Albert Einstein14th March, German, American
Physicist
Leon Trotsky7th November, Ukrainian, Russian
Politician
Sarojini Naidu13th February, Indian
Poet and Freedom Fighter
Margaret Sanger14th September, American
Educator
Emperor Taishō31st August, Japanese
Former Emperor of Japan
Emiliano Zapata8th August, Mexican
Mexican Political figure
E. M. Forster1st January, British
Writer
Will Rogers4th November, American
Vaudeville Performer, Humorist
Franz von Papen29th October, German
Former Vice-Chancellor of Germany
Ramana Maharshi30th December, Indian
Philosopher
Paul Klee18th December, Swiss, German
Painter
Ethel Barrymore15th August, American
Actress
Alla Nazimova3rd June, American, Russian
Actress
Samuel Goldwyn17th August, American
Film Producer
Kazimir Malevich23rd February, Russian
Painter
Nancy Astor19th May, British
First Woman MP in the House of Commons
Patrick Pearse10th November, Irish
Politician
Otto Hahn8th March, German
Chemist
Wallace Stevens2nd October, American
Poet
William Beveridge5th March, British
Economist
Edward Steichen27th March, American
Photographer
Norman Lindsay22nd February, Australian
Artist
Alfred Korzybski3rd July, Polish
Scholar who developed the field of General
Max von Laue9th October, German
Physicist
Knud Rasmussen7th June, Greenlander
Explorer
Owen Willans Richardson26th April, British
Physicist
Agnes Arber23rd February, British
Botanist
Sydney Greenstreet27th December, British
Actor
Billy Mitchell29th December, French, American
Military General
Vanessa Bell30th May, British
Painter
Max Schreck6th September, German
Actor
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Fritz Haarmann25th October, German
Serial killer
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook25th May, Canadian, British
Newspaper publisher
Alma Mahler31st August, Austrian, American
Composer
Warner Oland3rd October, Swedish, American
Actor, Film actor
Chen Duxiu8th October, Chinese
Politician, Professor, Philosopher, Journalist
Shunroku Hata26th July, Japanese
Military personnel
Joe Hill7th October, American
Songwriter, Trade unionist
Ottorino Respighi9th July, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster19th March, British
William Fox1st January, American
Film producer
Henri Giraud18th January, French
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin24th December, Danish
Queen
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor19th May, American
Politician
Boris Savinkov31st January, Ukrainian, Russian
Revolutionary
Symon Petlura22nd May, Ukrainian
Politician, Journalist
E. H. Shepard10th December, British
Artist, Illustrator, Painter
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen12th May, German
Aristocrat
Mark Sykes16th March, British
Politician
Joseph Lyons15th September, Australian
Politician
Hans Lammers27th May, German
Judge, Politician, Jurist
Bagha Jatin7th December, Indian
Philosopher
Francis Picabia22nd January, French
Painter
Paul Poiret20th April, French
Grand couturier
Pál Teleki1st November, Hungarian
Prime minister
Terence MacSwiney28th March, Irish
Writer
Milutin Milanković28th May, Croatian, Serbian
Mathematician
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia14th May, Russian
Military Personnel
Vilhjalmur Stefansson3rd November, Canadian
Explorer
Will H. Hays5th November, American
Politician
Italo Gariboldi20th April, Italian
Politician, Officer
Victor Sjöström20th September, Swedish
Film Director
Thomas Beecham29th April, British
Conductor
Lois Weber13th June, American
Actress
Gaston Means11th July, American
Private Detective
Miles Franklin14th October, Australian
Writer
Rube Foster17th September, American
Baseball player
Huda Sharawi23rd June, Egyptian
Feminist and nationalist
Sara Allgood29th November, Irish, American
Actress
Mabel Dodge Luhan26th February, American
Biographer
Vachel Lindsay10th November, American
Poet
Ruth St. Denis20th January, American
Dancer
Ernest Jones1st January, Welsh
Psychoanalyst
Lucy Burns28th July
Suffragist, women's rights activist
Rudolf von Laban15th December, Hungarian
Dance Artist
Frieda Lawrence11th August, German, French
Writer
Princess Marie Louise of Hanover11th October, German
Salem, Germany
Alfred Abel12th March, German
Actor
John Ireland13th August, British
composer, music educator, film score composer
Angelina Beloff23rd June, Mexican, Russian
Painter
Aleksandŭr Stamboliyski1st March, Bulgarian
Political leader
Othmar Herman Ammann26th March, Swiss, American
Civil engineer
Frank Bridge26th February, British
Composer, Conductor, Music educator
Vladko Maček20th June, Croatian
Politician
Edwin Montagu6th February, British
Politician
Hans Luther10th March, German
Politician
Maud Menten20th March, Canadian
Researcher
William S. Knudsen25th March, Danish
Industrialist
Wanda Landowska5th July, French, Polish
Harpsichordist
John J. Raskob19th March, American
Executive
Helena Roerich12th February, Indian, Russian
Russian writer
James Branch Cabell14th April, American
Author
Thành Thái14th March, Vietnamese
Emperor
Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg2nd February, German
Duchess