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Born in 1883

783 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Benito Mussolini

    teacher, journalist

    1883–1945 · aged 61

    July 29 · 1883

    Source: filmportal.de

  2. Franz Kafka

    aphorist, translator

    1883–1924 · aged 40

    July 3 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  3. Coco Chanel

    business executive, costume designer

    1883–1971 · aged 87

    August 19 · 1883

    Source: FemBio database

  4. John Maynard Keynes

    economist, professor

    1883–1946 · aged 62

    June 5 · 1883

    Source: Roglo

  5. Clement Attlee

    politician, diplomat

    1883–1967 · aged 84

    January 3 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  6. Kahlil Gibran

    philosopher, painter

    1883–1931 · aged 48

    January 6 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  7. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

    revolutionary, playwright

    1883–1966 · aged 82

    May 28 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  8. Douglas Fairbanks

    writer, film producer

    1883–1939 · aged 56

    May 23 · 1883

    Source: Roglo

  9. Napoleon Hill

    journalist, lawyer

    1883–1970 · aged 87

    October 26 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  10. Lon Chaney

    film director, stage actor

    1883–1930

    April 1 · 1883

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  11. Joseph Pilates

    coach, entrepreneur

    1883–1967 · aged 83

    December 9 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  12. Pierre Laval

    lawyer, jurist

    1883–1945 · aged 62

    June 28 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  13. Walter Huston*

    film actor, film director

    Date disputed

    April 5 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  14. Lev Kamenev

    revolutionary, politician

    1883–1936 · aged 53

    July 18 · 1883

    Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia

  15. Grigory Zinoviev

    revolutionary, actor

    1883–1936 · aged 52

    September 23 · 1883

    No external source identified

  16. Wang Jingwei

    artist, diplomat

    1883–1944 · aged 61

    May 4 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  17. Joseph Schumpeter

    political economist, anthropologist

    1883–1950

    February 8 · 1883

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  18. Nikos Kazantzakis

    prose writer, novelist

    1883–1957 · aged 74

    March 2 · 1883

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  19. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

    art collector, aristocrat

    1883–1981 · aged 97

    February 25 · 1883

    Source: Genealogics

  20. Mariam Soulakiotis

    hegumen, convict

    1883–1954

    1883

    No external source identified

  21. Walter Gropius

    pedagogue, university teacher

    1883–1969 · aged 86

    May 18 · 1883

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  22. Angela Hitler

    housekeeper, painter

    1883–1949 · aged 66

    July 28 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  23. Peter Kürten

    serial killer, criminal

    1883–1931 · aged 48

    May 26 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  24. Rube Goldberg

    screenwriter, cartoonist

    1883–1970 · aged 87

    July 4 · 1883

    Source: BD Gest'

  25. William Carlos Williams

    physician, literary critic

    1883–1963 · aged 79

    September 17 · 1883

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  26. Enoch L. Johnson

    businessperson, gangster

    1883–1968 · aged 85

    January 20 · 1883

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  27. Ota Benga

    sideshow performer, exhibit

    1883–1916

    1883

    Source: mediaite.com

  28. José Ortega y Gasset

    opinion journalist, essayist

    1883–1955 · aged 72

    May 9 · 1883

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  29. Karl Jaspers

    university teacher, psychologist

    1883–1969 · aged 86

    February 23 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  30. Semyon Budyonny

    writer, soldier

    1883–1973 · aged 90

    April 25 · 1883

    No external source identified

  31. Prince Arthur of Connaught

    politician

    1883–1938 · aged 55

    January 13 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  32. Otto Heinrich Warburg

    physician, university teacher

    1883–1970 · aged 86

    October 8 · 1883

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  33. William J. Donovan

    military officer, politician

    1883–1959 · aged 76

    January 1 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  34. Joseph Stilwell

    military personnel, basketball coach

    1883–1946 · aged 63

    March 19 · 1883

    Source: GeneaStar

  35. Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

    general field marshal, soldier

    1883–1950 · aged 67

    May 5 · 1883

    Source: Oorlogsbronnen

  36. Max Fleischer*

    manufacturer, cartoonist

    Date disputed

    July 19 · 1883

    Source: IMDb

  37. Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria

    social democrat

    1883–1963

    September 2 · 1883

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  38. Zaifeng, Prince Chun

    politician

    1883–1951 · aged 67

    February 12 · 1883

    No external source identified

  39. Marion Lorne

    television actor, actor

    1883–1968 · aged 84

    August 12 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  40. Celâl Bayar

    politician

    1883–1986 · aged 103

    May 16 · 1883

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  41. Morihei Ueshiba

    military personnel, martial artist

    1883–1969 · aged 85

    December 14 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. Anton Webern

    composer, classical composer

    1883–1945 · aged 61

    December 3 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  43. Lloyd Fredendall

