Famous People Born In 1898
Discover the most famous people born in 1898. The list includes people like C. S. Lewis, M. C. Escher, Rene Magritte, Bertolt Brecht, George Gershwin and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, poets and directors born in 1898. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & Italy and many more countries.
C. S. Lewis29th November, Irish, British
Novelist
Enzo Ferrari18th February, Italian
Italian racing driver
Randolph Scott23rd January, American
Actor
Bertolt Brecht10th February, German
Poet
George Gershwin26th September, American
Composer
Golda Meir3rd May, Israeli, Ukrainian
Former Prime Minister of Israel
M. C. Escher17th June, Dutch
Artist
Paul Robeson9th April, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Zhou Enlai5th March, Chinese
First Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of
William O. Douglas16th October, American
Former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
Chesty Puller26th June, American
United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
Federico García Lorca5th June, Spanish
Poet
Maria Rasputin27th March, Russian
Grigori Rasputin’s Daughter
Julius Evola19th May, Italian
Philosopher
Shirley Booth30th August, American
Actress
Erich Maria Remarque22nd June, German
Novelist
Irene Dunne20th December, American
Actress
Gulzarilal Nanda4th July, Indian
Former Prime Minister of India
Rudolf Dassler26th March, German
Entrepreneur
Herbert Marcuse18th July, German, American
Philosopher
Henry Moore30th July, British
Alvar Aalto3rd February, Finnish
Architect
Trofim Lysenko29th September, Russian
Experimenter
Gunnar Myrdal6th December, Swedish
Economist
Howard Florey24th September, Australian
Pathologist and Pharmacologist
Isidor Isaac Rabi29th July, American
Physicist
Berenice Abbott17th July, American
American photographer
Alfred Eisenstaedt6th December, German
Father of Photojournalism
Bessie Love10th September, American
Actress
Henry Hathaway13th March, American
Film Director
Piero Sraffa5th August, Italian
Founder of the Neo-Ricardian School of Economics
Leo McCarey3rd October, American
Film Director
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Leó Szilárd11th February, American
Physicist
Karl Ziegler26th November, German
Chemist
Grace Moore5th December, American
Opera Singer & Actress
Malcolm Cowley24th August, American
Novelist & Poet
Katharine Burr Blodgett10th January, American
Scientist
Rene Magritte21st November, Belgian
Leon Štukelj12th November, Slovenian
Gymnast
Paul Tournier12th May, Swiss
Physician
Albert John Luthuli4th June, South African
President of African National Congress (ANC)
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale31st May, American
Pastor, Self-Help Writer
Armand Hammer25th May, American
Business people
Alexander Calder22nd July, American
Sculptor, Painter
Curly Lambeau9th April, American
Football Player
Sergei Eisenstein22nd January, Russian
Film director
Umm Kulthum18th December, Egyptian
Singer
Peggy Guggenheim26th August, American
Art collector, Patron of the arts, Art dealer,
Salvatore Ferragamo5th June, Italian
Designer
Inejiro Asanuma27th December, Japanese
Politician
Liu Shaoqi24th November, Chinese
Chinese revolutionary
Wiley Post22nd November, American
Aviator
Gracie Fields9th January, British
Actor, Comedian, Singer
Lillian Gordy Carter15th August, American
Nurse, Politician
Harry Patch17th June, British
Soldier
Bennett Cerf25th May, American
Publisher
Tamara de Lempicka16th May, Polish, American
Painter
Theodore Miller Edison10th July, American
Inventor
Lotte Lenya18th October, Austrian
Singer, Stage actor, Film actor
Sara Carter21st July, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer
Peng Dehuai24th October
Politician, Military personnel
Emmett Kelly9th December, American
Circus performer
Anthony McAuliffe2nd July, American
Military Leader
Josef Terboven23rd May, German
Politician
Hastings Banda15th February, Malawian
President
Dorothy Gish11th March, American
Actress
Henry Luce3rd April, American
Journalist, Publisher
Karl Hermann Frank24th January, German
Politician
Julius Schreck13th July, German
Military personnel
Gertrude Lawrence4th July, British, American
Actress
Mohan Singh Oberoi15th August, Indian
Politician
Happy Chandler14th July, American
Politician
Luis Muñoz Marín18th February, Puerto Rican
Journalist
Kenji Mizoguchi16th May, Japanese
Film director, Screenwriter
Kurt Tank24th February, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Scientist,
Albert Lutuli30th November, South African, Zimbabwean
politician, autobiographer
Hal B. Wallis19th October, American
Film producer
Preston Sturges29th August, American
American playwright
Fritz Zwicky14th February, Swiss, American
Astronomer, Physicist, University teacher
Willy Messerschmitt26th June, German
Aeronautical engineer, Engineer, University
Totò15th February, Italian
Comedian
Rodion Malinovsky10th November, Ukrainian, Russian
politician, officer, writer
Lucius D. Clay23rd April, American
Military general
Leonard Howell16th June, Jamaican
Molly Picon28th February, American
Actress
Helen B. Taussig24th May, American
Cardiologist
H. A. Rey16th September, American
Writer, Children's writer
Konrad Henlein6th May, German
Politician, Lawyer, Q23017329
Hanns Eisler6th July, Austrian
Composer, Screenwriter, University teacher, Film
Therese Neumann9th April, German
Stigmatic
Marilyn Miller1st September, American
Actress
Owen Barfield9th November, British
Philosopher, Writer
Ben Shahn12th September, American
Photographer, Painter
Kang Sheng30th November, Chinese
Chinese leader
Stephen Vincent Benét22nd July, American
Writer
Yitzhak Kaduri30th November, Israeli, Iraqi
Rabbi