Birthdays In History 1889

1889 Charles Bickford American actor (d. 1967)

1889 Bertram Stevens Australian accountant and politician 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)

1889 M. Patanjali Sastri Indian lawyer and jurist 2nd Chief Justice of India (d. 1963)

1889 Vera de Bosset Russian-American ballerina (d. 1982)

1889 Vrindavan Lal Verma Indian author and playwright (d. 1969)

1889 Calvin Bridges American geneticist and academic (d. 1938)

1889 Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad Indian-Pakistani spiritual leader (d. 1965)

1889 Sophie Taeuber-Arp Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)

1889 Allan Haines Loughead American engineer and businessman founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969)

1889 Pitirim Sorokin American sociologist and political activist (d. 1968)

1889 Edith Tolkien wife and muse of J. R. R. Tolkien (d. 1971)

1889 Henri Pélissier French cyclist (d. 1935)

1889 Amos Strunk American baseball player and manager (d. 1979)

1889 Claribel Kendall American mathematician (d.1965)

1889 Victor Eftimiu Romanian poet and playwright (d. 1972)

1889 Charles Hawes American historian and author (d. 1923)

1889 Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke German general of paratroop forces during World War II (d. 1968)

1889 Jaishankar Prasad Indian poet and playwright (d. 1937)

1889 Frank Foster English cricketer (d. 1958)

1889 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny French general (d. 1952)

1889 Artur Adson Estonian poet playwright and critic (d. 1977)

1889 Carl Theodor Dreyer Danish director and screenwriter (d. 1968)

1889 Risto Ryti Finnish lawyer politician and the Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland (d. 1956)

1889 Patsy Hendren English cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)

1889 Ernest Tyldesley English cricketer (d. 1962)

1889 Recep Peker Turkish officer and politician (d. 1950)

1889 Harry Nyquist Swedish-American engineer and theorist (d. 1976)

1889 Larry Semon American actor producer director and screenwriter (d. 1928)

1889 Cevdet Sunay Turkish general and politician 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)

1889 Leontine Sagan Austrian actress and director (d. 1974)

1889 Hulusi Behçet Turkish dermatologist and physician (d. 1948)

1889 Olave Baden-Powell English scout leader first World Chief Guide (d. 1977)

1889 R. G. Collingwood English historian and philosopher (d. 1943)

1889 Musidora French actress and director (d. 1957)

1889 Cyril Delevanti English-American actor (d. 1975)

1889 John Gilbert Winant American captain pilot and politician 60th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1947)

1889 Tetsuro Watsuji Japanese historian and philosopher (d. 1960)

1889 Oscar Chisini Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1967)

1889 Oren E. Long American soldier and politician 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii (d. 1965)

1889 Pearl White American actress (d. 1938)

1889 Robert William Wood English-American painter (d. 1979)

1889 Reggie Walker South African athlete (d. 1951)

1889 Harry Clarke Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator (d. 1931)

1889 Jock Sutherland American football player and coach (d. 1948)

1889 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu Egyptian-Turkish journalist author and politician (d. 1974)

1889 Leonard Mociulschi Romanian general (d. 1979)

1889 Howard Lindsay American producer playwright librettist director and actor (d. 1968)

1889 K. B. Hedgewar Indian physician and activist (d. 1940)

1889 Grigoraș Dinicu Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1949)

1889 Makhanlal Chaturvedi Indian journalist poet and playwright (d. 1968)

1889 Vicente Ferreira Pastinha Brazilian martial artist (d. 1981)

1889 Adrian Boult English conductor (d. 1983)

1889 Herbert Yardley American cryptologist and author (d. 1958)

1889 Jessie Street Australian activist (d. 1970)

1889 Otto Georg Thierack German jurist and politician (d. 1946)

1889 Marcel Boussac French businessman (d. 1980)

1889 Paul Karrer Russian-Swiss chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1889 Efrem Zimbalist Sr. Russian-American violinist composer and conductor (d. 1985)

