ON THIS DAY
Born in 1888
846 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- T. E. Lawrence
diplomat, aircraft pilot
- T. S. Eliot
short story writer, poet
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
banker, film producer
- Jim Thorpe
screenwriter, basketball player
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
physicist, university teacher
- Eugene O'Neill
screenwriter, writer
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
diplomat, politician
- Heinz Guderian
Generaloberst, military officer
- Irving Berlin
film screenwriter, musician
- Raymond Chandler
screenwriter, crime fiction writer
- Henry A. Wallace
horticulturist, writer
- Dale Carnegie
biographer, writer
- Carl Schmitt
politician, jurist
- Robert Moses
urban planner, independent politician
- Abul Kalam Azad
journal editor, motivational speaker
- Nikolai Bukharin
journalist, writer
- Richard E. Byrd
explorer, admiral
- Harpo Marx
stage actor, television actor
- Nestor Makhno
anarchist, military personnel
- John Foster Dulles
chairperson, trustee
- Fernando Pessoa
writer, publisher
- Alexander I of Yugoslavia
monarch
- John Logie Baird
writer, inventor
- Harilal Gandhi
politician
- José Raúl Capablanca
chess player, non-fiction writer
- Katherine Mansfield
writer, poet
- Maurice Chevalier
film actor, lyricist
- Beulah Bondi
television actor, stage actor
- Friedrich Fromm
resistance fighter, military personnel
- Giorgio de Chirico
illustrator, writer
- F. W. Murnau
director, screenwriter
- Roland Garros
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Gladys Cooper
stage actor, theatre manager
- Barry Fitzgerald
film actor, stage actor
- Friedrich Olbricht
military officer, resistance fighter
- Royal Rife
scientist
- Knute Rockne
head coach, coach
- Grey Owl
hunter, environmentalist
- Mary Ajami
journalist, poet
- Herbert Morrison
politician
- Vincent Mangano
criminal
- August Kubizek
composer, painter
- Josef Albers
glass artist, printmaker
- Max Steiner
musician, screenwriter
- Jean Monnet
French resistance fighter, politician
- Thea von Harbou
stage actor, screenwriter
- Edith Evans
actor, stage actor
- Terry de la Mesa Allen
polo player, major general
- Monty Woolley
actor, television actor
- Georgios Papandreou
economist, politician
- Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach
soldier, military personnel
- Andrei Tupolev
military flight engineer, engineer
- Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark
aristocrat
- Willis Augustus Lee
admiral, sport shooter
- Wellington Koo
ambassador, judge
- Anita Loos
film actor, autobiographer
- Prince Oskar of Prussia
military personnel, soldier
- Alexander Friedmann
physicist, meteorologist
- J. B. Kripalani
politician, lawyer
- Zhang Jingsheng
sexologist, academic
- Aurora Quezon
nurse, politician
- Tris Speaker
baseball player
- Anukulchandra Chakraborty
physician
- Nuri as-Said
politician, military personnel
- Ronald Knox
writer, theologian
- Isaac HaLevy Herzog
rabbi
- Tôn Đức Thắng
politician
- Cathleen Nesbitt
stage actor, actor
- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
teacher, yogi
- Inayatullah Khan
monarch
- Inge Lehmann
surveyor, naturalist
- Georges Bernanos
librettist, essayist
- Kaoru Otsuki
politician
- Otto Stern
chemist, university teacher
- Prince Axel of Denmark
naval officer, businessperson
- Thomas Cassin Kinkaid
military officer
- Alphonse Juin
military officer, politician
- Jack Holt
actor, film actor
- John Garand
inventor, engineer
- Emanuel Celler
politician, lawyer
- Porter Hall
actor, film actor
- Selman Abraham Waksman
biochemist, inventor
- Gerrit Rietveld
architect, furniture designer
- Asaf Ali
lawyer, politician
- Frances Marion
actor, novelist
- Doris Stevens
social worker, sociologist
- Fritz Klein
military physician, concentration camp guard
- W. O. Bentley
racing automobile driver, entrepreneur
- José Eustacio Rivera
jurist, lawyer
- Richard Courant
university teacher, mathematician
- Du Yuesheng
gangster, businessperson
- Harry Crerar
diplomat, soldier
- Ramesh Chandra Majumdar
historian, university teacher
- Giuseppe Ungaretti
journalist, translator
- Johannes Itten
architect, writer
- Anna Q. Nilsson
actor, film actor
- Maxwell Anderson
teacher, lyricist
- Milan Stojadinović
university teacher, jurist
- Vladimir K. Zworykin
inventor, electrical engineer
- Hamilton Fish III
writer, opinion journalist
- Will Hay
screenwriter, stand-up comedian
- Vicki Baum
journalist, screenwriter
- S. S. Van Dine
art critic, critic
- Horace Pippin
painter, military personnel
- Miles Malleson
actor, film actor
- Harukichi Hyakutake
military personnel
- Anton Makarenko
pedagogical writer, teacher
- Herms Niel
actor, conductor
- Nikolai Shvernik
trade unionist, politician
- Mae Dahlberg
film actor, actor
- Renya Mutaguchi
military personnel
- Elizabeth Shoumatoff
painter
- Valerian Kuybyshev
military personnel, politician
- Oskar Schlemmer
designer, painter
- Alan Seeger
poet, military personnel
- Toni Wolff
psychologist, psychoanalyst
- Frits Zernike
inventor, chemist
- William H. Simpson
military officer
- Chōjun Miyagi
karateka
- Ralph Owen Brewster
head teacher, politician
- Saifuddin Kitchlew
politician, freedom fighter
- Tom Phillips
military officer
- Prafulla Chaki
revolutionary
- Percy Kilbride
television actor, actor
- Ernst Heinkel
military flight engineer, physicist
- Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape
politician, military personnel
- Hubert Wilkins
aircraft pilot, polar explorer
- Florence Bates
lawyer, television actor
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää
poet, novelist
- Grigori Sokolnikov
economist, politician
- Paul Morand
playwright, screenwriter
- Clara Campoamor
feminist, translator
- Francesco Baracca
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Leonard T. Gerow
military personnel
- Antoinette Perry
theatre manager, theatre director
- Henrik Kauffmann
diplomat, politician
- Bodewin Keitel
lieutenant general
- Heitarō Kimura
military personnel
- Gunichi Mikawa
military personnel
- Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch
military officer
- James Farley
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Eduard Pernkopf
anatomist, university teacher
- J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank
film producer, politician
- Antonio Sant'Elia
composer, architect
- Paul Cavanagh
television actor, actor
- Ossip Zadkine
university teacher, sculptor
- Heinrich Neuhaus
musician, musicologist
- Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
soldier, captain
- Miles Mander
director, screenwriter