Famous people born in the year 1916

HansGnther Paul Stotten was a highly decorated Major 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. HansGnther Stotten was captured by Soviet troops on 4 April 1945 and was shot while escaping on 5 April 1945.....
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HansUlrich Rudel was a Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a groundattack pilot credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, as well as a number of ships. He also claimed 9 aerial victories, and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles of all types, over 150 artillery, antitank and antiaircraft positions, 4 armored trains, and numerous bridges and supply lines. He flew 2,530 groundattack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front, usually flying the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber, a....
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Hans Beiwenger was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. In 500160combat missions, Beiwenger was credited with 152160victories, making him the 34th highestscoring Luftwaffe fighter pilot of World War II. He was aceinaday twice, shooting down five aircraft on a single day. He claimed all ....
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Edward Binns was an American stage, film, and television actor. He had a widespanning career in film and television, often portraying competent, hard working, and purposeful characters in his various roles.....
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Charles Henry Charlie Christian was an American swing and jazz guitarist.....
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Charlie Ventura was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.....
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Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE , often known as Ted Heath, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.....
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Harold George Schrier was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who served in World War II and the Korean War and received the Navy Cross, the nations second highest military award for valor. He is best known for being the Marine officer who led a 40man patrol to the top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima to capture the summit and raise the United States flag on February 23, 1945.....
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Chen Chihhsiung was a Taiwanese independence activist.....
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James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976.....
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Harry Brinkley Brink Bass was a U.S. Navy pilot who was twice awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in the Pacific theater during World War II. Bass died over Vanosc, in southern France when his plane was shot down by antiaircraft fire. USS160Brinkley Bass160 was named in his honor.....
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Harry Douglas Huskey is an American computer designer pioneer. Huskey was born in the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina and grew up in Idaho. He received his Bachelors degree at the University of Idaho. He gained his Masters and then his PhD in 1943 from the Ohio State University on Contributions to the Problem of Geocze. Huskey taught mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and then worked parttime on the early ENIAC computer in 1945.....
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Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone, and was extremely influential on up and coming trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was....
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Georgette Seabrooke , was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist, nonprofit chief executive and educator. She is best known for her 1936 mural, Recreation in Harlem at Harlem Hospital in New York City, which was restored and put on public display in 2012 after being hidden from view for many years.....
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The tragedy of human history is that there is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.....
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Elena Ceauescu was the wife of Romanias Communist leader Nicolae Ceauescu, and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania.....
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Maharaja Jivajirao Scindia of the Scindia dynasty of the Marathas was the last reigning Maharaja of Gwalior state in central India, and the rajpramukh of the erstwhile Madhya Bharat state of independent India. The Maharaja was and till date is very popular due to his interests in the toy trains and cars. He also assembled a toy train made up of silver in his palace dining table in jai vilas palace, Gwalior to serve food, wines and chutneys to the guests .....
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George John Lionel Maduro was a Dutch law student who served as an officer in the 1940 Battle of the Netherlands and distinguished himself in repelling the German attack on The Hague. He was posthumously awarded the medal of Knight 4thclass of the Military Order of William, the highest and oldest military decoration in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.....
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Heinrich Alexander Ludwig Peter Prinz zu SaynWittgenstein was a German of aristocratic descent and a Luftwaffe night fighter flying ace during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. At the time of his death, he was the highest scoring night fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe and still the third highest by the end of World War II, with 83 aerial victories to his credit.....
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George Montgomery was an American painter, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in western style film and television.....
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