ON THIS DAY
Born in 1908
1139 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Lennie Hayton
jazz musician, pianist
- Willard Libby
chemist, university teacher
- David Farrar
film actor, stage actor
- Carl Albert
lawyer, politician
- Raja Rao
writer
- Charles Holland
sport cyclist
- Robert Rossen
screenwriter, theatre director
- Duncan Sandys
politician
- Paul Stewart
film director, film actor
- Robert F. Simon
stage actor, television actor
- Libertad Lamarque
television actor, film actor
- Valentin Glushko
politician, physicist
- Mercè Rodoreda
novelist, poet
- Hannes Alfvén
electrical engineer, plasma physicist
- Polly Ann Young
actor, film actor
- Theodore Roethke
teacher, writer
- Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri
military personnel
- Harry Oppenheimer
entrepreneur, businessperson
- Yeshwantrao Holkar II
aristocrat
- Sarit Thanarat
politician, soldier
- Blas Roca Calderio
politician, communist
- Arturo Frondizi
journalist, politician
- Tom Tully
television actor, military officer
- William Dozier
television producer, actor
- Jozo Tomasevich
economist, university teacher
- Aden Abdullah Osman Daar
politician, freedom fighter
- Raymond Scott
bandleader, actor
- George Dolenz
television actor, actor
- Johanna Budwig
biochemist, dietitian
- Bud Collyer
voice actor, actor
- Bernard Fitzalan-Howard
genealogist
- Walter Burke
actor, stage actor
- Ahmad Shukeiri
politician, diplomat
- Atahualpa Yupanqui
actor, songwriter
- Martha Dodd
novelist, spy
- Dee Brown
historian, novelist
- Elizabeth Bentley
double agent, spy
- Annemarie Schwarzenbach
writer, poet
- Korczak Ziolkowski
carpenter, sculptor
- Jacques Massu
soldier, military personnel
- Takashi Nagai
diarist, writer
- Susan Fleming
actor, television actor
- Elliott Carter
music educator, composer
- Lev Pontryagin
mathematician, university teacher
- Prince Henri d'Orléans
military personnel
- Michael Maltese
actor, animator
- M. F. K. Fisher
memoirist, screenwriter
- Lefty Gomez
baseball player
- Fearless Nadia
actor, film actor
- Victor Weisskopf
nuclear physicist, university teacher
- Telford Taylor
jurist, lawyer
- Swami Muktananda
yogi, autobiographer
- Johannes Hentschel
mechanic
- Muhammad Musa
military personnel, politician
- Robert Eddison
actor
- Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah
journalist, ulema
- Héctor Trujillo
politician
- Jack Williamson
novelist, science fiction writer
- Barry Kelley
television actor, actor
- Gualberto Villarroel
politician, military officer
- Koča Popović
poet, soldier
- Max Bill
sculptor, photographer
- Christa Schroeder
secretary
- Ford Rainey
television actor, film actor
- Olivia Manning
screenwriter, poet
- Peace Pilgrim
teacher, peace activist
- Gene Sheldon
banjoist, actor
- Heinrich Maier
Catholic priest, theologian
- Bram Fischer
lawyer, politician
- Guimarães Rosa
diplomat, poet
- Russ Columbo
singer, songwriter
- Fritz Witt
soldier, major general
- Fritz Suhren
merchant
- Fritz Fischer
historian of Modern Age, university teacher
- Nicholas Kaldor
economist, university teacher
- Enzo Fiermonte
film actor, boxer
- Joe Grant
film actor, character designer
- Yevgeny Vuchetich
pedagogue, university teacher
- Giovannino Guareschi
film director, caricaturist
- Lawrence Wetherby
lawyer, politician
- Miriam Rothschild
zoologist, naturalist
- K. B. Sundarambal
actor, singer
- Horton Smith
golfer
- John Creasey
novelist, writer
- Werner Hartenstein
military personnel, Marineoffizier
- Victor Ambartsumian
politician, astrophysicist
- Arturo de Córdova
television actor, actor
- Jim Brown
association football coach, association football player
- Myron McCormick
actor, musician
- Chula Chakrabongse
social worker, diplomat
- Jim Folsom
governor, politician
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
astrophysicist, astronomer
- Alain Cuny
musician, screenwriter
- Vivian Fuchs
traveler, polar explorer
- Pablo Dorado
association football player
- İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil
politician, diplomat
- Raquel Torres
television actor, actor
- John Sutton
actor
- Linda Watkins
film actor, actor
- William Knowland
publisher, politician
- Julian Bell
paramedic, writer
- Konstantin Kuzakov
politician, philosopher
- Olga Benário Prestes
communist, revolutionary
- Johnny Green
bandleader, conductor
- Robert Foulk
actor, television actor
- Alan Baxter
stage actor, actor
- Bruno Lüdke
temporary work, coach driver
- Sally Eilers
film actor, actor
- Carlos Peucelle
association football player, association football coach
- Fyodor Okhlopkov
military personnel, sniper
- Ralph Wright
actor, voice actor
- Stuart Hamblen
musician, politician
- Kathleen Raine
writer, critic
- Muhammad Hamidullah
jurist, university teacher
- Leo Rosten
linguist, political scientist
- Robert Merle
teacher, science fiction writer
- Leela Majumdar
translator, children's writer
- Antonina Żabińska
writer, resistance fighter
- Wang Zhen
military personnel, politician
- Garfield Todd
missionary, politician
- Jane Bolin
lawyer, judge
- Thomas A. Wofford
lawyer, politician
- Reginald Beckwith
television actor, actor
- Otto Kerner, Jr.
politician, jurist
- Edgar Faure
legal historian, writer
- Albert Maltz
writer, screenwriter
- Margot Drechsel
torturer
- C. Vann Woodward
historian, writer
- Ilya Frank
university teacher, physicist
- Alfred Hershey
chemist, microbiologist
- Lilian Bond
actor, film actor
- Prabodh Kumar Bandyopadhyay
writer, novelist
- Patsy Montana
singer, songwriter
- René Daumal
translator, literary critic
- Titus Burckhardt
philosopher, historian
- Grégoire Aslan
actor, entertainer
- Albert Wass
poet, writer
- Chivu Stoica
politician, boilermaker
- M. M. Kaye
children's writer, writer
- Hijab Imtiaz Ali
translator, writer
- Leo Sternbach
chemist, university teacher
- Alexander D'Arcy
television actor, film actor
- George Nelson
designer, architect