Nikita Khrushchev15th April, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Rudolf Hess26th April, German
Deputy Führer
Aldous Huxley26th July, British, American
Writer
Harold Macmillan10th February, British
Former British Prime Minister
John Ford1st February, American
Film Director & Producer
Gavrilo Princip25th July, Bosnian, Czech, Serbian
Assassinator of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Walter Brennan25th July, American
Actor
Norman Rockwell3rd February, American
Painter & Illustrator
Jack Benny14th February, American
Comedian, Vaudevillian
Bessie Smith15th April, American
Singer
Maximilian Kolbe8th January, Polish
Friar
E. E. Cummings14th October, American
Poet
Satyendra Nath Bose1st January, Indian
Benjamin Graham9th May, American
Economist, Investor
Alfred Kinsey23rd June, American
Sexologist
Dashiell Hammett27th May, American
Novelist
Georges Lemaître17th July, Belgian
Scientist & Priest
Robert Menzies20th December, Australian
12th Prime Minister of Australia
Meher Baba25th February, Indian
Religious Leader
Ralph Capone12th January, Italian, American
Al Capone's Brother
J. B. Priestley13th September, British
Novelist and Playwright
V. V. Giri10th August, Indian
Fourth President of India
Jean Renoir15th September, French, American
Film Director, Actor, Producer
King Vidor8th February, American
Film Director and Producer
Norbert Wiener26th November, American
Father of Cybernetics
Martha Graham11th May, American
Modern dancer and choreographer
Surya Sen22nd March, Indian
Revolutionary
Leonarda Cianciulli18th April, Italian
Serial Killer
Fred Allen31st May, American
American comedian
James Thurber8th December, American
Cartoonist, Author, Journalist & Playwright
Khawaja Nazimuddin19th July, Pakistani
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
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Edward VIII of the United Kingdom23rd June, British
King of United Kingdom
Josef von Sternberg29th May, American
Film Director
Ghanshyam Das Birla10th April, Indian
Indian businessman
Pyotr Kapitsa8th July, Russian
Physicist
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar21st February, Indian
Father of research laboratories
Frank Borzage23rd April, American
Film Director, Actor
Peter Warlock30th October, British
Composer
Corinne Griffith21st November, American
Actress
Andre Kertesz2nd July, Hungarian
Photographer
Duke of Windsor23rd June, British
Former King of the United Kingdom
Moms Mabley19th March, American
American comedian
Gala Dalí7th September, Russian
Poet
Louis-Ferdinand Céline27th May, French
French novelist
Boris III of Bulgaria30th January, Bulgarian
Military Officer
Paul R. Williams18th February, American
Architect
Kiichiro Toyoda11th June, Japanese
Entrepreneur
Dietrich von Choltitz9th November, German
Military personnel
Olive Thomas20th October, American
Actress
Edogawa Ranpo21st October, Japanese
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Literary critic,
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay12th September, Indian
Poet, Writer
Paul Lukas26th May, Hungarian, American
Actor
Harry Greb6th June, American
Boxer
Wilhelm Bittrich26th February, German
Officer
Jerzy Neyman16th April, Polish
Mathematician, Philosopher, Statistician
Fritz Pollard27th January, American
American coach
E. C. Segar8th December, American
Comics artist, Screenwriter, Writer
Ben Nicholson10th April, British
painter, sculptor
Willie Moretti24th February, Italian, American
Lothar von Richthofen27th September, German
Aviator, Military personnel
Hermann Oberth25th June, Austrian, Romanian
Physicist, Engineer, Essayist, Screenwriter
Fritz Sauckel27th October, German
Politician
Arthur Freed9th September, American
Film producer, Composer, Screenwriter, Actor,
Percy Spencer9th July, American
engineer, inventor
Kōnosuke Matsushita27th November, Japanese
Industrialist
Isaac Babel13th July, Russian
Journalist, playwright, short story writer
Claude Cahun25th October, French
Artist, Photographer, Writer
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg14th June, Luxembourgian
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Beatrice Lillie29th May, Canadian, British, American
Actress
Joseph Roth2nd September, Austrian
Writer, Journalist
Willem Arondeus22nd August
Poet, Writer, Painter
Jean Toomer26th December, American
American poet
Henry Hazlitt28th November, American
Journalist, Economist, Philosopher
Hans Langsdorff20th March, German
Soldier
Arthur Fiedler17th December, American
Conductor
Moshe Sharett15th October, Israeli, Ukrainian
Politician, Diplomat, Translator
James P. Johnson1st February, American
composer, pianist, jazz musician
Anton Mussert11th May
Civil engineer, Engineer, Non-fiction writer
Ford Frick19th December, American
Sportswriter
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet5th June, Canadian
Media Proprietor
H. V. Evatt30th April, Australian
Politician
Dai Vernon11th June, Canadian, American
Stage magician
Marcel Déat7th March, French
Politician
Riad Al Solh30th November, Lebanese
politician
Karl Böhm28th August, Austrian, German
Conductor, Music director
Mark Van Doren13th June, American
Poet, Autobiographer, Literary critic, University
Heinrich Lübke14th October, German
Politician
Otto Grotewohl11th March
Politician
José Carlos Mariátegui14th June, Peruvian
Sociologist
Walter Warlimont3rd October, German
Military personnel
Georges Carpentier12th January, French
Boxer
Arthur Fadden13th April, Australian
Politician
Harold Innis5th November, Canadian
Economist, Historian, Philosopher, University
René Fonck27th March, French
Politician, Military personnel