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Born in 1894

831 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Erwin Schulhoff

    composer, conductor

    1894–1942 · aged 48

    June 8 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  2. Âşık Veysel

    poet, ashik

    1894–1973 · aged 78

    October 25 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  3. Archduke Hubert Salvator of Austria

    politician, military personnel

    1894–1971 · aged 76

    April 30 · 1894

    Source: The Peerage

  4. Oliver Leese

    military personnel

    1894–1978 · aged 83

    October 27 · 1894

    Source: The Peerage

  5. Eduard Wagner

    military personnel, soldier

    1894–1944 · aged 50

    April 1 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  6. Zinaida Nikolaevna Rajh*

    stage actor, actor

    Date disputed

    July 3 · 1894

    Source: Writers of St. Petersburg. XX century

  7. Kirpal Singh

    writer

    1894–1974 · aged 80

    February 6 · 1894

    No external source identified

  8. Fay Compton

    stage actor, actor

    1894–1978 · aged 84

    September 18 · 1894

    Source: FemBio database

  9. Friedrich Ebert Jr.

    politician

    1894–1979 · aged 85

    September 12 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  10. Alexander Lippisch

    military flight engineer, physicist

    1894–1976 · aged 81

    November 2 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  11. Nita Naldi

    actor, film actor

    1894–1961 · aged 66

    November 13 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  12. Mikhail Zoshchenko

    dramaturge, writer

    1894–1958 · aged 63

    August 9 · 1894

    Source: ProDetLit

  13. Robert Servatius

    lawyer, jurist

    1894–1983 · aged 88

    October 31 · 1894

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  14. Philip Vian*

    military officer

    Date disputed

    June 14 · 1894

    No external source identified

  15. Vicente Rojo Lluch*

    military officer, writer

    Date disputed

    October 8 · 1894

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  16. Elizabeth Dilling

    political activist, peace activist

    1894–1966 · aged 72

    April 19 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  17. Douglas Gracey

    military officer

    1894–1964 · aged 69

    September 3 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  18. Ecaterina Teodoroiu

    military personnel, soldier

    1894–1917 · aged 23

    January 16 · 1894

    Source: FemBio database

  19. Francisco Craveiro Lopes

    military officer, politician

    1894–1964 · aged 70

    April 12 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  20. Alice Vibert Douglas

    astrophysicist, Dean of women

    1894–1988 · aged 93

    December 15 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  21. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar

    academic, administrator

    1894–1955 · aged 60

    February 21 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  22. Jimmy McHugh*

    composer, songwriter

    Date disputed

    July 10 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  23. George Meany

    functionary, trade unionist

    1894–1980 · aged 85

    August 16 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  24. Toots Mondt

    promoter, actor

    1894–1976 · aged 82

    January 18 · 1894

    No external source identified

  25. Donald Ogden Stewart

    playwright, film actor

    1894–1980 · aged 85

    November 30 · 1894

    Source: filmportal.de

  26. Justin Popović

    monk, theologian

    1894–1979 · aged 85

    April 6 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  27. Hobart R. Gay

    military personnel

    1894–1983 · aged 89

    May 16 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  28. Tommy Armour

    golfer

    1894–1968

    September 24 · 1894

    No external source identified

  29. Nicolas Slonimsky

    conductor, music critic

    1894–1995 · aged 101

    April 27 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  30. Herbert Sutcliffe

    cricketer

    1894–1978 · aged 83

    November 24 · 1894

    No external source identified

  31. Rino Corso Fougier

    aircraft pilot, military officer

    1894–1963 · aged 68

    November 14 · 1894

    Source: TracesOfWar

  32. Aino Aalto

    designer, architect

    1894–1949 · aged 54

    January 25 · 1894

    Source: DACS register

  33. Perce Blackborow

    sailor, explorer

    1894–1949 · aged 54

    April 8 · 1894

    No external source identified

  34. Otto Wöhler

    military officer

    1894–1987 · aged 92

    July 12 · 1894

    Source: Nuremberg Trials Project

  35. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

    politician

    1894–1954 · aged 60

    February 18 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  36. Arthur Szyk

    artist, illustrator

    1894–1951 · aged 57

    June 16 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  37. Kyuichi Tokuda

    politician, lawyer

    1894–1953 · aged 59

    September 12 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  38. John Leach

