ON THIS DAY
Born in 1878
682 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Reza Shah
military personnel, politician
- Pancho Villa
revolutionary, national hero
- Lionel Barrymore
director, composer
- Upton Sinclair
playwright, writer
- Manuel L. Quezon
lawyer, politician
- C. Rajagopalachari
translator, peace activist
- Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia
aristocrat, politician
- Jack Johnson
boxer
- John B. Watson
politician, psychologist
- Carl Sandburg
screenwriter, novelist
- Martin Buber
philosopher of religion, Bible translator
- Sergio Osmeña
lawyer, politician
- Franz Reichelt
design engineer, skydiver
- Gustav Stresemann
head of government, politician
- Pyotr Wrangel
military officer
- Paul Reynaud
lawyer, jurist
- Yakov Yurovsky
revolutionary, politician
- Werner von Blomberg
military officer, military personnel
- The Great Gama
professional wrestler, amateur wrestler
- Charles Joughin
baker
- Gemma Galgani
mystic
- Janusz Korczak
philosopher, physician
- Shigeru Yoshida
politician, diplomat
- Ernest King
admiral, naval officer
- Harry Carey
stage actor, film actor
- Iwane Matsui
military officer
- Mirra Alfassa
translator, mystic
- Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
playwright, science fiction writer
- Princess Ingeborg of Denmark
aristocrat
- Pamela Colman Smith
draftsperson, painter
- David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale
large estate owner, military officer
- Louis Chevrolet
engineer, entrepreneur
- James Colosimo
entrepreneur, criminal
- Mitsuyo Maeda
judoka, professional wrestler
- Maulana Mohammad Ali
freedom fighter, translator
- Herbert Chapman
association football coach, association football player
- John Masefield
novelist, journalist
- Augustus John
artist, etcher
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth
industrial engineer, mechanical engineer
- Milan Nedić
politician, military personnel
- Kōki Hirota
politician, diplomat
- Wallace Hartley
conductor, violinist
- Glenn Curtiss
inventor, businessperson
- Finlay Currie
film actor, actor
- Robert Walser
poet, prose writer
- Alexander von Falkenhausen
soldier, resistance fighter
- Saeed bin Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum
politician
- J. F. C. Fuller
non-fiction writer, historian
- Herbert H. Lehman
investment banker, politician
- Joseph M. Schenck
film producer
- Walter Heitz
military officer, military commander
- Clemens August von Galen
resistance fighter, Catholic bishop
- Taylor Holmes
film actor, stage actor
- André Citroën
industrialist, engineer
- Alfred Döblin
physician writer, screenwriter
- Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
military officer, resistance fighter
- Edward Thomas
librettist, poet
- Ferenc Molnár
children's writer, playwright
- Akiko Yosano
essayist, poet
- Abdelaziz of Morocco
politician, sultan
- Rat Man
jurist, analysand
- Anna Demidova
lady's maid
- Horacio Quiroga
botanical collector, playwright
- Boris Kustodiev
painter, scenographer
- Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes
fundraiser, socialite
- Thomas MacDonagh
playwright, writer
- Hattie Caraway
politician, teacher
- Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria
art collector, aristocrat
- Jorge Ubico
military officer, politician
- Chen Chiung Ming
politician
- Richard Meinertzhagen
scientific collector, military officer
- Maria Ulyanova
politician, teacher
- Marshall Taylor
writer, sport cyclist
- Henry B. Walthall
film actor, stage actor
- Mahmud Barzanji
politician
- Jan Łukasiewicz
computer scientist, logician
- Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba
diplomat, writer
- Donald Meek
film actor, actor
- Katie Johnson
stage actor, film actor
- Princess Isabelle d’Orléans
aristocrat
- Miller Huggins
lawyer, baseball player
- William Orpen
visual artist, artist
- Magnus von Braun
jurist, administrative lawyer
- Frances Glessner Lee
forensic scientist
- Slavko Kvaternik
politician, military personnel
- Marcel Grossmann
mathematician, university teacher
- George Whipple
pathologist, physician
- Kathleen Scott
sculptor, cartoonist
- William Delbert Gann
astrologer, businessperson
- Julie Manet
art collector, visual artist
- Lucien Febvre
professor, historian
- Erich Mühsam
politician, editor
- James Truslow Adams
writer, historian of Modern Age
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
theologian, writer
- Stephen Timoshenko
physicist, university teacher
- Constance Collier
theatre director, film actor
- Ioannis Rallis
jurist, politician
- Arthur Scherbius
inventor, mathematician
- Georges Valois
journalist, French resistance fighter
- Stepan Shahumyan
politician, literary critic
- Prince Leopold Clemens of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
military personnel
- Vallathol Narayana Menon
poet, translator
- Robert Warwick
television actor, film actor
- Grigory Petrovsky
factory worker, politician
- Mehmed Abdülkadir Efendi
politician
- Evan Roberts
coal miner, Christian minister
- James Armand de Rothschild
art collector, military officer
- Theodoros Pangalos
military personnel, politician
- Otto von Stülpnagel
military officer, military personnel
- Ahn Chang-ho
politician, writer
- Ethel Griffies
stage actor, actor
- Barney Oldfield
actor, racing automobile driver
- Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
short story writer, chemist
- James Oliver Curwood
children's writer, journalist
- Lionel Martin
racing automobile driver, businessperson
- Jean Agélou
artist, photographer
- Guy Ballard
mining engineer, theosophist
- William Churchill deMille
writer, screenwriter
- William Aberhart
politician
- Feodor Machnow
circus performer, peasant
- Roy Atwell
film actor, voice actor
- Agner Krarup Erlang
statistician, engineer
- Edward Kasner
university teacher, mathematician
- Louise Dresser
film actor, singer
- Louis Camille Maillard
physician, Esperantist
- Eino Leino
writer, journalist
- William Pettus Hobby, Sr.
politician, governor
- Arnold Leese
veterinarian, autobiographer
- Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
revolutionary, politician
- Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz
educator, theologian
- Oliver St John Gogarty
association football player, poet
- Ossip Gabrilowitsch
musician, composer
- Franz Schreker
composer, conductor