1
J. R. R. Tolkien
(Author of 'The Hobbit' & 'The Lord of the Rings')
231
56
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))
62
26
Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 23rd July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Ejersa Goro, Ethiopia
Died: August 27, 1975
3
Oliver Hardy
(Actor)
65
17
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 18th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Harlem, Georgia, United States
Died: August 7, 1957
4
Bessie Coleman
(American Civil Aviator and the First African-American Woman to Hold a Pilot License)
148
31
Listed In: Aviators
Birthdate: 26th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Atlanta, Texas, United States
Died: April 30, 1926
5
Josip Broz Tito
(Yugoslav Communist Revolutionary and the chief Architect of the 'Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia')
50
35
6
Manfred von Richthofen
(One of the Most Widely Known German Fighter Pilots of All Time)
35
21
7
J. Paul Getty
(British Petroleum Industrialist and Founder of the ‘Getty Oil Company’)
26
17
Listed In: Oil Barons
Birthdate: 15th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Died: June 6, 1976
8
Mary Pickford
(One of the Most Popular Actresses of the 1910s and 1920s)
27
11
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 8th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Died: May 29, 1979
9
William Horatio Powell
(American Actor Known for His Role of 'Nick Charles' in Six 'Thin Man' Film Series)
22
4
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 29th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: March 5, 1984
10
Basil Rathbone
(British Actor Who Portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 14 Hollywood Films)
29
4
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 13th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
Died: July 21, 1967
11
Pearl Buck
(Winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature)
66
20
Listed In: Women's Rights Activists
Birthdate: 26th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Hillsboro
Died: March 6, 1973
12
Jack L Warner
(Canadian-American Film Executive and Founder of ‘Warner Brothers. Studios’)
19
3
Listed In: T V & Movie Producers
Birthdate: 2nd August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: London, Canada
Died: September 9, 1978
13
Margaret Rutherford
(Best Known for Her Role as the ‘Duchess of Brighton’ in the Film ‘The V.I.P.s’)
21
10
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 11th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Balham, London, United Kingdom
Died: May 22, 1972
14
Louis de Broglie
(Physicist)
26
5
15
Hal Roach
(Film producer, Actor, Film director, Screenwriter)
23
3
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: 14th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: New York City
Died: November 2, 1992
16
Walter Benjamin
(German Jewish Philosopher, Cultural Critic and Essayist)
12
7
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 15th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: September 26, 1940
17
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Poet)
20
6
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rockland, Maine, United States
Died: October 19, 1950
18
Charles Atlas
(American Bodybuilder Best Remembered as the Developer of a Bodybuilding Method and Its Associated Exercise Program)
20
3
Listed In: Bodybuilders
Birthdate: 30th October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Acri, Cosenza, Italy
Died: December 24, 1972
19
Gummo Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Inventor)
11
2
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: 23rd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Died: April 21, 1977
20
Walter Hagen
(American Professional Golfer and One of the Greatest Golfers Ever)
16
2
Listed In: Golfers
Birthdate: 21st December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Rochester, New York, United States
Died: October 6, 1969
21
Amānullāh Khān
(King of Afghanistan from 1926 to 1929)
31
18
22
Manuel Roxas
(Former President of the Philippines)
14
8
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 1st January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Roxas City, Philippines
Died: April 15, 1948
23
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
(Military Leader)
9
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 6th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New Palace, Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany
Died: April 8, 1938
24
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
25
Zara Cully
(Actress)
10
0
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 26th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Died: February 28, 1978
26
Eddie Cantor
(comedian)
8
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 31st January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Died: October 10, 1964
27
Corrie ten Boom
(Holocaust Survivor Best Known for Her Book 'The Hiding Place')
6
3
Birthdate: 15th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Haarlem, Netherlands
Died: April 15, 1983
28
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
(Former Duchess Consort of Brunswick (1913 - 1918))
9
5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 13th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Potsdam, Germany
Died: December 11, 1980
29
William Demarest
(Known for Playing 'Uncle Charley' in 'My Three Sons')
6
1
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 27th February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Died: December 27, 1983
30
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
(Japanese Short-Story Writer Active During the Taishō Period)
5
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1st March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kyōbashi-ku,Tokyo, Japan
Died: July 24, 1927
31
Alexander Alekhine
(Russian-French Former Chess Champion)
8
3
Listed In: Chess Players
Birthdate: 31st October
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: March 24, 1946
32
Francisco Franco
(Former Caudillo of Spain)
76
61
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 4th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Ferrol, Spain
Died: November 20, 1975
33
Ernst Lubitsch
(Film director)
10
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 29th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: November 30, 1947
34
Djuna Barnes
(Artist)
9
1
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 12th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Storm King Mountain, New York, United States
Died: June 18, 1982
35
Mississippi John Hurt
(Singer)
16
5
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: 8th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Teoc, Mississippi, United States
Died: November 2, 1966
36
Reinhold Niebuhr
(American Reformed Theologian, Ethicist and Commentator on Politics and Public Affairs)
10
8
Listed In: Theologians
Birthdate: 21st June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Wright City, Missouri, United States
Died: June 1, 1971
37
Mabel Normand
(Actress)
8
4
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 9th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: New Brighton, Staten Island,
Died: February 23, 1930
38
Henry Darger
(Novelist, Artist, and Writer)
3
1
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 12th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died: April 13, 1973
39
Alan Hale
(Actor)
7
4
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: 10th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States
Died: January 22, 1950
40
James Forrestal
(1st United States Secretary of Defense (1947 - 1949))
7
4
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: 15th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Beacon
Died: May 22, 1949
41
Ruth Chatterton
(Actress)
14
0
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 24, 1961
42
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
(Austrian Nazi Politician and Chancellor of Austria for 2-Days in March 1938 Before its Annexation)
6
3
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 22nd July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Stonařov, Czechia
Died: October 16, 1946
43
Erté
(Russian-born French Artist and Designer)
11
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 23rd November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 21, 1990
44
Zita of Bourbon-Parma
7
3
Listed In: Family Members
Birthdate: 9th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Tuscany, Italy
Died: March 14, 1989
45
Ivo Andric
(Novelist, Poet & Short Story Writer Who Won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature)
10
5
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 9th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Dolac, Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Died: March 13, 1975
46
Agnes von Kurowsky
(American Nurse and Ernest Hemingway's Lover)
7
0
Listed In: Nurses
Birthdate: 5th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: September 25, 1984
47
Arthur Compton
(Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics)
15
1
Listed In: Physicists
Birthdate: 10th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Wooster, Ohio, USA
Died: March 15, 1962
48
Gregor Strasser
(Politician, Pharmacist)
3
1
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 31st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Geisenfeld
Died: July 1, 1934
49
Andy Clyde
(Stage actor, Film actor)
12
0
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 25th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Blairgowrie and Rattray
Died: May 18, 1967
50
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
