List of Famous people who born in 1909

Stepan Bandera

First Name Stepan
Last Name Bandera
Born on January 1, 1909
Died on October 15, 1959 (aged 50)

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian radical politician and theorist of the militant wing of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and a leader and ideologist of Ukrainian ultranationalists known for his involvement in terrorist activities.

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Bernhard Grzimek

First Name Bernhard
Last Name Grzimek
Died on March 13, 1987 (aged 17)

Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek was a renowned German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West Germany.

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Virginia Apgar

First Name Virginia
Last Name Apgar
Born on June 7, 1909
Died on August 7, 1974 (aged 65)

Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar Score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. She was a leader in the fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and introduced obstetrical considerations to the established field of neonatology.

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Nicholas Winton

First Name Nicholas
Last Name Winton
Born on May 19, 1909
Died on July 1, 2015 (aged 106)

Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, Winton supervised the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Winton found homes for the children and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. This operation was later known as the Czech Kindertransport.

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Osamu Dazai

津島 修治
First Name Osamu
Last Name Dazai
Born on June 19, 1909
Died on June 13, 1948 (aged 38)

Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (Shayō) and No Longer Human, are considered modern-day classics in Japan. With a semi-autobiographical style and transparency into his personal life, Dazai's stories have intrigued the minds of many readers.

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Errol Flynn

First Name Errol
Born on June 20, 1909
Died on October 14, 1959 (aged 50)
Born in Australia, Tasmania
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-born actor. Considered the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, he achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland, and reputation for his womanising and hedonistic personal life. His most notable roles include the eponymous hero in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), which was later named by the American Film Institute as the 18th greatest hero in American film history, the lead role in Captain Blood (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and the hero in a number of Westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and San Antonio (1945).

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Guy Menzies

First Name Guy
Last Name Menzies
Born on August 20, 1909
Died on November 1, 1940 (aged 31)
Born in Australia

Guy Lambton Menzies was an Australian aviator who flew the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney, Australia to the West Coast of New Zealand, on 7 January 1931.

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Carmen Miranda

María do Carmo Miranda da Cunha
First Name Carmen
Last Name Miranda
Born on February 9, 1909
Died on August 5, 1955 (aged 46)
Born in Portugal, Porto

Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was active from the 1930s on. Nicknamed "The Brazilian Bombshell", Miranda is known for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in her American films. As a young woman, she designed hats in a boutique before making her first recordings with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Miranda's 1930 recording of "Taí ", written by Joubert de Carvalho, catapulted her to stardom in Brazil as the foremost interpreter of samba.

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Aenne Burda

Anna Magdalene Lemminger
First Name Aenne
Born on July 28, 1909
Died on November 3, 2005 (aged 96)

Aenne Burda, born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, was a German publisher of the Burda Group, a media group based in Offenburg and Munich, Germany. She was one of the symbols of the German economic miracle.

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Yūji Koseki

First Name Yūji
Born on August 11, 1909
Died on August 18, 1989 (aged 80)

Yūji Koseki was a Japanese ryūkōka, gunka, march, fight song and film score composer. His real name was also Yūji Koseki, but its kanji was 古關 勇治.

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