Famous people born in the year 1908

Helen Badgley was an American child actress of the silent film era.....
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Hellmuth Mder was a German general 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 and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Henri CartierBresson was a French humanist photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35160mm film. He helped develop street photography, and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment, a term adopted as the title for his first major book. His work has influenced many photographers.....
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Leslie OBrien Chuck FleetwoodSmith was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. Known universally as Chuck, he was the wayward genius of Australian cricket during the 1930s. A slow bowler who could spin the ball harder and further than his contemporaries, FleetwoodSmith was regarded as a rare talent, but his cricket suffered from a lack of selfdiscipline that also characterised his personal life. In addition, his career coincided with those of Bill OReilly and Clarrie Grimmett, two sp....
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Chula Chakrabongse , was a member of the family of the Chakri Dynasty of Thailand and of the House of Chakkraphong. He was the only child of Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath and his Ukrainian wife, Ekaterina Desnitskaya . He was a grandson of King Chulalongkorn.....
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Leon Brown Chu Berry was an American swing tenor saxophonist.....
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Gerhard Bigalk was a Fregattenkapitn with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and commander of U751. 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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Henry Hammill Fowler was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Treasury under President Lyndon B. Johnson.....
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Dennis Morgan was an American actorsinger. Born as Earl Stanley Morner, he used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.....
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Claude LviStrauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collge de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Acadmie franaise in 1973. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world and has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the father of modern anthropology.....
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Henry Trefflich was an animal importer and dealer. He procured animals of many different types and sizes from Africa, Asia and South America and imported them to the United States via ship and airplane. He sold them to zoos, circuses, Hollywood studios and also to various private and government research institutions. His business was headquartered on Fulton Street in Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA where his shop was considered a local attraction in its own right. In the early 1960s his build....
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Enver Halil Hoxha 16 October 1908160 11 April 1985 was the communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. He was chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania and commanderinchief of the armed forces from 1944 until his death. He served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as foreign minister and defence minister as well.....
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Ephraim Paul Holmes was a fourstar admiral in the United States Navy who served as commander in chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic from 1967 to 1970.....
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Balthasar Klossowski de Rola , known as Balthus, was a PolishFrench modern artist.....
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Herbert Sohler was a German Uboat commander of World War II.....
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Devika Rani Chaudhuri, usually known as Devika Rani , was an actress in Indian films who was active during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani had a successful film career that spanned 10 years.....
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Floyd Douglas Culbertson, Jr. , was a lawyer in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, who from 1940 to 1942 was the mayor of his native Minden, the seat of government of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He resigned early in his second term to enter the United States Army with stateside service in World War II.....
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Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo.....
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Ernest Edwin Evans was an officer of the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle off Samar in World War II.....
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Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher was a preeminent American food writer. She was also a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. She wrote some 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by BrillatSavarin. Two volumes of her journals and correspondence came out shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937. Her books are an amalgam of food literature, travel and memoir. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the arts of life and ex....
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