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
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan5th September, Indian
Confident, Ambitious
Dale Carnegie24th November, American
Self-Help Writer, Motivational Guru, Public
Eugene O'Neill16th October, American
Playwright
Heinz Guderian17th June, German, Polish
German General
Harilal Gandhi30th November, Indian
Mahatma Gandhi’s Son
Henry A. Wallace7th October, American
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
Harpo Marx23rd November, American
Comedian
Raymond Chandler23rd July, American
Novelist and Screenwriter
John Logie Baird13th August, British, Scottish
Engineer
John Foster Dulles25th February, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Katherine Mansfield14th October, New Zealander
Fernando Pessoa13th June, Portuguese
Maurice Chevalier12th September, French
Actor, Singer
Giorgio de Chirico10th July, Italian
Artist
C.V. Raman7th November, Indian
Physicist
Jean Monnet9th November, French
Political Economist & Diplomat
J. B. Kripalani11th November, Indian
Politician
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad11th November, Indian
Indian scholar
Inge Lehmann13th May, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
Selman Waksman22nd July, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Giuseppe Ungaretti8th February, Italian
Poet, Essayist
Frits Zernike16th July, Dutch
Physicist
Otto Stern17th February, German
Physicist
Neville Cardus3rd April, British
Writer & Critic
Paul Bernays17th October, Swiss
Mathematician
Abraham Valdelomar27th April, Peruvian
Narrator
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras30th October, Greek
Olympic athlete
C. V. Raman7th November, Indian
Physicist, University teacher
Robert Moses18th December, American
Architect, Politician
Abul Kalam Azad11th November, Indian
Politician, Journalist
Max Steiner10th May, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
Irving Berlin11th May, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
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Richard E. Byrd25th October, American
Explorer, Officer, Oceanographer, Aviator
Carl Schmitt11th July, German
Jurist, Geopolitician, Politician, Philosopher,
Friedrich Fromm8th October
Military personnel
Alexander I of Yugoslavia16th December, French
Prince
Nikolai Bukharin9th October, Russian
Russian Politician
Nestor Makhno7th November, Ukrainian
Author
Knute Rockne4th March, American
Head coach, American football player
José Raúl Capablanca19th November, Cuban
Chess Player
Aurora Quezon19th February, Filipino
Nurse
Friedrich Olbricht4th October, German
Military personnel, Officer
Josef Albers19th March, German, American
Painter, Artist, University teacher
F. W. Murnau28th December, German
Film director, Screenwriter
Grey Owl18th September, Canadian, British
Writer, Novelist
George Papandreou13th February, Greek
Greek Politician
August Kubizek3rd August, Austrian
Conductor, Painter, Writer
Gerrit Rietveld24th June, Dutch
Dutch designer
Roland Garros6th October, French
aviator, rugby union player
Georges Vanier23rd April, Canadian
Diplomat, Military personnel
Carin Göring21st October, Swedish
Shah Nawaz Bhutto30th November, Pakistani
politician
Johannes Itten11th November, Swiss
Painter, Writer
Vladimir K. Zworykin17th July, American, Russian
engineer, physicist, inventor
Thomas C. Kinkaid3rd April, American
Officer
R. G. LeTourneau30th November, American
Oskar Schlemmer4th September, German
Sculptor, Painter, Puppeteer, Artist, Librettist,
Alexander Friedmann16th June, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Joseph P. Kennedy30th November
Business Leader, Diplomat
Toni Wolff18th September, Swiss
Psychologist
Andrei Tupolev10th November, Russian
Designer
Georgios Papandreou13th February, Greek
Politician, Economist, Diplomat, Lawyer
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
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
Thomas Stearns Eliot26th September, British, American
Hans Richter6th April, German
painter, art historian, artist
Huddie William Ledbetter20th January, American
Heywood Campbell Broun7th December, American
Chōjun Miyagi25th April, Japanese
Karateka
Kenneth Rockne4th March, Norwegian, American
American Football coach, Coach, American football
Shōjirō Iida8th August, Japanese
Military personnel
Sōtarō Yasui17th May, Japanese
Painter