ON THIS DAY
Born in 1897
881 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Neil Ritchie
instructor, military officer
- Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
politician, philosopher
- Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley
military officer, criminal
- Virginia Henderson
nurse, scientist
- Basil Radford
stage actor, actor
- Isabel Briggs Myers
writer, novelist
- Xu Zhimo
translator, writer
- Morris Carnovsky
stage actor, actor
- Naomi Mitchison
novelist, linguist
- George Szell
university teacher, conductor
- Frank Luke
aircraft pilot, fighter pilot
- Maria Valtorta
mystic, writer
- Nunnally Johnson
librettist, film producer
- Merritt A. Edson
military officer
- Jean Epstein
screenwriter, filmmaker
- Paul Delvaux
graphic artist, muralist
- Karol Świerczewski
soldier, military officer
- Flora Payne Whitney
philanthropist
- Johann Rattenhuber
politician, police officer
- Husni al-Za'im
rebel, military personnel
- Michael Lippert
soldier, police officer
- Werner Voß
soldier, military personnel
- Gregory Ratoff
film director, film producer
- William Gott
military officer, military personnel
- Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort
aristocrat
- Samuel Noah Kramer
orientalist, autobiographer
- Robert Riskin
film director, film producer
- Elisabeth Bergner
stage actor, film actor
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller
military personnel
- Drew Pearson
politician, journalist
- Tarjei Vesaas
novelist, poet
- William Gopallawa
politician, diplomat
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
autobiographer, writer
- Olga Chekhova
biographer, actor
- Carl Oberg
Holocaust perpetrator, military personnel
- Peter Högl
politician
- Alma Rubens
actor, stage actor
- Jewel Carmen
film actor, stage actor
- Karl Löwith
university teacher, philosopher
- Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter
ufologist, military officer
- Faustin E. Wirkus
military personnel
- Lazare Ponticelli
soldier, resistance fighter
- John Franklin Enders
physician, entrepreneur
- Jay Lovestone
politician, trade unionist
- Kay Swift
songwriter, composer
- Pavel Batov
politician, military officer
- Albert Wedemeyer
military personnel
- Mohamed Meziane
military personnel, diplomat
- Isaías Medina Angarita
politician, military personnel
- Joseph the Hesychast
monk, elder
- Kurt Gerron
stage actor, film actor
- Jan Żabiński
zoologist, physiologist
- Nathan Farragut Twining
military officer, aircraft pilot
- John G. Bennett
non-fiction writer, philosopher
- Vladimir Paley
writer, politician
- Georgy Shpagin
engineer, design engineer
- Muhammad Shafi Usmani
religious leader
- Margaret Mahler
pediatrician, child psychiatrist
- Rhys Williams
actor, television actor
- Philip La Follette
lawyer, governor
- J. P. Guilford
statistician, university teacher
- Manuel Odría
military officer, politician
- Zhou Fohai
politician
- Yuri Kondratyuk
military flight engineer, physicist
- John Steuart Curry
lithographer, painter
- Ivan Albright
painter, sculptor
- Doris Kenyon
singer, film actor
- Jane Haining
missionary
- Jackson Scholz
sprinter, athletics competitor
- Max Newman
cryptographer, computer scientist
- James C. Marshall
military personnel, politician
- Russell Collins
stage actor, actor
- Tom Florie
association football player
- Hersch Lauterpacht
lawyer, jurist
- Philippe Soupault
translator, prose writer
- Horace McCoy
writer, screenwriter
- Erwin von Lahousen
military personnel, military officer
- Enid Lyons
writer, politician
- Eric Knight
writer, children's writer
- John Alexander
television actor, actor
- Dorothy Peterson
audio technician, film actor
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
architect, designer
- Elizabeth Bibesco
socialite, short story writer
- Charles Hartshorne
university teacher, theologian
- John Kotelawala
diplomat, politician
- Maximus V of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Iris Tree
painter, poet
- Tadeusz Reichstein
scientist, university teacher
- Viola Dana
stage actor, television actor
- Károly Kerényi
religious studies scholar, classical philologist
- Detlev Bronk
physician, educator
- Abba Ahimeir
journalist, pedagogue
- Rosa Ponselle
opera singer, musician
- Higinio Morínigo
politician
- Jesse Douglas
mathematician, university teacher
- Pixinguinha
composer, singer
- Nick Lucas
jazz musician, jazz guitarist
- Karl Decker
military personnel
- Hans-Erich Voss
naval officer
- Fernand Point
chef, businessperson
- Richard Hildebrandt
politician, functionary
- Hansa Jivraj Mehta
politician, women's rights activist
- Donald Keyhoe
writer, military officer
- Alberto Cavalcanti
film director, screenwriter
- Ferdinand Sammern-Frankenegg
major general, jurist
- August Heissmeyer
politician
- Valentin Kataev
children's writer, editing staff
- Alexander Chizhevsky
physicist, meteorologist
- Amadou M’barick Fall
boxer
- Bill Woodfull
cricketer
- Pierre Fresnay
director, film actor
- Wei Lihuang
politician
- Margalo Gillmore
film actor, stage actor
- Marjorie Rhodes
actor, film actor
- Robert Redfield
anthropologist
- Gunta Stölzl
watercolorist, draftsperson
- Gordon Holmes MacMillan
military personnel, politician
- Otto Struve
astronomer
- Georg Wittig
mathematician, chemist
- Alexandre Tansman
conductor, composer
- John Monk Saunders
screenwriter, novelist
- Archduke Albrecht Franz, Hereditary Duke of Teschen
land owner, politician
- Douglas Hartree
mathematician, physicist
- Robert Ludvigovich Bartini
military flight engineer, inventor
- Wilhelm Falley
lieutenant general, soldier
- James Parrott
screenwriter, director
- Štefan Tiso
lawyer, politician
- Ardito Desio
geologist, cartographer
- Billy Walker
association football coach, association football player
- Percy Spender
lawyer, jurist
- Rudolf Roessler
publisher, spy
- Emil Leon Post
logician, university teacher
- Adolph Deutsch
musician, film score composer
- Lillian Smith
activist, writer
- Enzo Petito
film actor, stage actor
- Mukhtar Auezov
writer, poet
- Kate O'Brien
journalist, writer
- George Murdock
anthropologist, ethnographer
- Josep Pla
novelist, writer
- Levon Mirzoyan
party organizer, statesperson
- Lina Llubera
singer, composer
- Mollie Steimer
photographer, writer