Famous people born in the year 1928

George Peppard, Jr. was an American film and television actor.....
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Federico Martn Bahamontes is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist. Born as Alejandro Martn Bahamontes. He is the first cyclist to complete a career triple in winning the King of the Mountains classification in all three Grand Tours.....
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Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades , she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and everchanging new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her largescale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 PostPainterly Abstraction exh....
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Philippine Legion of Honor Commander, Legion of Merit Military Merit Medal United Nations Service Medal Vietnam Service Medal Lgion dhonneur Distinguished Conduct Star United States Military Academy Distinguished Award Korean Service Medal Order of Dato Laila Utama Commander, Order of Dharma Pratana Grand Order of Mugunghwa Collar, Order of Civil Merit Honorary Knight Grand Cross, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Collar, Order of Isabella the Catholic Order of Loyalty to the Crown of M....
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Emily McLaughlin was an American actress known for her longstanding role as Nurse Jessie Brewer on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.....
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Clarence Edward Smith , better known by his assumed names Clarence16013X and Allah, was an American religious leader who founded the FivePercent Nation, a group that split from the Nation of Islam . He was born in Virginia, and moved to New York City as a young man before serving in the United States Army during the Korean War. After returning to New York, he learned that his wife had joined the NOI and followed her, taking the name Clarence16013X. He served in the group as a security officer, m....
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Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, born in Rome. He composes a wide range of music styles, making him one of the most versatile, experimental and influential composers of all time, working in any medium. Over the past seven decades, Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His filmography includes over 70 awardwinning films, including all Sergio Leone films ....
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Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. was a prominent AfricanAmerican civil rights advocate, author, and federal appeals court judge. Higginbotham was the seventh AfricanAmerican Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the first AfricanAmerican judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1991. He used the name Leon informally.....
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Count Giannino Marzotto was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur. He was an extraordinary driver and man of great charisma, as well a patron of culture and humanity. Marzotto served as President of the Mille Miglia Club, and twice winner of race in 1950 and 1953.....
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Desmond John Morris is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology.....
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Erica Wilson was an Englishborn American embroidery designer based in New York, known particularly for needlepoint. She also designed wallcoverings and greeting cards. Her designs were published by Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Wilson earned the nicknames Julia Child of embroidery and Americas first lady of stitchery for her work.....
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Herbert Herb Kawainui Kne , considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s, was a celebrated artisthistorian and author with a special interest in the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawai i. Kne played a key role in demonstrating that Hawaiian culture arose not from some accidental seeding of Polynesia, but that Hawai i was reachable by voyaging canoes from Tahiti able to make the journey and return. This offered a far more complex n....
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Barbara Ann Scott OC OOnt was a Canadian figure skater. She was the 1948 Olympic champion, a twotime World champion , and a fourtime Canadian national champion in ladies singles. Known as Canadas Sweetheart, she is the only Canadian to have won the Olympic ladies singles gold medal, the first North American to have won three major titles in one year and the only Canadian to have won the European Championship . During her forties she was rated among the top equestrians in North America. She re....
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Hernn Garca de Gonzalo Vidal , is a retired Chilean diplomat and academic. A former Prorector of the University of Chile, former Consul General of Thailand in Chile, Viceminister of Planification of Chile, and an Economist for the United Nations. As the Prorector of the University of Chile he was awarded special recognition by NASA, the University of Chile Council of Deans awarded him the Andrs Bello Medal, and was made honorary member of the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the National Univ....
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Richard Vincent Dick Van Patten was an American actor, businessman, and animal welfare advocate, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the ABC television comedydrama Eight Is Enough.....
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Richard Allen Dick York was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC television fantasy sitcom Bewitched. His best known motion picture role was as teacher Bertram Cates in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind.....
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Kre Isaachsen Willoch born 3 October 1928 is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party. He served as Minister of Trade and Shipping in 1963 and 19651970, as President of the Nordic Council in 1973, and as Prime Minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986. Willoch was Chairman of the Conservative Party 19701974.....
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Jacklyn Harold Jack Lucas was a United States Marine who later reenlisted in the United States Army and reached the Rank of Captain. He was awarded the Medal of Honor at age seventeen for heroism above and beyond the call of duty while serving in the Marine Corps Private First Class, during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.....
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Pter Boross is a Hungarian politician, former member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum , who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from December 1993 to July 1994. He assumed the position upon the death of his predecessor, Jzsef Antall, and held the office until his rightwing coalition was defeated in election by the Hungarian Socialist Party , which was led by his successor Gyula Horn. Prior to his premiership, Boross functioned as Minister of Civilian Intelligence Services and Minister of the ....
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Diethard Hellmann was a German Kantor and an academic in Leipzig, Mainz and Munich.....
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