Famous people born in the year 1912

Jnos Kdr was a Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, presiding over the country from 1956 until his retirement in 1988. His 32year term as General Secretary covered most of the period the Peoples Republic of Hungary existed. Due to Kdrs age, declining health, and declining political mastery, he retired as General Secretary of the party in 1988, and a younger generation consisting mostly of reformers took over.....
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Joseph Davis DeBlieux, known as J.D. DeBlieux , was a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate who represented East Baton Rouge Parish from 1956 to 1960 and again from 1964 to 1976. DeBlieux is remembered as a crusader for civil rights in Louisiana politics during the latter years of the era of segregation. During the New Orleans school desegregation crisis of 19591960, DeBlieux chaired the Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the newly established United States Civil Rights Commission.....
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Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was a pioneering English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.....
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Jack Kent Cooke was a Canadian entrepreneur and former owner of the Washington Redskins , the Los Angeles Lakers , the Los Angeles Kings , and the Los Angeles Wolves . He also developed The Forum in Inglewood, California and FedExField near Landover, Maryland.....
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Gnter Kuhnke was a Korvettenkapitn with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and later a Konteradmiral with the Bundesmarine. 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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GntherEberhardt Wisliceny was a German WaffenSS Obersturmbannfhrer. He was also a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords . The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Gnther Ltzow was a German Luftwaffe aviator and fighter ace credited with 110 enemy aircraft shot down in over 300 combat missions. Apart from five victories during the Spanish Civil War, most of his claimed victories were over the Eastern Front in World War II. He also claimed 20 victories over the Western Front, including two victoriesone of which was a fourengined bomberflying the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter.....
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Gnther Radusch was a German aircraft pilot, the sixth highestscoring night fighter flying ace in the German Luftwaffe 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. Gnther Radusch is credited with 65 aerial victories. He claimed one victory during the Spanish Civil War, the remaining 64 ....
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Hamengkubuwono IX or HB IX was the first Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, the second Vice President of Indonesia and the ninth Sultan of Yogyakarta during the rule of Suharto.....
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Johannes Hannes Trautloft was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1932 until the end of the war and again from 195770. He flew 560 combat sorties and was credited with 58 victories. He was regarded as a very competent leader, and much respected from those serving beneath him. He also was known as the father of JG 54.....
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Hans Dorr was a German SSObersturmbannfhrer who served with the 5th SS Division Wiking and was a commander of the SSRegiment Germania in the 2nd SS Division Das Reich of Nazi Germanys WaffenSS. He was wounded 16 times during World War II and died at a field hospital near Judenburg in April 1945. He was awarded the prestigious Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.....
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Hans Strippel was a highly decorated Leutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.....
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Harald Riipalu was an Estonian military commander and one of four such commanders who earned the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross while serving with the German army during World War II.....
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Sir David Brand KCMG was an Australian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1945 to 1975, and also the 19th and longestserving Premier of Western Australia, serving four terms from the 1959 to the 1971 elections. He resigned as leader of the Liberal Party in 1973, and retired from politics in 1975, dying from heart disease in 1979.....
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Eugene Curran Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likeable characters that he played on screen.....
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Geoffrey Sammy Allard DFC, DFM amp Bar was a Royal Air Force flying ace of the Second World War. Allard scored 19 victories against enemy aircraft, as well as five shared kills, two probable kills during the war.....
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Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Harding Baker GCB, CMG, CBE, MC was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army. He served in the Second World War and became Director of Operations and Chief of Staff for the campaign against EOKA in Cyprus during the Cyprus Emergency and later in his career provided advice to the British Government on the deployment of troops to Northern Ireland at the start of the Troubles.....
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ChienShiung Wu was a Chinese American experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the field of nuclear physics. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium metal into uranium235 and uranium238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion. She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. This discovery resulted in her colleagues TsungDao Lee and ChenNing Yang winning the 19....
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Sree Padmanbhadasa Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma GCSI GCIE , popularly known as Sree Chithira Thirunal, was the last ruling Maharaja of the Princely State of Travancore, in southern India until 1949 and later the Titular Maharajah of Travancore until 1991. Sree Chithira Thirunal was the eldest son of Junior Maharani of Travancore, H.H. Sree Padmanabhasevini Vanchipala Dyumani Rajarajeshwari Maharani Moolam Thirunal Sethu Parvathi Bayi, and Sri Pooram Nal Ravi Varma Koyi Thampuran of the....
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Christiaan Antonius Lindemans , the fourth son of Joseph Hendrik Lindemans and Christina Antonia van Uden, was a Dutch double agent during the Second World War, working under Russian control. Otherwise known as Freddi Desmet, officer in the Belgian army and SOE agent with security clearance at the Dutch Military Intelligence Division of the SOE . He is better known under his nickname King Kong or in some circles as le Tueur as he undertook missions to kill and was ready to shoot at the slightes....
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