1
George Orwell
(Known for His Novels “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four”)
133
55
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: June 25, 1903
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Motihari, Bihar, India
Died: January 21
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
2
George Bernard Shaw
(Irish playwright Who Won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature)
48
23
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 26, 1856
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Portobello, Dublin, Ireland
Died: November 2
3
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(First Deputy Prime Minister of India and First Home Minister of India)
70
21
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: October 31, 1875
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Nadiad, Gujarat, India
Died: December 15
4
Al Jolson
(Singer and Comedian Known as 'The King of Blackface Performers')
20
4
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: May 26, 1886
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Seredžius, Lithuania
Died: October 23
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
5
Edgar Rice Burroughs
(Creator of Tarzan)
21
7
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 1, 1875
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died: March 19
6
Charles R. Drew
(Surgeon and Researcher Who Improved Techniques for Blood Storage)
48
8
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: June 3, 1904
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States
Died: April 1
7
Vaslav Nijinsky
(Ballet Dancer, Choreographer and One of the Greatest Male Dancers of All Time)
19
6
8
Jan Smuts
(2nd Prime Minister of South Africa)
9
3
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: May 24, 1870
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Riebeeck West, South Africa
Died: September 11
9
Carter Woodson
(Historian)
11
1
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: December 19, 1875
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New Canton, Virginia, United States
Died: April 3
10
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Poet)
17
4
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 22, 1892
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rockland, Maine, United States
Died: October 19
11
Henry H. Arnold
(Military Leader)
23
12
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: June 25, 1886
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: January 15
12
Walter Huston
(One of the Modern Theater's Greatest Actors)
12
7
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: April 5, 1883
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Died: April 7
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
13
Joseph Schumpeter
(Economist)
6
3
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 8, 1883
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Třešť, Czechia
Died: January 8
14
Kurt Weill
(German-American Composer Best Known for His Work ‘The Threepenny Opera’)
7
3
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: March 2, 1900
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Dessau, Germany
Died: April 3
15
Nicholas Black Elk
(Traditional Healers)
14
5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: December 1, 1863
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Powder River, Wyoming, United States
Died: August 19
16
Grover Cleveland Alexander
(Baseball Player)
9
3
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: February 26, 1887
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Elba, Nebraska, United States
Died: November 4
17
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
(Princess)
4
3
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 5, 1863
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died: September 24
18
Emil Jannings
(German Actor Who was the First Recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor)
9
3
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: July 23, 1884
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Rorschach, Switzerland
Died: January 2
19
Léon Blum
(Former Prime Minister of France)
5
1
20
Alan Hale
(Actor)
6
3
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 10, 1892
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States
Died: January 22
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
21
Ramana Maharshi
(Indian Hindu Sage and Jivanmukta)
16
10
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: December 30, 1879
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tiruchuzhi, Virudhunagar, India
Died: April 14
22
William Lyon Mackenzie King
(10th Prime Minister of Canada (1935 - 1948))
4
3
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: December 17, 1874
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Died: July 22
23
Henry L. Stimson
(Politician)
2
0
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: September 21, 1867
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: New York City, New York (state) New York, U.S.
Died: October 20
24
Cesare Pavese
(A Very Influential Italian Novelist, Poet and Short story writer)
6
1
Listed In: Critics & Connoisseurs
Birthdate: September 9, 1908
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy
Died: August 27
25
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
(Ruler)
5
2
26
Sara Allgood
(Actress)
8
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: November 29, 1879
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: September 13
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
27
Milada Horáková
(Czech Politician Wrongfully Convicted and Executed on Fabricated Charges by the 'Communist Party of Czechoslovakia')
3
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: December 25, 1901
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Prague, Czech Republic
Died: June 27
28
Eliel Saarinen
(A Leading Architect and Urban Planner Known for His 'Art Nouveau' Buildings)
4
1
29
Sri Aurobindo
(Philosopher, Spiritual Leader)
66
10
Listed In: Spiritual & Religious Leaders
Birthdate: August 15, 1872
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Died: December 5
30
Max Beckmann
(German Expressionist Painter and Printmaker)
2
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: February 12, 1884
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Leipzig, Germany
Died: December 27
31
Rafael Sabatini
(Writer)
4
0
32
Melitta Bentz
(Entrepreneur)
3
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: January 31, 1873
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
Died: June 29
33
Walton Walker
(Army General)
3
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: December 3, 1889
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Belton, Texas, United States
Died: December 23
34
Werner Haase
(Physician, University teacher)
2
0
35
Liane de Pougy
(Vedette)
4
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 2, 1869
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: La Flèche, France
Died: December 26
36
Karl Renner
(Politician, Librarian, Diplomat, Lawyer)
3
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: December 14, 1870
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Dolní Dunajovice
Died: December 31
37
Alfred Korzybski
(Scholar who developed the field of General Semantics)
1
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: July 3, 1879
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Warsaw
Died: March 1
38
Fats Navarro
(Jazz trumpet player, who was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s)
3
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: September 24, 1923
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Key West, Florida, United States
Died: July 6
39
Elsie de Wolfe
(Actor, Architect, Socialite)
3
1
Listed In: Architects
Birthdate: December 20, 1865
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New York City
Died: July 12
40
Ransom Eli Olds
(Automotive designer)
4
3
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: June 3, 1864
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Geneva, Ohio, United States
Died: August 26
41
Dinu Lipatti
(Pianist)
3
1
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: April 1, 1917
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania
Died: December 2
42
Charles Hamilton Houston
(American lawyer)
2
1
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: September 3, 1895
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States
Died: April 22
43
Gopinath Bordoloi
(First Chief Minister of Assam, India)
30
14
44
Constantin Carathéodory
(Greek Mathematician Who Made Important Contributions to the Theory of Real Functions and to the Calculus of Variations)
1
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 13, 1873
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: February 2
45
John Rabe
(Rescuer of Civilians During the Nanking Massacre)
2
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: November 23, 1882
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Died: January 5
46
Karl Guthe Jansky
(American Physicist, Radio Engineer and One of the Founding Figures of 'Radio Astronomy')
3
1
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: October 22, 1905
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Died: February 14
47
Edwin Sutherland
(Sociologist)
1
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: August 13, 1883
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Gibbon, Nebraska, U.S
Died: October 11
48
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
(Swiss Composer, Musician and Music Educator Who Developed 'Dalcroze Eurhythmics' Method of Learning Music)
2
0
49
Edward Arthur Milne
(Astrophysicist)
5
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: February 14, 1896
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Kingston upon Hull
Died: September 21
50
Michael Strange
(Poet)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 1, 1890
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 5
