ON THIS DAY
Born in 1901
970 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Walt Disney
illustrator, comics artist
- Hirohito
marine biologist, aristocrat
- Clark Gable
actor, military officer
- Louis Armstrong
bandleader, film actor
- Marlene Dietrich
stage actor, musician
- Werner Heisenberg
university teacher, mountaineer
- Gary Cooper
producer, screenwriter
- Fulgencio Batista
military personnel, politician
- Sukarno
art collector, politician
- Enrico Fermi
physicist, inventor
- Langston Hughes
essayist, novelist
- Magda Goebbels
politician, propagandist
- Ed Sullivan
television presenter, presenter
- Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
politician, university teacher
- Linus Pauling
physicist, Esperantist
- Leopold III of Belgium
entomologist, monarch
- Lee Strasberg
theatre manager, teacher
- Paul of Greece
monarch
- Jacques Lacan
psychoanalyst, psychiatrist
- Margaret Mead
writer, film director
- Princess Märtha of Sweden
royalty
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva
secretary
- Ernest Lawrence
university teacher, physicist
- Ed Begley
actor, stage actor
- Dutch Schultz
criminal
- Ub Iwerks
film professional, screenwriter
- Melvyn Douglas
film actor, stage actor
- George Raft
stage actor, actor
- Witold Pilecki
farmer, military officer
- Barbara Cartland
writer, aircraft pilot
- Mildred Harris
film actor
- Zeppo Marx
stage actor, engineer
- Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
head of government, university teacher
- Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
military leader
- Robert Bresson
screenwriter, film producer
- Zhang Xueliang
statesperson, politician
- Mohamed Naguib
president, military officer
- Vittorio De Sica
executive producer, writer
- Alberto Giacometti
draftsperson, writer
- Stella Adler
stage actor, film actor
- Paul Fix
film actor, television actor
- Pier Giorgio Frassati
publisher
- Henning von Tresckow
resistance fighter, major general
- André Malraux
prose writer, novelist
- Itzhak Stern
accountant
- Manly P. Hall
astrologer, writer
- Lee Hoi-chuen
actor, opera singer
- V. Shantaram
actor, film actor
- Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
trade unionist, politician
- Maxwell D. Taylor
diplomat, soldier
- William S. Paley
art collector, businessperson
- Franciszek Gajowniczek
career soldier
- Brian Donlevy
film producer, film actor
- Louis Kahn
university teacher, architect
- Maurice Evans
film producer, film actor
- Joe Davis
snooker player, English billiards player
- Ewen Montagu
jurist, author
- Eisaku Satō
politician
- Carl Barks
story artist, farmer
- Jascha Heifetz
music educator, teacher
- Hans Kammler
architect, military officer
- Joaquín Rodrigo
choreographer, pianist
- Rudy Vallée
television actor, actor
- Yang Kaihui
politician, poet
- Arleigh Burke
military officer
- Henri Lefebvre
university teacher, literary critic
- Mabel Albertson
stage actor, film actor
- Schlitzie
actor, sideshow performer
- Whittaker Chambers
editor, journalist
- C. L. R. James
historian, philosopher
- Donald Ewen Cameron
psychiatrist
- Frank Buckles
military personnel
- Hank Worden
television actor, film actor
- John C. Stennis
lawyer, politician
- Haakon Chevalier
writer, academic
- Frank Zamboni
inventor, entrepreneur
- Bebe Daniels
singer, screenwriter
- Alfred Tarski
mathematician, philosopher
- George Tobias
television actor, actor
- Simon Kuznets
statistician, economist
- Nikolai Vatutin
military officer
- Nelson Eddy
musician, stage actor
- Chester Morris
stage actor, television actor
- Max Euwe
chess player, chess official
- Eiji Tsuburaya
screenwriter, film producer
- Mark Oliphant
physicist, governor
- Jean Dubuffet
painter, plastic artist
- Milton H. Erickson
psychologist, psychotherapist
- Mary Philips
film actor, actor
- Adolph Rupp
basketball player, basketball coach
- Chuck Taylor
athlete, basketball player
- Eric Voegelin
sociologist, historian
- Harry Partch
music theorist, musicologist
- Michael Oakeshott
historian, writer
- Rudolf Caracciola
racing automobile driver, athlete
- Tage Erlander
politician
- Marjorie Eaton
architect, television actor
- Alice Prin
model, singer
- Mickey Marcus
military personnel, colonel
- Erhard Heiden
Reichsführer-SS, politician
- Roy Urquhart
military officer
- Frank Hayes
jockey
- Ricardo Zamora
association football player, goalkeeper
- James Dunn
stage actor, film actor
- Potti Sreeramulu
freedom fighter, writer
- Irene Handl
novelist, stage actor
- Manuel Urrutia Lleó
judge, politician
- Walter Hallstein
diplomat, university teacher
- Arthur Liebehenschel
concentration camp guard, military personnel
- Luis Monti
association football player, association football coach
- John Sherman Cooper
jurist, judge
- Miklós Nyiszli
physician, writer
- Roy Wilkins
journalist
- Jester Hairston
television actor, actor
- Florence Green
flight attendant
- Ajoy Mukherjee
politician
- Claude Choules
consultant, military officer
- Juanita Hall
stage actor, singer
- Robert J. Van de Graaff
physicist, university teacher
- Eric Portman
actor, stage actor
- Mildred Dunnock
actor, stage actor
- Consuelo de Saint Exupéry
writer, journalist
- Adelaide Hall
musician, jazz musician
- Frederick Loewe
songwriter, pianist
- Vasily Kuznetsov
trade unionist, engineer
- Francis Chichester
entrepreneur, explorer
- William Henry Vanderbilt III
politician, naval officer
- Ben Lyon
actor, stage actor
- Salvatore Quasimodo
linguist, screenwriter
- José Nasazzi
association football coach, association football player
- Gerald Finzi
composer, editor
- Zinaida Volkova
politician
- Milada Horáková
jurist, politician
- Mildred Davis
film actor, actor
- Malcolm MacDonald
diplomat, university teacher
- Gaston Palewski
military personnel, judge
- Stefan Wyszyński
Catholic theologian, Catholic bishop
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
biologist, physiologist