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Born in 1889

898 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Wanda Capodaglio

    film actor

    1889–1980 · aged 91

    January 1 · 1889

    Source: IMDb

  2. Emma Asson*

    pedagogue, teacher

    Date disputed

    June 13 · 1889

    No external source identified

  3. Efrem Forni

    theologian, Catholic priest

    1889–1976 · aged 87

    January 10 · 1889

    Source: Find a Grave

  4. Leslie Boardman

    swimmer

    1889–1975 · aged 86

    August 2 · 1889

    Source: olympedia.org

  5. Robert Cloughen

    athletics competitor

    1889–1930 · aged 41

    January 26 · 1889

    No external source identified

  6. Erich Büttner

    painter, draftsperson

    1889–1936

    October 7 · 1889

    Source: RKDartists

  7. Harold Stamper

    association football player

    1889–1939

    October 6 · 1889

    No external source identified

  8. Ted Hanney

    association football player, association football coach

    1889–1964 · aged 75

    January 19 · 1889

    No external source identified

  9. Perchouhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan

    public figure, writer

    1889–1940

    July 8 · 1889

    Source: archives.paris.fr

  10. Juana Rouco Buela

    women's rights activist, trade unionist

    1889–1969

    1889

    Source: BNE authority file

  11. Jan van der Sluis

    association football player

    1889–1952 · aged 63

    April 29 · 1889

    Source: Transfermarkt

  12. Jan van Dort

    association football coach, association football player

    1889–1967 · aged 77

    May 25 · 1889

    No external source identified

  13. John Todd Zimmer

    entomologist, scientific collector

    1889–1957 · aged 67

    February 28 · 1889

    Source: BnF authorities

  14. Arthur Cumming

    figure skater

    1889–1914 · aged 25

    May 8 · 1889

    No external source identified

  15. Edison Pettit

    astronomer

    1889–1962 · aged 72

    September 22 · 1889

    Source: Find a Grave

  16. Clementina Arderiu

    poet, writer

    1889–1976 · aged 86

    July 6 · 1889

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  17. Louis Mottiat

    sport cyclist

    1889–1972 · aged 82

    July 6 · 1889

    Source: Dictionnaire des Wallons

  18. Pierre Failliot*

    rugby union player, athletics competitor

    Date disputed

    February 25 · 1889

    Source: World Athletics database

  19. Roman Kozłowski*

    university teacher, botanist

    Date disputed

    February 1 · 1889

    Source: La France savante

  20. Hjalmar Andersson

    athletics competitor

    1889–1971 · aged 82

    July 13 · 1889

    Source: sok.se

  21. Armando Migliari

    actor

    1889–1976 · aged 87

    April 29 · 1889

    No external source identified

  22. André Favory*

    watercolorist, painter

    Date disputed

    March 29 · 1889

    Source: BnF authorities

  23. Hermann Linkenbach

    dressage rider

    1889–1959 · aged 70

    April 8 · 1889

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  24. Mariska Ady

    poet, writer

    1889–1977 · aged 87

    February 26 · 1889

    No external source identified

  25. Mikhail Doller

    screenwriter, assistant director

    1889–1952

    1889

    Source: filmportal.de

  26. Ludomir Sleńdziński*

    wood carver, university president

    Date disputed

    October 29 · 1889

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  27. Mykhailo Drai-Khmara

    literary scholar, writer

    1889–1939 · aged 49

    October 10 · 1889

    Source: Prabook

  28. Adelheid Kofler

    ophthalmologist, physical chemist

    1889–1985 · aged 96

    June 24 · 1889

    Source: Biographies of important Austrian women scientists

  29. Giovanni Micheletto

    sport cyclist

    1889–1958 · aged 69

    January 22 · 1889

    No external source identified

  30. Alfeo Brum

    lawyer, politician

    1889–1972 · aged 82

    March 22 · 1889

    No external source identified

  31. L. D. Adams

    mathematician

    1889–1966

    July 2 · 1889

    No external source identified

  32. Ossian Skiöld

    athletics competitor

    1889–1961 · aged 72

    June 22 · 1889

    Source: Sveriges dödbok 1830–2020

  33. Louis Ségura

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1963

    July 23 · 1889

    Source: Archives Nationales d'Outre-mer

  34. Francesco Gargano

    fencer

    1889–1975 · aged 86

    May 5 · 1889

    Source: coni.it

  35. Vilém Petrželka

    musician, music arranger

    1889–1967 · aged 77

    September 10 · 1889

    Source: Discogs

  36. Frank Murphy

    athletics competitor

    1889–1980 · aged 90

    September 21 · 1889

    No external source identified

  37. Victor Linart

    track cyclist, sport cyclist

    1889–1977 · aged 88

    May 26 · 1889

    Source: BnF authorities

  38. Šimun Katalinić

    rower

    1889–1977 · aged 87

    September 17 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  39. Ivar Lykke*

