ON THIS DAY
Born in 1909
1,097 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Errol Flynn
writer, character actor
- Elia Kazan
screenwriter, film actor
- Kwame Nkrumah
writer, economist
- Ethel May Collins
mathematics teacher
- Nicholas Winton
banker, philanthropist
- James Mason
stage actor, actor
- Jessica Tandy
film actor, actor
- Barry Goldwater
photographer, politician
- Simone Weil
poet, French resistance fighter
- Osamu Dazai
short story writer, writer
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Colonel Tom Parker
impresario, music executive
- Stepan Bandera
politician
- Juliana of the Netherlands
monarch
- Francis Bacon
artist, draftsperson
- Burl Ives
street artist, autobiographer
- C. N. Annadurai
screenwriter, politician
- Dana Andrews
trade unionist, television actor
- Max Baer
athlete, film actor
- Margaret Sullavan
television actor, film actor
- Carmen Miranda
actor, singer
- Matt Busby
association football player, association football coach
- Mike Todd
soda jerk, film producer
- Miep Gies
secretary, writer
- Robert Ryan
actor, military officer
- Benny Goodman
jazz musician, film actor
- Vivian Vance
film actor, television actor
- Albert R. Broccoli
film producer
- Hugh Beaumont
actor, television director
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
stage actor, film producer
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
screenwriter, trade unionist
- Peter Drucker
businessperson, university teacher
- Victor Borge
conductor, stand-up comedian
- U Thant
writer, politician
- Mohammed Daoud Khan
diplomat, politician
- Isaiah Berlin
philosopher, university teacher
- Talal I of Jordan
politician, sovereign
- Jim Davis
film actor, television actor
- Andrei Gromyko
diplomat, economist
- Stanisław Ulam
scientist, writer
- Eugène Ionesco
graphic artist, television actor
- Eudora Welty
artist, literary critic
- Johnny Mercer
poet, lyricist
- Stavros Niarchos
ship-owner, entrepreneur
- Edwin Walker
soldier, military personnel
- Fred Perry
table tennis player, sports journalist
- Gene Krupa
composer, bandleader
- William M. Branham
faith healer, preacher
- Art Tatum
pianist, musician
- Ann Sothern
television actor, actor
- Dixie Lee
actor, singer
- Michael Rennie
film actor, stage actor
- Leo Fender
luthier, guitar maker
- Joe DeRita
comedian, voice actor
- Saul Alinsky
human rights defender, community organizer
- Marinus van der Lubbe
trade unionist, political activist
- Lester Young
clarinetist, musician
- Porfirio Rubirosa
socialite, diplomat
- E. M. S. Namboodiripad
freedom fighter, politician
- Obafemi Awolowo
politician, teacher
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
neurologist, neurobiologist
- Savita Ambedkar
writer, physician
- Robert Helpmann
dancer, theatre director
- Frances Dee
film actor, actor
- James Agee
film director, journalist
- Dean Rusk
lawyer, politician
- Marie-Thérèse Walter
painter, model
- Virginia Apgar
pediatrician, university teacher
- John Haigh
serial killer
- Tom Ewell
musician, stage actor
- Ilse Braun
secretary
- Li Xiannian
military personnel, revolutionary
- Wenxiu
concubine
- Walter Audisio
politician, partisan
- Patricia Hayes
film actor, comedian
- Aruna Asaf Ali
publisher, freedom fighter
- Bert Patenaude
association football player
- Harriet Nelson
actor, television actor
- Wallace Stegner
writer, naturalist
- Ernst vom Rath
politician, diplomat
- Michael Gordon
director, actor
- Souphanouvong
politician
- Julius J. Epstein
screenwriter
- Whit Bissell
film actor, television actor
- Guy de Rothschild
collector, banker
- Jean Jadot
university teacher, Catholic theologian
- Maybelle Carter
songwriter, singer
- Richard Wurmbrand
writer, dissident
- Dolores Hope
singer
- Nelson Algren
novelist, writer
- Malcolm Lowry
poet, short story writer
- Joseph Losey
director, film screenwriter
- Edwin H. Land
physicist, photographer
- Bimal Roy
film editor, director
- Wolfgang Reitherman
aircraft pilot, character animator
- William Greer
U.S. Secret Service agent
- Juan Bosch
politician, writer
- Ferry Porsche
designer, general manager
- Kay Thompson
singer, film score composer
- Everett Sloane
actor, voice actor
- John Fante
novelist, screenwriter
- Sigmund Rascher
physician, torturer
- August Derleth
writer, novelist
- Eric Ambler
science fiction writer, film producer
- Muhammad Ali Bogra
politician, diplomat
- Stephen Spender
poet, translator
- Gottfried von Cramm
tennis player
- Alex Raymond
screenwriter, military officer
- André Morell
film actor, actor
- Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander
correspondence chess player, schoolmaster
- Louis Hayward
military officer, television actor
- Leonard Sachs
actor, stage actor
- Lionel Crabb
soldier, military personnel
- Rollo May
psychotherapist, writer
- Infanta Beatriz of Spain
aristocrat
- Golo Mann
university teacher, historian
- Seichō Matsumoto
novelist, writer
- Al Capp
journalist, comics artist
- Howard da Silva
actor, stage actor
- Lila Kedrova
film actor, stage actor
- Heather Angel
stage actor, television actor
- Frank Albertson
actor, television actor
- Robert Brasillach
film critic, translator
- David Abraham Cheulkar
film actor, actor
- Ernst Gombrich
art historian, writer
- Mel Ott
baseball player
- Maurice Denham
film actor, television actor
- Ben Webster
actor, composer
- David Lewis
politician, lawyer
- Hélder Câmara
Catholic bishop, theologian
- Bill France
racing driver, racing automobile driver
- Leela Chitnis
film director, film actor
- Robert Serber
university teacher, physicist
- Werner Naumann
politician
- Oldřich Nejedlý
association football player
- Magda Schneider
singer, stage actor
- Billy Curtis
actor, film actor
- Syed Abdul Rahim
association football player, association football coach
- James Hampton
artist
- Alexander Pechersky
military officer
- Solomon Linda
composer, singer-songwriter
- Indro Montanelli
screenwriter, writer
- Karen Morley
actor, film actor
