Famous people born in the year 1906

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Heinz Harmel

Heinz Harmel


Heinz Harmel was a German Brigadefhrer and Generalmajor of the WaffenSS during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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George Sanders

George Sanders


George Henry Sanders was an English film and television actor, singersongwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned more than 40 years. His upperclass English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in Rebecca , Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent , Addison DeWitt in All About Eve , King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders , Mr. Freeze in a twoparter episod....
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Cl oma Falcon

Cl oma Falcon


Cloma Falcon was an American guitarist and vocalist who, along with her husband Joe Falcon, recorded one of the first known examples of Cajun music. The recording, Allons Lafayette was released in 1928, and opened the way for other commercial releases of Cajun music. Aside from being a groundbreaking recording artist, Cleoma Breaux also was one of the few women to perform live, despite the social standards of the era.....
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Dennis K Stanley

Dennis K Stanley


Dennis Keith Stanley, Sr. , nicknamed Dutch Stanley, was an American education professor, university administrator and intercollegiate sports coach. Stanley was a native of England, but graduated from high school in Florida. He was a standout college football player for the University of Florida football teams of the late 1920s, and later returned to his alma mater as a professor and coach, and ultimately as the longtime dean of the College of Health and Human Performance.....
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Empress Wanrong

Empress Wanrong


Wanrong , posthumously known as Empress Xiaokemin, was the Empress Consort of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Manchuled Qing dynasty. In 1932, when the Empire of Japan established the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria and installed Puyi as its nominal emperor, Wanrong became the empress of Manchukuo. During the Soviet invasion of Manchuria at the end of the Second SinoJapanese War in 1945, Wanrong was captured by Chinese Communist guerrillas and transferred to differ....
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Clark Clifford

Clark Clifford


Clark McAdams Clifford was an American lawyer who served as an important political advisor to Democratic Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter. His official government positions were White House Counsel , Chairman of the Presidents Intelligence Advisory Board , and Secretary of Defense Clifford was also influential in his role as an unofficial, informal presidential advisor in various issues. A successful Washington lawyer, he was known for his elite c....
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Herbert Ferber

Herbert Ferber


Herbert Ferber was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the BeauxArts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School. In 1930, he attended the National Academy of Design, and that summer he was awarded a scholarship to work at The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in Oyster Bay, New York. He also began parttime work as a dentist. Impressed by African sculpture, he purch....
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Herbert Wehner

Herbert Wehner


Herbert Richard Wehner was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party, he joined the Social Democrats after World War II. He served as Federal Minister of IntraGerman Relations from 1966 to 1969 and thereafter as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag until 1983.....
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Erich Klawe

Erich Klawe


Erich Klawe was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant 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.....
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Erich L we

Erich L we


Erich Lwe was an Oberstleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II, and one of only 882 recipients 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. Erich Lwe was killed on 23 December 1943 in Losovka, Russia. He was posthumously promoted to Oberstleutnant and awarded the Oak Leaves to his Knights Cross.....
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Erich Pietzonka

Erich Pietzonka


Erich Pietzonka , was a German Fallschirmjger 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.....
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Erich Warsitz

Erich Warsitz


Erich Warsitz was a German test pilot of the 1930s. He held the rank of FlightCaptain in the Luftwaffe and was selected by the Reich Air Ministry as chief test pilot at Peenemnde West. He is remembered as the first person to fly an aircraft under liquidfueled rocket power, the Heinkel He 176, on June 20, 1939 and also the first to fly an aircraft under turbojet power, the Heinkel He 178, on August 27 the same year.....
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Hermann Fegelein

Hermann Fegelein


Hans Georg Otto Hermann Fegelein was an SSGruppenfhrer of the WaffenSS in Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitlers entourage and brotherinlaw to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister, Gretl.....
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Barney Bigard

Barney Bigard


Albany Leon Barney Bigard was an American jazz clarinetist who also played tenor saxophone, known for his 15year tenure with Duke Ellington.....
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Bart Bok

Bart Bok


Bartholomeus Jan Bart Bok was a Dutchborn American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer. He is best known for his work on the structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, and for the discovery of Bok globules, which are small, densely dark clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen silhouetted against brighter backgrounds. Bok suggested that these globules may be in the process of contracting, before forming into stars.....
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Giuseppe Farina

Giuseppe Farina


Dottore Emilio Giuseppe Nino Farina , was an Italian racing driver and was the first official World Champion, gaining the title in 1950. He was also the Italian Champion in 1937, 1938 and 1939. During his thirtyyear racing career he suffered a series of accidents.....
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L on Degrelle

L on Degrelle


Lon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Walloon Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS which were frontline troops in German combat operations against the Soviet Union. After World War II, he was a prominent figure in fascist movements.....
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L opold S dar Senghor

L opold S dar Senghor


Lopold Sdar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Acadmie franaise. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century.....
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, antiNazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianitys role in the secular world have become widely influential, and his book The Cost of Discipleship became a modern classic.....
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Ernest Wallace

Ernest Wallace


East Texas State University Texas Tech University....
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