    association football player

    Date disputed

    March 7 · 1889

    No external source identified

  40. Oscar Chisini

    editing staff, university teacher

    1889–1967 · aged 78

    March 14 · 1889

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  41. Jalmari Kivenheimo

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1994 · aged 105

    September 25 · 1889

    No external source identified

  42. Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan

    1889–2004 · aged 114

    September 1 · 1889

    No external source identified

  43. Agnes Sjöberg

    veterinarian

    1889–1964 · aged 74

    November 15 · 1889

    Source: The National Biography of Finland

  44. Enrico Bompiani

    university teacher, mathematician

    1889–1975 · aged 86

    February 12 · 1889

    Source: SIUSA

  45. John Condon

    boxer

    1889–1919 · aged 29

    February 28 · 1889

    No external source identified

  46. Ludovic Valborge

    sport shooter

    1889–1945

    1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  47. Hans Johner

    chess composer, chess player

    1889–1975 · aged 86

    January 7 · 1889

    No external source identified

  48. Jan Kok

    association football player

    1889–1958 · aged 69

    July 9 · 1889

    No external source identified

  49. Ostap Vyshnia*

    writer, short story writer

    Date disputed

    November 13 · 1889

    Source: parish register

  50. Angelo Binaschi

    association football player

    1889–1973 · aged 84

    January 15 · 1889

    No external source identified

  51. Nils Ahnlund

    historian, professor

    1889–1957 · aged 67

    August 23 · 1889

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Frederico Paredes

    fencer

    1889–1972 · aged 83

    January 31 · 1889

    No external source identified

  53. Charles Braibant

    historian, archive manager

    1889–1976 · aged 87

    March 31 · 1889

    Source: Léonore database

  54. Tristan Derème

    poet, writer

    1889–1941 · aged 52

    February 13 · 1889

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Axel Thufason*

    association football player

    Date disputed

    November 11 · 1889

    Source: Danish Football Association

  56. Joseph Van Daele

    sport cyclist

    1889–1948 · aged 58

    December 16 · 1889

    No external source identified

  57. Marcelino Olaechea

    Catholic priest, politician

    1889–1972 · aged 83

    January 9 · 1889

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  58. Dorothy Wright

    sailor

    1889–1960

    August 19 · 1889

    No external source identified

  59. Mitoyo Kawate

    farmer

    1889–2003 · aged 114

    May 15 · 1889

    No external source identified

  60. Jorge Germán Pacheco

    association football coach, association football player

    Born 1889

    October 26 · 1889

    No external source identified

  61. Sverre Jordan

    conductor, pianist

    1889–1972 · aged 82

    May 25 · 1889

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  62. Georg Gerstäcker

    amateur wrestler

    1889–1949 · aged 60

    June 3 · 1889

    No external source identified

  63. Volmar Wikström

    amateur wrestler

    1889–1957 · aged 67

    December 27 · 1889

    No external source identified

  64. Louis Scott

    long-distance runner

    1889–1960

    November 16 · 1889

    Source: olympedia.org

  65. Ana Rosa Chacón

    suffragette, academic

    1889–1985

    1889

    No external source identified

  66. John Sörenson

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1976 · aged 87

    September 15 · 1889

    No external source identified

  67. Kálmán Lambrecht

    ornithologist, paleontologist

    1889–1936 · aged 46

    May 1 · 1889

    Source: Magyar életrajzi lexikon

  68. Nils Molander

    ice hockey player, speed skater

    1889–1974 · aged 84

    June 22 · 1889

    No external source identified

  69. Esther Carena*

    film actor, stage actor

    Date disputed

    August 24 · 1889

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  70. Herman Meyboom

    swimmer, water polo player

    1889–date unavailable

    August 23 · 1889

    No external source identified

  71. Theodor Malm

    association football referee, ice hockey player

    1889–1950 · aged 60

    October 23 · 1889

    Source: Transfermarkt

  72. Ralph Shove

    judge, rower

    1889–1966 · aged 76

    May 31 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  73. Antonius Colenbrander

