List of Famous people who born in 1920

Frank Herbert

Frank Patrick Herbert
First Name Frank
Last Name Herbert
Born on October 8, 1920
Died on February 11, 1986 (aged 65)

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science-fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.

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Frank Sheeran

First Name Frank
Last Name Sheeran
Born on October 25, 1920
Died on December 14, 2003 (aged 83)

Francis Joseph Sheeran, also known as "The Irishman", was an American labor union official who was accused of having links to the Bufalino crime family in his capacity as a high-ranking official in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the president of Local 326.

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Hubert Germain

Hubert Jean Louis Joseph Germain
First Name Hubert
Last Name Germain
Born on August 6, 1920
Died on October 12, 2021 (aged 101)

Hubert Germain is a French politician and former member of the French Resistance. Since 20 November 2020, he is the last living Companion of the Order of Liberation.

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John Paul II

Karol Józef Wojtyła
First Name John
Last Name II
Born on May 18, 1920
Died on April 2, 2005 (aged 84)

Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was elected pope by the second papal conclave of 1978, which was called after Pope John Paul I, who had been elected in August to succeed Pope Paul VI, died after 33 days. Cardinal Wojtyła was elected on the third day of the conclave and adopted the name of his predecessor in tribute to him. John Paul II is recognised as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and the rest of Europe.

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Henrietta Lacks

Loretta Pleasant
First Name Henrietta
Born on August 1, 1920
Died on October 4, 1951 (aged 31)

Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.

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Christopher Robin Milne

First Name Christopher
Last Name Milne
Born on August 21, 1920
Died on April 20, 1996 (aged 75)

Christopher Robin Milne was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.

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Yul Brynner

First Name Yul
Last Name Brynner
Born on July 11, 1920
Died on October 10, 1985 (aged 65)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Yuliy Borisovich Briner, better known as Yul Brynner, was a Russian-American actor, singer, and director, considered one of the first Russian-American film stars. He became widely known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards, and later won an Academy Award for the film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage and became known for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for The King and I.

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Montgomery Clift

First Name Montgomery
Last Name Clift
Born on October 17, 1920
Died on July 23, 1966 (aged 45)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Edward Montgomery Clift was an American actor. A four-time Academy Award nominee, The New York Times said he was known for his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men".

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Tom Moore

First Name Tom
Last Name Moore
Born on April 30, 1920 (age 103)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Captain Sir Thomas Moore, popularly known as "Captain Tom", is a former British Army officer and centenarian, known for getting people to donate to charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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John Demjanjuk

First Name John
Last Name Demjanjuk
Born on April 3, 1920
Died on March 17, 2012 (aged 91)

John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian-American who served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted after being misidentified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. Shortly before his death, he was again tried and convicted as an accessory to 28,000 murders at Sobibor.

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