ON THIS DAY
Born in 1900
954 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Heinrich Himmler
Diplomlandwirt, Gestapo employee
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
politician, military personnel
- Neem Karoli Baba
spiritual teacher, yogi
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
consort, Queen mother
- Martin Bormann
soldier, politician
- Spencer Tracy
stage actor, film actor
- Rudolf Höss
politician, military officer
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
essayist, poet
- Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
aristocrat, politician
- Agnes Moorehead
film actor, television actor
- Zelda Fitzgerald
artist, painter
- Adlai Stevenson II
lawyer, politician
- Luis Buñuel
actor, poet
- James Stagg
meteorologist, air force officer
- Jean Arthur
television actor, stage actor
- Hans Frank
lawyer, politician
- Helen Hayes
autobiographer, actor
- Adolf Dassler
fashion designer, entrepreneur
- Margaret Mitchell
writer, prose writer
- Heinrich Müller
Gestapo employee, aircraft pilot
- Erich Fromm
sociologist, university teacher
- Thomas Wolfe
playwright, poet
- Aaron Copland
music critic, musicologist
- Machine Gun Kelly
businessperson, smuggler
- Wolfgang Pauli
chemist, university teacher
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
diplomat, politician
- Chiune Sugihara
diplomat
- W. Edwards Deming
author, mathematician
- Kurt Weill
composer, chapelmaster
- Urho Kekkonen
police officer, journalist
- Devdas Gandhi
journalist
- Edith Frank-Holländer
housewife
- Vasily Chuikov
memoirist, politician
- Deenanath Mangeshkar
actor, composer
- Natalie Schafer
stage actor, film actor
- Clyde Tolson
civil servant, detective officer
- Hyman G. Rickover
admiral, military officer
- Karl Wolff
military officer, soldier
- Giuseppe Zangara
bricklayer, politician
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie
scientist, actor
- Alastair Sim
film actor, television actor
- Mildred Gillars
journalist, radio personality
- David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
politician, barrister
- Raphael Lemkin
prosecutor, jurist
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
politician, teacher
- Hans Fritzsche
radio personality, news director
- Alfred Newman
composer, conductor
- Xavier Cugat
singer, screenwriter
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
university teacher, philosopher
- Arno Breker
graphic artist, politician
- Boris Pash
military personnel
- Ernie Pyle
writer, war correspondent
- Herberts Cukurs
Flieger, war criminal
- Roland Penrose
lithographer, artist
- Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
astrophysicist, astronomer
- Muhammad Asad
writer, novelist
- Colin Clive
film actor, actor
- J. Willard Marriott
entrepreneur
- Rudolf Diels
administrative lawyer, Gestapo employee
- Mervyn LeRoy
actor, film producer
- Ilse Hess
writer, politician
- Maria of Yugoslavia
consort
- Fred Chase Koch
chemical engineer, businessperson
- Jacques Prévert
writer, draftsperson
- Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta
mountaineer, politician
- Walther Wenck
soldier, military officer
- William Haines
screenwriter, actor
- Srinagarindra, Princess Mother
social worker, politician
- Ashfaqulla Khan
activist, revolutionary
- María del Carmen Polo Martínez-Valdés
First Lady
- Gilbert Ryle
philosopher
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
stage actor, actor
- John McEwen
head of government, diplomat
- Camille Chamoun
diplomat, politician
- Pridi Banomyong
statesperson, head of government
- Dennis Gabor
holographer, inventor
- Zhang Wentian
diplomat, politician
- Lena Baker
maid
- Humberto Castelo Branco
politician, military personnel
- Otto Braun
politician, writer
- Miguel Alemán Valdés
lawyer, diplomat
- James Hilton
science fiction writer, screenwriter
- Prince Knud of Denmark
naval officer
- James Bond
ornithologist, curator
- Joseph Needham
writer, sinologist
- Louise Beavers
stage actor, actor
- Uday Shankar
choreographer, actor
- George Antheil
inventor, pianist
- Hans Krebs
university teacher, biochemist
- Sándor Márai
journalist, opinion journalist
- Yves Tanguy
illustrator, painter
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
philanthropist, politician
- Sālote Tupou III of Tonga
monarch
- Giorgos Seferis
translator, ambassador
- Helen Morgan
jazz singer, musician
- Park Hon-young
journalist, writer
- Preston Foster
film actor, military officer
- Gladwyn Jebb
politician, diplomat
- Joseph Rochefort
military officer, cryptographer
- Alice Neel
photographer, painter
- Arthur Askey
screenwriter, film actor
- Robert Siodmak
film director, screenwriter
- Maurice Thorez
politician, miner
- John T. Scopes
teacher, geologist
- Padmaja Naidu
politician
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
population geneticist, biologist
- Ruby Dandridge
film actor, actor
- David Manners
actor, novelist
- Sun Li-jen
military personnel, basketball player
- Werner Haase
physician, surgeon
- Charles Vidor
film director
- Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
civil engineer, engineer
- Anna Seghers
writer, novelist
- Duy Tân
French resistance fighter, monarch
- Malvina Reynolds
singer, songwriter
- Richard Arlen
film actor, television actor
- Jan Hendrik Oort
astronomer, physicist
- Charles Francis Richter
geophysicist, seismologist
- Mária Telkes
inventor, biophysicist
- Allen Jenkins
television actor, voice actor
- Katina Paxinou
film actor, stage actor
- Douglas Jardine
cricketer
- Pedro Cea
association football coach, association football player
- Yvonne de Gaulle
politician
- Haskell Curry
computer scientist, mathematician
- Hack Wilson
baseball player
- Ibrahim Niass
theologian
- Polly Adler
madam, autobiographer
- Victor Young
actor, bandleader
- Ricardo Cortez
actor, film director
- Richard Halliburton
adventurer, film director
- Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
diplomat, politician
- Edna Best
film actor, stage actor
- Jean Negulesco
painter, actor
- Victor Kugler
managing director, electrician
- Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
film actor, actor
- Ian Hunter
film actor, actor
- Richard Kuhn
biochemist, university teacher
- Fritz Feld
actor, voice actor
- Luigi Longo
politician
- Taylor Caldwell
writer, novelist
- Imtiaz Ali Taj
writer, playwright
- Genrikh Lyushkov
politician, revolutionary
- Franz Walter Stahlecker
soldier, police officer
- Karin Boye
translator, writer
- Ismail al-Azhari
writer, politician
- Lefty Grove
baseball player