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Who was born in 1905

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Christian Dior

Christian Dior

19051957

Visionary French fashion designer and founder of one of the world's most prominent fashion houses, Christian Dior SE

February

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Ulf von Euler

Ulf von Euler

19051983

Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize for his discoveries about neurotransmitters and their mechanisms in nerve terminals

March

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Viktor Frankl

Viktor Frankl

19051997

Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, a psychotherapy school emphasizing the search for life's meaning as a central human motivational force

Albert Speer

Albert Speer

19051981

German Nazi architect and Minister of Armaments who was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg

Robert Donat

Robert Donat

19051958

English actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Goodbye, Mr. Chips and starred in classic films including The 39 Steps and The Count of Monte Cristo

Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron

19051983

French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist, one of France's most prominent 20th-century thinkers

April

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George H. Hitchings

George H. Hitchings

19051998

American physician, pharmacist, chemist, biochemist, and pharmacologist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize for discoveries in drug treatment and chemotherapy

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Shojiro Sugimura

19051975

Japanese association football player who represented the Japan national team

May

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Mikhail Sholokhov

Mikhail Sholokhov

19051984

Nobel Prize-winning Soviet novelist known for his epic depiction of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution and civil war in 'And Quiet Flows the Don'

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

19051977

Fifth President of India who served from 1974 to 1977, a respected lawyer and politician from Old Delhi

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

19051980

French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist who famously refused the Nobel Prize in Literature

July

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Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjöld

19051961

Swedish diplomat and economist who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti

19051994

Nobel Prize-winning Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist writer known for his novels, plays, and non-fiction works

September

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Nevill Francis Mott

Nevill Francis Mott

19051996

English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his theoretical investigations into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems

Severo Ochoa

Severo Ochoa

19051993

Spanish physician and biochemist who shared the 1959 Nobel Prize for his discoveries in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA, significantly advancing molecular biology

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

19051990

Swedish-American actress, leading star of Hollywood's silent and early golden eras, renowned for her melancholic screen persona and considered one of the greatest screen actresses

Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler

19051983

Hungarian-British author, journalist, and political scientist known for his anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon and contributions to the concept of the Holon

Carl David Anderson

Carl David Anderson

19051991

American physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the positron and confirmation of antimatter

October

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Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch

19051983

Swiss-American physicist who won the 1952 Nobel Prize for developing nuclear magnetic resonance techniques that led to MRI technology

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

19051993

First President of Ivory Coast and a pivotal figure in the decolonization of Africa

November

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Astrid of Sweden

Astrid of Sweden

19051935

Queen consort of the Belgians known for her dedication to charitable causes supporting women and children

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Simo Häyhä

Simo Häyhä

19052002

Finnish military sniper known as 'The White Death' and widely regarded as the deadliest sniper in history, with over 500 confirmed kills during the Winter War