ON THIS DAY
Born in 1896
839 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Oswald Mosley
politician, aircraft pilot
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
novelist, screenwriter
- Wallis Simpson
socialite, collector
- Georgy Zhukov
politician, military officer
- Morarji Desai
peace activist, politician
- George Burns
television actor, television presenter
- Ruth Gordon
stage actor, screenwriter
- Paula Hitler
secretary, housekeeper
- Lewis Strauss
politician, businessperson
- Jean Piaget
zoologist, philosopher
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
translator, writer
- Mamie Eisenhower
dancer, politician
- Leslie Groves
army officer, military engineer
- Howard Hawks
film director, screenwriter
- Jimmy Doolittle
engineer, aircraft pilot
- Harry R. Truman
hotel manager
- Lev Vygotsky
non-fiction writer, pedagogue
- Anna Anderson
actor
- Felix Steiner
military officer, writer
- Imre Nagy
diplomat, economist
- André Breton
draftsperson, novelist
- Antonin Artaud
director, performance artist
- Italo Balbo
military personnel, politician
- Mark W. Clark
military officer
- Nobusuke Kishi
jurist, diplomat
- Raymond Massey
actor, screenwriter
- Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
aristocrat
- Anandamayi Ma
philosopher
- John Dos Passos
painter, translator
- Paulino Alcántara
requeté soldier, association football player
- Ira Gershwin
librettist, poet
- Frederick Browning
military personnel, soldier
- Adele Astaire
singer, stage actor
- Arnold Ridley
military personnel, film actor
- Ethel Waters
actor, singer
- Sandro Pertini
journalist, partisan
- Andrei Zhdanov
military personnel, politician
- Carlos P. Garcia
diplomat, politician
- Tristan Tzara
art collector, French resistance fighter
- Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
politician, lawyer
- Klement Gottwald
politician
- Trygve Lie
diplomat, jurist
- David Alfaro Siqueiros
military personnel, graphic artist
- Leon Theremin
physicist, inventor
- Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran
politician
- Ernst Udet
aerobatics pilot, flying ace
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
novelist, essayist
- Buenaventura Durruti
anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist
- Prince Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse
politician
- A. J. Cronin
playwright, physician writer
- Donald Winnicott
psychoanalyst, psychiatrist
- Anastasio Somoza García
politician
- Rogers Hornsby
baseball player
- Salim Ali
naturalist, politician
- Ted Healy
comedian, stage actor
- Viktor Kosenko
composer, teacher
- Gottlob Berger
commercial assistant, Volksschule teacher
- Dodie Smith
novelist, playwright
- Dziga Vertov
director, screenwriter
- J. Carrol Naish
film actor, actor
- Roman Jakobson
historian, philologist
- Erich Koch
correspondent, art collector
- Joseph Schildkraut
screenwriter, television actor
- Josephine Tey
writer, biographer
- Gerty Cori
chemist, researcher
- Kenji Miyazawa
agronomist, teacher
- Louis Réard
engineer, businessperson
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
novelist, university teacher
- Jessie Royce Landis
stage actor, television actor
- Everett Dirksen
lawyer, commissioner
- William A. Wellman
film screenwriter, film actor
- Fritz Julius Kuhn
chemist, politician
- Natalie Talmadge
film actor, actor
- Harry Winston
jeweler, entrepreneur
- Soghomon Tehlirian
vigilante
- Barbara La Marr
film actor, actor
- Joseph Lawton Collins
military personnel
- Milena Jesenská
opinion journalist, translator
- Jolie Gabor
socialite
- Norodom Suramarit
composer, king
- Colin Gubbins
military commander, military officer
- Yip Harburg
librettist, writer
- Anton Walbrook
film actor, actor
- Caesar Cardini
restaurateur
- Ruth Etting
Ziegfeld girl, singer
- Michael Balcon
producer, film producer
- Ian Wolfe
film actor, stage actor
- Dai Li
war criminal, military officer
- Tommy Johnson
singer, guitarist
- Alberto Vargas
painter, illustrator
- Miles Dempsey
cricketer, military officer
- Hope Summers
actor, television actor
- Aspasia Manos
companion
- Herbert Backe
politician, agricultural politician
- Memphis Minnie
recording artist, guitarist
- Tina Modotti
model, photographer
- John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Eastern Orthodox monk, Eastern Orthodox priest
- Marie Prevost
actor, film actor
- Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
judge, politician
- William Chomsky
linguist, writer
- D. R. Bendre
writer, poet
- Jack Pickford
stage actor, film producer
- Otto Hofmann
soldier, politician
- Henry Allingham
autobiographer, military personnel
- Walter Breuning
railway worker
- Kartar Singh Sarabha
freedom fighter, revolutionary
- Betty Smith
children's writer, novelist
- Olin D. Johnston
politician, lawyer
- Eugenio Montale
prose writer, librarian
- Nancy Cunard
polo player, poet
- Henri de Lubac
regular cleric, Catholic theologian
- Liam O'Flaherty
writer, novelist
- He Long
politician, revolutionary
- Firaq Gorakhpuri
writer, poet
- Louis Bromfield
screenwriter, journalist
- Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf
politician, resistance fighter
- Reverend Gary Davis
blues musician, guitarist
- Lilia Skala
architect, television actor
- Olga Baclanova
actor, film actor
- Doris Lloyd
film actor, actor
- Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
civil servant, politician
- Shirley Graham Du Bois
orator, playwright
- Alan Mowbray
actor, television actor
- Bonner Fellers
military personnel
- Morris Ankrum
television actor, stage actor
- Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
novelist, opinion journalist
- Boris Skossyreff
military personnel, usurper
- Cayetano Santos Godino
arsonist, serial killer
- Lilyan Tashman
actor, stage actor
- R. C. Sherriff
science fiction writer, novelist
- Stanisława Leszczyńska
resistance fighter, midwife
- Abraham Sofaer
film actor, stage actor
- Arthur Shields
stage actor, actor
- John L. McClellan
lawyer, politician
- Wallace Carothers
chemist, inventor
- Rudolf Schmundt
military officer, military personnel
- Albert Ball
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Jorge Alessandri
engineer, civil engineer
- Hinrich Lohse
politician
- Sam Ervin
judge, jurist
- Joan Lindsay
writer, novelist
- Marjorie Bennett
film actor, actor
- Li Ji
anthropologist, art historian
- Léonide Massine
ballet dancer, librettist
- Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia
military personnel
- Aleksei Antonov
military commander, military officer
- Prince Wolfgang of Hesse
banker
- André Masson
draftsperson, illustrator