Famous People Born In 1897
Discover the most famous people born in 1897. The list includes people like Subhas Chandra Bose, Joseph Goebbels, Amelia Earhart, Dorothy Day, Lucky Luciano and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, journalists and novelists born in 1897. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & France and many more countries.
Vito Genovese(Drug trafficker)
27th November
American
Edith Head(Costume designer)
28th October
American
Walter Pidgeon(Actor, Singer, Stage actor, Television actor, Trade unionist)
23rd September
Canadian,American
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia(Politician, Nurse)
10th June
Russian
Georges Bataille(Philosopher, Librarian, Poet, Novelist, Writer, Literary critic)
10th September
French
Judith Anderson(stage actor, film actor)
10th February
Australian
Ettore Boiardi22nd October
American
Joe Profaci(Entrepreneur)
2nd October
American
Blind Willie Johnson(Musician, Singer, Guitarist)
22nd January
American
Gene Tunney(Boxer)
25th May
American
Emil Maurice(Politician)
19th January
German
Hugh D. Auchincloss(Officer, Stockbroker, Lawyer)
15th August
American
A. W. Tozer(Author)
21st April
American
Gordon Allport(Psychologist, Academic, University teacher, Non-fiction writer)
11th November
American
Sidney Bechet(Composer, Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Jazz musician)
14th May
American
Pola Negri(Actress)
3rd January
Polish,American
Ludwig Erhard(Economist, Politician, University teacher)
4th February
German
Kurt Schuschnigg(Politician)
14th December
Austrian,Italian
Kurt Daluege(Officer, Politician)
15th September
German
Ivan Konev(officer)
16th December
Russian
Otto Strasser(Journalist, Politician, Writer)
10th September
German
Choudhry Rahmat Ali(Politician)
16th November
Pakistani
Hasso von Manteuffel(Politician, Officer)
14th January
German
Erich Wolfgang Korngold(Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Film score composer)
29th May
Austrian,Czech,American
Karl-Otto Koch(Officer, Torturer)
2nd August
German
Ferenc Szálasi(Political leader, Prime Minister)
6th January
Armenian,Hungarian
Hans Speidel(Career soldier, Military personnel)
28th October
German
Paul Ricca(mobster)
14th November
American
Hans Baur(Aviator, Military personnel)
19th June
German
Plaek Phibunsongkhram(Politician, Military personnel)
14th July
Thai
Paavo Nurmi(Long-distance runner, Marathon runner, Athletics competitor)
13th June
Finnish
J. P. Guilford(Psychologist, University teacher)
7th March
American
Fletcher Henderson(American bandleader)
18th December
American
Henry Cowell(Composer, Musicologist, Music theorist, Pianist)
11th March
American
Karl Gebhardt(Surgeon, Torturer, University teacher)
23rd November
German
William Stephenson(Boxer)
23rd January
Canadian
Wilfred Bion(Psychiatrist, Psychanalyst, Psychologist)
8th September
British
Benjamin Lee Whorf(Anthropologist, Linguist)
24th April
American
Douglas Sirk(Film director)
26th April
Danish
Herman J. Mankiewicz(Screenwriter, Film producer, Journalist)
7th November
American
Kenneth Burke(Philosopher, Literary critic, University teacher, Sociologist, Journalist, Writer)
5th May
American
Edmund Heines(Politician)
21st July
German
Agustín Lara(Composer, Singer, Actor, Songwriter)
30th October
Mexican
Nils Asther(Stage actor, Film actor)
17th January
Danish,Swedish
Louis Aragon(Writer, Journalist, Politician, Poet, Novelist, Art critic)
3rd October
French
Adolf Heusinger(Officer)
4th August
German
Gershom Scholem(Philosopher, Librarian, Historian, Educationist, Writer, University teacher)
5th December
Israeli
John Bagot Glubb(Engineer, Officer)
16th April
British
Norbert Elias(Sociologist)
22nd June
Polish,British
Norbert Elias(Sociologist)
22nd June
Polish
Paul Gallico(Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer, Children's writer)
26th July
American
Dorothy Arzner(Director)
30th November
American
Margaret Mahler(Psychiatrist, Child psychiatrist)
10th May
Hungarian
Joseph Darnand(Politician)
19th March
French
Ye Jianying(Politician)
28th April
Orry-Kelly(Costume designer)
31st December
Australian,American
Robert Riskin(Screenwriter, Film director, Film producer, Playwright, Writer)
30th March
American
Arthur Greiser(Politician)
22nd January
German
Paul Delvaux(Painter)
23rd September
Belgian
George Szell(Conductor, Pianist, Composer, University teacher)
7th June
Hungarian,American
Werner Voss(Aviator, Military personnel)
13th April