Famous People Born In 1895

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Discover the most famous people born in 1895. The list includes people like Babe Ruth, J. Edgar Hoover, Buster Keaton, Juan Perón, Jiddu Krishnamurti and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, philosophers and journalists born in 1895. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & Russia and many more countries.
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Babe Ruth
(One of the Greatest Baseball Players of All Time)
Babe Ruth
46
Listed In: Baseball Players
Birthdate: 6th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Pigtown, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died: August 16, 1948
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George VI
(King of the United Kingdom (1936-52))
George VI
42
Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 14th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Died: February 6, 1952
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Buster Keaton
(Comedian, Actor and Filmmaker Known for His Deadpan Expressions, Which Earned Him the Nickname ‘The Great Stone Face’)
Buster Keaton
17
Birthdate: 4th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Piqua, Kansas, United States
Died: February 1, 1966
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Jack Dempsey
(One of the Most Popular Boxers in American History)
Jack Dempsey
19
Listed In: Boxers
Birthdate: 24th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Manassa, Colorado, United States
Died: May 31, 1983
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Rudolph Valentino
(Italian Actor)
Rudolph Valentino
3
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 6th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Castellaneta, Italy
Died: August 23, 1926
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Shemp Howard
(Comedian, Actor and Member of the Comedy Team ‘The Three Stooges’)
Shemp Howard
8
Birthdate: 11th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York, United States
Died: November 22, 1955
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Buckminster Fuller
8
Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 12th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Milton, Massachusetts, United States
Died: July 1, 1983
 8 
Gracie Allen
(Comedian)
Gracie Allen
5
Birthdate: 26th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Died: August 27, 1964
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Bert Lahr
(Actor)
Bert Lahr
1
Birthdate: 13th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Died: December 4, 1967
 10 
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
(Eldest Child of Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
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Listed In: Nurses
Birthdate: 15th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: July 17, 1918
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Oscar Hammerstein II
4
Birthdate: 12th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: August 23, 1960
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Robert Graves
(Poet & Novelist)
Robert Graves
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 24th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Wimbledon, England
Died: December 7, 1985
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Fulton J. Sheen
(Archbishop)
Fulton J. Sheen
5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 8th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: El Paso, Illinois
Died: December 9, 1979
 14 
Cristóbal Balenciaga
(Fashion Designer)
Cristóbal Balenciaga
6
Birthdate: 21st January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Getaria, Spain
Died: March 24, 1972
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Carl Orff
(German Composer Known for His Cantata 'Carmina Burana')
Carl Orff
4
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 10th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: March 29, 1982
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Juan Perón
(President of Argentina)
Juan Perón
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Listed In: Presidents
Birthdate: 8th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Lobos
Died: July 1, 1974
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George Halas
(American football player)
George Halas
3
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: 2nd February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: October 31, 1983
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William Griffith Wilson
(Co-Founder of 'Alcoholics Anonymous')
William Griffith Wilson
5
Listed In: CEOs
Birthdate: 26th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Dorset, Vermont, United States
Died: January 24, 1971
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Paul Muni
(American Stage and Film Actor)
Paul Muni
5
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 22nd September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Lviv
Died: August 25, 1967
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Anna Freud
(British Psychoanalyst and Founder of Psychoanalytic Child Psychology)
Anna Freud
4
Listed In: Psychologists
Birthdate: 3rd December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: October 9, 1982
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Lázaro Cárdenas
(President of Mexico)
Lázaro Cárdenas
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 21st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Jiquilpan, Mexico
Died: October 19, 1970
 22 
Matthew Ridgway
(Military officer)
Matthew Ridgway
2
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 3rd March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Hampton, Virginia, United States
Died: July 26, 1993
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Dorothea Lange
(Photographer)
Dorothea Lange
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Birthdate: 26th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Died: October 11, 1965
 24 
William Boyd
(Film Actor)
William Boyd
1
Birthdate: 5th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Hendrysburg, Ohio, United States
Died: September 12, 1972
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Pauline Pfeiffer
(Journalist & Second Wife of Ernest Hemingway)
Pauline Pfeiffer
0
Listed In: Journalists
Birthdate: 22nd July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Parkersburg, Iowa, U.S.
