ON THIS DAY
Born in 1886
869 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- David Ben-Gurion
trade unionist, politician
- Alfonso XIII
sovereign
- Diego Rivera
muralist, draftsperson
- George Mallory
explorer, mountaineer
- Ty Cobb
baseball player
- Al Jolson
film actor, comedian
- Rose Wilder Lane
novelist, children's writer
- Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
politician, military officer
- Siegfried Sassoon
military personnel, writer
- Salvatore Maranzano
criminal
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
designer, teacher
- Ed Wynn
showman, television actor
- Ernst Thälmann
laborer, revolutionary
- Rash Behari Bose
freedom fighter, revolutionary
- Frank Nitti
criminal
- Ma Rainey
blues singer, singer
- Sergei Kirov
politician
- Joe Masseria
crime boss, criminal
- Asaf Jah VII of Hyderabad
ruler, politician
- René Guénon
metaphysician, writer
- Karl Barth
theologian, cleric
- Michael Curtiz
film screenwriter, film producer
- Raymond A. Spruance
naval officer, diplomat
- Henry H. Arnold
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Victor McLaglen
boxer, military officer
- Marc Bloch
university teacher, lecturer
- Theodor Morell
urologist, politician
- Zhu De
politician
- Francis Biddle
writer, lawyer
- Gotthard Heinrici
military personnel, military officer
- Paul Tillich
theologian, university teacher
- Béla Kun
author, reserve officer
- Robert Schuman
politician, diplomat
- Hugo Black
politician, military personnel
- Oskar Kokoschka
painter, designer
- Princess Patricia of Connaught
art collector, aristocrat
- Leo G. Carroll
stage actor, television actor
- Spring Byington
film actor, stage actor
- Karl Polanyi
sociologist, university teacher
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
screenwriter, novelist
- Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
soldier, military personnel
- Shūmei Ōkawa
linguist, journalist
- Peter Freuchen
explorer, anthropologist
- Inez Milholland
jurist, lawyer
- Edward Everett Horton
television actor, film actor
- Sophie Tucker
television actor, stage actor
- Jean Arp
graphic artist, writer
- Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
writer, crown prince
- Vittorio Pozzo
association football coach, association football player
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
composer, chapelmaster
- H.D.
autobiographer, poet
- John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
military officer, politician
- Jean Hersholt
film director, translator
- Margaret Woodrow Wilson
writer, singer
- Olaf Stapledon
paramedic, philosopher
- Sergo Ordzhonikidze
politician, metallurgist
- Florence Lawrence
film actor, patent inventor
- Dooley Wilson
actor, singer
- Austin Osman Spare
writer, war artist
- Edward Weston
diarist, photographer
- Erich Hoepner
military officer, resistance fighter
- Charles Ruggles
stage actor, musician
- Rex Stout
radio personality, crime fiction writer
- Clarence Birdseye
biologist, businessperson
- Charles Williams
screenwriter, writer
- Harold Nicolson
diarist, writer
- Janko Polić Kamov
poet, writer
- Kurt Hahn
teacher, head teacher
- Hitoshi Imamura
military personnel
- Joyce Kilmer
writer, poet
- I. Athenagoras
patriarch, Eastern Orthodox priest
- Muthulakshmi Reddy
politician, surgeon
- Jan Masaryk
foreign minister, translator
- Hugo Ball
philosopher, poet
- Fred Quimby
film producer, animator
- Jisaburō Ozawa
military personnel
- Annette Kellermann
swimmer, film actor
- Aaron Nimzovich
chess theoretician, chess composer
- Radhabinod Pal
university teacher, jurist
- Zoë Akins
writer, screenwriter
- Felix Manalo
religious leader, evangelist
- Minnie Vautrin
educator, diarist
- Willem Drees
autobiographer, stenographer
- Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
soldier, resistance fighter
- Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg
military personnel, lieutenant general
- Kim Tu-bong
politician, linguist
- Wilhelm Hintersatz
poet, military personnel
- Tsuguharu Foujita
illustrator, printmaker
- Henri Coandă
physicist, aircraft pilot
- Taimur bin Faisal Al Said
politician
- Garegin Nzhdeh
writer, fedayeen
- Nobutake Kondō
military personnel
- José Abad Santos
politician, judge
- Henry King
screenwriter, poet
- Edward Rydz-Śmigły
painter, poet
- Karl von Frisch
entomologist, ethologist
- Gus Kahn
film score composer, songwriter
- Edward J. Flanagan
Catholic priest, social pedagogue
- Hugh Lofting
illustrator, children's writer
- Hermann Broch
writer, prose writer
- Erich Fellgiebel
resistance fighter, military officer
- Ali Sami Yen
association football coach, association football player
- Prince John Constantinovich of Russia
military personnel, politician
- Hiroshi Ōshima
diplomat, politician
- Giovanni Battista Caproni
aircraft pilot, aerospace engineer
- Richard Mulcahy
politician
- Frank Lloyd
film director, screenwriter
- John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever
cricketer, tennis player
- Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
sociologist, politician
- Clementine Hunter
artist, painter
- Alain-Fournier
writer, novelist
- Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Owen Moore
actor, silent film actor
- Mohammed Ben Aarafa
politician
- George Zucco
film actor, actor
- Nikolay Gumilev
explorer, military officer
- Ouida Bergère
screenwriter, film actor
- Gyula Gömbös
diplomat, politician
- Georg Stumme
military personnel
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
politician, university teacher
- Bruce Fairchild Barton
writer, legislator
- Dong Biwu
politician
- Çerkez Ethem
politician, military personnel
- Dick Elliott
actor, television actor
- Robert L. Eichelberger
military personnel
- Georgios Tsolakoglou
military personnel, politician
- Gottfried Benn
author, poet
- Franz Josef Popp
designer, entrepreneur
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
polar explorer, zoologist
- Sam McDaniel
actor, television actor
- Rebecca Clarke
composer, musicologist
- Sholem Schwarzbard
anarchist, ensurance agent
- Willis H. O'Brien
animator, film director
- Tarsila do Amaral
painter, sculptor
- Franz Rosenzweig
philosopher, historian
- Kid Ory
jazz musician, musician
- Maithili Sharan Gupt
politician, writer
- Diamond Jenness
anthropologist, ethnologist
- Emmet Fox
pastor
- Archibald Hill
mathematician, physiologist
- Olin Howland
film actor, stage actor
- Glenn L. Martin
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Karl Korsch
politician, essayist
- Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
military officer, submariner
- Lyuh Woon-hyung
politician
- Bertha Krupp
entrepreneur
- Kay Rasmus Nielsen
graphic artist, painter
- Raoul Hausmann
visual artist, writer