ON THIS DAY
Born in 1908
1139 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Lyndon B. Johnson
statesperson, rancher
- James Stewart
director, film director
- Ian Fleming
writer, screenwriter
- Bette Davis
autobiographer, musician
- Oskar Schindler
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Simone de Beauvoir
autobiographer, feminist
- Nelson Rockefeller
politician, philanthropist
- Joseph McCarthy
usher, politician
- Otto Skorzeny
soldier, military officer
- Salvador Allende
physician, surgeon
- Edward Teller
physicist, inventor
- Enver Hoxha
resistance fighter, politician
- Carole Lombard
film actor
- Amon Göth
concentration camp guard, torturer
- Thurgood Marshall
civil rights advocate, jurist
- Mel Blanc
dub actor, radio drama actor
- Rex Harrison
director, television actor
- Buddy Ebsen
songwriter, television actor
- Don Bradman
actor, cricketer
- Simon Wiesenthal
musician, Nazis hunter
- Don Ameche
film director, film actor
- Milton Berle
television actor, film actor
- John Mills
stage actor, film actor
- Harold Holt
lawyer, politician
- David Lean
writer, film producer
- Fred MacMurray
television actor, actor
- Estée Lauder
businessperson, fashion designer
- Ethel Merman
writer, musician
- Abraham Maslow
psychologist, university teacher
- Eve Arden
film actor, actor
- Michael Redgrave
director, stage actor
- Edward R. Murrow
journalist
- Sam Giancana
gangster
- Lita Grey
film actor, autobiographer
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
ethnologist, researcher
- Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Tex Avery
screenwriter, actor
- John Kenneth Galbraith
politician, university teacher
- Herbert von Karajan
opera director, conductor
- Martha Gellhorn
war correspondent, novelist
- Van Heflin
film actor, stage actor
- Lev Landau
theoretical physicist, non-fiction writer
- Lupe Vélez
film actor, stage actor
- Louis L'Amour
science fiction writer, novelist
- Baby Face Nelson
criminal, serial killer
- John Bardeen
university teacher, electrical engineer
- William Hartnell
television actor, stage actor
- Bernard Lee
film actor, actor
- Eugen Weidmann
serial killer
- Mae Questel
stage actor, actor
- Richard Wright
writer, short story writer
- Quentin Crisp
autobiographer, television actor
- Cus D'Amato
boxing trainer, coach
- Lew Ayres
actor, banjoist
- William Saroyan
novelist, writer
- William McMahon
politician, diplomat
- Anna Magnani
screenwriter, film actor
- Paul Henreid
screenwriter, film director
- Lee Krasner
painter, artist
- Krystyna Skarbek
maid, switchboard operator
- Olivier Messiaen
librettist, music theorist
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
painter, film director
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
civil rights advocate, founder
- Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
chairperson, founder
- Imogene Coca
television presenter, singer
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
aesthetician, professor
- Franz Stangl
military officer, politician
- Robert Morley
film actor, actor
- Willard Van Orman Quine
analytic philosopher, philosopher
- Jagjivan Ram
politician
- Celia Johnson
stage actor, film actor
- Inah Canabarro Lucas
mathematics teacher, nun
- Buster Crabbe
actor, film actor
- Michael Ellis DeBakey
physician, surgeon
- Devika Rani
actor, manufacturer
- Lionel Stander
film actor, actor
- Virginia Cherrill
actor, film actor
- Paul Brown
American football coach, American football player
- Peg Entwistle
stage actor, film actor
- Morey Amsterdam
radio personality, musician
- Remedios Varo
sculptor, draftsperson
- Yousuf Karsh
photographer, artist
- Cesare Pavese
biographer, literary critic
- Mary Welsh Hemingway
prose writer, journalist
- Balthus
illustrator, painter
- Sylvester Weaver
screenwriter, filmmaker
- Brigitte Helm
film actor
- Rómulo Betancourt
politician, journalist
- Arthur O'Connell
actor, stage actor
- Lionel Hampton
vibraphonist, bandleader
- Louis Jordan
jazz musician, bandleader
- Karl Swenson
television actor, film actor
- Harry Blackmun
lawyer, politician
- Dennis Morgan
actor, singer
- Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
academic, writer
- Shivaram Rajguru
revolutionary, freedom fighter
- Stéphane Grappelli
film actor, recording artist
- Billie Bird
television actor, comedian
- Dmitriy Ustinov
writer, engineer
- Günther Prien
submariner, commandant
- Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy
pianist, lady-in-waiting
- Sucheta Kripalani
politician, freedom fighter
- Jill Esmond
actor, stage actor
- Masaru Ibuka
entrepreneur, writer
- Edward Dmytryk
screenwriter, film producer
- Alistair Cooke
journalist, television presenter
- Carlos Arias Navarro
lawyer, politician
- Bronko Nagurski
actor, American football player
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
essayist, screenwriter
- Jacob Bronowski
biologist, philosopher
- Penny Singleton
singer, performing artist
- Will Lee
film actor, television actor
- Tomiko Itooka
housewife
- Viktor Abakumov
military officer, politician
- Kurt H. Debus
engineer, physicist
- George Rodger
documentarian, photojournalist
- Winston Graham
novelist, writer
- Laurence Naismith
actor, film actor
- Percy Faith
pianist, film score composer
- David Marshall
diplomat, lawyer
- Joseph Rotblat
physicist
- Amintore Fanfani
politician, teacher
- Eduard Roschmann
lawyer, concentration camp guard
- Edward Lansdale
soldier, airman
- Leela Mishra
actor
- Michel Marcel Navratil
university teacher, philosopher
- Walter Annenberg
diplomat, publisher
- Arthur Goldberg
jurist, lawyer
- David Oistrakh
violinist, music educator
- Manoel de Oliveira
cinematographer, film producer
- Martin Goodman
editor, businessperson
- Leroy Anderson
lyricist, classical composer
- L. V. Prasad
film actor, actor
- Vera Atkins
spy, intelligence officer
- Mad Dog Coll
gangster
- Charles Upham
farmer
- Werner von Haeften
jurist, soldier
- Joshua Logan
actor, playwright
- Dennis O'Keefe
actor, film director
- Barbara Luddy
voice actor, actor
- Giovanni Leone
jurist, politician
- Mika Waltari
playwright, novelist
- Angelo Rossitto
actor, film actor
- Eden Ahbez
composer, singer-songwriter
- Nedra Volz
television actor, actor
- George Pal
cinematographer, film director
- Gene Raymond
screenwriter, aircraft pilot