Famous people born in the year 1910

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Eliot Noyes

Eliot Noyes


Eliot Fette Noyes was a Harvardtrained American architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most notably the IBM Selectric typewriter and the IBM Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles, California. Noyes was also a pioneer in development of comprehensive corporatewide design programs that integrated design strategy and business strategy. Noyes worked on corporate imagery for IBM, Mobil Oil, Cummins Engine and Westinghouse.....
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Christopher Cockerell

Christopher Cockerell


Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.....
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Heinrich Hoffmann naval officer

Heinrich Hoffmann naval officer


Heinrich Hoffmann was a Korvettenkapitn with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and 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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George Mikhailovich Count Brasov

George Mikhailovich Count Brasov


George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov was a Russian noble and a descendant of the House of Romanov through a morganatic line.....
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Heinz Hoffmann

Heinz Hoffmann


Heinz Hoffmann was Minister of National Defense in the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic, and since 2 October 1973 Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party .....
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George Tsutakawa

George Tsutakawa


George Tsutakawa was an American painter and sculptor best known for his avantgarde bronze fountain designs.....
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Georg Meier

Georg Meier


Georg Schorsch Meier was a German motorcycle racer famous for being the first foreign winner of the prestigious Senior TT, the Blue Riband race of the Isle of Man TT Races, in 1939 riding for the factory BMW team and the first motorcycle racer to lap a Grand Prix course at over 100160mph.....
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Emilie Schenkl

Emilie Schenkl


Emilie Schenkl was the wife, or companion, of Subhas Chandra Bosea major leader of Indian nationalismand the mother of his daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff . Schenkl, an Austrian, and her baby daughter were left without support in wartime Europe by Bose, following his departure for Southeast Asia in February 1943 and death in 1945. In 1948, both were met by Boses brother Sarat Chandra Bose and his family in Vienna in an emotional meeting. In the postwar years, Schenkl worked shifts in the Trunk Offic....
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Emil Badorrek

Emil Badorrek


Emil Badorrek was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant in the Luftwaffe 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. Emil Badorrek was shot down on 26 December 1944 over Krakw, Poland.....
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Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor


She appeared in over 60 films, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo, and earning nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty and Dead End. She also received topbilling in Stagecoach.....
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Herbert Ryman

Herbert Ryman


Herbert Dickens Ryman was an artist and Disney Imagineer. Ryman worked in watercolor, oils, and pen amp ink sketches. In 1953 Ryman drew the first illustrations of Walt Disneys vision of a theme park that eventually became Disneyland.....
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Barbara Castle Baroness Castle of Blackburn

Barbara Castle Baroness Castle of Blackburn


Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longestserving female MP in the history of the House of Commons, until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989. One of the most significant Labour Party politicians of the 20th century, she served in the Cabinet ....
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Erich Wulff

Erich Wulff


Erich Wulff was a Sturmbannfhrer in the WaffenSS during World War II, who was awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.....
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Diana Mitford

Diana Mitford


Diana, Lady Mosley , born Diana FreemanMitford and usually known as Diana Mitford, was one of Britains noted Mitford sisters. She was married first to Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, and secondly to Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Her second marriage, in 1936, took place at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honour. Subsequently her involvement with rightwing political causes resulted in three years ....
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Dick Foran

Dick Foran


John Nicholas Dick Foran was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.....
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K roly Tak cs

K roly Tak cs


Kroly Takcs was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol event, both with his left hand after his right hand was seriously injured. He is the third known physically disabled athlete to have competed in the Olympic Games after George Eyser in 1904 and Olivr Halassy in 1928, followed by Liz Hartel in 1952 and Neroli Fairhall in 1984.....
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L T C Rolt

L T C Rolt


Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britains inland waterways, and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways.....
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Glenn W Burton

Glenn W Burton


Glenn W. Burton was an American agricultural scientist notable for his pioneering work in plant breeding, development of pearl millet in 1956 and for other contributions that helped to increase world food production.....
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Ernst Kutschkau

Ernst Kutschkau


Ernst Kutschkau was a highly decorated Oberfeldwebel of the Reserves 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. He was also awarded the very rare Close Combat Clasp in Gold one of only 631 awards....
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Gloria Stuart

Gloria Stuart


Gloria Frances Stewart, known as Gloria Stuart, was an American actress and visual artist. Stuart began her acting career in theater. In the 1930s and 1940s, she performed in little theater and summer stock in Los Angeles and New York City. She signed a contract with Universal Pictures in 1932, and acted in numerous films, including The Old Dark House , The Invisible Man , and The Three Musketeers .....
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