Famous people born in the year 1919

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George Avakian

George Avakian


George Avakian is an American record producer and executive known particularly for his work with Columbia Records, and his production of albums by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and other notable jazz musicians.....
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George Cadle Price

George Cadle Price


The Right Honourable George Cadle Price, P.C. , was a Belizean statesman who served twice as the head of government of Belize from 196184 and 198993. He served as First Minister and Premier under British rule until independence in 1981 and was the nations first prime minister after independence that year. He is considered to have been one of the principal architects of Belizean independence. Today he is referred to by many as the Father of the Nation. Price effectively dominated Belizean politic....
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Heinz Georg Lemm

Heinz Georg Lemm


HeinzGeorg Lemm was a German soldier who fought in the 12th Infantry Division during World War II and later served in the Bundeswehr, the postwar West German armed forces. He was 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, the Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or outstanding military leadership.....
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Heinz Macher

Heinz Macher


Heinz Macher was an SSSturmbannfhrer and Nazi official during the Second World War. 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. Macher was born in Chemnitz, Germany and joined the Nazi Party in the early 1940s. He served as the second personal assistant to ReichsfhrerSS Heinrich Himmler during the Second....
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Ellen Stewart

Ellen Stewart


Ellen Stewart was an American theatre director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. . In the 1950s she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord amp Taylor, and Henri Bendel.....
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George Wallace

George Wallace


George Corley Wallace, Jr. was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat 19631967, 19711979 and 19831987. Wallace has the third longest gubernatorial tenure in postConstitutional U.S. history, at 16 years and four days. He was a U.S. Presidential candidate for four consecutive elections, in which he sought the Democratic Party nomination in 1964, 1972, and 1976, and was the American Independent Party c....
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Delia Garc s

Delia Garc s


Delia Amadora Garca Gerboles better known as Delia Garcs was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema . She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959 and acted on stage from 1936 to 1966. She won the Premios Sur Best Actress award three times from the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences, as well as the Argentine Film Critics Associations Silver Condor Award for Best Actress, the Premios Leopold Torre Nilsson, Premio Pablo Podest, and the i....
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Gerhard Barkhorn

Gerhard Barkhorn


Gerhard Gerd Barkhorn was the second most successful fighter ace of all time after fellow Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. Barkhorn joined the Luftwaffe in 1937 and completed his training in 1939.....
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Gerhard Hoffmann pilot

Gerhard Hoffmann pilot


Gerhard Hoffmann was a Luftwaffe flying ace of World War II. 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. Hoffmann was credited with 130 aerial victoriesthat is, 130 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft.....
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Henry Oliver Hansen

Henry Oliver Hansen


Henry Oliver Hank Hansen was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.....
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A Theodore Tuttle

A Theodore Tuttle


Albert Theodore Tuttle was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1958 until his death.....
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Desmond Doss

Desmond Doss


Desmond Thomas Doss was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and one of only three so honored . He was a Corporal in the U.S. Army assigned to the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division.....
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Eric Brown pilot

Eric Brown pilot


Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS, RN was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 different types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. He was also the mostdecorated pilot in the history of the Royal Navy.....
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Hermine Braunsteiner

Hermine Braunsteiner


Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was a female camp guard at Ravensbrck and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States, to face trial in Germany. She was sentenced to life imprisonment by the District Court of Dsseldorf on April 30, 1981.....
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Barry Galbraith

Barry Galbraith


Joseph Barry Galbraith was an American jazz guitarist.....
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Giulio Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti


Giulio Andreotti OMI SMOM OCSG OESSH was the 41st Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Christian Democracy party. Beginning as a protg of Alcide De Gasperi, Andreotti achieved cabinet rank at a young age and occupied all the major offices of state over the course of a fortyyear political career, being seen as a reassuring figure by the civil service, business community, and Vatican. In foreign policy, he guided Italys European Union integration, and established closer relations with the A....
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M ire Drumm

M ire Drumm


Mire Drumm was the vice president of Sinn Fin and a commander in Cumann na mBan. She was killed by Ulster loyalists while recovering from an eye operation in Belfasts Mater Hospital.....
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Jack Palance

Jack Palance


Jack Palance was an American actor and singer. During half a century of film and television appearances, he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1992 for his role in City Slickers.....
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Ernest R Kouma

Ernest R Kouma


Ernest Richard Kouma was a soldier in the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War. He rose to the rank of Master Sergeant and received the Medal of Honor for his actions on August 31 and September 1, 1950, during the Second Battle of Naktong Bulge in South Korea.....
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Ian Smith

Ian Smith


Ian Douglas Smith, GCLM, ID was a politician, farmer and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979. His countrys first nativeborn premier, he led the predominantly white government that unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1965, following prolonged dispute over the terms. He remained Prime Minister for almost all of the 14 years of international isolation that followed, and oversaw Rhodesias security forces during most of the Bush War, wh....
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