Walt Disney5th December, American
Hirohito29th April, Japanese
Former Emperor of Japan
Clark Gable1st February, American
Actor
Louis Armstrong4th August
Musicain & Singer
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
Rudolf Höss25th November, German
Nazi War Criminal
Fulgencio Batista16th January, Cuban
Former President of Cuba
Paul of Greece14th December, Greek
King of Greece
Ed Sullivan28th September, American
Television Personality
Sukarno6th June, Indonesian
President of Indonesia
Dutch Schultz6th August, American
Gangster
Magda Goebbels11th November, German
Joseph Goebbels' Wife
Enrico Fermi29th September, Italian, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Jacques Lacan13th April
Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist
Leopold III of Belgium3rd November, Belgian
King of Belgium
Mildred Harris29th November, American
Actress
Witold Pilecki13th May, Polish
Nazi-era Polish Army Officer
Linus Pauling28th February, American
Chemist, Biochemist
Ngo Dinh Diem3rd January, Vietnamese
President of Vietnam
Zeppo Marx25th February, American
Comedian
Margaret Mead16th December, American
Cultural Anthropologist
Syama Prasad Mookerjee6th July, Indian
Indian Politician
Hendrik Verwoerd8th September, South African
Politician
Nadezhda Alliluyeva22nd September, Russian
Joseph Stalin’s Wife
Paul Fix13th March, American
Actor
Barbara Cartland9th July, British
Author
Lee Hoi-chuen4th February, Chinese
Opera Singer, Actor
Henning von Tresckow10th January, German
Military Officer
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Itzhak Stern25th January, Israeli, Polish
Holocaust Survivor
Stella Adler10th February, American
American Actress & Acting Teacher
Alberto Giacometti10th October, Swiss
Sculptor,Painter
Louis Kahn20th February, American
Architect
Andrey Vlasov14th September, Russian
General
C. L. R. James4th January, Trinidadian, British
Journalist, Writer, Historian, Theorist, Socialist
Willie Sutton30th June, American
Bank Robber
Alfred Newman17th March, American
American composer
Andre Malraux3rd November, French
French Novelist
Art Rooney27th January, American
NFL Team Founder, Owner
Simon Kuznets30th April, American
Economist
Ernest Lawrence8th August, American
Physicist
Mark Oliphant8th October, Australian
Physicist
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
Sergiusz Piasecki1st April, Polish
Writer
Princess Märtha of Sweden28th March, Norwegian
Lee Strasberg17th November, American
Film actor, Theatre director, Film director, Stage
Melvyn Douglas5th April, American
Actor
Ed Begley25th March, American
Actor
Vittorio De Sica7th July, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film
Ub Iwerks24th March, American
Animator
Manly Hall18th March, Canadian
Joe Davis15th April, British
Snooker player
Robert Bresson25th September, French
Director
Hans Kammler26th August, German
architect, engineer
V. Shantaram18th November, Indian
Film director, Actor, Film producer, Screenwriter,
Frank Buckles1st February, American
Military personnel
Adolph Rupp2nd September, German, American
Basketball coach
Maxwell D. Taylor26th August, American
Military officer
Maurice Evans3rd June, British
Actor
Whittaker Chambers1st April, American
Journalist
Arleigh Albert Burke19th October, American
Admiral
Rudy Vallee28th July, American
Actor
Henri Lefebvre16th June, French
Philosopher
Muhammad Naguib20th February, Egyptian, Sudanese
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg24th July, Austrian
Princess
William S. Paley28th September, American
Executive
Jascha Heifetz2nd February, Lithuanian, American
Music educator, Violinist
John C. Stennis3rd August, American
Politician
Gustav Knuth7th July, Swiss, German
Actor
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej8th November, Romanian
Politician, Diplomat
Nelson Eddy29th June, American
Singer
Carl Barks27th March, American
Screenwriter, Writer, Painter, Farmer, Journalist
Florence Green19th February, British
Servicewoman
Norman Hartnell12th June, British
Fashion designer
Milton H. Erickson5th December, American
Psychotherapist, Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist,
Milada Horáková25th December, Czech
Politician
Joaquín Rodrigo22nd November, Spanish
Composer, Choreographer, Pianist, Educationist,
Zhang Xueliang3rd June, American
statesman
Jean Dubuffet31st July, French
Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Writer
Max Euwe20th May, Dutch
Chess player, Mathematician, Chess official,
Roy Urquhart28th November, British
Officer
Michael Oakeshott11th December, British
Philosopher, Political scientist, University
Roy Wilkins30th August, American
journalist
Sam Spiegel11th November, Austrian, Polish, American
Film producer
Claude Choules3rd March, British
Soldier
Walter Hallstein17th November, German
Politician, Diplomat, University teacher
Harry Partch24th June, American
Composer
Alfred Tarski14th January, Polish, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Rudolf Caracciola30th January, German
Racing driver