Birthdays In History 1895

1895 Folke Bernadotte Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)

1895 Leroy Grumman American engineer and businessman co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. (d. 1982)

1895 Percy Cerutty Australian athletics coach (d. 1975)

1895 Laurens Hammond American engineer and businessman founded the Hammond Clock Company (d. 1973)

1895 Leo Aryeh Mayer Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1959)

1895 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Finnish chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

1895 Evripidis Bakirtzis Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947)

1895 T. M. Sabaratnam Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966)

1895 Nat Schachner American lawyer chemist and author (d. 1955)

1895 Gábor Szegő Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1985)

1895 Cristóbal Balenciaga Spanish fashion designer founded Balenciaga (d. 1972)

1895 Daniel Chalonge French astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1977)

1895 Noe Itō Japanese anarchist author and feminist (d. 1923)

1895 Eugen Roth German poet and songwriter (d. 1976)

1895 Florence Mills American singer dancer and actress (d. 1927)

1895 Muna Lee American poet and author (d. 1965)

1895 Robert Philipp American painter (d. 1981)

1895 George Sutcliffe Australian public servant (d. 1964)

1895 Nigel Bruce English actor (d. 1953)

1895 Anita Stewart American actress (d. 1961)

1895 Hermann Brill German lawyer and politician 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (d. 1959)

1895 Wilhelm Burgdorf German general (d. 1945)

1895 Louis Calhern American actor (d. 1956)

1895 Louis Zborowski English race car driver and engineer (d. 1924)

1895 Henrik Dam Danish biochemist and physiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

1895 Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre Peruvian politician (d. 1979)

1895 Miyagiyama Fukumatsu Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)

1895 Ragnar Frisch Norwegian economist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

1895 Matthew Ridgway American general (d. 1993)

1895 Milt Gross American animator director and screenwriter (d. 1953)

1895 Dorothy de Rothschild English philanthropist and activist (d. 1988)

1895 Ernest Labrousse French historian (d. 1988)

1895 Lloyd Rees Australian painter (d. 1988)

1895 Fredric Wertham German-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)

1895 Encarnacion Alzona Filipino historian and educator (d. 2001)

1895 Dane Rudhyar French-American astrologer author and composer (d. 1985)

1895 Siegfried Handloser German general and physician (d. 1954)

1895 Vilho Tuulos Finnish triple jumper (d. 1967)

1895 Roland Leighton English soldier and poet (d. 1915)

1895 Christian Herter American politician United States Secretary of State (d. 1966)

1895 Donald Grey Barnhouse American pastor and theologian (d. 1960)

1895 Spencer W. Kimball American religious leader 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)

1895 Ernst Jünger German philosopher and author (d. 1998)

1895 Jean Giono French author and poet (d. 1970)

1895 Carl Lutz Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII credited with saving over 62 000 Jews (d. 1975)

1895 Charlie Wilson English footballer (d. 1971)

1895 Vardis Fisher American author and academic (d. 1968)

1895 Alberta Hunter African-American singer-songwriter and nurse (d. 1984)

1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Italian-American composer and educator (d. 1968)

1895 Zez Confrey American pianist and composer (d. 1971)

1895 Arthur Murray American dancer and educator (d. 1991)

1895 Mike O'Dowd American boxer (d. 1957)

1895 Dudley Nichols American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1960)

1895 John Bernard Flannagan American soldier and sculptor (d. 1942)

1895 Margarete Schön German actress (d. 1985)

1895 Mance Lipscomb American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)

1895 Michel Simon Swiss-French actor (d. 1975)

1895 Ove Arup English-Danish engineer and businessman founded Arup (d. 1988)

1895 Robert Dean Frisbie American soldier and author (d. 1948)

1895 Ngaio Marsh New Zealand author and director (d. 1982)

1895 Vladimir Propp Russian scholar and critic (d. 1970)

1895 Malcolm Sargent English organist composer and conductor (d. 1967)

1895 Philippe Panneton Canadian physician academic and diplomat (d. 1960)

1895 Nikolai Yezhov Soviet secret police official head of the NKVD (d. 1940)

1895 May Hollinworth Australian theatre producer and director (d. 1968)

1895 Cornelius Van Til Dutch philosopher theologian and apologist (d. 1987)

1895 Júlio César de Mello e Souza Brazilian mathematician and author (d. 1974)

1895 Fidél Pálffy Hungarian soldier and politician Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (d. 1946)

1895 James H. Kindelberger American businessman (d. 1962)

1895 Fulton J. Sheen American archbishop (d. 1979)

1895 Edmund Wilson American critic essayist and editor (d. 1972)

1895 Joe Murphy (Irish republican) Irish Hunger Striker

1895 Jacques Brugnon French tennis player (d. 1978)

1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian philosopher and speaker (d. 1986)

1895 William Grant Still American composer and conductor (d. 1978)

1895 William Giauque Canadian-American chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)

1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian-American philosopher and author (d. 1986)

