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.
T. E. Lawrence16th August, British
Archaeologist
T. S. Eliot26th September, American
Poet
Jim Thorpe28th May, American
Athlete
Robert Moses18th December, American
Public Official
Henry A. Wallace7th October, American
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
Heinz Guderian17th June, German, Polish
German General
Dale Carnegie24th November, American
Self-Help Writer, Motivational Guru, Public
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan5th September, Indian
Confident, Ambitious
Eugene O'Neill16th October, American
Playwright
Harpo Marx23rd November, American
Comedian
Harilal Gandhi30th November, Indian
Mahatma Gandhi’s Son
Raymond Chandler23rd July, American
Novelist and Screenwriter
John Logie Baird13th August, British, Scottish
Engineer
Carl Schmitt11th July, German
Jurist, Geopolitician, Political Scientist
Alexander I of Yugoslavia16th December, Yugoslav, Serbian
King
Nestor Makhno7th November, Ukrainian
Revolutionary
John Foster Dulles25th February, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Nikolai Bukharin9th October, Russian
Politician
Fernando Pessoa13th June, Portuguese
Friedrich Fromm8th October, German
German Army officer
Katherine Mansfield14th October, New Zealander
Maurice Chevalier12th September, French
Actor, Singer
Giorgio de Chirico10th July, Italian
Artist
Jean Monnet9th November, French
Political Economist & Diplomat
J. B. Kripalani11th November, Indian
Politician
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad11th November, Indian
Indian scholar
Giuseppe Ungaretti8th February, Italian
Poet, Essayist
Selman Waksman22nd July, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Otto Stern17th February, German
Physicist
Neville Cardus3rd April, British
Writer & Critic
Inge Lehmann13th May, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
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Frits Zernike16th July, Dutch
Physicist
Paul Bernays17th October, Swiss
Mathematician
C.V. Raman7th November, Indian
Physicist
Abraham Valdelomar27th April, Peruvian
Narrator
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras30th October, Greek
Olympic athlete
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.6th September, American
Business person
Lead Belly20th January, American
Singer
C. V. Raman7th November, Indian
Physicist, University teacher
Irving Berlin11th May, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Richard E. Byrd25th October, American
Naval officer
José Raúl Capablanca19th November, Cuban
Chess Player
Molly Malone7th December, American
Actress
Joe Allen6th August, American
Actor
F. W. Murnau28th December, German
Film director
Knute Rockne4th March, American
Head coach, American football player
Grey Owl18th September, Canadian, British
Writer, Novelist
Friedrich Olbricht4th October, German
Military personnel, Officer
Max Steiner10th May, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
Josef Albers19th March, German, American
Painter, Artist, University teacher
Carin Göring21st October, Swedish
Tris Speaker4th April, American
Baseball Player
August Kubizek3rd August, Austrian
Conductor, Painter, Writer
Vladimir K. Zworykin17th July, American, Russian
engineer, physicist, inventor
William Hood Simpson18th May, American
Army Officer
Shah Nawaz Bhutto30th November, Pakistani
politician
Thomas C. Kinkaid3rd April, American
Officer
Gerrit Rietveld24th June, Dutch
Dutch designer
Johannes Itten11th November, Swiss
Painter, Writer
R. G. LeTourneau30th November, American
Toni Wolff18th September, Swiss
Psychologist
Alexander Friedmann16th June, Russian
Physicist
John Garand1st January, Canadian, American
Designer
Shmuel Yosef Agnon17th July, Israeli
Writer
Georgios Papandreou13th February, Greek
Politician, Economist, Diplomat, Lawyer
Ronald Knox17th February, British
Author
Andrei Tupolev10th November, Russian
Designer
James Farley30th May, American
Politician
Alfonso Bialetti30th November, Italian
inventor, entrepreneur, engineer
Alphonse Juin16th December, French
Officer, Military personnel
Aurora Quezon19th February, Filipino
Nurse
Frances Marion18th November, American
Screenwriter
J. Arthur Rank22nd December, British
Industrialist
Tôn Đức Thắng20th August, Vietnamese
President
Georges Bernanos20th February, French
Author
Maxwell Anderson15th December, American
Playwright
Oskar Schlemmer4th September, German
Sculptor, Painter, Puppeteer, Artist, Librettist,
Chōjun Miyagi25th April, Japanese
Karateka
Richard Courant8th January, German
Mathematician, University teacher
John Crowe Ransom30th April, American
Educator
Milan Stojadinović4th August, Serbian
Political figure
Antoinette Perry27th June, American
Actress
Georges Vanier23rd April, Canadian
Diplomat, Military personnel
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape5th February
Admiral
Hans von Salmuth11th November, German
Military General
Ernst Kretschmer8th October, German
Psychiatrist
Fritz Reiner19th December, Hungarian, American
Conductor, Composer
Fred Merkle20th December, American
Baseball manager
Harry Crerar28th April, Canadian
Military General
Harold Hitz Burton22nd June, American
Politician
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.27th February, American
Historian
Horace Pippin22nd February, American
Painter
Toyohiko Kagawa10th July, Japanese
Peace Activist
Vicki Baum24th January, Austrian, American
Writer