Died: October 1, 1951
 26 
Liaquat Ali Khan
(First Prime Minister of Pakistan)
Liaquat Ali Khan
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 1st October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Karnal
Died: October 17, 1951
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George Gipp
(American Football Player)
George Gipp
3
Birthdate: 18th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Calumet Township, Michigan, United States
Died: December 14, 1920
 28 
Folke Bernadotte
(Swedish Diplomat Who Negotiated the Release of 31000 Prisoners from German Concentration Camps in World War II)
Folke Bernadotte
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 2nd January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: September 17, 1948
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Edna Purviance
(Actress)
Edna Purviance
3
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 21st October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Paradise Valley, Nevada, United States
Died: January 11, 1958
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Immanuel Velikovsky
0
Listed In: Psychiatrists
Birthdate: 10th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Vitebsk
Died: November 17, 1979
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Paul Éluard
(Poet)
Paul Éluard
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 14th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saint-Denis, France
Died: November 18, 1952
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William Tubman
(19th President of Liberia (1944 - 1971))
William Tubman
3
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 29th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Harper, Liberia
Died: July 23, 1971
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Augusto César Sandino
(Nicaraguan Revolutionary Who Fought Against the United States Occupation of Nicaragua)
Augusto César Sandino
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Listed In: Revolutionaries
Birthdate: 18th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Niquinohomo, Nicaragua
Died: February 21, 1934
 34 
Brian Horrocks
(Athletics competitor, Military personnel)
Brian Horrocks
0
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 7th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Ranikhet, India
Died: January 4, 1985
 35 
Busby Berkeley
(Film director)
Busby Berkeley
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Birthdate: 29th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: March 14, 1976
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Nikolai Bulganin
(Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958)
Nikolai Bulganin
2
Birthdate: 11th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Died: February 24, 1975
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Charles MacArthur
(Playwright)
Charles MacArthur
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 5th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: April 21, 1956
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Moyna Macgill
(Actress)
Moyna Macgill
0
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 10th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Belfast, Ireland
Died: November 25, 1975
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László Moholy-Nagy
(Photographer)
László Moholy-Nagy
0
Listed In: Designers
Birthdate: 20th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Bácsborsód
Died: November 24, 1946
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Vinoba Bhave
(Indian Social Reformer and Philosopher Best Known for the 'Bhoodan Movement')
Vinoba Bhave
6
Birthdate: 11th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Died: November 15, 1982
 41 
Mikhail Bakhtin
(Russian Literary Theorist and Philosopher Known for His Work ‘Toward a Philosophy of the Act’)
Mikhail Bakhtin
0
Birthdate: 17th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Oryol, Russia
Died: March 7, 1975
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William Grant Still
(Composer who became the first black man to conduct a major orchestra)
William Grant Still
4
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 11th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Woodville, Mississippi, United States
Died: December 3, 1978
 43 
Lorenz Hart
(Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter, Librettist)
Lorenz Hart
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 2nd May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: New York City
Died: November 22, 1943
 44 
Horloogiyn Choybalsan
(Political figure)
Horloogiyn Choybalsan
2
Birthdate: 8th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Mongolia
Died: January 26, 1952
 45 
Val A. Browning
(Businessperson)
Val A. Browning
2
Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 20th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Ogden
Died: May 16, 1994
 46 
Paul Hindemith
(German Composer and Music Theorist)
Paul Hindemith
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 16th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Hanau, Germany
Died: December 28, 1963
 47 
Lin Yutang
(One of the Most Well-Known Twentieth-Century Chinese Writers)
Lin Yutang
0
Birthdate: 10th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Banzai, Fujian, Zhangzhou, China
Died: March 26, 1976
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Sergei Yesenin
(One of the Most Popular Russian Lyric Poets of the 20th Century)
Sergei Yesenin
1
Listed In: Poets
Birthdate: 3rd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Konstantinovo, Russia
Died: December 28, 1925
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Conn Smythe
(Canadian Soldier, Businessman, Ice Hockey Player, and Horse Racer)
Conn Smythe
3
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: 1st February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Died: November 18, 1980
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R. J. Mitchell
(British Aircraft Designer Known for Designing the Supermarine Spitfire Fighter Used in WWII)
R. J. Mitchell
1
Listed In: Engineers
Birthdate: 20th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Butt Lane, Kidsgrove, England
Died: June 11, 1937