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Born in 1901

970 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Princess Iolanda, Countess of Bergolo

    aristocrat

    1901–1986 · aged 85

    June 1 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  2. Norman Hartnell

    fashion designer

    1901–1979

    June 12 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  3. Vehbi Koç

    businessperson, entrepreneur

    1901–1996 · aged 94

    July 20 · 1901

    No external source identified

  4. George Gallup

    businessperson, mathematician

    1901–1984 · aged 82

    November 18 · 1901

    Source: GeneaStar

  5. Aurora Mardiganian

    actor, writer

    1901–1994 · aged 93

    January 12 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  6. Stuart Symington

    politician

    1901–1988 · aged 87

    June 26 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  7. Pancho Barnes

    aircraft pilot

    1901–1975

    July 22 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  8. Florence Eldridge

    film actor, actor

    1901–1988 · aged 86

    September 5 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  9. Evelyn Brent*

    actor, television actor

    Date disputed

    October 20 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  10. Paul Ford

    stage actor, voice actor

    1901–1976 · aged 74

    November 2 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  11. Chen Yi

    diplomat, soldier

    1901–1972 · aged 70

    August 26 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  12. Harry Grey

    screenwriter, novelist

    1901–1980 · aged 78

    November 2 · 1901

    Source: Babelio

  13. Souvanna Phouma

    politician, head of government

    1901–1984 · aged 82

    October 7 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  14. Otto Wächter

    military officer, lawyer

    1901–1949

    July 8 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  15. Feng-Shan Ho

    diplomat

    1901–1997 · aged 96

    September 10 · 1901

    No external source identified

  16. Pratap Singh Kairon

    politician

    1901–1965

    1901

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  17. Jaroslav Seifert

    opinion journalist, essayist

    1901–1986 · aged 84

    September 23 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  18. John Desmond Bernal

    naturalist, historian

    1901–1971 · aged 70

    May 10 · 1901

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  19. Vilma Bánky*

    film actor, actor

    Date disputed

    January 9 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  20. Duke Joachim Ernst I, Duke of Anhalt

    ministerialrat, art collector

    1901–1947 · aged 46

    January 11 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  21. Yi Bangja

    painter

    1901–1989 · aged 87

    November 4 · 1901

    No external source identified

  22. Laura Riding

    novelist, critic

    1901–1991 · aged 90

    January 16 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  23. Lila Lee

    film actor, stage actor

    1901–1973 · aged 72

    July 25 · 1901

    Source: Discogs

  24. Ludolf von Alvensleben

    politician, farmer

    1901–1970

    March 17 · 1901

    Source: The Hitler Book

  25. Arnulfo Arias

    politician, physician

    1901–1988 · aged 86

    August 15 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  26. William Sterling Parsons

    naval officer

    1901–1953 · aged 52

    November 26 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  27. Ramón Serrano Suñer*

    diplomat, jurist

    Date disputed

    September 12 · 1901

    Source: gw.geneanet.org

  28. Rudolf Slánský

    politician

    1901–1952 · aged 51

    July 31 · 1901

    Source: Jewish birth, marriage and death registry Spálené Poříčí (1868–1933)

  29. Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia

    aristocrat

    1901–1980 · aged 78

    August 15 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  30. Raimundo Orsi

    association football coach, association football player

    1901–1986 · aged 84

    December 2 · 1901

    Source: FBref

  31. John Gunther

    opinion journalist, writer

    1901–1970 · aged 68

    August 30 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  32. Anna Kavan

    novelist, painter

    1901–1968 · aged 67

    April 10 · 1901

    Source: Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature

  33. Frank Churchill

    film score composer, composer

    1901–1942 · aged 40

    October 20 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  34. Henry Eyring

    chemist, university teacher

    1901–1981 · aged 80

    February 20 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  35. Roy Campbell

    writer, poet

    1901–1957 · aged 55

    October 2 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  36. Pancho Villa

    boxer

    1901–1925 · aged 23

    August 1 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  37. Walther Sommerlath

