Al Capone17th January, American
Gangster
Ernest Hemingway21st July, American
Journalist
Humphrey Bogart25th December, American
Actor
Alfred Hitchcock13th August, British, American
Film Director
Fred Astaire10th May, American
Dancer
Lavrentiy Beria29th March, Georgian
Politician
Duke Ellington29th April, American
Composer, Pianist and Bandleader
P. L. Travers9th August, Australian, British
Writer
Vladimir Nabokov22nd April, Swiss, American, Russian
Novelist
James Cagney17th July, American
Actor, Dancer
Sir Noël Peirce Coward16th December, British
Playwright
Friedrich von Hayek8th May, Austrian, German, British
Economist
Jorge Luis Borges24th August, Argentinian
Poet
Charles Laughton1st July, British, American
Actor
Gloria Swanson27th March, American
Percy Lavon Julian11th April, American
Chemist
Emma Morano29th November, Italian
Supercentenarian
Frederick IX of Denmark11th March, Danish
King
George Cukor7th July, American
Film Director
Kazi Nazrul Islam24th May, Bangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Charles Boyer28th August, French
Actor
E. B. White11th July, American
Writer
Leo Strauss20th September, German, American
Philosopher
Burt Munro25th March, New Zealander
Motorcycle Racer
Sobhuza II22nd July, South African
Former King of Swaziland
Alma Reville14th August, British, American
Screenwriter
C. S. Forester27th August, British
Novelist
Jean Moulin20th June, French
An Emblem of the Resistance
Lillian Disney15th February, American
Wife of Walt Disnry
Iskander Mirza15th November, Pakistani
Former President of Pakistan
Francis Poulenc7th January, French
Musician
Continue Reading Below
Howard Thurman18th November, American
Philosopher
Alfred Blalock5th April, American
Surgeon
James Wong Howe28th August, Chinese
Cinematographer
Miguel Ãngel Asturias19th October, Guamanian
Poet
Brassaï9th September, French, Hungarian, Romanian
Photographer
Rufino Tamayo25th August, Mexican
Painter
Charles Best27th February, Canadian, American
Co-discoverer of Insulin
Allen Tate19th November, American
Poet
Norman Taurog23rd February, American
Film Director
Carlos Chavez13th June, Mexican
Composer, conductor
Paul Hermann Müller12th January, Swiss
Chemist
Silvestre Revueltas31st December, Mexican
Music composer, violinist and teacher
Max Theiler30th January, South African
Virologist
Georges Bidault5th October, French
French Politician
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin23rd April, Swedish
Economist
Frank Macfarlane Burnet3rd September, Australian
Virologist & Noble Prize Laureate
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13th March, American
Physicist, Mathematician
Albert Claude24th August, Belgian
Cell Biologist
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
John Bodkin Adams21st January, British
Physician, Serial killer
Juan T. Trippe27th June, American
Entrepreneur
Thomas Andrew Dorsey1st July, American
Musician
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu13th September, Romanian
Politician, Essayist
Yasunari Kawabata11th June, Japanese
Novelist
Richard Hauptmann26th November, American
Convict
Ramon Novarro6th February, Spanish, Mexican, American
Actor
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia26th June, Russian
Duchess
DeFord Bailey30th November
Guitarist, Songwriter
Carlos P. Romulo14th January, Filipino
Diplomat
Field Marshal K M Cariappa28th January, Indian
Indian military officer
Harold Abrahams15th December, British
Athletics competitor, Sprinter, Lawyer, Journalist
Weegee12th June, American
Photographer, Photojournalist, Journalist
Kalki Krishnamurthy9th September, Indian
Screenwriter, Journalist, Writer
Peter Aufschnaiter2nd November, Nepalese
Explorer, Cartographer, Geographer, Rock climber
Tom C. Clark23rd September, American
Lawyer
Ezra Taft Benson4th August, American
Religious Leader
Nevil Shute17th January, British
Novelist
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski1st March, German
Politician, Military personnel
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike8th January, Sri Lankan
Diplomat, Politician, Lawyer
Adnan Menderes30th November, Turkish
politician, diplomat
Erich Kästner30th November, German
Author
Martita Hunt30th January, British
Actor, Stage actor
Eva Le Gallienne11th January, British, American
Actress
Philipp Bouhler11th September, German
Politician
Billy Rose6th September, American
Impresario
Tom Denning, Baron Denning23rd January, British
Lawyer
Hart Crane21st July, American
Poet, Writer
Jibanananda Das17th February, Bangladeshi
Poet, Writer
László Bíró29th September, Hungarian
Inventor
Ernst-Robert Grawitz8th June, German
Military physician, Internist, Torturer
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney20th February, American
Businessman
Walter Lantz27th April, American
Cartoonist
Colleen Moore19th August, American
Actress
Elizabeth Bowen7th June, Irish, British
Novelist
Seán Lemass15th July, Irish
Politician
Magda Lupescu16th September, Romanian
Mistress of King Carol II of Romania
Louise Nevelson23rd September, American
Sculptor, Painter
Wolf Messing10th September, Polish, Russian
hypnotist, mentalist