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Born in 1894

831 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Antun Barac

    university teacher, critic

    1894–1955 · aged 61

    August 20 · 1894

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  2. Lajos Kovács

    association football coach, association football player

    1894–1961 · aged 67

    April 27 · 1894

    No external source identified

  3. Albert Dejonghe

    sport cyclist

    1894–1981 · aged 87

    February 14 · 1894

    No external source identified

  4. Nina Pigulevskaya

    historian, orientalist

    1894–1970 · aged 76

    January 13 · 1894

    Source: NLR Employees

  5. Beatrice Armstrong

    competitive diver

    1894–1981 · aged 87

    January 11 · 1894

    No external source identified

  6. Louis Béguet

    rugby union player

    1894–1983 · aged 88

    December 7 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  7. Geoffrey Holmes

    ice hockey player

    1894–1964 · aged 70

    February 19 · 1894

    No external source identified

  8. Bo Ekelund

    athletics competitor, business executive

    1894–1983 · aged 88

    July 26 · 1894

    No external source identified

  9. Thor Henning

    swimmer

    1894–1967 · aged 73

    September 13 · 1894

    No external source identified

  10. Hermann Hänggi

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1978 · aged 84

    October 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  11. Carl Rudolf Florin

    professor, paleontologist

    1894–1965 · aged 71

    April 5 · 1894

    Source: Vem är det 1957

  12. Isabelle White

    competitive diver

    1894–1972 · aged 77

    September 1 · 1894

    Source: olympic.org

  13. Serafima Bryusova

    neurosurgeon, physician

    1894–1958

    December 31 · 1894

    No external source identified

  14. Jānis Sudrabkalns

    politician, poet

    1894–1975 · aged 81

    May 29 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  15. Mihail Andricu

    composer, pianist

    1894–1974 · aged 79

    December 22 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  16. William von Wirén

    ice sailor, sailor

    1894–1956 · aged 62

    September 11 · 1894

    Source: Biographical lexicon of Estonian sport

  17. Lionel Tapscott

    cricketer, tennis player

    1894–1934 · aged 40

    March 18 · 1894

    No external source identified

  18. Otto Aasen

    ski jumper, Nordic combined skier

    1894–1983 · aged 89

    January 1 · 1894

    Source: historical register of persons

  19. Nora Gulbrandsen*

    painter, porcelain painter

    Date disputed

    November 29 · 1894

    Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon

  20. Lee Hill

    actor

    1894–1957 · aged 63

    July 8 · 1894

    No external source identified

  21. Ture Ödlund

    curler

    1894–1942 · aged 48

    May 15 · 1894

    Source: sok.se

  22. Emilie Haspels

    art historian, university teacher

    1894–1980 · aged 86

    September 15 · 1894

    Source: SNAC

  23. Tamara Katsenelenbogen

    architect

    1894–1976

    1894

    No external source identified

  24. Janus van Merrienboer

    archer

    1894–1947 · aged 53

    October 8 · 1894

    Source: Olympedia

  25. Julio García Fernández de los Ríos

    military personnel, equestrian

    1894–1969 · aged 74

    December 31 · 1894

    No external source identified

  26. Dimitar Ivanov Popov

    chemist, pedagogue

    1894–1975 · aged 81

    October 13 · 1894

    No external source identified

  27. Henk Steeman

    association football player

    1894–1979 · aged 85

    January 15 · 1894

    Source: Transfermarkt

  28. Evert Jan Bulder

    association football player

    1894–1973 · aged 78

    December 24 · 1894

    Source: Transfermarkt

  29. Willy Brüderlin

    rower

    1894–date unavailable

    October 20 · 1894

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  30. Petar Ivanov

    rower

    1894–1961 · aged 66

    August 30 · 1894

    No external source identified

  31. István Priboj

    association football player, association football coach

    1894–1957 · aged 63

    May 2 · 1894

    No external source identified

  32. Zlata Kolarić-Kišur

    writer

    1894–1990 · aged 95

    October 29 · 1894

    Source: Croatian Biographical Lexicon

  33. André Devaux

    athletics competitor

    1894–1981 · aged 86

    August 4 · 1894

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées

  34. Ernst Hallberg

    event rider

    1894–1944 · aged 50

    January 5 · 1894

    No external source identified

  35. Romain Bellenger

    sport cyclist

    1894–1981 · aged 87

    January 18 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  36. Herman Zanstra*

