ON THIS DAY
Born in 1905
1,043 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
advocate, resistance fighter
- Jean Vigo
director, film director
- Jan Gies
resistance fighter
- Mischa Auer
stage actor, film actor
- Oveta Culp Hobby
lawyer, art collector
- Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
actor, film actor
- Agnes de Mille
theatre director, ballet dancer
- Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim
resistance fighter, colonel
- Leila Hyams
actor, film actor
- Lionel Trilling
writer, novelist
- William Cagney
producer, film producer
- Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
writer, politician
- Emlyn Williams
film actor, film director
- Abeid Karume
minister, politician
- Mir Sultan Khan
chess player
- Nihal Atsız
writer, historian
- Witness Lee
preacher, Bible translator
- Ans van Dijk
shopkeeper, criminal
- Raymond Cattell
university teacher, psychologist
- Martin Gottfried Weiss
military personnel
- David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter
athletics competitor, art collector
- Attila József
poet
- Irawati Karve
poet, writer
- Kay Kyser
actor, bandleader
- Erwin Chargaff
chemist, biographer
- Siaka Stevens
politician
- John Emery
screenwriter, film actor
- Raúl Leoni
politician, lawyer
- Wolfram Sievers
official, managing director
- Dorothy Hale
actor, film actor
- Ashley Montagu
anthropologist, university teacher
- Jack Teagarden
singer, jazz musician
- Robert Stevenson
journalist, screenwriter
- Charles Coward
military personnel
- Dorothy Fields
librettist, lyricist
- Michael Tippett
librettist, classical composer
- Natalia Pavlovna Paley
model, socialite
- Sajjad Zaheer
writer, politician
- Maximilian Grabner
police officer, Gestapo employee
- Tom Driberg
journalist, politician
- Angelo Schiavio
association football player, association football coach
- Joe Bambrick
association football player
- Henry Koster
film director, writer
- Joseph Kosma
film score composer, musician
- Pierre Klossowski
writer, painter
- Dore Schary
director, producer
- Warren Magnuson
prosecutor, secretary
- Walter A. Brown
ice hockey player
- Piet Hein
poet, inventor
- Erich Neumann
mythographer, writer
- Henry Green
writer, novelist
- William Gargan
television actor, actor
- Karl Guthe Jansky
astronomer, astrophysicist
- Eric Larson
film director, draftsperson
- Herta Ehlert
concentration camp guard, military personnel
- Herbert Morrison
radio journalist, journalist
- Red Nichols
musician, conductor
- Carl Gustav Hempel
mathematician, epistemologist
- Elsie MacGill
military flight engineer
- Queenie Leonard
actor, film actor
- John Dierkes
economist, actor
- Emily Hahn
novelist, engineer
- Lise de Baissac
spy, SOE agent
- David M. Kennedy
diplomat, politician
- Erich Naumann
clerk
- Franz König
university teacher, Catholic priest
- Aris Velouchiotis
cadre, resistance fighter
- George Mitchell
television actor, stage actor
- Gaston Eyskens
political scientist, head of government
- Frank Marshall Davis
journalist, poet
- Rashid Jahan
physician, writer
- Claire McCardell
designer, fashion designer
- Betty Garde
stage actor, television actor
- Seni Pramoj
head of government, politician
- John Abbott
film actor, actor
- Robert Byron
art historian, prose writer
- John Thach
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Carleton Young
actor
- Ruth Nelson
actor, stage actor
- Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff
military officer, military personnel
- Pat O'Callaghan
hammer thrower, military physician
- Kenneth Rexroth
literary critic, conscientious objector
- Denis O'Dea
film actor, stage actor
- Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
economist, politician
- Serge Lifar
ballet dancer, dancer
- Yves Allégret
film producer, writer
- Teru Shimada
actor, film actor
- Hiroshi Inagaki
director, film producer
- Mao Zetan
politician
- Ramiro Ledesma Ramos
novelist, politician
- Michele Navarra
criminal, physician
- Nevill Francis Mott
university teacher, physicist
- Helen Joseph
writer, politician
- Stanley Kunitz
linguist, poet
- Federica Montseny
feminist, writer
- T. Keith Glennan
diplomat, scientist
- Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum
politician
- Kalu Rinpoche
Lama
- Lily Parr
association football player, nurse
- Marc Blitzstein
composer, lyricist
- Juan O'Gormann
architect, painter
- Frits Philips
entrepreneur, art collector
- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn
politician, economist
- Dmitri Shepilov
military personnel, politician
- Joseph E. Levine
film distributor, producer
- Loïs Mailou Jones
painter, artist
- Albert W. Tucker
mathematician, university teacher
- Addie McPhail
film actor, actor
- Colin Clark
civil servant, economist
- Constant Lambert
music director, jazz musician
- Nestor Paiva
television actor, actor
- Jan Werich
director, screenwriter
- Victor Kravchenko
engineer, diplomat
- Pierre Brasseur
screenwriter, film actor
- Preguinho
association football player, swimmer
- Ludwig Fischer
politician, jurist
- Ibrahim Biçakçiu
politician, large estate owner
- Helen Sawyer Hogg
astronomer, university teacher
- Mustafa Ismail
qāriʾ, writer
- Xie Jinyuan
military officer
- Gao Gang
politician
- Malek Bennabi
sociologist, engineer
- Margaret Gorman
model, beauty pageant contestant
- Irmgard Keun
science fiction writer, writer
- Wolfgang Lukschy
screenwriter, musician
- Margery Sharp
novelist, writer
- Pedro Petrone
association football player
- Bruno Gesche
politician
- Theodor Oberländer
politician, economist
- Eddie Foy, Jr.
stage actor, actor
- Giacinto Scelsi
musician, poet
- Conrad Hal Waddington
paleontologist, university teacher
- Jean Daniélou
Catholic priest, writer
- Edward Burra
artist, printer
- Hendrik Wade Bode
mathematician, physicist
- Maurice Challe
French resistance fighter, military personnel
- Red Ruffing
baseball player
- Wanda Wasilewska
writer, screenwriter
- Bill Raisch
television actor, film actor
- Paul Nizan
politician, essayist
- Aldo Fabrizi
screenwriter, director
- Ataur Rahman Khan
politician
- Jean-Marie Villot
Catholic priest, Catholic deacon
- Edmond Jouhaud
military personnel