    army officer

    1883–1963 · aged 79

    December 28 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  44. Johannes Blaskowitz

    soldier, military officer

    1883–1948 · aged 64

    July 10 · 1883

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  45. Mohammed Nadir Shah

    king, diplomat

    1883–1933

    April 9 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  46. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV*

    military personnel

    Date disputed

    August 23 · 1883

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  47. Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

    general field marshal, military personnel

    1883–1963 · aged 79

    July 23 · 1883

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  48. Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

    admiral, politician

    1883–1963 · aged 80

    January 7 · 1883

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  49. Aleksey Tolstoy

    science fiction writer, playwright

    1883–1945 · aged 62

    January 10 · 1883

    Source: Writers of St. Petersburg. XX century

  50. Estelle Winwood

    stage actor, film actor

    1883–1984 · aged 101

    January 24 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  51. Yen Hsi-shan

    military personnel, politician

    1883–1960 · aged 76

    August 8 · 1883

    No external source identified

  52. Belle da Costa Greene*

    curator, librarian

    Date disputed

    December 13 · 1883

    Source: Greene, Belle da Costa

  53. Albert Warner*

    film producer

    Date disputed

    July 23 · 1883

    Source: IMDb

  54. Andrey Vyshinsky

    diplomat, politician

    1883–1954 · aged 70

    December 10 · 1883

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  55. Edgard Varèse

    conductor, musicologist

    1883–1965 · aged 81

    December 22 · 1883

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  56. Ivan Ilyin

    jurist, writer

    1883–1954 · aged 71

    April 9 · 1883

    No external source identified

  57. Bertram Home Ramsay

    military officer

    1883–1945 · aged 61

    January 20 · 1883

    Source: TracesOfWar

  58. Jaroslav Hašek

    novelist, satirical novelist

    1883–1923 · aged 39

    April 30 · 1883

    Source: Database of the Military Historical Archive

  59. Ichirō Hatoyama

    lawyer, politician

    1883–1959 · aged 76

    January 1 · 1883

    Source: ndl.go.jp

  60. José Clemente Orozco

    muralist, draftsperson

    1883–1949 · aged 65

    November 23 · 1883

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  61. Carl Vinson

    jurist, politician

    1883–1981 · aged 97

    November 18 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  62. Lothrop Stoddard

    non-fiction writer, anthropologist

    1883–1950 · aged 66

    June 29 · 1883

    Source: Babelio

  63. Franklin Clarence Mars

    businessperson, entrepreneur

    1883–1934 · aged 50

    September 24 · 1883

    Source: robinsonlibrary.com

  64. Lesley J. McNair

    military commander, soldier

    1883–1944 · aged 61

    May 25 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  65. Max Linder*

    stage actor, film director

    Date disputed

    December 16 · 1883

    Source: Roglo

  66. Caroline Lacroix

    aristocrat

    1883–1948 · aged 64

    May 13 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. Edna May Oliver

    character actor, stage actor

    1883–1942 · aged 59

    November 9 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  68. S. Z. Sakall

    screenwriter, stage actor

    1883–1955 · aged 72

    February 2 · 1883

    No external source identified

  69. Giovanni Messe

    politician, military officer

    1883–1968 · aged 85

    December 10 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  70. Madan Lal Dhingra

    student, revolutionary

    1883–1909 · aged 25

    September 18 · 1883

    No external source identified

  71. Maurice Utrillo

    printmaker, graphic artist

    1883–1955 · aged 71

    December 26 · 1883

    Source: GeneaStar

  72. Oskar von Hindenburg

    politician, military personnel

    1883–1960 · aged 77

    January 31 · 1883

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  73. Mauritz Stiller

    screenwriter, actor

    1883–1928

    July 17 · 1883

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  74. Gottfried Feder

    engineer, urban planner

    1883–1941 · aged 58

    January 27 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  75. Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh

    writer

    1883–1936 · aged 52

    February 14 · 1883

    No external source identified

  76. Francis X. Bushman

    actor, film director

    1883–1966 · aged 83

    January 10 · 1883

    Source: GeneaStar

  77. Georgios Papanikolaou

    oncologist, gynecologist

    1883–1962 · aged 78

    May 13 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  78. Friedrich Flick

    businessperson, entrepreneur

    1883–1972 · aged 89

    July 10 · 1883

    Source: Q108617428

  79. Hasui Kawase

    graphic artist, visual artist

    1883–1957 · aged 74

    May 18 · 1883

    Source: NMVW-collection website

  80. Theo van Doesburg

    art critic, stained-glass artist

    1883–1931 · aged 47

    August 30 · 1883

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  81. Sonia Greene

    writer, autobiographer

    1883–1972 · aged 89

    March 16 · 1883

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  82. Kenji Doihara

    military personnel

    1883–1948 · aged 65

    August 8 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  83. Sax Rohmer

    playwright, comics writer

    1883–1959 · aged 76

    February 15 · 1883

    Source: Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature

  84. Sam Langford*

    boxer

    Date disputed

    March 4 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  85. Seán Mac Diarmada

    revolutionary, politician

    1883–1916 · aged 33

    February 28 · 1883

    No external source identified

  86. Sam Wood

    film actor, screenwriter

    1883–1949 · aged 66

    July 10 · 1883

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  87. S. M. Bruce

    lawyer, diplomat

    1883–1967 · aged 84

    April 15 · 1883

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  88. Alexander Alexandrov

    composer, music educator

    1883–1946 · aged 63

    April 13 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  89. Adolph Joffe

    diplomat, politician

    1883–1927 · aged 44

    October 22 · 1883

    No external source identified

  90. Ivan Meštrović

    writer, sculptor

    1883–1962 · aged 78

    August 15 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  91. Katia Mann

    writer

    1883–1980 · aged 96

    July 24 · 1883

    Source: Kindred Britain

  92. Ida Rubinstein*

    stage actor, choreographer

    Date disputed

    October 3 · 1883

    Source: Q108865826

  93. Max Eastman

    literary critic, journalist

    1883–1969 · aged 86

    January 4 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  94. Compton Mackenzie

    politician, writer

    1883–1972 · aged 89

    January 17 · 1883

    Source: IMDb

  95. Johnston McCulley

    screenwriter, writer

    1883–1958 · aged 75

    February 2 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  96. Alexandros Papagos

    head of government, politician

    1883–1955 · aged 71

    December 9 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  97. Jean Metzinger

    illustrator, painter

    1883–1956

    June 24 · 1883

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  98. Walter Buch

    politician, judge

    1883–1949

    October 24 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  99. Marie Laurencin

    painter, printmaker

    1883–1956 · aged 72

    October 31 · 1883

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  100. Sekiryo Kaneda

    businessperson

    1883–1949 · aged 65

    December 10 · 1883

    No external source identified

  101. Ahmet Ali Çelikten

    aircraft pilot, military personnel

    1883–1969

    1883

    No external source identified

  102. Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko

    politician, diplomat

    1883–1938 · aged 54

    March 21 · 1883

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  103. Richard von Mises

    engineer, physicist

    1883–1953 · aged 70

    April 19 · 1883

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  104. Fritz Gerlich

    historian, journalist

    1883–1934 · aged 51

    February 15 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  105. Arnold Bax

    composer, classical composer

    1883–1953 · aged 69

    November 8 · 1883

    Source: Discogs

  106. Imogen Cunningham

    university teacher, artist

    1883–1976 · aged 93

    April 12 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  107. Cho Man-sik

    politician

    1883–1950 · aged 67

    February 1 · 1883

    No external source identified

  108. Eugen Leviné

    jurist, revolutionary

    1883–1919 · aged 36

    May 23 · 1883

    No external source identified

  109. Bogdan Filov

    historian, politician

    1883–1945 · aged 61

    April 10 · 1883

    Source: Discogs

  110. Charles Demuth

    illustrator, draftsperson

    1883–1935 · aged 51

    November 8 · 1883

    Source: RKDartists

  111. Bernhard Rust

    politician

    1883–1945 · aged 61

    September 30 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  112. Erich Heckel

    draftsperson, illustrator

    1883–1970 · aged 86

    July 31 · 1883

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  113. Elsa Maxwell

    actor, socialite

    1883–1963 · aged 80

    May 24 · 1883

    Source: FemBio database

  114. Michele Bianchi

    politician, journalist

    1883–1930 · aged 46

    July 22 · 1883

    No external source identified

  115. Gino Severini

    graphic artist, architectural drafter

    1883–1966

    April 7 · 1883

    Source: workwithdata.com

  116. Ralph Morgan

    film actor, stage actor

    1883–1956 · aged 72

    July 6 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  117. Henk Sneevliet

    trade unionist, communist

    1883–1942 · aged 58

    May 13 · 1883

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  118. Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia

    Herrenmeister, major general

    1883–1942 · aged 59

    July 7 · 1883

    Source: The Peerage

  119. Paul Iribe

    opinion journalist, fashion illustrator

    1883–1935 · aged 52

    June 8 · 1883

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  120. Ludwig Müller

    Protestant theologian, pastor

    1883–1945 · aged 62

    June 23 · 1883

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  121. Robert L. Ghormley

    military officer, naval officer

    1883–1958 · aged 74

    October 15 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  122. Prince Konrad of Bavaria

    politician, military officer

    1883–1969 · aged 85

    November 22 · 1883

    Source: The Peerage

  123. A. S. Neill

    philosopher, non-fiction writer

    1883–1973 · aged 89

    October 17 · 1883

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  124. Nina Ricci

    grand couturier, fashion designer

    1883–1970 · aged 87

    January 14 · 1883

    Source: Léonore database

  125. Olga Kameneva

    salonnière

    1883–1941

    1883

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  126. Alfredo Casella

    musicologist, composer

    1883–1947 · aged 63

    July 25 · 1883

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  127. Drastamat Kanayan

    politician, revolutionary

    1883–1956 · aged 72

    May 13 · 1883

    Source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

  128. Eurico Gaspar Dutra

    military personnel, politician

    1883–1974 · aged 91

    May 18 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  129. Frederick Barrett

    fireman

    1883–1931 · aged 48

    January 10 · 1883

    Source: Encyclopedia Titanica

  130. Fyodor Sergeyev

    politician, statesperson

    1883–1921 · aged 38

    March 19 · 1883

    No external source identified

  131. Mary Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone

    aristocrat

    1883–1961 · aged 77

    August 30 · 1883

    Source: The Peerage

  132. Hubert Pierlot

    politician, lawyer

    1883–1963 · aged 79

    December 23 · 1883

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  133. Paul Levi

    politician, lawyer

    1883–1930 · aged 46

    March 11 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  134. Josephine Hopper

    painter, model

    1883–1968 · aged 84

    March 18 · 1883

    Source: SNAC

  135. Indalecio Prieto

    trade unionist, foreign minister

    1883–1962

    April 30 · 1883

    Source: congreso.es

  136. Louis Massignon

    scientist, orientalist

    1883–1962 · aged 79

    July 25 · 1883

    Source: La France savante

  137. Naftaly Frenkel

    engineer, lieutenant general

    1883–1960

    1883

    Source: Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands

  138. Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro

    1883–1973 · aged 89

    December 3 · 1883

    Source: The Peerage

  139. Maude Fealy

    film actor, actor

    1883–1971 · aged 88

    March 4 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  140. Döme Sztójay

    spy, politician

    1883–1946 · aged 63

    January 5 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  141. Nikolai Krestinsky

    revolutionary, lawyer

    1883–1938 · aged 54

    October 25 · 1883

    No external source identified

  142. Eleazar López Contreras

    military personnel, politician

    1883–1973 · aged 89

    May 5 · 1883

    Source: Find a Grave

  143. Nikolaos Plastiras

    politician, military personnel

    1883–1953 · aged 69

    November 4 · 1883

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  144. Karl von Terzaghi

    inventor, geologist

    1883–1963 · aged 80

    October 2 · 1883

    Source: BnF authorities

  145. Chen Yi

    military personnel, politician

    1883–1950 · aged 67

    May 3 · 1883

    No external source identified

  146. Edith Clarke

    university teacher, engineer

    1883–1959 · aged 76

    February 10 · 1883

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

  147. Hans Georg von Mackensen

    politician, diplomat

    1883–1947 · aged 64

    January 26 · 1883

    No external source identified

  148. Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz

    military personnel

    1883–1940 · aged 57

    February 22 · 1883

    No external source identified

  149. Vladimir Kappel*

    military personnel

    Date disputed

    April 15 · 1883

    Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia

  150. Topal Osman

    military officer

    1883–1923

    1883

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

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