1 Frida Kahlo
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Listed In: Artists & Painters
Famous As: Painter
Birthdate: July 6, 1907
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
Died: July 13
2 Alan Turing
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Listed In: Scientists
Famous As: Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Birthdate: June 23, 1912
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Maida Vale, London, England
Died: June 7
3 Henri Matisse
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Listed In: Artists & Painters
Famous As: Painter
Birthdate: December 31, 1869
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
Died: November 3
4 Enrico Fermi
24
1
Listed In: Scientists
Famous As: Physicist
Birthdate: September 29, 1901
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Died: November 28
5 Lionel Barrymore
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2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Famous As: Actor
Birthdate: April 28, 1878
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Died: November 15
6 Colette
8
3
Listed In: Media Personalities
Famous As: Novelist
Birthdate: January 28, 1873
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France
Died: August 3
7 Maurice Tillet
6
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Famous As: Wrestler
Birthdate: October 23, 1903
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Ural Mountains, Russia
Died: September 4
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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8 Robert Capa
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Listed In: Media Personalities
Famous As: Photographer, Photojournalist
Birthdate: October 22, 1913
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: May 25
9 Sydney Greenstreet
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1
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Famous As: Actor
Birthdate: December 27, 1879
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Sandwich, Kent, England
Died: January 18
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
10 Princess Märtha of Sweden
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Famous As: Princess
Birthdate: March 28, 1901
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: April 5
11 Heinz Guderian
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Listed In: Leaders
Famous As: Chief of the General Staff of the German Army High Command (1944-45)
Birthdate: June 17, 1888
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Chełmno, Poland
Died: May 14
12 Charles Ives
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2
Listed In: Musicians
Famous As: Composer
Birthdate: October 20, 1874
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Danbury, Connecticut, United States
Died: May 19
13 Pop Warner
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Famous As: American Football coach
Birthdate: April 5, 1871
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York, United States
Died: September 7
14 Agnes Macphail
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Listed In: Leaders
Famous As: Member of Ontario Provincial Parliament (1943-45, 1948-51)
Birthdate: March 24, 1890
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Dundalk, Canada
Died: February 13
15 Claude Cahun
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2
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Famous As: Former surrealist photographer, sculptor best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae
Birthdate: October 25, 1894
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Nantes, France
Died: December 8
16 Mary Church Terrell
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Listed In: Activists
Famous As: One of the first African-American women to earn a college degree
Birthdate: September 23, 1863
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Died: July 24
17 Gladys George
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Famous As: Actress
Birthdate: September 13, 1904
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Patten, Maine, U.S.
Died: December 8
18 Pierre S. du Pont
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Famous As: Entrepreneur
Birthdate: January 15, 1870
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Died: April 4
19 Edwin Howard Armstrong
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Listed In: Engineers
Famous As: Electrical engineer
Birthdate: December 18, 1890
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Chelsea, New York, United States
Died: February 1
20 Kalki Krishnamurthy
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Listed In: Writers
Famous As: Former Writer who founded a magazine, which was also named Kalki
Birthdate: September 9, 1899
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Manalmedu, Tamil Nadu, India
Died: December 5
21 Günther Quandt
1
0
Listed In: Business People
Famous As: German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (chemicals)
Birthdate: July 28, 1881
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Pritzwalk, Germany
Died: December 30
22 Viktor Abakumov
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Famous As: Russian Minister of State Security 1946 to 1951
Birthdate: April 24, 1908
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: December 19
23 Aristides de Sousa Mendes
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Birthdate: July 19, 1885
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Viseu
Died: April 3
24 Alain LeRoy Locke
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Famous As: teacher, philosopher
Birthdate: September 13, 1886
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Died: June 9
25 Styllou Christofi
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26 M. N. Roy
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1
Listed In: Leaders
Famous As: Revolutionary, Philosopher
Birthdate: March 21, 1887
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27 Grantland Rice
2
1
Listed In: Writers
Famous As: Sports writer
Birthdate: November 1, 1880
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States
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28 Oscar Charleston
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Famous As: Former Baseball Player Center fielder
Birthdate: October 14, 1896
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Died: October 5
29 James Hilton
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Listed In: Writers
Famous As: Novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Birthdate: September 9, 1900
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Leigh, Lancashire, England
Died: December 20
30 Marguerite Steinheil
1
0
Listed In: Business People
Famous As: Salonnière
Birthdate: April 16, 1869
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Beaucourt, France
Died: July 17
31 Dziga Vertov
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Famous As: Film director
Birthdate: January 2, 1896
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Birthplace: Białystok
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32 Princess Antonia of Luxembourg
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Sun Sign: Libra
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33 Andre Derain
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Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Garches, France
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34 Seebohm Rowntree
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Birthdate: July 7, 1871
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: York, England
Died: October 7
35 Wilhelm Furtwängler
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2
Listed In: Musicians
Famous As: Conductor
Birthdate: January 25, 1886
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
Died: November 30
36 Jess McMahon
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1
Listed In: Sportspersons
Famous As: Boxer
Birthdate: May 26, 1882
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York, United States
Died: November 22
37 Clyde Cessna
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Famous As: Aviator
Birthdate: December 5, 1879
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Montgomery County, Iowa, United States
Died: November 20
38 Linda Lee Thomas
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1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Famous As: Socialite
Birthdate: November 17, 1883
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Died: May 20
39 Maximilian von Weichs
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1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Famous As: Military personnel
Birthdate: November 12, 1881
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dessau
Died: September 27
40 Rabbit Maranville
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Famous As: Baseball manager
Birthdate: November 11, 1891
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Died: January 6
41 Jibanananda Das
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Listed In: Writers
Famous As: Poet, Writer
Birthdate: February 17, 1899
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Barishal, Bangladesh
Died: October 22
42 Charles Albert Bender
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Listed In: Sportspersons
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Birthdate: May 5, 1884
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States
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43 Franz Josef Popp
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Listed In: Leaders
Famous As: Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur
Birthdate: January 14, 1886
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Vienna
Died: July 29
44 Jacques Fath
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Listed In: Fashion
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45 Jacinto Benavente
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Listed In: Writers
Famous As: Dramatist
Birthdate: August 12, 1866
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
Died: July 14
46 Clara Westhoff
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Listed In: Artists & Painters
Famous As: Sculptor
Birthdate: September 21, 1878
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Bremen, Germany
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47 Agus Salim
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Famous As: Religious leader
Birthdate: October 8, 1884
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48 Hannes Meyer
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Listed In: Architects
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49 Auguste Lumière
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Birthplace: Besançon, France
Died: April 10
50 Auguste Perret
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Listed In: Architects
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