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. S. Eliot26th September, American
Poet
T. E. Lawrence16th August, British
Archaeologist
Jim Thorpe28th May, American
Athlete
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan5th September, Indian
Confident, Ambitious
Dale Carnegie24th November, American
Self-Help Writer, Motivational Guru, Public
Heinz Guderian17th June, German, Polish
German General
Robert Moses18th December, American
Public Official
Henry A. Wallace7th October, American
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
Eugene O'Neill16th October, American
Playwright
Harilal Gandhi30th November, Indian
Mahatma Gandhi’s Son
Raymond Chandler23rd July, American
Novelist and Screenwriter
Harpo Marx23rd November, American
Comedian
John Logie Baird13th August, British, Scottish
Engineer
Carl Schmitt11th July, German
Jurist, Geopolitician, Political Scientist
Maurice Chevalier12th September, French
Actor, Singer
John Foster Dulles25th February, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Katherine Mansfield14th October, New Zealander
Nikolai Bukharin9th October, Russian
Politician
Fernando Pessoa13th June, Portuguese
Alexander I of Yugoslavia16th December, Yugoslav, Serbian
King
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
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad11th November, Indian
Indian scholar
Selman Waksman22nd July, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Otto Stern17th February, German
Physicist
Frits Zernike16th July, Dutch
Physicist
Giuseppe Ungaretti8th February, Italian
Poet, Essayist
Neville Cardus3rd April, British
Writer & Critic
Inge Lehmann13th May, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
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Paul Bernays17th October, Swiss
Mathematician
Abraham Valdelomar27th April, Peruvian
Narrator
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras30th October, Greek
Olympic athlete
C. V. Raman7th November, Indian
Physicist, University teacher
Irving Berlin11th May, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Lead Belly20th January, American
Singer
Richard E. Byrd25th October, American
Naval officer
Joe Allen6th August, American
Actor
Knute Rockne4th March, American
Head coach, American football player
Friedrich Fromm8th October
Military personnel
Molly Malone7th December, American
Actress
Nestor Makhno7th November, Ukrainian
Author
José Raúl Capablanca19th November, Cuban
Chess Player
Aurora Quezon19th February, Filipino
Nurse
F. W. Murnau28th December, German
Film director
Friedrich Olbricht4th October, German
Military personnel, Officer
Josef Albers19th March, German, American
Painter, Artist, University teacher
Max Steiner10th May, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
Vladimir K. Zworykin17th July, American, Russian
engineer, physicist, inventor
Grey Owl18th September, Canadian, British
Writer, Novelist
George Papandreou13th February, Greek
Greek Politician
August Kubizek3rd August, Austrian
Conductor, Painter, Writer
Carin Göring21st October, Swedish
Gerrit Rietveld24th June, Dutch
Dutch designer
Tris Speaker4th April, American
Baseball Player
Johannes Itten11th November, Swiss
Painter, Writer
Thomas C. Kinkaid3rd April, American
Officer
R. G. LeTourneau30th November, American
Shah Nawaz Bhutto30th November, Pakistani
politician
Georges Vanier23rd April, Canadian
Diplomat, Military personnel
John Garand1st January, Canadian, American
Designer
Alexander Friedmann16th June, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
James Farley30th May, American
Politician
Ronald Knox17th February, British
Author
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.6th September, American
Business person
Toni Wolff18th September, Swiss
Psychologist
Andrei Tupolev10th November, Russian
Designer
Toyohiko Kagawa10th July, Japanese
Peace Activist
Georgios Papandreou13th February, Greek
Politician, Economist, Diplomat, Lawyer
Maxwell Anderson15th December, American
Playwright
Richard Courant8th January, German
Mathematician, University teacher
Oskar Schlemmer4th September, German
Sculptor, Painter, Puppeteer, Artist, Librettist,
Chōjun Miyagi25th April, Japanese
Karateka
John Crowe Ransom30th April, American
Educator
Alphonse Juin16th December, French
Officer, Military personnel
Frances Marion18th November, American
Screenwriter
Alfonso Bialetti30th November, Italian
inventor, entrepreneur, engineer
Milan Stojadinović4th August, Serbian
Political figure
J. Arthur Rank22nd December, British
Industrialist
Horace Pippin22nd February, American
Painter
William Hood Simpson18th May, American
Army Officer
Ernst Kretschmer8th October, German
Psychiatrist
Georges Bernanos20th February, French
Author
Tôn Đức Thắng20th August, Vietnamese
President
Chesley Bonestell1st January, American
Painter
Fritz Reiner19th December, Hungarian, American
Conductor, Composer
Antoinette Perry27th June, American
Actress
Thomas Sopwith18th January, British
Aircraft designer
Harold Hitz Burton22nd June, American
Politician
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape5th February
Admiral
Hubert Wilkins31st October, Australian
Explorer
Lotte Lehmann27th February, German
Soprano
James Bridie3rd January, Scottish
Playwright