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
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia18th June, Russian
Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
Clark Gable1st February, American
Actor
Louis Armstrong4th August, American
Musician
Hirohito29th April, Japanese
Former Emperor of Japan
Gary Cooper7th May, American
American film actor
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
Witold Pilecki13th May, Polish
Nazi-era Polish Army Officer
Linus Pauling28th February, American
Chemist, Biochemist
Jacques Lacan13th April, French
Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist
Margaret Mead16th December, American
Cultural Anthropologist
Lee Hoi-chuen4th February, Chinese
Opera Singer, Actor
Alberto Giacometti10th October, Swiss
Sculptor,Painter
Zeppo Marx25th February, American
Comedian
Mildred Harris29th November, American
Actress
Nadezhda Alliluyeva22nd September, Russian
Joseph Stalin’s Wife
Paul Fix13th March, American
Actor
Louis Kahn20th February, American
Architect
Barbara Cartland9th July, British
Author
Stella Adler10th February, American
American Actress & Acting Teacher
Willie Sutton30th June, American
Bank Robber
Ernest Lawrence8th August, American
Physicist
Simon Kuznets30th April, American
Economist
C. L. R. James4th January, Trinidadian, British
Journalist, Writer, Historian, Theorist, Socialist
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
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Alfred Newman17th March, American
American composer
Uuno Kailas29th March, Finnish
Poet
Andre Malraux3rd November, French
French Novelist
Sergiusz Piasecki1st April, Polish
Writer
Rudolf Höss25th November, German
Military Leader
Adolf Dassler3rd November, German
entrepreneur, politician
Sukarno6th June, Indonesian
Politician
Magda Goebbels11th November, German
Dutch Schultz6th August, American
criminal
Ed Sullivan28th September, American
Television presenter, Screenwriter, Journalist
Lee Strasberg17th November, American
Film actor, Theatre director, Film director, Stage
Leopold III of Belgium3rd November, Belgian
King
Melvyn Douglas5th April, American
Actor
Ngo Dinh Diem3rd January, Vietnamese
Politician
Itzhak Stern25th January, Israeli, Polish
Accountant
Paul of Greece14th December, Greek
Sovereign
Henning von Tresckow10th January, German
Officer
Hendrik Verwoerd8th September, South African
Politician, University teacher, Faculty
Ed Begley25th March, American
Actor
Maxwell D. Taylor26th August, American
Diplomat, Military personnel
V. Shantaram18th November, Indian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Screenwriter,
Robert Bresson25th September, French
Film director
Vittorio De Sica7th July, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film
Jascha Heifetz2nd February, Lithuanian, American
Music educator, Violinist
Princess Märtha of Sweden28th March, Norwegian
Frank Buckles1st February, American
Military personnel
Milton H. Erickson5th December, American
Psychotherapist, Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist,
Andrey Vlasov14th September, Russian
officer
Henri Lefebvre16th June, French
Philosopher, Politician, Sociologist, University
Zhang Xueliang3rd June, American
statesman
William S. Paley28th September, American
Executive
Michael Oakeshott11th December, British
Philosopher, Political scientist, University
Walter Hallstein17th November, German
Politician, Diplomat, University teacher
Carl Barks27th March, American
Screenwriter, Writer, Painter, Farmer, Journalist
Joaquín Rodrigo22nd November, Spanish
Composer, Choreographer, Pianist, Educationist,
Hans Kammler26th August, German
architect, engineer
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej8th November, Romanian
Politician, Diplomat
Jean Dubuffet31st July, French
Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Writer
Roy Urquhart28th November, British
Officer
Alfred Tarski14th January, Polish, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Norman Hartnell12th June, British
Fashion designer
Claude Choules3rd March, British
Soldier
Roy Wilkins30th August, American
journalist
Len Lye5th June, New Zealander
artist, film director, sculptor
Ludwig von Bertalanffy19th September, Austrian, Canadian
Biologist, University teacher
Consuelo de Saint Exupéry10th April, Salvadoran
Writer, Journalist, Painter, Sculptor
Muhammad Naguib20th February, Egyptian, Sudanese
Adelaide Hall20th October, American
Singer, Artist, Jazz musician, Actor, Stage actor
Miklós Nyiszli17th June, Hungarian, Romanian
Physician, Writer
John Sherman Cooper23rd August, American
Politician, Judge, Lawyer, Diplomat, American
Rudolf Caracciola30th January, Swiss, German
Racecar driver, Motorcycle racer
Eric Voegelin3rd January, American
Political scientist, Philosopher, University
Gerald Finzi14th July, British
Composer, Music educator
G. Sankara Kurup3rd June, Indian
Politician, Poet
Eiji Tsuburaya7th July, Japanese
cinematographer, television producer, film
Tage Erlander13th June, Swedish
Politician
Alice Prin2nd October, French
Actor, Painter, Art model, Amy Elise Boyfriend,
Max Euwe20th May, Dutch
Chess player, Mathematician, Chess official,
John Desmond Bernal10th May, British
Physicist, Philosopher, Inventor, University
Ricardo Zamora21st January, Spanish
Association football player, Journalist,
Andre Kostelanetz22nd December, American
Conductor, Radio personality
Ludolf von Alvensleben17th March, Argentinian, German
Politician, Farmer
Jaroslav Seifert23rd September, Czech
Writer
Eliot Porter6th December, American
Photographer