Cary Grant18th January, British, American
Actor
Reinhard Heydrich7th March, German
Nazi Official
Salvador Dali11th May, Spanish
Surrealist Painter
Dr. Seuss2nd March, American
Author
J. Robert Oppenheimer22nd April, American
Deng Xiaoping22nd August, Chinese
Politician
Peter Lorre26th June, American
Actor
Lal Bahadur Shastri2nd October, Indian
Former Prime Minister of India
J. R. D. Tata29th July, Indian
French-Indian aviator
Henry Graham Greene2nd October, British
Novelist
Ève Curie6th December, French, American
Younger Daughter of Scientist Marie Curie
B. F. Skinner20th March, American
American psychologist
Pablo Neruda12th July, Chilean
Chilean poet
Umberto II of Italy15th September, Italian
King of Italy
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia12th August, Russian
Tsarevich of Russia
Joseph Campbell26th March, American
Writer
Greer Garson29th September, American
Actress
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith19th July, American
Last Descendant of Abraham Lincoln
Ralph Bellamy17th June, American
Actor
Pretty Boy Floyd3rd February, American
Bank Robber
Dick Powell14th November, American
Singer
Milburn Stone5th July, American
Actor
Phil Harris24th June, American
Comedian
Iron Eyes Cody3rd April, American
Actor
Tommy Douglas20th October, Canadian
Former Canadian Politician & Baptist Minister
Alger Hiss11th November, American
Diplomat
C. Day Lewis27th April, Irish, British
Poet
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe16th November, Nigerian
First President of Nigeria
Fats Waller21st May, American
Jazz Pianist
Willem de Kooning24th April, Dutch, American
Painter
John Farrow10th February, Australian, American
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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Cecil Beaton14th January, British
Photographer
George F. Kennan16th February, American
Diplomat
Alexei Kosygin20th February, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Anna Neagle20th October, British
Actress
Charles R. Drew3rd June, American
Physician & Surgeon
Karl Brandt8th January, German
Personal Physician of Adolf Hitler
Kuvempu29th December, Indian
Novelist
Rukmini Devi Arundale29th February, Indian
Bharatnatyam Dancer
George Stevens18th December, American
Film Director & Producer
Ralph Bunche7th August, American
Political Scientist
Arshile Gorky15th April, American
Abstract Painter
Gladys George13th September, American
Actress
George Gamow4th March, Russian
Physicist
Ernst Mayr5th July, American
Biologist
John R Hicks8th April, British
Economist
Pavel Cherenkov28th July, Russian
Physicist
A. J. Liebling18th October, American
Journalist
Charles J Pedersen3rd October, American
Organic Chemist
Gerhard Herzberg25th December, Canadian, German
Physical Chemist, Physicist
Louis Néel22nd November, French
Physicist
George Reginald Starr6th April, British
Secret agent during World War II
Jacopo Amigoni8th August, Italian
Painter
Nancy Mitford28th November, British
Novelist
Glenn Miller1st March, American
Trombonist
Nathan Leopold19th November, American
Murderer
Ray Bolger10th January, American
Actor
Robert Montgomery21st May, American
American actor
John Gielgud14th April, British
Actor
Johnny Weissmuller2nd June, Romanian, American
Film actor, Swimmer, Actor, Water polo player,
Max Mallowan6th May, British
Archaeologist
Count Basie21st August, American
pianist, bandleader, conductor, composer
Christopher Isherwood26th August, British, American
Novelist
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt23rd August, American
Socialite, Actor
George Formby26th May, British
Actor, Comedian, Film producer, Musician
Bruce Cabot20th April, American
Actor
Alberta Williams King13th September, American
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mother
Isamu Noguchi17th November, Japanese, American
Sculptor, Architect
K. L. Saigal11th April, Indian
Actor, Singer
Alexey Kosygin21st February, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Raymond Bailey6th May, American
Actor
George Balanchine22nd January, American, Russian
Choreographer
George Brent15th March, Irish, American
Actor
Jean Gabin17th May, French
Actor
Tom Conway15th September, British, Russian
Actor
Constance Bennett22nd October, American
Actress
Lili Damita10th July, French, American
Actress
Sally Rand3rd April, American
Actress
Hans Morgenthau17th February, German
Judge, Political scientist, Writer, Philosopher,
Kurt Georg Kiesinger6th April, German
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
Gregory Bateson9th May, British, American
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Jogendra Nath Mandal29th January, Pakistani
Politician
Margaret Bourke-White14th June, American
Photographer, War photographer, Photojournalist,
Forrest Edward Mars21st March, American
Businessman
Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta13th February, Greek
Princess
René Lacoste2nd July, French
Tennis player
Luis Carrero-Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco4th March, Spanish
Claud Cockburn12th April, British
Journalist
Coleman Hawkins21st November, American
Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Jeane Dixon5th January, American
Psychic
William L. Shirer23rd February, American
Journalist, Historian, Writer
Genda Minoru16th August, Japanese
Aviator
Charles Rogers13th August, American
Actor
Ernst-Günther Schenck3rd October, German
Surgeon, University teacher