    entrepreneur, businessperson

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    January 22 · 1901

    Source: Genealogics

  38. Ödön von Horváth

    screenwriter, writer

    1901–1938 · aged 36

    December 9 · 1901

    Source: Babelio

  39. Chaya Mushka Schneerson

    rebbetzin

    1901–1988 · aged 86

    March 16 · 1901

    No external source identified

  40. Nina Georgievna of Russia

    1901–1974 · aged 72

    June 20 · 1901

    No external source identified

  41. Hans-Adolf Prützmann

    politician

    1901–1945 · aged 43

    August 31 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  42. Allyn Joslyn

    film actor, stage actor

    1901–1981 · aged 79

    July 21 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  43. Learie Constantine

    diplomat, cricketer

    1901–1971 · aged 69

    September 21 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  44. Robert Ritter

    physician, psychologist

    1901–1951 · aged 49

    May 14 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  45. Margarete Buber-Neumann

    resistance fighter, writer

    1901–1989 · aged 88

    October 21 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  46. Arthur Samuel

    university teacher, computer scientist

    1901–1990 · aged 88

    December 5 · 1901

    Source: pantheon.world

  47. Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken

    businessperson, journalist

    1901–1958 · aged 57

    February 15 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  48. Mehmed Abdülaziz Efendi

    1901–1977 · aged 75

    September 26 · 1901

    No external source identified

  49. Chiyo Miyako

    1901–2018 · aged 117

    May 2 · 1901

    No external source identified

  50. Hermann Prieß

    military personnel

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    May 24 · 1901

    Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup

  51. August Schmidhuber

    military officer

    1901–1947 · aged 45

    May 8 · 1901

    No external source identified

  52. Rosamond Lehmann

    writer, translator

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    February 3 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  53. Archduke Anton of Austria

    military personnel

    1901–1987 · aged 86

    March 20 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  54. Frank Belknap Long

    comics writer, writer

    1901–1994 · aged 92

    April 27 · 1901

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  55. Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid

    stained-glass artist, printmaker

    1901–1991 · aged 89

    December 6 · 1901

    Source: Google Doodle

  56. Grete Hermann

    mathematician, university teacher

    1901–1984 · aged 82

    March 2 · 1901

    Source: FemBio database

  57. Jerry Voorhis

    politician

    1901–1984 · aged 83

    April 6 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  58. Clyde Geronimi

    producer, animator

    1901–1989 · aged 87

    June 12 · 1901

    Source: Who's Who in Animated Cartoon

  59. Stanisław Mikołajczyk

    politician

    1901–1966 · aged 65

    July 18 · 1901

    Source: GeneaStar

  60. Frieda Inescort

    stage actor, film actor

    1901–1976 · aged 74

    June 29 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  61. Beauford Delaney*

    painter, colorist

    Date disputed

    December 30 · 1901

    Source: Delaney, Beauford

  62. Edward Chapman

    film actor, actor

    1901–1977

    October 13 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  63. Paul Lazarsfeld

    educator, psychologist

    1901–1976 · aged 75

    February 13 · 1901

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  64. Dorothy Hansine Andersen

    pathologist, scientist

    1901–1963 · aged 61

    May 15 · 1901

    Source: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

  65. Ruth Crawford Seeger

    composer

    1901–1953 · aged 52

    July 3 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  66. Mikhail Romm

    film editor, film director

    1901–1971 · aged 70

    January 24 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. G. Sankara Kurup

    writer, politician

    1901–1978 · aged 76

    June 3 · 1901

    No external source identified

  68. Donald Howard Menzel

    university teacher, ufologist

    1901–1976 · aged 75

    April 11 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  69. Salchak Toka

    writer, politician

    1901–1973 · aged 71

    December 15 · 1901

    Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia

  70. Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen

    jurist, resistance fighter

    1901–1949 · aged 48

    March 29 · 1901

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  71. Raúl Prebisch

    economist, politician

    1901–1986

    April 17 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  72. William Lyons

    car designer, entrepreneur

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    September 4 · 1901

    No external source identified

  73. Xu Xiangqian

    politician

    1901–1990 · aged 88

    November 8 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  74. René Pleven

    justice minister, head of government

    1901–1993 · aged 91

    April 15 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  75. Ned Washington

    lyricist, musician

    1901–1976 · aged 75

    August 15 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  76. Otto Ambros

    engineer, chemist

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    May 19 · 1901

    Source: Consolidated wanted lists (March 1947 edition)

