Famous people born in the year 1906

Junius Richard Jayewardene , famously abbreviated in Sri Lanka as JR, was the leader of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1989, serving as Prime Minister from 1977 to 1978 and as the second President of Sri Lanka from 1978 till 1989. He was a leader of the nationalist movement in Ceylon who served in a variety of cabinet positions in the decades following independence. A longtime member of the United National Party, he led it to a crushing victory in 1977 and served as Prime Minister for half a year befor....
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LieutenantColonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Jack Churchill, DSO amp Bar, MC amp Bar was a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a baskethilted Scottish broadsword.....
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George Ledyard Stebbins Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931. He went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where his work with E. B. Babcock on the genetic evolution of plant species, and his association with a group of evolutionary biologists known as the Bay Area Biosystematists, led him to develop a comprehensive synth....
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Edward Albert Heimberger , known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.....
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LieutenantColonel Dr. Edouard Eddy Blondeel DSO was the wartime commander of the Belgian 5th SAS. After the war he was first C.O. of the 1st Regiment of Parachutists. He retired from the army in 1947 to work as an engineer with Wiggins Teape.....
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Edelmira Ignacia Adriana de SampedroOcejo y Robato was known as Countess of Covadonga after her marriage to Alfonso, former Prince of Asturias, in 1933.....
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Gale Gordon was an American character actor perhaps best remembered as Lucille Balls longtime television foiland particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Balls second television situation comedy, The Lucy Show. Gordon also had starring roles in Balls successful third series Heres Lucy and her shortlived fourth and final series Life with Lucy. He is remembered for his role as school principal Osgood Conklin in the early 1950s television hit sh....
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Edmund E. Anderson was an automotive designer in the North American automotive industry at General Motors and notably as the lead designer for American Motors Corporation from 1950 to 1961.....
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Edo Kovaevi was a Croatian artist, best known for his colourful landscapes and views of suburban Zagreb. He worked mainly in oils and pastels, using subtle colour harmonies and lively brush strokes to bring out the natural beauty of ordinary subjects. Kovaevi also designed theatrical stage sets for the Croatian National Theatre, the Drama Theatre and the Puppet Theatre, for many years, taught art at the Zagreb School of Crafts, and organized art exhibitions and installations.....
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HansPeter Knaust was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant 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 Albrecht Bethe was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solidstate physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.....
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David Bruce Haight was the oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints .....
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Joseph Harry Anderson was an American illustrator and a member of the Illustrators Hall of Fame. A devout Seventhday Adventist artist, he is best known for Christianthemed illustrations he painted for the Adventist church and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints . He was also a popular illustrator of short stories in American weekly magazines during the 1930s and early 1940s.....
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Chittadhar Hridaya was a Nepalese poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest literary figures from Nepal in the 20th century.....
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David Lamar McDonald was an Admiral of the United States Navy, who served as the 17th Chief of Naval Operations , 1 August 1963 1 August 1967, during the Vietnam War era.....
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EitelFriedrich Kentrat was a Korvettenkapitn with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. 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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Admiral Sir John David Luce GCB DSO OBE was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in World War II as a submarine commander before taking part in the Dieppe Raid and becoming Chief Staff Officer to the Naval Forces for the Normandy landings. He also commanded a cruiser during the Korean War. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the mid1960s and in that role resigned from the Royal Navy along with Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew in March 1966 in protest over the decision by the....
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Christian IX was King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906. From 1863 to 1864, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.....
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Eleanor Hibbert was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multigenerational family saga. A literary split personality, she also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder myst....
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Roland David Smith was an American abstract expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.....
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