1
J. R. R. Tolkien
(Author of 'The Hobbit' & 'The Lord of the Rings')
175
43
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: 3rd January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Died: September 2, 1973
2
Haile Selassie
(Former Emperor of Ethiopia (1930 - 1936, 1941 - 1974))
60
23
Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 23rd July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Ejersa Goro, Ethiopia
Died: August 27, 1975
3
Francisco Franco
(Former Caudillo of Spain)
64
45
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 4th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Ferrol, Spain
Died: November 20, 1975
4
Oliver Hardy
(Actor)
36
11
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 18th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Harlem, Georgia, United States
Died: August 7, 1957
5
Bessie Coleman
(American Civil Aviator and the First African-American Woman to Hold a Pilot License)
108
19
Listed In: Aviators
Birthdate: 26th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Atlanta, Texas, United States
Died: April 30, 1926
6
Manfred von Richthofen
(One of the Most Widely Known German Fighter Pilots of All Time)
26
14
7
Josip Broz Tito
(Yugoslav Communist Revolutionary and the chief Architect of the 'Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia')
36
24
8
Mary Pickford
(One of the Most Popular Actresses of the 1910s and 1920s)
18
8
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 8th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Died: May 29, 1979
9
Basil Rathbone
(British Actor Who Portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 14 Hollywood Films)
20
3
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 13th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
Died: July 21, 1967
10
William Horatio Powell
(American Actor Known for His Role of 'Nick Charles' in Six 'Thin Man' Film Series)
13
2
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 29th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: March 5, 1984
11
J. Paul Getty
(British Petroleum Industrialist and Founder of the ‘Getty Oil Company’)
15
13
Listed In: Oil Barons
Birthdate: 15th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Died: June 6, 1976
12
Pearl Buck
(Winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature)
20
4
Listed In: Women's Rights Activists
Birthdate: 26th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Hillsboro
Died: March 6, 1973
13
Margaret Rutherford
(Best Known for Her Role as the ‘Duchess of Brighton’ in the Film ‘The V.I.P.s’)
16
5
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 11th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Balham, London, United Kingdom
Died: May 22, 1972
14
Jack L Warner
(Canadian-American Film Executive and Founder of ‘Warner Brothers. Studios’)
14
3
Listed In: T V & Movie Producers
Birthdate: 2nd August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: London, Canada
Died: September 9, 1978
15
Louis de Broglie
(Physicist)
24
2
16
Walter Benjamin
(German Jewish Philosopher, Cultural Critic and Essayist)
10
5
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 15th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: September 26, 1940
17
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Poet)
17
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rockland, Maine, United States
Died: October 19, 1950
18
Hal Roach
(Film producer, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter)
16
2
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: 14th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: New York City
Died: November 2, 1992
19
Gummo Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Inventor)
9
1
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: 23rd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Died: April 21, 1977
20
Reinhold Niebuhr
(American Reformed Theologian, Ethicist and Commentator on Politics and Public Affairs)
10
6
Listed In: Theologians
Birthdate: 21st June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Wright City, Missouri, United States
Died: June 1, 1971
21
Amānullāh Khān
(King of Afghanistan from 1926 to 1929)
27
15
22
Martin Niemöller
(German Theologian and Pastor Known for His Most Famous Poem 'First They Came...')
9
4
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 14th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Lippstadt, Germany
Died: March 6, 1984
23
Charles Atlas
(American Bodybuilder Best Remembered as the Developer of a Bodybuilding Method and Its Associated Exercise Program)
13
2
Listed In: Bodybuilders
Birthdate: 30th October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Acri, Cosenza, Italy
Died: December 24, 1972
24
Walter Hagen
(Golfer)
10
1
Listed In: Golfers
Birthdate: 21st December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Rochester
Died: October 6, 1969
25
Manuel Roxas
(Former President of the Philippines)
11
7
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 1st January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Roxas City, Philippines
Died: April 15, 1948
26
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
(Former Duchess Consort of Brunswick (1913 - 1918))
7
4
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 13th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Potsdam, Germany
Died: December 11, 1980
27
Eddie Cantor
(comedian)
5
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 31st January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Died: October 10, 1964
28
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
(Japanese Short-Story Writer Active During the Taishō Period)
5
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1st March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kyōbashi-ku,Tokyo, Japan
Died: July 24, 1927
29
Mabel Normand
(Actress)
6
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 9th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: New Brighton, Staten Island,
Died: February 23, 1930
30
Zara Cully
(Actress)
4
0
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 26th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Died: February 28, 1978
31
James Forrestal
(1st United States Secretary of Defense (1947 - 1949))
6
4
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: 15th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Beacon
Died: May 22, 1949
32
Djuna Barnes
(Artist)
7
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 12th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Storm King Mountain, New York, United States
Died: June 18, 1982
33
Mississippi John Hurt
(Singer)
14
5
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: 8th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Teoc, Mississippi, United States
Died: November 2, 1966
34
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
(Military Leader)
4
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 6th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany
Died: April 8, 1938
35
J.B.S. Haldane
(British Scientist Who Developed the Mathematical Theory of Population Genetics and One of the Founders of ‘Neo-Darwinism’)
8
3
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 5th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Oxford, England
Died: December 1, 1964
36
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
(Austrian Nazi Politician and Chancellor of Austria for 2-Days in March 1938 Before its Annexation)
5
3
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 22nd July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Stonařov, Czechia
Died: October 16, 1946
37
Ernst Lubitsch
(Film director)
7
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 29th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: November 30, 1947
38
Alexander Alekhine
(Russian-French Former Chess Champion)
5
2
Listed In: Chess Players
Birthdate: 31st October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: March 24, 1946
39
Erté
(Russian-born French Artist and Designer)
9
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 23rd November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 21, 1990
40
Corrie ten Boom
(Holocaust Survivor Best Known for Her Book 'The Hiding Place')
3
2
Birthdate: 15th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Haarlem, Netherlands
Died: April 15, 1983
41
Engelbert Dollfuss
(Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer)
5
3
42
Ruth Chatterton
(Actress)
10
0
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 24, 1961
43
Bruno Schulz
(Writer and One of the Great Polish-Language Prose Stylists of the 20th Century)
5
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 12th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Drohobych, Ukraine
Died: November 19, 1942
44
Alan Hale
(Actor)
5
3
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 10th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States
Died: January 22, 1950
6
3
Listed In: Family Members
Birthdate: 9th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Tuscany, Italy
Died: March 14, 1989
46
Harry J. Anslinger
(1st Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics)
5
3
Listed In: Government Officials
Birthdate: 20th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: November 14, 1975
47
Ivo Andric
(Novelist, Poet & Short Story Writer Who Won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature)
7
4
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 9th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Dolac, Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Died: March 13, 1975
48
Andy Clyde
(Stage actor, Film actor)
9
0
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 25th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Blairgowrie and Rattray
Died: May 18, 1967
49
Arthur Compton
(Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics)
8
0
Listed In: Physicists
Birthdate: 10th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Wooster, Ohio, USA
Died: March 15, 1962
50
Sepp Dietrich
(Military Officer)
5
4
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 28th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Hawangen, Germany
Died: April 21, 1966
