Birthdays In History 1901

1901 Bob Marshall American activist co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939)

1901 C. L. R. James Trinidadian journalist and theorist (d. 1989)

1901 Vilma Bánky Hungarian-American actress (d. 1991)

1901 Kwon Ki-ok Korean pilot (d. 1988)

1901 Karl Künstler German SS officer (d. 1945)

1901 A. B. Guthrie Jr. American novelist screenwriter historian (d. 1991)

1901 Mieczysław Żywczyński Polish priest and historian (d. 1978)

1901 Bebe Daniels American actress (d. 1971)

1901 Alfred Tarski Polish-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1983)

1901 Aron Gurwitsch Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (d. 1973)

1901 Ivan Petrovsky Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1973)

1901 Ricardo Zamora Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)

1901 Arthur Wirtz American businessman (d. 1983)

1901 Harry Calder South African cricketer (d. 1995)

1901 Cassandre French painter (d. 1968)

1901 Edward Turner English engineer (d. 1973)

1901 Mildred Dunnock American actress (d. 1991)

1901 Allen B. DuMont American engineer and broadcaster founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965)

1901 E. P. Taylor Canadian businessman and horse breeder (d. 1989)

1901 Rudolf Caracciola German racing driver (d. 1959)

1901 Jascha Heifetz Lithuanian-born American violinist and educator (d. 1987)

1901 Arnold Nordmeyer New Zealand minister and politician 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (d. 1989)

1901 Brian Donlevy American actor (d. 1972)

1901 James Murray American actor (d. 1936)

1901 Stella Adler American actress and educator (d. 1992)

1901 Paul Lazarsfeld Austrian-American sociologist and academic (d. 1976)

1901 Wayne King American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985)

1901 Chester Morris American actor (d. 1970)

1901 René Dubos French-American biologist and author (d. 1982)

1901 Louis Kahn American architect designed the Salk Institute the Kimbell Art Museum and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974)

1901 Muhammad Naguib Egyptian general and politician 1st President of Egypt (d. 1984)

1901 Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili Indian lawyer and politician 6th Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (d. 1978)

1901 Vince Gair Australian politician 27th Premier of Queensland (d. 1980)

1901 Zeppo Marx American comedian (the youngest of the Marx Brothers) and theatrical agent (d. 1979)

1901 Marino Marini Italian sculptor and academic (d. 1980)

1901 Kotama Okada Japanese religious leader (d. 1974)

1901 Grete Hermann German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1984)

1901 Claude Choules English-Australian soldier (d. 2011)

1901 Wilbur R. Franks Canadian scientist invented the g-suit (d. 1986)

1901 Charles Goren American bridge player and author (d. 1991)

1901 Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo Malagasy-French author poet and playwright (d. 1937)