    military personnel

    1894–1941 · aged 47

    September 1 · 1894

    Source: Dreadnought Project

  39. Charles Osborne

    farmer

    1894–1991 · aged 96

    December 18 · 1894

    Source: Social Security Death Index

  40. Basil Sydney

    actor, film actor

    1894–1968 · aged 73

    April 23 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  41. Masataka Taketsuru

    engineer, politician

    1894–1979 · aged 85

    June 20 · 1894

    No external source identified

  42. Norman Kerry

    actor, film actor

    1894–1956 · aged 61

    June 16 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  43. Ásgeir Ásgeirsson

    politician, banker

    1894–1972 · aged 78

    May 13 · 1894

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  44. Ammu Swaminathan

    politician, freedom fighter

    1894–1978 · aged 84

    April 22 · 1894

    No external source identified

  45. Dai Vernon

    silhouette artist, magician

    1894–1992 · aged 98

    June 11 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  46. Ellsworth Bunker

    diplomat, businessperson

    1894–1984 · aged 90

    May 11 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  47. David Butler

    film actor, director

    1894–1979 · aged 84

    December 17 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  48. Wilhelm Schepmann

    teacher, Volksschule teacher

    1894–1970 · aged 76

    June 17 · 1894

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  49. Isham Jones

    conductor, bandleader

    1894–1956 · aged 62

    January 31 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  50. Enid Markey

    television actor, stage actor

    1894–1981 · aged 87

    February 22 · 1894

    Source: IMDb

  51. Jacques-Henri Lartigue

    painter, photographer

    1894–1986 · aged 92

    June 13 · 1894

    Source: RKDartists

  52. Heinz Hopf

    topologist, mathematician

    1894–1971 · aged 76

    November 19 · 1894

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  53. Carlos Luz

    politician

    1894–1961 · aged 66

    August 4 · 1894

    No external source identified

  54. Luis Ángel Firpo

    boxer

    1894–1960 · aged 65

    October 11 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  55. Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben

    soldier, military personnel

    1894–1964 · aged 69

    October 30 · 1894

    No external source identified

  56. E. Franklin Frazier

    sociologist, historian

    1894–1962 · aged 67

    September 24 · 1894

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  57. Max Weinreich

    literary historian, philologist

    1894–1969 · aged 74

    April 22 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  58. Takeshi Mori

    military personnel

    1894–1945 · aged 51

    April 25 · 1894

    Source: generals.dk

  59. Kenneth Claiborne Royall

    lawyer, military personnel

    1894–1971 · aged 76

    July 24 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  60. Nahum Goldmann*

    poet lawyer, writer

    Date disputed

    July 10 · 1894

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  61. Sofoklis Venizelos

    military personnel, bridge player

    1894–1964 · aged 69

    November 3 · 1894

    Source: Roglo

  62. Hans Kramers

    physicist, theoretical physicist

    1894–1952 · aged 57

    December 17 · 1894

    Source: dwc.knaw.nl

  63. Poul Henningsen

    musician, furniture designer

    1894–1967 · aged 72

    September 9 · 1894

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  64. Gerhard Schmidhuber

    military officer

    1894–1945 · aged 50

    April 9 · 1894

    No external source identified

  65. Werner March

    architect, university teacher

    1894–1976 · aged 81

    January 17 · 1894

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  66. Clare Eames

    stage actor, actor

    1894–1930 · aged 36

    August 5 · 1894

    Source: IMDb

  67. Warren Weaver*

    mathematician, computer scientist

    Date disputed

    July 17 · 1894

    Source: nasonline.org

  68. John Howard Lawson

    playwright, writer

    1894–1977

    September 25 · 1894

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  69. Tay Garnett

    actor, director

    1894–1977 · aged 83

    June 13 · 1894

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  70. H. Richard Niebuhr

    university teacher, Protestant theologian

    1894–1962 · aged 67

    September 3 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  71. Stanley Blystone

    actor, film actor

    1894–1956 · aged 61

    August 1 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  72. Gerald Brenan

    historian of Modern Age, historian

    1894–1987

    April 7 · 1894

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  73. Margaret Gibson

    stage actor, actor

    1894–1964 · aged 70

    September 14 · 1894

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  74. Keiji Shibazaki

    military personnel

    1894–1943

    April 9 · 1894

    Source: TracesOfWar

  75. Irving Mills

    music publisher, bandleader

    1894–1985 · aged 91

    January 16 · 1894

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  76. Karl von Eberstein

    farmer, undersecretary

    1894–1979 · aged 85

    January 14 · 1894

    Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup

  77. William George Barker

    aircraft pilot, military personnel

    1894–1930 · aged 35

    November 3 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  78. Alexander P. de Seversky

