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Born: July 12, 1914 in Osijek, Yugoslavia
Born: May 12, 1906 in Erdobenye, Hungary
Born: 1920 in Bitola, Yugoslavia
Born: November 10, 1922 in Czestochowa, Poland
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Born: February 26, 1922 in Innsbruck, Austria
Born: May 2, 1871 in Mikulov, Czechoslovakia
Born: June 12, 1928 in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia
Born: March 21, 1902 in Selo-Solotvina, Czechoslovakia
Born: 1938 in Kolbuszowa, Poland
Born: December 6, 1933 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia
Born: 1913 in Starachowice, Poland
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Born: March 11, 1917 in Sandomierz, Poland
Born: November 2, 1927 in Gabin, Poland
Born: 1916 in Warsaw, Poland
Born: February 28, 1908 in Brno, Czechoslovakia
Born: October 19, 1886 in Doernbach, Germany
Born: March 19, 1922 in Yasinya, Czechoslovakia
Born: November 14, 1930 in Paris, France
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