    military officer, event rider

    1889–1929 · aged 40

    May 3 · 1889

    No external source identified

  74. Hjalmar Christoffersen

    association football player

    1889–1966 · aged 77

    December 1 · 1889

    No external source identified

  75. Győző Haberfeld

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1945

    June 13 · 1889

    No external source identified

  76. Emil Ernst

    astronomer

    1889–1942 · aged 53

    June 6 · 1889

    No external source identified

  77. Émile Engel

    sport cyclist

    1889–1914 · aged 25

    April 5 · 1889

    Source: birth certificate

  78. Taavi Tamminen

    amateur wrestler

    1889–1967 · aged 77

    March 10 · 1889

    No external source identified

  79. Paul Stevens

    bobsledder

    1889–1949 · aged 59

    October 16 · 1889

    No external source identified

  80. Eino Forsström

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1961 · aged 72

    April 10 · 1889

    No external source identified

  81. Dario Beni

    sport cyclist

    1889–1969 · aged 80

    January 1 · 1889

    No external source identified

  82. Carl Folcker

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1911 · aged 22

    March 28 · 1889

    No external source identified

  83. William Douglas Francis

    botanist

    1889–1959 · aged 69

    March 6 · 1889

    Source: SNAC

  84. Carl Bertilsson

    veterinarian, artistic gymnast

    1889–1968 · aged 79

    October 18 · 1889

    No external source identified

  85. Bernard Franklin

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1937 · aged 47

    November 10 · 1889

    No external source identified

  86. Henry Dafel

    athletics competitor

    1889–1947 · aged 58

    January 8 · 1889

    Source: BnF authorities

  87. Sven Olsson

    association football player

    1889–1919 · aged 29

    October 3 · 1889

    No external source identified

  88. Gottfrid Svensson

    amateur wrestler

    1889–1956 · aged 67

    May 13 · 1889

    No external source identified

  89. Sir William Parker, 3rd Baronet

    rower

    1889–1971 · aged 82

    January 9 · 1889

    Source: The Peerage

  90. Louis Van de Perck

    archer

    1889–1953 · aged 64

    October 14 · 1889

    No external source identified

  91. Albert Francis Grenda

    track cyclist

    1889–1977 · aged 87

    September 15 · 1889

    No external source identified

  92. Ernest Henley

    athletics competitor

    1889–1962 · aged 72

    March 31 · 1889

    No external source identified

  93. Johannes Eriksen

    amateur wrestler

    1889–1963 · aged 74

    June 12 · 1889

    No external source identified

  94. Hans Beyer

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1965 · aged 75

    August 23 · 1889

    Source: historical register of persons

  95. Boo Kullberg

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1962 · aged 72

    May 23 · 1889

    No external source identified

  96. Georg Albertsen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1961 · aged 71

    July 12 · 1889

    No external source identified

  97. Dolf van der Nagel

    association football player, military officer

    1889–1949 · aged 60

    May 28 · 1889

    No external source identified

  98. George Canning

    athlete

    1889–1955 · aged 65

    August 23 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  99. Imre Erdődy

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1973 · aged 83

    March 26 · 1889

    No external source identified

  100. Ezio Corlaita

    sport cyclist

    1889–1967 · aged 77

    October 25 · 1889

    No external source identified

  101. Albert Kruschel

    sport cyclist

    1889–1959 · aged 69

    October 21 · 1889

    No external source identified

  102. Elemér Pászti

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1965 · aged 75

    December 20 · 1889

    No external source identified

  103. Vigo Madsen

    artistic gymnast, gymnast

    1889–1979 · aged 89

    November 13 · 1889

    No external source identified

  104. Charles Atkin

    field hockey player

    1889–1958 · aged 69

    February 26 · 1889

    No external source identified

  105. Charles Littlejohn

    rower, surgeon

    1889–1960 · aged 71

    January 4 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  106. Roberto Ferrari

