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Born in 1888

846 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Carlo Bergamini

    military officer

    1888–1943 · aged 54

    October 24 · 1888

    Source: TracesOfWar

  2. Aritomo Gotō

    military personnel

    1888–1942 · aged 54

    January 23 · 1888

    Source: TracesOfWar

  3. Ali Abdel Raziq

    writer, lawyer

    1888–1966

    1888

    Source: Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers (1996 ed.)

  4. Bob Glendenning

    association football player, association football coach

    1888–1940 · aged 52

    June 6 · 1888

    No external source identified

  5. Kʻakʻucʻa Čʻoloqašvili

    politician, military personnel

    1888–1930

    July 14 · 1888

    Source: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia

  6. Fatma Seher Erden

    soldier, military personnel

    1888–1955

    1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  7. Louis Durey

    composer, music critic

    1888–1979 · aged 91

    May 27 · 1888

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  8. Jameson Thomas

    actor, film actor

    1888–1939 · aged 50

    March 24 · 1888

    Source: filmportal.de

  9. Claud Allister

    stage actor, film actor

    1888–1970 · aged 81

    October 3 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  10. Lucile Gleason

    stage actor, actor

    1888–1947 · aged 59

    February 6 · 1888

    Source: IMDb

  11. Stuart Chase

    economist, writer

    1888–1985

    March 8 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  12. Alexander Chayanov

    writer, anthropologist

    1888–1937 · aged 49

    January 29 · 1888

    Source: Russian literature of the 20th century. Volume 3, 2005

  13. J. Melville Broughton

    politician, lawyer

    1888–1949 · aged 60

    November 17 · 1888

    Source: NCpedia

  14. Duke Franz Joseph in Bavaria

    politician

    1888–1912 · aged 24

    March 23 · 1888

    Source: The Peerage

  15. Donald Calthrop

    film actor, actor

    1888–1940 · aged 52

    April 11 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  16. Nils von Dardel

    painter, artist

    1888–1943 · aged 54

    October 25 · 1888

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  17. Izzat Darwaza*

    politician, intellectual

    Date disputed

    June 21 · 1888

    No external source identified

  18. John Francis O'Hara*

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    Date disputed

    May 1 · 1888

    Source: webdept.fiu.edu

  19. Almira Sessions

    stage actor, actor

    1888–1974 · aged 85

    September 16 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  20. Chana Orloff

    art collector, sculptor

    1888–1968 · aged 80

    June 25 · 1888

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  21. Frank Johnston

    painter

    1888–1949 · aged 61

    June 19 · 1888

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  22. Elsa Brändström

    nurse scientist, teacher

    1888–1948 · aged 59

    March 26 · 1888

    Source: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon

  23. Gustavo Barroso

    diplomat, lawyer

    1888–1959 · aged 70

    December 29 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  24. Conn Colbert

    politician

    1888–1916 · aged 27

    October 19 · 1888

    Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography

  25. Sophus Nielsen*

    association football referee, association football coach

    Date disputed

    March 15 · 1888

    No external source identified

  26. Gerhard Kittel

    politician, New Testament scholar

    1888–1948 · aged 59

    September 23 · 1888

    Source: Babelio

  27. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

    philosopher, university teacher

    1888–1973 · aged 84

    July 6 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  28. George B. Seitz

    screenwriter, playwright

    1888–1944 · aged 56

    January 3 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  29. Christa Winsloe

    film screenwriter, playwright

    1888–1944 · aged 55

    December 23 · 1888

    Source: Verbrannt, verboten, vergessen

  30. Dan Andersson

    translator, charcoal burner

    1888–1920 · aged 32

    April 6 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  31. Eduardo Santos

    lawyer, journalist

    1888–1974

    August 28 · 1888

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  32. Taha al-Hashimi

    politician, political commissar

    1888–1961

    1888

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  33. Jean Murat

    film actor

    1888–1968 · aged 79

    July 13 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  34. Hazel Abel

    politician

    1888–1966 · aged 78

    July 10 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  35. Mārtiņš Lācis

    politician, revolutionary

    1888–1938 · aged 49

    December 16 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  36. Louise Glaum*

