ON THIS DAY
Born in 1889
898 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Adolf Hitler
politician, soldier
- Charlie Chaplin
comedian, director
- Jawaharlal Nehru
freedom fighter, barrister
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
architect, pedagogue
- Martin Heidegger
philosopher, poet
- António de Oliveira Salazar
university teacher, political economist
- Jean Cocteau
playwright, filmmaker
- Otto Heinrich Frank
merchant, banker
- Claude Rains
actor, musician
- Ante Pavelić
lawyer, military personnel
- Manuel II of Portugal
monarch
- Edwin Hubble
astronomer, astrophysicist
- Thomas Midgley
engineer, chemist
- Igor Sikorsky
military flight engineer, inventor
- Anna Akhmatova
poet, literary critic
- Sessue Hayakawa
screenwriter, film director
- K. B. Hedgewar
politician
- Victor Fleming
film director, cinematographer
- Robert A. Taft
judge, lawyer
- Clifton Webb
television actor, film actor
- Louise Mountbatten
nurse, aristocrat
- Edith Tolkien
pianist, music educator
- Arnold J. Toynbee
diplomat, university teacher
- James Whale
theatre director, director
- Gabriela Mistral
children's writer, teacher
- Walter Lippmann
politician, journalist
- Khudiram Bose
revolutionary, freedom fighter
- H. L. Hunt
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Francis Spellman
Catholic priest, archbishop
- Erle Stanley Gardner
lawyer, writer
- Ray Collins
actor, film actor
- Amadeo Bordiga
politician, functionary
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
filmmaker, director
- John B. Kelly Sr.
entrepreneur, rower
- Carl von Ossietzky
writer, editor
- A. Philip Randolph
union member, civil rights advocate
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
military personnel, marshal
- Risto Ryti
economist, politician
- Han van Meegeren
art forger, watercolorist
- Warner Baxter
actor, stage actor
- Paul Bern
film producer, director
- Thomas Hart Benton
university teacher, draftsperson
- Luo Yixiu
writer
- Günther Lütjens
admiral, naval officer
- Frank Lentini
showman, circus performer
- Amrit Kaur
freedom fighter, politician
- Eberhard von Mackensen
Generaloberst, military personnel
- Robert Benchley
actor, theatre critic
- R. G. Collingwood
university teacher, philosopher of culture
- Paul Nash
landscape painter, art critic
- Claude McKay
poet, novelist
- Hannah Höch
photographer, watercolorist
- Achille Starace
politician
- Lord Leopold Mountbatten
military personnel
- Li Dazhao
politician, communist
- Gabriel Marcel
critic, musician
- George S. Kaufman
theatre director, film director
- Stafford Cripps
lawyer, politician
- Zalman Shazar
politician, poet
- Richard Glücks
torturer, Holocaust perpetrator
- Eugene Pallette
film actor, stage actor
- Dorothy Gibson
film actor, screenwriter
- Hans-Jürgen von Arnim
Generaloberst, military officer
- Erik Jan Hanussen
astrologer, illusionist
- Prince Xavier, Hereditary Duke of Parma
military personnel
- Rafael Bardem
stage actor, actor
- Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
swimmer, politician
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
missionary, theologian
- Gaetano Reina
businessperson, criminal
- Efrem Zimbalist
music educator, university teacher
- Fritz Pfeffer
dentist
- Harry Nyquist
inventor, mathematician
- Mercédès Jellinek
singer
- Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke
military officer
- Abel Gance
screenwriter, director
- Otto Georg Thierack
politician, jurist
- Sarat Chandra Bose
lawyer, politician
- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
paramedic, athletics competitor
- W. S. Van Dyke
film actor, film director
- Moroni Olsen
stage actor, actor
- Takeo Kurita
military officer
- Alexander M. Patch
military officer
- Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
soldier
- Harry Clarke
illustrator, painter
- Conrad Aiken
literary critic, prose writer
- Walton H. Walker
military personnel, soldier
- Abelardo L. Rodríguez
politician, military personnel
- Zoltán Tildy
politician, Reformed pastor
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
philosopher, university teacher
- Henry F. Phillips
businessperson, inventor
- Richard O'Connor
military personnel
- Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad
translator, religious leader
- Martha Wentworth
voice actor, television actor
- Minta Durfee
actor, film actor
- Jaishankar Prasad
playwright, poet
- Baba Sali
rabbi, kabbalist
- Vladimir Sokoloff
actor, stage actor
- James O. McKinsey
certified public accountant, university teacher
- Muhammad Jamalul Alam II
politician
- Pavel Dybenko
revolutionary, military commander
- Jane De Leon
film actor
- Willi Münzenberg
publisher, politician
- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
journalist, engineer
- Ernst Niekisch
author, university teacher
- Karel Doorman
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Siegfried Kracauer
journalist, opinion journalist
- Charles Darrow
inventor, patent inventor
- Ernst Reuter
university teacher, politician
- Marjorie Rambeau
film actor, stage actor
- Felix Aylmer
actor, stage actor
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp
dancer, painter
- Maxwell Maltz
physician, surgeon
- Maria Bochkareva
military personnel
- Kōichi Kido
politician
- Walter Catlett
screenwriter, film actor
- Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland
aristocrat
- Arthur Waley
curator, translator
- Lev Mekhlis
politician, economist
- Franklin Pangborn
television actor, stage actor
- Kanji Ishiwara
historian, military personnel
- Erhard Raus
military officer, military personnel
- Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di
theologian, Qur'anic exegete
- Bella Rosenfeld
writer, novelist
- Ernest Truex
actor, television actor
- Leslie Morshead
military personnel
- Richard Réti
chess composer, merchant
- Dietrich Kraiss
military personnel
- Musidora
actor, film actor
- Lloyd Bacon
stage actor, film actor
- Norman Scott
military officer
- Mustafa Golubić
politician, partisan
- Charles Mintz
film producer
- G. D. H. Cole
journalist, economist
- Mehr Chand Mahajan
judge
- Christopher Dawson
theologian, historian
- Ralph H. Fowler
astronomer, mathematician
- Adrian Boult
conductor, autobiographer
- Pierre-Étienne Flandin
politician, foreign minister
- George Kenney
military officer
- Alma Karlin
poet, collector
- Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
military officer, politician
- Douglass Dumbrille
film actor
- Clarence Muse
film actor, actor