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Who was born in 1916

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Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson

19161995

British politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976, and was the only Labour leader to form four governments

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Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela

19162002

Spanish Nobel laureate novelist, poet, and essayist known for his intense prose and challenging vision of human vulnerability

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Francis Crick

Francis Crick

19162004

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist best known for co-discovering the double helix structure of DNA, earning him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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Alexander Prokhorov

Alexander Prokhorov

19162002

Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work leading to the development of the laser and the maser

Edward Heath

Edward Heath

19162005

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974, Leader of the Conservative Party, and a long-serving Member of Parliament also known for his careers as military personnel, a journalist, a conductor, a yachtsman, musician, and author

Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland

19162020

British, American, and French actress, an Academy Award winner and last major star from Hollywood's Golden Age

September

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Aldo Moro

Aldo Moro

19161978

Italian politician, professor, and diplomat who served five terms as Prime Minister of Italy and was a prominent leader of the Christian Democracy party

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl

19161990

British author who wrote beloved children's classics including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda, selling over 300 million books worldwide

October

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François Mitterrand

François Mitterrand

19161996

Longest-serving President of the French Republic and the first left-wing politician to assume the presidency under the Fifth Republic

Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Ginzburg

19162009

Russian theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate known for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids

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Ahmad ibn Billah

Ahmad ibn Billah

19162012

Algerian politician, revolutionary, and association football player who served as the first president of Algeria from 1963 to 1965

Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Wilkins

19162004

New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist whose X-ray diffraction studies were instrumental in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA and its role in genetic information transfer