Diego Rivera8th December, Mexican
Painter, Muralist
Al Jolson26th May, American
Actor, Singer
Ty Cobb18th December, American
American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
George Mallory18th June, British, Tibetan
Mountaineer
Frank Nitti27th January, Italian, American
Gangster
Salvatore Maranzano31st July, American
Mafia Boss
David Ben-Gurion16th October, Israeli
Alfonso XIII of Spain17th May, Spanish
King of Spain
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe27th March, German
Architect
Siegfried Sassoon8th September, British
Hugo Black27th February, American
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Michael Curtiz24th December, American
Film Director
Henry H. Arnold25th June, American
Military Leader
Karl Barth10th May, Swiss
Theologian
Paul Tillich20th August, German, American
Peter Freuchen2nd February, Danish, American
Explorer
Edward Weston24th March, American
Photographer
Karl von Frisch20th November, Austrian
Ethologist
Tarsila do Amaral1st September, Brazilian
Artist
Mary Wigman13th November, German
Dancer, Choreographer
Archibald Hill26th September, British
Physiologist
Bruce Fairchild Barton5th August, American
American author
Edward Calvin Kendall8th March, American
Biochemist
Manne Siegbahn3rd December, Swedish
Physicist
Hella Wuolijoki22nd July, Finnish
Writer
Robert Robinson13th September, British
Scientist
Dora Gabe26th August, Bulgarian
Poet
Ed Wynn9th November, American
Actor
Rose Wilder Lane5th December, American
Journalists
Raymond A. Spruance3rd July, American
Officer, Diplomat
Victor McLaglen10th December, British, American
Actor, Boxer
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Radhabinod Pal27th January, Indian
Judge, University teacher
Bill James6th March, British
Actor
Theodor Morell22nd July, German
Physician
Ma Rainey26th April, American
Street artist, Musician
Ernst Thälmann16th April, German
Politician, Worker, Revolutionary, Trade unionist
René Guénon15th November, French
Author
Clarence Birdseye9th December, American
Inventor, Engineer
Vyvyan Holland3rd November, British
Writer
Karl Polanyi25th October, Hungarian
Economist, Anthropologist, Economic historian,
Robert Schuman29th June, French, Luxembourgian
Statesman
Gotthard Heinrici25th December, German, Russian
Officer, Military personnel
Billy Sing2nd March, Australian
Military personnel
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort10th July, British
Military personnel
Zhu De1st December
Politician
Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII6th April, Indian
Prince
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell5th April, British
Physicist, Politician, University teacher
Harold Nicolson21st November, British
Diplomat
Joyce Kilmer6th December, American
Writer
Béla Kun20th February, Hungarian
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
Erich Hoepner14th September, German
Soldier
Marc Bloch6th July, French
Historian, Medievalist, University teacher, Writer
Oskar Kokoschka1st March, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Jean Hersholt12th July, Danish, American
Film actor, Actor, Linguist, Writer, Translator
Giovanni Battista Caproni3rd July, Italian
Civil engineer, Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Alain LeRoy Locke13th September, American
teacher, philosopher
Frank Dobson18th November, British
Artist
John Bowes-Lyon1st April, British
Stockbroker, Cricketer
Jean Arp16th September, German, French
Sculptor
Bror von Blixen-Finecke25th July, Swedish
Writer, Military personnel
Francis Biddle9th May, American
lawyer, judge, screenwriter
Rex Stout1st December, American
American writer
Jan Masaryk14th September, Czech
Diplomat
Hugh Lofting14th January, British
Author
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg2nd March, German
Military General
Sergo Ordzhonikidze24th October, Georgian, Russian
Politician
Minnie Vautrin27th September, American
Missionary
Edward Rydz-Śmigły11th March, Polish, Ukrainian
Polish Politician
Olaf Stapledon10th May, British
Philosopher
Sergey Kirov27th March, Russian
Politician
Aron Nimzowitsch7th November, Danish, Latvian, Russian
Danish-Russian chess master
Erich Fellgiebel4th October, German
Soldier
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.18th July, American
Maithili Sharan Gupt3rd August, Indian
Linguist, Poet, Politician, Translator
Stanley Ketchel14th September, American
Boxer
Kid Ory25th December, American
bandleader, conductor, jazz musician
Edwin Ray Guthrie9th January, American
Psychologist
Richard Mulcahy10th May, Irish
Politician
Franz Josef Popp14th January, Austrian
Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur
Douglas Southall Freeman16th May, American
Historian
Willem Drees5th July, Dutch
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Tsuguharu Foujita27th November, French, Japanese
Painter, Artist
Hugo Ball22nd February, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Gus Kahn6th November, American
Composer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Film score
Lucy Hicks Anderson30th November, American
Socialite
Robert L. Eichelberger9th March, American
Military General
Chester Barnard7th November, American
Business Executive
Clementine Hunter30th November, American
Folk Artist
Hermann Broch1st November, Austrian
Writer, Playwright
Alain-Fournier3rd October, French
French author
Frank Lloyd2nd February, British, American
American-British film director
Raoul Hausmann12th January, Austrian
photographer, writer, sculptor, artist, painter
Annette Kellerman6th July, Australian
Glenn L. Martin17th January, American
Aviator