Edward VIII23rd June, British
King of United Kingdom
Nikita Khrushchev15th April, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Rudolf Hess26th April, German
Deputy Führer
Harold Macmillan10th February, British
Former British Prime Minister
Aldous Huxley26th July, British, American
Writer
Gavrilo Princip25th July, Bosnian, Czech, Serbian
Assassinator of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Walter Brennan25th July, American
Actor
Bessie Smith15th April, American
Singer
John Ford1st February, American
Film Director & Producer
Jack Benny14th February, American
Comedian, Vaudevillian
Norman Rockwell3rd February, American
Painter & Illustrator
Martha Graham11th May, American
Modern dancer and choreographer
Maximilian Kolbe8th January, Polish
Friar
Satyendra Nath Bose1st January, Indian
Benjamin Graham9th May, American
Economist, Investor
E. E. Cummings14th October, American
Poet
Dashiell Hammett27th May, American
Novelist
Alfred Kinsey23rd June, American
Sexologist
Georges Lemaître17th July, Belgian
Scientist & Priest
Robert Menzies20th December, Australian
12th Prime Minister of Australia
Meher Baba25th February, Indian
Religious Leader
J. B. Priestley13th September, British
Novelist and Playwright
Ralph Capone12th January, Italian, American
Al Capone's Brother
Leonarda Cianciulli18th April, Italian
Serial Killer
Jean Renoir15th September, French, American
Film Director, Actor, Producer
V. V. Giri10th August, Indian
Fourth President of India
Norbert Wiener26th November, American
Father of Cybernetics
James Thurber8th December, American
Cartoonist, Author, Journalist & Playwright
Fred Allen31st May, American
American comedian
Khawaja Nazimuddin19th July, Pakistani
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
King Vidor8th February, American
Film Director and Producer
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Surya Sen22nd March, Indian
Revolutionary
Josef von Sternberg29th May, American
Film Director
Ghanshyam Das Birla10th April, Indian
Indian businessman
Frank Borzage23rd April, American
Film Director, Actor
Andre Kertesz2nd July, Hungarian
Photographer
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar21st February, Indian
Father of research laboratories
Pyotr Kapitsa8th July, Russian
Physicist
Peter Warlock30th October, British
Composer
Corinne Griffith21st November, American
Actress
Duke of Windsor23rd June, British
Former King of the United Kingdom
Boris III of Bulgaria30th January, Bulgarian
Military Officer
Gala Dalí7th September, Russian
Poet
Kiichiro Toyoda11th June, Japanese
Entrepreneur
Moms Mabley19th March, American
American comedian
Chandrasekharendra Saraswati20th May, Indian
Leader
Louis-Ferdinand Céline27th May, French
French novelist
Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi16th November, Austrian, Japanese
Politician
Moshe Sharett15th October, Israeli, Ukrainian
Politician, Diplomat, Translator
José Carlos Mariátegui14th June, Peruvian
Sociologist
Olive Thomas20th October, American
Actress
Harry Greb6th June, American
Boxer
Edogawa Ranpo21st October, Japanese
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Literary critic,
Dietrich von Choltitz9th November, German
Military personnel
Percy Spencer9th July, American
engineer, inventor
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay12th September, Indian
Poet, Writer
Elisabeth of Romania12th October, Romanian
Princess
E. C. Segar8th December, American
Comics artist, Screenwriter, Writer
Hans Langsdorff20th March, German
Soldier
Arthur Freed9th September, American
Film producer, Composer, Screenwriter, Actor,
Violet Trefusis6th June, British
Socialite
Fritz Sauckel27th October, German
Politician
Curt Richter20th February, American
Biologist
Paul Lukas26th May, Afghan, Hungarian, American
Actor
Isaac Babel13th July, Russian
Journalist, playwright, short story writer
Willie Moretti24th February, Italian, American
Hermann Oberth25th June, Austrian, Romanian
Physicist, Engineer, Essayist, Screenwriter
Wilhelm Bittrich26th February, German
Officer
Fritz Pollard27th January, American
American coach
Lothar von Richthofen27th September, German
Aviator, Military personnel
William Avery Bishop8th February, Canadian
Flying Ace
Claude Cahun25th October, French
Artist, Photographer, Writer
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg14th June, Luxembourgian
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Kōnosuke Matsushita27th November, Japanese
Industrialist
Anton Mussert11th May
Civil engineer, Engineer, Non-fiction writer
Joseph Roth2nd September, Austrian
Journalist
Beatrice Lillie29th May, Canadian, British, American
Actress
Jean Toomer26th December, American
American poet
Heinrich Lübke14th October, German
Politician
Paul R. Williams18th February, American
Architect
Ford Frick19th December, American
Sportswriter
Jerzy Neyman16th April, Polish
Mathematician, Philosopher, Statistician
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet5th June, Canadian
Media Proprietor
James P. Johnson1st February, American
composer, pianist, jazz musician
T.V. Soong4th December, Chinese
Businessman
Otto Grotewohl11th March
Politician
Ben Nicholson10th April, British
painter, sculptor
Henry Hazlitt28th November, American
Journalist, Economist, Philosopher
Benigno Aquino, Sr.4th September, Filipino
Walter Warlimont3rd October, German
Military personnel
Mark Van Doren13th June, American
Poet, Autobiographer, Literary critic, University
René Fonck27th March, French
Aviator
Mei Lanfang22nd October, Chinese
Opera Artist
Georges Carpentier12th January, French
Boxer