Famous People Born In 1896
Discover the most famous people born in 1896. The list includes people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Georgy Zhukov, George Burns and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, poets and novelists born in 1896. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & India and many more countries.
F. Scott Fitzgerald24th September, American
Novelist
Morarji Desai29th February, Indian
Politician, Prime Minister of India
Georgy Zhukov1st December, Russian
Military Commander
Oswald Mosley16th November, French
British Politician
Jean Piaget9th August, Swiss
George Burns20th January, American
Lev Vygotsky17th November, Russian
Psychologist
Ruth Gordon30th October, American
Actress
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada1st September, Indian
Founder of ISKCON
Howard Hawks30th May, American
Director
Salim Ali12th November, Indian
Ornithologist
V. K. Krishna Menon3rd May, Indian
Indian Politician
Imre Nagy7th June, Hungarian
Politician
Antonin Artaud4th September, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
Jolie Gabor29th September, American
Entrepreneur, Socialite
Everett Dirksen4th January, American
Former U.S. Senator
William A. Wellman29th February, American
Director
Trygve Lie16th July, Norwegian
First Secretary General of the U.N
Anastasio Somoza García1st February, Nicaraguan
President of Nicaragua
Gerty Cori15th August, American
Biochemist
Wallace Carothers27th April, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Carl Ferdinand Cori5th December, Czech, American
Biochemist
Robert S. Mulliken7th June, American
Chemist, Physicist
Edward Arthur Milne14th February, British
Astrophysicist
Walter Lang10th August, American
Film Director
Carl Ludwig Siegel31st December, German
Mathematician
Philip Showalter Hench28th February, American
Physician
Andre Breton19th February, French
Founder of Surrealism
Isaac30th November, Israeli
Jimmy Doolittle14th December, American
Aviator, Officer
Mamie Eisenhower14th November, American
Former First Lady of the United States
Ethel Waters31st October, American
Actor, Singer, Jazz musician, Stage actor
Konstantin Rokossovsky21st December, Polish, Russian
Soviet officer
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg23rd January, French
Former Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Mark W. Clark1st May, American
Officer
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Ted Healy1st October, American
Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor
D. R. Bendre31st January, Indian
Adele Astaire10th September, American
Actor, Dancer, Stage actor
John Dos Passos14th January, American
American novelist
Leslie Groves17th August, American
Engineer
Italo Balbo6th June, Italian
politician, military personnel
Léon Theremin15th August, Russian
Inventor, Engineer, Physicist, Scientist
Anandamayi Ma30th April, Indian
Philosopher
C. D. Deshmukh14th January, Indian
Banker
Ernst Udet26th April, German
Aviator, Officer, Actor
Frederick Browning20th October, British
Military personnel
Nobusuke Kishi13th November, Japanese
Politician, Diplomat, Spy
A. J. Cronin19th July, Swiss
Novelist
David Alfaro Siqueiros29th December, Mexican
Painter, University teacher, Military personnel
Roman Jakobson11th October, Russian
Linguist
Alberto Vargas9th February, Peruvian
Painter, Illustrator
Tristan Tzara16th April, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Helen of Greece and Denmark20th March, Greek
Queen mother
Buenaventura Durruti14th July, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Erich Koch19th June, German
politician
Dziga Vertov2nd January, Russian
Film director
Andrei Zhdanov14th February, Russian
politician, military personnel
Josephine Tey25th July, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Gottlob Berger16th July, German
Politician
Klement Gottwald23rd November, Czech
politician
Joseph Schildkraut22nd March, Austrian, American
Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film actor
Kenji Miyazawa27th August, Japanese
Poet, Novelist, Writer, Teacher, Esperantist,
Michael Balcon19th May, British
Film producer
Sandro Pertini25th September, Italian
Politician, Journalist
Arthur Calwell28th August, Australian
Politician
Leo Kanner13th June, Ukrainian
Psychiatrist
Tadj ol-Molouk17th March
Herbert Backe1st May, German
Politician
Henry Allingham6th June, British
Soldier, Autobiographer
Albert Ball14th August, British
Aviator, Military personnel
André Masson4th January, French
Painter, Engraver
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa23rd December, Italian
Writer, Novelist
Eugenio Montale12th January, Italian
poet, writer, journalist, translator
David Wechsler12th January, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Norodom Suramarit6th March, Cambodian
Otto Hofmann16th March, German
Military personnel
Virgil Thomson25th November
conductor, composer, music critic, film score
Wop May20th March, Canadian
Military personnel
Anton Walbrook19th November, Austrian
Actor
Sherman Fairchild7th April, American
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Financier,
Léonide Massine28th July, Russian
choreographer, ballet dancer, librettist
Mary Cover Jones1st September, American
psychologist
Pierre Jeanneret22nd March, Swiss
Swiss architect
Fritz Heider19th February, Austrian, American
Psychologist, Translator, University teacher,
Friedrich Hund4th February, German
Physicist, University teacher, Non-fiction writer
Kazimierz Kuratowski2nd February, Polish
Mathematician, Logician
Nikolay Semyonov15th April, Russian
Physicist
Oscar Charleston14th October, American
Baseball Player
Alister Hardy10th February, British
Biologist, Marine biologist
Howard Dietz8th September, American
Opinion journalist
Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor19th June, British, American
Socialite
Edmund Charles Blunden1st November, British
Robert Cedric Sherriff6th June, British
Marge Kennedy12th April, British
W.H. Carothers30th November
Chemist, Scientist