  77. Sylvia Field*

    stage actor, television actor

    Date disputed

    February 28 · 1901

    Source: IMDb

  78. Alex James

    association football coach, association football player

    1901–1953 · aged 51

    September 14 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  79. Annette Hanshaw

    songwriter, singer

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    October 18 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  80. Irna Phillips

    film actor, writer

    1901–1973

    July 1 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  81. Philip Dorn

    actor, film actor

    1901–1975 · aged 73

    September 30 · 1901

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  82. Curt Bois

    comedian, composer

    1901–1991 · aged 90

    April 5 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  83. Antal Szerb

    translator, literary scholar

    1901–1945 · aged 43

    May 1 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  84. Henri Cochet

    tennis player

    1901–1987

    December 14 · 1901

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  85. Adriano Olivetti

    businessperson, engineer

    1901–1960 · aged 58

    April 11 · 1901

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  86. Muhammad Fareed Didi

    politician

    1901–1968

    January 11 · 1901

    No external source identified

  87. Hotsumi Ozaki

    journalist, spy

    1901–1944 · aged 43

    April 29 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  88. Paul Verhoeven

    television actor, film actor

    1901–1975 · aged 73

    June 23 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  89. Alberto Hurtado

    lawyer, Catholic theologian

    1901–1952 · aged 51

    January 22 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  90. Donald Cook

    film actor, stage actor

    1901–1961 · aged 60

    September 26 · 1901

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  91. James Leslie Mitchell

    novelist, journalist

    1901–1935 · aged 33

    February 13 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  92. Gavin Gordon

    actor, television actor

    1901–1983

    April 7 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  93. Cassandre

    scenographer, type designer

    1901–1968 · aged 67

    January 24 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  94. Sobha Singh

    painter

    1901–1986

    November 29 · 1901

    Source: Artists of the World

  95. Rajendra Lahiri

    revolutionary, editing staff

    1901–1927 · aged 26

    June 23 · 1901

    No external source identified

  96. Charles Stark Draper

    engineer, university teacher

    1901–1987 · aged 85

    October 2 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  97. Ed Gardner

    film producer, film actor

    1901–1963 · aged 62

    June 29 · 1901

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  98. Joe Pasternak

    production manager, executive producer

    1901–1991 · aged 89

    September 19 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  99. Konrad Meyer-Hetling

    military officer, civil servant

    1901–1973 · aged 71

    May 15 · 1901

    Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, Stand vom 1. Dezember 1936

  100. Leon Shamroy

    cinematographer

    1901–1974 · aged 72

    July 16 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  101. Hugo Haas

    screenwriter, actor

    1901–1968 · aged 67

    February 19 · 1901

    Source: Documentation of Jewish cemeteries in Moravia and Silesia

  102. Ernest Nagel

    philosopher, university teacher

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    November 16 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  103. Michel Leiris

    diarist, anthropologist

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    April 20 · 1901

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  104. Fuzzy Knight

    television actor, actor

    1901–1976 · aged 74

    May 9 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  105. Charles Evans Whittaker

    judge, lawyer

    1901–1973 · aged 72

    February 22 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  106. Richmond Barthé

    artist, painter

    1901–1989

    January 28 · 1901

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  107. Chic Young

    cartoonist, painter

    1901–1973 · aged 72

    January 9 · 1901

    Source: Lambiek Comiclopedia

  108. Liang Sicheng

    architect, politician

    1901–1972 · aged 70

    April 20 · 1901

    No external source identified

  109. Andre Kostelanetz

    composer, radio personality

    1901–1980 · aged 78

    December 22 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  110. Klaus Bonhoeffer

    jurist, lawyer

    1901–1945 · aged 44

    January 5 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  111. Jean Prouvé

    designer, engineer

    1901–1984 · aged 82

    April 8 · 1901

    Source: Structurae

  112. Hellmuth Stieff

    military officer

    1901–1944 · aged 43

    June 6 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  113. Mary Eaton

    film actor, singer

    1901–1948 · aged 47

    January 29 · 1901

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  114. Karl Arnold

    politician

    1901–1958 · aged 57

    March 21 · 1901

    Source: Minister President since 1946

  115. Pavel Rotmistrov

    military officer

    1901–1982 · aged 80

    July 6 · 1901

    Source: TracesOfWar

  116. John Alton

    film director, cinematographer

    1901–1996 · aged 94

    October 5 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  117. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg

