Famous people born in the year 1905

James William Fulbright was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974.....
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Rollo John Oliver Meyer , known generally as Jack, and at Millfield mainly as Boss, was an English educationalist who founded Millfield School and Millfield Preparatory School in Somerset he was also an allround sportsman who played cricket at firstclass level in both England and in India. He died in Bristol on 9 March 1991.....
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Flix HouphoutBoigny , affectionately called Papa Houphout or Le Vieux , was the first President of Cte dIvoire , serving for more than three decades until his death. A tribal chief, he worked as a medical aide, union leader, and planter before being elected to the French Parliament. He served in several ministerial positions within the French government before leading Cte dIvoire following independence in 1960. Throughout his life, he played a significant role in politics and the decolonization ....
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Edmund Lincoln Anderson was an American comedian and actor.....
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Daniil Kharms was an early Sovietera surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.....
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Eddie Gilbert was a Queensland Aboriginal cricketer. He was an exceptionally fast bowler.....
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Dante Giacosa was an Italian automobile designer and engineer responsible for a range of Italian automobile designs and for refining the frontwheel drive layout to an industrystandard configuration.....
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HansJoachim von Merkatz was a German politician. He was Federal Minister of Justice from 1956 to 1957. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1961. He was a member of the German Party before joining the Christian Democrats in 1960.....
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HansRudolf Rsing was a German Uboat commander in World War II and later served in the Bundesmarine of the Federal Republic of Germany. 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.....
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Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest who was to be created a cardinal of the Catholic Church but died before the ceremony. He is considered one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.....
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Gaston Franois Marie, Viscount Eyskens was a Christian democratic politician and Prime Minister of Belgium. He was also an economist and member of the Belgian Christian Social Party .....
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Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , including the classic Over the Rainbow, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. Over the Rainbow was voted the twentieth centurys No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts .....
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David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter KCMG , styled Lord Burghley before 1956 and also known as David Burghley, was an English athlete, sports official and Conservative Party politician. He won the gold medal in the 400 m hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics.....
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Harriet Hoctor was a ballerina, dancer, actress and instructor from Hoosick Falls, New York. Composer George Gershwin composed a symphonic orchestral piece specifically for Hoctor in the film Shall We Dance .....
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Harry Barris was an American popular singer and songwriter, and is one of the earliest singers to use scat singing in recordings. Barris, one of Paul Whitemans Rhythm Boys, along with Bing Crosby and Al Rinker, scatted on several songs, including Mississippi Mud, which Barris wrote in 1927.....
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst GCB, KBE, DSO amp Bar, DFC amp Bar, AFC , commonly known as Broady, was a senior Royal Air Force commander and flying ace of the Second World War.....
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David Fortune Taffy Landale, JP , was a BritishHong Kong entrepreneur and politician who was chairman and managing director of Jardine Matheson amp Co. from 1945 to 1951, during which he was appointed by the Hong Kong government as an unofficial member of the Executive Council from 1946 to 1951, as well as the senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council from 1946 to 1950. Later in his life he settled in the United Kingdom, where he was chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland between 1955 ....
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Harry Frederick Harlow was an American psychologist best known for his maternalseparation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship in social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of WisconsinMadison, where humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow worked with him for a short period of time.....
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David Matthew Kennedy , was an American politician and businessman. He served as the 60th Secretary of the Treasury and later as the 8th United States Permanent Representative to NATO, both under President Richard Nixon. He was Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of Continental Illinois during the 1950s and 1960s.....
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Christian Dior was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the worlds top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, which is now owned by Groupe Arnault.....
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