ON THIS DAY
Born in 1912
1136 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Alan Turing
marathon runner, computer scientist
- Kim Il-sung
politician, writer
- Eva Braun
photographer, photo lab technician
- Wernher von Braun
physicist, military personnel
- Woody Guthrie
trade unionist, composer
- Douglas Kelley
military physician, university teacher
- Gene Kelly
television actor, writer
- Julia Child
cook, spy
- Jackson Pollock
printmaker, painter
- Milton Friedman
economist, university teacher
- Mary Anne MacLeod Trump
health personnel
- James Callaghan
economist, politician
- Feroze Gandhi
journalist, politician
- John Paul I
Latin Catholic priest, Latin Catholic bishop
- Kim Philby
journalist, opinion journalist
- Lady Bird Johnson
entrepreneur, politician
- Enoch Powell
university teacher, classical philologist
- Erich Honecker
head of state, politician
- Otto von Habsburg
politician
- Danny Thomas
television actor, film actor
- José Ferrer
screenwriter, film producer
- Clara Petacci
politician
- Karl Malden
actor, television actor
- Pat Nixon
actor, economist
- Khalid of Saudi Arabia
military personnel, monarch
- Perry Como
radio personality, jazz musician
- Raoul Wallenberg
diplomat, businessperson
- John Cage
musician, composer
- Herbert Sobel
salesperson, paratrooper
- Carlo Ponti
film director, screenwriter
- Barbara Hutton
socialite
- Michelangelo Antonioni
film director, producer
- Chuck Jones
animation director, screenwriter
- Alfredo Stroessner
politician, military officer
- Ben Hogan
professional golfer, golfer
- Millvina Dean
cartographer
- Nancy Wake
partisan, SOE agent
- João Marinho Neto
retired
- Heinrich Harrer
travel writer, alpine skier
- Sonja Henie
film actor, figure skater
- Doris Duke
socialite, horticulturist
- Minoru Yamasaki
architect
- Lawrence Durrell
playwright, novelist
- Alois Brunner
military personnel, Holocaust perpetrator
- Charles Addams
illustrator, animator
- Eleanor Powell
stage actor, dancer
- John Le Mesurier
television actor, autobiographer
- Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
politician
- Bayard Rustin
political activist, politician
- John Cheever
writer, diarist
- Cornel Wilde
actor, film actor
- Michael Wilding
stage actor, film actor
- Roy Sullivan
electrician
- Don Siegel
film producer, film director
- Jozef Gabčík
military personnel
- Hanna Reitsch
military officer, glider pilot
- Frank Oppenheimer
teacher, nuclear physicist
- Chien-Shiung Wu
scientist, nuclear physicist
- Pedro Armendáriz
film actor, television actor
- Adolf Galland
fighter pilot, aircraft pilot
- Tip O'Neill
politician
- John Payne
television actor, screenwriter
- János Kádár
economist, politician
- Wendy Hiller
actor, stage actor
- Sergiu Celibidache
university teacher, conductor
- Jay Silverheels
lacrosse player, film actor
- Sam Snead
professional golfer
- Georg Solti
pianist, composer
- Gordon Parks
photojournalist, journalist
- Richard Brooks
director, film producer
- Wilfrid Brambell
comedian, stage actor
- Duško Popov
double agent, socialite
- Catherine Scorsese
actor, film actor
- Dale Evans
lyricist, songwriter
- Hugh Griffith
actor, television actor
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg
chemist, nuclear physicist
- Martha Scott
stage actor, film actor
- Deokhye, Princess of Korea
aristocrat
- Saadat Hasan Manto
translator, short story writer
- Maria Mandl
prison officer, torturer
- Jacques Ellul
philosopher, sociologist
- Pappy Boyington
autobiographer, aircraft pilot
- Maurizio D'Ancora
film actor, actor
- Stephen Ward
artist, osteopath
- Zohra Sehgal
dancer, stage actor
- Otto Ernst Remer
soldier, politician
- Minnie Pearl
singer, songwriter
- Patrick White
screenwriter, autobiographer
- Hedwig Potthast
secretary
- Harry Hay
LGBTQ rights activist, actor
- Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz
judge, writer
- Barbara W. Tuchman
historian, biographer
- Ghazi of Iraq
monarch, king
- June Havoc
actor, stage actor
- Foster Brooks
actor, television actor
- Studs Terkel
journalist, actor
- Melita Norwood
spy, secretary
- Samuel Fuller
film producer, film director
- David Packard
computer scientist, engineer
- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
official, diplomat
- Yashwant Ambedkar
social activist, newspaper editor
- Pierre Boulle
engineer, screenwriter
- Richard Carlson
television actor, film actor
- Art Linkletter
businessperson, television presenter
- Henry M. Jackson
politician, lawyer
- Martin Gabel
stage actor, actor
- Reta Shaw
actor, stage actor
- Wendy Barrie
stage actor, television actor
- Otto Kretschmer
naval officer, interpreter
- Byron Nelson
professional golfer, golfer
- Lightnin' Hopkins
composer, singer
- Barry Sullivan
actor, film actor
- Axel Springer
editor, journalist
- Henry Brandon
actor, stage actor
- Maria Montez
film actor, actor
- Henry Jones
actor, stage actor
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Winthrop Rockefeller
politician, governor
- Henry Armstrong
writer, boxer
- Yashwantrao Chavan
politician
- Odette Hallowes
SOE agent, French resistance fighter
- Ann Dvorak
stage actor, dance teacher
- Basappa Danappa Jatti
politician, lawyer
- John Amery
writer, journalist
- Isser Harel
writer, intelligence officer
- Jorge Amado
journalist, politician
- John Tinniswood
accountant
- Dane Clark
film actor, actor
- John Frost
paratrooper
- Arne Næss
mountaineer, philosopher
- Northrop Frye
literary critic, literary scholar
- Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland
military personnel, speed skater
- John Templeton
patron of the arts, businessperson
- Francis Schaeffer
writer, pastor
- Gil Evans
conductor, musician
- Andre Norton
children's writer, science fiction writer
- Walter Sisulu
politician
- Agnes Martin
painter, draftsperson
- Marcel Camus
film director, screenwriter
- Garson Kanin
theatre director, playwright
- Yusuf Lule
politician
- Elsa Morante
poet, prose writer
- Dorothy Height
social worker, journalist
- Lev Gumilev
writer, translator
- Marius Goring
director, actor
- Leonid Kantorovich
university teacher, economist
- A. E. van Vogt
writer, novelist
- Yuen Siu-tien
television actor, film actor
- Frank Lovejoy
actor, film actor
- Lucie Aubrac
teacher, resistance fighter