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.
Wallis Simpson19th June, American
Socialite
Oswald Mosley16th November, French
British Politician
F. Scott Fitzgerald24th September, American
Novelist
Georgy Zhukov1st December, Russian
Military Commander
Jimmy Doolittle14th December, American
Military General
George Burns20th January, American
Morarji Desai29th February, Indian
Politician, Prime Minister of India
Jean Piaget9th August, Swiss
Ruth Gordon30th October, American
Actress
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada1st September, Indian
Founder of ISKCON
Mamie Eisenhower14th November, American
Former First Lady of the United States
Howard Hawks30th May, American
Director
Lev Vygotsky17th November, Russian
Psychologist
Konstantin Rokossovsky21st December, Polish, Russian
Soviet Officer
V. K. Krishna Menon3rd May, Indian
Indian Politician
Antonin Artaud4th September, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
Imre Nagy7th June, Hungarian
Politician
Jolie Gabor29th September, American
Entrepreneur, Socialite
Salim Ali12th November, Indian
Ornithologist
Leslie Groves17th August, American
Engineer
Everett Dirksen4th January, American
Former U.S. Senator
Gerty Cori15th August, American
Biochemist
Trygve Lie16th July, Norwegian
First Secretary General of the U.N
Anastasio Somoza García1st February, Nicaraguan
President of Nicaragua
William A. Wellman29th February, American
Director
Wallace Carothers27th April, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Carl Ferdinand Cori5th December, Czech, American
Biochemist
Walter Lang10th August, American
Film Director
Robert S. Mulliken7th June, American
Chemist, Physicist
Edward Arthur Milne14th February, British
Astrophysicist
Carl Ludwig Siegel31st December, German
Mathematician
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Philip Showalter Hench28th February, American
Physician
Andre Breton19th February, French
Founder of Surrealism
Isaac30th November, Israeli
Robert Ryan16th April, American
Actor
Anna Anderson16th December, Polish
Impostor
Arnold Ridley7th January, British
Actor
Adele Astaire10th September, American
Actor, Dancer, Stage actor
Ethel Waters31st October, American
Actor, Singer, Jazz musician, Stage actor
Ted Healy1st October, American
Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor
Raymond Massey30th August, Canadian, American
Actor
Rogers Hornsby27th April, American
Baseball player
Ira Gershwin6th December, American
Lyricist
Mark W. Clark1st May, American
Officer
John Dos Passos14th January, American
American novelist
Anandamayi Ma30th April, Indian
Philosopher
Léon Theremin15th August, Russian
Inventor, Engineer, Physicist, Scientist
Frederick Browning20th October, British
Military personnel
Italo Balbo6th June, Italian
politician, military personnel
Ernst Udet26th April, German
Aviator, Officer, Actor
Nobusuke Kishi13th November, Japanese
Politician
Carlos P. Garcia4th November, Filipino
Former President
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg23rd January, French
Former Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
David Alfaro Siqueiros29th December, Mexican
Painter, University teacher, Military personnel
A. J. Cronin19th July, Swiss
Novelist
Tristan Tzara16th April, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Roman Jakobson11th October, Russian
Linguist
Anton Walbrook19th November, Austrian
Actor
Dziga Vertov2nd January, Russian
Film director
Helen of Greece and Denmark20th March, Greek
Queen mother
Buenaventura Durruti14th July, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Alberto Vargas9th February, Peruvian
Painter, Illustrator
Michael Balcon19th May, British
Film producer
Andrei Zhdanov14th February, Russian
politician, military personnel
D. R. Bendre31st January, Indian
Sandro Pertini25th September, Italian
Journalist
Dawn Powell28th November, American
Author
Josephine Tey25th July, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Gottlob Berger16th July, German
Politician
Sam Ervin27th September, American
Politician
Louis Bromfield27th December, American
Author
Klement Gottwald23rd November, Czech
politician
C. D. Deshmukh14th January, Indian
Banker
Joseph Schildkraut22nd March, Austrian, American
Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film actor
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa23rd December, Italian
Writer, Novelist
Henry Allingham6th June, British
Soldier, Autobiographer
Kenji Miyazawa27th August, Japanese
Poet, Novelist, Writer, Teacher, Esperantist,
Erich Koch19th June, German
politician
Herbert Backe1st May, German
Politician
Miles Dempsey15th December, British
Senior officer
Evans Carlson26th February, American
Military General
Tadj ol-Molouk17th March
Tina Modotti17th August, Italian
Photographer
Nikolai Tikhonov1st December, Russian
Writer
Albert Ball14th August, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Leo Kanner13th June, Ukrainian
Psychiatrist
Otto Hofmann16th March, German
Military personnel
Benny Leonard7th April, American
Boxer
Virgil Thomson25th November
conductor, composer, music critic, film score
Oscar Charleston14th October, American
Baseball Player
André Masson4th January, French
Painter, Engraver
Robert E. Sherwood4th April, American
Playwright
Señor Wences17th April, Spanish
Ventriloquist
Eugenio Montale12th January, Italian
poet, writer, journalist, translator