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Born in 1878

682 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

    aristocrat

    1878–1948 · aged 70

    May 8 · 1878

    Source: The Peerage

  2. Frank Buchman

    evangelist, Lutheran theologian

    1878–1961 · aged 83

    June 4 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  3. Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

    poet, prose writer

    1878–1947 · aged 68

    September 24 · 1878

    Source: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural

  4. Milan Hodža

    university teacher, historian

    1878–1944 · aged 66

    February 1 · 1878

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  5. José Miaja

    military officer, military personnel

    1878–1958

    April 20 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  6. Paul Pelliot

    historian, explorer

    1878–1945 · aged 67

    May 28 · 1878

    Source: AlKindi

  7. Konrad Mägi

    caricaturist, painter

    1878–1925 · aged 46

    November 1 · 1878

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  8. Paul Troost

    architect, restorer

    1878–1934

    August 17 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  9. Ulrich Graf

    military personnel, politician

    1878–1950 · aged 71

    July 6 · 1878

    No external source identified

  10. Chen Qimei

    politician

    1878–1916 · aged 38

    January 17 · 1878

    No external source identified

  11. George Arundale

    author

    1878–1945 · aged 66

    December 1 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  12. Inigo Campioni

    politician, resistance fighter

    1878–1944 · aged 65

    November 14 · 1878

    Source: Donne e Uomini della Resistenza

  13. Walter F. George

    lawyer, politician

    1878–1957 · aged 79

    January 29 · 1878

    Source: George, Walter (29 January 1878–04 August 1957), judge and U.S. Senator from Georgia

  14. Konstantinos Logothetopoulos

    physician, medical officer

    1878–1961 · aged 82

    August 1 · 1878

    No external source identified

  15. Anna Coleman Ladd

    sculptor, artist

    1878–1939 · aged 60

    July 15 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  16. Leonhard Kaupisch

    military officer

    1878–1945 · aged 67

    September 1 · 1878

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  17. Hans Ledwinka

    entrepreneur, engineer

    1878–1967

    February 14 · 1878

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  18. Gustav Radbruch

    jurist, university teacher

    1878–1949 · aged 71

    November 21 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  19. Don Marquis

    journalist, humorist

    1878–1937 · aged 59

    July 29 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  20. Léon Binoche

    rugby union player

    1878–1962 · aged 84

    August 16 · 1878

    Source: Roglo

  21. Carlos Saavedra Lamas

    lawyer, diplomat

    1878–1959 · aged 80

    November 1 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  22. Ernest Torrence

    actor, singer

    1878–1933

    June 26 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  23. Lina Stern

    physician, physiologist

    1878–1968 · aged 89

    July 26 · 1878

    No external source identified

  24. Othmar Spann

    political economist, university teacher

    1878–1950 · aged 71

    October 1 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  25. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin*

    playwright, writer

    Date disputed

    November 5 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  26. A. H. Tammsaare

    writer, essayist

    1878–1940 · aged 62

    January 30 · 1878

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  27. Eugene Chen

    journalist, diplomat

    1878–1944 · aged 66

    July 2 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  28. Ernest Lundeen

    politician, lawyer

    1878–1940 · aged 62

    August 4 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  29. Paul Renner

    typographer, printmaker

    1878–1956 · aged 77

    August 9 · 1878

    Source: Web umenia

  30. Egon Friedell

    translator, philosopher

    1878–1938 · aged 60

    January 21 · 1878

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  31. Norah Elam

    politician, suffragette

    1878–1961 · aged 82

    March 5 · 1878

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  32. Sadriddin Ayni

    teacher, writer

    1878–1954

    April 27 · 1878

    Source: Nouveau Dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays

  33. George Edwin Ellison

    military personnel

    1878–1918 · aged 40

    August 10 · 1878

    No external source identified

  34. He Xiangning

    writer, painter

    1878–1972 · aged 94

    June 27 · 1878

    No external source identified

  35. Miguel de Bragança

    1878–1923 · aged 44

    September 22 · 1878

    Source: The Peerage

  36. Francisco Lagos Cházaro

    lawyer, politician

    1878–1932 · aged 54

    September 20 · 1878

    No external source identified

  37. Muhammadi Begum*

    women's rights activist, writer

    Date disputed

    1878

    Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  38. Vasily Shulgin

    politician, opinion journalist

    1878–1976 · aged 98

    January 13 · 1878

    No external source identified

  39. Alexander Tamanian

    restorer, architect

    1878–1936 · aged 57

    March 16 · 1878

    Source: Armenian Concise Encyclopedia

  40. Otto Freundlich

    sculptor, painter

    1878–1943 · aged 64

    July 10 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  41. Alfréd Hajós

    association football coach, swimmer

    1878–1955 · aged 77

    February 1 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  42. Ion Dragoumis