1901 Friedrich Günther Prince of Schwarzburg (d. 1971)

1901 Julian Przyboś Polish poet essayist and translator (d. 1970)

1901 Michel Seuphor Belgian painter (d. 1999)

1901 Sid Atkinson South African hurdler and long jumper (d. 1977)

1901 Alexis Chantraine Belgian footballer (d. 1987)

1901 Manly Palmer Hall Canadian mystic author and philosopher (d. 1990)

1901 William Johnson American painter (d. 1970)

1901 Jo Mielziner French-American set designer (d. 1976)

1901 Karl Arnold German businessman and politician President of the German Bundesrat (d. 1958)

1901 Greta Kempton Austrian-American painter (d. 1991)

1901 Bon Maharaja Indian guru and religious writer (d. 1982)

1901 Ed Begley American actor (d. 1970)

1901 Erich Ollenhauer German politician (d. 1963)

1901 Eisaku Satō Japanese politician Prime Minister of Japan Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)

1901 Kenneth Slessor Australian journalist and poet (d. 1971)

1901 Whittaker Chambers American journalist and spy (d. 1961)

1901 Curt Bois German actor (d. 1991)

1901 Chester Bowles American diplomat and ambassador (d. 1986)

1901 Melvyn Douglas American actor (d. 1981)

1901 Doggie Julian American football basketball and baseball player and coach (d. 1967)

1901 Pier Giorgio Frassati Italian activist (d. 1925)

1901 Jean Bruchési Canadian historian and author (d. 1979)

1901 Paul Willis American actor and director (d. 1960)

1901 Lowell Stockman American farmer and politician (d. 1962)

1901 Jacques Lacan French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1981)

1901 Alan Watt Australian public servant and diplomat Australian Ambassador to Japan (d. 1988)

1901 Al Lewis American songwriter (d. 1967)

1901 László Németh Hungarian dentist author and playwright (d. 1975)

1901 E. B. Ford English biologist and geneticist (d. 1988)

1901 H. B. Stallard English runner and surgeon (d. 1973)

1901 Simon Kuznets Belarusian-American economist statistician and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)

1901 Sterling Allen Brown American poet academic and critic (d. 1989)

1901 Heinz Eric Roemheld American pianist composer and conductor (d. 1985)

1901 Antal Szerb Hungarian scholar and author (d. 1945)

1901 Bob Wyatt English cricketer (d. 1995)

1901 Edouard Zeckendorf Belgian doctor army officer and mathematician (d. 1983)

1901 Willi Bredel German writer (d. 1964)

1901 Turkey Stearnes American baseball player (d. 1979)

1901 John Desmond Bernal Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (d. 1971)

1901 Hildrus Poindexter American bacteriologist (d. 1987)

1901 Rose Ausländer Ukrainian-English poet and author (d. 1988)

1901 Gladys Rockmore Davis American painter (d. 1967)

1901 The Duke of Paducah American country comedian radio host and banjo player (d. 1986)

1901 Murilo Mendes Brazilian poet and telegrapher (d. 1975)

1901 Robert Ritter German psychologist and physician (d. 1951)

1901 Xavier Herbert Australian author (d. 1984)

1901 Luis Monti Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (d. 1983)

1901 Werner Egk German pianist and composer (d. 1983)

1901 Max Euwe Dutch chess player mathematician and author (d. 1981)

1901 Doris Fleeson American journalist (d. 1970)

1901 Regina M. Anderson Multiracial playwright and librarian (d. 1993)

1901 Horace Heidt American pianist bandleader and radio host (d. 1986)

1901 Sam Jaffe American film producer and agent (d. 2000)

1901 Suzanne Lilar Belgian author and playwright (d. 1992)

1901 Maurice J. Tobin American politician 6th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1953)

1901 José Nasazzi Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 1968)

1901 Alfred Karindi Estonian pianist and composer (d. 1969)

1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner American actress and author (d. 1979)

1901 Alfredo Antonini Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983)

1901 Maurice Evans English actor (d. 1989)

1901 Zhang Xueliang Chinese general and warlord (d. 2001)

1901 Jan Struther English author poet and hymnwriter who created the character Mrs Miniver (d. 1953)

1901 Frederick Loewe Austrian-American composer (d. 1988)

1901 Cap Fear Canadian football player and rower (d. 1978)

1901 Benny Wearing Australian rugby league player (d. 1968)

1901 Tage Erlander Swedish lieutenant and politician 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)

1901 Elmar Lohk Russian-Estonian architect (d. 1963)

1901 Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)

1901 Llewellyn Rees English actor (d. 1994)

1901 Elias Katz Finnish runner and coach (d. 1947)

1901 Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Turkish author poet and scholar (d. 1962)

