ON THIS DAY
Born in 1891
839 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- B. R. Ambedkar
theologian, jurist
- Erwin Rommel
general field marshal, military officer
- Karl Dönitz
Großadmiral, autobiographer
- Frank Costello
criminal
- Rafael Trujillo
dictator, military officer
- Henry Miller
novelist, painter
- Mikhail Bulgakov
biographer, writer
- Zora Neale Hurston
anthropologist, journalist
- Earl Warren
lawyer, prosecutor
- Edward Bernays
business consultant, public relations scholar
- Walter Model
military officer, general field marshal
- Max Ernst
collagist, lithographer
- Genrikh Yagoda
military personnel, politician
- Edith Stein
philosopher, theologian
- Fanny Brice
actor, radio personality
- Fumimaro Konoe
jurist, politician
- Frederick Banting
pharmacologist, researcher
- Ronald Colman
film actor, stage actor
- Gene Lockhart
theatre director, film actor
- Carl Panzram
serial killer
- Charles Coughlin
preacher, journalist
- W. Averell Harriman
businessperson, governor
- Helmuth Weidling
soldier, military officer
- Grant Wood
university teacher, illustrator
- Ole Kirk Christiansen
carpenter, founder
- José Paciano Laurel
judge, politician
- James Chadwick
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Otto Dix
painter, university teacher
- Fritz Todt
politician, engineer
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi
writer, poet
- Hadley Richardson
pianist
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
governor-general, aristocrat
- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
politician, military officer
- Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
nurse, aristocrat
- Joe E. Brown
baseball player, television actor
- Virginia Rappe
model, film actor
- Henry Morgenthau Jr.
economist, politician
- Olha Khokhlova
choreographer, painter
- Charles Bickford
television actor, actor
- Henry Tandey
soldier
- Harry Cohn
film producer, film studio executive
- Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
politician, military officer
- Osip Mandelstam
literary critic, writer
- Shi Yousan
military officer
- Ray Chapman
baseball player
- Audrey Munson
film actor, actor
- Ilya Ehrenburg
journalist, short story writer
- David Sarnoff
engineer, entrepreneur
- Rudolf Carnap
philosopher of science, philosopher
- Anton Dostler
soldier, military officer
- Bhupinder Singh of Patiala
cricketer
- Earl Browder
trade unionist, communist
- Hu Shih
politician, writer
- Carl Andrew Spaatz
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Michael Chekhov
drama teacher, stage actor
- Prince Maurice of Battenberg
military officer
- George Adamski
novelist, science fiction writer
- Owney Madden
gangster
- Arthur Drewry
functionary, businessperson
- Nelly Sachs
librettist, playwright
- Pedro Albizu Campos
lawyer, military personnel
- Richard Norris Williams
tennis player
- Leo Burnett
journalist, advertising person
- Albert Battel
jurist, soldier
- Shiso Kanakuri
teacher, marathon runner
- Oswald Boelcke
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Yevhen Konovalets
military personnel, politician
- Miguel Pro
Catholic priest
- Sidney Howard
playwright, theatre director
- Menen Asfaw
politician
- Bridget Dowling
writer
- Stefano Magaddino
funeral director
- Alexander Rodchenko
designer, illustrator
- Alma Thomas
artist, art educator
- Shukri al-Quwatli
politician
- Pär Lagerkvist
screenwriter, writer
- Sun Fo
politician
- Max Amann
journalist, politician
- Wallace Reid
film actor, film director
- Wilder Penfield
writer, neuroscientist
- Otto Rasch
Gestapo employee, lawyer
- John Heartfield
theatre designer, painter
- Antonio Segni
politician, diplomat
- John William McCormack
lawyer, politician
- Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma
military officer, military personnel
- Lilya Brik
writer, sculptor
- Erich Marcks
military personnel, military officer
- Reginald Denny
actor, film director
- Walther Bothe
physicist, nuclear physicist
- Alexander Poskrebyshev
general secretary, politician
- Hans F. K. Günther
racial theorist, writer
- Frank Fay
actor, film actor
- Grunya Sukhareva
university teacher, psychiatrist
- Emiliano Mercado del Toro
businessperson, military personnel
- Takijirō Ōnishi
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Prince Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern
military officer
- Hans Reichenbach
mathematician, logician
- Alfred Meyer
politician, Oberpräsident
- Bruno Loerzer
sport pilot, military officer
- Kurt von Tippelskirch
military historian, military officer
- Ellen Wilkinson
writer, politician
- Mae Busch
actor, stage actor
- Tim McCoy
circus performer, actor
- Maria Skobtsova
writer, nun
- A. P. Carter
composer, singer
- Carl W. Stalling
film score composer, pianist
- Dimitrije Ljotić
politician, lawyer
- Louis A. Johnson
jurist, lawyer
- William Christian Bullitt, Jr.
writer, journalist
- Dorothy Burlingham
psychoanalyst, non-fiction writer
- Poul Nielsen
association football player
- Miriam Cooper
actor, film actor
- Rexford Tugwell
university teacher, business manager
- Harold Cottam
radio operator
- Fritz Wiedemann
politician, military personnel
- Otto Schmidt
statesperson, psychoanalyst
- Madge Kennedy
film actor, actor
- Helen Broderick
stage actor, actor
- Pietro Nenni
partisan, journalist
- Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson
military officer
- Irving Pichel
film actor, film director
- John A. Costello
politician, barrister
- Victor Kilian
actor, film actor
- William F. Albright
anthropologist, archaeologist
- Isabel Jeans
film actor, actor
- Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
writer
- Walter A. Shewhart
economist, physicist
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
businessperson, publisher
- Danilo Ilić
journalist
- Pier Luigi Nervi
university teacher, engineer
- Bharathidasan
film director, screenwriter
- Jack Buchanan
actor, director
- Juan Yagüe Blanco
spanish legionary, politician
- Henry O'Neill
film actor, actor
