ON THIS DAY
Born in 1893
838 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Hermann Göring
air force officer, war criminal
- Mao Zedong
strategist, communist
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
diplomat, politician
- Emmy Göring
autobiographer, stage actor
- Mae West
singer, film actor
- Ip Man
martial artist
- Omar Bradley
military officer, official
- Edward G. Robinson
stage actor, television actor
- Lillian Gish
peace activist, stage actor
- Huey Long
politician, governor
- Alfred Rosenberg
opinion journalist, student
- Dorothy Parker
columnist, literary critic
- Paramahansa Yogananda
autobiographer, yogi
- Hattie McDaniel
film actor, singer
- Leslie Howard
writer, screenwriter
- Allen Dulles
lawyer, diplomat
- Joan Miró
sculptor, lithographer
- Jimmy Durante
stage actor, musician
- Jomo Kenyatta
journalist, politician
- Edsel Bryant Ford
art collector, entrepreneur
- Roy O. Disney
film producer, banker
- Harold Lloyd
executive producer, film producer
- Walter Ulbricht
communist, resistance fighter
- Wilfred Owen
writer, soldier
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
military officer, politician
- Henry Murray
university teacher, psychologist
- Carol II of Romania
philatelist, monarch
- Dorothy L. Sayers
novelist, short story writer
- Roland Freisler
lawyer, judge
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
theatre director, stage actor
- Madeleine Astor
socialite
- Lazar Kaganovich
statesperson, cobbler
- Soong Ching-ling
politician
- Prajadhipok
sovereign, monarch
- Alexander of Greece
politician
- Conrad Veidt
actor, film director
- Ivor Novello
screenwriter, composer
- William Moulton Marston
university teacher, comics writer
- Fatima Jinnah
dentist, biographer
- Francis Ouimet
golfer
- Draža Mihailović
politician, war criminal
- Dean Acheson
diplomat, lawyer
- Margarete Himmler
nurse
- Cedric Hardwicke
actor, film director
- Vera Brittain
suffragist, pacifist
- Andrés Segovia
teacher, composer
- Bugs Moran
gangster, moon walker
- Alexander Korda
director, screenwriter
- Sachindra Nath Sanyal
revolutionary, freedom fighter
- Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
Prince regent, monarch
- Walter White
essayist, novelist
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
mathematician, economist
- Clark Ashton Smith
translator, poet
- Palmiro Togliatti
politician, philosopher
- Johanna Bormann
concentration camp guard, female guards in Nazi concentration camps
- George Grosz
photographer, draftsperson
- Meghnad Saha
astrophysicist, physicist
- Chaïm Soutine
architectural drafter, painter
- Claire Lee Chennault
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Raymond Loewy
designer, postage stamp designer
- Bill Tilden
tennis coach, tennis player
- Hermann Balck
soldier, military officer
- Jean Acker
film actor, actor
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
street artist, guitarist
- Lili Boulanger
composer
- Elizabeth Cotten
folk musician, songwriter
- Albert Szent-Györgyi
peace activist, physician
- Fay Bainter
stage actor, actor
- Frankie Yale
criminal
- Ernst Toller
playwright, politician
- Dorothy Thompson
newspaperperson, writer
- Fred Noonan
aircraft pilot, navigator
- Mikhail Gurevich
inventor, aircraft pilot
- James Bedford
psychologist, writer
- Dora Carrington
photographer, artist
- Elizabeth Holloway Marston
psychologist
- Merian C. Cooper
film actor, aircraft pilot
- Rahul Sankrityayan
monk, traveler
- Beatrice Wood
writer, sculptor
- Harold Urey
physicist, writer
- Harold Laski
politician, political theorist
- Cedric Gibbons
scenographer, filmmaker
- Hans Fallada
journalist, translator
- Big Bill Broonzy
blues musician, singer
- Pai Chung-hsi
soldier, politician
- Damdin Sükhbaatar
politician, military personnel
- Blind Blake
singer, blues singer
- Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk
aristocrat
- Ana Pauker
translator, politician
- Norman Cota
military personnel
- V. P. Menon
civil servant, politician
- Fritz Perls
psychiatrist, psychologist
- Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom
lawyer, politician
- Katharine Cornell
stage actor, actor
- Qazi Muhammad
cleric, politician
- Nurul Amin
peace activist, politician
- Frederick McKinley Jones
inventor
- Norman Manley
politician, party leader
- Harry Warren
composer, actor
- Viktor Shklovsky
screenwriter, film screenwriter
- Nestor Lakoba
politician
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
statesperson, politician
- Karl Mannheim
university teacher, sociologist
- I. A. Richards
literary scholar, philosopher
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
musicologist, writer
- Ba Maw
politician
- Freya Madeline Stark
essayist, mountaineer
- Maria Orosa
social activist, chemist
- Cicely Courtneidge
comedian, film actor
- Charley Chase
film director, director
- Richard Dix
stage actor, film producer
- Edna Ruth Parker
teacher
- Johann Reichhart
executioner
- Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh
university teacher, qadi
- James Bryant Conant
diplomat, chemist
- Violette Morris
javelin thrower, athletics competitor
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
writer
- Harley Earl
car designer, designer
- Stanisław Szukalski
sculptor, art theorist
- Herbert Edward Read
writer, poet
- Liam Lynch
military officer, politician
- Erwin Planck
jurist, politician
- Norman Bel Geddes
architect, designer
- Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
military personnel
- Prince Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen
soldier, ruler
- Miroslav Krleža
writer, poet
- George Sisler
baseball player
- William Dieterle
film director, theatre manager
- George Ohsawa
nutritionist, philosopher
- José Calvo Sotelo
university teacher, lawyer
- Heinrich George
film actor, film director
- Frank Messervy
military personnel
- Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam
writer, diplomat
- Armand Călinescu
economist, jurist
- John W. Bricker
jurist, politician
- Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony
Catholic priest, crown prince
- Grace Darmond
actor, film actor
- Wilhelm Zaisser
military officer, politician
- José María Velasco Ibarra
president, politician
- Oliver P. Smith
military officer
- Matthias Kleinheisterkamp
military officer
- Russel Crouse
screenwriter, stage actor
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
film editor, director
- Ina Claire
stage actor, film actor
- Gillis Grafström
figure skater, interior architect
- Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz
military personnel
- Leatrice Joy
stage actor, television actor
- Władysław Strzemiński
opinion journalist, photographer
- Anthony Berkeley Cox
writer, journalist