    stage actor, actor

    Date disputed

    September 4 · 1888

    Source: IMDb

  37. Pavol Peter Gojdič

    writer, Catholic bishop

    1888–1960 · aged 72

    July 17 · 1888

    Source: Records of persons of interest

  38. William B. Davidson

    actor

    1888–1947 · aged 59

    June 16 · 1888

    No external source identified

  39. Teiichi Suzuki

    military personnel, politician

    1888–1989 · aged 100

    December 16 · 1888

    No external source identified

  40. Basil Dean

    theatre director, playwright

    1888–1978 · aged 89

    September 27 · 1888

    Source: www.acmi.net.au

  41. Kaare Klint

    designer, furniture designer

    1888–1954 · aged 65

    December 15 · 1888

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  42. Eduard Fraenkel

    university teacher, classical philologist

    1888–1970 · aged 81

    March 17 · 1888

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  43. Emanuel Kviring

    civil servant, statesperson

    1888–1937 · aged 49

    September 13 · 1888

    No external source identified

  44. Moses Schönfinkel

    mathematician

    1888–1942

    September 29 · 1888

    Source: writings.stephenwolfram.com

  45. Enno Lolling

    physician

    1888–1945 · aged 56

    July 19 · 1888

    No external source identified

  46. Timothy McCarthy

    explorer, sailor

    1888–1917 · aged 28

    July 15 · 1888

    No external source identified

  47. Henry Beston

    writer, naturalist

    1888–1968 · aged 79

    June 1 · 1888

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  48. Abdallah Khalil

    politician

    1888–1970

    1888

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  49. Josef Beran*

    Catholic priest, theologian

    Date disputed

    December 29 · 1888

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  50. Paul Peter Ewald

    university teacher, scientist

    1888–1985 · aged 97

    January 23 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  51. Derviš Korkut

    librarian, Righteous Among the Nations

    1888–1969 · aged 81

    May 5 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Max Picard

    writer, philosopher

    1888–1965 · aged 77

    June 5 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  53. Edmund Jacobson

    physiologist, physician

    1888–1983 · aged 94

    April 22 · 1888

    Source: archive.org

  54. Joseph Henabery

    screenwriter, film editor

    1888–1976 · aged 88

    January 15 · 1888

    Source: IMDb

  55. Adam Zamenhof

    physician, Esperantist

    1888–1940 · aged 51

    June 11 · 1888

    Source: szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl

  56. Bajazid Doda

    photographer, ethnographer

    1888–1933

    1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  57. Phil Rosen

    cinematographer, screenwriter

    1888–1951 · aged 63

    May 8 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  58. Hanna Ralph

    actor, film actor

    1888–1978 · aged 89

    September 25 · 1888

    Source: filmportal.de

  59. Fred Kohler

    actor

    1888–1938 · aged 50

    April 20 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  60. Robert Woolsey

    film actor

    1888–1938 · aged 50

    August 14 · 1888

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  61. Georgy Oppokov

    politician

    1888–1937 · aged 49

    February 5 · 1888

    Source: Virtual International Authority File

  62. Donduk Kuular

    statesperson, politician

    1888–1932

    1888

    No external source identified

  63. Charles Previn

    composer, film score composer

    1888–1973 · aged 85

    January 11 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  64. Francisco Canaro

    bandleader, musician

    1888–1964 · aged 76

    November 26 · 1888

    Source: todotango.com

  65. Walther Penck

    geologist, geographer

    1888–1923 · aged 35

    August 30 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  66. Erich Rothacker

    historian, psychologist

    1888–1965 · aged 77

    March 12 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. Viktor Kingissepp

    politician, revolutionary

    1888–1922

    March 24 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  68. Gertrude Caton Thompson

    archaeologist, prehistorian

    1888–1985 · aged 97

    February 1 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  69. Ibō Takahashi

    military personnel

    1888–1947 · aged 58

    April 20 · 1888

    Source: TracesOfWar

  70. Henri Bosco

    children's writer, poet

    1888–1976 · aged 87

    November 16 · 1888

    Source: birth certificate

  71. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1888–1977 · aged 88

    November 29 · 1888

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  72. Ernesto Ruffini

    Catholic priest, Catholic theologian

    1888–1967 · aged 79

    January 19 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  73. Wade Boteler

    screenwriter, actor

    1888–1942

    October 3 · 1888

    Source: Discogs

  74. Tadeusz Pruszkowski*

    teacher, university teacher

    Date disputed

    April 15 · 1888

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  75. David Jacobs

    sprinter

    1888–1976 · aged 88

    April 30 · 1888

    No external source identified

  76. Scott Duncan

    association football coach, association football player

    1888–1976 · aged 87

    November 2 · 1888

    No external source identified

  77. Gustaf Molander

    screenwriter, stage actor

    1888–1973 · aged 84

    November 18 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  78. Louis J. Mordell

