ON THIS DAY
Born in 1881
691 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Pablo Picasso
printmaker, stage painter
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
statesperson, army officer
- Alexander Fleming
bacteriologist, inventor
- John XXIII
military chaplain, Pope
- Stefan Zweig
literary critic, biographer
- Cecil B. DeMille
film producer, director
- Alexander Kerensky
jurist, revolutionary
- P. G. Wodehouse
librettist, novelist
- Smedley Butler
official, activist
- Enver Pasha
politician, military officer
- Béla Bartók
politician, ethnomusicologist
- Kliment Voroshilov
revolutionary, head of state
- Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
diplomat, politician
- Ludwig von Mises
university teacher, writer
- Guccio Gucci
entrepreneur, dressmaker
- Alexei Rykov
politician
- Lu Xun
poet, literary critic
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
philosopher, Catholic theologian
- Walther von Brauchitsch
general field marshal, military personnel
- Harry Warner
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Vincenzo Peruggia
art thief, museum professional
- Vajiravudh
monarch, writer
- François Darlan
admiral, naval officer
- William Boeing
engineer, aircraft pilot
- Alcide De Gasperi
politician, diplomat
- Erwin von Witzleben
military officer, military personnel
- Zhang Zongchang
politician, warlord
- Ettore Bugatti
inventor, entrepreneur
- Theodore von Kármán
mathematician, military flight engineer
- Elizabeth Arden
aesthetician, cosmetologist
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
military officer, general field marshal
- Maximilian von Weichs
soldier, military personnel
- Branch Rickey
basketball coach, baseball manager
- Władysław Sikorski
head of government, politician
- Ernest Bevin
politician, trade unionist
- Günther Quandt
politician, entrepreneur
- Georges Enescou
musicologist, conductor
- Fernand Léger
architectural drafter, director
- Victor Klemperer
translator, journalist
- Eugène Schueller
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Hans Kelsen
jurist, philosopher
- Louella Parsons
columnist, screenwriter
- Irving Langmuir
academic, meteorologist
- Jess Willard
circus performer, boxer
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
poet, librettist
- Tommy Burns
boxer
- H. H. Kung
businessperson, politician
- Georg von Küchler
military officer
- King Oliver
songwriter, bandleader
- Jimmy Walker
lawyer, writer
- William Z. Foster
trade unionist, labor leader
- Allauddin Khan
composer, music educator
- Fernande Olivier
model, muse
- Ernst Gräfenberg
physician, gynecologist
- Francis Ford
film actor, director
- Walter Krueger
soldier, military officer
- Ivan Ribar
jurist, politician
- Nikolaj Velimirović
philosopher, theologian
- Adolfo de la Huerta
military personnel, politician
- Leo Carrillo
film actor, television actor
- Adele Bloch-Bauer
art collector
- Luisa Casati
art collector, salonnière
- Sveinn Björnsson
politician, lawyer
- Eleanor Farjeon
writer, poet
- Natalia Goncharova
scenographer, writer
- Richard Chace Tolman
chemist, university teacher
- Jacob Israël de Haan
jurist, university teacher
- Max Gerson
physician
- Otozō Yamada
military personnel
- Otto Bauer
opinion journalist, socialist
- Alexandre Lippmann
fencer
- Clive Bell
art historian, painter
- Mordecai Kaplan
essayist, philosopher of religion
- William Temple
theologian, archbishop
- Horace de Vere Cole
poet, comedian
- José Vasconcelos
beamter, lawyer
- Ramón Grau
university teacher, politician
- Octavian Goga
playwright, translator
- Sergey Kamenev
military personnel, military commander
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
mathematician, university teacher
- Paul Le Flem
composer, military personnel
- Titus Brandsma
journalist, linguist
- Ludwig Kaas
jurist, politician
- John Dill
military officer, diplomat
- Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson
general field marshal, military personnel
- Hermann Ehrhardt
resistance fighter, politician
- Maurice de Rothschild
art collector, financier
- Éamonn Ceannt
revolutionary
- Crystal Eastman
jurist, lawyer
- Artur Phleps
academic, military personnel
- Asta Nielsen
film producer, actor
- Noble Johnson
actor, screenwriter
- Ed Walsh
baseball player
- Margaret Wycherly
film actor, stage actor
- Nikolai Myaskovsky
composer, musicologist
- Hugo Blaschke
politician, dentist
- Giovanni Papini
biographer, poet
- Alastair Denniston
cryptographer, field hockey player
- Franz Gürtner
politician, jurist
- Harry Price
writer, parapsychologist
- Hermann Staudinger
engineer, university teacher
- Rose Macaulay
writer, novelist
- Felix von Luckner
military officer, count
- Otto Wille Kuusinen
politician, communist
- Roger Martin du Gard
playwright, archivist
- Hossein Alâ
politician, diplomat
- Walter Rudolf Hess
physician, physiologist
- Ulrich von Hassell
diplomat, resistance fighter
- Paul Rosenberg
art collector, art dealer
- Carlo Carrà
painter, printmaker
- Albert Gleizes
watercolorist, printmaker
- Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
anthropologist, sociologist
- Axel Wenner-Gren
businessperson
- Hakaru Hashimoto
pathologist, physician
- Léon Spilliaert
author, painter
- Augustin Bea
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Lewis Fry Richardson
meteorologist, cartographer
- Clinton Davisson
physicist, university teacher
- Princess Der Ling
writer, lady-in-waiting
- Ber Borochov
linguist, philosopher
- Rauf Orbay
politician, diplomat
- Muhammad VIII of Tunisia
politician
- Kim Kyu-sik
diplomat, teacher
- Mikhail Drozdovsky
military officer
- Hans Fischer
internist, biochemist
- John Gresham Machen
New Testament scholar, university teacher
- Pixley ka Isaka Seme
journalist, lawyer
- Henrik Galeen
film director, stage actor
- Irakli Tsereteli
diplomat, politician
- Eugenio Pio Zolli
rabbi
- Emil Ludwig
jurist, biographer
- Eulalio Gutiérrez
military personnel, politician
- Ludwig Binswanger
psychiatrist, existential therapist
- Raymond Hood
architect
- Juliusz Rómmel
military officer
- Julian Eltinge
actor, drag queen
- Max Pechstein
painter, designer
- Mary Webb
poet, novelist
- Margery Williams
translator, writer
- Hans Vogel
functionary, wood sculptor
- Kanno Sugako
anarchist, journalist
- Grigory Kotovsky
functionary, military personnel
- Ludwik Rajchman
physician, bacteriologist
- Madge Syers
figure skater
- Kenneth J. Alford
composer, conductor
- Mikhail Larionov
theatre designer, graphic artist
- Rudolf Reder
entrepreneur, chemist