George Orwell25th June, British
Novelist
John Dillinger22nd June, American
Bank Robber
Barbara Hepworth10th January, British
Artist
Bing Crosby3rd May, American
American singer
Bob Hope29th May, American
Comedian
Lou Gehrig19th June, American
Baseball Player
John von Neumann28th December, Hungarian, American
Mathematician
K. Kamaraj15th July, Indian
Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
Eliot Ness19th April, American
Special Agent
Curly Howard22nd October, American
Comedian
Claudette Colbert13th September, American
Actress
Alec Douglas-Home2nd July, British
Former PM of UK
Evelyn Waugh28th October, British
Writer
Lawrence Welk11th March, American
Mark Rothko25th September, American
Painter
Olav V of Norway2nd July, Norwegian
Former King of Norway
Edgar Buchanan20th March, American
Actor
Tunku Abdul Rahman8th February, Malaysian
First Prime Minister of Malaysia
Theodor W. Adorno11th September, German
Philosopher
Ernst Kaltenbrunner4th October, Austrian
Nazi Leader
Malcolm Muggeridge24th March, British
Journalist and Author
Joseph Valachi22nd September, American
Gangster
Georges Simenon13th February, Belgian
Novelist
Benjamin Spock2nd May, American
Pediatrician and Political Activist
Amy Johnson1st July, British
Aviator
Karl Hanke24th August, German
Politician
Konrad Lorenz7th November, Austrian
Zoologist
Louis Leakey7th August, Kenyan, British
Paleoanthropologist and Archaeologist
Kenneth Clark13th July, British
Art Historian
Buck Barrow14th March, American
Gangster
Joseph B. Soloveitchik27th February, Belarusian, American
Rabbi
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Cyril Connolly10th September, British
Literary Critic & Writer
Ernest Walton6th October, Irish
Physicist
Jan Tinbergen12th April, Dutch
Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
Giulio Natta25th February, Italian
Chemist
Aaron Siskind4th December, American
Photographer
C. F. Powell5th December, British
Physicist
Anais Nin21st February, American
Essayist
George Wells Beadle22nd October, American
Geneticist
Haldan Keffer Hartline22nd December, American
Physiologist
Hugo Theorell6th July, Swedish
Swedish scientist
Paul Martin, Sr23rd June, Canadian
Father of Medicare.
Sir John Eccles27th January, Australian
Neurophysiologist
George D. Snell19th December, American
Geneticist
Peter Pan31st March, Chinese
Actor
Melvin Purvis24th October, American
FBI agent
Louie Anderson28th May, American
Camera man
Vincente Minnelli28th February, American
Theatre director, Film director
Ward Bond9th April, American
Actor
Rudolf Abel11th July, British, Russian
Soviet spy
Wally West11th October, American
Actor
Jiro Horikoshi22nd June, Japanese
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Vladimir Horowitz1st October, American
American-Russian classical pianist
Jeanette MacDonald18th June, American
Film actor
Ella Baker13th December, American
American activist
Edgar Bergen16th February, American
Actor, Radio personality
Elisha Cook Jr.26th December, American
Actor
Abel Meeropol10th February, American
Poet, Songwriter, Writer
Bix Beiderbecke10th March, American
Composer, Trumpeter, Jazz musician, Pianist
Empress Kōjun6th March, Japanese
Consort
Roy Acuff15th September, American
Singer-songwriter
Aram Khachaturian6th June, Armenian, Georgian
Composer
Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll18th June, British
Orde Wingate26th February, British
Officer
Galeazzo Ciano18th March, Italian
Diplomat
Graham Sutherland24th August, British
Painter, Artist
Arthur Godfrey31st August, American
Actor, Officer, Television presenter, Radio
Clare Boothe Luce10th March, American
Former U.S. Congressman, Diplomat, Journalist,
James Beard5th May, American
Chef, Non-fiction writer
Countee Cullen30th May
American poet
Preston Tucker21st September, American
Engineer, Entrepreneur, Automotive designer
Andrey Kolmogorov25th April, Russian
Mathematician
Claudio Arrau6th February, Chilean, American
Pianist
José Antonio Primo de Rivera24th April, Spanish
Political leader
John Wyndham10th July, British
Fiction Writer
Cool Papa Bell17th May
Baseball Player
Marguerite Yourcenar8th June, Belgian, American
Novelist, Essayist
Habib Bourguiba3rd August, Tunisian
Politician, Lawyer
Mimi Smith24th April, British
Nurse, Housewife, Secretary
Alonzo Church14th June, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
Sidney Farber30th September, American
University teacher
Al Hirschfeld21st June, American
Caricaturist, Artist, Postage stamp designer
Earl Hines28th December, American
Pianist, Bandleader, Jazz musician, Composer
Bruno Bettelheim28th August, Austrian, American
Writer, Psychologist, University teacher,
Harold Ballard30th July, Canadian
Player of Canadian football
Red Grange13th June
actor, American football player
Joan Robinson31st October, British
Economist
Arpad Elo25th August, American
Chess player, Physicist, Scientist, University
Tom Yawkey21st February, American
Industrialist
Nathanael West17th October, American
Novelist
Alan Paton11th January, South African
Writer, Autobiographer, Screenwriter
Joseph Cornell24th December, American
Film director, Sculptor, Painter
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé9th November, American
Philanthropist
Carlos Prío Socarrás14th July, Cuban
President