ON THIS DAY
Born in 1898
898 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- C. S. Lewis
philosopher, man of letters
- Golda Meir
teacher, librarian
- Enzo Ferrari
industrialist, entrepreneur
- Zhou Enlai
politician, minister
- Bertolt Brecht
literary critic, theatre director
- René Magritte
collagist, filmmaker
- George Gershwin
jazz pianist, songwriter
- Randolph Scott
producer, writer
- Federico García Lorca
theatre manager, theatre director
- Paul Robeson
musician, politician
- M. C. Escher
graphic artist, wood engraver
- Erich Maria Remarque
editing staff, writer
- Ahmad Shah Qajar
politician
- Julius Evola
painter, philosopher
- William James Sidis
peace activist, anthropologist
- Sergei Eisenstein
cinematographer, director
- Jack Haley
writer, film actor
- Shirley Booth
voice actor, film actor
- Chesty Puller
military officer
- Armand Hammer
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Herbert Marcuse
political scientist, university teacher
- Irene Dunne
actor, delegate
- Soong May-ling
public figure, politician
- Liu Shaoqi
politician, trade unionist
- Karl Hermann Frank
preceptor, politician
- Alexander Calder
printmaker, illustrator
- Peggy Guggenheim
gallerist, art dealer
- Leó Szilárd
physicist, scientist
- Maria Rasputin
writer, circus performer
- Rudolf Dassler
entrepreneur
- Henry Moore
artist, watercolorist
- Norman Vincent Peale
psychologist, writer
- Gulzarilal Nanda
university teacher, economist
- Trofim Lysenko
inventor, botanist
- William O. Douglas
university teacher, lawyer
- Lotte Lenya
actor, opera singer
- Tamara de Lempicka
artist, painter
- Peng Dehuai
military officer, communist
- Hans Krebs
military officer, military personnel
- Alvar Aalto
architect, designer
- Inejirō Asanuma
politician
- Julius Schreck
chauffeur, driver
- Anthony McAuliffe
soldier
- Bennett Cerf
autobiographer, editor
- Charles B. McVay III
military officer
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Josef Terboven
politician
- Rodion Malinovsky
marshal, military officer
- Kenji Mizoguchi
director, screenwriter
- Preston Sturges
screenwriter, film director
- Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski
crime boss, criminal
- Gracie Fields
stage actor, actor
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
journalist, reporter
- Bessie Love
musical theatre actor, stage actor
- Curly Lambeau
American football coach, American football player
- Howard Florey
pathologist, politician
- Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
anti-apartheid activist, autobiographer
- Henry Luce
businessperson, publisher
- Henry Hathaway
film producer, film director
- Totò
singer, actor
- Fritz Zwicky
university teacher, physicist
- Joseph Murphy
psychotherapist, jurist
- Yitzhak Kaduri
rabbi
- Robert Keith
television actor, film actor
- Wallace Ford
film actor, television actor
- Willy Messerschmitt
military flight engineer, flight engineer
- Happy Chandler
politician, baseball player
- Ada Blackjack
explorer
- Jeanne Hébuterne
painter, art model
- Gunnar Myrdal
sociologist, economist
- Dorothy Gish
actor, director
- Hugh O'Flaherty
Catholic priest, diplomat
- Kurt Tank
scientist, military flight engineer
- Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois
politician, aristocrat
- John Loder
entrepreneur, film actor
- Prince Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta
military officer, politician
- Wiley Post
explorer, aircraft pilot
- Helen B. Taussig
physician, cardiologist
- Lillian Randolph
television actor, singer
- Rolando patch
military personnel, firefighter
- Gertrude Lawrence
actor, singer
- Curzio Malaparte
journalist, film director
- Aloysius Stepinac
Catholic priest, Catholic theologian
- Leo McCarey
film producer, director
- Owen Barfield
philosopher, poet
- Ann Lowe
businessperson, fashion designer
- Marie Pierre Kœnig
politician, military personnel
- Rose Valland
art historian, curator
- Salvatore Ferragamo
cobbler, businessperson
- Emmett Kelly
actor, clown
- Konrad Henlein
physical education teacher, functionary
- Marilyn Miller
stage actor, film actor
- Lil Hardin Armstrong
singer, musician
- Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt
aristocrat
- Hans Globke
local government officer, adviser
- Ross Barnett
politician, lawyer
- Oskar Homolka
actor, film actor
- Norma Varden
film actor, stage actor
- Jacques Doriot
journalist, military personnel
- Ludwig Bemelmans
painter, draftsperson
- Giuseppe Saragat
politician, diplomat
- Therese Neumann
mystic, farmworker
- Pietro Ferrero
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Kang Sheng
politician
- Ernő Gerő
civil servant, economist
- Elazar Shach
rosh yeshiva, rabbi
- Carl Clauberg
military physician, politician
- Ömer Faruk Efendi
businessperson
- René Clair
writer, film director
- George Jessel
singer-songwriter, stage actor
- Arletty
model, film actor
- Luis Muñoz Marín
lawyer, governor
- Hanns Eisler
screenwriter, film score composer
- Georges Dumézil
religious studies scholar, linguist
- H. A. Rey
picture book writer, illustrator
- Friedrich Ritter
botanist, cactus grower
- Regis Toomey
stage actor, actor
- George Chandler
television actor, actor
- Julius Schaub
politician, soldier
- Latife Uşşakî
jurist, politician
- Stephen Vincent Benét
poet, writer
- Grace Moore
actor, stage actor
- Berenice Abbott
architectural photographer, inventor
- Frank McHugh
stage actor, television actor
- Emil Artin
mathematician, university teacher
- Mohammed Abdel Wahab
oud player, singer
- Molly Picon
stage actor, actor
- Jean Borotra
military officer, tennis player
- Felix Kersten
massage therapist, humanitarian
- Piero Sraffa
economist, university teacher
- Ben Shahn
graphic artist, designer
- Gerald Templer
military officer
- Ninette de Valois
ballet master, librettist
- M. E. Clifton James
actor, military personnel
- Lily Pons
actor, opera singer
- Luigi Fagioli
racing automobile driver, Formula One driver
- Joseph Kessel
war correspondent, aircraft pilot
- Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia
aristocrat
- Ariel Durant
writer, historian
- Renée Adorée
stage actor, actor
- Constance Talmadge
film actor, actor
- Bess Flowers
actor, film actor
- Alberto Suppici
association football player, association football coach
- Scott O'Dell
writer, children's writer
- Hisamuddin Alam Shah of Selangor
sovereign
- Héctor Scarone
association football coach, association football player
- Josefa Llanes Escoda
suffragist