, academic, soldier, art restorer and preservationist. He taught for forty years at Yale Universitys School of Fine Arts and during World War II was an officer with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.....
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Felix Edward Hbert , known as F. Edward Hbert, was the longestserving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana, having represented the New Orleansbased 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1941 until his retirement in 1977.....
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Helmuth Stieff was a German general and a member of the OKH during World War II. He took part in attempts by the German resistance to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 7 and 20 July 1944.....
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Henri Jean Cochet was a French tennis player. He was a world No. 1 ranked player, and a member of the famous Four Musketeers from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.....
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Leonardo Emilio Comici was an Italian mountain climber and caver. He made numerous ascents in the Eastern Alps, particularly in the Dolomites and in the Julian Alps. Comici was nicknamed the Angel of the Dolomites.....
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Cipriano Purugganan Primicias, Sr. was a Filipino politician who was best known for his service as a Senator of the Philippines. He was born in 1901 at Alcala, in the northern Philippine province of Pangasinan to Javier Crescini Primicias and Cristeta Purugganan.....
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Clark Gable was an American film actor, often referred to as The King of Hollywood or just simply as The King. Gable began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for MGM in 1931. The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role and became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures over the next three decades.....
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Claude Stanley Choules was an English Australian who was the last combat veteran of the First World War, and the last military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. He was also the last veteran to have served in both world wars, and the last seaman from the First World War. At the time of his death, he was also the third oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia. He was the seventholdest living man in the world. Choules beca....
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Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist, who created the worlds first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile1. He has been called the architect of the nuclear age and the architect of the atomic bomb. He was one of the few physicists to excel both theoretically and experimentally. Fermi held several patents related to the use of nuclear power, and was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and the discovery of transuranic elements. He made ....
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Hermann Lukas Plocher was a Luftwaffe commander during World War II and Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves recipient. 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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Hermann Prie was the commander of 3rd SS Division Totenkopf of the WaffenSS the armed paramilitary branch of the Nazi Partys Schutzstaffel following the death of Theodor Eicke in February 1943. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, awarded by Nazi Germany to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. On 30 October 1944 he became the commanding officer of the SS Division Leibstandarte and led it during the Bat....
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Hideo Shima was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train .....
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Lszl Nmeth was a Hungarian dentist, writer, dramatist and essayist. He was born in Nagybnya the son of Jzsef Nmeth and Vilma Gal . Over the Christmas of 1925, he married Ella Dmusz , the daughter of Jnos Dmusz, a keeper of a public house. Between 1926 and 1944 they had six daughters, but two of them died in infancy. In 1959 he visited the Soviet Union. In the last part of his life he lived and worked in Sajkd. He died from a stroke on 3 March 1975 in Budapest and was buried in Farkasrti Cemeter....
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SSBrigadefhrer Hinrich Schuldt was a German WaffenSS officer and a posthumous recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. He was killed in action by an antitank shell.....
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