    1901–1950 · aged 49

    March 7 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  118. Nina Berberova

    lector, poet

    1901–1993 · aged 92

    August 8 · 1901

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  119. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

    university teacher, politician

    1901–1962 · aged 60

    June 23 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  120. Arvid Harnack

    resistance fighter, economist

    1901–1942

    May 24 · 1901

    Source: stolpersteine-berlin.de

  121. Haj Ali Razmara

    geographer, head of government

    1901–1951 · aged 49

    March 30 · 1901

    No external source identified

  122. Jakub Berman*

    politician, jurist

    Date disputed

    December 23 · 1901

    Source: bs.sejm.gov.pl

  123. Sergo Goglidze

    military personnel, soldier

    1901–1953 · aged 52

    August 12 · 1901

    Source: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia

  124. Nevvare Hanım

    aristocrat

    1901–1992 · aged 90

    May 4 · 1901

    No external source identified

  125. Howard Koch*

    film producer, writer

    Date disputed

    December 12 · 1901

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  126. Gilda Gray

    Ziegfeld girl, dancer

    1901–1959 · aged 58

    October 24 · 1901

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  127. Natalie Moorhead

    stage actor, film actor

    1901–1992 · aged 91

    July 27 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  128. Aghasi Khanjian

    party organizer, statesperson

    1901–1936 · aged 35

    January 30 · 1901

    Source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

  129. Bob Marshall

    writer, conservationist

    1901–1939 · aged 38

    January 2 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  130. Edmund Rubbra

    music arranger, musicologist

    1901–1986 · aged 84

    May 23 · 1901

    Source: Musicalics

  131. Jean Mermoz

    politician, aircraft pilot

    1901–1936 · aged 34

    December 9 · 1901

    Source: Babelio

  132. Alexander Fadeyev

    writer, short story writer

    1901–1956 · aged 54

    December 24 · 1901

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  133. Jimmy Rushing

    jazz musician, singer

    1901–1972 · aged 70

    August 26 · 1901

    No external source identified

  134. Glenway Wescott

    poet, writer

    1901–1987 · aged 85

    April 11 · 1901

    Source: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  135. Maurice J. Tobin

    politician, governor

    1901–1953 · aged 52

    May 22 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  136. A. B. Guthrie Jr.

    novelist, journalist

    1901–1991 · aged 90

    January 13 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  137. Roman Bohnen

    actor, stage actor

    1901–1949 · aged 47

    November 24 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  138. Gino Cervi

    television actor, film actor

    1901–1974 · aged 72

    May 3 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  139. Luigi Chinetti

    entrepreneur, racing automobile driver

    1901–1994 · aged 93

    July 17 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  140. Mohammed Helmy

    physician

    1901–1982 · aged 80

    July 25 · 1901

    No external source identified

  141. Muriel Gardiner

    writer, psychiatrist

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    November 23 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  142. Ben Blue

    film actor, actor

    1901–1975 · aged 73

    September 12 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  143. Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo*

    poet, translator

    Date disputed

    March 4 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  144. Lisette Model

    pedagogue, artist

    1901–1983 · aged 81

    November 10 · 1901

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  145. Alex Manoogian

    inventor, engineer

    1901–1996 · aged 95

    June 28 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  146. Marino Marini

    artist, architectural drafter

    1901–1980 · aged 79

    February 27 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  147. Charles Brenton Huggins

    physiologist, university teacher

    1901–1997 · aged 95

    September 22 · 1901

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  148. Carroll Nye

    actor, film actor

    1901–1974 · aged 72

    October 4 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  149. Ivan Pyryev

    director, pedagogue

    1901–1968 · aged 66

    November 17 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  150. Fred Uhlman

    artist, jurist

    1901–1985 · aged 84

    January 19 · 1901

    Source: Babelio

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