Famous people born in the year 1916

Heinz Meyer , 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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Heinz Polz was an Oberwachtmeister in the Luftwaffe during World War II, and 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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George Rosenkranz is a pioneering Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry, who used native Mexican plant sources as raw materials. He was born in Hungary, studied in Switzerland and emigrated to the Americas to escape the Nazis, eventually settling in Mexico.....
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Helmut Lipfert was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Lipfert ranks as the worlds thirteenth fighter ace. Lipfert was credited with 203 victories achieved in 687 combat missions. All his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front and included a P51 Mustang, 41 Yakovlev Yak1, 41 Yakovlev Yak9 fighters, two fourengine bombers and 39 Ilyushin Il2 groundattack aircraft. He was shot down fifteen times, without being injured.....
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Helmut Wandmaker was a highly decorated German officer in the Wehrmacht. He was one of 98 soldiers to have been awarded both the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and Close Combat Clasp in Gold.....
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Ferdinand Foltin was a highly decorated Major in the Fallschirmjger during World War II and an Generalmajor in the Bundesheer. 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 Alexius Courtney, Jr. was an officer of the United States Marine Corps Reserve during World War II and a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor.....
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Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini was an Italian industrialist. Born to grape farmers from the comune of Cento in the EmiliaRomagna region, his mechanical knowhow led him to enter the business of tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italys postwar economic reform. In 1959, he opened an oil heater factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing a....
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Emil Baer Fetzer was an American architect and the head architect of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1965 to his retirement in 1986.....
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Emil Joseph Kapaun was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army captain who served as a United States Army chaplain during World War II and the Korean War. Kapaun was a chaplain in the Burma Theater of World War II, then served again as a chaplain with the U.S. Army in Korea, where he was captured. He died in a prisoner of war camp.....
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The First Presidency of Rafael Caldera took place from 1969 to 1974. He was elected again in 1993 .....
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as the father of information theory.....
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John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist best known for his criticism of Margaret Meads work on Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa. His effort ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology.....
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Arthur Derek Hill, CBE, HRHA was an English portrait and landscape painter long resident in Ireland.....
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Herbert Alexander Simon , a Nobel Prize laureate, was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, psychologist, and computer scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science, unified by studies of decisionmaking. With almost a thousand highly cited publications, he was one of the most influential social scientists of the....
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Herbert Eugene Herb Caen was a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goingson and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotesa continuous love letter to San Franciscoappeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.....
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Erich Hellmann was a highly decorated Oberleutnant in the Fallschirmjger during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Erich Leie was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe until his death on 7 March 1945. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant and nominated for the Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Dr. Erich Mende was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party and Christian Democratic Union . He was the leader of FDP from 1960 to 1968 and the 3rd ViceChancellor of Germany from 1963 to 1966.....
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Hermann Wilhelm Georg Bchting was a German Schnellboot 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.....
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