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Born in 1901

970 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Len Lye

    artist, film producer

    1901–1980 · aged 78

    July 5 · 1901

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  2. Kwon Ki-ok

    aviation writer, aviation pioneer

    1901–1988 · aged 87

    January 11 · 1901

    No external source identified

  3. Dmitry Lelyushenko

    military officer, politician

    1901–1987 · aged 85

    November 2 · 1901

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia

  4. E. B. Ford

    biologist, university teacher

    1901–1986

    April 23 · 1901

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  5. Christopher Wood

    painter

    1901–1930 · aged 29

    April 7 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  6. Mario Scelba

    lawyer, politician

    1901–1991 · aged 90

    September 5 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  7. Vincent du Vigneaud

    university teacher, chemist

    1901–1978 · aged 77

    May 18 · 1901

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  8. Spiridon Marinatos

    university teacher, art historian

    1901–1974 · aged 72

    November 17 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  9. Jürgen Wagner

    politician, military officer

    1901–1947 · aged 45

    September 9 · 1901

    Source: FactGrid

  10. Vladimir Sofronitsky

    pianist, musician

    1901–1961 · aged 60

    May 8 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  11. Bruce Cooper Clarke

    military personnel

    1901–1988 · aged 86

    April 29 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  12. Erich Ollenhauer

    politician

    1901–1963 · aged 62

    March 27 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  13. Raj Chandra Bose

    mathematician, university teacher

    1901–1987 · aged 86

    June 19 · 1901

    Source: Scientific Legacy Database

  14. Dave Halliday

    association football coach, association football player

    1901–1970 · aged 68

    December 11 · 1901

    No external source identified

  15. John Strachey

    journalist, economist

    1901–1963 · aged 61

    October 21 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  16. Ben Welden

    actor

    1901–1997 · aged 96

    June 12 · 1901

    No external source identified

  17. Teresa Demjanovich

    nun

    1901–1927 · aged 26

    March 26 · 1901

    Source: GCatholic.org

  18. Konrad Heiden

    journalist, writer

    1901–1966

    August 7 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  19. Pauline Starke*

    actor, film actor

    Date disputed

    January 10 · 1901

    Source: IMDb

  20. Jesse Stone

    composer, songwriter

    1901–1999 · aged 97

    November 16 · 1901

    Source: Discogs

  21. William H. Daniels

    cinematographer

    1901–1970 · aged 68

    December 1 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  22. Karl Möckel

    concentration camp guard

    1901–1948 · aged 47

    January 9 · 1901

    No external source identified

  23. David Arellano*

    association football player, teacher

    Date disputed

    July 29 · 1901

    Source: PlaymakerStats.com

  24. Nina Bari

    university teacher, mathematician

    1901–1961 · aged 59

    November 19 · 1901

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  25. Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1901–2000 · aged 98

    August 2 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  26. Muhammad Amin Bughra

    politician

    1901–1965 · aged 64

    April 22 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  27. Berthold Lubetkin

    architect

    1901–1990 · aged 88

    December 14 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  28. Ding Mocun

    politician

    1901–1947

    1901

    No external source identified

  29. Nyanaponika Thera

    writer, Buddhist monk

    1901–1994

    1901

    Source: datos.bne.es

  30. Willy Fritsch

    dancer, film actor

    1901–1973 · aged 72

    January 27 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  31. Chandraprava Saikiani

    social reformer, politician

    1901–1972 · aged 71

    March 16 · 1901

    No external source identified

  32. Chester Bowles

    politician, diplomat

    1901–1986 · aged 85

    April 5 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  33. Motojirō Kajii

    poet, novelist

    1901–1932 · aged 31

    February 17 · 1901

    Source: Babelio

  34. Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen

    aristocrat

    1901–1984 · aged 83

    June 30 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  35. John Collier

    science fiction writer, screenwriter

    1901–1980 · aged 78

    May 3 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  36. Carl Joachim Friedrich

    political scientist, university teacher

    1901–1984

    June 5 · 1901

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  37. Karl-August Fagerholm

    diplomat, hairdresser

    1901–1984 · aged 82

    December 31 · 1901

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  38. Aharon Zisling

    politician

    1901–1964 · aged 62

    February 26 · 1901

    Source: knesset.gov.il

  39. Severino Di Giovanni

    poet, journalist

    1901–1931 · aged 29

    March 16 · 1901

    No external source identified

  40. Walther Wüst

    philologist, university teacher

    1901–1993 · aged 91

    May 7 · 1901

    Source: Nuremberg Trials Project

  41. Fernando Tambroni

    politician

    1901–1963 · aged 61

    November 25 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  42. Frank Boucher

    ice hockey coach, ice hockey player

    1901–1977 · aged 76

    October 7 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  43. Josef Wirmer

    jurist, lawyer

    1901–1944 · aged 43

    March 19 · 1901

    Source: stolpersteine-berlin.de

  44. Hideo Shima

    engineer, civil servant

    1901–1998 · aged 96

    May 20 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  45. Frankie Trumbauer

    saxophonist, bandleader

    1901–1956 · aged 55

    May 30 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  46. Joseph S. Clark Jr.

    politician, lawyer

    1901–1990 · aged 88

    October 21 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  47. Odd Nansen

    writer, diarist

    1901–1973 · aged 71

    December 6 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  48. Princess Maria Alix of Saxony

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    September 27 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  49. Charles Keightley

    military personnel

    1901–1974 · aged 72

    June 24 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  50. Nora Gregor

    stage actor, singer

    1901–1949 · aged 47

    February 3 · 1901

    Source: Salzburgwiki

  51. Kokomo Arnold

    singer, guitarist

    1901–1968 · aged 67

    February 15 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  52. Claude Autant-Lara

    politician, film director

    1901–2000 · aged 98

    August 5 · 1901

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  53. Hugo Friedhofer

    film score composer, composer

    1901–1981 · aged 80

    May 3 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  54. Jacqueline Logan

    screenwriter, actor

    1901–1983 · aged 81

    November 30 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. James Murray

    actor

    1901–1936 · aged 35

    February 9 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  56. Mieczysław Fogg

    singer

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    May 30 · 1901

    Source: janek.czarnieckiego.pl

  57. Friedrich Alpers

    jurist, politician

    1901–1944 · aged 43

    March 25 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  58. Charles W. Morris

    writer, university teacher

    1901–1979 · aged 77

    May 23 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  59. Piero Gobetti

    anti-fascist, journalist

    1901–1926

    June 19 · 1901

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  60. Leon Belasco

    stage actor, actor

    1901–1988 · aged 86

    October 24 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  61. Norah Borges

    sculptor, writer

    1901–1998 · aged 97

    March 4 · 1901

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  62. Isser Be'eri

    intelligence agent, spy

    1901–1958

    January 30 · 1901

    No external source identified

  63. Jan Eduard de Quay

    university teacher, writer

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    August 26 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  64. Aziza Amir

    film director, writer

    1901–1952 · aged 50

    December 17 · 1901

    No external source identified

  65. Rose Ausländer

    author, poet

    1901–1988 · aged 86

    May 11 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  66. Gerhard von Rad

    Hebrew Bible scholar, university teacher

    1901–1971 · aged 70

    October 21 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. Oliver La Farge

    journalist, novelist

    1901–1963 · aged 61

    December 19 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  68. Umberto Caligaris

    association football player, association football coach

    1901–1940 · aged 39

    July 26 · 1901

    Source: FBref

  69. Pierre Batcheff*

    film screenwriter, film actor

    Date disputed

    June 23 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  70. Konstantinos Kollias

    civil servant, judge

    1901–1998

    1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  71. John Merton

    film actor, actor

    1901–1959 · aged 58

    February 18 · 1901

    No external source identified

  72. Lucienne Boyer

    singer

    1901–1983 · aged 82

    August 18 · 1901

    Source: Archives de Paris

  73. György Orth

    association football player, association football coach

    1901–1962 · aged 60

    April 30 · 1901

    No external source identified

  74. René Dubos

    university teacher, biochemist

    1901–1982 · aged 81

    February 20 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  75. Hap Day

    ice hockey player, ice hockey coach

    1901–1990 · aged 88

    June 1 · 1901

    No external source identified

  76. Yuliya Solntseva

    actor, director

    1901–1989 · aged 88

    August 7 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  77. Horace Heidt

    bandleader, pianist

    1901–1986 · aged 85

    May 21 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  78. Thawan Thamrongnawasawat

    politician, military officer

    1901–1988 · aged 87

    November 21 · 1901

    No external source identified

  79. Hermann Josef Abs

    art collector, banker

    1901–1994 · aged 92

    October 15 · 1901

    Source: Frankfurter Personenlexikon

  80. Enrique Santos Discépolo

    screenwriter, film director

    1901–1951 · aged 50

    March 27 · 1901

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  81. Carmelita Geraghty

    actor, film actor

    1901–1966 · aged 65

    March 21 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  82. Don Costello

    stage actor, actor

    1901–1945 · aged 44

    September 5 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  83. Adolf Busemann

    engineer, university teacher

    1901–1986 · aged 85

    April 20 · 1901

    Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup

  84. Alexander Shcherbakov

    writer, politician

    1901–1945 · aged 43

    October 10 · 1901

    No external source identified

  85. Henri Tomasi

    choreographer, composer

    1901–1971 · aged 69

    August 17 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  86. Max Wagner

    pianist, composer

    1901–1975 · aged 73

    November 28 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  87. Etta Moten Barnett

    activist, film actor

    1901–2004 · aged 102

    November 5 · 1901

    Source: Handbook of Texas

  88. Ebbe Schwartz

    sports official, politician

    1901–1964 · aged 63

    May 3 · 1901

    No external source identified

  89. Harry Harvey

    actor, television actor

    1901–1985 · aged 84

    January 10 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  90. Stanley William Hayter

    etcher, graphic artist

    1901–1988 · aged 86

    December 27 · 1901

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  91. Bruno Jasieński

    writer, poet

    1901–1938

    July 17 · 1901

    Source: Russian literature of the 20th century. Volume 3, 2005

  92. Raymond Firth

    anthropologist, academic

    1901–2002 · aged 100

    March 25 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  93. Sergei Khudyakov

    military personnel

    1901–1950 · aged 48

    December 26 · 1901

    Source: Who is Who: Armenians

  94. Harry Stradling

    cinematographer

    1901–1970 · aged 68

    September 1 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  95. Harvey Stephens

    glider pilot, stage actor

    1901–1986 · aged 85

    August 21 · 1901

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  96. Alexandra Adler*

    psychiatrist, neurologist

    Date disputed

    September 24 · 1901

    Source: news.harvard.edu

  97. Richard Brauer

    mathematician, university teacher

    1901–1977 · aged 76

    February 10 · 1901

    Source: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  98. Ramón J. Sender

    novelist, journalist

    1901–1982 · aged 80

    February 3 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  99. Jean Guitton

    university teacher, theologian

    1901–1999 · aged 97

    August 18 · 1901

    Source: GeneaStar

  100. Peter van de Kamp

    university teacher, astronomer

    1901–1995 · aged 93

    December 26 · 1901

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  101. Lew Landers

    television director, director

    1901–1962 · aged 61

    January 2 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  102. Sergiusz Piasecki

    satirical novelist, novelist

    1901–1964 · aged 63

    April 1 · 1901

    Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny

  103. Prince Ludwig Philipp of Thurn and Taxis

    1901–1933 · aged 32

    February 2 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  104. June Tripp

    actor, film actor

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    June 11 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  105. János Esterházy

    journalist, opinion journalist

    1901–1957 · aged 55

    March 14 · 1901

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  106. Muggsy Spanier*

    trumpeter, musician

    Date disputed

    November 9 · 1901

    Source: oxfordindex.oup.com

  107. Lanza del Vasto

    philosopher, writer

    1901–1981 · aged 79

    September 29 · 1901

    Source: Roglo

  108. Hugo Ballivián

    politician

    1901–1993 · aged 92

    June 7 · 1901

    No external source identified

  109. Cyril of Bulgaria

    patriarch

    1901–1971 · aged 70

    January 3 · 1901

    Source: The Righteous Among the Nations Database

  110. Wilhelm Schmalz

    military officer, soldier

    1901–1983

    March 1 · 1901

    Source: The Peerage

  111. Alexander Werth

    historian, writer

    1901–1969 · aged 68

    February 4 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  112. José Maria Alkmin

    lawyer, politician

    1901–1974 · aged 72

    June 11 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  113. Yusuf Salman Yusuf

    politician

    1901–1949 · aged 47

    July 19 · 1901

    No external source identified

  114. Kuni Asaakira

    politician, aircraft pilot

    1901–1959 · aged 58

    February 2 · 1901

    No external source identified

  115. Franco Rasetti

    geologist, biologist

    1901–2001 · aged 100

    August 10 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  116. Berta Drews

    musician, stage actor

    1901–1987 · aged 85

    November 19 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  117. Birendranath Sircar

    film producer

    1901–1980

    1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  118. Alexandre Alexeieff*

    film director, painter

    Date disputed

    April 18 · 1901

    Source: Archives de Paris

  119. Clärenore Stinnes

    screenwriter, film director

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    January 21 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  120. H. Bruce Humberstone

    actor, director

    1901–1984 · aged 82

    November 18 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  121. Gustav Machatý

    film actor, film producer

    1901–1963

    May 9 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  122. Richard Lindner

    graphic artist, painter

    1901–1978 · aged 76

    November 11 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  123. Harry Guntrip

    psychologist

    1901–1975

    1901

    Source: NUKAT

  124. Rina Zelyonaya

    actor, screenwriter

    1901–1991 · aged 89

    November 7 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  125. Francis Perrin*

    professeur des universités, nuclear physicist

    Date disputed

    August 17 · 1901

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées

  126. Valerian Pidmohylny

    writer, short story writer

    1901–1937 · aged 36

    February 2 · 1901

    Source: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia

  127. Max Lorenz

    opera singer

    1901–1975 · aged 73

    May 10 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  128. Ralph Rainger

    film score composer, composer

    1901–1942 · aged 41

    October 7 · 1901

    Source: Find a Grave

  129. Carol Dempster

    film actor, actor

    1901–1991 · aged 89

    December 9 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  130. Heinz Eric Roemheld

    composer, musician

    1901–1985 · aged 83

    May 1 · 1901

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  131. Aaron Director

    economist

    1901–2004 · aged 102

    September 21 · 1901

    No external source identified

  132. Daniel-Rops

    essayist, Catholic theologian

    1901–1965 · aged 64

    January 19 · 1901

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  133. Cecília Meireles

    journalist, poet

    1901–1964 · aged 63

    November 7 · 1901

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  134. Edgar Ende

    draftsperson, graphic artist

    1901–1965 · aged 64

    February 23 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  135. Lucien Prival

    film actor, actor

    1901–1994 · aged 92

    July 14 · 1901

    Source: IMDb

  136. Nicola Abbagnano

    university teacher, philosopher

    1901–1990 · aged 89

    July 15 · 1901

    Source: BeWeB

  137. Isa Alptekin

    politician

    1901–1995

    1901

    No external source identified

  138. Jean Grémillon*

    screenwriter, director

    Date disputed

    October 3 · 1901

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  139. Lajos Dinnyés

    politician

    1901–1961 · aged 60

    April 16 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  140. Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker

    university teacher, scientific collector

    1901–1957 · aged 55

    November 6 · 1901

    Source: author citation in botany and mycology

  141. Pavel Mif

    economist, historian

    1901–1939

    August 3 · 1901

    No external source identified

  142. Gustav Knuth

    politician, film actor

    1901–1987 · aged 85

    July 7 · 1901

    Source: filmportal.de

  143. Abdallah El-Yafi

    politician, lawyer

    1901–1986 · aged 85

    September 7 · 1901

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  144. Rudolf Wittkower

    writer, university teacher

    1901–1971 · aged 70

    June 22 · 1901

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  145. Andreas Embirikos

    writer, poet

    1901–1975 · aged 73

    September 2 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  146. Daniele Amfitheatrof

    film score composer, composer

    1901–1983 · aged 81

    October 29 · 1901

    Source: SNAC

  147. Itzik Manger

    writer, poet

    1901–1969 · aged 67

    May 30 · 1901

    Source: Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Ja…

  148. Jimmy Gallagher*

    association football player

    Date disputed

    June 7 · 1901

    Source: Transfermarkt

  149. Kazimierz Michałowski*

    art historian, Egyptologist

    Date disputed

    December 14 · 1901

    Source: BnF authorities

  150. Kiyoshi Oka

    university teacher, mathematician

    1901–1978 · aged 76

    April 19 · 1901

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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