ON THIS DAY
Born in 1882
796 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
governor, jurist
- Virginia Woolf
writer, novelist
- James Joyce
librettist, writer
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
diplomat, writer
- Wilhelm Keitel
military personnel, soldier
- Igor Stravinsky
composer, librettist
- Bela Lugosi
stage actor, actor
- Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
military officer
- Éamon de Valera
politician, diplomat
- A. A. Milne
journalist, poet
- Fiorello La Guardia
politician
- Max Born
mathematician, physicist
- John Barrymore
stage actor, screenwriter
- Wilhelm, German Crown Prince
politician, crown prince
- Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
art collector, classical archaeologist
- Edward Hopper
graphic artist, draftsperson
- Kurt von Schleicher
military officer, politician
- Emmy Noether
physicist, university teacher
- Ion Antonescu
politician, diplomat
- Lili Elbe
painter
- Anna Pavlova
dancer, ballet dancer
- William Halsey Jr.
naval officer, soldier
- Arnold Rothstein
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Abdullah I of Jordan
king, Amir
- Samuel Goldwyn
film producer, writer
- Getúlio Vargas
lawyer, politician
- Charles Ponzi
criminal, con artist
- Robert H. Goddard
engineer, physicist
- John Rabe
entrepreneur
- Johnny Torrio
criminal
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia
memoirist, philanthropist
- Leopold Stokowski
organist, conductor
- Günther von Kluge
military officer, soldier
- Subramanya Bharathi
autobiographer, writer
- Princess Margaret of Connaught
aristocrat, bandy player
- Arthur Eddington
astronomer, astrophysicist
- Georges Braque
artist, designer
- Georgi Dimitrov
head of government, politician
- Bidhan Chandra Roy
politician, physician
- Rodolfo Graziani
military officer, politician
- Sigrid Undset
screenwriter, translator
- Husband E. Kimmel
military officer
- Henry J. Kaiser
industrialist, engineer
- René Coty
politician, lawyer
- Donald Crisp
producer, film producer
- Jess McMahon
boxer, professional wrestling promoter
- Eric Gill
type designer, graphic artist
- Sam Rayburn
politician, lawyer
- Sylvia Pankhurst
artist, women's rights activist
- Harold Lowe
sailor
- James F. Byrnes
diplomat, judge
- Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
military officer, military personnel
- Abd el-Krim
journalist, military personnel
- Melanie Klein
psychoanalyst
- Feng Yuxiang
military personnel, politician
- Marie Bonaparte
translator, writer
- Felix Frankfurter
lawyer, judge
- Louis St. Laurent
diplomat, politician
- Christian Mortensen
milk deliverer, tailor
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
air force officer, politician
- Yusef of Morocco
sultan, politician
- Jacques Maritain
diplomat, philosopher
- Jack Hobbs
cricketer
- Percy Grainger
ethnomusicologist, composer
- Douglas Mawson
explorer, geologist
- Wyndham Lewis
poet, painter
- Umberto Boccioni
artist, photographer
- B. Traven
novelist, trade unionist
- Lluís Companys
jurist, politician
- Margaret Dumont
film actor, opera singer
- Zoltán Kodály
secondary school teacher, conductor
- Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
resistance fighter, mujahid
- Moritz Schlick
philosopher of science, philosopher
- Boris Shaposhnikov
politician, military personnel
- Thomas H. Ince
film director, film actor
- N. C. Wyeth
visual artist, illustrator
- John Bauer
painter, illustrator
- James Gleason
actor, screenwriter
- Inayat Khan
writer, musician
- Geoffrey de Havilland
military flight engineer, test pilot
- Robert Hichens
sailor
- Karol Szymanowski
author, pianist
- J Harlen Bretz
university teacher, geologist
- Emma Jung
psychoanalyst, writer
- Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
military officer, politician
- Yoshijirō Umezu
soldier, military personnel
- Holland Smith
military officer, soldier
- James Franck
university teacher, physicist
- Hans Geiger
laboratory director, physicist
- George Bellows
lithographer, university teacher
- Seán T. O'Kelly
politician
- Natalia Sedova
revolutionary, politician
- Sybil Thorndike
stage actor, suffragist
- Harold Gillies
physician, surgeon
- Edward Van Sloan
film actor, stage actor
- Pavel Florensky
inventor, mathematician
- Noah Beery, Sr.
actor, stage actor
- Ima Hogg
philanthropist, art collector
- Song Jiaoren
politician
- Dora
writer
- George Bancroft
actor, film actor
- Otto Neurath
philosopher, art theorist
- Nandalal Bose
printmaker, painter
- Friedrich Dollmann
Generaloberst, military personnel
- Fan S. Noli
poet, journalist
- Shigenori Tōgō
diplomat, politician
- Valentine Fleming
politician
- Ernst von Weizsäcker
diplomat, politician
- Rockwell Kent
painter, prose writer
- Charles Emil Ruthenberg
party leader, journalist
- Wacław Sierpiński
topologist, university teacher
- Franz Seldte
politician, entrepreneur
- Korney Chukovsky
literary historian, journalist
- Artur Schnabel
composer, music educator
- Percy Williams Bridgman
university teacher, physicist
- Princess Louise of Orléans
aristocrat
- Guy Kibbee
television actor, stage actor
- Dušan Simović
politician, military personnel
- Burton K. Wheeler
politician, peace activist
- Kâzım Karabekir
composer, poet
- Raymonde de Laroche
aircraft pilot
- Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild
entrepreneur, art collector
- Petre Dumitrescu
military officer
- Dudley Field Malone
jurist, actor
- Hisao Tani
historian, military personnel
- Princess Alexandra of Hanover
aristocrat
- Kimon Georgiev
military officer, politician
- Tsai E
politician
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
poet, teacher
- Jimmy Hogan
association football coach, association football player
- Mary Boland
actor, film actor
- Jean Giraudoux
diplomat, essayist
- Geraldine Farrar
film actor, writer
- Neville Henderson
diplomat, ambassador
- Thomas Selfridge
balloonist, army officer
- Edwin Barclay
diplomat, politician
- Ladislas Starevich
production designer, cinematographer
- Volin
revolutionary, journalist
- Halil Kut
governor, military personnel
- Edmund Dulac
illustrator, graphic artist
- Kamo
politician, revolutionary
- Paul Harvey
film actor, actor
- Emmerich Kálmán
film score composer, composer
- Mina Loy
poet, writer
- Pascual Orozco
politician, association football player
- Abol-Ghasem Kashani
theologian, Islamic jurist
- Infanta Maria Teresa Isabel of Spain
aristocrat
- James Somerville
naval officer