ON THIS DAY
Born in 1899
915 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Josef Wagner
member of parliament, Oberpräsident
- Fritz Albert Lipmann
university teacher, biochemist
- Yury Olesha
prose writer, screenwriter
- Ephraim Amu
theologian, teacher
- Salomon Bochner
historian of science, mathematician
- Jonas Lie
jurist, politician
- Wen Yiduo
writer, poet
- Grigory Mairanovsky
physician, biochemist
- Hans Lunding
military officer, autobiographer
- Arvīds Pelše
party activist, statesperson
- Daisuke Nanba
revolutionary, student
- Randall Thompson
music educator, composer
- Walter Crickmer
association football coach, association football player
- Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski
dressage rider, military officer
- Debi Prasad Roy Choudhury
writer, painter
- Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri
writer, poet
- Bernhard Rogge
screenwriter, naval officer
- George Erskine
military officer, military personnel
- Justas Paleckis
poet, politician
- Helen Traubel
singer, film actor
- Alfred Sohn-Rethel
university teacher, sociologist
- Julien Bryan
film editor, journalist
- Gabriel El-Registan
screenwriter, war correspondent
- Kenjirō Takayanagi
engineer, inventor
- Sigurd F. Olson
writer, conservationist
- Winnie Lightner
actor, film actor
- Pierre Auger
physicist
- Filipp Oktyabrsky
politician, admiral
- Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay
writer, poet
- Heinrich Nordhoff
industrialist, entrepreneur
- Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim
aristocrat
- Robert Casadesus
musician, pianist
- Yitzhak Frenkel
painter, artist
- Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir
politician, poet
- Ruth Ellis
businessperson, printer
- Curtis Bernhardt
actor, screenwriter
- Benjamin Péret
writer, poet
- Edwin L. Marin
film director, assistant director
- Franz Xaver Dorsch
civil engineer
- Alexander Grantham
military personnel
- Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer
university teacher, chemist
- Walter Charles Langer
historian, scientist
- George Călinescu
librarian, playwright
- Szolem Mandelbrojt
professor, mathematician
- Otto E. Neugebauer
astronomer, mathematician
- Nikolay Dollezhal
physicist, engineer
- Elda Emma Anderson
physicist
- Zvee Scooler
stage actor, radio personality
- Günther Pancke
politician
- William Steinberg
conductor
- Raymond Mays
racing driver, Formula One driver
- Pura Belpré
writer, children's writer
- Ernesto Giménez Caballero
filmmaker, film director
- Henrik Sjögren
physician, ophthalmologist
- Patriarch German of Serbia
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria
aristocrat
- Gustav Diessl
painter, film actor
- Nikolay Voronov
marshal, artillery
- Dick Lane
film actor, television presenter
- Tullio Cianetti
trade unionist, politician
- Ernest Haycox
writer, novelist
- Bernt Balchen
explorer, military officer
- Ernst Biberstein
military personnel, pastor
- Pierre Pucheu
industrialist, collaborator with Nazi Germany
- Eugenia Smith
modiste, painter
- Jón Leifs
pianist, composer
- Antonio Ligabue
painter, sculptor
- Andrija Hebrang
politician, revolutionary
- Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven
colonel, military personnel
- Yuriko Miyamoto
writer, novelist
- Maxwell Fry
architect, writer
- Oskar Munzel
military personnel
- Marcel Achard
film director, actor
- Lasgush Poradeci
writer, translator of Adam Mickiewicz
- Abdolhossein Hazhir
politician
- Mani Madhava Chakyar
writer, actor
- Manuel dos Reis Machado
martial artist, capoeira practitioner
- Winifred Westover
actor, film actor
- Edward Chamberlin
economist
- Helen Kim
missionary, activist
- Jack Beresford
rower
- Hans Krása
conductor, composer
- Hans Kahle
military officer, police officer
- Walter Woolf King
actor, singer
- Sam Newfield
film director, screenwriter
- Mart Stam
university teacher, urban planner
- Boris Artzybasheff
illustrator, painter
- William Dobell
sculptor, painter
- Charles Bennett
playwright, screenwriter
- Sergey Trofimenko
military leader, politician
- Mignon G. Eberhart
writer, novelist
- Folke Rogard
chess player, chess official
- Mabel Strickland
writer, politician
- Henry Calvert Simons
non-fiction writer, economist
- Edward L. Cahn
film producer, film editor
- Cecil Roth
pedagogue, historian
- Nicolas Frantz
cyclo-cross cyclist, sport cyclist
- Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
pianist, violinist
- Juliusz Schauder
mathematician
- Francis Reginald Scott
writer, jurist
- Peyami Safa
writer, journalist
- Stanley Skewes
mathematician, university teacher
- Richard Hartshorne
geographer, university teacher
- Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory
diplomat, military personnel
- Dov Joseph
politician, lawyer
- Ilse Bing
photographer
- Heinrich Rau
resistance fighter, politician
- Wolfgang Krull
university teacher, mathematician
- Leo Borchard
librettist, conductor
- Đuro Pucar
political commissar, politician
- Max Alpert
photographer
- Werner Janssen
musician, conductor
- Alexander Radó
cartographer, spy
- Bernard Griffin
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Alicja Kotowska
religious sister
- Kanysh Satpayev
geologist, academic
- Ambujam Ammal
academic, activist
- Edna Murphy
actor, model
- Robin Hill
university teacher, biochemist
- Lilli Henoch
field hockey player, athletics competitor
- Edward Ludwig
director, film director
- Edmund Bergler
psychiatrist, non-fiction writer
- Ralf Harolde
actor
- Jun Ishikawa
poet, writer
- Hans Swarowsky
musician, editor
- Lovro von Matačić
composer, conductor
- Lydia Cabrera
writer, ethnologist
- Juliette Compton
actor, film actor
- Eugène Canseliet
writer
- Mikhail Zharov
film actor, director
- Willem Jacob Luyten
university teacher, astronomer
- Blandine Ebinger
singer, actor
- Lakshmi N. Menon
politician
- Elisabeth Langgässer
short story writer, teacher
- Édgar Neville
screenwriter, playwright
- Kathryn Carver
film actor, actor
- Bruce Marshall
writer
- Edward Charles Titchmarsh
university teacher, mathematician
- Nicolas Rashevsky
theoretical physicist, physicist