1889 Richard Glücks German SS officer (d. 1945)

1889 Karel Doorman Dutch admiral (d. 1942)

1889 Stafford Cripps English academic and politician Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1952)

1889 Lyubov Popova Russian painter and academic (d. 1924)

1889 Anita Loos American author playwright and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1951)

1889 Ki Hajar Dewantara Indonesian philosopher academic and politician (d. 1959)

1889 Beulah Bondi American actress (d. 1981)

1889 Gottfried Fuchs German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. 1972)

1889 Francis Spellman American cardinal (d. 1967)

1889 Herbie Taylor South African cricketer and soldier (d. 1973)

1889 Viktor Puskar Estonian colonel (d. 1943)

1889 Paul Nash British painter (d. 1946)

1889 Abelardo L. Rodríguez substitute president of Mexico (d. 1967)

1889 Otto Frank German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank (d. 1980)

1889 Dorothy Gibson American actress and singer (d. 1946)

1889 Alfonso Reyes Mexican author (d. 1959)

1889 Tản Đà Vietnamese poet and author (d. 1939)

1889 Henry B. Richardson American archer (d. 1963)

1889 Ernst Niekisch German educator and politician (d. 1967)

1889 Günther Lütjens German admiral (d. 1941)

1889 Richard Réti Slovak-Czech chess player and author (d. 1929)

1889 Beno Gutenberg German-American seismologist (d. 1960)

1889 Hugo Wieslander Swedish decathlete (d. 1976)

1889 John S. Paraskevopoulos Greek-South African astronomer and academic (d. 1951)

1889 Ralph Craig American sprinter and sailor (d. 1972)

1889 Joseph Cohen British solicitor property developer cinema magnate and Jewish community leader (d. 1980)

1889 Anna Akhmatova Ukrainian-Russian poet and author (d. 1966)

1889 Verena Holmes English engineer (d. 1964)

1889 Willie Macfarlane Scottish-American golfer (d. 1961)

1889 Archibald Frazer-Nash English motor car designer engineer and founder of Frazer Nash (d. 1965)

1889 Richard Cramer American actor (d. 1960)

1889 Léo Dandurand American-Canadian ice hockey player coach and referee (d. 1964)

1889 Emma Asson Estonian educator and politician (d. 1965)

1889 Stan Coveleski American baseball player (d. 1984)

1889 Marco de Gastyne French painter and illustrator (d. 1982)

1889 Kōichi Kido Japanese politician 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (d. 1977)

1889 John Reith 1st Baron Reith Scottish broadcaster co-founded BBC (d. 1971)

1889 James Whale English director (d. 1957)

1889 Agnes Meyer Driscoll American cryptanalyst (d. 1971)

1889 Vera Karalli Russian ballerina choreographer and actress (d. 1972)

1889 Walter Gerlach German physicist and academic (d. 1979)

1889 Margaret Lawrence American stage actress (d. 1929)

1889 Conrad Aiken American novelist short story writer critic and poet (d. 1973)

1889 George Kenney Canadian-American general (d. 1977)

1889 John Middleton Murry English poet and author (d. 1957)

1889 Hans Egede Budtz Danish actor (d. 1968)

1889 Jack Ryder Australian cricketer (d. 1977)

1889 Charles Darrow American game designer created Monopoly (d. 1967)

1889 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Polish writer and member of the WW II Polish Resistance (d. 1968)

1889 Zerna Sharp American author and educator (d. 1981)

1889 Camillien Houde Canadian lawyer and politician 34th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)

1889 Otto Tief Estonian lawyer and politician Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1976)

1889 Alexander Mair Australian politician 26th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1969)

1889 Louis Silvers American composer (d. 1954)

1889 Robert A. Taft American lawyer and politician (d. 1953)

1889 Ivar Böhling Finnish wrestler (d. 1929)

1889 Ugo Pasquale Mifsud Maltese politician 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1942)

1889 Robert Benchley American humorist newspaper columnist and actor (d. 1945)

1889 Claude McKay Jamaican-American poet and author (d. 1948)

1889 Doris Blackburn Australian activist and politician (d. 1970)

1889 Leslie Morshead Australian general businessman and educator (d. 1959)

1889 Sarah Louise Delany American physician and author (d. 1999)

1889 Oskar Kaplur Estonian wrestler (d. 1962)

1889 Charles Reidpath American runner and general (d. 1975)

1889 Hooks Dauss American baseball player (d. 1963)

1889 Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff Scottish author and translator (d. 1930)

1889 Gordon Brewster Irish cartoonist (d. 1946)

1889 Jack Fournier American baseball player and coach (d. 1973)

1889 Carl von Ossietzky German journalist and activist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938)

1889 Teresa de la Parra French-Venezuelan author and educator (d. 1936)

1889 Robert Z. Leonard American actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1968)

1889 R. Fraser Armstrong Canadian engineer (d. 1983)

1889 Collett E. Woolman American businessman co-founded Delta Air Lines (d. 1966)

1889 Han van Meegeren Dutch painter and forger (d. 1947)

1889 Mikha'il Na'ima Lebanese author (d. 1988)

1889 Johann Gruber Austrian priest and saint (d. 1944)

1889 Abel Gance French actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1889 Juliette Béliveau Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975)

1889 Hannah Höch German painter and photographer (d. 1978)

1889 Philip Noel-Baker Baron Noel-Baker English academic and politician Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)

1889 Alton Adams American composer and bandleader (d. 1987)

1889 Claude Rains English-American actor (d. 1967)

1889 DeWitt Wallace American publisher and philanthropist co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1981)

1889 George S. Kaufman American director producer and playwright (d. 1961)

1889 Dietrich Kraiß German general (d. 1944)

1889 Stanislav Kosior Polish-Russian politician (d. 1939)

1889 Clifton Webb American actor singer and dancer (d. 1966)

1889 Harry Sunderland Australian-English journalist and businessman (d. 1964)

1889 Reşat Nuri Güntekin Turkish author and playwright (d. 1956)

1889 Albert Dieudonné French actor director and screenwriter (d. 1976)

1889 Edgar Adrian 1st Baron Adrian English physiologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)

1889 Reuvein Margolies Ukrainian-Israeli author and scholar (d. 1971)

1889 Hannes Kolehmainen Finnish-American runner (d. 1966)

1889 Ray Collins American actor (d. 1965)

1889 Kim Chwa-chin South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930)

1889 Sewall Wright American geneticist and biologist (d. 1988)

1889 George Hutson English runner and soldier (d. 1914)

1889 Lila Bell Wallace American publisher and philanthropist co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984)

1889 Balthasar van der Pol Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1959)

1889 Bhante Dharmawara Cambodian monk lawyer and judge (d. 1999)

1889 Albert Hill English-Canadian runner (d. 1969)

1889 Louis Rougier French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1982)

1889 Arthur Bowie Chrisman American author (d. 1953)

1889 Charles Kay Ogden English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957)

1889 Thomas Midgley Jr. American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)

1889 Albert Jean Amateau Turkish rabbi lawyer and activist (d. 1996)

1889 Prince Erik Duke of Västmanland (d. 1918)

1889 Marie-Antoinette de Geuser French mystic (d. 1918)

1889 Tonny Kessler Dutch footballer (d. 1960)

1889 Thomas Hart Benton American painter and educator (d. 1975)

1889 A. Philip Randolph American activist (d. 1979)

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