    university teacher, mathematician

    1888–1972 · aged 84

    January 28 · 1888

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  79. Fritz-Hubert Gräser

    military personnel

    1888–1960 · aged 72

    January 3 · 1888

    No external source identified

  80. Marcel Jouhandeau

    writer

    1888–1979 · aged 90

    July 26 · 1888

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  81. Wilhelm Lenz

    physicist, university teacher

    1888–1957 · aged 69

    February 8 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  82. Lewis Tewanima

    marathon runner, athletics competitor

    1888–1969

    1888

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  83. Margarida Xirgu*

    theatre manager, film actor

    Date disputed

    July 18 · 1888

    Source: margaritaxirgu.es

  84. Carmen Phillips*

    film actor, actor

    Date disputed

    September 15 · 1888

    No external source identified

  85. Jean Bouin*

    long-distance runner, athletics competitor

    Date disputed

    December 20 · 1888

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  86. Kuki Shūzō

    philosopher, poet

    1888–1941 · aged 53

    February 15 · 1888

    Source: Internet Philosophy Ontology project

  87. Elisabeth Schumann

    music educator, musician

    1888–1952 · aged 63

    June 13 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  88. Jack Nelson

    actor, film actor

    1888–1969 · aged 80

    October 15 · 1888

    No external source identified

  89. John G. Adolfi*

    film director, screenwriter

    Date disputed

    February 19 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  90. Carlos Quintanilla

    politician, diplomat

    1888–1964 · aged 76

    January 22 · 1888

    No external source identified

  91. Wilhelm Murr

    politician

    1888–1945 · aged 56

    December 16 · 1888

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  92. Maria Bertilla Boscardin

    nun, nurse

    1888–1922 · aged 34

    October 6 · 1888

    Source: GCatholic.org

  93. Adolph Wolgast

    boxer

    1888–1955 · aged 67

    February 8 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  94. Clarence DeMar

    long-distance runner, marathon runner

    1888–1958 · aged 70

    June 7 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  95. Eduard Ritter von Schleich

    politician, aircraft pilot

    1888–1947 · aged 59

    August 9 · 1888

    No external source identified

  96. Countess Ina Marie von Bassewitz

    aristocrat

    1888–1973 · aged 85

    January 27 · 1888

    Source: The Peerage

  97. Volodymyr Zatonsky

    diplomat, statesperson

    1888–1938 · aged 49

    August 8 · 1888

    No external source identified

  98. Renée Sintenis

    graphic artist, sculptor

    1888–1965 · aged 77

    March 20 · 1888

    Source: Le Delarge

  99. Stevan Moljević

    politician, jurist

    1888–1959 · aged 71

    January 6 · 1888

    No external source identified

  100. Archibald Alexander

    civil engineer, architect

    1888–1958 · aged 69

    May 14 · 1888

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa

  101. Sonya Levien

    writer, jurist

    1888–1960 · aged 71

    December 25 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  102. Piero Portaluppi

    urban planner, cartoonist

    1888–1967 · aged 79

    March 19 · 1888

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  103. Ahmad Maher Pasha

    politician, minister

    1888–1945

    1888

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  104. Lucien Hubbard

    film producer, screenwriter

    1888–1971 · aged 83

    December 22 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  105. Juan Luis Beigbeder y Atienza

    politician, military attaché

    1888–1957 · aged 69

    March 31 · 1888

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  106. William Lincoln Bakewell

    sailor, explorer

    1888–1969 · aged 80

    November 26 · 1888

    No external source identified

  107. Anders Olsen Haugen

    ski jumper, Nordic combined skier

    1888–1984 · aged 95

    October 24 · 1888

    No external source identified

  108. Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

    engineer, economist

    1888–1974

    December 30 · 1888

    Source: bs.sejm.gov.pl

  109. Alfred Naqqache*

    politician, barrister

    Date disputed

    May 3 · 1888

    Source: yabeyrouth.com

  110. Stefan Mazurkiewicz

    topologist, university teacher

    1888–1945 · aged 56

    September 25 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  111. Molly Malone

    film actor, actor

    1888–1952 · aged 63

    December 7 · 1888

    Source: IMDb

  112. Walther Kossel

    chemist, physicist

    1888–1956 · aged 68

    January 4 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  113. Abraham Valdelomar

    journalist, writer

    1888–1919 · aged 31

    April 27 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  114. Fred C. Newmeyer