1895 Nandor Fodor Hungarian-American psychologist parapsychologist and author (d. 1964)

1895 Prescott Bush American captain banker and politician (d. 1972)

1895 William D. Byron American lieutenant and politician (d. 1941)

1895 Saul Adler Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist (d. 1966)

1895 Reinhold Saulmann Estonian sprinter and bandy player (d. 1936)

1895 R. J. Mitchell English engineer designed the Supermarine Spitfire and Supermarine S.6B (d. 1937)

1895 Lázaro Cárdenas Mexican general president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (d. 1970)

1895 Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. American publisher founded Advance Publications (d. 1979)

1895 Dorothea Lange American photographer and journalist (d. 1965)

1895 Douglas Lloyd Campbell Canadian educator and politician 13th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1995)

1895 Maurice Tate English cricketer (d. 1956)

1895 William Boyd American actor and producer (d. 1972)

1895 William Roberts English soldier and painter (d. 1980)

1895 Santiago Bernabéu Yeste Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)

1895 Archie Weston American football player and journalist (d. 1981)

1895 Nikolai Bulganin Soviet politician (d. 1975)

1895 Eugénie Brazier French chef (d. 1977)

1895 Jack Adams Canadian-American ice hockey player coach and manager (d. 1968)

1895 Heinz Warneke German-American sculptor and educator (d. 1983)

1895 Irving Caesar American songwriter and composer (d. 1996)

1895 Igor Tamm Russian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1895 Carl Orff German composer and educator (d. 1982)

1895 Dorothy Wilde English author and poet (d. 1941)

1895 Sidney Blackmer American actor (d. 1973)

1895 Olga Spessivtseva Russian-American ballerina (d. 1991)

1895 Machine Gun Kelly American gangster (d. 1954)

1895 Xu Beihong Chinese painter and academic (d. 1953)

1895 László Moholy-Nagy Hungarian painter photographer and sculptor (d. 1946)

1895 León de Greiff Colombian poet journalist and diplomat (d. 1976)

1895 Aileen Pringle American actress (d. 1989)

1895 Robert Graves English poet novelist critic (d. 1985)

1895 Ingeborg Spangsfeldt Danish actress (d. 1968)

1895 Gracie Allen American actress and comedian (d. 1964)

1895 Matt Henderson New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)

1895 Allen Bathurst Lord Apsley English politician (d. 1942)

1895 Frank Nicklin Australian politician 28th Premier of Queensland (d. 1978)

1895 Hammy Love Australian cricketer (d. 1969)

1895 István Barta Hungarian water polo player (d. 1948)

1895 Bert Lahr American actor (d. 1967)

1895 Jack Gregory Australian cricketer (d. 1973)

1895 Amaza Lee Meredith American architect (d. 1984)

1895 Albert Cohen Greek-Swiss author and playwright (d. 1981)

1895 Liane Haid Austrian-Swiss actress and singer (d. 2000)

1895 C. Suntharalingam Sri Lankan lawyer academic and politician (d. 1985)

1895 Blossom Rock American actress (d. 1978)

1895 László Almásy Hungarian captain pilot and explorer (d. 1951)

1895 Paul Comtois Canadian lawyer and politician 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966)

1895 Richard Cushing American cardinal (d. 1970)

1895 Andreas Alföldi Hungarian archaeologist and historian (d. 1981)

1895 Engelbert Zaschka German engineer and designer invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955)

1895 Jacques Vaché French author and poet (d. 1919)

1895 Viswanatha Satyanarayana Indian poet and author (d. 1976)

1895 Vinoba Bhave Indian philosopher and Gandhian Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1982)

1895 Freymóður Jóhannsson Icelandic painter and composer (d. 1973)

1895 Morris Kirksey American rugby player and sprinter (d. 1981)

1895 Magda Lupescu mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (d.1977)

1895 Zainal Abidin Ahmad Malaysian author and scholar (d. 1973)

1895 Jean Batmale French footballer and manager (d. 1973)

1895 Walter Koch German astrologer and author (d. 1970)

1895 Tomoji Tanabe Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2009)

1895 Walter Dubislav German logician and philosopher of science (d. 1937)

1895 Miron Merzhanov Russian architect and engineer (d. 1975)

1895 Johnny Mokan American baseball player (d. 1985)

1895 André Frédéric Cournand French physician and physiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

1895 Jürgen Stroop German general (d. 1952)

1895 Clarence Ashley American singer guitarist and banjo player (d. 1967)

1895 Joseph Banks Rhine American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1980)

1895 Roscoe Turner American pilot (d. 1970)

1895 Lewis Milestone Moldovan-American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1980)

1895 Liaquat Ali Khan Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)

1895 Ruth Cheney Streeter American colonel (d. 1990)

1895 Giovanni Comisso Italian author and poet (d. 1969)

1895 Sergei Yesenin Russian poet (d. 1925)

1895 Richard Sorge German journalist and spy (d. 1944)

1895 Caroline Gordon American author and critic (d. 1981)

1895 Maurice Grevisse Belgian linguist and author (d. 1980)

1895 Zog I of Albania (d. 1961)

1895 Alfred Neuland Estonian weightlifter (d. 1966)

1895 Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor (d. 1935)

