Famous people born in the year 1915
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George F Bond
Capt. George Foote Bond USN was an American physician who was known as a leader in the field of undersea and hyperbaric medicine and the Father of Saturation Diving.....
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George H Cannon
First Lieutenant George Ham Cannon, USMC, was the first U.S. Marine in World War II to receive the nations highest military award the Medal of Honor. He posthumously received the medal for distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, extraordinary courage, and disregard of his own condition during the bombardment of Midway Island by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. He remained at his Command Post despite being mortally wounded by enemy shell fire. He refused to be evacuated until h....
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David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller is an American banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He is the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family and family patriarch since July 2004. Rockefeller is also the only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.....
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, DBE was a GermanBritish soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally.....
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Heinrich Albertz
Heinrich Albertz was a German Protestant theologian, priest and politician of the Social Democratic Party . He served as Governing Mayor of Berlin from 1966 to 1967.....
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David Stirling
Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE was a British mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.....
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Heinrich Ruhl
Heinrich Ruhl was a Major 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 turned 100 in August 2015.....
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Heinrich Schroeteler
Dr. Heinrich Andreas Schroeteler was a German Uboat commander in World War II and 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. He is credited with damaging one merchant ship, the British steam merchant Riverton, of 7,345160gross register tons160, and sinking one warship, the Norwegian minesweeper HNoMS NYMS382, of 335160GRT. The sinking took place on 7 May 1945, 3 da....
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Heinrich Setz
Heinrich Setz was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 138 enemy aircraft shot down in 274 combat missions. The majority of his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front, with six claims over the Western Front.....
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Heinz Otto Schultze
HeinzOtto Schultze was a German Uboat commander in World War II and 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. He is credited with the sinking of 20 ships for a total of 67,991160gross register tons160 plus damaging a further two ships for a total of 15,666160GRT.....
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George Pace
George Gaze Pace was an English architect who specialised in ecclesiastical works. He was trained in London, and served in the army, before being appointed as surveyor to a number of cathedrals. Most of his work was carried out on churches, although he did some secular work. His architectural style was Modernist, but he respected traditional styles, and on occasions combined both styles in his works.....
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Helmut Hudel
Helmut Erich Hudel was a highly decorated Major 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. Helmut Hudel was captured by American troops in April 1945 in the Ruhr Pocket.....
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Helmut Wick
Major Helmut Paul Emil Wick was a German Luftwaffe ace and the fourth recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade, the Oak Leaves, was awarded by the Third Reich to recognise extreme bravery in battle or successful military leadership. It was Germanys highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to Helmut Wick.....
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Fernando Lamas
Fernando lvaro Lamas y de Santos was an Argentineborn actor and director, and the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas.....
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Georg Gr ner
Georg Grner was a highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.....
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Georg Lassen
Georg Lassen was a German Uboat commander who served with Nazi Germanys Kriegsmarine during World War II rising to the rank of Korvettenkapitn . He was a Watch Officer on U29 at the outbreak of the war and later the skipper of the U160 and winner of the Iron Cross. He sank 26 ships for a total of 156,082160gross register tons160 during 4 patrols, leading to a remarkable average of 39,020160GRT per patrol. His total tonnage made him the 10th most successful Uboat ace of the war.....
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Georg von Boeselager
Georg Freiherr von Boeselager was a German nobleman and an officer of the Wehrmacht, who ultimately reached the rank of Colonel of Cavalry.....
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Denis Thatcher
Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, MBE, TD was a British businessman, and the husband of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was born in Lewisham, London, the elder child of a New Zealandborn British businessman, Thomas Herbert Thatcher. He is the most recent person outside the Royal Family to be awarded a British hereditary title, which he was granted in 1990.....
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