1
Hank Williams
(One of the Most Significant and Influential Singers and Songwriters of the 20th Century)
127
31
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: September 17, 1923
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Mount Olive, Alabama, United States
Died: January 1
2
Joseph Stalin
(Soviet Political Leader & Dictator Who Led the Soviet Union from 1922 Until His Death in 1953)
316
165
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: December 18, 1878
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Gori, Georgia
Died: March 5
3
Jim Thorpe
(American Athlete and Olympic Gold Medalist)
103
9
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: May 28, 1887
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States
Died: March 28
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
4
Guccio Gucci
(Italian Businessman)
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25
5
Dylan Thomas
(Poet & Writer)
39
10
6
Sergei Prokofiev
(Composer and pianist)
108
33
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: April 23, 1891
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Krasne, Ukraine
Died: March 5
7
Edwin Powell Hubble
(American Astronomer Who is Regarded as the Leading Observational Cosmologist of the 20th Century)
54
6
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: November 20, 1889
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Marshfield, Missouri, United States
Died: September 28
8
Django Reinhardt
(Musician)
22
5
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: January 23, 1910
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Liberchies, Belgium
Died: May 16
9
Eugene O'Neill
(American Playwright and Winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature)
15
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 16, 1888
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 27
10
Herman J. Mankiewicz
(American Screenwriter Best Known for His Academy Award Winning Film 'Citizen Kane')
9
4
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: November 7, 1897
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: March 5
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
11
Ibn Saud
(King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953)
34
18
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: January 15, 1875
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died: November 9
Height: 6'9" (206 cm)
12
Derek Bentley
(Epileptic British Man Convicted and Hanged for the Murder of a Policeman, at the Age of 19)
6
2
Listed In: Criminals
Birthdate: June 30, 1933
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Southwark, London, England
Died: January 28
13
Carol II of Romania
(King of Romania from 1930 to 1940)
3
1
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: October 15, 1893
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Peleș Castle, Sinaia, Romania
Died: April 4
14
Robert Andrews Millikan
(Physicist)
7
1
15
Robert A. Taft
(Politician)
5
2
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: September 8, 1889
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Died: July 31
16
Maude Adams
(Actress)
11
1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: November 11, 1872
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Died: July 17
17
James Finlayson
(actor, comedian, stage actor)
9
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: August 27, 1887
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Falkirk
Died: October 9
18
Maud Gonne
(English-born Irish Republican Revolutionary, Suffragette & Actress)
4
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: December 21, 1866
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Tongham, England
Died: April 27
19
Jorge Negrete
(Actor, Singer, Film actor)
3
1
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: November 30, 1911
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Guanajuato
Died: December 5
20
Ivan Bunin
(The First Russian Writer to Receive the Nobel Prize for Literature)
6
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 22, 1870
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Voronezh, Russia
Died: November 8
21
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
(Indian Politician)
7
3
22
Jonathan M. Wainwright
(General)
5
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: August 23, 1883
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Died: September 2
23
Hilaire Belloc
(Poet and Author Best Known for His Humorous Poem ‘Cautionary Tales for Children’)
3
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 27, 1870
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France
Died: July 16
3
0
25
Alice Prin
(Model)
2
0
Listed In: Fashion
Birthdate: October 2, 1901
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Chatillon-sur-Seine, France
Died: March 23
26
Florence Price
(Composer)
2
1
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Bill Tilden
(American Tennis Player Who was the World No. 1 Amateur for Six Consecutive Years, From 1920 to 1925)
2
1
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: February 10, 1893
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: June 5
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
28
Francis Picabia
(French Avant-Garde Painter and Poet Who was One of the Early Major Figures of the 'Dada Movement')
1
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: January 22, 1879
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: November 30
29
Mary Anderson
(inventor)
2
1
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: February 19, 1866
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Greene County
Died: June 27
30
Julia de Burgos
(Writer)
2
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 17, 1914
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Carolina, Puerto Rico
Died: July 6
31
Richard von Mises
(Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, Engineer, University teacher)
4
2
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Iuliu Maniu
(32nd Prime Minister of Romania Who was Later Convicted of Treason and Given Life Imprisonment)
4
1
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: January 8, 1873
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Badacin, Romania
Died: February 5
33
Étienne Balsan
(horsebreeder, jockey)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: February 11, 1880
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Paris
Died: 1953 AD
34
Vera Mukhina
(Russian Painter and Sculptor)
5
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: July 1, 1889
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
Died: October 6
35
Julian Tuwim
(Polish Poet and Co-Founder of 'Skamander', An Experimental Poetry Group)
3
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 13, 1894
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Łódź, Poland
Died: December 27
36
Tazio Nuvolari
(Former Italian Racing Driver)
1
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: November 16, 1892
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Castel d’Ario, Italy
Died: August 11
37
0
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: November 17, 1887
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Penzing, Vienna, Austria
Died: January 30
38
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(Translator)
3
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: April 14, 1872
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Mumbai
Died: December 10
39
Emil August Fieldorf
(Military officer)
3
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: March 20, 1895
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kraków, Poland
Died: February 24
40
James Jackson Jeffries
(Boxer)
1
1
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: April 15, 1875
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Carroll, Ohio, United States
Died: March 3
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
41
Kid Nichols
(Baseball manager)
3
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: September 14, 1869
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Died: April 11
42
Princess Françoise of Orléans
(Princess)
3
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: December 25, 1902
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: February 25
43
Prince Oscar Bernadotte
(Prince)
1
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: November 15, 1859
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: October 4
44
John Marin
(painter, architect)
4
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: December 23, 1870
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Rutherford
Died: October 2
45
Rudolph Schindler
(One of the Seminal Master Architects Who Defined Modern Architecture in Southern California)
1
0
Listed In: Architects
Birthdate: September 10, 1887
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: August 22
46
Johan Laidoner
(Estonian Statesman and General Who was the Commander of the Defence Forces During the Estonian War of Independence)
2
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: February 12, 1884
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Viljandi County, Estonia
Died: March 13
47
Ruth Crawford Seeger
(Composer)
1
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: July 3, 1901
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: East Liverpool, Ohio, United States
Died: November 18
48
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
(Japanese-American Painter and Photographer)
2
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: September 1, 1889
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Okayama, Japan
Died: May 14
49
Elizabeth Penn Sprague Coolidge
(Pianist)
3
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: October 30, 1864
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Died: November 4
50
Elsa Beskow
(Writer)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 11, 1874
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: June 30