    film actor, film director

    1888–1967 · aged 78

    August 9 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  115. Frank Stokes

    musician, guitarist

    1888–1955 · aged 67

    January 1 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  116. Richard Kohn

    association football player, association football coach

    1888–1963 · aged 74

    September 27 · 1888

    Source: familysearch.org

  117. Konstantinos Tsiklitiras*

    athletics competitor, association football player

    Date disputed

    October 30 · 1888

    No external source identified

  118. Edward H. Griffith*

    director, film director

    Date disputed

    August 23 · 1888

    Source: IMDb

  119. Soetomo

    politician

    1888–1938 · aged 49

    July 30 · 1888

    No external source identified

  120. Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné

    sculptor, painter

    1888–1944

    January 13 · 1888

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  121. Lauri Pihkala

    journalist, sportsperson

    1888–1981 · aged 93

    January 5 · 1888

    No external source identified

  122. Jacob Tamarkin

    university teacher, mathematician

    1888–1945 · aged 57

    July 11 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  123. David Mitrany

    journalist, political scientist

    1888–1975 · aged 87

    January 1 · 1888

    Source: lex.dk

  124. Gazanfar Musabekov

    revolutionary, physician

    1888–1938 · aged 49

    July 26 · 1888

    No external source identified

  125. Nils Silfverskiöld

    artistic gymnast, physician

    1888–1957 · aged 69

    January 3 · 1888

    Source: Roglo

  126. Ramón López Velarde

    journalist, poet

    1888–1921 · aged 33

    June 15 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  127. Þórbergur Þórðarson*

    writer, Esperantist

    Date disputed

    March 12 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  128. Antonio Ortega

    military personnel

    1888–1939 · aged 51

    January 17 · 1888

    No external source identified

  129. Gerhard Wagner

    military physician, physician

    1888–1939 · aged 50

    August 18 · 1888

    Source: Geni

  130. Andrija Štampar

    scientist, physician

    1888–1958 · aged 69

    September 1 · 1888

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  131. Hong Myong-hui

    journalist, politician

    1888–1968

    1888

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  132. Thomas Balvay

    association football referee

    1888–1945 · aged 57

    February 2 · 1888

    No external source identified

  133. Joseph Csaky

    watercolorist, painter

    1888–1971 · aged 83

    March 18 · 1888

    Source: Le Delarge

  134. Lucy Wills

    hematologist, physician

    1888–1964 · aged 75

    May 10 · 1888

    Source: Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles and Achievements

  135. Larry Steers

    actor

    1888–1951 · aged 63

    February 14 · 1888

    No external source identified

  136. Kaarel Eenpalu

    journalist, farmer

    1888–1942

    May 28 · 1888

    Source: Biographical lexicon of Estonian sport

  137. Curt Goetz

    film director, stage actor

    1888–1960

    November 17 · 1888

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  138. Harry Oliver

    scenographer, architect

    1888–1973

    April 4 · 1888

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  139. Simon Sabiani

    politician, military personnel

    1888–1956 · aged 68

    May 14 · 1888

    Source: GeneaStar

  140. Selig Brodetsky

    historian of mathematics, mathematician

    1888–1954 · aged 66

    February 10 · 1888

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  141. Rachel Cohen-Kagan

    activist, politician

    1888–1982 · aged 94

    February 19 · 1888

    Source: knesset.gov.il

  142. George Chesebro

    film director, actor

    1888–1959 · aged 70

    July 29 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  143. William Axt

    film score composer, musician

    1888–1959 · aged 70

    April 19 · 1888

    Source: filmportal.de

  144. Bartolomeo Vanzetti

    political activist, fishmonger

    1888–1927 · aged 39

    June 11 · 1888

    Source: Find a Grave

  145. Willy Cohn

    historian, medievalist

    1888–1941 · aged 52

    December 12 · 1888

    Source: BnF authorities

  146. Harry Welfare

    association football player, teacher

    1888–1966 · aged 78

    August 20 · 1888

    No external source identified

  147. Alfred Landé

    physicist, university teacher

    1888–1976 · aged 87

    December 13 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

  148. Refik Halit Karay

    politician, writer

    1888–1965 · aged 77

    March 14 · 1888

    Source: turkishculture.org

  149. Mary Eristavi

    lady-in-waiting

    1888–1986

    1888

    Source: nplg.gov.ge

  150. Al Ferguson

    film director, actor

    1888–1971 · aged 83

    April 19 · 1888

    Source: SNAC

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