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
Randolph Scott23rd January, American
Actor
Enzo Ferrari18th February, Italian
Italian racing driver
George Gershwin26th September, American
Composer
Chesty Puller26th June, American
United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
Bertolt Brecht10th February, German
Poet
Paul Robeson9th April, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Golda Meir3rd May, Israeli, Ukrainian
Former Prime Minister of Israel
M. C. Escher17th June, Dutch
Artist
Federico García Lorca5th June, Spanish
Poet
Gulzarilal Nanda4th July, Indian
Former Prime Minister of India
Irene Dunne20th December, American
Actress
Erich Maria Remarque22nd June, German
Novelist
Rudolf Dassler26th March, German
Entrepreneur
Shirley Booth30th August, American
Actress
Henry Moore30th July, British
Alvar Aalto3rd February, Finnish
Architect
Trofim Lysenko29th September, Russian
Experimenter
Howard Florey24th September, Australian
Pathologist and Pharmacologist
Isidor Isaac Rabi29th July, American
Physicist
Gunnar Myrdal6th December, Swedish
Economist
Henry Hathaway13th March, American
Film Director
Bessie Love10th September, American
Actress
Berenice Abbott17th July, American
American photographer
Leó Szilárd11th February, American
Physicist
Alfred Eisenstaedt6th December, German
Father of Photojournalism
Piero Sraffa5th August, Italian
Founder of the Neo-Ricardian School of Economics
Leo McCarey3rd October, American
Film Director
Grace Moore5th December, American
Opera Singer & Actress
Karl Ziegler26th November, German
Chemist
Rene Magritte21st November, Belgian
Malcolm Cowley24th August, American
Novelist & Poet
Katharine Burr Blodgett10th January, American
Scientist
Paul Tournier12th May, Swiss
Physician
Leon Štukelj12th November, Slovenian
Gymnast
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Albert John Luthuli4th June, South African
President of African National Congress (ANC)
Zhou Enlai5th March, Chinese
Politician, Diplomat
Julius Evola19th May, Italian
Poet, Racial theorist, Writer, Painter,
Maria Rasputin27th March
Circus performer, Writer
Herbert Marcuse18th July, German, American
American-German philosopher
Alexander Calder22nd July, American
Sculptor, Painter
Peggy Guggenheim26th August, American
Art collector, Patron of the arts, Art dealer,
Sergei Eisenstein22nd January, Russian
Film director
Umm Kulthum18th December, Egyptian
Singer
Salvatore Ferragamo5th June, Italian
Designer
Liu Shaoqi24th November, Chinese
Chinese revolutionary
Gracie Fields9th January, British
Actor, Comedian, Singer
Sara Carter21st July, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer
Inejiro Asanuma27th December, Japanese
Politician
Lotte Lenya18th October, Austrian
Singer, Stage actor, Film actor
Tamara de Lempicka16th May, Polish, American
Painter
Harry Patch17th June, British
Soldier
Peng Dehuai24th October
Politician, Military personnel
Karl Hermann Frank24th January, German
Politician
Lillian Gordy Carter15th August, American
Nurse, Politician
Hastings Banda15th February, Malawian
President
Mohan Singh Oberoi15th August, Indian
Politician
Josef Terboven23rd May, German
Politician
Julius Schreck13th July, German
Military personnel
Theodore Miller Edison10th July, American
Inventor
Kenji Mizoguchi16th May, Japanese
Film director, Screenwriter
Henry Luce3rd April, American
Journalist, Publisher
Preston Sturges29th August, American
American playwright
Willy Messerschmitt26th June, German
Aeronautical engineer, Engineer, University
Maurice Wilson21st April, British
Mountaineer
Totò15th February, Italian
Comedian
Albert Lutuli30th November, South African, Zimbabwean
politician, autobiographer
Kurt Tank24th February, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Scientist,
Fritz Zwicky14th February, Swiss, American
Astronomer, Physicist, University teacher
Rodion Malinovsky10th November, Ukrainian, Russian
politician, officer, writer
Leonard Howell16th June, Jamaican
Hanns Eisler6th July, Austrian
Composer, Screenwriter, University teacher, Film
H. A. Rey16th September, American
Writer, Children's writer
Konrad Henlein6th May, German
Politician, Lawyer, Q23017329
Owen Barfield9th November, British
Philosopher, Writer
Curzio Malaparte9th June, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Diplomat,
Josef Jakobs30th June, German
Double agent
Josh Malihabadi5th December, Pakistani
Poet
Ben Shahn12th September, American
Photographer, Painter
René Clair11th November, French
Screenwriter, Actor, Film director, Film producer,
Georges Dumézil4th March, French
French philologist
Joris Ivens18th November
Film director, Film producer, Film editor,
Helmuth von Pannwitz14th October, German
David K. E. Bruce12th February, American
Lawyer, Diplomat, Politician
John Grierson26th April, British
Film producer, Film director, Screenwriter
Leila Denmark1st February, American
Pediatrician, Author
William Herbert Sheldon19th November, American
Psychologist, Numismatist
Vicente Aleixandre26th April, Spanish
Spanish poet
Giuseppe Saragat19th September, Italian
Italian Politician
A. J. Casson17th May, Canadian
Painter
Oskar Homolka12th August, Austrian, American
Actor
Alec Waugh8th July, British
Novelist, Writer
Benjamin Fondane14th November, French, Romanian
Linguist, Poet, Librarian, Film director,
Baby Dodds24th December, American
Drummer
Jan Brzechwa15th August, Polish
poet
John Beverley Nichols9th September, British