Famous people born in the year 1928

John Battiscombe J. B. Gunn , known as Ian or Iain, was a British physicist, who spent most of his career in the United States. He discovered the Gunn Effect, which led to the invention of the Gunn diode, the first inexpensive source of microwave power that did not require vacuum tubes. He was born John Battiscombe Gunn, but only used that name in legal documents.....
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Flix Samuel Rodrguez de la Fuente contributed to the popularization of science, Spanish naturalist and broadcaster. He is best known for the highly successful and influential TV series, El Hombre y la Tierra . Degree in medicine and selftaught in biology, he was a multifaceted charismatic figure whose influence has endured despite the passing years. His knowledge covered areas such as falconry and ethology, emphasizing the study of wolves. Rodrguez de la Fuente also served as expedition guide a....
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Henry Earl Holliman is an American actor. He is well known for his many character roles in films, mostly westerns and dramas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He also portrayed the role of Police Sergeant Bill Crowley on the television police drama Police Woman throughout its 19741978 run.....
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Earl Francis Lloyd was an American professional basketball player. He was the first black person to play in the National Basketball Association, in the 195051 NBA season. Three other African Americans played in the same season Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel Clifton, and Hank DeZonie.....
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Danuta Siedzikwna was a medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Polish Home Army. In 1946 she served with the Brigades 1st Squadron in Polands Pomorze region.....
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Dara Singh was an Indian wrestler, actor and politician. He started acting in 1952 and was the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha of India. He worked as Hindi and Punjabi film producer, director and writer, and he acted in films and television.....
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Antoine Fats Domino, Jr. is an American pianist and singersongwriter. Domino released five gold records before 1955. He also had 35 Top 40 American hits. His musical style is based on traditional rhythm and blues ensembles of bass, piano, electric guitar, drums, and saxophone.....
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HannaRenate Laurien was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union .....
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Eduard Shevardnadze was a Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party , the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was President of Georgia from 1992 to 2003. He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence....
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Hans Herrmann is a former Formula One and Sports car racing driver from Stuttgart, Germany.....
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Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf . His works are often considered as wellcrafted, realistic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugne Ionesco, and Jean Genet. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albees daring....
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Edward Charles Shy Meyer was a United States Army general and the 29th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.....
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Edward Joseph Perkins is a former American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, and the United Nations. He was later the director of the United States State Departments Diplomatic Corps.....
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David Adams, OC was a Canadian ballet dancer and a founding member of the National Ballet of Canada.....
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Krger was born in Wedding, Berlin in 1928. From 1941, he went to an Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. At age 15, Hardy made his film dbut in a German picture, The Young Eagles, but his acting career was interrupted when he was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht in 1944 at age 16. In March 1945, Krger was conscripted into the 38th SS Division Nibelungen, where he was drawn into heavy fighting before being captured by American forces.....
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Ernesto Che Guevara , commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.....
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George Cooper Grizzard, Jr. was an American Emmy Award and Tony awardwinning actor of film, stage and television. He appeared in more than 40 films, dozens of television programs and a number of Broadway plays.....
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Hebe Pastor de Bonafini is an Argentine activist, one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization of Argentine mothers whose children were disappeared during the Dirty War.....
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Eliezer Elie Wiesel KBE is an American Romanianborn Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Laureate. He is the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal. He is currently the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, in Bos....
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George Smith Lindsey was an American character actor, best known for his role as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. and his subsequent tenure on HeeHaw.....
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