ON THIS DAY
Born in 1921
1,245 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Hal Newhouser
baseball player
- Walter Rudin
university teacher, mathematician
- Terence Cooke
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
- Peter Burton
television actor, film actor
- Sita Ram Goel
historian, writer
- Jacques Lecoq
theatre manager, costume designer
- Fernando Fernán Gómez
film director, screenwriter
- Adolf von Thadden
politician, military personnel
- Billy Taylor
radio personality, pianist
- Gale Robbins
film actor, singer
- Dan Tolkovsky
military personnel, fighter pilot
- Acquanetta
film actor, actor
- Howell Heflin
military officer, judge
- György Cziffra
classical pianist, pianist
- Ursula Franklin
physicist, women's rights activist
- Richard Wilbur
writer, poet
- Franz Staudegger
military personnel
- Ralph Manza
actor, television actor
- Joseph Papp
theatre manager, theatre director
- Matt Mattox
actor, dancer
- Manitas de Plata
tocaor, guitarist
- Brian Moore
writer, university teacher
- George David Weiss
songwriter, poet
- Grace Thorpe
paralegal, environmentalist
- Joan Tetzel
film actor, television actor
- Paul Stevens
actor, television actor
- Jean Heywood
stage actor, film actor
- Rashid Karami
jurist, statesperson
- Alexander Schmemann
theologian, philosopher
- Jimmy Giuffre
clarinetist, saxophonist
- Cec Linder
actor, film actor
- Ernst Haas
photojournalist, writer
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow
physicist, inventor
- Albert Scott Crossfield
aircraft pilot, test pilot
- Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
judge, lawyer
- Giovanni Michelotti
engineer, designer
- Heinz Bennent
television actor, stage actor
- Bill Butler
film editor, actor
- Al Jaffee
comics artist, comics writer
- Lowell Fulson
songwriter, guitarist
- Georges Wilson
stage actor, television actor
- Tal Farlow
jazz guitarist, jazz musician
- Margaret Singer
writer, psychologist
- Dorothy Patrick
model, actor
- Cyrille Adoula
minister, trade unionist
- Jean Behra
racing automobile driver, Formula One driver
- Pierre Clostermann
engineer, aircraft pilot
- Reinhard Mohn
philanthropist, bookseller
- Walter Mirisch
producer, film producer
- Duane Gish
creationist, biochemist
- Wang Guangmei
politician
- Mustafa Mahmoud
writer, intellectual
- Yukio Seki
aircraft pilot
- Geoffrey Wilkinson
chemist, university teacher
- Gérard Debreu
economist, mathematician
- Henry Bellmon
politician, Oberleutnant
- Margot Friedländer
resistance fighter, writer
- Jay Anson
novelist, screenwriter
- Garry Davis
peace activist, activist shareholder
- Zdeněk Miler
animator, cartoonist
- Giovanni Benelli
Catholic priest, archbishop
- Don Diamond
voice actor, television actor
- Alexander Salkind
film producer
- Maxime Faget
military flight engineer, military officer
- Iffat Rahim
model, actor
- Alfréd Rényi
mathematician, university teacher
- John Malcolm Patterson
lawyer, military officer
- Asa Briggs
historian, critic
- Wolfgang Borchert
cabaret performer, short story writer
- Phil Chess
record producer, music executive
- Corinne Luchaire
actor, film actor
- Arno Babajanian
pianist, film score composer
- Lidia Gueiler Tejada
diplomat, writer
- Barbara Perry
dancer, actor
- Cary Middlecoff
golfer, physician
- Sixto Durán-Ballén
university teacher, architect
- Mavis Batey
cryptanalyst, mathematician
- Ernest Gold
bandleader, composer
- Andrée Blouin
human rights defender, writer
- Kathleen Antonelli
computer scientist, programmer
- Eric Laithwaite
entomologist, electrical engineer
- Sidney Rittenberg
businessperson, journalist
- Ivan Southall
non-fiction writer, writer
- Jair da Rosa Pinto
association football coach, association football player
- Walter Laqueur
political scientist, political analyst
- Alphonse Massamba-Débat
politician, minister
- Samuel T. Cohen
physicist, nuclear physicist
- Ed Kemmer
television actor, actor
- David Greene
director, screenwriter
- Halim El-Dabh
university teacher, pianist
- William Arthur Ward
writer
- Cao Van Vien
military officer, politician
- Wayne C. Booth
university teacher, writer
- Rodger Ward
Formula One driver, racing automobile driver
- Andries Treurnicht
minister, politician
- Viktor Kulikov
soldier, military officer
- Fred Buscaglione
actor, jazz musician
- Salvador Minuchin
psychiatrist, university teacher
- Abdelmalek Benhabyles
politician, diplomat
- Robert Bruce Merrifield
university teacher, chemist
- Ray Lindwall
rugby league player, cricketer
- Josip Elic
film actor, actor
- Norman Joseph Woodland
engineer, inventor
- Harry Schell
Formula One driver, motorcycle racer
- Georgy Beregovoy
soldier, airman
- Giorgio Strehler
theatre manager, actor
- Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
politician, jurist
- Harold Agnew
physicist
- Bernard Lown
cardiologist, scientist
- Ada Louise Huxtable
biographer, newspaperperson
- Luis García Berlanga
film director, military volunteer
- George Mackay Brown
poet, playwright
- Bob Merrill
composer, librettist
- Bill Gold
graphic artist, graphic designer
- Lionel Terray
mountain guide, mountaineer
- Frédéric Dard
novelist, writer
- Teresa Mattei
politician, resistance fighter
- Amedeo Amadei
association football coach, association football player
- Dario Moreno
film actor, guitarist
- Amrit Rai
writer, biographer
- Ben Enwonwu
painter, sculptor
- Jacob Beser
military personnel
- Ruth Gipps
composer, music educator
- Ariel Ramírez
composer, musician
- Mohammad Mohammadullah
politician
- Edmund Crispin
screenwriter, musician
- Tom Kilburn
engineer, university teacher
- Wadie Elsafi
oud player, composer
- Dennis Brain
composer, musician
- Yuki Shimoda
actor, television actor
- Adil Zulfikarpašić
politician
- Ottavio Missoni
athletics competitor, fashion designer
- Cyprian Ekwensi
author, pharmacist
- Dominique Mbonyumutwa
politician, traditional leader or chief
- Augusto Monterroso
diplomat, writer
- Willem Frederik Hermans
novelist, watercolorist
- Mary Sherman Morgan
military flight engineer, chemist
- Paddy Roy Bates
fisher, military officer
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
poet, illustrator
- Sarojini Varadappan
social worker
- Dehl Berti
actor, television actor
- Simin Daneshvar
university teacher, linguist
- Harry Landers
television actor, film actor
- Antonio Prohías
comics artist, cartoonist