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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Roger Adams
Chemist
2-Jan-1889 6-Jul-1971 Organic chemist at Illinois
Edgar Adrian
Scientist
30-Nov-1889 4-Aug-1977 Electricity within nerve cells
Conrad Aiken
Poet
5-Aug-1889 17-Aug-1973 Earth Triumphant
Anna Akhmatova
Poet
11-Jun-1889 5-Mar-1966 Poem Without a Hero
Hervey Allen
Poet
8-Dec-1889 28-Dec-1949 Ballads of the Border
Paul Althouse
Singer
2-Dec-1889 6-Feb-1954 Operatic tenor
Glenn Anders
Actor
1-Sep-1889 26-Oct-1981 The Lady from Shanghai
Felix Aylmer
Actor
21-Feb-1889 2-Sep-1979 Henry V
Lloyd Bacon
Film Director
4-Dec-1889 15-Nov-1955 Knute Rockne All American
Enid Bagnold
Novelist
27-Oct-1889 31-Mar-1981 National Velvet
Walter Baldwin
Actor
2-Jan-1889 27-Jan-1977 The Best Years of Our Lives
Harry Elmer Barnes
Historian
15-Jun-1889 25-Aug-1968 American conspiracy theorist
Robert Barrat
Actor
10-Jul-1889 7-Jan-1970 The Kennel Murder Case
Warner Baxter
Actor
29-Mar-1889 7-May-1951 In Old Arizona
Naaman Belkind
Spy
1889 16-Dec-1917 Israeli spy
Robert Benchley
Author
15-Sep-1889 21-Nov-1945 Humorist and screenwriter
Thomas Hart Benton
Painter
15-Apr-1889 19-Jan-1975 Muralist
Herman Bing
Actor
30-Mar-1889 9-Jan-1947 1930s character actor
Richard Boleslawsky
Film Director
4-Feb-1889 17-Jan-1937 Les misérables
Adrian Boult
Conductor
8-Apr-1889 23-Feb-1983 Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1930-50
Prentiss M. Brown
Politician
18-Jun-1889 19-Dec-1973 US Senator from Michigan, 1936-43
Gordon Browning
Politician
22-Nov-1889 23-May-1976 Twice Governor of Tennessee
Vera C. Bushfield
Politician
9-Aug-1889 16-Apr-1976 US Senator from South Dakota, 1948
Walter Catlett
Actor
4-Feb-1889 14-Nov-1960 Bringing Up Baby
Charlie Chaplin
Actor
16-Apr-1889 25-Dec-1977 Silent film comedian
Eduardo Ciannelli
Actor
30-Aug-1889 8-Oct-1969 Strange Cargo
Jean Cocteau
Poet
5-Jul-1889 11-Oct-1963 La Belle et la Bête
George Douglas Howard Cole
Economist
25-Sep-1889 14-Jan-1959 British Labour theorist
R. G. Collingwood
Historian
22-Feb-1889 9-Jan-1943 The Idea of History
Ray Collins
Actor
10-Dec-1889 11-Jul-1965 Lt. Tragg on Perry Mason
Jesse Martin Combs
Politician
7-Jul-1889 21-Aug-1953 Congressman from Texas, 1945-53
Joseph Force Crater
Victim
5-Jan-1889 6-Aug-1930 NY State Judge vanished
Stafford Cripps
Politician
24-Apr-1889 21-Apr-1952 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1947-50
Alan Dinehart
Actor
3-Oct-1889 17-Jul-1944 Born to Dance
Harold W. Dodds
Educator
28-Jun-1889 25-Oct-1980 President, Princeton University, 1932-57
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Film Director
3-Feb-1889 20-Mar-1968 Greatest Danish film director
Tom Dugan
Actor
1-Jan-1889 7-Mar-1955 To Be or Not to Be
Douglass Dumbrille
Actor
13-Oct-1889 2-Apr-1974 The Three Musketeers
Minta Durfee
Actor
1-Oct-1889 9-Sep-1975 Actress-Wife of Fatty Arbuckle
W. S. Van Dyke
Film Director
21-Mar-1889 5-Feb-1943 The Thin Man
Merie Earle
Actor
13-May-1889 4-Nov-1984 Maude Gormley on The Waltons
Stephen T. Early
Government
27-Aug-1889 11-Aug-1951 Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary
