1919 births
Robert B. Kamm
1919 births | 2008 deaths | drake university faculty | oklahoma state university faculty | texas a&m university faculty | university of minnesota alumni | university of northern iowa alumniRobert B. Kamm (January 22, 1919 – October 10, 2008) served as the 13th president of Oklahoma State University–Stillwater from July 1, 1966 to January 31, 1977. He also made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 1978.
Education
Born in West Union, Iowa, Kamm graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1940 with a bachelor's degree in English and theater arts. He later attended the University of Minnesota to receive his master's in 1946 and Ph.D. in 1948, both in counseling and higher education.Helen Rowland (actor)
1919 births | american child actors | american silent film actors | living peopleBaby Helen Rowland (b. 1919), was an American child actress. She appeared in 9 films between 1922 and 1927.
Selected filmography
- The Daring Years ( 1923)
Andrew Boyle
1919 births | 1991 deaths | scottish journalistsAndrew Philip More Boyle (27 May, 1919 – 22 April, 1991) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. His biography of Brendan Bracken won the 1974 Whitbread Awards and his book The Climate of Treason exposed Anthony Blunt as the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring.
He was born in the Scottish city of Dundee and was educated at Blairs in Aberdeen and the University of Paris. During the Second World War he was part of Britain's military intelligence in the Far East. After the war he joined the BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer. The New York Times, 'Andrew Boyle, Author, 71, Dies; Helped Expose a Top British Spy', 25 April, 1991 In 1965 he started the BBC Radio 4 programme The World At One which "gained a reputation as one of the best informed news programs and won an audience of four million". The New York Times, 'Andrew Boyle, Author, 71, Dies; Helped Expose a Top British Spy', 25 April, 1991
Irene Thomas
1919 births | 2001 deaths | british radio personalitiesIrene Thomas (June 28, 1919 – March 27, 2001) was a British radio personality, well known for her participation in quiz shows and panel games from the 1960s until her death.
Irene Thomas was born Elsie Irene Ready in Feltham, Middlesex, into a working-class family, the daughter of a musician in a military band. She left school at fiteen, and embarked on a career as a musician and singer. In 1950 she joined the chorus at Covent Garden, and met and married her second husband, Eddie Thomas, to whom she remained married until her death. She branched out into session singing, joined the [George Mitchell Minstrels]] and became the familiar voice of many radio and television advertising jingles in the 1950s.
Jack Allister
1919 births | australian rules footballers | essendon bombers players | north melbourne kangaroos players | syd barker medal winnersJack Allister (born March 15 1919) was an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the VFL during the early 1940s.
Walter Luttrell
15th/19th the king's royal hussars officers | 1919 births | 2007 deaths | alumni of exeter college, oxford | british army officers | british military personnel of world war ii | knights commander of the royal victorian order | lord-lieutenants of somerset | old etonians | people from melbourne | recipients of the military crossColonel Sir Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell KCVO MC JP (2 October 1919 – 3 April 2007) was an English landowner in Somerset who distinguished himself during World War II.
Luttrell was born in Melbourne, Australia, where his father was private secretary to the Governor-General of Australia, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson. He was raised at Dunster Castle, his family's estate for 600 years. Luttrell was educated at Eton and subsequently read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, where he acquired the friendly nickname of "goat". He was an avid hunter and polo player in his youth and later a salmon fisherman.
Desmond Tester
1919 births | 2002 deaths | australian film actors | australian stage actors | australian television personalities | english film actors | english stage actors Desmond Tester (February 17, 1919 – December 31, 2002) was an English and Australian film actor and television actor, host and executive. He was born in London, England. Among his most notable roles was that of ill-fated young boy Steve in the 1936 Alfred Hitchcock film Sabotage.
Tester made his first stage appearance at the age of 12, receiving positive reviews by London critics. He was known more as a child actor in film in his native England. Tester's characters often met with doomed fates, in such early films as Carol Reed's Midshipman Easy (1935), Tudor Rose (1936) and Sabotage. He also appeared in The Drum (1938).
Claire Sterling
1919 births | 1995 deaths | american authors | american journalists | columbia university alumniClaire Sterling nee Neikind (October 21, 1919 - June 17, 1995) was an American author and journalist.
Sterling received a degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York, where she was also born. She joined The Reporter in 1949, writing for the magazine until it folded in 1968, became an author and freelance journalist thereafter. She married her husband Thomas Sterling, a novelist, in 1950, and they went to live in Italy, where they passed their honeymoon. She died of cancer at age 75, in a hospital in Arezzo, Italy.
Albert Caraco
1919 birthsAlbert Caraco
Albert Caraco is a French philosopher (been born to Constantinople in 1919). It commits suicide in September 1971? 1972? Some hours after the death of his father, and in accordance with the spirit of his work.
Malcolm Maclean
1919 births | 2001 deaths | mayors of places in georgia (u.s. state) | mayors of savannah, georgia | scottish-americansMalcolm Roderick Maclean is a politician from Georgia, USA and was a former Mayor of Savannah. He was a Democrat and belonged to the local Citizen's Committee faction of the party.
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