ON THIS DAY
Born in 1894
831 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Edward VIII
aristocrat, monarch
- Nikita Khrushchev
military personnel, revolutionary
- Rudolf Hess
politician, aircraft pilot
- Aldous Huxley
writer, prose writer
- Gavrilo Princip
revolutionary
- Harold Macmillan
politician, leader
- John Ford
film screenwriter, screenwriter
- Maximilian Kolbe
regular priest, Esperantist
- Norman Rockwell
photographer, illustrator
- Walter Brennan
actor, television actor
- Satyendra Nath Bose
university teacher, mathematician
- Jack Benny
military officer, television presenter
- Dashiell Hammett
journalist, prose writer
- Georges Lemaître
astrophysicist, mathematician
- Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
politician, writer
- Alfred Kinsey
entomologist, scientific collector
- Bessie Smith
singer, street artist
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
writer, novelist
- Boris III of Bulgaria
military personnel, monarch
- E. E. Cummings
novelist, artist
- Robert Menzies
preface author, politician
- Norbert Wiener
founder, autobiographer
- Martha Graham
dancer, costume designer
- Meher Baba
theologian
- Gala Dalí
artist, model
- V. V. Giri
writer, politician
- Jean Renoir
writer, film screenwriter
- Kiichirō Toyoda
entrepreneur, industrialist
- Benjamin Graham
university teacher, investor
- J. B. Priestley
playwright, writer
- Dietrich von Choltitz
military officer
- Fritz Sauckel
politician
- Moshe Sharett
translator, Zionist
- King Vidor
film screenwriter, film director
- Edogawa Ranpo
writer, screenwriter
- James Thurber
essayist, journalist
- ZaSu Pitts
actor, television actor
- Joseph Roth
journalist, writer
- Kim Hyŏng-jik
pharmacist, political activist
- Nazli Sabri
queen consort
- Isaak Babel
writer, military personnel
- Paul Lukas
actor, screenwriter
- Fred Allen
screenwriter, actor
- Paul Blobel
architect
- Arthur Nebe
torturer, detective officer
- E. C. Segar
comics artist, writer
- Arthur Freed
actor, producer
- Freda Dudley Ward
socialite, aristocrat
- Ben Hecht
screenwriter, playwright
- Ghanshyam Das Birla
politician, entrepreneur
- Kathleen Lockhart
stage actor, actor
- Jack Thayer
vice president, writer
- Hermann Oberth
physician, engineer
- Josef von Sternberg
film editor, film director
- Olive Thomas
film actor, screenwriter
- Leonarda Cianciulli
serial killer
- Percy Spencer
inventor, engineer
- Norma Talmadge
film actor, film producer
- Hans Langsdorff
sea captain, commandant
- Otto Grotewohl
politician, book printer
- Anton Mussert
writer, non-fiction writer
- José Carlos Mariátegui
political theorist, author
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
teacher, short story writer
- Dimitri Tiomkin
conductor, film producer
- Billy Bishop
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Harry Greb
boxer
- Wilhelm Bittrich
military officer
- Arthur Treacher
television actor, film actor
- Moms Mabley
film actor, humorist
- María Sabina
shaman, traditional healer
- Warren William
film actor, actor
- Claude Cahun
photographer, resistance fighter
- Kōnosuke Matsushita
politician, businessperson
- Américo Tomás
politician, military personnel
- Surya Sen
revolutionary
- Tivadar Soros
lawyer, writer
- Pyotr Kapitsa
professor, physicist
- Will Wright
stage actor, voice actor
- T. V. Soong
head of government, finance minister
- Violet Keppel Trefusis
novelist, socialite
- Percy Helton
film actor, television actor
- Henry Daniell
stage actor, actor
- Frank Borzage
film producer, screenwriter
- Masaji Kitano
military physician
- Ernst Lindemann
Marineoffizier
- Lothar von Richthofen
flying ace
- Willie Moretti
gangster
- Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin
politician, marshal
- Heinrich Lübke
engineer, politician
- Leo Kanner
child psychiatrist, scientist
- Benigno Aquino, Sr.
politician
- Ben Nicholson
designer, sculptor
- Billy Gilbert
screenwriter, actor
- Mei Lanfang
politician, Peking opera actor
- Kurt Blome
physician, torturer
- Walter Warlimont
military officer
- Walter Wanger
producer, film producer
- Henry Hazlitt
philosopher, economist
- Corinne Griffith
writer, film actor
- Arthur Fadden
politician, accountant
- Billy Bletcher
actor, film actor
- Marcel Déat
politician, wartime collaborator
- Charles Robberts Swart
politician, minister
- Fritz Pollard
American football coach, American football player
- Peter Warlock
music editor, copyist
- Jack Adams
ice hockey coach, ice hockey player
- Khawaja Nazimuddin
politician, barrister
- Mark Van Doren
university teacher, film critic
- Riad Al Solh
politician, lawyer
- André Kertész
photographer, art photographer
- Beatrice Lillie
film actor, stage actor
- James P. Johnson
composer, jazz musician
- Dave Fleischer
film director, screenwriter
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger
politician, military officer
- Karl Böhm
composer, conductor
- Oleksandr Dovzhenko
diplomat, screenwriter
- Jean Toomer
teacher, writer
- Roy Thomson
politician, newspaper proprietor
- Georges Carpentier
boxer, film actor
- Józef Beck
military personnel, military officer
- Lois Wilson
screenwriter, actor
- Julian Tuwim
Esperantist, translator
- René Fonck
aircraft pilot, politician
- Arthur Fiedler
conductor, musician
- Sergey Ilyushin
aircraft pilot, military flight engineer
- Albert Leo Schlageter
military personnel, soldier
- Jerzy Neyman
university teacher, mathematician
- H. V. Evatt
barrister, author
- Dora Russell
peace activist, feminist
- Estelle Taylor
singer, film actor
- William Fawcett
film actor, actor
- Prince René of Parma
military personnel
- Adela Rogers St. Johns
writer, novelist
- Georges Guynemer
military personnel, military officer
- Lizzie van Zyl
child
- Bud Jamison
film director, stage actor
- Eduard Krebsbach
physician
- August Dvorak
inventor, university teacher
- Ismail of Johor
sovereign
- Alexander Oparin
biochemist, chemist
- Edgar Julius Jung
lawyer, opinion journalist
- Vincenz Müller
resistance fighter, soldier
- Harold Innis
sociologist, university teacher
- Oskar Klein
physicist, university teacher
- Willem Arondeus
resistance fighter, novelist