Homer S. Ferguson
Politician
25-Feb-1889 17-Dec-1982 US Senator from Michigan, 1943-55
Otto Frank
Relative
12-May-1889 19-Aug-1980 Father of Anne Frank
Waldo Frank
Author
25-Aug-1889 9-Jan-1967 American cultural critic and social historian
Abel Gance
Film Director
25-Oct-1889 10-Nov-1981 Napoléon
Erle Stanley Gardner
Novelist
17-Jul-1889 11-Mar-1970 Creator of Perry Mason
Alfred E. Green
Film Director
11-Jul-1889 4-Sep-1960 Dangerous
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Novelist
18-May-1889 21-Nov-1975 Af Borgslaegtens Historie
Carl Hatch
Politician
27-Nov-1889 15-Sep-1963 Hatch Act
Sessue Hayakawa
Actor
10-Jun-1889 23-Nov-1973 The Bridge on the River Kwai
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
26-Sep-1889 26-May-1976 Being and Time
Lambert Hillyer
Film Director
8-Jul-1889 5-Jul-1969 Dracula's Daughter
Adolf Hitler
Head of State
20-Apr-1889 30-Apr-1945 Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
Arthur Hohl
Actor
21-May-1889 10-Mar-1964 Character actor
Edwin Hubble
Astronomer
20-Nov-1889 28-Sep-1953 Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr.
Government
30-Nov-1889 21-Jan-1950 US Solicitor General, 1929-30
H. L. Hunt
Business
17-Feb-1889 29-Nov-1974 Founder of Hunt Oil
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Baseball
16-Jul-1889 5-Dec-1951 Say it ain't so, Joe
Bunk Johnson
Jazz Musician
27-Dec-1889 7-Jul-1949 New Orleans jazz trumpeter
Buck Jones
Actor
4-Dec-1889 30-Nov-1942 Cowboy actor died at Cocoanut Grove
Paul Karrer
Chemist
21-Apr-1889 18-Jun-1971 Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K
George S. Kaufman
Playwright
16-Nov-1889 2-Jun-1961 You Can't Take It With You
William Keighley
Film Director
4-Aug-1889 24-Jun-1984 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Walter Knott
Business
11-Dec-1889 3-Dec-1981 Founder of Knott's Berry Farm
David L. Lawrence
Politician
18-Jun-1889 21-Nov-1966 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1959-63
Robert Z. Leonard
Film Director
7-Oct-1889 27-Aug-1968 The Divorcee
Howard Lindsay
Playwright
29-Mar-1889 11-Feb-1968 The Sound of Music
Walter Lippmann
Journalist
23-Sep-1889 14-Dec-1974 Today and Tomorrow
Oren E. Long
Politician
4-Mar-1889 6-May-1965 US Senator from Hawaii, 1959-62
Donald MacBride
Actor
23-Jun-1889 21-Jun-1957 High Sierra
Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher
7-Dec-1889 8-Oct-1973 French existential philosopher
Thomas Midgley
Chemist
18-May-1889 2-Nov-1944 Ethyl gasoline, Freon
Gabriela Mistral
Poet
7-Apr-1889 10-Jan-1957 Desolación
Stanley Morison
Typographer
6-May-1889 11-Oct-1967 Times New Roman
Marcel Moyse
Musician
17-May-1889 1-Nov-1984 Virtuoso flautist
Mae Murray
Actor
10-May-1889 23-Mar-1965 The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips
John Middleton Murry
Critic
6-Aug-1889 13-Mar-1957 The Story of D. H. Lawrence
Jawaharlal Nehru
Head of State
14-Nov-1889 27-May-1964 First Prime Minister of India
Philip Noel-Baker
Politician
1-Nov-1889 8-Oct-1982 Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN
Moroni Olsen
Actor
27-Jun-1889 22-Nov-1954 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Eugene Pallette
