ON THIS DAY
Born in 1892
876 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- J. R. R. Tolkien
teacher, philologist
- Francisco Franco
military officer, governor
- Josip Broz Tito
locksmith, machinist
- Haile Selassie I
politician, monarch
- J. Paul Getty
industrialist, autobiographer
- Manfred von Richthofen
military officer, fighter pilot
- Mary Pickford
film director, film actor
- Robert H. Jackson
lawyer, jurist
- Walter Benjamin
art critic, essayist
- William Powell
television actor, stage actor
- Oliver Hardy
director, singer
- Pearl S. Buck
writer, children's writer
- Basil Rathbone
television actor, stage actor
- Shirō Ishii
war criminal, microbiologist
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
lawyer, politician
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
poet, short story writer
- Vita Sackville-West
gardener, biographer
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma
consort
- Bessie Coleman
stunt pilot, human rights defender
- Corrie ten Boom
resistance fighter, autobiographer
- Engelbert Dollfuss
diplomat, politician
- Martin Niemöller
priest, poet
- Thomas Mitchell
television actor, stage actor
- Jack Warner
film director, writer
- Margaret Rutherford
film actor, character actor
- Henry Darger
diarist, painter
- Sepp Dietrich
politician, military personnel
- Gregor Strasser
politician, member of parliament
- Amanullah Khan
monarch, king
- Alexander Alekhine
translator, writer
- Reinhold Niebuhr
philosopher, political scientist
- Ferdinand Schörner
military personnel, general field marshal
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
writer, poet
- James Forrestal
military officer, diarist
- Manuel Roxas
autobiographer, university teacher
- Erhard Milch
military officer, general field marshal
- Louis de Broglie
mathematician, physicist
- Eddie Cantor
film producer, stage actor
- Manilal Gandhi
editor
- Ivo Andrić
essayist, diplomat
- Theodor Eicke
military officer, politician
- Robert Ritter von Greim
military officer, general field marshal
- Ernst Lubitsch
film director, film producer
- Wendell Willkie
businessperson, writer
- Gummo Marx
comedian, vaudeville performer
- Alice Augusta Ball
chemist, pharmacist
- Peggy Wood
film actor, television actor
- George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
aristocrat, military personnel
- Hal Roach
film producer, director
- Mátyás Rákosi
politician
- J.B.S. Haldane
university teacher, physiologist
- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
air force officer
- William Demarest
film actor, actor
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
politician, barrister
- Archibald MacLeish
essayist, writer
- Rebecca West
literary critic, journalist
- Bolesław Bierut
politician
- Djuna Barnes
playwright, writer
- Mabel Normand
film screenwriter, model
- Marina Tsvetaeva
playwright, writer
- Alan Hale
stage actor, actor
- Burton C. Andrus
military personnel
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory
military officer
- Stefan Banach
university teacher, mathematician
- E. H. Carr
professor, politician
- Walter Hagen
professional golfer, athlete
- Oswald Pohl
Holocaust perpetrator, naval officer
- Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkhla
military personnel, physician
- Dean O'Banion
gangster, criminal
- Richard Neutra
architect, photographer
- Tamon Yamaguchi
military officer, soldier
- James M. Cain
journalist, novelist
- Arthur Holly Compton
university teacher, theoretical physicist
- Fazlollah Zahedi
military personnel, politician
- Ernst L. Freud
architect
- Bruno Schulz
writer, graphic artist
- Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer
politician, archaeologist
- Mercedes de Acosta
poet, screenwriter
- Ruth Chatterton
stage actor, writer
- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
writer, pianist
- Pinto Colvig
voice actor, screenwriter
- Mississippi John Hurt
musician, guitarist
- Marcel Dassault
film producer, entrepreneur
- Fernando Amorsolo
painter, visual artist
- Osgood Perkins
stage actor, actor
- Tazio Nuvolari
racing automobile driver, motorcycle racer
- Dora Richter
flower seller, bobbin lace maker
- S. R. Ranganathan
library scientist, librarian
- Harry Dexter White
economist, politician
- Charles Atlas
model, circus performer
- Eiji Yoshikawa
poet, writer
- Władysław Anders
military officer, politician
- Jaddanbai
film director, singer
- Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
politician
- Darius Milhaud
musicologist, music educator
- Stanisław Sosabowski
military officer, laborer
- Diana Cooper
film actor, stage actor
- József Mindszenty
Catholic priest, archbishop
- Juan Negrín
politician, university teacher
- Arthur Honegger
classical composer, film score composer
- Agnes von Kurowsky
nurse, writer
- Keith Park
military officer, aircraft pilot
- César Vallejo
translator, playwright
- George Paget Thomson
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Alice Brady
actor, stage actor
- Dietrich von Saucken
military officer
- Vere Gordon Childe
classical philologist, librarian
- Mikhail Kirponos
military personnel
- Eoin O'Duffy
civil engineer, politician
- Lydia Lopokova
actor, ballet dancer
- Harry Jacob Anslinger
diplomat, politician
- James A. Van Fleet
politician
- Kang Pan-sŏk
politician
- Robert Watson-Watt
inventor, university teacher
- Erté
designer, sculptor
- Andrey Yeryomenko
colonel, military officer
- Erwin Panofsky
university teacher, writer
- Lester C. Hunt
politician, dentist
- Peljidiin Genden
head of government, politician
- Vincenzo Capone
military personnel, police officer
- Jason Robards
film actor, actor
- Rafael Moreno Aranzadi
association football player
- Arthur Friedenreich
association football player
- Kathleen Harrison
film actor, stage actor
- Alfonsina Storni
poet, teacher
- Wheeler Dryden
film director, stage actor
- Fatma Begum
actor, film director
- Hobey Baker
American football player, ice hockey player
- Edoardo Agnelli
entrepreneur
- Lowell Thomas
voice actor, radio personality
- Erich Auerbach
literary scholar, linguist
- Caresse Crosby
publisher, socialite
- Rose McConnell Long
politician
- Renée Jeanne Falconetti
stage actor, biographer
- Hoot Gibson
film producer, actor
- David Garnett
publisher, painter
- Andreu Nin
teacher, journalist
- Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani
politician, governor
- Augusta Savage
educator, human rights defender
- Chen Gongbo
politician, communist
- Stanisław Maczek
soldier, military officer
- Akira Mutō
military personnel
- Guo Moruo
playwright, politician
- Agnes Smedley
women's rights activist, writer
- Ottla Kafka
writer
- Liu Bocheng
politician, military personnel
- Kitty Kiernan
revolutionary, activist
- Günther Blumentritt
military personnel, soldier
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman
writer, cryptographer