ON THIS DAY
Born in 1887
838 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
mathematician, accountant
- Chiang Kai-shek
politician, military personnel
- Bernard Montgomery
military officer, politician
- Charles I of Austria
politician, military officer
- Erwin Schrödinger
theoretical physicist, physicist
- Ernst Röhm
politician, minister
- Georgia O'Keeffe
draftsperson, painter
- Padre Pio
regular priest, Catholic priest
- Le Corbusier
painter, designer
- Boris Karloff
voice actor, actor
- Marcus Garvey
sociologist, journalist
- Conrad Hilton
hotel owner, politician
- Vidkun Quisling
politician, wartime collaborator
- Erich von Manstein
general field marshal, military leader
- Marcel Duchamp
chess player, architectural drafter
- Roscoe Arbuckle
actor, film actor
- Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
writer, politician
- Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg
benefactor
- Marjorie Merriweather Post
philanthropist, entrepreneur
- Alvin York
diarist, military personnel
- Shoeless Joe Jackson
baseball player
- William Frawley
singer, stage actor
- Felix Yusupov
opinion journalist, patron of the arts
- Chico Marx
stage actor, film actor
- Arthur Rubinstein
recording artist, composer
- Alan Lascelles
courtier, politician
- John Reed
poet, writer
- Chūichi Nagumo
naval officer
- L. S. Lowry
printmaker, graphic artist
- Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
economist, politician
- Rupert Brooke
writer, poet
- Jozef Tiso
Catholic priest, diarist
- Yasuhiko Asaka
military personnel, politician
- Avery Brundage
modern pentathlete, athletics competitor
- Julian Huxley
philosopher, biologist
- Naruhiko Higashikuni
politician, military personnel
- Walter Johnson
baseball player, politician
- Nadia Boulanger
organist, pianist
- M. N. Roy
writer, freedom fighter
- Edith Sitwell
biographer, essayist
- Frederick Fleet
paperboy, sailor
- Florence Price
musician, classical pianist
- Aldo Leopold
university teacher, writer
- Sivananda Saraswati
yoga, writer
- Dagmar Overby
laborer, serial killer
- Arthur Percival
military personnel
- Henry Moseley
physicist, chemist
- Alf Landon
politician, businessperson
- Jack Phillips
radio operator
- Nikolai Vavilov
botanist, geographer
- Sam Warner
film producer, businessperson
- Raoul Walsh
film actor, producer
- Hans Oster
resistance fighter, major general
- Reginald Owen
film actor, screenwriter
- Denys Finch Hatton
hunter, aircraft pilot
- Benegal Narsing Rau
politician, beamter
- Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
politician, military personnel
- Joseph Plunkett
poet, politician
- Masaharu Homma
military personnel
- Harry F. Byrd
publisher, farmer
- Ruth Benedict
anthropologist, sociologist
- Barnes Wallis
inventor, military flight engineer
- Violet Bonham Carter
diarist, politician
- Kurt Schwitters
writer, collagist
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
musicologist, cellist
- George Pólya
mathematician, university teacher
- Alexander Vandegrift
military commander, military officer
- Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
politician, military commander
- Govind Ballabh Pant
politician, freedom fighter
- Juan Gris
painter, architectural drafter
- Joel Teitelbaum
rabbi
- Courtney Hodges
army officer
- Grover Cleveland Alexander
baseball player
- Marc Mitscher
military officer, aircraft pilot
- Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal
politician
- Marianne Moore
translator, essayist
- Sukumar Ray
short story writer, poet
- Edward Leedskalnin
architect, sculptor
- Georg Trakl
poet, pharmacist
- Louis Jouvet
theatre manager, film director
- Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
politician
- Mamoru Shigemitsu
politician, diplomat
- Korechika Anami
military officer, politician
- August Macke
painter, draftsperson
- Mitsuru Ushijima
military personnel
- Sylvia Beach
nurse, autobiographer
- Tetsu Katayama
lawyer, politician
- Paul Wittgenstein
music educator, art collector
- Robinson Jeffers
peace activist, writer
- Heinrich von Vietinghoff
soldier, military personnel
- Saint-John Perse
writer, translator
- James Paul Moody
sailor
- Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
activist, journalist
- Simko
politician, traditional leader or chief
- Geoffrey Fisher
archbishop, politician
- Roland Young
stage actor, film actor
- Vincent Massey
jurist, diplomat
- Wilhelm Kube
politician, soldier
- Jacob L. Devers
basketball coach, soldier
- Giovanni Gronchi
politician
- Alan Cunningham
military officer, soldier
- Lynn Fontanne
film actor, actor
- Jamini Roy
painter
- Simon Kimbangu
preacher, religious leader
- Jimmy Finlayson
stage actor, film actor
- Blaise Cendrars
designer, poet
- George Abbott
film producer, film director
- Eddie Collins
baseball player
- Alfieri Maserati
racing automobile driver, racing driver
- Wolfgang Köhler
director, psychologist
- Georg-Hans Reinhardt
military personnel, soldier
- Alexander Woollcott
literary critic, writer
- Prince George of Yugoslavia
military officer
- Samuel Eliot Morison
military officer, author
- John Hamilton
film producer, stage actor
- Vasily Chapayev
military leader
- Savielly Tartakower
non-fiction writer, journalist
- Georges Vézina
ice hockey player
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz
university teacher, physicist
- Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg
military officer
- Monte Blue
actor, stage actor
- Alfred Lee Loomis
physicist, lawyer
- Antonio Moreno
film actor, actor
- Leonard Bloomfield
pedagogue, linguist
- Hugh Dalton
politician, economist
- Harald Bohr
university teacher, mathematician
- Shizuichi Tanaka
military personnel
- Alexander Archipenko
graphic designer, sculptor
- Josef Čapek
exlibrist, writer
- Erich Mendelsohn
architect, photographer
- Harry Boland
politician
- Leopold Ružička
university teacher, chemist
- Tim Moore
actor, stage actor
- Hitoshi Ashida
diplomat, writer
- Sigmund Romberg
screenwriter, composer