ON THIS DAY
Born in 1902
996 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Ansel Adams
writer, photographer
- Ruhollah Khomeini
poet, ulema
- John Steinbeck
prose writer, writer
- Charles Lindbergh
autobiographer, aircraft pilot
- Ray Kroc
writer, entrepreneur
- Prince George, Duke of Kent
civil servant, military officer
- Strom Thurmond
lawyer, governor
- Leni Riefenstahl
director, film producer
- Meyer Lansky
investor, gangster
- Paul Dirac
scientist, physicist
- Georgy Malenkov
politician
- Karl Popper
sociologist, philosopher
- Carlo Gambino
godfather, criminal
- Sarah Rector
businessperson
- Tallulah Bankhead
autobiographer, stage actor
- Richard Rodgers
librettist, screenwriter
- Margaret Hamilton
actor, television actor
- Saud of Saudi Arabia
statesperson, heir apparent
- Albert Anastasia
criminal, gangster
- Elsa Lanchester
dancer, stage actor
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Rebbe, rabbi
- Charan Singh
politician, head of government
- Norma Shearer
film actor, stage actor
- William Wyler
film actor, director
- Will Geer
stage actor, film actor
- Larry Fine
violinist, voice actor
- Thelma Ritter
actor, television actor
- Thomas E. Dewey
politician, governor
- Jayaprakash Narayan
politician, freedom fighter
- Bobby Jones
lawyer, athlete
- Ralph Richardson
film actor, film director
- Carl Rogers
non-fiction writer, psychotherapist
- Irene Ryan
actor, stage actor
- Erik Erikson
university teacher, educator
- John Houseman
actor, television producer
- David O. Selznick
director, screenwriter
- Frances Bavier
film actor, actor
- Eric Liddell
missionary, athlete
- Andrew Comyn Irvine
explorer, mountaineer
- Eugene Paul Wigner
physicist, mathematician
- Darryl F. Zanuck
actor, director
- Josemaría Escrivá
jurist, Catholic priest
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
politician, diplomat
- Miriam Hopkins
television actor, screenwriter
- Barbara McBurger
chemist, geneticist
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
soldier, military personnel
- Juscelino Kubitschek
politician, physician
- Reinhard Gehlen
military officer, intelligence officer
- Fernand Braudel
historian, university teacher
- Chill Wills
musician, actor
- Beryl Clutterbuck Markham
author, horse trainer
- Joshua Norman Haldeman
aircraft pilot
- Moe Berg
spy, baseball player
- Mikhail Suslov
politician, university teacher
- Halldór Laxness
philosopher, playwright
- Lloyd Nolan
actor, television actor
- Talcott Parsons
university teacher, biologist
- Princess Mafalda of Savoy
aristocrat
- Richard J. Daley
politician
- Marcel Breuer
designer, draftsperson
- Carlos Gracie
athlete
- Ogden Nash
screenwriter, poet
- Wilhelm Stuckart
secretary of state, lawyer
- Son House
guitarist, composer
- Georgette Heyer
novelist, writer
- Nâzım Hikmet
librettist, poet
- Flora Robson
stage actor, film actor
- Mohammad Hatta
politician
- Gene Sarazen
golfer
- Brian Aherne
stage actor, television actor
- Rattanbai Jinnah
politician
- Rab Butler
politician
- Sun Yaoting
eunuch
- Stepin Fetchit
film actor, actor
- Alexandre Kojève
philosopher, politician
- Leon Ames
trade unionist, film actor
- Mitsuo Fuchida
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Meredith Willson
musician, pianist
- George Murphy
dancer, stage actor
- Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
singer
- Brooke Astor
businessperson, philanthropist
- Eric Hoffer
psychologist, sociologist
- Ann Harding
film actor, stage actor
- Guy Lombardo
violinist, bandleader
- Victor Jory
composer, film actor
- Walter Slezak
film actor, recording artist
- Mortimer J. Adler
university teacher, writer
- Wifredo Lam
artist, printmaker
- William Walton
musician, classical composer
- Masanobu Tsuji
politician, colonel
- Norman Maclean
university teacher, journalist
- Joe Adonis
gangster
- Lyle Talbot
stage actor, television actor
- Barton MacLane
rancher, screenwriter
- Abraham Wald
mathematician, statistician
- Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu
politician, aristocrat
- Ray Teal
conductor, television actor
- Eddie Lowery
golfer, businessperson
- Max Ophüls
writer, director
- Gladys Aylward
missionary
- Luis Barragán
architect, urban planner
- Ernő Goldfinger
furniture designer, designer
- Takeichi Nishi
event rider, military personnel
- Albert Namatjira
botanical collector, painter
- Demchugdongrub
politician
- C. Wade McClusky
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Jasper Maskelyne
engineer, magician
- Günther Anders
journalist, university teacher
- Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio
politician
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala
politician, jurist
- Philip Ober
stage actor, television actor
- Anatole Litvak
director, film director
- Walter Houser Brattain
physicist, inventor
- Emeric Pressburger
film producer, director
- Ava Alice Muriel Astor
socialite
- Skip James
musician, songwriter
- Mary Miles Minter
stage actor, film actor
- Harry Stockwell
singer, voice actor
- Fritz Strassmann
chemist, resistance fighter
- Albert Forster
soldier, politician
- Nikolaus Pevsner
university teacher, architect
- Alexander Luria
psychologist, special education teacher
- Albert Bormann
politician
- Arne Jacobsen
furniture designer, architect
- Seishi Yokomizo
writer, novelist
- John A. McCone
politician, art collector
- Mantan Moreland
television actor, stage actor
- Carlo Levi
physician, writer
- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
politician, opinion journalist
- Véra Nabokov
writer, editing staff
- Lyubov Orlova
pianist, actor
- Felix Wankel
politician, inventor
- Qasim Razvi
politician
- Johann von Leers
politician, jurist
- Anthony Asquith
director, film director
- Hans Bellmer
illustrator, printmaker
- K. Shivaram Karanth
poet, writer
- Anny Ondra
film producer, musician
- Tran Van Huong
politician
- Kevin Barry
medical student, rugby union player
- Markian Popov
politician, soldier
- June Miller
dancer
- Gustav Fröhlich
film director, screenwriter
- Jack Sharkey
boxer
- Pascual Jordan
politician, non-fiction writer
- Mildred Harnack
resistance fighter, Lehrbeauftragter
- Abe Saperstein
basketball player, businessperson
- Edward Durell Stone
designer, architect