List of Famous people who born in 1903

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy

Sibylle Pietzsch
First Name Sibyl
Last Name Moholy-Nagy
Born on October 29, 1903
Died on January 8, 1971 (aged 67)

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was an architectural and art historian. Originally a German citizen, she accompanied her second husband, the Hungarian Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy, in his move to the United States. She was the author of a study of his work, Moholy-Nagy: Experiment in Totality, plus several other books on architectural history.

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O. E. Hasse

Otto Eduard Hasse
First Name O.
Last Name Hasse
Born on July 11, 1903
Died on September 12, 1978 (aged 75)

Otto Eduard Hasse was a German film actor and director.

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Hans Georg Calmeyer

First Name Hans
Last Name Calmeyer
Born on June 23, 1903
Died on September 3, 1972 (aged 69)

Hans Georg Calmeyer was a German lawyer from Osnabrück who allegedly saved thousands of Jews from certain death during the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1941 until 1945. On 4 March 1992 Yad Vashem recognized Hans Calmeyer as Righteous Among the Nations. As of 2020, historians at Yad Vashem are presently looking into newly uncovered evidence suggesting that Calmeyer also helped send more than 500 people directly into death camps during the Dutch occupation.

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Alonzo Church

First Name Alonzo
Last Name Church
Born on June 14, 1903
Died on August 11, 1995 (aged 92)

Alonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, Church–Turing thesis, proving the unsolvability of the Entscheidungsproblem, Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem. He also worked on philosophy of language.

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Grace Frick

Grace Marion Frick
First Name Grace
Last Name Frick
Born on January 12, 1903
Died on November 18, 1979 (aged 76)

Grace Marion Frick was a translator and researcher for her lifelong partner French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Grace Frick taught languages at US colleges and was the second academic dean to be appointed to Hartford Junior College.

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Fumiko Hayashi

First Name Fumiko
Born on December 31, 1903
Died on June 29, 1951 (aged 47)

Fumiko Hayashi was a Japanese novelist and poet.

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Charles Pélissier

First Name Charles
Last Name Pélissier
Born on February 20, 1903
Died on May 28, 1959 (aged 56)

Charles Pélissier was a French racing cyclist, between 1922 and 1939, winning 16 stages in the Tour de France. The number of eight stages won in the 1930 Tour de France is still a record, shared with Eddy Merckx and Freddy Maertens (1976). In addition to his 8-stage wins that year, Pélissier also finished second place 7 times. In the 1931 Tour de France after stage 5, he shared the lead for one day with Rafaele di Paco. Pélissier was the younger brother of racing cyclists Francis Pélissier and Henri Pélissier. Pélissier was born and died in Paris.

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Benjamin Spock

First Name Benjamin
Last Name Spock
Born on May 2, 1903
Died on March 15, 1998 (aged 94)
Height 196 cm | 6'5

Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling volumes in history. The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."

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Marguerite Monnot

Marguerite Angèle Monnot
First Name Marguerite
Last Name Monnot
Born on May 28, 1903
Died on October 12, 1961 (aged 58)

Marguerite Monnot was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce.

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Mori Mari

First Name Mori
Last Name Mari
Born on January 7, 1903
Died on June 6, 1987 (aged 84)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Mari Mori was a Japanese author. New York University Professor Keith Vincent has called her a "Japanese Electra", referring to the Electra complex counterpart put forth by Carl Jung to Sigmund Freud's Oedipal complex.

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