    writer, diplomat

    1878–1920 · aged 41

    September 14 · 1878

    No external source identified

  43. Francis Sheehy-Skeffington

    suffragist, writer

    1878–1916 · aged 37

    December 23 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  44. Nikolaos Tselementes

    chef

    1878–1958 · aged 80

    March 2 · 1878

    No external source identified

  45. Rose Dione

    actor, film actor

    1878–1936 · aged 57

    October 22 · 1878

    Source: Le Progrès

  46. Emmy Destinn*

    poet, pedagogue

    Date disputed

    February 26 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  47. Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren

    politician

    1878–1919

    1878

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  48. Augustin Trébuchon

    military personnel

    1878–1918 · aged 40

    May 30 · 1878

    Source: GeneaStar

  49. Sergey Markov

    military scientist, military officer

    1878–1918 · aged 39

    July 19 · 1878

    No external source identified

  50. Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies

    1878–1973 · aged 94

    August 12 · 1878

    Source: The Peerage

  51. José Moscardó Ituarte

    politician, military personnel

    1878–1956 · aged 77

    October 26 · 1878

    No external source identified

  52. Conway Tearle

    actor, film actor

    1878–1938 · aged 60

    May 17 · 1878

    Source: Discogs

  53. Solomon Lozovsky

    union member, revolutionary

    1878–1952 · aged 74

    March 16 · 1878

    No external source identified

  54. Kurt Goldstein

    university teacher, psychiatrist

    1878–1965 · aged 86

    November 6 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  55. Billy Garraty

    association football player

    1878–1931 · aged 52

    October 6 · 1878

    No external source identified

  56. Agostino Gemelli

    religious, physician

    1878–1959 · aged 81

    January 18 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Alexander Andreyevich Svechin

    major general, military personnel

    1878–1938 · aged 59

    August 29 · 1878

    Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)

  58. Filip Filipović

    communist, politician

    1878–1938

    June 21 · 1878

    Source: WorldCat Entities

  59. Rafael Guízar y Valencia

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1878–1938 · aged 60

    April 26 · 1878

    Source: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon

  60. Mary Sophia Allen

    feminist, suffragette

    1878–1964 · aged 86

    March 12 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  61. Victor Segalen

    physician, ethnologist

    1878–1919 · aged 41

    January 14 · 1878

    Source: Base biographique

  62. Walter Evans-Wentz

    anthropologist, folklorist

    1878–1965 · aged 87

    February 2 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  63. Takeo Arishima

    essayist, prose writer

    1878–1923 · aged 45

    March 4 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  64. Viktor Nogin*

    politician, revolutionary

    Date disputed

    February 14 · 1878

    No external source identified

  65. Georg Kaiser

    poet, director

    1878–1945 · aged 66

    November 25 · 1878

    Source: Theaterlexikon der Schweiz

  66. Fidel Dávila Arrondo

    general field marshal, politician

    1878–1962 · aged 83

    April 24 · 1878

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  67. Zabel Yesayan

    poet, university teacher

    1878–1943

    February 4 · 1878

    Source: Armenian Concise Encyclopedia

  68. Maurice René Fréchet

    statistician, mathematician

    1878–1973 · aged 94

    September 2 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  69. Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz

    sovereign

    1878–1927 · aged 49

    March 20 · 1878

    Source: The Peerage

  70. Franklyn Farnum

    actor, film actor

    1878–1961 · aged 83

    June 5 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  71. Bengaluru Nagarathnamma

    writer, poet

    1878–1952 · aged 73

    November 3 · 1878

    No external source identified

  72. Max Dehn

    mathematician, topologist

    1878–1952 · aged 73

    November 13 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  73. Gordon Coates

    diplomat, politician

    1878–1943 · aged 65

    February 3 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  74. Dorothea Douglass

    field hockey player, tennis player

    1878–1960 · aged 81

    September 3 · 1878

    Source: 100 years of Wimbledon

  75. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

    boxer

    1878–1942 · aged 64

    January 17 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  76. Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Yurievskaya

