ON THIS DAY
Born in 1881
691 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
writer, politician
- Ernest Beaux
perfumer
- Sardar Ajit Singh
dissident, revolutionary
- Max Weber
painter, draftsperson
- Väinö Tanner
head of government, politician
- Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans
polar explorer, admiral
- Curt Haase
military personnel, military officer
- Vincenzo Lancia
engineer, racing automobile driver
- Raghib al-Nashashibi
politician
- Ronald Storrs
diplomat, colonel
- Nicholas Schenck
film producer, entrepreneur
- Padraic Colum
playwright, writer
- Adolf Hühnlein
politician
- Waldemar Bonsels
children's writer, director
- Julian Abele
architect
- Daniel Jones
linguist, university teacher
- Ivan Nikitich Smirnov
politician, economist
- Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski
diplomat, poet
- Johnny Evers
baseball player
- Breckinridge Long
politician, lawyer
- Moncef Bey
monarch, bey
- Frank Craven
theatre director, lyricist
- Todor Aleksandrov
revolutionary, military officer
- Prince Antônio Gastão of Brazil
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Henri Dentz
military personnel
- Hugo Meisl
association football player, association football coach
- Allen Whipple
surgeon, physician
- Mary MacLane
historian, film actor
- Heinrich Brandler
stonemason, trade unionist
- Marcello Piacentini
architect, university teacher
- Alexander Georgievich, 7th Duke of Leuchtenberg
military personnel
- Princess Xenia of Montenegro
aristocrat
- Sarah Edwards
film actor, stage actor
- August Hlond
Catholic bishop, Catholic deacon
- Vera Weizmann
activist, physician
- George Alan Thomas
chess player, badminton player
- Kingsley Wood
politician
- Willie Pearse
politician
- Vilhelm Buhl
diplomat, politician
- Thomas Parnell
university teacher, physicist
- Henryk Grossman
social scientist, economic historian
- Willie Gallacher
politician, trade unionist
- Eugen Bolz
judge, politician
- Morgan Wallace
actor, playwright
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck
draftsperson, graphic artist
- Curt Sachs
musicologist, art historian
- Leon Errol
comedian, actor
- Gunnar Nordström
theoretical physicist, university teacher
- George Bacovia
poet, writer
- Otto Toeplitz
university teacher, historian of mathematics
- Krsto Popović
military personnel
- Li Shizeng
Esperantist, pedagogue
- Nikolai Roslavets
music theorist, composer
- George Constantinescu
scientist, inventor
- Robert Esnault-Pelterie
aircraft pilot, military flight engineer
- Valery Larbaud
poet, essayist
- Jack Reynolds
association football coach, association football player
- Hellmuth von Mücke
military officer, writer
- Dimitrije Tucović
journalist, politician
- Noe Ramishvili
politician, official
- V. V. S. Aiyar
jurist, philologist
- Frederick Varley
painter, visual artist
- Alice Catherine Evans
microbiologist, bacteriologist
- Yosef Haim Brenner
editor, writer
- Albert Viljam Hagelin
politician, singer
- Edith Nourse Rogers
social worker, politician
- Martin Sheridan
athletics competitor
- Lima Barreto
journalist, writer
- Pat Harrison
lawyer, jurist
- María Blanchard
painter
- Kesago Nakajima
military personnel
- Pedro de Cordoba
actor, stage actor
- Puran Singh
poet, scientist
- Eleonora Sears
squash player, tennis player
- Henrik Shipstead
dentist, politician
- Mary Antin
writer
- John Gottowt
actor, film actor
- Erwin Aders
mechanical technician, engineer
- Refik Saydam
head of government, medical officer
- Joe Hall
ice hockey player
- Gaston Gallimard
translator, publisher
- Max Eitingon
physician, psychoanalyst
- Daisy Ashford
writer, novelist
- Yakov Protazanov
film director, actor
- Clarence Gagnon
painter
- Franklin Pierce Adams
journalist, writer
- Richard Bienert
official, politician
- Hans Reiter
bacteriologist, docent
- Emil Leeb
military personnel
- Aly Maher Pasha
lawyer, politician
- Ernest George Jansen
lawyer, jurist
- Jānis Balodis
soldier, politician
- Toshizō Nishio
military personnel, politician
- Egon Petri
pianist, musicologist
- Paul Cornu
aircraft pilot, engineer
- Henrik Werth
military personnel
- Alberts Kviesis
jurist, politician
- Sarah Padden
stage actor, actor
- André Salmon
novelist, poet
- Edvard Gylling
statistician, politician
- Louis Baillon
field hockey player
- Nasib bey Yusifbeyli
politician, journalist
- Lascelles Abercrombie
writer, poet
- Milton Rosmer
stage actor, film director
- Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn
artist, philosopher
- Fernando Ortiz Fernández
writer, anthropologist
- James W. Horne
screenwriter, film director
- Abram Deborin
philosopher
- Richard Hageman
pianist, conductor
- Wilhelm Worringer
art historian, art theorist
- Zhang Shizhao
journalist, politician
- Arthur Caswell Parker
archaeologist, historian
- Edward L. Atkinson
surgeon, explorer
- Jakob Wilhelm Hauer
orientalist, Indologist
- Christian Hülsmeyer
inventor, physicist
- Herbert Kalmus
entrepreneur, academic
- Mohammad Sa'ed
diplomat, politician
- François Coli
navigator, military personnel
- Aleksandr Gerasimov
visual artist, painter
- Móric Esterházy
head of government, politician
- John Neihardt
poet, philosopher
- Adolf Meyer
designer, architect
- Henri Le Fauconnier
draftsperson, painter
- Marion Leonard
stage actor, film actor
- Frederick Septimus Kelly
rower, composer
- Vojin Popović
military personnel
- Felice Nazzaro
racing automobile driver, businessperson
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling
short story writer, lawyer
- Wang Ch'ung-hui
foreign minister, diplomat
- Eugénie Cotton
women's rights activist, feminist
- William Nigh
director, writer
- Patriarch Gavrilo Dožić V of Serbia
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov
painter, sculptor
- Gustav Herglotz
seismologist, geophysicist
- Arthur Upham Pope
art historian, archaeologist
- Elly Heuss-Knapp
teacher, writer
- Matila Ghyka
philosopher, writer