ON THIS DAY
Born in 1885
747 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- George S. Patton
swimmer, military personnel
- Niels Bohr
philosopher of science, chemist
- Princess Alice of Battenberg
charity worker, nurse
- Ezra Pound
literary historian, translator
- Julius Streicher
publisher, journalist
- D. H. Lawrence
literary critic, playwright
- Chester W. Nimitz
soldier, naval officer
- Karen Blixen
writer, short story writer
- Albert Kesselring
military officer, aircraft pilot
- Clementine Churchill
politician
- Theda Bara
stage actor, film actor
- Alice Paul
suffragette, jurist
- Hugo Boss
entrepreneur, fashion designer
- Hedda Hopper
journalist, radio personality
- Tomoyuki Yamashita
military officer
- Wallace Beery
film actor, director
- Yakov Sverdlov
revolutionary, politician
- Ekaterina Svanidze
seamster
- Will Durant
historian, writer
- Erich von Stroheim
film actor, screenwriter
- Giacomo Matteotti
politician
- Georg Lukács
politician, literary scholar
- Bess Truman
politician
- John Curtin
head of government, Australian rules football player
- Georg Wilhelm Pabst
theatre director, actor
- Heinrich Brüning
university teacher, economist
- Jerome Kern
musician, coin collecting
- Hermann Hoth
memoirist, soldier
- Mikhail Frunze
military personnel, diplomat
- Alois Hudal
Catholic bishop, university teacher
- Hermann Weyl
mathematician, philosopher
- Louise Bryant
suffragette, journalist
- Karl Radek
politician, communist
- Ernst Bloch
university teacher, philosopher
- Karen Horney
psychiatrist, psychotherapist
- Frank Jack Fletcher
military officer
- Hugo Sperrle
air force officer
- John Edensor Littlewood
university teacher, mathematician
- François Mauriac
novelist, biographer
- Ben Chifley
politician, head of government
- Sydney Chaplin
film actor, actor
- John R. Brinkley
charlatan, politician
- Robert Delaunay
theatre designer, designer
- Christian Wirth
military officer, torturer
- Sonia Delaunay
fashion designer, painter
- Duncan Grant
painter, artist
- St John Philby
historian, scientific collector
- Otto Klemperer
composer, conductor
- Malcolm Campbell
journalist, racing automobile driver
- Alexander Löhr
military officer
- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
politician
- Lionel Atwill
actor, character actor
- Franz Böhme
soldier, military officer
- Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy
military officer, politician
- Otto Kruger
film actor, stage actor
- Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
diplomat, military officer
- Khải Định
monarch
- Seishirō Itagaki
politician, military personnel
- Sacha Guitry
film director, author
- Ernst Busch
military officer, military personnel
- Soemu Toyoda
military officer
- Richmond K. Turner
military officer
- George de Hevesy
university teacher, chemist
- Alain LeRoy Locke
writer, art historian
- Nikolai Krylenko
politician, mountaineer
- Per Albin Hansson
politician
- Ring Lardner
novelist, reporter
- André Maurois
novelist, philosopher
- Aristides de Sousa Mendes
lawyer, writer
- Phog Allen
baseball player, physician
- Jovita Idár
activist, journalist
- Umberto Nobile
airship pilot, military flight engineer
- Percy Hobart
army officer, military engineer
- Harry Benjamin
physician, endocrinologist
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
art theorist, poet
- Sisavang Vong
politician
- Romano Guardini
philosopher, philosopher of religion
- Mineichi Koga
military officer
- Anna Louise Strong
writer, trade unionist
- Vladimir Tatlin
printmaker, collagist
- Luigi Russolo
music theorist, painter
- Harlow Shapley
meteorologist, astronomer
- Agustín Pío Barrios
classical guitarist, guitarist
- Viktor Schauberger
engineer, inventor
- Frank Hurley
director, war photographer
- Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
diplomat, politician
- Mae Murray
film actor, stage actor
- DuBose Heyward
librettist, screenwriter
- Master Tara Singh
freedom fighter, politician
- George Cleveland
actor, television actor
- Velimir Khlebnikov
librettist, draftsperson
- Adela Pankhurst
suffragette, suffragist
- Harry Elkins Widener
bibliophile
- Frank Knight
sociologist, university teacher
- Walther Schwieger
military personnel, submariner
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge
film actor, actor
- Alexandros Koryzis
banker, politician
- George Butterworth
musicologist, composer
- Dora Pejačević
violinist, pianist
- Egon Erwin Kisch
actor, journalist
- Gustav Schröder
military personnel, sailor
- Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
pathologist, neurologist
- A. J. Muste
activist, parson
- Roy Geiger
military officer
- Thomas Ashe
politician
- Sun Chuanfang
politician, military advisor
- Pierre Renoir
actor, stage actor
- Jules Pascin
printmaker, painter
- Allan Dwan
film director, film producer
- Constantin Sănătescu
soldier, politician
- Lawren Harris
painter
- Deems Taylor
radio personality, film score composer
- Georges Mandel
art collector, journalist
- Betsie ten Boom
resistance fighter
- Arnaldo Mussolini
journalist, politician
- Milton Avery
painter, illustrator
- Makbule Atadan
politician, writer
- Ma Zhanshan
military officer
- Camille Chautemps
politician
- Dorothea Mackellar
writer, poet
- Sigrid Hjertén
textile artist, artist
- Roland West
film director, director
- Jan Czochralski
inventor, chemist
- John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey
admiral, politician
- Edward Lasker
non-fiction writer, chess player
- Esther Dale
film actor, stage actor
- Nils von Kantzow
military personnel, artistic gymnast
- Herbert Stothart
bandleader, musician
- Harry Ricardo
engineer
- Blas Infante
writer, journalist
- Clare Frewen Sheridan
sculptor, journalist
- Karl Behr
tennis player, lawyer
- Li Jishen
politician