    aerospace engineer, aircraft pilot

    1894–1974 · aged 80

    June 7 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  79. Maksim Purkayev*

    politician, military officer

    Date disputed

    August 14 · 1894

    No external source identified

  80. Bryher

    writer, novelist

    1894–1983 · aged 88

    September 2 · 1894

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  81. Friedrich Hoßbach*

    army officer, writer

    Date disputed

    November 21 · 1894

    Source: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich

  82. Clara Smith

    singer, composer

    1894–1935 · aged 40

    August 23 · 1894

    No external source identified

  83. Pascalina Lehnert

    nun, Christian nun

    1894–1983 · aged 89

    August 25 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  84. Ivan Isakov

    military personnel, soldier

    1894–1967 · aged 73

    August 22 · 1894

    Source: TracesOfWar

  85. Jean Rostand

    writer, philosopher

    1894–1977 · aged 82

    October 30 · 1894

    Source: Roglo

  86. Walter Piston

    violinist, conductor

    1894–1976 · aged 82

    January 20 · 1894

    Source: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  87. Irma Stern

    painter

    1894–1966 · aged 71

    October 2 · 1894

    Source: Grove Art Online

  88. Wacław Stachiewicz

    geologist, soldier

    1894–1973 · aged 78

    November 19 · 1894

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  89. Meinoud Rost van Tonningen

    diplomat, banker

    1894–1945 · aged 51

    February 19 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  90. Harry Heilmann

    baseball player

    1894–1951 · aged 56

    August 3 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  91. Sylvia von Harden

    journalist, writer

    1894–1963 · aged 69

    March 28 · 1894

    Source: FemBio database

  92. Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia

    military personnel

    1894–1918 · aged 24

    June 10 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  93. Ernest McFarland

    lawyer, jurist

    1894–1984 · aged 89

    October 9 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  94. Georg Keppler

    military personnel

    1894–1966 · aged 72

    May 7 · 1894

    No external source identified

  95. Mary Clare

    stage actor, film actor

    1894–1970 · aged 76

    July 17 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  96. Muhend Ayt Amezyan

    anarcho-syndicalist

    1894–1953

    October 14 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  97. Borys Liatoshynsky

    music educator, composer

    1894–1968 · aged 73

    December 22 · 1894

    Source: chtyvo.org.ua

  98. Vladimir Triandafillov

    military theorist, military personnel

    1894–1931 · aged 37

    March 14 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  99. Tiny Sandford

    stage actor, film actor

    1894–1961 · aged 67

    February 26 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  100. Manuel Fal Conde

    lawyer, politician

    1894–1975 · aged 80

    August 10 · 1894

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  101. Christian Schad

    painter, artist

    1894–1982 · aged 87

    August 21 · 1894

    Source: Schad, Christian

  102. Marietta Blau

    university teacher, physicist

    1894–1970 · aged 75

    April 29 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  103. Hans Jüttner

    military personnel, soldier

    1894–1965 · aged 71

    March 2 · 1894

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  104. Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

    playwright, poet

    1894–1980 · aged 86

    February 20 · 1894

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  105. Arnold Kegel

    gynecologist, teacher

    1894–1972

    February 24 · 1894

    No external source identified

  106. Maria Restituta Kafka

    nurse, nun

    1894–1943 · aged 48

    May 1 · 1894

    Source: GCatholic.org

  107. Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa

    politician

    1894–1962 · aged 68

    February 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  108. Rachel Field

    novelist, poet

    1894–1942 · aged 47

    September 19 · 1894

    Source: Field, Rachel Lyman (19 September 1894–15 March 1942), author of children's litera…

