ON THIS DAY
Born in 1911
1051 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Ronald Reagan
anti-communist, statesperson
- Josef Mengele
physician writer, military physician
- Lucille Ball
actor, director
- Jack Ruby
businessperson, nightclub owner
- Vincent Price
film actor, autobiographer
- Tennessee Williams
screenwriter, poet
- L. Ron Hubbard
religious leader, Scientology
- Jean Harlow
film actor, actor
- Ginger Rogers
film actor, writer
- Robert Johnson
street artist, singer-songwriter
- Danny Kaye
stage actor, television actor
- Konstantin Chernenko
politician
- Hubert Humphrey
mayor, trade unionist
- Merle Oberon
actor, screenwriter
- Baba Vanga
healer, psychic
- William Golding
science fiction writer, writer
- Robert Taylor
film actor, television actor
- Klaus Fuchs
politician, university teacher
- Juan Manuel Fangio
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Marshall McLuhan
literary scholar, media scholar
- Georges Pompidou
politician, banker
- Maureen O'Sullivan
actor, film actor
- Lee J. Cobb
director, actor
- Ashok Kumar
film producer, film director
- Władysław Szpilman
writer, songwriter
- Joseph Barbera
film producer, bank teller
- Mahalia Jackson
religious leader, gospel singer
- Randolph Churchill
military personnel, politician
- Roy Rogers
actor, yodeler
- Võ Nguyên Giáp
military officer, statesperson
- Emil Cioran
philosopher, aphorist
- Ellen Corby
television actor, film actor
- William Patrick Hitler
military personnel
- John Gorton
politician
- Hume Cronyn
film director, director
- Gypsy Rose Lee
novelist, stripper
- Naguib Mahfouz
autobiographer, playwright
- Saalumarada Thimmakka
environmentalist
- Broderick Crawford
television actor, actor
- Cantinflas
film actor, television actor
- Gustave Gilbert
writer, opinion journalist
- Guy Burgess
diplomat, spy
- John C. Woods
construction worker, soldier
- Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark
aristocrat
- Prince Aly Khan
diplomat, socialite
- Bernard Herrmann
composer, conductor
- Jeanette Nolan
stage actor, film actor
- Luis Walter Alvarez
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Terry-Thomas
actor, character actor
- Louise Bourgeois
draftsperson, gallerist
- John Archibald Wheeler
theoretical physicist, non-fiction writer
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
lobbyist, activist
- Wilhelm Mohnke
military officer
- Lina Heydrich
writer
- Nicholas Ray
director, screenwriter
- Phil Silvers
musical theatre actor, television actor
- Czesław Miłosz
diplomat, translator
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
autobiographer, golfer
- Todor Zhivkov
politician, statesperson
- Le Duc Tho
politician, military personnel
- Leif Erickson
stage actor, television actor
- Mikhail Botvinnik
engineer, chess composer
- Bill Bowerman
track and field coach, entrepreneur
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz
songwriter, journalist
- James Gregory
television actor, stage actor
- Qian Xuesen
astronautical engineer, university teacher
- Wilbert Awdry
parson, children's writer
- Nino Rota
teacher, composer
- Ne Win
military officer, politician
- Elizabeth Bishop
writer, librettist
- Josh Gibson
baseball player
- Bill Monroe
country musician, bandleader
- Michael Hordern
film actor, stage actor
- Spike Jones
percussionist, actor
- Ishirō Honda
actor, impresario
- Man Singh II of Jaipur
polo player, diplomat
- Harry Andrews
television actor, stage actor
- Butterfly McQueen
stage actor, actor
- Jules Dassin
film director, actor
- Thora Hird
film actor, actor
- Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz
jurist, politician
- David Ogilvy
entrepreneur, writer
- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
minister, farmer
- Mervyn Peake
writer, illustrator
- Hugh Marlowe
television actor, stage actor
- John S. McCain, Jr.
military officer, submariner
- Hank Greenberg
baseball player
- Brian O'Nolan
journalist, writer
- Gian Carlo Menotti
musicologist, librettist
- Simone Simon
film actor, stage actor
- Jorge Negrete
film actor, actor
- Karel Čurda
Gestapo agent, resistance fighter
- Fauja Singh
athlete, athletics competitor
- Katherine DeMille
actor, film actor
- Gustav Wagner
non-commissioned officer, military officer
- John Langshaw Austin
university teacher, philosopher
- Richard Baer
Holocaust perpetrator, confectioner
- Doodles Weaver
actor, voice actor
- Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
justice of the peace, military commander
- Bruno Kreisky
jurist, war correspondent
- Mary Blair
illustrator, painter
- Pritilata Waddedar
teacher, revolutionary
- Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
lawyer, politician
- Herta Oberheuser
dermatologist, politician
- George Stigler
economist
- Gail Patrick
television producer, film actor
- Lala Amarnath
cricketer, athlete
- Shiing-Shen Chern
university teacher, mathematician
- Max Frisch
poet, diarist
- Fe del Mundo
scientist, pediatrician
- Mary Hayley Bell
screenwriter, playwright
- Mitch Miller
film score composer, composer
- Zubeida
actor, film actor
- Ruth Hussey
actor, television actor
- Terence Rattigan
cricketer, writer
- Slim Gaillard
jazz guitarist, jazz singer
- Ann Doran
film actor, actor
- Prince Frederick of Prussia
aristocrat
- Jean-Pierre Aumont
screenwriter, film actor
- Big Joe Turner
actor, songwriter
- Yoshio Kodama
drug trafficker, spy
- Joe Rosenthal
journalist, photographer
- Karl Silberbauer
military officer, Gestapo employee
- Stan Kenton
conductor, bandleader
- Milovan Đilas
writer, politician
- Samuel Reshevsky
bookkeeper, journalist
- Jo Jones
composer, jazz musician
- Mark Bernes
actor, singer
- E. F. Schumacher
statistician, economist
- Eric Williams
politician, historian
- Ernesto Sabato
essayist, physicist
- Johnny Eck
circus performer, entertainer
- Kay Walsh
stage actor, screenwriter
- Christine McIntyre
opera singer, film actor
- Odysseas Elytis
librettist, translator
- Stephen McNally
film actor, actor
- Romare Bearden
printmaker, draftsperson
- Hans Münch
physician
- Eduardo Frei Montalva
politician, lawyer
- Narayan Apte
politician
- Patric Knowles
film actor, stage actor
- Smiley Burnette
television actor, film actor
- Betty Robinson
athlete, sprinter
- Chet Huntley
television presenter, actor
- Vaughn Monroe
singer, bandleader
- Peter van Eyck
actor, film actor
- Jussi Björling
opera singer
- Jack Finney
novelist, screenwriter