ON THIS DAY
Born in 1896
839 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Virgil Thomson
journalist, music critic
- Johannes Kleiman
businessperson, resistance fighter
- Frederic John Walker
naval officer, military personnel
- Nobuko Yoshiya
novelist, writer
- Robert E. Sherwood
dramaturge, historian
- Olive Carey
film actor, television actor
- Agustín Muñoz Grandes
politician, military personnel
- Faina Ranevskaya
actor, film actor
- Mao Zemin
politician
- Ho Chong
activist, politician
- Carl Ferdinand Cori
chemist, researcher
- Xue Yue
military personnel, politician
- Arthur Calwell
politician
- Richard Heidrich
military personnel
- Boris Podolsky
university teacher, physicist
- Mao Dun
critic, literary scholar
- Howard Hanson
composer, pianist
- Louis Fischer
writer, journalist
- David Wechsler
university teacher, psychologist
- Rajani Palme Dutt
politician, journalist
- Iona Yakir
political commissar, chemist
- Blanche Sweet
film actor, stage actor
- Ramón Franco Bahamonde
military personnel, airman
- Ira Clarence Eaker
military officer, journalist
- Richard Thorpe
screenwriter, actor
- Dorothy Lawrence
soldier, autobiographer
- Pavel Aleksandrov
mathematician, university teacher
- Kazimierz Kuratowski
mathematician, university teacher
- Robert S. Mulliken
theoretical chemist, university teacher
- Juano Hernández
stage actor, actor
- Julien Duvivier
writer, actor
- Ruth Donnelly
actor, film actor
- Goodwin Knight
judge, governor
- Friedrich Hund
chemist, physicist
- Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz
military officer
- Pierre Jeanneret
architect, furniture designer
- Murray Leinster
novelist, screenwriter
- Eduardo Lonardi
military personnel
- Paul Bäumer
aircraft pilot, Flieger
- Bob Meusel
baseball player
- Amanda Randolph
stage actor, television actor
- Theodoros Stephanides
poet, writer
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
composer, pianist
- Otmar von Verschuer
biochemist, anthropologist
- Melville Cooper
stage actor, actor
- Rafael Franco
politician
- Andreas Stihl
entrepreneur, engineer
- Jay Adler
stage actor, television actor
- Hugo Dyson
writer, university teacher
- Alves dos Reis
writer, counterfeiter
- Ida Noddack
physicist, chemist
- Josef Kammhuber
soldier, air force officer
- Jhaverchand Meghani
poet, folklorist
- Curt von Gottberg
politician, military officer
- Sophrony Sakharov
author, painter
- Carl Zuckmayer
film screenwriter, writer
- Arthur William Radford
naval officer, admiral
- Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony
military officer
- Hubert Lanz
politician, soldier
- William Cameron Menzies
film director, producer
- Alexander Kartveli
test pilot, inventor
- Nikolay Semyonov
politician, physicist
- Walter Lang
screenwriter, film director
- Gopal Swarup Pathak
lawyer, politician
- Hu Zongnan
military officer, politician
- Ferdinand Jodl
military personnel
- Karl August Wittfogel
sinologist, geopolitical analyst
- Friedrich Waismann
university teacher, mathematician
- Besse Cooper
teacher
- Caesar von Hofacker
jurist, resistance fighter
- Lawrence Tibbett
opera singer, actor
- Sao Shwe Thaik
politician
- Nacio Herb Brown
composer, songwriter
- Nikolai Bernstein
psychologist, physiologist
- Sethu Parvathi Bayi
musician
- Wilhelm Koppe
merchant, politician
- Edmund Blunden
writer, university teacher
- Ye Ting
military officer
- Robert S. Kerr
lawyer, businessperson
- Heimito von Doderer
opinion journalist, poet
- Fayzulla Khodzhayev
politician
- Margaret Kennedy
non-fiction writer, playwright
- Jacques Duclos
politician, resistance fighter
- John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
military personnel, politician
- Cvjetko Popović
curator, philosopher
- Wilhelm Ackermann
university teacher, Studienrat
- Bourke B. Hickenlooper
lawyer, politician
- Nikolai Vlasik
military personnel, lieutenant general
- Achmad Soebardjo Djojoadisoerjo
foreign minister, politician
- Jesse Fuller
musician, guitarist
- John Crocker
military personnel
- Dorothy Stickney
musician, stage actor
- Mady Christians
actor, stage actor
- Friedrich Hollaender
songwriter, cabaret performer
- Ida Rolf
chemist, biochemist
- Ludwik Fleck
biologist, sociologist
- Chang Fa-kwei
military personnel, politician
- Ernst Maisel
military officer
- Ivan Mihailov
revolutionary, writer
- Carl Ludwig Siegel
mathematician, university teacher
- Ahmed Barzani
politician
- Keen Johnson
editor, journalist
- Aimo Lahti
gunsmith, inventor
- George Reader
association football referee, association football player
- Henry Segrave
racing automobile driver, military officer
- J. R. Ackerley
journalist, poet
- Rolf Sievert
physicist, university teacher
- Ralph Alger Bagnold
military personnel, engineer
- Franz Blücher
politician
- Lotte H. Eisner
film critic, film historian
- Brock Chisholm
psychiatrist, physician
- Tom Keene
television actor, actor
- Quirino Cristiani
film director, painter
- Manfred Stern
military personnel, communist
- Michael Balint
psychiatrist, psychoanalyst
- José Domingo Molina Gómez
soldier, politician
- Gostha Paul
association football player
- Célestin Freinet
teacher, farmer
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
film director, actor
- Catherine Doherty
writer
- Walter Mehring
poet, watercolorist
- Gustaf Tenggren
artist, painter
- Richard Nelson Gale
military officer
- Leonid Kannegisser
writer, poet
- Hermann Jónasson
lawyer, politician
- Paddy Driscoll
baseball player, American football player
- Gertruida Wijsmuller-Meier
resistance fighter
- Marion Harris
actor, jazz musician
- Vecihi Hürkuş
engineer, aircraft pilot
- Philip Showalter Hench
physician, researcher
- Mari Sandoz
biographer, teacher
- Josef Sudek
photographer, collector
- William Cameron Townsend
Bible translator, missionary
- Rolfe Sedan
television actor, actor
- Ieronim Uborevich
military personnel