Ty Cobb18th December, American
American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
George Mallory18th June, British, Tibetan
Mountaineer
Diego Rivera8th December, Mexican
Painter, Muralist
Frank Nitti27th January, Italian, American
Gangster
Al Jolson26th May, American
Actor, Singer
Salvatore Maranzano31st July, American
Mafia Boss
David Ben-Gurion16th October, Israeli
Former Prime Minister of Israel
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe27th March, German
Architect
Siegfried Sassoon8th September, British
Alfonso XIII of Spain17th May, Spanish
King of Spain
Hugo Black27th February, American
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Peter Freuchen2nd February, Danish, American
Explorer
Michael Curtiz24th December, American
Film Director
Karl Barth10th May, Swiss
Theologian
Paul Tillich20th August, German, American
Henry H. Arnold25th June, American
Military Leader
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
Edward Calvin Kendall8th March, American
Biochemist
Robert Robinson13th September, British
Scientist
Manne Siegbahn3rd December, Swedish
Physicist
Hella Wuolijoki22nd July, Finnish
Writer
Bruce Fairchild Barton5th August, American
American author
Dora Gabe26th August, Bulgarian
Poet
Ma Rainey26th April, American
Street artist, Musician
Rose Wilder Lane5th December, American
Journalists
Gerda Wegener15th March, Danish
Illustrator
Ed Wynn9th November, American
Actor
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John Bowes-Lyon1st April, British
Stockbroker, Cricketer
Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII6th April, Indian
Prince
Victor McLaglen10th December, British, American
Actor, Boxer
Gus Kahn6th November, American
Composer, Songwriter, Lyricist, Film score
Vyvyan Holland3rd November, British
Writer
Raymond A. Spruance3rd July, American
Officer, Diplomat
Ernst Thälmann16th April, German
Politician, Worker, Revolutionary, Trade unionist
Spring Byington17th October, American
Actress
René Guénon15th November, French
Author
Theodor Morell22nd July, German
Physician
Karl Polanyi25th October, Hungarian
Economist, Anthropologist, Economic historian,
Sophie Tucker13th January, Ukrainian, American, Russian
Singer
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke23rd November, British
Royal Navy officer
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.18th July, American
Clarence Birdseye9th December, American
Inventor, Engineer
Gotthard Heinrici25th December, German, Russian
Officer, Military personnel
Zhu De1st December
Politician
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō24th July, Japanese
Writer
Aron Nimzowitsch7th November, Danish, Latvian, Russian
Danish-Russian chess master
Ōkawa Shūmei6th December, Japanese
Writer
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort10th July, British
Military personnel
Annette Kellerman6th July, Australian
Harold Nicolson21st November, British
Diplomat
Maithili Sharan Gupt3rd August, Indian
Linguist, Poet, Politician, Translator
Oskar Kokoschka1st March, Austrian, British
Painter, Playwright, Writer, Poet, University
Jean Hersholt12th July, Danish, American
Film actor, Actor, Linguist, Writer, Translator
Béla Kun20th February, Hungarian
Politician, Diplomat, Journalist
Joyce Kilmer6th December, American
Writer
Erich Hoepner14th September, German
Soldier
Robert Schuman29th June, French, Luxembourgian
Statesman
John Cromwell23rd December, American
Film Director
Marc Bloch6th July, French
Historian, Medievalist, University teacher, Writer
Radhabinod Pal27th January, Indian
Judge, University teacher
Alain LeRoy Locke13th September, American
teacher, philosopher
Francis Biddle9th May, American
lawyer, judge, screenwriter
Bror von Blixen-Finecke25th July, Swedish
Writer, Military personnel
Jean Arp16th September, German, French
Sculptor
Hilda Doolittle10th September, American
Poet
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell5th April, British
Physicist, Politician, University teacher
Rex Stout1st December, American
American writer
Olaf Stapledon10th May, British
Philosopher
Sergo Ordzhonikidze24th October, Georgian, Russian
Politician
Erich Fellgiebel4th October, German
Soldier
Jan Masaryk14th September, Czech
Diplomat
Edward Rydz-Śmigły11th March, Polish, Ukrainian
Polish Politician
Giovanni Battista Caproni3rd July, Italian
Civil engineer, Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Clementine Hunter30th November, American
Folk Artist
Kid Ory25th December, American
bandleader, conductor, jazz musician
Minnie Vautrin27th September, American
Missionary
Hugo Ball22nd February, German
Writer, Poet, Theatre director
Hugh Lofting14th January, British
Author
Chester Barnard7th November, American
Business Executive
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg2nd March, German
Military General
James Van Der Zee29th June, American
Photographer
Billy Sing2nd March, Australian
Military personnel
Sergey Kirov27th March, Russian
Politician
Richard Mulcahy10th May, Irish
Politician
Franz Josef Popp14th January, Austrian
Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur
John Jacob Astor V20th May, American
Proprietor
Raoul Hausmann12th January, Austrian
photographer, writer, sculptor, artist, painter
Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi27th August, Hungarian, American
Heiress
Lucy Hicks Anderson30th November, American
Socialite
Edward C. Tolman14th April, American
Psychologist