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
George Gershwin26th September, American
Composer
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
Maria Rasputin27th March, Russian
Grigori Rasputin’s Daughter
Zhou Enlai5th March, Chinese
First Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of
Chesty Puller26th June, American
United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
Federico García Lorca5th June, Spanish
Poet
Julius Evola19th May, Italian
Philosopher
Erich Maria Remarque22nd June, German
Novelist
Shirley Booth30th August, American
Actress
Irene Dunne20th December, American
Actress
William O. Douglas16th October, American
Former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
Rudolf Dassler26th March, German
Entrepreneur
Herbert Marcuse18th July, German, American
Philosopher
Gulzarilal Nanda4th July, Indian
Former Prime Minister of India
Sergei Eisenstein22nd January, Russian
Film Director
Henry Moore30th July, British
Alvar Aalto3rd February, Finnish
Architect
Liu Shaoqi24th November, Chinese
Politician
Trofim Lysenko29th September, Russian
Experimenter
Gunnar Myrdal6th December, Swedish
Economist
Howard Florey24th September, Australian
Pathologist and Pharmacologist
Bessie Love10th September, American
Actress
Alfred Eisenstaedt6th December, German
Father of Photojournalism
Henry Hathaway13th March, American
Film Director
Isidor Isaac Rabi29th July, American
Physicist
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Berenice Abbott17th July, American
American photographer
Leo McCarey3rd October, American
Film Director
Piero Sraffa5th August, Italian
Founder of the Neo-Ricardian School of Economics
Leó Szilárd11th February, American
Physicist
Grace Moore5th December, American
Opera Singer & Actress
Karl Ziegler26th November, German
Chemist
Katharine Burr Blodgett10th January, American
Scientist
Malcolm Cowley24th August, American
Novelist & Poet
Rene Magritte21st November, Belgian
Leon Štukelj12th November, Slovenian
Gymnast
Albert John Luthuli4th June, South African
President of African National Congress (ANC)
Paul Tournier12th May, Swiss
Physician
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale31st May, American
Pastor, Self-Help Writer
Armand Hammer25th May, American
Business people
Peggy Guggenheim26th August, American
Art collector, Patron of the arts, Art dealer,
Curly Lambeau9th April, American
Football Player
Alexander Calder22nd July, American
Sculptor, Painter
Umm Kulthum18th December, Egyptian
Singer
Anthony McAuliffe2nd July, American
Military Leader
Salvatore Ferragamo5th June, Italian
Designer
Gertrude Lawrence4th July, British, American
Actress
Harry Patch17th June, British
Soldier
Tamara de Lempicka16th May, Polish, American
Painter
Inejiro Asanuma27th December, Japanese
Politician
Lotte Lenya18th October, Austrian
Singer, Stage actor, Film actor
Bennett Cerf25th May, American
Publisher
Gracie Fields9th January, British
Actor, Comedian, Singer
Sara Carter21st July, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer
Emmett Kelly9th December, American
Circus performer
Peng Dehuai24th October
Politician, Military personnel
Hastings Banda15th February, Malawian
President
Theodore Miller Edison10th July, American
Inventor
Josef Terboven23rd May, German
Politician
Julius Schreck13th July, German
Military personnel
Henry Luce3rd April, American
Journalist, Publisher
Karl Hermann Frank24th January, German
Politician
Lillian Gordy Carter15th August, American
Nurse, Politician
Hal B. Wallis19th October, American
Film producer
Wiley Post22nd November, American
Aviator
Kenji Mizoguchi16th May, Japanese
Film director, Screenwriter
Mohan Singh Oberoi15th August, Indian
Politician
Happy Chandler14th July, American
Politician
Dorothy Gish11th March, American
Actress
Fritz Zwicky14th February, Swiss, American
Astronomer, Physicist, University teacher
Kurt Tank24th February, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Scientist,
Marilyn Miller1st September, American
Actress
Preston Sturges29th August, American
American playwright
Willy Messerschmitt26th June, German
Aeronautical engineer, Engineer, University
Molly Picon28th February, American
Actress
Totò15th February, Italian
Comedian
Luis Muñoz Marín18th February, Puerto Rican
Journalist
Lily Pons12th April, French
American-French operatic soprano
Rodion Malinovsky10th November, Ukrainian, Russian
politician, officer, writer
Albert Lutuli30th November, South African, Zimbabwean
politician, autobiographer
Konrad Henlein6th May, German
Politician, Lawyer, Q23017329
Lucius D. Clay23rd April, American
Military general
Septima Poinsette Clark3rd May, American
Educator
Leonard Howell16th June, Jamaican
Therese Neumann9th April, German
Stigmatic
Jean Borotra13th August, French
Tennis player
Owen Barfield9th November, British
Philosopher, Writer
Stephen Vincent Benét22nd July, American
Writer
Maurice Wilson21st April, British
Mountaineer