Famous people born in the year 1903

James Howard McGrath was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Rhode Island. McGrath, a Democrat, served as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island before becoming Governor, U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Senator, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Attorney General of the United States.....
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Leslie Townes Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS , was an American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career spanning nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in over 70 films and shorts, including a series of Road movies also starring Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. In addition to hosting the Academy Awards 19 times , he appeared in many stage productions and television roles and was the author of fourteen books. The song Thanks for the Memory is widely regarded as Hopes sig....
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Bla Varga was a Hungarian Catholic priest and politician. He was one of the founders of the Independent Smallholders Party. Varga was arrested by the Soviet troops in 1945 and sentenced to death, but released and served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary February 7, 1946July 3, 1947. Msgr. Varga emigrated to the USA in 1947, where he worked as a priest in New York City, but returned to his native country after the communists lost their power.....
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Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl Fatha Hines , was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one major source, is one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz.....
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H Warner Munn was an American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry. best remembered for his early stories in Weird Tales. He was an early friend and associate of authors H. P. Lovecraft and Seabury Quinn. He has been described by fellow author Jessica Amanda Salmonson, who interviewed him during 1978, as the ultimate gentleman and a gentle, calm, warm, and good friend. He was known for his intricate plotting and the careful research that he did for his stories, a habit he traced back to two mis....
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Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian statesman who served as the countrys leader from independence in 1956 to 1987first as Prime Minister from 1956 to 1957 and as its first President from 1957 to 1987.....
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Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC was an English aviator, best known for winning the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934. ....
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Edgar John Bergen was an American actor, comedian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. He is also the father of actress Candice Bergen. He died on September 30, 1978, in Las Vegas, Nevada due to kidney disease.....
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Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari was Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy from 1936 until 1943 and Benito Mussolinis soninlaw. On 11 January 1944, Count Ciano was shot by firing squad at the behest of his fatherinlaw, Mussolini, under pressure from Nazi Germany. Ciano wrote and left behind a diary that has been used as a source by several historians, including William Shirer in his The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and in the 4hour HBO documentarydrama Mussolini and I.....
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HansArno Ostermeier 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. He was also awarded the very rare Close Combat Clasp in Gold one of only 631 awards....
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Johann Gottlieb Hans Freiherr von Wolff was a highly decorated Oberst 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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Hans Hedtoft Hansen was Prime Minister of Denmark from 13 November 1947 to 30 October 1950 as the leader of the Cabinet of Hans Hedtoft I and again from 30 September 1953 to 29 January 1955 as the leader of the Cabinet of Hans Hedtoft II. He served as the first President of the Nordic Council in 1953.....
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Hans Achim Litten was a German lawyer who represented opponents of the Nazis at important political trials between 192932, defending the rights of workers during the Weimar Republic.....
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Edward Bawden CBE RA was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War Two. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and....
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Charlotte Perriand was a French architect and designer. Her work aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society. In her article LArt de Vivre from 1981 she states The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of livingliving in harmony with mans deepest drives and with his adopted or fabricated environment. ....
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Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.....
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George Coulouris was an English film and stage actor.....
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Eleanor Lambert Berkson was a central figure in the American fashion and public relations industries.....
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Haywood Shepherd Hansell Jr., was a general officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and later the United States Air Force. He became an advocate of the doctrine of strategic bombardment, and was one of the chief architects of the concept of daylight precision bombing that governed the use of airpower by the USAAF in the war.....
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Eliahu Elath , born Epstein was an Israeli diplomat and Orientalist. In 1948 he became the first Israeli ambassador to the United States.....
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