    university teacher, astronomer

    Date disputed

    November 3 · 1894

    Source: KNAW Past Members

  37. Einar Svensson

    ice hockey player, association football coach

    1894–1959 · aged 64

    September 27 · 1894

    No external source identified

  38. Jean Gachet

    boxer

    1894–1968 · aged 73

    June 2 · 1894

    Source: birth certificate

  39. Karl Schöchlin

    rower

    1894–1974 · aged 80

    June 13 · 1894

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  40. Edmund Lindmark

    competitive diver, artistic gymnast

    1894–1968 · aged 73

    July 6 · 1894

    No external source identified

  41. Sven Malm

    athletics competitor

    1894–1974 · aged 80

    February 25 · 1894

    Source: sok.se

  42. Charles Lee Tilden Jr.

    rugby union player

    1894–1968 · aged 74

    June 4 · 1894

    No external source identified

  43. Alfred Probst

    rower

    1894–1958

    1894

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  44. Alexander Hall

    director, actor

    1894–1968 · aged 74

    January 11 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  45. René Bauwens

    water polo player, swimmer

    1894–1959 · aged 65

    March 11 · 1894

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  46. Czesław Skonieczny

    film actor, actor

    1894–1946 · aged 51

    July 7 · 1894

    Source: janek.czarnieckiego.pl

  47. Daniel Bouckaert

    equestrian

    1894–1965 · aged 71

    May 17 · 1894

    No external source identified

  48. Florimond Rooms

    weightlifter

    1894–date unavailable

    1894

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  49. Luis Chamizo

    writer, mayor

    1894–1945

    1894

    Source: Open Library

  50. Florimond Cornellie

    skipper, sailor

    1894–1978

    May 1 · 1894

    No external source identified

  51. Norman Slater

    rugby union player

    1894–1979 · aged 85

    January 23 · 1894

    No external source identified

  52. Vittorio Lucchetti

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1965 · aged 70

    December 21 · 1894

    No external source identified

  53. Paul Dujardin

    swimmer, water polo player

    1894–1959 · aged 64

    May 10 · 1894

    Source: GeneaStar

  54. Ilmari Manninen

    writer, anthropologist

    1894–1933

    September 2 · 1894

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  55. Peder Marcussen

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1972 · aged 78

    November 26 · 1894

    No external source identified

  56. Herbert Wright

    amateur wrestler

    1894–1982 · aged 88

    September 16 · 1894

    Source: olympedia.org

  57. Paul Gailly

    swimmer, water polo player

    1894–1969 · aged 74

    August 2 · 1894

    No external source identified

  58. Pierre Dewin

    swimmer, water polo player

    1894–date unavailable

    September 6 · 1894

    Source: olympedia.org

  59. Jacob Opdahl

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1938

    January 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  60. Émile Cornic

    fencer

    1894–1964 · aged 69

    December 23 · 1894

    Source: birth certificate

  61. Louis Finet

    equestrian

    1894–date unavailable

    March 5 · 1894

    No external source identified

  62. Franz Federschmidt

    rower

    1894–1956 · aged 62

    February 21 · 1894

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  63. Halvor Birkeland

    sailor

    1894–1971 · aged 76

    October 30 · 1894

    No external source identified

  64. Jørgen Bjørnstad

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1942 · aged 48

    April 2 · 1894

    Source: Digital Archives

  65. Louis Williquet

    weightlifter

    1894–1937 · aged 42

    July 2 · 1894

    Source: olympedia.org

  66. Hugo Helsten

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1978 · aged 83

    September 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  67. Carl Dorsey

    sailor

    1894–1974 · aged 80

    May 12 · 1894

    No external source identified

  68. Håkon Ellingsen

    rower

    1894–1971 · aged 76

    November 25 · 1894

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  69. Johannes Hengeveld

    tug of war competitor

    1894–1961 · aged 66

    December 24 · 1894

    No external source identified

  70. Erwin Franzkowiak

    field hockey player

    1894–1984 · aged 89

    November 29 · 1894

    No external source identified

  71. Damian Reca

    chess player

    1894–1937

    1894

    Source: chessgames.com

  72. Louis Henin

    artistic gymnast

    1894–date unavailable

    June 24 · 1894

    No external source identified

  73. Robert Giertsen

    skipper, sailor

    1894–1978 · aged 84

    August 24 · 1894

    No external source identified

  74. Tuure Nieminen

    Nordic combined skier, ski jumper

    1894–1968 · aged 74

    February 19 · 1894

    Source: BnF authorities

  75. Luigi Contessi

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1967 · aged 72

    August 14 · 1894

    No external source identified

  76. Ambrogio Levati

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1963 · aged 69

    March 14 · 1894

    No external source identified

  77. Michele Mastromarino

    artistic gymnast

    1894–1986 · aged 91

    November 1 · 1894

    Source: olympedia.org

  78. Fernando Bonatti*

    artistic gymnast

    Date disputed

    August 26 · 1894

    Source: Olympedia

  79. Anatoli Ryabov

    linguist, teacher

    1894–1938 · aged 44

    April 15 · 1894

    No external source identified

  80. Yakov Yakovlevich Kuldurkaev

    poet

    1894–1966 · aged 71

    October 22 · 1894

    No external source identified

  81. Herbert Boeckl

    artist, draftsperson

    1894–1966 · aged 71

    June 3 · 1894

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

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