| Aneurin Bevan Minister of Health in the 1940s who had much to do with the establishment of the NHS Bernard De Voto American writer, 1897-1955 Hermione Gingold British actress Joseph Goebbels German Nazi leader, 1897-1945 Margaret Chase Smith 1897-1995, US politician | Paul Gallico US journalist, 1897 - 1976 Pope Paul VI Pope, head of the Catholic Church on Earth Thornton Wilder American novelist and playwright, 1897-1975 William Faulkner Author, was recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature |