ON THIS DAY
Born in 1903
1011 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- George Orwell
poet, opinion journalist
- Bing Crosby
television producer, writer
- John von Neumann
physicist, mathematician
- Bob Hope
television presenter, actor
- Olav V of Norway
royalty, monarch
- Lou Gehrig
baseball player
- John Dillinger
moon walker
- Vincente Minnelli
costume designer, film director
- Anaïs Nin
writer, screenwriter
- Mark Rothko
artist, university teacher
- Alec Douglas-Home
cricketer, diplomat
- Evelyn Waugh
satirist, writer
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
lawyer, Holocaust perpetrator
- Claudette Colbert
television actor, stage actor
- Theodor W. Adorno
literary critic, writer
- Curly Howard
actor, television actor
- Eliot Ness
jurist, politician
- Ward Bond
film actor, television actor
- Russell Bufalino
gangster
- Rudolf Abel
military officer, radio technician
- K.Kamarajar
politician
- Yasujirō Ozu
screenwriter, film director
- Georges Simenon
writer, crime fiction writer
- Dean Jagger
television actor, stage actor
- Galeazzo Ciano
diarist, diplomat
- Kane Tanaka
salesperson, businessperson
- Maud Lewis
painter, artist
- Aram Khachaturian
university teacher, musicologist
- José Antonio Primo de Rivera
politician, poet
- Tunku Abdul Rahman
lawyer, politician
- Louis Leakey
autobiographer, paleoanthropologist
- Vladimir Horowitz
pianist
- Joseph Valachi
drug trafficker
- Edgar Bergen
screenwriter, actor
- Karl Hanke
Gauleiter, politician
- Andrey Kolmogorov
computer scientist, physicist
- Lawrence Welk
impresario, television presenter
- Edgar Buchanan
television actor, dentist
- Jiro Horikoshi
military flight engineer, engineer
- Habib Bourguiba
lawyer, politician
- Benjamin Spock
pedagogue, military officer
- Amy Johnson
glider pilot, engineer
- Elisha Cook Jr.
film actor, actor
- Konrad Lorenz
writer, university teacher
- Jeanette MacDonald
film actor, recording artist
- Georg Elser
joiner, carpenter
- John Wyndham
novelist, art dealer
- Marguerite Yourcenar
translator, essayist
- Orde Wingate
army officer
- Florence Owens Thompson
farmworker
- Melvin Purvis
lawyer
- Bix Beiderbecke
jazz musician, composer
- Diana Vreeland
socialite, editing staff
- Alonzo Church
computer scientist, logician
- Barbara Hepworth
draftsperson, artist
- Wilfrid Hyde-White
stage actor, film actor
- Maurice Tillet
professional wrestler, rugby union player
- Clare Boothe Luce
socialite, playwright
- Malcolm Muggeridge
editor, writer
- Dolores Costello
actor, stage actor
- Ella Josephine Baker
women's rights activist, politician
- Estes Kefauver
politician, lawyer
- Alan Napier
film actor, television actor
- Mimi Smith
homemaker, secretary
- Howard Homan Buffett
investor, politician
- Roy Acuff
music publisher, composer
- John Williams
composer, screenwriter
- James Beard
writer, cook
- Watchman Nee
preacher, writer
- Mustafa Barzani
politician, military personnel
- Kenneth Clark
university teacher, writer
- Igor Kurchatov
nuclear physicist, university teacher
- Arthur Godfrey
military officer, actor
- Una Merkel
stage actor, television actor
- Arpad Elo
chess player, physicist
- Joseph Cornell
filmmaker, draftsperson
- Samuel Mikunis
politician, engineer
- Graham Sutherland
visual artist, artist
- Fernandel
stage actor, film actor
- Anne Revere
stage actor, television actor
- Ma Bufang
warlord, diplomat
- Red Grange
American football player, actor
- Kōjun
consort
- Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.
insurance broker, politician
- Al Hirschfeld
artist, draftsperson
- Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark
aristocrat
- Preston Tucker
design engineer, engineer
- Karl Fritzsch
concentration camp guard, military officer
- Joan Robinson
economist, university teacher
- Mykola Pidhornyi
statesperson, engineer
- Fahri Korutürk
naval officer, diplomat
- Sadegh Hedayat
short story writer, novelist
- Horia Sima
journalist, politician
- Frank P. Ramsey
philosopher, economist
- Countee Cullen
children's writer, novelist
- Erskine Caldwell
children's writer, prose writer
- Abel Meeropol
librettist, writer
- Matthias Sindelar
association football coach, association football player
- Millard Mitchell
stage actor, film actor
- Bruno Bettelheim
psychologist, writer
- Ralph Yarborough
politician, judge
- Irène Némirovsky
novelist, writer
- Nathanael West
writer, novelist
- Alessandro Pavolini
journalist, writer
- Mike Mansfield
university teacher, diplomat
- Raymond Queneau
screenwriter, librettist
- Josephine Hutchinson
actor, stage actor
- John Vincent Atanasoff
computer scientist, physicist
- Jack Oakie
actor, comedian
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
chemist, pedagogue
- Carlos Prío Socarrás
lawyer, politician
- Andrei Grechko
politician, military officer
- Tor Johnson
film actor, actor
- Steven Runciman
historian, Byzantinist
- Binnie Barnes
television actor, actor
- Luther Adler
stage actor, actor
- Earl Hines
singer, jazz musician
- Maniben Patel
politician, writer
- Walker Evans
photojournalist, journalist
- Rex Bell
actor, politician
- Ona Munson
actor, singer
- Karl Eberhard Schöngarth
soldier, jurist
- Ruth Graves Wakefield
patent inventor, businessperson
- Cyril Connolly
novelist, literary critic
- George Coulouris
film actor, actor
- Werner Best
judge, Gestapo employee
- Guy Simonds
military officer
- Ernest Walton
university teacher, physicist
- Raymond Radiguet
writer, playwright
- Fredi Washington
stage actor, film actor
- Alan Paton
autobiographer, politician
- Tilly Losch
film actor, painter
- Adrian
costume designer, fashion designer
- Cornell Woolrich
writer, novelist
- Claudio Arrau
pianist
- Billie Dove
Ziegfeld girl, model
- Alison Frantz
photographer, Byzantinist
- Heinz Reinefarth
mayor, military personnel
- Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
politician, explorer
- Jan Tinbergen
economist, university teacher
- Fritz Bauer
actor, judge
- Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
military personnel, dictator
- Prince Nicolae of Romania
racing automobile driver
- Ted de Corsia
film actor, television actor
- Irving Stone
writer, screenwriter
- Eric Ravilious
wood engraver, graphic designer
- Mikhail Kalatozov
diplomat, screenwriter
- Mary Philbin
film actor, actor
- Lars Onsager
chemist, university teacher