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
Ruth Gordon30th October, American
Actress
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada1st September, Indian
Founder of ISKCON
Jean Piaget9th August, Swiss
Mamie Eisenhower14th November, American
Former First Lady of the United States
Howard Hawks30th May, American
Director
V. K. Krishna Menon3rd May, Indian
Indian Politician
Konstantin Rokossovsky21st December, Polish, Russian
Soviet Officer
Lev Vygotsky17th November, Russian
Psychologist
Leslie Groves17th August, American
Engineer
Salim Ali12th November, Indian
Ornithologist
Antonin Artaud4th September, French
Dramatist, Poet, Essayist, Actor, & Theatre
Imre Nagy7th June, Hungarian
Politician
Everett Dirksen4th January, American
Former U.S. Senator
Jolie Gabor29th September, American
Entrepreneur, Socialite
Anastasio Somoza García1st February, Nicaraguan
President of Nicaragua
Gerty Cori15th August, American
Biochemist
Trygve Lie16th July, Norwegian
First Secretary General of the U.N
William A. Wellman29th February, American
Director
Wallace Carothers27th April, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Carl Ferdinand Cori5th December, Czech, American
Biochemist
Philip Showalter Hench28th February, American
Physician
Edward Arthur Milne14th February, British
Astrophysicist
Walter Lang10th August, American
Film Director
Robert S. Mulliken7th June, American
Chemist, Physicist
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Carl Ludwig Siegel31st December, German
Mathematician
Andre Breton19th February, French
Founder of Surrealism
Isaac30th November, Israeli
Robert Ryan16th April, American
Actor
Anna Anderson16th December, Polish
Impostor
Raymond Massey30th August, Canadian, American
Actor
Nobusuke Kishi13th November, Japanese
Politician
Ethel Waters31st October, American
Actor, Singer, Jazz musician, Stage actor
Mark W. Clark1st May, American
Officer
Ira Gershwin6th December, American
Lyricist
Arnold Ridley7th January, British
Actor
Ted Healy1st October, American
Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor
Adele Astaire10th September, American
Actor, Dancer, Stage actor
Rogers Hornsby27th April, American
Baseball player
John Dos Passos14th January, American
American novelist
Italo Balbo6th June, Italian
politician, military personnel
Anandamayi Ma30th April, Indian
Philosopher
Frederick Browning20th October, British
Military personnel
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg23rd January, French
Former Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Evans Carlson26th February, American
Military General
Ernst Udet26th April, German
Pilot
A. J. Cronin19th July, Scottish
Physician
Helen of Greece and Denmark20th March, Greek
Queen mother
Alberto Vargas9th February, Peruvian
Painter, Illustrator
David Alfaro Siqueiros29th December, Mexican
Painter, University teacher, Military personnel
Buenaventura Durruti14th July, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Carlos P. Garcia4th November, Filipino
Former President
Andrei Zhdanov14th February, Russian
politician, military personnel
Josephine Tey25th July, British
Writer, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter,
Paulino Alcántara7th October, Spanish, Filipino
Football player
Roman Jakobson11th October, Russian
Linguist
Dziga Vertov2nd January, Russian
Film director
Tina Modotti17th August, Italian
Photographer
Sam Ervin27th September, American
Politician
Tristan Tzara16th April, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
D. R. Bendre31st January, Indian
Erich Koch19th June, German
politician
Gottlob Berger16th July, German
Politician
Henry Allingham6th June, British
Soldier, Autobiographer
Kenji Miyazawa27th August, Japanese
Poet, Novelist, Writer, Teacher, Esperantist,
Michael Balcon19th May, British
Film producer
Klement Gottwald23rd November, Czech
politician
Joseph Schildkraut22nd March, Austrian, American
Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film actor
Sandro Pertini25th September, Italian
Journalist
Miles Dempsey15th December, British
Senior officer
C. D. Deshmukh14th January, Indian
Banker
Anton Walbrook19th November, Austrian, British
Actor
John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton10th February, British
Military officer
Louis Bromfield27th December, American
Author
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa23rd December, Italian
Writer, Novelist
Albert Ball14th August, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Tadj ol-Molouk17th March
Herbert Backe1st May, German
Politician
Léon Theremin15th August, Russian
Inventor, Engineer, Physicist, Scientist
Oscar Charleston14th October, American
Baseball Player
Virgil Thomson25th November
conductor, composer, music critic, film score
Leo Kanner13th June, Ukrainian
Psychiatrist
Nikolai Tikhonov1st December, Russian
Writer
Benny Leonard7th April, American
Boxer
Otto Hofmann16th March, German
Military personnel
Bob Meusel19th July, American
Baseball player
Robert E. Sherwood4th April, American
Playwright
Señor Wences17th April, Spanish
Ventriloquist