Actor
8-Jul-1889 3-Sep-1954 The Adventures of Robin Hood
Claude Rains
Actor
10-Nov-1889 30-May-1967 The Invisible Man
Marjorie Rambeau
Actor
15-Jul-1889 6-Jul-1970 The Primrose Path
A. Philip Randolph
Activist
15-Apr-1889 16-May-1979 20th century civil rights leader
B. Carroll Reece
Politician
22-Dec-1889 19-Mar-1961 Congressman from Tennessee
Oscar Rennebohm
Politician
25-May-1889 15-Oct-1968 Governor of Wisconsin, 1947-51
Alfonso Reyes
Author
17-May-1889 27-Dec-1959 Visión de Anáhuac
Charles R. Robertson
Politician
5-Sep-1889 19-Feb-1951 Congressman from North Dakota, 1940s
Kermit Roosevelt
Relative
10-Oct-1889 4-Jun-1943 Theodore Roosevelt's son
Wesley Ruggles
Film Director
11-Jun-1889 8-Jan-1972 Cimarron
António de Oliveira Salazar
Head of State
28-Apr-1889 27-Jul-1970 Ruler of Portugal, 1932-68
Zalman Shazar
Head of State
6-Oct-1889 5-Oct-1974 President of Israel, 1963-73
Igor Sikorsky
Business
25-May-1889 26-Oct-1972 Helicopter magnate
Noble Sissle
Composer
10-Jul-1889 17-Dec-1975 Shuffle Along
Alexander Smallens
Conductor
1-Jan-1889 24-Nov-1972 Russian-born American conductor
Vladimir Sokoloff
Actor
26-Dec-1889 15-Feb-1962 For Whom the Bell Tolls
Donald Somervell
Politician
24-Aug-1889 18-Nov-1960 AG for England and Wales, 1936-45
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Religion
4-May-1889 2-Dec-1967 Archbishop of New York, 1939-67
Robert A. Taft
Politician
8-Sep-1889 31-Jul-1953 US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53
Arnold Toynbee
Historian
14-Apr-1889 22-Oct-1975 A Study of History
Ernest Truex
Actor
19-Sep-1889 26-Jun-1973 His Girl Friday
Harold Vermilyea
Actor
10-Oct-1889 8-Jan-1958 Sorry, Wrong Number
Carl von Ossietzky
Activist
3-Oct-1889 4-May-1938 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Helen Waddell
Author
31-May-1889 5-Mar-1965 The Wandering Scholars
DeWitt Wallace
Business
12-Nov-1889 30-Mar-1981 Founder of Reader's Digest
Lila Wallace
Business
25-Dec-1889 8-May-1984 Readers Digest co-founder
Minor Watson
Actor
22-Dec-1889 28-Jul-1965 Guadalcanal Diary
Clifton Webb
Actor
11-Nov-1889 13-Oct-1966 Laura
James Whale
Film Director
22-Jul-1889 29-May-1957 Frankenstein
Pearl White
Actor
4-Mar-1889 4-Aug-1938 Heroine of silent serial films
John G. Winant
Politician
23-Feb-1889 3-Nov-1947 New Hampshire governor, committed suicide
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
26-Apr-1889 29-Apr-1951 Destroyed metaphysics
Robert W. Woodruff
Business
6-Dec-1889 7-Mar-1985 President of Coca-Cola, 1923-54
Harry Woods
Actor
5-May-1889 28-Dec-1968 Perpetual Hollywood villain
Sewall Wright
Biologist
21-Dec-1889 3-Mar-1988 Mathematics of evolution
Henry M. Wriston
Educator
4-Jul-1889 7-Mar-1978 President of Brown University, 1937-55
Herbert O. Yardley
Scientist
13-Apr-1889 7-Aug-1958 U.S. cryptographer during WWI
Stephen M. Young
Politician
4-May-1889 1-Dec-1984 US Senator from Ohio, 1959-71
Efrem Zimbalist
Violinist
9-Apr-1889 22-Feb-1985 Russian-American violinist
Vladimir Zworykin
Inventor
30-Jul-1889 29-Jul-1982 Patented color televison


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