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June 27, 1938

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Bruce Babbitt

1938Bruce Babbitt, American lawyer and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior[โ€ ]

Bruce Edward Babbitt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 47th United States secretary of the interior from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 Democratic primaries.

David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead

1938David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Scottish lieutenant and judge[โ€ ]

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead is a retired Scottish judge who served as the Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, Scotland's most senior judge, and later as first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2013. He had previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He is the Chief Justice of Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts.

Konrad Kujau

1938Konrad Kujau, German illustrator (died 2000)[โ€ ]

Konrad Paul Kujau was a German illustrator and forger. He became famous in 1983 as the creator of the so-called Hitler Diaries, for which he received DM 2.5 million from a journalist, Gerd Heidemann, who in turn sold it for DM 9.3 million to the magazine Stern, resulting in a net profit of DM 6.8 million for Heidemann. The forgery resulted in a four-and-half-year prison sentence for Kujau.

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