1
Frida Kahlo
(Mexican Painter Known for Her Brilliantly Coloured Self-Portraits)
388
102
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: July 6, 1907
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
Died: July 13
2
Alan Turing
(English Mathematician Who is Considered as the Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence)
293
106
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: June 23, 1912
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Maida Vale, London, England
Died: June 7
3
Henri Matisse
(French Visual Artist Known for His Paintings: ‘Woman with a Hat’, 'The Dance', and 'Red Room’)
53
5
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: December 31, 1869
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
Died: November 3
4
Enrico Fermi
(Italian Physicist, Nobel Laureate and Creator of the World's First Nuclear Reactor)
39
6
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 29, 1901
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Died: November 28
5
Lionel Barrymore
(Actor & Director Best Known for His Role as ‘Mr. Potter’ in the Film ‘It's a Wonderful Life’)
23
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: April 28, 1878
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Died: November 15
6
Colette
(Best Known for Her Novel 'Gigi')
12
5
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: January 28, 1873
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France
Died: August 3
7
Maurice Tillet
(Wrestler)
12
2
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: October 23, 1903
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Ural Mountains, Russia
Died: September 4
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
8
Sydney Greenstreet
(Actor)
27
7
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: December 27, 1879
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Sandwich, Kent, England
Died: January 18
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
9
Robert Capa
(Photographer, Photojournalist)
20
5
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: October 22, 1913
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: May 25
10
Charles Ives
(Composer)
14
2
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: October 20, 1874
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Danbury, Connecticut, United States
Died: May 19
11
Pop Warner
(American Football coach)
8
1
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: April 5, 1871
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New York, United States
Died: September 7
12
Pierre S. du Pont
(Entrepreneur)
10
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 15, 1870
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Died: April 4
13
Agnes Macphail
(Member of Ontario Provincial Parliament (1943-45, 1948-51))
12
2
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: March 24, 1890
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Dundalk, Canada
Died: February 13
14
Mary Church Terrell
(African-American Suffragist, Civil Rights Activist)
19
2
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: September 23, 1863
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Died: July 24
15
Claude Cahun
(French Photographer Known for Her Self-Portraits and Tableaux That Incorporated a Surrealist Style and Gender Fluidity)
4
2
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: October 25, 1894
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Nantes, France
Died: December 8
16
Edwin Howard Armstrong
(American Electrical Engineer and Inventor, Who Developed FM Radio and the Superheterodyne Receiver System)
7
1
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: December 18, 1890
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Chelsea, New York, United States
Died: February 1
17
The French Angel
(Two-time American Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Champion who became one of the most popular wrestlers of the 1940's.)
1
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: October 23, 1903
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Ural Mountains, Russia
Died: September 4
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
18
Gladys George
(Actress)
8
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: September 13, 1904
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Patten, Maine, U.S.
Died: December 8
19
Andre Derain
(French Artist, Painter, Sculptor and Co-founder of 'Fauvism')
3
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: June 10, 1880
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Garches, France
Died: September 8
20
Princess Märtha of Sweden
(Princess)
8
7
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: March 28, 1901
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: April 5
21
Grantland Rice
(Sports writer)
5
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 1, 1880
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States
Died: July 13
22
Heinz Guderian
(German General During World War II and Inspector of Motorized Troops)
16
16
23
Günther Quandt
(German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (chemicals))
2
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: July 28, 1881
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Pritzwalk, Germany
Died: December 30
24
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
(Politician)
1
1
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: July 19, 1884
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Claremont House, Surrey, England
Died: March 6
25
Alain LeRoy Locke
(teacher, philosopher)
2
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: September 13, 1886
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Died: June 9
26
Jess McMahon
(American Professional Wrestling and Boxing Promoter)
1
1
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: May 26, 1882
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York, United States
Died: November 22
27
Viktor Abakumov
(Russian Minister of State Security 1946 to 1951)
3
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 24, 1908
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: December 19
28
Robert H. Jackson
(Attorney)
1
1
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: February 13, 1892
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania
Died: October 9
29
Dziga Vertov
(Soviet Documentary Filmmaker and Cinema Theorist)
1
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: January 2, 1896
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Białystok
Died: February 12
30
Marguerite Steinheil
(Salonnière)
1
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: April 16, 1869
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Beaucourt, France
Died: July 17
31
Clyde Cessna
(Aviator)
5
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: December 5, 1879
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Montgomery County, Iowa, United States
Died: November 20
32
Linda Lee Thomas
(Socialite)
2
1
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James Hilton
(Novelist best remembered for several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
2
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 9, 1900
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Leigh, Lancashire, England
Died: December 20
34
Rabbit Maranville
(Baseball manager)
5
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: November 11, 1891
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Died: January 6
35
Oscar Charleston
(Former Baseball Player Center fielder)
3
1
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: October 14, 1896
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Died: October 5
36
Miles Franklin
(Australian Writer and Feminist Best Known for Her Novel 'My Brilliant Career')
1
0
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: October 14, 1879
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Talbingo, Australia
Died: September 19
37
Princess Margaret of Prussia
(Princess)
1
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 22, 1872
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: New Palace, Potsdam, Germany
Died: January 22
38
Wilhelm Furtwängler
(Conductor)
2
2
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: January 25, 1886
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
Died: November 30
39
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
(Diplomat)
2
1
40
Ivan Ilyin
(Philosopher, Opinion journalist)
0
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 9, 1883
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Moscow, Russian Empire
Died: December 21
41
Seebohm Rowntree
(British Sociologist and Philanthropist Known for His Studies of Poverty and Welfare)
2
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: July 7, 1871
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: York, England
Died: October 7
42
Kalki Krishnamurthy
(Former Writer who founded a magazine, which was also named Kalki)
2
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 9, 1899
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Manalmedu, Tamil Nadu, India
Died: December 5
43
Pudge Heffelfinger
(Football player)
4
1
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: December 20, 1867
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Died: April 2
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
44
Arthur Greenwood
(Politician)
1
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: February 8, 1880
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Hunslet, Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Died: June 9
45
Auguste Lumière
(Engineer)
7
0
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: October 19, 1862
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Besançon, France
Died: April 10
46
Iseult Gonne
(Poet)
1
0
47
Franz Josef Popp
(Engineer, Manager, Entrepreneur)
1
0
48
Prince Ernst of Hohenberg
(Prince)
0
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 27, 1904
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: The Konopiste Castle, Benešov, Czechia
Died: March 5
49
Jonas Žemaitis
(President of Lithuania (1949 – 1954))
4
1
50
Hannes Meyer
(Swiss architect)
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