Famous People Born In 1901
Discover the most famous people born in 1901. The list includes people like Walt Disney, Louis Armstrong, Hirohito, Clark Gable, Werner Heisenberg and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, soldiers, philosophers and directors born in 1901. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Walt Disney5th December, American
Hirohito29th April, Japanese
Former Emperor of Japan
Clark Gable1st February, American
Actor
Louis Armstrong4th August, American
Musician
Gary Cooper7th May, American
American film actor
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia18th June, Russian
Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
Marlene Dietrich27th December, German, French
Actress & Singer
Werner Heisenberg5th December, German
Physicist
Fulgencio Batista16th January, Cuban
Former President of Cuba
Enrico Fermi29th September, Italian, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Jacques Lacan13th April, French
Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist
Linus Pauling28th February, American
Chemist, Biochemist
Witold Pilecki13th May, Polish
Nazi-era Polish Army Officer
Margaret Mead16th December, American
Cultural Anthropologist
Mildred Harris29th November, American
Actress
Alberto Giacometti10th October, Swiss
Sculptor,Painter
Louis Kahn20th February, American
Architect
Zeppo Marx25th February, American
Comedian
Nadezhda Alliluyeva22nd September, Russian
Joseph Stalin’s Wife
Paul Fix13th March, American
Actor
Lee Hoi-chuen4th February, Chinese
Opera Singer, Actor
Barbara Cartland9th July, British
Author
Willie Sutton30th June, American
Bank Robber
Stella Adler10th February, American
American Actress & Acting Teacher
Simon Kuznets30th April, American
Economist
C. L. R. James4th January, Trinidadian, British
Journalist, Writer, Historian, Theorist, Socialist
Ernest Lawrence8th August, American
Physicist
Mark Oliphant8th October, Australian
Physicist
Syama Prasad Mookerjee6th July, Indian
Indian Politician
Salvatore Quasimodo20th August, Italian
Author & Poet
Charles Brenton Huggins22nd September, Canadian, American
Physician & Surgeon
Vincent du Vigneaud18th May, American
Biochemist
Uuno Kailas29th March, Finnish
Poet
Alfred Newman17th March, American
American composer
Andre Malraux3rd November, French
French Novelist
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Sergiusz Piasecki1st April, Polish
Writer
Adolf Dassler3rd November, German
entrepreneur, politician
Sukarno6th June, Indonesian
Politician
Rudolf Höss25th November, German
Military Leader
Dutch Schultz6th August, American
criminal
Ngo Dinh Diem3rd January, Vietnamese
Politician
Magda Goebbels11th November, German
Lee Strasberg17th November, American
Film actor, Theatre director, Film director, Stage
Ed Sullivan28th September, American
Television presenter, Screenwriter, Journalist
Leopold III of Belgium3rd November, Belgian
King
Itzhak Stern25th January, Israeli, Polish
Accountant
Hendrik Verwoerd8th September, South African
Politician, University teacher, Faculty
Henning von Tresckow10th January, German
Officer
Paul of Greece14th December, Greek
Sovereign
V. Shantaram18th November, Indian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Screenwriter,
Jascha Heifetz2nd February, Lithuanian, American
Music educator, Violinist
Robert Bresson25th September, French
Film director
Vittorio De Sica7th July, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film
Henri Lefebvre16th June, French
Philosopher, Politician, Sociologist, University
Princess Märtha of Sweden28th March, Norwegian
Maxwell D. Taylor26th August, American
Diplomat, Military personnel
Frank Buckles1st February, American
Military personnel
Milton H. Erickson5th December, American
Psychotherapist, Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist,
Andrey Vlasov14th September, Russian
officer
Walter Hallstein17th November, German
Politician, Diplomat, University teacher
Zhang Xueliang3rd June, American
statesman
Joaquín Rodrigo22nd November, Spanish
Composer, Choreographer, Pianist, Educationist,
Michael Oakeshott11th December, British
Philosopher, Political scientist, University
Carl Barks27th March, American
Screenwriter, Writer, Painter, Farmer, Journalist
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej8th November, Romanian
Politician, Diplomat
William S. Paley28th September, American
Executive
Alfred Tarski14th January, Polish, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Hans Kammler26th August, German
architect, engineer
Jean Dubuffet31st July, French
Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Writer
Ludwig von Bertalanffy19th September, Austrian, Canadian
Biologist, University teacher
Norman Hartnell12th June, British
Fashion designer
Roy Wilkins30th August, American
journalist
Roy Urquhart28th November, British
Officer
Len Lye5th June, New Zealander
artist, film director, sculptor
Miklós Nyiszli17th June, Hungarian, Romanian
Physician, Writer
Consuelo de Saint Exupéry10th April, Salvadoran
Writer, Journalist, Painter, Sculptor
Adelaide Hall20th October, American
Singer, Artist, Jazz musician, Actor, Stage actor
Eric Voegelin3rd January, American
Political scientist, Philosopher, University
Claude Choules3rd March, British
Soldier
Muhammad Naguib20th February, Egyptian, Sudanese
Gerald Finzi14th July, British
Composer, Music educator
Rudolf Caracciola30th January, Swiss, German
Racecar driver, Motorcycle racer
Alice Prin2nd October, French
Actor, Painter, Art model, Amy Elise Boyfriend,
Tage Erlander13th June, Swedish
Politician
John Desmond Bernal10th May, British
Physicist, Philosopher, Inventor, University
Max Euwe20th May, Dutch
Chess player, Mathematician, Chess official,
Eiji Tsuburaya7th July, Japanese
cinematographer, television producer, film
Ricardo Zamora21st January, Spanish
Association football player, Journalist,
G. Sankara Kurup3rd June, Indian
Politician, Poet
John Sherman Cooper23rd August, American
Politician, Judge, Lawyer, Diplomat, American
Ludolf von Alvensleben17th March, Argentinian, German
Politician, Farmer
Eliot Porter6th December, American
Photographer
Jaroslav Seifert23rd September, Czech
Writer
Vilma Bánky9th January, Hungarian, American
Actor
Andre Kostelanetz22nd December, American
Conductor, Radio personality
Jean Prouvé8th April, French
Architect, Designer, Artist, Politician