ON THIS DAY
Born in 1915
948 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Nicholas Metropolis
mathematician, physicist
- José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
physiologist, physician
- José María Arizmendiarrieta
journalist, Catholic priest
- Dorothy Dell
model, actor
- Friedrich Guggenberger
Marineoffizier, submariner
- Joe Gordon
baseball player
- Alberto Burri
collagist, land artist
- Carmen Herrera
painter, sculptor
- Syl Apps
politician, pole vaulter
- Norman Foster Ramsey
nuclear physicist, university teacher
- José Toribio Merino
politician, military personnel
- Meg Mundy
film actor, television actor
- Diana Rowden
spy, SOE agent
- Heinrich Gross
military physician, neurologist
- Martha Tilton
film actor, actor
- Emmanuel Pelaez
minister, diplomat
- Robert Lockwood Jr.
singer, composer
- Carlos Enrique Díaz de León
politician
- Margaret Walker
poet, writer
- Albert Ghiorso
inventor, physicist
- Nam Il
military officer
- Gideon Hausner
jurist, judge
- Harry Bertoia
musician, graphic artist
- Toby Wing
actor, film actor
- Donald Curtis
actor, television actor
- Margaret Millar
writer, novelist
- Noël Browne
politician
- Tol Avery
actor, television actor
- Alfred Kazin
literary critic, diarist
- Bill Zuckert
television actor, actor
- David Diamond
film score composer, screenwriter
- Pete Newell
basketball coach, basketball player
- Johnny Shines
street artist, singer
- Suzanne Césaire
writer
- Al Hibbler
jazz musician, singer
- Thomas Savage
novelist, writer
- Martin Nodell
screenwriter, comics artist
- Herbert Aptheker
historian of Modern Age, university teacher
- Susanne Wenger
artist, printmaker
- Kaiser Matanzima
politician, lawyer
- Harry Edison
trumpeter, musician
- Oswald Morris
cinematographer
- Robert Kanigher
comics artist, comics writer
- Vincent Persichetti
conductor, composer
- Julio César Méndez Montenegro
lawyer, politician
- Duke Reid
police officer, composer
- Beyers Naudé
activist, university teacher
- Ralph Thomas
director, film producer
- Clifford Shull
nuclear physicist, physicist
- Seypidin Azizi
politician
- Jesús Galíndez
jurist, university teacher
- Earl Wild
musician, pianist
- Gale W. McGee
university teacher, politician
- Josef Oberhauser
concentration camp guard, waiter
- Oscar Reutersvärd
graphic artist, painter
- A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury
politician
- Alvin M. Weinberg
physicist, nuclear physicist
- Pete Rugolo
film score composer, composer
- Walter Reder
military personnel
- NVM Gonzalez
journalist, writer
- Norman Cohn
screenwriter, historian
- Nikos Beloyannis
communist, politician
- Tapio Wirkkala
glass artist, jewelry designer
- Harold C. Schonberg
music critic, journalist
- Archie Williams
sprinter, athletics competitor
- Wilhelm Höttl
historian
- Deng Liqun
politician
- Mort Weisinger
editor, science fiction writer
- Jane Frazee
actor, dancer
- Joseph Montoya
politician, lawyer
- Georg von Boeselager
military personnel, resistance fighter
- Shaukat Hayat Khan
politician
- Nguyen Van Hinh
military personnel
- Lucy Dawidowicz
writer, historian
- John Dobson
astronomer, inventor
- John McConnell
environmentalist, vexillographer
- George Hogg
writer, autobiographer
- Vasilis Tsitsanis
songwriter, musician
- John Freeman
university teacher, politician
- Stanisław Skalski
flying ace, airman
- Rashid Behbudov
musician, politician
- Morton Smith
writer, historian
- Francisco Urcuyo
politician
- Violette Nozière
shopkeeper
- Jerome Wiesner
university teacher, politician
- Herbert Morris
rower
- Milton Wolff
soldier
- Hillel Kook
politician, rabbi
- Gozo Shioda
coach, martial artist
- Joseph Wolpe
psychiatrist, psychologist
- Tapio Rautavaara
poet, recording artist
- Jay R. Smith
film actor
- Lance Tingay
journalist, sports journalist
- Kurt Aland
church historian, theologian
- Leslie H. Martinson
film director, television producer
- Humberto Sousa Medeiros
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
- Helmut Wick
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Thomas Huckle Weller
virologist, biologist
- Sombhu Mitra
writer, film actor
- David Trench
politician
- Hannah Awolowo
politician
- Walter Farley
young adult author, screenwriter
- Horst Sindermann
journalist, politician
- Heinz Heger
contemporary witness
- Alfredo Gil
composer, singer
- Artur London
opinion journalist, politician
- Hasse Ekman
actor, film director
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
biochemist, pharmacist
- Erich Bärenfänger
major general, military personnel
- Milton Cato
politician
- Aḥmad Kaftārū
theologian, politician
- Boris Andreyev
actor, film actor
- Lona Andre
actor, real estate agent
- Gică Petrescu
composer, recording artist
- Frank Brimsek
ice hockey player
- Noureddin Kianouri
politician, architect
- Hovhannes Shiraz
poet, translator
- Dorothy Short
actor, film actor
- William L. Scott
lawyer, politician
- Li Lili
singer, actor
- Teoctist Arăpașu
patriarch, Eastern Orthodox priest
- María Rostworowski
ethnologist, scientist
- Buddy Johnson
composer, jazz musician
- Hasan Polatkan
politician
- Pavel Kadochnikov
actor, film director
- Grande Otelo
opera singer, singer
- Elio Toaff
rabbi
- Pamela Blake
television actor, film actor
- Don Edwards
jurist, politician
- Tommy Walker
association football coach, association football player
- Saukam Khoy
politician
- Ganesh Man Singh
politician
- Ali Dara
field hockey player
- Belva Plain
writer, novelist
- Mustafa al-Siba'i
motivational speaker, politician
- Humphrey Searle
musicologist, music teacher
- Stanley Green
writer, pamphleteer
- Howard Cooke
politician
- Johnnie Johnson
flying ace