ON THIS DAY
Born in 1904
973 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
scientist, science administrator
- Cary Grant
businessperson, comedian
- Salvador Dalí
painter, writer
- Reinhard Heydrich
politician, fencer
- Deng Xiaoping
diplomat, journalist
- Dr. Seuss
writer, producer
- Peter Lorre
film director, director
- Graham Greene
writer, playwright
- Pablo Neruda
writer, diplomat
- JRD Tata
entrepreneur, aircraft pilot
- Glenn Miller
conductor, bandleader
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
politician
- Umberto II of Italy
military personnel, monarch
- Nancy Mitford
writer, screenwriter
- John Gielgud
television actor, actor
- Joseph Campbell
anthropologist, writer
- B.F. Skinner
psychologist, university teacher
- Johnny Weissmuller
swimmer, film actor
- Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
aristocrat
- Umm Kulthum
actor, film actor
- Ray Bolger
stage actor, film actor
- Greer Garson
film actor, stage actor
- Ralph Bellamy
film actor, writer
- Dolores del Río
actor, film actor
- Hans Albert Einstein
university teacher, engineer
- Dick Powell
film director, film actor
- Robert Montgomery
film actor, stage actor
- Count Basie
songwriter, bandleader
- Phil Harris
composer, television actor
- Christopher Isherwood
writer, gay fiction writer
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin
statesperson, civil servant
- Cecil Day-Lewis
writer, poet
- Willem de Kooning
painter and varnisher, printmaker
- Pretty Boy Floyd
gangster, robber
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
novelist, autobiographer
- Ève Curie
diplomat, French resistance fighter
- Max Mallowan
university teacher, anthropologist
- George F. Kennan
geopolitical analyst, politician
- Fats Waller
jazz musician, conductor
- Isamu Noguchi
designer, painter
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
politician, writer
- Alger Hiss
politician, jurist
- Luis Carrero Blanco
veteran, politician
- George Balanchine
dancer, screenwriter
- Cecil Beaton
autobiographer, designer
- Jean Gabin
writer, horse breeder
- George Brent
stage actor, film actor
- Dorothy Eady
project designer (construction), Egyptologist
- Tommy Douglas
politician, Christian minister
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger
lawyer, judge
- William L. Shirer
writer, historian
- Milburn Stone
film actor, television actor
- Ralph Bunche
diplomat, political scientist
- Lili Damita
actor, film actor
- John Farrow
film producer, actor
- Iron Eyes Cody
television actor, film actor
- Kuvempu
poet, writer
- Alberta Williams King
teacher
- René Lacoste
entrepreneur, athlete
- Lucile Randon
religious sister, nurse
- Bruce Cabot
actor, film actor
- Constance Bennett
film producer, stage actor
- Keye Luke
film actor, actor
- George Stevens
director, film producer
- George Formby
comedian, film producer
- Charles Drew
surgeon, physician
- Karl Brandt
politician, physician
- Mayo Methot
film actor, musical theatre actor
- Kundan Lal Saigal
actor, film actor
- Anna Neagle
stage actor, actor
- Odilo Globočnik
military officer, police officer
- Helen Kane
musician, film actor
- Gregory Bateson
psychologist, sociologist
- J. Pat O'Malley
television actor, character actor
- James Baskett
actor, stage actor
- Arshile Gorky
designer, sculptor
- Hans Morgenthau
judge, philosopher
- Coleman Hawkins
saxophonist, jazz musician
- Tom Conway
film actor, television actor
- Clarence Nash
actor, singer
- Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
actor, socialite
- Raymond Bailey
banker, television actor
- Seán MacBride
politician, journalist
- George Gamow
cosmologist, university teacher
- Jogendra Nath Mandal
politician
- Jeane Dixon
fortune teller, astrologer
- Forrest Mars
businessperson, designer
- Margaret Bourke-White
writer, picture editor
- Margery Allingham
editor, writer
- Karl Rahner
Latin Catholic priest, theologian
- Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta
nurse, consort
- Rukmini Devi Arundale
dancer, politician
- Zita Johann
stage actor, actor
- Witold Gombrowicz
diarist, writer
- Sally Rand
film actor, dancer
- Gladys George
stage actor, actor
- Glenda Farrell
actor, television actor
- Harry Martinson
poet, science fiction writer
- Jacob Javits
author, salesperson
- Ernst Mayr
university teacher, zoologist
- Jacques Tourneur
film director, film editor
- Ernst-Günther Schenck
concentration camp guard, university teacher
- Moss Hart
screenwriter, theatrical producer
- Patrick Kavanagh
novelist, writer
- Ancel Keys
nutritionist, physician
- Ballard Berkeley
film actor, stage actor
- Josef Bühler
politician, jurist
- Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov
politician, military personnel
- Libby Holman
singer, stage actor
- Claud Cockburn
writer, journalist
- A. K. Gopalan
politician, freedom fighter
- Prince Ernst of Hohenberg
politician, skilled forestry worker
- Ramnath Goenka
businessperson, politician
- Aarne Juutilainen
military personnel
- Pavel Cherenkov
nuclear physicist, inventor
- Alejo Carpanter
novelist, essayist
- Clifford D. Simak
editor, journalist
- Johnny Mack Brown
American football player, film actor
- Minoru Genda
politician, Air Self-defense Official
- Emilio Fernández
film producer, film director
- Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy
politician, president
- Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz
resistance fighter, ambassador
- Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
actor, film producer
- James Eastland
lawyer, farmer
- Leonid Nikolaev
writer
- Jimmy Dorsey
bandleader, musician
- Kenneth Bainbridge
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Bo Gu
politician
- Harold Larwood
cricketer
- Viktor Brack
politician, Holocaust perpetrator
- Edith Barrett
actor, film actor
- Deng Yingchao
Esperantist, politician
- Arthur Frank Burns
diplomat, economist
- Shunryu Suzuki
missionary, Buddhist monk
- Jerry Colonna
voice actor, singer-songwriter
- Jatindra Nath Das
revolutionary
- Jimmy McGrory
association football coach, association football player
- Gregg Toland
cinematographer, film director
- Fred McDowell
guitarist, musician
- Wang Ming
politician
- Ivor Montagu
director, film director
- Antonín Novotný
communist, politician
- Héctor Castro
association football coach, association football player
- John Richard Hicks
economist, university teacher
- Juan José Arévalo
politician, writer
- Sisowath Kossamak
queen consort
- Otto Robert Frisch
nuclear physicist, university teacher
- Walther Hewel
diplomat, secretary of state
- Werner Forssmann
surgeon, physiologist
- Terence Fisher
screenwriter, film director