1901 Marcel Mule French saxophonist (d. 2001)

1901 Harry Partch American composer and theorist (d. 1974)

1901 Chuck Taylor American basketball player and salesman (d. 1969)

1901 Harold Roe Bartle American businessman and politician 47th Mayor of Kansas City (d. 1974)

1901 Stuart Symington American lieutenant and politician 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (d. 1988)

1901 Merle Tuve American geophysicist and academic (d. 1982)

1901 Nelson Eddy American singer and actor (d. 1967)

1901 Irna Phillips American screenwriter (d. 1973)

1901 Ruth Crawford Seeger American composer (d. 1953)

1901 Julio Libonatti Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 1981)

1901 Vittorio De Sica Italian actor and director (d. 1974)

1901 Sam Katzman American director and producer (d. 1973)

1901 Eiji Tsuburaya Japanese cinematographer and producer (d. 1970)

1901 Barbara Cartland English author (d. 2000)

1901 Gwendolyn Lizarraga Belizean businesswoman activist and politician (d. 1975)

1901 Eric Portman English actor (d. 1969)

1901 Gerald Finzi English composer and academic (d. 1956)

1901 Luigi Chinetti Italian-American race car driver (d. 1994)

1901 Bruno Jasieński Polish poet and author (d. 1938)

1901 Patrick Smith Irish farmer and politician Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine (d. 1982)

1901 Vehbi Koç Turkish businessman and philanthropist founded Koç Holding (d. 1996)

1901 Eugenio Lopez Sr. Filipino businessman and founder of the Lopez Group of Companies (d. 1975)

1901 Heinie Manush American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)

1901 Hank Worden American actor and singer (d. 1992)

1901 Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer Puerto Rican brothel owner and madam in barrio Maragüez Ponce Puerto Rico (d. 1974)

1901 Ruth Krauss American author and poet (d. 1993)

1901 Mohammed Helmy Egyptian physician and Righteous Among the Nations (d. 1982)

1901 Lila Lee American actress and singer (d. 1973)

1901 Freddie Fitzsimmons American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1979)

1901 Rudy Vallée American actor singer and saxophonist (d. 1986)

1901 Alfred Lépine Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)

1901 Jean Dubuffet French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)

1901 Francisco Guilledo Filipino boxer (d. 1925)

1901 John C. Stennis American lawyer and politician (d. 1995)

1901 Stefan Wyszyński Polish cardinal (d. 1981)

1901 Clarence Passailaigue Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)

1901 Claude Autant-Lara French director screenwriter and politician (d. 2000)

1901 Dutch Schultz American gangster (d. 1935)

1901 Ann Harding American actress and singer (d. 1981)

1901 Ernest Lawrence American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

1901 Arnulfo Arias Madrid 21st president of the republic of Panamá (d. 1988)

1901 Pyotr Novikov Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1975)

1901 Guy Bush American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)

1901 John Sherman Cooper American captain lawyer and politician 2nd United States Ambassador to East Germany (d. 1991)

1901 Preston Foster American actor (d. 1970)

1901 Eleanor Dark Australian author and poet (d. 1985)

1901 Hans Kammler German SS officer and engineer (d. 1945)

1901 Jimmy Rushing American singer and bandleader (d. 1972)

1901 Maxwell D. Taylor American general and diplomat United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (d. 1987)

1901 Chen Yi Chinese general and politician 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 1972)

1901 Aurèle Joliat Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1986)

1901 John Gunther American journalist and author (d. 1970)

1901 Roy Wilkins American journalist and activist (d. 1981)

1901 Andreas Embirikos Greek psychoanalyst and poet (d. 1975)

1901 Adolph Rupp American basketball player and coach (d. 1977)

1901 Eduard van Beinum Dutch violinist pianist and conductor (d. 1959)

1901 Florence Eldridge American actress (d. 1988)

1901 Mario Scelba Italian politician 33rd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)

1901 Hendrik Verwoerd Dutch-South African journalist and politician 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1966)

1901 D. W. Brooks American farmer and businessman founded Gold Kist (d. 1999)

1901 Shmuel Horowitz Israeli agronomist and academic (d. 1999)

1901 Donald Bailey English engineer designed Bailey bridge (d. 1985)

1901 Josef Schächter Austrian rabbi and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1994)

1901 Francis Chichester English pilot and sailor (d. 1972)

1901 Harold Clurman American director and producer (d. 1980)

1901 Nadezhda Alliluyeva second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)

1901 Charles Brenton Huggins Canadian-American physician and physiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

1901 Jaroslav Seifert Czech poet and journalist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1901 Alexandra Adler Austrian neurologist and psychologist (d. 2001)

1901 Robert Bresson French director and screenwriter (d. 1999)

1901 Gordon Coventry Australian footballer (d. 1968)

1901 George Raft American actor singer and dancer (d. 1980)

1901 Ted Weems American bandleader and musician (d. 1963)

1901 William S. Paley American broadcaster founded CBS (d. 1990)

1901 Lanza del Vasto Italian poet philosopher and activist (d. 1981)

1901 Thelma Terry American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966)

1901 Jean Grémillon French director composer and screenwriter (d. 1959)

1901 John Alton Austrian-American director and cinematographer (d. 1996)

1901 Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (d. 1990)

