Famous people born in the year 1907
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Ivan Gevorkian
Ivan Khristoforovich Gevorkian, born Hovannes Khachaturi Gevorkian Armenian Russian was a prominent Soviet Armenian surgeon and scientist who published 10 monographs and more than 230 scientific papers. His main research was dedicated to anesthesia, blood transfusion, the treatment of endarteritis of extremities and other surgical illnesses.....
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B la Bar nyi
Bla Barnyi was an Austrian engineer, of Hungarian heritage and Austrian heritage . He is regarded as the father of passive safety in automobiles. He was born in Hirtenberg, Austria near Vienna, Austria during the AustroHungarian Empire. His father Jen Barnyi was a Hungarian officer, a teacher at the military academy at Pressburg, a former Hungarian capital .....
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Cab Calloway
Cabell Cab Calloway III was an AfricanAmerican jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer.....
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Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was an English author and playwright.....
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Fay Wray
Vina Fay Wray was a Canadianborn American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles. She was one of the first scream queens.....
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Hans Gerrit von Stockhausen
HansGerrit von Stockhausen was a Korvettenkapitn with Nazi Germanys Kriegsmarine during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Hans Kroh
Hans Kroh was a German Fallschirmjger and general in the Bundeswehr. 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 and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Hans Martin Sutermeister
Hans Martin Sutermeister was a Swiss physician and medical writer, politician, and activist against miscarriages of justice.....
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Edward Dunlop
Colonel Sir Ernest Edward Weary Dunlop AC, CMG, OBE was an Australian surgeon who was renowned for his leadership while being held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II.....
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Edward James
Edward William Frank James was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.....
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Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Harivansh Rai Srivastava alias Bachchan was a noted Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement of early 20th century Hindi literature. Born in a Srivastava Kayastha family, in the village of Babupatti in the district of Pratapgarh, he was also a famous poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan. He is best known for his early work Madhushala . He is also the father of the noted Hindi film actor, Amitabh Bachchan. In 1976, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan for his immense contribution to Hindi....
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Gene Autry
Orvon Grover Gene Autry was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los AngelesCaliforniaAnaheim Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.....
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Gene Sedric
Gene Sedric was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist. He acquired the nickname Honey Bear in the 1930s because of his large camelhair coat.....
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Harold Stassen
Harold Edward Stassen was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. After service in World War II, he was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1953. In popular culture, his name has become most identified with his fame as a perennial candidate for other offices, most notably and frequently President of the United States. ....
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Edwin McMillan
Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first ever to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg in 1951.....
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David Fleay
David Howells Fleay AM MBE was an Australian naturalist who pioneered the captive breeding of endangered species, and was the first person to breed the platypus in captivity.....
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Hartland Molson
Hartland de Montarville Molson, OC OBE OQ was an AngloQuebecer statesman, Canadian Senator and a member of the prominent Molson family of brewers.....
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Heikki Savolainen gymnast
Heikki Ilmari Savolainen was a Finnish artistic gymnast. He competed in five consecutive Olympics from 1928 to 1952 and won at least one medal in each of them. In 1928 he won a bronze on pommel horse, which was the firstever medal in gymnastics for Finland. Winning his last medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he became the oldest gymnastics medalist, at 44 years old he delivered the Olympic Oath in the opening ceremony of those games. In 1932 Savolainen and his teammate Einari Tersvi....
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Heinrich Trettner
Heinrich Heinz Trettner was a German general serving during World War II and from 1964 to 1966 Inspector General of the Bundeswehr. 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. He was the last living general of the Wehrmacht.....
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