Fred Trump11th October, American
Real Estate Developer
Howard Hughes24th December, American
Entrepreneur, Investor
Joan Crawford23rd March, American
Actress
Ayn Rand2nd February, American, Russian
Author, Screenwriter, Playwright, Developer of a
Henry Fonda16th May, American
Actor
Dalton Trumbo9th December, American
Screenwriter, Novelist
Jean-Paul Sartre21st June, French
Philosopher
Albert Speer19th March, German
German Architect
Simo Häyhä17th December, Finnish
Sniper
Greta Garbo18th September, Swedish, American
Film actress
Viktor Frankl26th March, Austrian
Psychiatrist
Clara Bow29th July, American
Actress
Christian Dior21st January, French
Fashion Designers
Joseph Cotten15th May, American
Actor
Joseph Bonanno18th January, Italian, American
Gangster
Otto Preminger5th December, American
Director
Dag Hammarskjöld29th July, Swedish
Second Secretary-General of the United Nations
Albert Pierrepoint30th March, British
Executioner
Howard McNear27th January, American
Actor
Dhyan Chand29th August, Indian
Franchot Tone27th February, American
Actor
Robert Donat18th March, British
Actor
Arthur Koestler5th September, Hungarian, British
Harry Harlow31st October, American
Psychologist
Mulk Raj Anand12th December, Indian
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed13th May, Indian
Former President of India
Lillian Hellman20th June, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Nannie Doss4th November, American
Serial Killer
Erwin Chargaff11th August, Ukrainian, American
Biochemist
Agnes de Mille18th September, American
American dancer and choreographer
Michael Tippett2nd January, British
Composer
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Felix Bloch23rd October, Swiss
Physicist
H. E. Bates16th May, British
Short Story Writer
Siaka Stevens24th August, Sierra Leonean
1st President of Sierra Leone
Severo Ochoa14th September, Spanish
Physician and Biochemist
Emilio Segrè30th January, Italian, American
Physicist
Carl David Anderson3rd September, American
Physicist
Henry Koster1st May, German, American
Director, Producer
Nevill Francis Mott30th September, British
Physicist
George H. Hitchings18th April, American
Physiologist
Ulf von Euler7th February, Swedish
Physiologist and Pharmacologist
Salvador Mazza28th February, Argentinian
Physician and Epidemiologist
Anna May Wong3rd January, American
Film actor, Stage actor, Television actor
Myrna Loy2nd August, American
Actress
Maria von Trapp26th January, Austrian, American
Singer
Prince John of the United Kingdom12th July, British
Prince
James J. Braddock7th June, American
Boxer
Maggie Rogers4th September, Canadian
Actress
Joel McCrea5th November, American
Actor
Sterling Holloway4th January, American
Voice actor, Film actor, Stage actor, Television
Francis Marion22nd July, American
Actor
Dolores del Río3rd August, Mexican
singer, dancer, stage actor, film actor,
Tex Ritter12th January, American
Singer
Max Schmeling28th September, German, American
Boxer
Andy Devine7th October, American
Actor
Richard Blumenthal10th December, French
Producer
Robert Newton1st June, British
Actor
Sada Abe28th May, Japanese
Geisha, Criminal
Tommy Dorsey19th November, American
Trombonist
Savitri Devi30th September, French
Writer, Poet
Bob Wills30th November
Songwriter, Singer
Mildred Natwick19th June, American
Actress
Leo Durocher27th July, American
writer, Baseball Player
Michael Powell30th September, British
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
J. William Fulbright9th April, American
United States Senator
Abraham Zapruder15th May, American
Tailor
Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath26th January, British
Nobleman
Harold Arlen15th February, American
Composer, Songwriter, Music arranger, Film
Astrid of Sweden17th November, Swedish
Chick Webb10th February, American
Musician
Mohammad Hidayatullah17th December, Indian
Lawyer, Academician, Vice President
Ellery Queen11th January, American
Author
Robert Penn Warren24th April, American
poet, novelist, writer, literary critic,
Takashi Shimura12th March, Japanese
Actor, Film actor
Sanford Meisner31st August, American
Actor
Marlin Perkins28th March, American
Zoologist
Chen Yun13th June
Politician
Hans Urs von Balthasar12th August, Swiss
Theologian, Writer, Catholic priest
Félix Houphouët-Boigny18th October, Ivorian
Former President of the Ivory Coast
Tommy Flowers22nd December, British
Technician, Engineer, Computer scientist
Gertrude Ederle23rd October, American
swimmer
Elias Canetti25th July, British
Writer, Aphorist, Playwright, Chemist, Essayist
Marcel Lefebvre29th November, French
Theologian, Catholic priest
Karl Wallenda21st January, German, American
Artist, Circus performer
Ivan Serov25th August, Russian
Władysław Gomułka6th February, Polish
Politician
Mantovani15th November, Italian, British
Musician
Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria3rd May, German
Prince
Jule Styne31st December, British, American
Composer, Songwriter, Musician, Film score
Barnett Newman29th January, American
Painter, Sculptor, Visual artist, Architect
Raymond Aron14th March, French
Journalist, Philosopher, Writer, Political
Marian Rejewski16th August, Polish
Mathematician, Cryptologist
Mary Renault4th September, British, South African
Writer
Bosley Crowther13th July, American
Journalist, Film critic