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
Oswald Mosley16th November, French
British Politician
Morarji Desai29th February, Indian
Politician, Prime Minister of India
Georgy Zhukov1st December, Russian
Military Commander
Jean Piaget9th August, Swiss
George Burns20th January, American
Lev Vygotsky17th November, Russian
Psychologist
Ruth Gordon30th October, American
Actress
Howard Hawks30th May, American
Director
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada1st September, Indian
Founder of ISKCON
Salim Ali12th November, Indian
Ornithologist
Antonin Artaud4th September, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
V. K. Krishna Menon3rd May, Indian
Indian Politician
Jolie Gabor29th September, American
Entrepreneur, Socialite
William A. Wellman29th February, American
Director
Everett Dirksen4th January, American
Former U.S. Senator
Anastasio Somoza García1st February, Nicaraguan
President of Nicaragua
Trygve Lie16th July, Norwegian
First Secretary General of the U.N
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
Carl Ludwig Siegel31st December, German
Mathematician
Walter Lang10th August, American
Film Director
Edward Arthur Milne14th February, British
Astrophysicist
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
Adele Astaire10th September, American
Actor, Dancer, Stage actor
Imre Nagy7th June, Hungarian
Politician, Diplomat, Economist
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg23rd January, French
Former Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
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Mark W. Clark1st May, American
Officer
John Dos Passos14th January, American
American novelist
Leslie Groves17th August, American
Engineer
David Alfaro Siqueiros29th December, Mexican
Painter, University teacher, Military personnel
Ted Healy1st October, American
Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor
Anandamayi Ma30th April, Indian
Philosopher
Italo Balbo6th June, Italian
politician, military personnel
C. D. Deshmukh14th January, Indian
Banker
Ernst Udet26th April, German
Aviator, Officer, Actor
Tristan Tzara16th April, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Roman Jakobson11th October, Russian
Linguist
Léon Theremin15th August, Russian
Inventor, Engineer, Physicist, Scientist
Frederick Browning20th October, British
Military personnel
A. J. Cronin19th July, Swiss
Novelist
Alberto Vargas9th February, Peruvian
Painter, Illustrator
Nobusuke Kishi13th November, Japanese
Politician, Diplomat, Spy
Helen of Greece and Denmark20th March, Greek
Queen mother
Dziga Vertov2nd January, Russian
Film director
Buenaventura Durruti14th July, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Andrei Zhdanov14th February, Russian
politician, military personnel
D. R. Bendre31st January, Indian
Erich Koch19th June, German
politician
Josephine Tey25th July, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Kenji Miyazawa27th August, Japanese
Poet, Novelist, Writer, Teacher, Esperantist,
Klement Gottwald23rd November, Czech
politician
Gottlob Berger16th July, German
Politician
Joseph Schildkraut22nd March, Austrian, American
Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film actor
Sandro Pertini25th September, Italian
Politician, Journalist
Michael Balcon19th May, British
Film producer
Leo Kanner13th June, Ukrainian
Psychiatrist
Arthur Calwell28th August, Australian
Politician
Tadj ol-Molouk17th March
André Masson4th January, French
Painter, Engraver
Herbert Backe1st May, German
Politician
Albert Ball14th August, British
Aviator, Military personnel
David Wechsler12th January, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Sherman Fairchild7th April, American
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Financier,
Anton Walbrook19th November, Austrian
Actor
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa23rd December, Italian
Writer, Novelist
Henry Allingham6th June, British
Soldier, Autobiographer
Norodom Suramarit6th March, Cambodian
Otto Hofmann16th March, German
Military personnel
Eugenio Montale12th January, Italian
poet, writer, journalist, translator
Virgil Thomson25th November
conductor, composer, music critic, film score
Wop May20th March, Canadian
Military personnel
Mary Cover Jones1st September, American
psychologist
Léonide Massine28th July, Russian
choreographer, ballet dancer, librettist
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
Howard Dietz8th September, American
Opinion journalist
Alister Hardy10th February, British
Biologist, Marine biologist
Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor19th June, British, American
Socialite
Robert Cedric Sherriff6th June, British
Edmund Charles Blunden1st November, British
Marge Kennedy12th April, British
W.H. Carothers30th November
Chemist, Scientist