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1937 · aged 47

    December 7 · 1889

    No external source identified

  107. Louis Moreau

    fencer

    1889–1981 · aged 91

    October 16 · 1889

    No external source identified

  108. Charles Crahay

    fencer

    Born 1889

    November 9 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  109. Finn Schiander*

    skipper, sailor

    Date disputed

    May 7 · 1889

    Source: historical register of persons

  110. Ekaterina Lermontova

    geologist, paleontologist

    1889–1942 · aged 52

    February 11 · 1889

    Source: cyberleninka.ru

  111. Ingolf Rød

    sailor, skipper

    1889–1963 · aged 74

    October 2 · 1889

    No external source identified

  112. Chester Burleigh Watts

    astronomer, writer

    1889–1971 · aged 81

    October 27 · 1889

    Source: SNAC

  113. János Krizmanich

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1944 · aged 55

    January 27 · 1889

    No external source identified

  114. Arthur Leighton

    field hockey player

    1889–1939 · aged 50

    March 6 · 1889

    No external source identified

  115. Hjalmart Andersen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1974 · aged 84

    October 11 · 1889

    No external source identified

  116. George Passmore

    lacrosse player

    1889–1952 · aged 63

    August 24 · 1889

    No external source identified

  117. Wilhelm Steffensen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1954 · aged 64

    August 15 · 1889

    No external source identified

  118. Hubert Lafortune

    artistic gymnast

    1889–date unavailable

    November 24 · 1889

    No external source identified

  119. Eugenija Nikolaevna Alissova-Klobukova

    botanist

    1889–1962 · aged 72

    July 24 · 1889

    No external source identified

  120. Mikko Hyvärinen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1973 · aged 84

    January 8 · 1889

    No external source identified

  121. Charles-Gustave Kuhn

    show jumper

    1889–1952 · aged 63

    April 28 · 1889

    No external source identified

  122. Olaf Ørvig

    skipper, sailor

    1889–1939 · aged 49

    November 26 · 1889

    No external source identified

  123. Rolf Johnsson

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1931 · aged 41

    December 1 · 1889

    No external source identified

  124. Charles Smith

    sailor

    1889–1969 · aged 79

    October 21 · 1889

    No external source identified

  125. Hartmann Bjørnsen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1974 · aged 85

    February 2 · 1889

    No external source identified

  126. Theodor Klem

    rower

    1889–1963 · aged 74

    January 20 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  127. Edvin Paulsen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1963 · aged 73

    December 3 · 1889

    Source: Find a Grave

  128. Christian Pedersen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1953 · aged 63

    October 27 · 1889

    No external source identified

  129. Jenő Rittich

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1961

    January 13 · 1889

    No external source identified

  130. Werner Dehn

    rower

    1889–1960 · aged 71

    September 17 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  131. Cornelis van Staveren

    sailor

    1889–1982 · aged 92

    June 14 · 1889

    No external source identified

  132. Nils Thomas

    sailor

    1889–1979 · aged 90

    July 9 · 1889

    Source: historical register of persons

  133. Victor Duvant

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1963 · aged 74

    March 3 · 1889

    Source: birth certificate

  134. Jens Kirkegaard

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1966 · aged 76

    June 1 · 1889

    No external source identified

  135. Claus Høyer*

    machinist, rower

    Date disputed

    March 20 · 1889

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  136. Constant Ménager

    sport cyclist

    1889–1970 · aged 81

    April 15 · 1889

    Source: birth certificate

  137. Virgilio Mantegazza

    fencer

    1889–1928 · aged 39

    January 30 · 1889

    No external source identified

  138. Søren Thorborg

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1978 · aged 89

    March 10 · 1889

    No external source identified

  139. Rolf Lie

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1959 · aged 70

    May 20 · 1889

    No external source identified

  140. Andreas Strand*

    artistic gymnast

    Date disputed

    February 3 · 1889

    No external source identified

  141. Christin Piek

    tug of war competitor

    Born 1889

    January 23 · 1889

    No external source identified

  142. Julien Wartelle

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1953 · aged 64

    February 26 · 1889

    Source: birth certificate

  143. Poul Mark

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1957 · aged 67

    June 19 · 1889

    No external source identified

  144. Hermann Helgesen

    artistic gymnast

    1889–1963 · aged 73

    February 28 · 1889

    Source: historical register of persons

  145. Henri Wijnoldy Daniëls

    fencer, military officer

    1889–1932 · aged 42

    November 26 · 1889

    No external source identified

  146. Toshitsugu Takamatsu

    ninja

    1889–1972 · aged 83

    January 10 · 1889

    No external source identified

  147. Lev Zenkevici

    oceanographer, biologist

    1889–1970 · aged 81

    June 16 · 1889

    Source: National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File

  148. Cafer Seydahmet Kırımer

    lawyer, politician

    1889–1960 · aged 70

    September 1 · 1889

    No external source identified

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