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Who was born in January 1899

4 memorials found

Max Theiler

18991972

South African-American virologist and physician who developed the life-saving vaccine against yellow fever, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1951

Paul-Henri Spaak

18991972

Influential Belgian politician and diplomat, known as 'Mr. Europe' for his leadership in founding the European Union and his service as Prime Minister of Belgium and NATO Secretary General

Paul Hermann Müller

18991965

Swiss chemist and physician who received the 1948 Nobel Prize for discovering the insecticidal properties of DDT, crucial for controlling malaria and yellow fever

Adnan Menderes

18991961

Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister from 1950 to 1960, co-founded the Democrat Party, and oversaw Turkey's admission to NATO in 1952