    singer

    1878–1959 · aged 81

    September 9 · 1878

    Source: Kindred Britain

  77. Oscar Apfel

    actor, film director

    1878–1938 · aged 60

    January 17 · 1878

    Source: fandango.com

  78. Mikhail Artsybashev

    novelist, journalist

    1878–1927 · aged 48

    November 5 · 1878

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  79. Margaret Cousins

    suffragette, theosophist

    1878–1954 · aged 75

    November 7 · 1878

    Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography

  80. Jean de Laborde

    military personnel, soldier

    1878–1977 · aged 98

    November 29 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Universalis

  81. Andreas Hermes

    politician, minister

    1878–1964

    July 16 · 1878

    Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France

  82. Pierre Fatou

    mathematician, astronomer

    1878–1929 · aged 51

    February 28 · 1878

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  83. Miguel Llobet*

    music arranger, guitarist

    Date disputed

    October 18 · 1878

    Source: Portal de Archivos Españoles

  84. Massimo Bontempelli

    playwright, science fiction writer

    1878–1960

    May 12 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  85. Grace Abbott

    social worker, university teacher

    1878–1939 · aged 60

    November 17 · 1878

    Source: Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939 (1976 ed.)

  86. Ñāṇatiloka

    writer, Buddhist monk

    1878–1957 · aged 79

    February 19 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  87. Peyo Yavorov

    telegraphist, writer

    1878–1914 · aged 36

    January 13 · 1878

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  88. Harriet Bosse

    actor, film actor

    1878–1961 · aged 83

    February 19 · 1878

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  89. Blanche Friderici

    film actor, actor

    1878–1933 · aged 55

    January 21 · 1878

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  90. Richard Goldschmidt

    botanist, biologist

    1878–1958 · aged 80

    April 12 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  91. Stamen Grigorov

    scientist, physician

    1878–1945 · aged 67

    October 27 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  92. Marc Birkigt

    entrepreneur, engineer

    1878–1953 · aged 75

    March 8 · 1878

    No external source identified

  93. Lilian Bland

    military flight engineer, aircraft pilot

    1878–1971 · aged 92

    September 22 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  94. Flora Drummond

    suffragette

    1878–1949

    August 4 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  95. Hassan Taqizadeh

    diplomat, politician

    1878–1970 · aged 91

    September 27 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Iranica

  96. August Winnig

    union member, editing staff

    1878–1956 · aged 78

    March 31 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  97. Şehzade Ahmed Nuri

    1878–1944 · aged 65

    December 19 · 1878

    No external source identified

  98. Ernst Alexanderson

    electrical engineer, electrician

    1878–1975 · aged 97

    January 25 · 1878

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  99. Gyula Krúdy

    writer, journalist

    1878–1933 · aged 54

    October 21 · 1878

    Source: GeneaStar

  100. Ayaz İshaki

    politician, dramaturge

    1878–1954 · aged 76

    February 22 · 1878

    No external source identified

  101. Fathollah Khan Akbar

    politician

    1878–1947

    1878

    No external source identified

  102. Tullio Serafin

    conductor, music director

    1878–1968 · aged 89

    September 1 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  103. Luigi Federzoni

    journalist, writer

    1878–1967 · aged 88

    September 27 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  104. Karl Buresch

    diplomat, jurist

    1878–1936 · aged 57

    October 12 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  105. Oton Župančič

    literary critic, playwright

    1878–1949 · aged 71

    January 23 · 1878

    Source: Olomouc City Library regional database

  106. Arturo Araujo

    politician

    1878–1967

    1878

    No external source identified

  107. André Caplet

    composer, conductor

    1878–1925 · aged 46

    November 23 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  108. Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko

    soldier

    1878–1952 · aged 73

    December 20 · 1878

    No external source identified

  109. Helena Mniszek

    writer

    1878–1943 · aged 64

    May 24 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  110. Károly Ereky

    politician

    1878–1952 · aged 73

    October 20 · 1878

    Source: mek.oszk.hu

  111. Khatanbaatar Magsarjav

    politician, military personnel

    1878–1927 · aged 49

    June 10 · 1878

    No external source identified

  112. Leopold Staff*

    poet, translator

    Date disputed

    November 14 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  113. Jacinto Peynado

