Famous people born in the year 1917

LieutenantColonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, VC, MC was a British soldier of the Second World War and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award that can be made to British and Commonwealth forces for gallantry in the face of the enemy. At the time he was the youngest acting lieutenant colonel in the British Army.....
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Egon Mayer was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 102 enemy aircraft shot down in over 353 combat missions. His victories were all claimed over the Western Front and included 26 fourengine bombers, 51 Supermarine Spitfires and 12 P47 Thunderbolts. Mayer was the first fighter pilot to score 100 victories entirely on the Western Front.....
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George Dennis Keathley was a staff sergeant in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II.....
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Eladio Dieste was a Uruguayan engineer and architect who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, all in Uruguay and all of exceptional elegance.....
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Christian Ren Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prizewinning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade . In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented the scientific names such as autophagy, endocytosis, and exocytosis in a single occasion.....
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George Gaynes born George Jongejans in Helsinki, then Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire, was an American singer, actor, voice artist, and comedy performer of stage, screen, and television. Born to Dutch and Russian parents in Finland, he served in the Royal Netherlands Navy during World War II and subsequently immigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen and began his acting career on Broadway.....
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Eliane Plewman was a British member of Special Operations Executive an agent and member of the French Resistance working in the MONK circuit in occupied France during World War II. She was involved in a number of highly successful sabotage missions but was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo later being murdered by the SS at Dachau Concentration Camp.....
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George Lafayette Mabry, Jr. was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in World War II.....
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Heinrich Theodor Bll was one of Germanys foremost postWorld War II writers. Bll was awarded the Georg Bchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.....
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Heinrich Ehrler was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 208 enemy aircraft shot down in over 400 combat missions. The majority of his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front, with nine claims over the Western Front which included eight in the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter.....
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Heinz Sokolowski was a casualty of the Cold War at the Berlin Wall. In addition to being a victim of the Wall, Sokolowski was also a political prisoner East German border troops shot him at the wall between the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag during an escape attempt.....
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Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a hornlike improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.....
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Dean Elmer Hess was an American minister and United States Air Force colonel who was involved in the socalled Kiddy Car Airlift, the documented rescue of 950 orphans and 80 orphanage staff from the path of the Chinese advance during the Korean War on December 20, 1950. He is the subject of autobiography Battle Hymn, published in 1956, which later served the basis for the 1957 film of the same name, where he was played by Rock Hudson.....
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Helmut Arpke was a member of the Fallschirmjger during World War II and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross for his actions during the Battle of Fort EbenEmael. The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Dean Paul Martin was an American singer, actor, comedian, and film producer.....
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Elmer John Gedeon is one of only two Major League Baseball players killed in action during World War II. Gedeon was also a multisport star in college at the University of Michigan. He flew several missions in the European Theater of Operations as an officer of the United States Army Air Forces before his final, fatal military operation.....
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Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino politician and kleptocrat who was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled as dictator under martial law from 1972 until 1981. While his regime started an unprecedented number of infrastructure projects and monuments , it also became infamous for its corruption, extravagance and brutality.....
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Georgy Mikhailovich Vitsin was a Soviet and Russian actor. Peoples Artist of the USSR .....
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Fernando Casado Arambillet , best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buuel and as a drug lord in The French Connection , he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century.....
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Georg Michael was a highly decorated Major 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.....
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