ON THIS DAY
Born in 1906
1053 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Ed Gein
serial killer, artisan
- Ilse Koch
torturer, concentration camp guard
- Adolf Eichmann
police officer, military officer
- Puyi
gardener, aristocrat
- Hannah Arendt
university teacher, resistance fighter
- King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
military personnel, monarch
- Josephine Baker
vedette, musician
- John Carradine
actor, stage actor
- Samuel Beckett
cricketer, screenwriter
- John Huston
film actor, film screenwriter
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
resistance fighter, pastor
- Billy Wilder
writer, filmmaker
- Dmitri Shostakovich
composer, pianist
- Bugsy Siegel
contract killer, rum-runner
- Kurt Gödel
physicist, mathematician
- Prithviraj Kapoor
politician, film director
- George Sanders
autobiographer, songwriter
- Grace Hopper
computer scientist, physicist
- Roberto Rossellini
film director, film screenwriter
- Robert E. Howard
poet, science fiction writer
- Joan Blondell
actor, film actor
- Eddie Albert
military officer, beekeeper
- William Joyce
radio personality, politician
- Mary Astor
actor, television actor
- Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
aristocrat, philanthropist
- Louise Brooks
film actor, writer
- Curtis LeMay
politician, air force officer
- Albert Hofmann
non-fiction writer, author
- Lon Chaney Jr.
television actor, film actor
- Chandra Shekhar Azad
freedom fighter, revolutionary
- Luchino Visconti
film director, director
- R. K. Narayan
screenwriter, writer
- Hermann Fegelein
military personnel, politician
- Hans Asperger
pediatrician, university teacher
- Lou Costello
film producer, stage actor
- Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
aristocrat, military personnel
- Satchel Paige
athlete, professional baseball player
- Janet Gaynor
actor, painter
- Henri Charrière
memoirist, adventurer
- Jack Churchill
military personnel, soldier
- Hans Bethe
nuclear physicist, scientist
- Empress Wanrong
politician, composer
- Hermione Baddeley
actor, stage actor
- Tony Accardo
mobster
- Philo Farnsworth
inventor
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
diarist, aircraft pilot
- Bea Benaderet
actor, film actor
- Carol Reed
film director, film producer
- Sōichirō Honda
engineer, entrepreneur
- Joan Hickson
film actor, stage actor
- Virginia Hall
spy, SOE agent
- Hassan al-Banna
religious leader, preacher
- Léon Degrelle
military officer, jurist
- Léopold Sédar Senghor
writer, philosopher
- John Betjeman
literary critic, poet
- Sachin Dev Burman
writer, singer
- Thelma Todd
film actor, actor
- M. S. Golwalkar
religious leader, writer
- James E. Webb
lawyer, politician
- Philip Johnson
architect, architectural historian
- Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
politician
- Klaus Mann
translator, literary critic
- Jim Thompson
trade unionist, television writer
- Giuseppe Farina
racing automobile driver, Formula One driver
- John D. Rockefeller III
entrepreneur
- Maria Göppert Mayer
scientist, physicist
- Emmanuel Levinas
university teacher, philosopher
- Abraham Beame
politician
- Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark
aristocrat
- Friz Freleng
screenwriter, producer
- Ozzie Nelson
film producer, screenwriter
- Primo Carnera
professional wrestler, boxer
- Clyde Tombaugh
university teacher, astronomer
- Anna Roosevelt Halsted
socialite, writer
- Hugh Gaitskell
politician
- William Bendix
television actor, screenwriter
- Joaquín Balaguer
politician, university teacher
- T. H. White
screenwriter, science fiction writer
- Josef Kramer
merchant, concentration camp guard
- A. J. P. Taylor
historian of Modern Age, historian
- Madeleine Carroll
actor, film actor
- Marie José of Belgium
queen consort
- Bruce Bennett
athletics competitor, film actor
- John Dickson Carr
writer, science fiction writer
- Ettore Majorana
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Catherine Cookson
novelist, writer
- William J. Brennan
jurist, judge
- André Weil
historian of mathematics, mathematician
- Tribhuvan I of Nepal
politician
- Henny Youngman
comedian, film actor
- Anthony Mann
director, screenwriter
- Jim Thompson
sailor, businessperson
- Jacqueline Cochran
aircraft pilot, politician
- Alexey Stakhanov
miner, politician
- Clifford Odets
theatre director, playwright
- Walter Rauff
military personnel
- Lady May Abel Smith
art collector
- Dino Buzzati
writer, librettist
- Junius Richard Jayewardene
cricketer, politician
- James Hadley Chase
novelist, writer
- Albert B. Sabin
pathologist, university teacher
- Roger Livesey
actor, television actor
- Musa Cälil
writer, poet
- Tuvia Bielski
partisan
- Laurens van der Post
novelist, journalist
- Shinichiro Tomonaga
professor, researcher
- Clark Clifford
lawyer, politician
- Carl Weiss
physician
- Phạm Văn Đồng
politician
- Leo Rudolf Raubal
chemist, military personnel
- Eleanor Burford
writer, novelist
- José Figueres Ferrer
politician, economist
- Oleg Antonov
university teacher, aerospace engineer
- Jimmy MacDonald
actor, audio technician
- Michael O'Shea
actor, television actor
- Junio Valerio Borghese
writer, politician
- Lillian Asplund
secretary
- Enrico Mattei
politician, engineer
- Huguette Marcelle Clark
patron of the arts, musician
- Roy Roberts
stage actor, actor
- Richard Overton
soldier
- Sue Carol
film actor, actor
- S. I. Hayakawa
politician, linguist
- Lev Sedov
politician, editing staff
- Ernst Chain
biochemist, university teacher
- Vera Menchik
chess player
- Kodendera Subayya Thimayya
military personnel
- Ivan Chernyakhovsky
military officer, soldier
- George Adamson
film director, zoologist
- Tevfik Esenç
politician, civil servant
- Giuseppe Siri
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Ned Glass
television actor, film actor
- Lew Grade
television producer, politician
- Estelle Evans
actor, stage actor
- Alec Issigonis
car designer, designer
- Benita Hume
film actor, actor
- Rudolf Kastner
political activist, Zionist
- Gordon Welchman
cryptologist, cryptanalyst
- Piero Taruffi
athlete, racing automobile driver
- Carlo Scarpa
professor, architect