ON THIS DAY
Born in 1884
779 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Harry S. Truman
captain, diarist
- Eleanor Roosevelt
politician, journalist
- Hideki Tojo
diplomat, politician
- Isoroku Yamamoto
military officer, admiral
- Rajendra Prasad
teacher, lawyer
- Amedeo Modigliani
painter, draftsperson
- Leo Frank
engineer, merchant
- Billie Burke
television actor, radio personality
- Alice Lee Roosevelt
writer, socialite
- Louis B. Mayer
screenwriter, film producer
- Evelyn Nesbit
actor, stage actor
- Anton Drexler
politician
- İsmet İnönü
military officer, statesperson
- Franz Halder
soldier, Generaloberst
- Edvard Beneš
teacher, lecturer
- Frank Hamer
politician
- Édouard Daladier
politician
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
science fiction writer, opinion journalist
- Claude Auchinleck
military officer
- Bronisław Malinowski
university teacher, ethnographer
- Emil Jannings
film producer, film director
- Theodor Heuss
politician, opinion journalist
- Walter von Reichenau
general field marshal, military officer
- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
historian, writer
- Nora Barnacle
writer
- Hugo Gernsback
editor, novelist
- Max Brod
journalist, opinion journalist
- Vincent Auriol
French resistance fighter, head of government
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
politician, mayor
- Gerald Gardner
colonial administrator, archaeologist
- Hermann Rorschach
ethnologist, psychoanalyst
- Auguste Piccard
balloonist, inventor
- Zinaida Serebryakova
artist, painter
- Gaston Bachelard
poet, university teacher
- Jamnalal Bajaj
politician, freedom fighter
- Otto Rank
psychoanalyst, existential therapist
- Arthur Ransome
writer, literary critic
- Oscar Micheaux
film director, writer
- Tommy Gagliano
crime boss
- Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV
author
- Maria Spiridonova
politician, revolutionary
- Joseph Boxhall
sailor
- Edward Sapir
anthropologist, ethnologist
- Sara Teasdale
writer, poet
- Lion Feuchtwanger
journalist, translator
- Prince Adalbert of Prussia
Marineoffizier, politician
- Alexander Bustamante
dietitian, politician
- Walter Duranty
journalist
- John S. McCain, Sr.
military officer, admiral
- Joseph Sweeney
television actor, film actor
- Norman Thomas
socialist, pacifist
- Peter Debye
university teacher, plasma physicist
- Hugo Schmeisser
inventor
- Rudolf Bultmann
philosopher, theologian
- Leon Schlesinger
television producer, actor
- Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland
film screenwriter, writer
- Hugh Walpole
novelist, writer
- Princess Jelena of Yugoslavia
aristocrat
- Thomas Blamey
military personnel
- Petru Groza
politician, banker
- Yasuji Okamura
military personnel
- Roy Chapman Andrews
botanical collector, zoologist
- Sig Ruman
film actor
- Rómulo Gallegos
novelist, writer
- Robert J. Flaherty
camera operator, cartographer
- Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter
politician, diplomat
- Maxwell Perkins
publisher, literary editor
- Anna Vyrubova
pianist, lady-in-waiting
- William Seabrook
occultist, writer
- Werner Krauss
stage actor, radio drama
- Texas Guinan
film actor, actor
- Corrado Gini
statistician, economist
- Casimir Funk
opinion journalist, biochemist
- Harrison Ford
stage actor, actor
- Isaac C. Kidd
military officer
- Halide Edib Adıvar
university teacher, novelist
- Don Stephen Senanayake
politician, diplomat
- Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
socialite, bridge player
- Karl Strecker
military personnel, soldier
- Har Dayal
Indologist, politician
- Étienne Gilson
philosophy historian, historian
- Alma Gluck
singer, musician
- Earl Derr Biggers
playwright, journalist
- Dilly Knox
papyrologist, philologist
- Mikhail Borodin
diplomat, journalist
- Molla Mallory
tennis player
- John McCormack
opera singer
- Tanzan Ishibashi
journalist, politician
- Harry Ferguson
entrepreneur, mechanic
- Long Yun
politician
- Solomon Lefschetz
topologist, mathematician
- Jean Cadell
film actor, actor
- Katie Sandwina
strength athlete, circus performer
- Alfred Carlton Gilbert
athletics competitor, magician
- Charles Winninger
stage actor, actor
- Joseph William Martin Jr.
politician, reporter
- Abraham Grace Merritt
writer, journalist
- Alexandra Tolstaya
writer
- Harry Langdon
actor, comedian
- Félix Éboué
politician
- Józef Unrug
submariner, military officer
- Arthur Vandenberg
politician, author
- Manny Shinwell
trade unionist, politician
- Isaak Brodsky
visual artist, photographer
- Frank Foley
diplomat, military officer
- George Sylvester Viereck
journalist, poet
- Chief Bender
baseball player-manager, athlete
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
writer, novelist
- Burrill Bernard Crohn
gastroenterologist
- Frank Maxwell Andrews
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Mahammad Amin Rasulzade
writer, translator
- George Sarton
historian, history of medicine
- Ferdinand von Bredow
major general, politician
- George David Birkhoff
mathematician, university teacher
- Jean Paulhan
writer, literary critic
- Antonín Zápotocký
trade unionist, Kapo
- Mary Nash
actor, stage actor
- Panait Istrati
writer, novelist
- Nikifor Grigoriev
military officer
- Georg Lindemann
military personnel, military officer
- Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria
aristocrat, politician
- Alexander Belyayev
reporter, jurist
- Andrei Bubnov
military personnel, opinion journalist
- James Elroy Flecker
translator, diplomat
- Johan Laidoner
national hero, politician
- Alice Milliat
rower, translator
- Adna R. Chaffee Jr.
military officer
- Wilhelm Brückner
military personnel, politician
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
artist, designer
- Pedro Pablo Ramírez
politician, military personnel
- Jean Decoux
naval officer, politician
- Félix Gouin
politician, lawyer
- Agus Salim
journalist, diplomat
- Béla Balázs
composer, film scholar
- Frank Hagney
actor, film actor
- Alfons Maria Jakob
neuroscientist, university teacher
- Cyclone Taylor
ice hockey player, politician
- Lew Cody
film screenwriter, screenwriter
- Iemasa Tokugawa
diplomat, politician
- Stanley Forman Reed
jurist, judge