ON THIS DAY
Born in 1899
915 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Alfred Hitchcock
film editor, film actor
- Ernest Hemingway
novelist, playwright
- Al Capone
gangster
- Humphrey Bogart
producer, naval officer
- Fred Astaire
stage actor, actor
- Lavrentiy Beria
politician, military personnel
- Vladimir Nabokov
novelist, journalist
- Jorge Luis Borges
short story writer, librarian
- Noël Coward
screenwriter, theatre director
- James Cagney
film actor, director
- Gloria Swanson
autobiographer, film producer
- Duke Ellington
orchestra leader, composer
- Friedrich Hayek
political scientist, philosopher
- Charles Laughton
director, film producer
- E. B. White
journalist, novelist
- P. L. Travers
novelist, children's writer
- Frederik IX of Denmark
musician, conductor
- Alma Reville
assistant director, writer
- Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Prince, aristocrat
- Leo Strauss
political scientist, university teacher
- Yasunari Kawabata
writer, screenwriter
- Hoagy Carmichael
pianist, bandleader
- Udham Singh
revolutionary
- Charles Boyer
singer, television producer
- Emma Morano
cook, centenarian
- Burt Munro
farmer, motorcycle racer
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
translator, short story writer
- George Cukor
director, film director
- Sobhuza II
politician
- John Christie
serial killer
- Weegee
photographer, photojournalist
- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
politician
- Irving Thalberg
production manager, film producer
- Jean Moulin
French resistance fighter, art dealer
- Ramón Novarro
stage actor, screenwriter
- Martin Luther King Sr.
Christian minister, parson
- Tommy Lucchese
criminal
- Kamala Nehru
freedom fighter, political activist
- Chief Dan George
prose writer, autobiographer
- Francis Poulenc
pianist, music critic
- C. S. Forester
writer, journalist
- Iskandar Ali Mirza
politician
- K. M. Cariappa
military officer
- John Bodkin Adams
serial killer, physician
- Adnan Menderes
politician
- Nevil Shute
writer, aircraft pilot
- Juan Trippe
entrepreneur
- Richard Hauptmann
murderer, joiner
- Gale Sondergaard
film actor, television actor
- Lillian Disney
artist, secretary
- Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
military personnel, military officer
- Harold Abrahams
athletics competitor, lawyer
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
philosopher, mountaineer
- Pat O'Brien
actor, film actor
- Alfred Blalock
surgeon, university teacher
- Philipp Bouhler
politician, writer
- László Bíró
sculptor, inventor
- Glenn Strange
television actor, film actor
- Neil Hamilton
film actor, stage actor
- Erich Kästner
musician, novelist
- Madge Blake
actor, film actor
- Hart Crane
poet, writer
- Ezra Taft Benson
politician, prophet
- Elizabeth Bowen
writer, short story writer
- Miguel Ángel Asturias
writer, journalist
- Akim Tamiroff
actor
- Suzanne Lenglen
tennis player
- George Macready
actor, stage actor
- Ernst-Robert Grawitz
executive, concentration camp guard
- Dwight Frye
stage actor, film actor
- Louis Chiron
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Paul-Henri Spaak
tennis player, lawyer
- S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
politician, diplomat
- Hayato Ikeda
politician, economist
- John Qualen
television actor, actor
- Percy Lavon Julian
chemist
- James Wong Howe
film director, camera operator
- Raoul Salan
military personnel
- Jimmie Davis
singer-songwriter, governor
- Jay C. Flippen
stage actor, television actor
- Béla Guttmann
association football player, association football coach
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
preacher, theologian
- Eva Le Gallienne
stage actor, director
- Gustaf Gründgens
chansonnier, line producer
- Soraya Tarzi
politician
- Seán Lemass
politician
- Wolf Messing
mentalist, illusionist
- Mervyn Johns
actor, film actor
- John Marshall Harlan II
judge, lawyer
- Veit Harlan
film director, theatre director
- Hans Jeschonnek
military personnel, military officer
- Lotte Reiniger
silhouette artist, animator
- Lyman Lemnitzer
military personnel
- Thomas A. Dorsey
singer, pianist
- Carlos P. Romulo
journalist, diplomat
- Cevdet Sunay
military personnel, politician
- Gustav Heinemann
theologian, politician
- Aline MacMahon
actor, film actor
- Lao She
university teacher, playwright
- Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe
politician, jurist
- Maria Yudina
classical pianist, pianist
- Princess Margaretha of Sweden
chairperson
- Abu al-Qasim Khoei
Qur'anic exegete, writer
- George O'Brien
military officer, film producer
- Kalki Krishnamurthy
writer, screenwriter
- Eric Linklater
autobiographer, screenwriter
- Hoyt Vandenberg
military officer
- Thomas Campbell Clark
judge, lawyer
- Martha Mansfield
film actor, actor
- Michał Kalecki
economist, university teacher
- Peter Aufschnaiter
development worker, explorer
- Frances Yates
art historian, philosophy historian
- Ruth Elizabeth Becker
teacher
- Paul Kelly
stage actor, television actor
- Adrien Arcand
journalist, politician
- Chang Myon
politician, teacher
- Anita Berber
model, prostitute
- Frank Ferguson
television actor, actor
- Brassaï
writer, painter
- Jibanananda Das
poet, university teacher
- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
engineer, politician
- Anni Albers
author, textile artist
- Charles Herbert Best
biochemist, physiologist
- Norman Taurog
screenwriter, actor
- John Sparkman
politician, professor
- Eugene Ormandy
violinist, conductor
- Ferhat Abbas
politician, pharmacist
- Billy Rose
librettist, writer
- Fritz Bayerlein
soldier, military personnel
- Henri Michaux
draftsperson, illustrator
- Harold B. Lee
prophet
- Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani
cleric, akhoond
- Andrija Artuković
lawyer, politician
- William F. Dean
military personnel
- Hashim Larijani
akhoond, theologian