  109. Robert Russell Bennett

    pianist, music arranger

    1894–1981 · aged 87

    June 15 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  110. Boris Pilnyak

    writer, poet

    1894–1938

    October 11 · 1894

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  111. Bhim Sen Sachar

    politician

    1894–1978 · aged 83

    December 1 · 1894

    No external source identified

  112. Giuliano Gozi

    politician, lawyer

    1894–1955 · aged 60

    August 7 · 1894

    No external source identified

  113. Maria Martins

    printmaker, art collector

    1894–1973 · aged 78

    August 7 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  114. Alan Crosland

    actor, film director

    1894–1936 · aged 41

    August 10 · 1894

    Source: filmportal.de

  115. Kurt Wintgens

    flying ace

    1894–1916 · aged 22

    August 1 · 1894

    No external source identified

  116. Paul Green

    librettist, writer

    1894–1981 · aged 87

    March 17 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  117. Errett Lobban Cord

    politician, inventor

    1894–1974 · aged 79

    July 20 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  118. Ottavio Bottecchia

    sport cyclist

    1894–1927 · aged 32

    August 1 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  119. Aleksandr Khinchin

    mathematician, university teacher

    1894–1959 · aged 65

    July 19 · 1894

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  120. J. Lister Hill

    politician, lawyer

    1894–1984

    December 29 · 1894

    Source: Find a Grave

  121. Josef Jacobs

    racing automobile driver, fighter pilot

    1894–1978 · aged 84

    May 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  122. Frans G. Bengtsson

    essayist, translator

    1894–1954

    October 4 · 1894

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  123. Paul Hörbiger

    musician, actor

    1894–1981 · aged 86

    April 29 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  124. Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby

    politician

    1894–1967 · aged 72

    December 4 · 1894

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  125. Herman Hupfeld

    songwriter, composer

    1894–1951 · aged 57

    February 1 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  126. Carl Mayer

    writer, screenwriter

    1894–1944 · aged 49

    November 20 · 1894

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  127. Abdur Rahman Chughtai*

    postage stamp designer, painter

    Date disputed

    September 21 · 1894

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  128. Burhan Shahidi

    politician

    1894–1989 · aged 94

    October 3 · 1894

    No external source identified

  129. Varvara Stepanova

    painter, scenographer

    1894–1958 · aged 63

    October 21 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  130. Hans Hüttig

    military personnel

    1894–1980 · aged 85

    April 5 · 1894

    Source: Oorlogsbronnen

  131. Alfred Schlemm

    aerial photographer, military officer

    1894–1986 · aged 91

    December 8 · 1894

    No external source identified

  132. Clyde Bruckman*

    film director, film screenwriter

    Date disputed

    September 20 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  133. Vasily Kuznetsov

    military officer

    1894–1964 · aged 70

    January 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  134. Pavel Rybalko

    politician, military leader

    1894–1948 · aged 53

    November 4 · 1894

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  135. Abdulla Qodiriy

    journalist, novelist

    1894–1938 · aged 44

    April 10 · 1894

    Source: Library of Congress Authorities

  136. Shōji Hamada

    artist, potter

    1894–1978 · aged 83

    December 9 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  137. Gerard Bucknall

    military officer

    1894–1980 · aged 86

    September 14 · 1894

    No external source identified

  138. Giuseppe Tucci

    archaeologist, orientalist

    1894–1984 · aged 89

    June 5 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  139. Ernest John Moeran

    composer, musicologist

    1894–1950 · aged 55

    December 31 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  140. Friedrich Pollock

    economist, philosopher

    1894–1970 · aged 76

    May 22 · 1894

    Source: Frankfurter Personenlexikon

  141. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero

    diplomat, judge

    1894–1989 · aged 94

    January 15 · 1894

    Source: Roglo

  142. Gershon Agron*

    writer, politician

    Date disputed

    January 7 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  143. Kan Abe

    politician

    1894–1946 · aged 51

    April 29 · 1894

    No external source identified

  144. Lawrence Dale Bell

    military flight engineer, engineer

    1894–1956 · aged 62

    April 5 · 1894

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  145. Florbela Espanca

    poet, writer

    1894–1930 · aged 36

    December 8 · 1894

    Source: Discogs

  146. Robert Williams

    actor, stage actor

    1894–1931 · aged 37

    September 15 · 1894

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  147. Mevhibe İnönü

    politician

    1894–1992 · aged 97

    September 22 · 1894

    No external source identified

  148. Martin Linge

    military personnel, military officer

    1894–1941 · aged 47

    December 11 · 1894

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  149. Edgar Feuchtinger

    military personnel

    1894–1960 · aged 65

    November 9 · 1894

    Source: Defenders of Fortress Europe

  150. Hossein Behzad

    painter, poet

    1894–1968

    1894

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

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