1901 Eivind Groven Norwegian composer and theorist (d. 1977)

1901 Mark Oliphant Australian physicist humanitarian and politician Governor of South Australia (d. 2000)

1901 Alice Lee Jemison Seneca political activist and journalist (d. 1964)

1901 Alberto Giacometti Swiss sculptor and painter (d. 1966)

1901 Masanobu Tsuji Japanese colonel and politician (d. 1961)

1901 Enrique Jardiel Poncela Spanish playwright and novelist (d. 1952)

1901 Emma Gamboa Alvarado Costa Rican educator (d. 1973)

1901 Arleigh Burke American admiral (d. 1996)

1901 Frank Churchill American film composer (d. 1942)

1901 Adelaide Hall American-English singer actress and dancer (d. 1993)

1901 Gilda Gray Polish-American actress singer and dancer (d. 1959)

1901 Roy Fox British dance bandleader (d. 1982)

1901 Eileen Shanahan Irish poet (d. 1979)

1901 James Dunn American actor (d. 1967)

1901 Leopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)

1901 Lionel Hitchman Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1969)

1901 Spyridon Marinatos Greek archaeologist author and academic (d. 1974)

1901 Etta Moten Barnett American actress and singer (d. 2004)

1901 Martin Dies Jr. American lawyer judge and politician (d. 1972)

1901 Eddie Paynter English cricketer (d. 1979)

1901 Norah McGuinness Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)

1901 Sam Spiegel American film producer (d. 1985)

1901 F. Van Wyck Mason American historian and author (d. 1978)

1901 James Luther Adams American minister and theologian (d. 1994)

1901 Walter Hallstein German academic and politician first President of the European Commission (d. 1982)

1901 Lee Strasberg Ukrainian-American actor and director (d. 1982)

1901 V. Shantaram Indian actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1984)

1901 Nina Bari Russian mathematician (d. 1961)

1901 José Leandro Andrade Uruguayan footballer (d. 1957)

1901 Béla Juhos Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1971)

1901 Joaquín Rodrigo Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999)

1901 Bennie Osler South African rugby player (d. 1962)

1901 Arthur Liebehenschel German SS officer (d. 1948)

1901 William Sterling Parsons American admiral (d. 1953)

1901 Ted Husing American sportscaster (d. 1962)

1901 Ilona Fehér Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (d. 1988)

1901 Raimundo Orsi Argentinian-Italian footballer (d. 1986)

1901 Glenn Hartranft American shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1970)

1901 Mildred Wiley American high jumper (d. 2000)

1901 Milton H. Erickson American psychiatrist and author (d. 1980)

1901 Eliot Porter American photographer and academic (d. 1990)

1901 Jean Mermoz French pilot and politician (d. 1936)

1901 Ödön von Horváth Hungarian-German author and playwright (d. 1938)

1901 Harald Kaarmann Estonian footballer (d. 1942)

1901 Olev Roomet Estonian singer violinist and bagpipe player (d. 1987)

1901 Paul of Greece (d. 1964)

1901 Rudolf Hell German engineer invented the Hellschreiber (d. 2002)

1901 Oliver La Farge American anthropologist and author (d. 1963)

1901 Fritz Mauruschat German footballer and manager (d. 1974)

1901 Robert J. Van de Graaff American physicist and academic invented the Van de Graaff generator (d. 1967)

1901 Andre Kostelanetz Russian-American conductor and composer (d. 1980)

1901 Princess Alice Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)

1901 Elmar Muuk Estonian linguist and author (d. 1941)

1901 Irene Handl English actress (d. 1987)

1901 Karl-August Fagerholm Finnish politician valtioneuvos the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1984)

1901 Nikos Ploumpidis Greek educator and politician (d. 1954)

1901 Willy Fritsch German actor (d. 1973)

1901 Art Rooney American football player coach and owner (d. 1988)

1901 Frank Buckles American soldier (d. 2011)

1901 Ben Lyon American actor (d. 1979)

1901 Ub Iwerks American animator director and producer co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971)

1901 Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil Indian economist (d. 1971)

1901 Hap Day Canadian ice hockey player referee and manager (d. 1990)

1901 Tom Gorman Australian rugby league player (d. 1978)

1901 Henri Sauguet French composer (d. 1989)

1901 Vincent du Vigneaud American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)

1901 Joe Davis English snooker player (d. 1978)

1901 Ajoy Mukherjee Indian politician Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1986)

1901 René Pleven French businessman and politician Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)

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