ON THIS DAY
Born in 1879
734 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Albert Einstein
professor, writer
- Leon Trotsky
philosopher, diplomat
- Emperor Taishō
aristocrat, monarch
- Franz von Papen
politician, diplomat
- Emiliano Zapata
partisan, revolutionary
- Margaret Sanger
trade unionist, writer
- E. M. Forster
novelist, essayist
- Sarojini Naidu
politician, independence activist
- Will Rogers
screenwriter, film actor
- Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy
politician
- Paul Klee
lithographer, artist
- Otto Hahn
non-fiction writer, nuclear physicist
- Miles Franklin
satirical novelist, writer
- Kazimir Malevich
painter, scenographer
- Ethel Barrymore
film actor, actor
- Grace Coolidge
teacher, politician
- Max Schreck
film actor, stage actor
- Patrick Pearse
barrister, revolutionary
- Sydney Greenstreet
film actor, character actor
- Symon Petliura
politician, journalist
- Alma Mahler
artist, musician
- Billy Mitchell
airman, major general
- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
suffragist, politician
- Jane Darwell
film actor, actor
- Chen Duxiu
communist, philosopher
- Alla Nazimova
screenwriter, writer
- Joe Hill
musician, poet
- Vanessa Bell
painter, photographer
- Fritz Haarmann
conscript, informant
- Wallace Stevens
lawyer, journalist
- Spiridon Putin
cook, chef
- William Fox
geologist, entrepreneur
- Jatindranath Mukherjee
revolutionary, philosopher
- Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
minister, newspaper proprietor
- Henri Giraud
French resistance fighter, military commander
- Ottorino Respighi
musicologist, composer
- Boris Savinkov
politician, revolutionary
- Ali of Hejaz
regent
- An Jung-geun
politician, political activist
- Hans Heinrich Lammers
judge, jurist
- Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
consort, aristocrat
- Ernest Howard Shepard
illustrator, painter
- Warner Oland
stage actor, film actor
- Francis Picabia
poet, painter
- Joseph Lyons
teacher, politician
- Edward Steichen
curator, war photographer
- Vivian Woodward
association football player
- Kartini
women's rights activist, textile artist
- Max von Laue
crystallographer, university teacher
- Nicola Bombacci
politician
- Mark Sykes
diplomat, novelist
- Lewis Stone
film actor, actor
- Milutin Milanković
professor, physicist
- Alfred Korzybski
engineer, philosopher
- Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
aristocrat
- Edwin Montagu
politician
- Knud Rasmussen
explorer, polar explorer
- William Beveridge
economist, statistician
- Lucy Burns
feminist, teacher
- Shunroku Hata
military personnel, politician
- Luisa Capeta
trade unionist, women's rights activist
- Hans Luther
jurist, diplomat
- Ernest Thesiger
stage actor, film actor
- Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
military personnel, politician
- John J. Raskob
businessperson
- Bob Smith
physician, surgeon
- Lucile Watson
actor, film actor
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
ethnologist, discoverer
- Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
military personnel
- Ion G. Duca
jurist, politician
- Thomas Beecham
conductor
- Hu Han-min
artist, party leader
- Paul Poiret
theatre designer, fashion designer
- Pál Teleki
politician, diplomat
- William Harrison Hays
lawyer, politician
- Italo Gariboldi
politician, military officer
- Hisaichi Terauchi
politician, military personnel
- Victor Sjöström
film actor, film producer
- Huda Sha'rawi
journalist, women's rights activist
- Joseph Wirth
politician
- James H. Snook
veterinarian, sport shooter
- Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln
adventurer, monk
- Vachel Lindsay
painter, poet
- Alfred Abel
stage actor, actor
- Lois Weber
film actor, director
- Sid Grauman
film actor, businessperson
- Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
politician
- Frieda Lawrence
translator, writer
- Dwight Filley Davis Sr.
tennis player, politician
- Stanislaus Zbyszko
professional wrestler, strongman
- Walter Long
actor, film actor
- Vittorio Ambrosio
military officer, soldier
- Rudolf Laban
dancer, ballet dancer
- Thành Thái
monarch
- Aleksandar Stamboliyski
journalist, philosopher
- Johan Nygaardsvold
politician, trade unionist
- Edith Rosenbaum
personal stylist, journalist
- John Ireland
music educator, composer
- Chetpat Aiyar
politician, lawyer
- Camillo Castiglioni
banker, art collector
- James Branch Cabell
writer, genealogist
- Ruth St. Denis
Ziegfeld girl, choreographer
- Wanda Landowska
music educator, harpsichordist
- John Erskine
musician, literary critic
- Pierre Gilliard
photographer, tutor
- Clyde Cessna
aircraft pilot, design engineer
- Wu Lien-teh
physician, health officer
- Georgios Kondylis
politician, resistance fighter
- Joaquín Nin
music educator, musicologist
- José Millán Astray y Terreros
military personnel, politician
- Annie Kenney
politician, suffragette
- Frank Bridge
music educator, composer
- Laura Hope Crews
stage actor, actor
- Adolf Strauss
military personnel
- Benjamin Christensen
screenwriter, film director
- Mabel Dodge Luhan
journalist, writer
- Arthur Johnson
association football coach, association football player
- John Maclean
socialist, school teacher
- Helen McNicoll
painter
- Clem Bevans
film actor, actor
- Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira
sociologist
- Ben Lear
military personnel, event rider
- Aeneas Mackintosh
sea captain, explorer
- Vladko Maček
politician, lawyer
- John D. Hertz
association football player, businessperson
- Clifford Hugh Douglas
engineer, economist
- Hajime Kawakami
novelist, poet
- Helena Roerich
translator, writer
- Sándor Garbai
politician
- Maud Menten
pathologist, physician
- Hans Hahn
topologist, philosopher
- Edgar Longuet
politician, physician
- Eric von Rosen
ethnographer, explorer
- Othmar Hermann Ammann
architect, engineer
- King Baggot
writer, producer
- Aleksandar Tsankov
economist, university teacher
- Kosta Pećanac
soldier
- Carlo Tresca
trade unionist, journalist
- Ernest Douwes Dekker
teacher, journalist
- Alan Gardiner
linguist, anthropologist
- Friedrich Adler
journalist, politician
- Walter Hampden
film actor, actor
- Mazo de la Roche
playwright, novelist