Famous people born in the year 1901

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Ivan Milutinovi

Ivan Milutinovi


Ivan Milutinovi was a Yugoslav Partisan general and an eminent military commander who participated in World War II in Yugoslavia.....
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Ivar Lo Johansson

Ivar Lo Johansson


Ivar LoJohansson was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school. His autobiographical 1979 memoir, Pubertet , won the Nordic Councils Literature Prize in 1979.....
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J rgen Wagner

J rgen Wagner


Jrgen Wagner was a Brigadefhrer in the Waffen SS during World War II, he was the commander of the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland and was awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Wagner was extradited to Yugoslavia in 1947 to stand trial for war crimes. Found guilty before the Yugoslav military tribunal, he was sentenced to death and executed on 27 June 1947.....
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E B Ford

E B Ford


Edmund Brisco Henry Ford FRS Hon. FRCP was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. As a schoolboy Ford became interested in lepidoptera, the group of insects which includes butterflies and moths. He went on to study the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Ford was awarded the Royal Societys Darwin Medal in 1954. Later, in 1968, he was awarded UNESCOs Kali....
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Daniel V Gallery

Daniel V Gallery


Daniel Vincent Gallery was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He saw extensive action during World War II, fighting UBoats during the Battle of the Atlantic, where his most notable achievement was the June 4, 1944, capture of the German submarine160U505. After the war, Gallery was a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction. During the postwar military cutbacks, he wrote a series of articles criticizing the heavy reductions being made to the US Navy. These articles placed him at odds wit....
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Danny Polo

Danny Polo


Danny Polo was an American jazz clarinetist.....
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Edmond Hall

Edmond Hall


Edmond Hall was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader.....
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Carl Barks

Carl Barks


Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.....
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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper


Gary Cooper was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances. His career spanned thirtyfive years, from 1925 to 1960, and included leading roles in eightyfour feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres. Coopers....
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Hans Grundig

Hans Grundig


Hans Grundig was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement.....
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Hans Kammler

Hans Kammler


General Dr.Ing. Hans Friedrich Karl Franz Kammler was a German civil engineer and highranking officer of the Schutzstaffel . He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V2 missile and jet programmes. He is most commonly referred to as Hans Kammler.....
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Charles Wesley Shilling

Charles Wesley Shilling


Capt. Charles Wesley Shilling USN was an American physician who was known as a leader in the field of undersea and hyperbaric medicine, research, and education. Shilling was widely recognized as an expert on deep sea diving, naval medicine, radiation biology, and submarine capabilities. In 1939, he was Senior Medical Officer in the rescue of the submarine U.S.S. Squalus.....
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Hans Moldenhauer

Hans Moldenhauer


Hans Moldenhauer was Germanys first major international tennis player, competing in Wimbledon, the Davis Cup and the French Open, and repeatedly winning the German national Championships both as a single player and in mixed doubles. He died at the age of just 28, when his motor car was hit by a tram in Berlin.....
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Edward Turner

Edward Turner


Edward Turner was an English motorcycle designer. He was born in Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark, on the day King Edward VII was proclaimed King. In 1915, Turner had his first ride on a motorcycle, a Light Tourist New Imperial.....
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Chen Yi general

Chen Yi general


Chen Yi was a Chinese communist military commander and politician. He served as Mayor of Shanghai from 1949 to 1958 and as Foreign Minister of China from 1958 to 1972.....
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Edwina Mountbatten Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Edwina Mountbatten Countess Mountbatten of Burma


Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, GBE, DCVO, GCStJ, CI was an English heiress, socialite, reliefworker, wife of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and last Vicereine of India.....
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Chester Bowles

Chester Bowles


Chester Bliss Bowles was an American diplomat and ambassador, Governor of Connecticut, Member of Congress and cofounder of a major advertising agency, Benton amp Bowles, now part of Publicis Groupe.....
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Chester Morris

Chester Morris


Chester Morris was an American stage, film, television and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and was nominated for an Oscar. But he is best remembered today for portraying Boston Blackie, a criminalturneddetective, in the modestly budgeted Boston Blackie film series of the 1940s.....
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Ed Earl Repp

Ed Earl Repp


Ed Earl Repp was an American writer, screenwriter and novelist. His stories appeared in several of the early pulp magazines including Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories. After World War II, he began working as a screenwriter for several western movies....
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Ed Sullivan

Ed Sullivan


Edward Vincent Sullivan was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and longtime syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News. He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, later popularlyand, eventually, officiallyrenamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longestrunning variety show in US broadcast history. It was, by almost any measure, the la....
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