    lawyer, politician

    1878–1940 · aged 62

    February 15 · 1878

    No external source identified

  114. Karl Hofer

    university teacher, art educator

    1878–1955 · aged 76

    October 11 · 1878

    Source: SIKART

  115. Jovan Babunski

    school teacher, soldier

    1878–1920 · aged 41

    December 25 · 1878

    No external source identified

  116. Albert Champion

    sport cyclist, businessperson

    1878–1927 · aged 49

    April 5 · 1878

    Source: birth certificate

  117. Richard Garrick

    actor, film actor

    1878–1962 · aged 83

    December 27 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  118. Robert Jacquinot de Besange

    cleric, Catholic priest

    1878–1946 · aged 68

    March 15 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  119. Lawrence Joseph Henderson

    biochemist, university teacher

    1878–1942 · aged 63

    June 3 · 1878

    Source: www.academie-medecine.fr

  120. Purnell Pratt*

    actor

    Date disputed

    October 20 · 1878

    Source: IMDb

  121. Jack Judge

    songwriter, singer

    1878–1938 · aged 59

    December 3 · 1878

    No external source identified

  122. Dimitar Vlahov

    military officer, politician

    1878–1953 · aged 74

    November 8 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  123. Charles Tate Regan

    ichthyologist, zoologist

    1878–1943 · aged 64

    February 1 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  124. Émilie Charmy

    painter

    1878–1974 · aged 96

    April 2 · 1878

    Source: BnF authorities

  125. Julia Swayne Gordon

    actor, film actor

    1878–1933 · aged 54

    October 29 · 1878

    Source: SNAC

  126. Matilde Moisant

    aircraft pilot

    1878–1964 · aged 85

    September 13 · 1878

    No external source identified

  127. Selim Palmgren

    conductor, pianist

    1878–1951

    February 16 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  128. Alvan Tufts Fuller

    politician, art collector

    1878–1958 · aged 80

    February 27 · 1878

    Source: GeneaStar

  129. Abastenia St. Leger Eberle

    artist, sculptor

    1878–1942 · aged 63

    April 6 · 1878

    Source: CLARA

  130. Amy Roberta Ruck

    author, writer

    1878–1978 · aged 100

    August 2 · 1878

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  131. Adelaide Crapsey

    writer, journalist

    1878–1914 · aged 36

    September 9 · 1878

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  132. Hassan Konopacki

    journalist, soldier

    1878–1953 · aged 75

    March 9 · 1878

    No external source identified

  133. Seiji Noma

    media proprietor, journalist

    1878–1938 · aged 59

    December 17 · 1878

    No external source identified

  134. William Desmond

    actor, stage actor

    1878–1949 · aged 71

    January 23 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  135. Giuseppe Adami

    screenwriter, music critic

    1878–1946 · aged 68

    February 4 · 1878

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  136. María Guadalupe García Zavala

    nun, Christian nun

    1878–1963 · aged 85

    April 27 · 1878

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  137. Herwarth Walden

    playwright, writer

    1878–1941 · aged 63

    September 16 · 1878

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  138. Alfred Edward Goodey

    philanthropist, painter

    1878–1945 · aged 67

    April 3 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  139. Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach*

    military officer

    Date disputed

    April 18 · 1878

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  140. Harry Bernard

    actor, film actor

    1878–1940 · aged 62

    January 13 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  141. Vasily Biskupsky*

    military officer, soldier

    Date disputed

    July 9 · 1878

    No external source identified

  142. Dorothea Bate

    ornithologist, zoologist

    1878–1951 · aged 72

    November 8 · 1878

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

  143. R. E. Foster

    association football player, cricketer

    1878–1914 · aged 36

    April 16 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  144. Spencer Gore

    artist, painter

    1878–1914

    May 26 · 1878

    Source: Gore, Spencer

  145. Alex Raisbeck

    association football player

    1878–1949 · aged 70

    December 26 · 1878

    No external source identified

  146. Yoshiyuki Kawashima

    military personnel

    1878–1945 · aged 67

    May 25 · 1878

    Source: Generals of World War II

  147. Stefan I of Bulgaria

    Eastern Orthodox priest, Orthodox theologian

    1878–1957 · aged 78

    September 19 · 1878

    Source: The Righteous Among the Nations Database

  148. Aino Kallas

    short story writer, writer

    1878–1956 · aged 78

    August 2 · 1878

    Source: Estonian biographical database

  149. Maximos IV Sayegh

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1878–1967 · aged 89

    April 10 · 1878

    Source: Find a Grave

  150. Grace Chisholm Young*

    mathematician

    Date disputed

    March 15 · 1878

    Source: FemBio database

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