1895 Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen German field marshal (d. 1945)

1895 Mike Gazella American baseball player and manager (d. 1978)

1895 Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982)

1895 Doris Humphrey American dancer and choreographer (d. 1958)

1895 Frank Durbin American soldier (d. 1999)

1895 Lewis Mumford American historian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1990)

1895 Rex Ingram American actor (d. 1969)

1895 Morrie Ryskind American writer/director (d. 1985)

1895 Paavo Johansson Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete (d. 1983)

1895 Edna Purviance American actress (d. 1958)

1895 Johnny Morrison professional baseball player (d. 1966)

1895 Jack Warner English actor and singer (d. 1981)

1895 Levi Eshkol Ukrainian-Israeli soldier and politician 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)

1895 Vsevolod Merkulov Russian head of the NKGB (d. 1953)

1895 Arthur Schmidt German officer (d. 1987)

1895 Gerhard Domagk German pathologist and bacteriologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)

1895 Dickinson W. Richards American physician and physiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

1895 B. H. Liddell Hart English soldier historian and theorist (d. 1970)

1895 Walter Gieseking French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)

1895 Charles MacArthur American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956)

1895 József Mátyás Baló Hungarian physician and academic (d. 1979)

1895 Jack Northrop American businessman founded the Northrop Corporation (d. 1981)

1895 Wealthy Babcock American mathematician and academic (d. 1990)

1895 Manuel Alonso Areizaga Spanish tennis player (d. 1984)

1895 Nima Yooshij Iranian poet and academic (d. 1960)

1895 Walter Jackson Freeman II American physician and psychiatrist (d. 1972)

1895 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)

1895 Antoni Słonimski Polish journalist poet and playwright (d. 1976)

1895 Gregorio López Mexican journalist author and poet (d. 1966)

1895 Louise Dahl-Wolfe American photographer (d. 1989)

1895 Evert van Linge Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)

1895 Pierre Cot French politician (d. 1977)

1895 Esther Applin American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1972)

1895 Wilhelm Kempff German pianist and composer (d. 1991)

1895 Anastas Mikoyan Soviet politician Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (d. 1978)

1895 Helen Hooven Santmyer American poet and author (d. 1986)

1895 Ludvík Svoboda Czech general and politician 8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)

1895 Bill W. American activist co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)

1895 José Iturbi Spanish pianist and conductor (d. 1980)

1895 Busby Berkeley American director and choreographer (d. 1976)

1895 William Tubman Liberian lawyer and politician 19th President of Liberia (d. 1971)

1895 Henry Williamson English farmer soldier and author (d. 1977)

1895 Harriet Cohen English pianist (d. 1967)

1895 Anna Freud Austrian-English psychologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1982)

1895 Sheng Shicai Chinese warlord (d. 1970)

1895 Feng Youlan Chinese philosopher and academic (d. 1990)

1895 Elbert Frank Cox American mathematician and academic (d. 1969)

1895 Dolores Ibárruri Spanish activist journalist and politician (d. 1989)

1895 Conchita Supervía Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1936)

1895 George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)

1895 Paul Éluard French poet and author (d. 1952)

1895 Marie Hall Ets American author and illustrator (d. 1984)

1895 Ingeborg Refling Hagen Norwegian author and educator (d. 1989)

1895 Nola Luxford New Zealand-American actress and broadcaster (d. 1994)

1895 E. Roland Harriman American financier and philanthropist (d. 1978)

1895 Noel Streatfeild English author (d. 1986)

1895 Marguerite Williams American geologist (d. 1991)

1895 Carol Ryrie Brink American author and playwright (d. 1981)

1895 Joseph Rosenstock Polish-American conductor and manager (d. 1985)

1895 Harry Ruby American composer and screenwriter (d. 1974)

1895 Conn Smythe Canadian businessman (d. 1980)

1895 Robert La Follette Jr. American politician (d. 1953)

1895 María Teresa Vera Cuban singer guitarist and composer (d. 1965)

1895 Kristian Djurhuus Faroese lawyer and politician 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1984)

1895 Albert Tessier Canadian priest and historian (d. 1976)

1895 Kirsten Flagstad Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)

1895 Buckminster Fuller American architect and engineer designed the Montreal Biosphère (d. 1983)

1895 Oscar Hammerstein II American director producer and songwriter (d. 1960)

1895 Wilfrid Hamel Canadian businessman and politician 35th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 1968)

1895 Augusto César Sandino Nicaraguan rebel leader (d. 1934)

1895 Richard Barthelmess American actor (d. 1963)

1895 Lucian Blaga Romanian poet playwright and philosopher (d. 1961)

1895 Frank Foss American pole vaulter (d. 1989)

1895 Emile Christian American trombonist and composer (d. 1973)

1895 Henry de Montherlant French essayist novelist and dramatist (d. 1972)

1895 Clark McConachy New Zealand snooker player (d. 1980)

1895 Abigail Mejia Dominican feminist activist nationalist literary critic and educator (d. 1941)

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