Diego Rivera8th December, Mexican
Painter, Muralist
Salvatore Maranzano31st July, American
Mafia Boss
Ty Cobb18th December, American
American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
George Mallory18th June, British, Tibetan
Mountaineer
Al Jolson26th May, American
Actor, Singer
Frank Nitti27th January, Italian, American
Gangster
David Ben-Gurion16th October, Israeli
Alfonso XIII of Spain17th May, Spanish
King of Spain
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe27th March, German
Architect
Hugo Black27th February, American
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Siegfried Sassoon8th September, British
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
Rose Wilder Lane5th December, American
Journalists
Ed Wynn9th November, American
Actor
Ma Rainey26th April, American
Street artist, Musician
Raymond A. Spruance3rd July, American
Officer, Diplomat
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Ernst Thälmann16th April, German
Politician, Worker, Revolutionary, Trade unionist
Spring Byington17th October, American
Actress
Bill James6th March, British
Actor
Victor McLaglen10th December, British, American
Actor, Boxer
Theodor Morell22nd July, German
Physician
Vyvyan Holland3rd November, British
Writer
René Guénon15th November, French
Author
Radhabinod Pal27th January, Indian
Judge, University teacher
Karl Polanyi25th October, Hungarian
Economist, Anthropologist, Economic historian,
Gotthard Heinrici25th December, German, Russian
Officer, Military personnel
Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII6th April, Indian
Prince
Clarence Birdseye9th December, American
Inventor, Engineer
Zhu De1st December
Politician
Joyce Kilmer6th December, American
Writer
Jean Hersholt12th July, Danish, American
Film actor, Actor, Linguist, Writer, Translator
Oskar Kokoschka1st March, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Harold Nicolson21st November, British
Diplomat
Maithili Sharan Gupt3rd August, Indian
Linguist, Poet, Politician, Translator
Béla Kun20th February, Hungarian
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort10th July, British
Military personnel
Erich Hoepner14th September, German
Soldier
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell5th April, British
Physicist, Politician, University teacher
Marc Bloch6th July, French
Historian, Medievalist, University teacher, Writer
Robert Schuman29th June, French, Luxembourgian
Statesman
Bror von Blixen-Finecke25th July, Swedish
Writer, Military personnel
Alain LeRoy Locke13th September, American
teacher, philosopher
Edwin Fischer6th October, Swiss
Swiss classical pianist
Rex Stout1st December, American
American writer
Jean Arp16th September, German, French
Sculptor
John Bowes-Lyon1st April, British
Stockbroker, Cricketer
Francis Biddle9th May, American
lawyer, judge, screenwriter
Olaf Stapledon10th May, British
Philosopher
Edward Rydz-Śmigły11th March, Polish, Ukrainian
Polish Politician
Sergo Ordzhonikidze24th October, Georgian, Russian
Politician
Hermann Broch1st November, Austrian
Writer, Playwright
Jan Masaryk14th September, Czech
Diplomat
Sergey Kirov27th March, Russian
Politician
Aron Nimzowitsch7th November, Danish, Latvian, Russian
Danish-Russian chess master
Giovanni Battista Caproni3rd July, Italian
Civil engineer, Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Hugh Lofting14th January, British
Author
Minnie Vautrin27th September, American
Missionary
Erich Fellgiebel4th October, German
Soldier
Stanley Ketchel14th September, American
Boxer
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg2nd March, German
Military General
Billy Sing2nd March, Australian
Military personnel
Kid Ory25th December, American
bandleader, conductor, jazz musician
Tsuguharu Foujita27th November, French, Japanese
Painter
Chester Barnard7th November, American
Business Executive
Franz Josef Popp14th January, Austrian
Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur
Hugo Ball22nd February, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Douglas Southall Freeman16th May, American
Historian
Richard Mulcahy10th May, Irish
Politician
Robert L. Eichelberger9th March, American
Military General
Frank Dobson18th November, British
Artist
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.18th July, American
Willem Drees5th July, Dutch
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Gus Kahn6th November, American
Composer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Film score
Edward C. Tolman14th April, American
Psychologist
Glenn L. Martin17th January, American
Aviator
Clementine Hunter30th November, American
Folk Artist
Raoul Hausmann12th January, Austrian
photographer, writer, sculptor, artist, painter
Edward Bach24th September, British
Physician, Writer, Homeopath
Franz Rosenzweig25th December, German
Philosopher, Translator, Historian, Bible