Cary Grant18th January, British, American
Actor
Dr. Seuss2nd March, American
Author
Lal Bahadur Shastri2nd October, Indian
Former Prime Minister of India
J. Robert Oppenheimer22nd April, American
Reinhard Heydrich7th March, German
Nazi Official
Deng Xiaoping22nd August, Chinese
Peter Lorre26th June, American
Actor
Ève Curie6th December, French, American
Younger Daughter of Scientist Marie Curie
J. R. D. Tata29th July, Indian
French-Indian aviator
Pablo Neruda12th July, Chilean
Chilean poet
B. F. Skinner20th March, American
American psychologist
Henry Graham Greene2nd October, British
Novelist
Joseph Campbell26th March, American
Writer
Greer Garson29th September, American
Actress
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia12th August, Russian
Tsarevich of Russia
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
Umberto II of Italy15th September, Italian
King of Italy
Tommy Douglas20th October, Canadian
Former Canadian Politician & Baptist Minister
Fats Waller21st May, American
Jazz Pianist
Phil Harris24th June, American
Comedian
Milburn Stone5th July, American
Actor
Alger Hiss11th November, American
Diplomat
Iron Eyes Cody3rd April, American
Actor
Kuvempu29th December, Indian
Novelist
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe16th November, Nigerian
First President of Nigeria
C. Day Lewis27th April, Irish, British
Poet
Willem de Kooning24th April, Dutch, American
Painter
Alexei Kosygin20th February, Russian, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
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Cecil Beaton14th January, British
Photographer
John Farrow10th February, Australian, American
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
George F. Kennan16th February, American
Diplomat
Anna Neagle20th October, British
Actress
Charles R. Drew3rd June, American
Physician & Surgeon
Ralph Bunche7th August, American
American Political Scientist and Diplomat
George Stevens18th December, American
Film Director & Producer
Rukmini Devi Arundale29th February, Indian
Bharatnatyam Dancer
Karl Brandt8th January, German
Personal Physician of Adolf Hitler
Gladys George13th September, American
Actress
George Gamow4th March, Russian
Physicist
Arshile Gorky15th April, American
Abstract Painter
John R Hicks8th April, British
Economist
Ernst Mayr5th July, American
Biologist
Salvador Dali11th May, Spanish
Surrealist Painter
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
Jacopo Amigoni8th August, Italian
Painter
George Reginald Starr6th April, British
Secret agent during World War II
Ray Bolger10th January, American
Actor
Glenn Miller1st March, American
Trombonist
Nathan Leopold30th November
Author, Educator, Murderer
John Gielgud14th April, British
Actor
Johnny Weissmuller2nd June, Romanian, American
Film actor, Swimmer, Actor, Water polo player,
Count Basie21st August, American
pianist, bandleader, conductor, composer
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd30th November
Criminal
Robert Montgomery21st May, American
American actor
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt23rd August, American
Socialite, Actor
George Balanchine22nd January, Russian, American
Choreographer
Max Mallowan6th May, British
Archaeologist
Constance Bennett22nd October, American
Actress
George Formby26th May, British
Actor, Comedian, Film producer, Musician
Isamu Noguchi17th November, Japanese, American
Sculptor, Architect
Alexey Kosygin21st February, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Luis Carrero-Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco4th March, Spanish
Bruce Cabot20th April, American
Actor
Christopher Isherwood26th August, British, American
Novelist
Jeane Dixon5th January, American
Psychic
Raymond Bailey6th May, American
Actor
Nancy Mitford28th November, British
Novelist
Lili Damita10th July, French
Actor, Singer
Tom Conway15th September, British, Russian
Actor
K. L. Saigal11th April, Indian
Actor, Singer
Forrest Edward Mars21st March, American
Businessman
Alberta Williams King13th September, American
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mother
Hans Morgenthau17th February, German
Judge, Political scientist, Writer, Philosopher,
Sally Rand3rd April, American
Actress
Charles Drew30th November
Educator, Doctor, Surgeon
René Lacoste30th November, French
Business Leader, Fashion Designer, Tennis Player
George Brent15th March, Irish, American
Actor
Margaret Bourke-White14th June, American
Photographer, War photographer, Photojournalist,
Ralph Bunche7th August, American
Political scientist
Kurt Georg Kiesinger6th April, German
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
Jean Gabin17th May, French
Film actor, Actor, Singer, Screenwriter
Jogendra Nath Mandal29th January, Pakistani
Politician
Coleman Hawkins21st November, American
Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Gregory Bateson9th May, British, American
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
William L. Shirer23rd February, American
Journalist, Historian, Writer
Claud Cockburn12th April, British
Journalist
Odilo Globocnik21st April, Austrian
Politician