Famous people from Hungary born on Sunday
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J nos K d r
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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Imre D gei
Imre Dgei was a Hungarian Communist politician, who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1951 and 1952 and as Minister of Agriculture from 1956 to 1960.....
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Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was a HungarianAmerican actor. In AustriaHungary, he began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he had his breakthrough, first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre caused an international sensation in the German film M , in which he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls.....
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Gy rgy Szepesi
Gyrgy Szepesi is a Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive.....
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Olga Gyarmati
Olga Gyarmati was a Hungarian allround athlete who competed at three Olympic Games in four different events. Her greatest success was winning the inaugural Olympic Womens Long Jump competition in London in 1948. Additionally, she won two Universiade gold medals and a number of Hungarian Athletics Championships titles in sprint and jumping events.....
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Lajos Portisch
Lajos Portisch is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the Hungarian Botvinnik. One of the strongest nonSoviet players from the early 1960s into the late 1980s, he participated in twelve consecutive Interzonals from 1962 through 1993, qualifying for the World Chess Championship Candidates cycle a total of eight times . Portisch set several alltime records in Chess Olympiads. In Hungarian Chess Championships, he either shared the title or won it outright....
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Dezs Gyarmati
Dezs Gyarmati was a Hungarian water polo player and three times Olympic champion he later became the coach of the Hungarian national water polo team. Widely regarded as a legendary player, Gyarmati was the most decorated player in the history of the sport.....
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L szl Surj n
Lszl Surjn is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the FIDESZ from 2004 to 2014.....
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Dezs Garas
Dezs Garas was a Hungarian actor, who appeared in over 145 films and television shows since 1956.....
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Bal zs Tar czy
Balzs Tarczy is a retired tennis player from Hungary, who won thirteen singles titles in his career. The righthander achieved his careerhigh ATP singles ranking of World No. 12 in April 1982.....
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Andr s Szente
Andrs Szente was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K1 4 500 m and the K2 1000 m events.....
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George Andrew Olah
George Andrew Olah is a Hungarian and American chemist. His research involves the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. He has also been awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society and F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society in 1996.....
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Imre Pozsgay
Imre Andrs Pozsgay was a Hungarian Communist politician who played a key role in Hungarys transition to democracy after 1988. He served as Minister of Culture , Minister of Education and Minister of State . He was also a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 1994.....
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L szl Paskai
Lszl Paskai, O.F.M. was a Hungarian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, He served as the archbishop of EsztergomBudapest from 1987 to 2002.....
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