Famous people born in the year 1904

Isamu Noguchi was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several massproduced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold.....
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. As the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, Oppenheimer is among those who are called the father of the atomic bomb for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Me....
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner , commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.....
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Henry Beam Piper was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive TerroHuman Future History series of stories and a shorter series of Paratime alternate history tales.....
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Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed , known as G. M. Syed, was a Sindhi political leader known for his scholarly work, spearheading the Pakistan Independence bill in the British Sindh Assembly and later founding the Sindhi nationalist movement Jeay Sindh for the freedom of Sindh from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sindhi nationalism. His social and political engagements started from a mere age of 14 wherein he spearheaded the formation of labour ....
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Kyai Hajji Fakih Usman was an Indonesian Islamic leader and politician with the Masyumi Party. He twice served as the Minister of Religious Affairs under the Halim Cabinet in the State of the Republic of Indonesia in 1950, and in the national government during the Wilopo Cabinet from 1952 to 1953. In his early years Fakih was criticised by conservative Muslims for his involvement with the modernist Islamic organisation Muhammadiyah, though that group remembers him warmly.....
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Edmond Moore Hamilton was an American writer of science fiction during the midtwentieth century.....
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Edmund Veesenmayer was a German politician, officer and war criminal. He significantly contributed to The Holocaust in Hungary and Croatia. He was a subordinate of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Joachim von Ribbentrop and collaborated with Adolf Eichmann.....
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Hans Hartung was a GermanFrench painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion.....
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Edvard Kocbek was a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered as one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Preeren. His political role during and after World War II made him one of the most controversial figures in Slovenia in the 20th century.....
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Edward Cronjager was an American cinematographer, whose career spanned from the silent era through the 1950s. He came from a family of cinematographers, with his father, uncle, and brother all working in the film industry behind the camera. His work covered over 100 films, and included projects on the small screen towards the end of his career. He filmed in both black and white and color mediums, and his work received nominations for seven Academy Awards over the span of three decades, although....
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Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE was a British writer, scholar, and dilettante. Born at Villa La Pietra, near Florence, Italy, Actons father was a successful art collector and dealer, and his prominent AngloItalian family included the historian Lord Acton, and, more distantly, Sir John Acton, Commodore and prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV.....
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Harold Fredrik Cherniss was an American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy. While at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he was said to be the countrys foremost expert on Plato and Aristotle.....
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Harold Larwood was a professional cricketer for Nottinghamshire and England between 1924 and 1938. A rightarm fast bowler who combined unusual speed with great accuracy, he was considered by many commentators to be the finest bowler of his generation. He was the main exponent of the bowling style known as bodyline, the use of which during the Marylebone Cricket Club tour of Australia in 193233 caused a furore that brought about a premature and acrimonious end to his international career.....
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George Balanchine was one of the 20th centurys most prominent choreographers. Styled as the father of American ballet, he cofounded the New York City Ballet and remained its Artistic Director for more than 35 years.....
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David Monroe Shoup was a decorated general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, became the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps, and, after retiring, became one of the most prominent critics of the Vietnam War.....
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George Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a theoretical physicist and cosmologist notably an early advocate and developer of Lematres Big Bang theory. He discovered a theoretical explanation of alpha decay via quantum tunneling, and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis and Big Bang nucleosynthesis , and molecular genetics.....
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Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English novelist.....
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Elissa Landi was an Italianborn actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing.....
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