Famous people born in the year 1908

Jzef Gosawski was a Polish sculptor and medallic artist. He was a designer of coins , monuments and medals . Laureate of many artistic competitions decorated with the Silver Cross of Merit.....
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John Jack Henry Webb Fingleton OBE was an Australian cricketer who was trained as a journalist and became a political and cricket commentator after the end of his playing career. A stubborn opening batsman known for his dour defensive approach, he scored five Test centuries, representing Australia in 18 Tests between 1932 and 1938. He was also known for his involvement in several cricket diplomacy incidents in his career, accused of leaking the infamous verbal exchange between Australian captai....
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B. Shyam Sunder was born in Aurangabad district in Maharashtra State, India. His father was Sri B. Manicham, a railway employee, and his mother Smt Sudha Bai and had one younger sisiter. He was a political thinker, jurist, prolific writer, parliamentarian and a revolutionary leader. In 1937, he founded the DalitMuslim unity movement at Parbhani in Aurangabad, Maharashtra and urged his people to join hands with Muslims. He was a legislator representing Andhra Pradesh and Mysore State.....
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Michael Bert Minchew, I Mary Lynn Minchew Hooper....
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Gnther Prien was a German Uboat ace of the first part of the Second World War, and the first Uboat commander to receive the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and the first member of the Kriegsmarine to receive 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. It was Germanys highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to Gnt....
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Prof. Dr. Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, better known by the nickname Hamka was an Indonesian ulama, novelist, philosopher and political activist. ....
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Eduard Roschmann was a member of the Nazi SS organisation and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities. As a result of a fictionalised portrayal in the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth and its subsequent film adaptation, Roschmann came to be known as the Butcher of Riga.....
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Charles Hazlitt Upham, VC amp Bar was a New Zealand soldier who earned the Victoria Cross twice during the Second World War in Crete in May 1941, and at Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942. He was the last of only three people to receive the VC twice, the only one to receive two VCs during the Second World War and the only combat soldier to receive the award twice. As a result, Upham is often described as the most highly decorated Commonwealth soldier of that war, as the VC is the Commonwealth....
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Edward Grimes Breen was an American politician of the Democratic party.....
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Edward R. Murrow KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news division of the Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. During the war he assembled a team of foreign correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.....
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Harold Edward Holt, CH , was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia. Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months before he disappeared in December 1967 while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.....
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Edward Teller was a Hungarianborn American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as the father of the hydrogen bomb, although he claimed he did not care for the title. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy and surface physics. His extension of Enrico Fermis theory of beta decay, in the form of the socalled GamowTeller transitions, provided an important stepping stone in its application, while the JahnTeller effect and the BrunauerEmmettTeller ....
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Gene Sheldon was an American film and television actor and musician. He is remembered as the mute servant Bernardo on Walt Disneys liveaction TV series Zorro .....
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Harold Peary was an American actor, comedian and singer in radio, film, television and animation remembered best as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a supporting character on radios Fibber McGee amp Molly that moved to its own radio hit, The Great Gildersleeve, the first known spinoff hit in American broadcasting history.....
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Lieutenant Colonel Harold William Bauer, commonly referred to as Joe Bauer, was a United States Marine Corps air group commander and fighter pilot ace credited with destroying 11 Japanese aircraft during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions as a fighter squadron commander during the crucial struggle for the control of the Solomons at the Battle of Guadalcanal.....
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Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey FRS was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.....
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Elena Petrovna Skuin Soviet, Russian Latvian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her still life painting.....
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Heinrich Liebe was a highly decorated German Fregattenkapitn who served as a Uboat commander during World War II until transferred to Oberkommando der Marine . He sank 34 ships for a total of 187,267160gross register tons160, placing him fourth among top scoring Uboat commanders. 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 m....
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George Nelson was an American industrial designer and one of the founders of American Modernism. While Director of Design for the Herman Miller furniture company, Nelson and his design studio, George Nelson Associates, Inc., designed much of the 20th centurys most iconic modernist furniture.....
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Mary Ann Evans a.k.a. Mary Evans Wadia a.k.a. Fearless Nadia was an actress and stuntwoman, who is most remembered as the masked, cloaked adventurer in Hunterwali released in 1935, which was one of the earliest femalelead Indian films.....
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