Bing Crosby3rd May, American
American singer
George Orwell25th June, British
Novelist
Alec Douglas-Home2nd July, British
Former PM of UK
Bob Hope29th May, American
Comedian
John Dillinger22nd June, American
Bank Robber
Eliot Ness19th April, American
Special Agent
John von Neumann28th December, Hungarian, American
Mathematician
Lou Gehrig19th June, American
Baseball Player
Curly Howard22nd October, American
Comedian
Lawrence Welk11th March, American
Olav V of Norway2nd July, Norwegian
Former King of Norway
Anais Nin21st February, American
Essayist
Mark Rothko25th September, American
Painter
Evelyn Waugh28th October, British
Writer
Claudette Colbert13th September, American
Actress
Ernst Kaltenbrunner4th October, Austrian
Nazi Leader
K. Kamaraj15th July, Indian
Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
Edgar Buchanan20th March, American
Actor
Theodor W. Adorno11th September, German
Philosopher
Tunku Abdul Rahman8th February, Malaysian
First Prime Minister of Malaysia
Joseph Valachi22nd September, American
Gangster
Karl Hanke24th August, German
Politician
Amy Johnson1st July, British
Aviator
Benjamin Spock2nd May, American
Pediatrician and Political Activist
Malcolm Muggeridge24th March, British
Journalist and Author
Georges Simenon13th February, Belgian
Novelist
Konrad Lorenz7th November, Austrian
Zoologist
Barbara Hepworth10th January, British
Artist
Andrey Kolmogorov25th April, Russian
Mathematician
Louis Leakey7th August, Kenyan, British
Paleoanthropologist and Archaeologist
Buck Barrow14th March, American
Gangster
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Kenneth Clark13th July, British
Art Historian
Joseph B. Soloveitchik27th February, Belarusian, American
Rabbi
Cyril Connolly10th September, British
Literary Critic & Writer
Sir John Eccles27th January, Australian
Neurophysiologist
Jan Tinbergen12th April, Dutch
Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
Ernest Walton6th October, Irish
Physicist
Aaron Siskind4th December, American
Photographer
Giulio Natta25th February, Italian
Chemist
C. F. Powell5th December, British
Physicist
George Wells Beadle22nd October, American
Geneticist
George D. Snell19th December, American
Geneticist
Paul Martin, Sr23rd June, Canadian
Father of Medicare.
Haldan Keffer Hartline22nd December, American
Physiologist
Hugo Theorell6th July, Swedish
Swedish scientist
Vincente Minnelli28th February, American
Theatre director, Film director
Ward Bond9th April, American
Actor
Graham Sutherland24th August, British
Painter, Artist
Rudolf Abel11th July, British, Russian
Soviet spy
Vladimir Horowitz1st October, American
American-Russian classical pianist
Maurice Tillet23rd October, American, Russian
Wrestler
Jiro Horikoshi22nd June, Japanese
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Melvin Purvis24th October, American
FBI agent
Edgar Bergen16th February, American
Actor, Radio personality
Yasujiro Ozu12th December, Japanese
Director
Abul A'la Maududi25th September, Indian, Pakistani
Philosopher
Elisha Cook Jr.26th December, American
Actor
Bix Beiderbecke10th March, American
Composer, Trumpeter, Jazz musician, Pianist
Arthur Godfrey31st August, American
Actor, Officer, Television presenter, Radio
Estes Kefauver26th July, American
Politician
Empress Kōjun6th March, Japanese
Consort
Aram Khachaturian6th June, Armenian, Georgian
Composer
Galeazzo Ciano18th March, Italian
Diplomat
Jeanette MacDonald18th June, American
Film actor
Amado V. Hernandez13th September, Filipino
Journalist, Trade unionist
James Beard5th May, American
Chef, Non-fiction writer
Roy Acuff15th September, American
Singer-songwriter
Johann Georg Elser4th January, German
Carpenter, Joiner
José Antonio Primo de Rivera24th April, Spanish
Political leader
Ella Baker13th December, American
American activist
Abel Meeropol10th February, American
Poet, Songwriter, Writer
Frank P. Ramsey22nd February, British
Mathematician, Philosopher, Economist
Clare Boothe Luce10th March, American
Former U.S. Congressman, Diplomat, Journalist,
Red Grange13th June
actor, American football player
John Wyndham10th July, British
Fiction Writer
Preston Tucker21st September, American
Engineer, Entrepreneur, Automotive designer
Mimi Smith24th April, British
Nurse, Housewife, Secretary
Orde Wingate26th February, British
Officer
Habib Bourguiba3rd August, Tunisian
Politician, Lawyer
Arpad Elo25th August, American
Chess player, Physicist, Scientist, University
Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll18th June, British
Countee Cullen30th May
American poet
Bruno Bettelheim28th August, Austrian, American
Writer, Psychologist, University teacher,
Cool Papa Bell17th May
Baseball Player
Vera Renczi30th November, Romanian
serial killer
George Metesky2nd November, American
Terrorist
Alonzo Church14th June, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
John V. Atanasoff4th October, American
Physicist
Earl Hines28th December, American
Pianist, Bandleader, Jazz musician, Composer
Igor Kurchatov12th January, Russian
Nuclear physicist
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé9th November, American
Philanthropist
George Coulouris1st October, British
Actor
Marguerite Yourcenar8th June, Belgian, American
Novelist, Essayist
Joseph Cornell24th December, American
Film director, Sculptor, Painter