Famous People Born In 1888
Discover the most famous people born in 1888. The list includes people like Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Jim Thorpe, John Logie Baird, Raymond Chandler, Harpo Marx and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, physicists and diplomats born in 1888. This list includes people from United States, Germany, India & United Kingdom and many more countries.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan5th September, Indian
Confident, Ambitious
Jim Thorpe28th May, American
Athlete
T. E. Lawrence16th August, British
Archaeologist
T. S. Eliot26th September, American
Poet
Robert Moses18th December, American
Public Official
Dale Carnegie24th November, American
Self-Help Writer, Motivational Guru, Public
Heinz Guderian17th June, German, Polish
German General
Henry A. Wallace7th October, American
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
Eugene O'Neill16th October, American
Playwright
Harpo Marx23rd November, American
Comedian
Harilal Gandhi30th November, Indian
Mahatma Gandhi’s Son
John Logie Baird13th August, British, Scottish
Engineer
Raymond Chandler23rd July, American
Novelist and Screenwriter
Fernando Pessoa13th June, Portuguese
John Foster Dulles25th February, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Maurice Chevalier12th September, French
Actor, Singer
Katherine Mansfield14th October, New Zealander
Giorgio de Chirico10th July, Italian
Artist
Jean Monnet9th November, French
Political Economist & Diplomat
J. B. Kripalani11th November, Indian
Politician
C.V. Raman7th November, Indian
Physicist
Selman Waksman22nd July, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad11th November, Indian
Indian scholar
Otto Stern17th February, German
Physicist
Frits Zernike16th July, Dutch
Physicist
Inge Lehmann13th May, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
Neville Cardus3rd April, British
Writer & Critic
Giuseppe Ungaretti8th February, Italian
Poet, Essayist
Paul Bernays17th October, Swiss
Mathematician
Abraham Valdelomar27th April, Peruvian
Narrator
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras30th October, Greek
Olympic athlete
C. V. Raman7th November, Indian
Physicist, University teacher
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Abul Kalam Azad11th November, Indian
Politician, Journalist
Knute Rockne4th March, American
Head coach, American football player
Irving Berlin11th May, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Richard E. Byrd25th October, American
Explorer, Officer, Oceanographer, Aviator
Carl Schmitt11th July, German
Jurist, Geopolitician, Politician, Philosopher,
Molly Malone7th December, American
Actress
Nikolai Bukharin9th October, Russian
Russian Politician
Nestor Makhno7th November, Ukrainian
Author
Alexander I of Yugoslavia16th December, French
Prince
F. W. Murnau28th December, German
Film director, Screenwriter
Joe Allen6th August, American
Actor
Friedrich Fromm8th October
Military personnel
José Raúl Capablanca19th November, Cuban
Chess Player
Aurora Quezon19th February, Filipino
Nurse
Grey Owl18th September, Canadian, British
Writer, Novelist
Josef Albers19th March, German, American
Painter, Artist, University teacher
Max Steiner10th May, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
Friedrich Olbricht4th October, German
Military personnel, Officer
Vladimir K. Zworykin17th July, American, Russian
engineer, physicist, inventor
George Papandreou13th February, Greek
Greek Politician
Tris Speaker4th April, American
Baseball Player
August Kubizek3rd August, Austrian
Conductor, Painter, Writer
Gerrit Rietveld24th June, Dutch
Dutch designer
Roland Garros6th October, French
aviator, rugby union player
Johannes Itten11th November, Swiss
Painter, Writer
Carin Göring21st October, Swedish
Shah Nawaz Bhutto30th November, Pakistani
politician
R. G. LeTourneau30th November, American
Thomas C. Kinkaid3rd April, American
Officer
Toni Wolff18th September, Swiss
Psychologist
Alexander Friedmann16th June, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Joseph P. Kennedy30th November
Business Leader, Diplomat
Andrei Tupolev10th November, Russian
Designer
Georgios Papandreou13th February, Greek
Politician, Economist, Diplomat, Lawyer
Oskar Schlemmer4th September, German
Sculptor, Painter, Puppeteer, Artist, Librettist,
Chōjun Miyagi25th April, Japanese
Karateka
Frances Marion30th November, American
Screenwriter
Alfonso Bialetti30th November, Italian
inventor, entrepreneur, engineer
Alphonse Juin16th December, French
Officer, Military personnel
Richard Courant8th January, German
Mathematician, University teacher
Georges Vanier23rd April, Canadian
Diplomat, Military personnel
Fritz Reiner19th December, Hungarian, American
Conductor, Composer
Anton Makarenko13th March, Russian, Russian
Educator
Frans Eemil Sillanpää16th September, Finnish
Finnish writer
Vladimir Zworykin29th July, Russian
Inventor
Theodor Reik12th May, Austrian, American
Psychologist, Psychanalyst
Henry Beston1st June, American
Writer, Children's writer
Herbert Spencer Gasser5th July, American
physiologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau28th December, American
Director
Thakur Anukulchandra14th September, Bangladeshi
F.W. Murnau30th November, American
Director
Shōjirō Iida8th August, Japanese
Military personnel
Dame Gladys Cooper18th December, British
Actress
Thomas Stearns Eliot26th September, British, American
Hans Richter6th April, German
painter, art historian, artist
Sōtarō Yasui17th May, Japanese
Painter
Huddie William Ledbetter20th January, American
Heywood Campbell Broun7th December, American
Kenneth Rockne4th March, Norwegian, American
American Football coach, Coach, American football