ON THIS DAY
Born in 1921
1,245 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Bai Guang
actor, singer
- César Baldaccini
designer, painter
- B. B. Lal
archaeologist, writer
- Arthur Grumiaux
pianist, violinist
- Louis Lachenal
racing automobile driver, mountain guide
- Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
politician, university teacher
- Andrew Marshall
economist, political scientist
- Eddie Barclay
music publisher, jazz pianist
- Ken Sailors
basketball player
- Ruth Orkin
cinematographer, photographer
- Ri Ul-sol
military officer, politician
- Andrew Gleason
university teacher, mathematician
- Kazimierz Górski
association football player, association football coach
- William Alston
university teacher, philosopher
- J. James Exon
chief executive officer, branch manager
- Mauro De Mauro
journalist
- Sotiria Bellou
singer
- John J. Gilligan
university teacher, politician
- Anne Golon
film screenwriter, journalist
- Herbert York
physicist, nuclear physicist
- Al Plastino
cartoonist, draftsperson
- Monk Montgomery
jazz musician, double-bassist
- Mickey Knox
actor, novelist
- Ryu Mi-yong
politician
- Jeanne Demessieux
musician, composer
- Frans Kaisiepo
politician
- David Gale
mathematician, economist
- Bernard W. Rogers
military personnel
- Paul Findley
politician
- Wardell Gray
musician, jazz musician
- Juanita M. Kreps
politician, economist
- Branko Stanković
association football coach, association football player
- Ralph Asher Alpher
astronomer, astrophysicist
- Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
poet, writer
- Rade Marković
film actor, actor
- Heinrich Boere
soldier, miner
- Erich Fried
English–German translator, translator of William Shakespeare
- Tadeusz Różewicz
playwright, prose writer
- Tony Scott
jazz musician, composer
- Alain Mimoun
athletics competitor, long-distance runner
- Carmen Laforet
writer, novelist
- Michel Boisrond
film director, director
- Pham Duy
singer, composer
- Ilse Aichinger
writer, novelist
- Kisshomaru Ueshiba
aikidoka
- Carl Möhner
painter, screenwriter
- Frank Harary
mathematician, university teacher
- Reinhold Hanning
military personnel
- William Waddell
association football player, association football coach
- Søren Kam
military officer, military personnel
- Heinz G. Konsalik
journalist, Gestapo employee
- Hans Robert Jauss
literary scholar, linguist
- James Poe
screenwriter
- Nadezhda Popova
military personnel, aircraft pilot
- Hélène Berr
student
- Alfred Reed
conductor, bandleader
- Gaston Rébuffat
mountain guide, film director
- Immanuel Jakobovits
rabbi, politician
- Reuven Feuerstein
psychologist, pedagogue
- Charlie Mitten
association football player, association football coach
- Enric Marco
mechanic, trade unionist
- Angelica Rozeanu
table tennis player
- Gabriel Okara
printer, writer
- Grigori Chukhrai
screenwriter, director
- Hans Albert
sociologist, university teacher
- Anne Truitt
painter, draftsperson
- Andrée Geulen-Herscovici
social worker, teacher
- Roza Robota
clandestine agent
- Countess Georgina von Wilczek
interpreter, aristocrat
- Georges Mathieu
painter, designer
- Seymour Benzer
biologist, geneticist
- David C. Jones
military officer
- Elizabeth L. Gardner
test pilot, aircraft pilot
- Frans Stafleu
botanist, university teacher
- Jacqueline Joubert
actor, continuity announcer
- Edward Seidensticker
historian, translator
- Richard Gordon
writer, physician
- Zuzu Angel
fashion designer
- Ilse Werner
voice actor, television actor
- don panini
association football coach, association football player
- Yuri Ozerov
director, military officer
- Jess Hahn
actor
- Richard Leacock
cinematographer, film director
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
writer, logician
- Wilson Harris
writer, surveyor
- John F. Bolt
lawyer, military officer
- Kenji Misumi
film director
- Remi Fani-Kayode
politician, lawyer
- Wolfgang Leonhard
writer, historian
- Leon Garfield
children's writer, writer
- Linda Stirling
philosopher, model
- Paulo Evaristo Arns
Catholic deacon, Catholic bishop
- Naoshi Kanno
aircraft pilot
- Federico Krutwig
politician, academic
- Branko Mamula
politician, military officer
- Meche Barba
film actor, rumbera
- Andrzej Munk
screenwriter, film director
- Nils Bejerot
psychiatrist, criminologist
- Jane Briggs Hart
aircraft pilot, activist
- Angelo Niculescu
association football player, association football coach
- Jetty Paerl
resistance fighter, Engelandvaarder
- Allan MacEachen
university teacher, economist
- Al Pease
illustrator, Formula One driver
- John Severin
comics artist, illustrator
- Viktor Chukarin
artistic gymnast, gymnast
- Muhammad Abd El-Ghani El-Gamasy
soldier, general field marshal
- Jean Robic
cyclo-cross cyclist, sport cyclist
- Baron Vaea
politician, diplomat
- Stein Rokkan
politician, philosopher
- Mario Rigoni Stern
writer
- Usmar Ismail
poet, screenwriter
- Cornelia Oberlander
architect, landscape architect
- Bengt Danielsson
writer, anthropologist
- Yves Ciampi
film director, screenwriter
- Jack Perkins
actor, television actor
- Jean Richard
director, film producer
- Henri Alleg
human rights defender, politician
- Mikhail Surkov
sniper
- Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel
resistance fighter, politician
- Ted Ditchburn
association football player, association football coach
- Jules Schelvis
historian, writer
- Bobby Wanzer
basketball coach, basketball player
- Jacques Martin
comics writer, penciller
- Daniel Oduber Quirós
lawyer, politician
- Blaže Koneski
university teacher, poet
- Sidney Hayers
film editor, producer
- Feza Gürsey
nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist
- Buddy Collette
saxophonist, musician
- John Aston, Sr.
association football player
- Roger L. Easton
scientist, inventor
- Marija Bursać
political commissar
- Gerhard Sommer
military personnel
- Amadou Mahtar M'Bow
university teacher, minister
- Mustafa Ben Halim
diplomat, politician
- Idham Chalid
politician
- Jimmy McCracklin
pianist, songwriter
- Harald Nugiseks
soldier, military personnel
- Manny Ayulo
racing driver, Formula One driver
- Chico O'Farrill
musician, conductor
- Robert Wade
chess player
- Cándido Camero
composer, jazz musician
- Krister Stendahl
Lutheran theologian, protestant clergyman
- Terrel Bell
politician, educator
- Sergio Arellano Stark
military personnel
- Karel Husa
conductor, trumpeter
