Ernest Hemingway21st July, American
Journalist
Al Capone17th January, American
Gangster
Alfred Hitchcock13th August, British, American
Film Director
Humphrey Bogart25th December, American
Actor
Fred Astaire10th May, American
Dancer
Lavrentiy Beria29th March, Georgian
Politician
Duke Ellington29th April, American
Composer, Pianist and Bandleader
Vladimir Nabokov22nd April, Swiss, American, Russian
Novelist
James Cagney17th July, American
Actor, Dancer
P. L. Travers9th August, Australian, British
Writer
Jorge Luis Borges24th August, Argentinian
Poet & Short Story Writer
Friedrich von Hayek8th May, Austrian, German, British
Economist
Gloria Swanson27th March, American
Sir Noël Peirce Coward16th December, British
Playwright
Charles Laughton1st July, British, American
Actor
Frederick IX of Denmark11th March, Danish
King
Kazi Nazrul Islam24th May, Bangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Emma Morano29th November, Italian
Supercentenarian
Sobhuza II22nd July, South African
Former King of Swaziland
E. B. White11th July, American
Writer
Burt Munro25th March, New Zealander
Motorcycle Racer
Charles Boyer28th August, French
Actor
Alma Reville14th August, British, American
Screenwriter
Leo Strauss20th September, German, American
Philosopher
George Cukor7th July, American
Film Director
C. S. Forester27th August, British
Novelist
Iskander Mirza15th November, Pakistani
Former President of Pakistan
Lillian Disney15th February, American
Wife of Walt Disnry
Francis Poulenc7th January, French
Musician
Percy Lavon Julian11th April, American
Chemist
Jean Moulin20th June, French
An Emblem of the Resistance
Continue Reading Below
Howard Thurman18th November, American
Philosopher
Alfred Blalock5th April, American
Surgeon
James Wong Howe28th August, Chinese
Cinematographer
Albert Claude24th August, Belgian
Cell Biologist
Miguel Ãngel Asturias19th October, Guamanian
Poet
Rufino Tamayo25th August, Mexican
Painter
Brassaï9th September, French, Hungarian, Romanian
Photographer
Charles Best27th February, Canadian, American
Co-discoverer of Insulin
Allen Tate19th November, American
Poet
Max Theiler30th January, South African
Virologist
Carlos Chavez13th June, Mexican
Composer, conductor
Norman Taurog23rd February, American
Film Director
Silvestre Revueltas31st December, Mexican
Music composer, violinist and teacher
Frank Macfarlane Burnet3rd September, Australian
Virologist & Noble Prize Laureate
Paul Hermann Müller12th January, Swiss
Chemist
Georges Bidault5th October, French
French Politician
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13th March, American
Physicist, Mathematician
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin23rd April, Swedish
Economist
Claudia Lars20th December, Salvadoran
Poet
Jafar Jabbarly20th March, Azerbaijani
Playwright
Irving Thalberg30th May, American
Film producer
John Christie8th April, British
serial killer
Hoagy Carmichael22nd November, American
American composer
Tommy Lucchese1st December, Italian, American
Criminal
Ramon Novarro6th February, Spanish, Mexican, American
Actor
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia26th June, Russian
Duchess
Adnan Menderes30th November, Turkish
politician, diplomat
Richard Hauptmann26th November, American
Convict
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu13th September, Romanian
Politician, Essayist
Peter Aufschnaiter2nd November, Nepalese
Explorer, Cartographer, Geographer, Rock climber
Yasunari Kawabata11th June, Japanese
Novelist
Field Marshal K M Cariappa28th January, Indian
Indian military officer
Harold Abrahams15th December, British
Athletics competitor, Sprinter, Lawyer, Journalist
Kalki Krishnamurthy9th September, Indian
Screenwriter, Journalist, Writer
Juan T. Trippe27th June, American
Entrepreneur
Thomas Andrew Dorsey1st July, American
Musician
John Bodkin Adams21st January, British
Physician, Serial killer
Ezra Taft Benson4th August, American
Religious Leader
Carlos P. Romulo14th January, Filipino
Diplomat
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski1st March, German
Politician, Military personnel
Walter Lantz27th April, American
Cartoonist
Eva Le Gallienne11th January, British, American
Actress
Weegee12th June, American
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
Nevil Shute17th January, British
Novelist
Princess Margaretha of Sweden25th June, Danish
Princess
Tom C. Clark23rd September, American
Lawyer
Philipp Bouhler11th September, German
Politician
Hart Crane21st July, American
Poet, Writer
Akim Tamiroff29th October, Armenian, American, Russian
Actor
Tom Denning, Baron Denning23rd January, British
Lawyer
Elizabeth Bowen7th June, Irish, British
Novelist
Erich Kästner30th November, German
Author
Maria Yudina9th September, Russian
Pianist
Wolf Messing10th September, Polish, Russian
hypnotist, mentalist
Abolqasem al-Khoei19th November, Iranian
Spiritual leader
Seán Lemass15th July, Irish
Politician
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike8th January, Sri Lankan
Diplomat, Politician, Lawyer
Colleen Moore19th August, American
Actress
Jibanananda Das17th February, Bangladeshi
Poet, Writer
Ernst-Robert Grawitz8th June, German
Military physician, Internist, Torturer
László Bíró29th September, Hungarian
Inventor
Raoul Salan10th June, French
Military personnel
Billy Rose6th September, American
Impresario