ON THIS DAY
Born in 1897
881 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Joseph Goebbels
politician, writer
- Amelia Earhart
memoirist, journalist
- William Faulkner
playwright, poet
- Subhas Chandra Bose
resistance fighter, politician
- Anthony Eden
foreign minister, aristocrat
- Paul VI
Catholic bishop, diplomat
- Enid Blyton
writer, novelist
- Elijah Muhammad
Muslim minister, religious leader
- Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
aristocrat, nurse
- Vito Genovese
drug trafficker
- Thích Quảng Đức
Buddhist monk
- Irène Joliot-Curie
politician, chemist
- Frank Capra
writer, film producer
- Karl-Otto Koch
Nazi, war criminal
- Moe Howard
television actor, voice actor
- Wilhelm Reich
sex educator, physician
- Georges Bataille
philosopher, librarian
- Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
aristocrat, religious leader
- Marion Davies
actor, film actor
- Fredric March
film actor, character actor
- Dorothy Day
writer, trade unionist
- Jiroemon Kimura
farmer, mail carrier
- Lester B. Pearson
politician, senior civil servant
- Walter Pidgeon
singer, film actor
- Bud Abbott
stage actor, producer
- Edith Head
costume designer, art director
- Thornton Wilder
screenwriter, playwright
- Zakir Husain
politician
- Ivan Konev
politician, military officer
- Emil Maurice
politician
- Ludwig Erhard
politician, economist
- Aneurin Bevan
trade unionist, politician
- Walter Winchell
television presenter, radio personality
- Joe Profaci
entrepreneur, drug trafficker
- Otto Strasser
politician, opinion journalist
- Plaek Phibunsongkhram
politician, military personnel
- Pola Negri
film actor, dancer
- Jimmie Rodgers
musician, singer-songwriter
- Kurt Daluege
Holocaust perpetrator, civil engineer
- Ferenc Szálasi
military personnel, politician
- Alluri Sita Rama Raju
revolutionary
- Quentin Roosevelt
military officer, fighter pilot
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
film producer, journalist
- Manilal gandhi
revolutionary
- Margaret Chase Smith
teacher, business executive
- Adolf Heusinger
career soldier, military officer
- Richard Russell Jr.
politician, lawyer
- Patrick Blackett
physicist, nuclear physicist
- Paavo Nurmi
long-distance runner, athlete
- Ram Prasad Bismil
freedom fighter, poet
- Douglas Sirk
film director, screenwriter
- Hasso von Manteuffel
politician, member of parliament
- Gene Tunney
boxer
- Marcel Petiot
physician, politician
- Yun Po-sun
journalist, politician
- Winifred Wagner
writer, composer
- Sidney Bechet
composer, jazz musician
- Blind Willie Johnson
singer, blues musician
- John Laurie
television actor, stage actor
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
film score composer, conductor
- Karl Gebhardt
physician, university teacher
- A. W. Tozer
theologian, writer
- Natacha Rambova
actor, art director
- Hermione Gingold
actor, television actor
- Ye Jianying
politician, military personnel
- Louis Aragon
writer, historian
- Louis Buchalter
gangster
- Shoghi Effendi
translator, religious leader
- Dmitry Pavlov
military personnel, politician
- Orry-Kelly
artist, costume designer
- Gershom Scholem
librarian, poet
- Lucille Bogan
singer, songwriter
- John Bagot Glubb
military officer, writer
- Edmund Heines
politician
- Janaki Ammal
plant breeder, cell biologist
- Polina Zhemchuzhina
politician, cashier
- Manuel Ávila Camacho
politician, soldier
- Earle Nelson
serial killer
- Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia
aristocrat
- Ngô Đình Thục
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Hans Baur
aircraft pilot, airman
- Yi Un
prince, military personnel
- Paul Ricca
gangster
- Joseph Darnand
military personnel, politician
- Chen Cheng
military personnel, politician
- Daniel K. Ludwig
ship-owner
- Joseph Berchtold
political economist, politician
- Ivan Bagramyan
military officer, colonel
- Chuhdary Rahmat Ali
political theorist, jurist
- Cecil Parker
film actor, stage actor
- Celia Lovsky
actor, housewife
- Dennis Wheatley
writer, science fiction writer
- John Cockcroft
nuclear physicist, university teacher
- Hope Emerson
stage actor, singer
- Tan Malaka
teacher, typist
- Vasily Sokolovsky
military officer, military leader
- Norbert Elias
philosopher, writer
- Karl Plagge
military officer, soldier
- Lucius D. Clay
military officer, military personnel
- Miyuki Ishikawa
real estate agent, serial killer
- Henry Cowell
musicologist, composer
- Arthur Greiser
Reichsstatthalter, politician
- Wilfred Bion
psychoanalyst, psychiatrist
- Paul Gallico
novelist, writer
- Zhang Guotao
politician
- Legs Diamond
criminal
- Gordon Allport
research fellow, psychologist
- Charles Kingsford Smith
Flieger, aircraft pilot
- Sepp Herberger
university teacher, association football coach
- Theodor Busse
military personnel, military officer
- Herbert Otto Gille
military personnel, politician
- Betty Compson
stage actor, film actor
- Leonid Govorov
soldier, politician
- William Stephenson
spy, spymaster
- Fletcher Henderson
composer, pianist
- Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
aristocrat
- Sohrab Modi
film director, film actor
- Joseph Calleia
television actor, stage actor
- Rouben Mamoulian
screenwriter, theatre director
- Vlado Chernozemski
chauffeur
- Helen Duncan
spiritual medium, fortune teller
- Jerome Cowan
actor, television actor
- Georgios Grivas-Digenis
resistance fighter, soldier
- Benjamin Lee Whorf
linguist, anthropologist
- Otto Dietrich
politician, journalist
- Conrad Nagel
film actor, film director
- Nils Asther
television actor, stage actor
- Ed Ricketts
writer, sailor
- Einar Gerhardsen
municipal employee, politician
- Theodora Kroeber
writer, anthropologist
- Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck
politician, diplomat
- Vaso Čubrilović
historian, politician
- Kenneth Burke
philosopher, university teacher
- Eddie Eagan
boxer, athlete