Birthdays In History 1888

1888 Georgios Stanotas Greek general (d. 1965)

1888 John Garand Canadian-American engineer designed the M1 Garand rifle (d. 1974)

1888 Richard Courant German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1972)

1888 Joseph B. Keenan American jurist and politician (d. 1954)

1888 Osip Brik Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (d. 1945)

1888 Babu Gulabrai Indian philosopher and author (d. 1963)

1888 Thomas Sopwith English ice hockey player sailor and pilot (d. 1989)

1888 Vicki Baum Austrian author and screenwriter (d. 1960)

1888 Ernst Heinkel German engineer and businessman founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company (d. 1958)

1888 Sydney Chapman English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)

1888 Wellington Koo Chinese statesman (d. 1985)

1888 Edith Evans English actress (d. 1976)

1888 Giuseppe Ungaretti Egyptian-Italian soldier journalist and poet (d. 1970)

1888 John Warren Davis American educator college administrator and civil rights leader (d. 1980)

1888 Georgios Papandreou Greek lawyer economist and politician 162nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1968)

1888 Chandrashekhar Agashe Indian industrialist (d. 1956)

1888 Otto Stern German-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)

1888 José Eustasio Rivera Colombian lawyer and poet (d. 1928)

1888 Georges Bernanos French soldier and author (d. 1948)

1888 Clemence Dane English author and playwright (d. 1965)

1888 Owen Brewster American captain and politician 54th Governor of Maine (d. 1961)

1888 Roberto Assagioli Italian psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1974)

1888 Lotte Lehmann German-American soprano and actress (d. 1976)

1888 Stephen McKenna English novelist (d. 1967)

1888 Ewart Astill English cricketer and billiards player (d. 1948)

1888 Fanny Walden English cricketer and umpire international footballer (d. 1949)

1888 Rafaela Ottiano Italian-American actress (d. 1942)

1888 Jeff Pfeffer American baseball player (d. 1972)

1888 Emma Richter German paleontologist (d. 1956)

1888 Knute Rockne American football player and coach (d. 1931)

1888 William L. Laurence Lithuanian-American journalist and author (d. 1977)

1888 Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer Dutch lawyer and politician Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1978)

1888 Barry Fitzgerald Irish actor (d. 1961)

1888 Walter Hermann Bucher German-American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1965)

1888 Hans Knappertsbusch German conductor (d. 1965)

1888 Paul Morand French author and diplomat (d. 1976)

1888 Paul Ramadier French lawyer and politician Prime Minister of France (d. 1961)

1888 Josef Albers German-American painter and educator (d. 1976)

1888 Léon Scieur Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)

1888 Amanda Clement American baseball player umpire and educator (d. 1971)

1888 Elsa Brändström Swedish nurse and philanthropist (d. 1948)

1888 George Alfred Lawrence Hearne English-South African cricketer (d. 1978)

1888 Enea Bossi Sr. Italian-American engineer (d. 1963)

1888 J. R. Williams Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1957)

1888 Neville Cardus English cricket and music writer (d. 1975)

1888 Thomas C. Kinkaid American admiral (d. 1972)

1888 Zdzisław Żygulski Sr. Polish historian and academic (d. 1975)

1888 Hans Richter Swiss painter illustrator and director (d. 1976)

1888 Gerhard Ritter German historian and academic (d. 1967)

1888 Dennis Chávez American journalist and politician (d. 1962)

1888 Sol Hurok Ukrainian-American talent manager (d. 1974)

1888 Dan Ahearn Irish-American long jumper and police officer (d. 1942)

1888 Cecil Kimber English automobile engineer (d. 1945)

1888 Billy Minter English footballer and manager (d. 1940)

1888 Herms Niel German soldier trombonist and composer (d. 1954)

1888 Georges Vanier Canadian general and politician 19th Governor General of Canada (d. 1967)

1888 Pe Maung Tin Burma-based scholar and educator (d. 1973)

1888 Florence La Badie Canadian actress (d. 1917)

1888 Walter Tull English footballer and soldier (d. 1918)

1888 John Crowe Ransom American poet critic and academic (d. 1974)

1888 Max Steiner Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1971)

1888 Willis Augustus Lee American admiral (d. 1945)

1888 Inge Lehmann Danish seismologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)

1888 Archie Alexander American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958)

1888 Royal Rife American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971)

1888 Tich Freeman English cricketer (d. 1965)

1888 Adriaan Roland Holst Dutch writer (d. 1976)

1888 Zack Wheat American baseball player and police officer (d. 1972)

1888 Miles Malleson English actor and screenwriter (d. 1969)

1888 Louis Durey French composer (d. 1979)

1888 Kaarel Eenpalu Estonian journalist and politician 6th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)

1888 Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot English author and educator (d. 1947)

1888 Bartolomeo Vanzetti Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal (d. 1927)

1888 Zygmunt Janiszewski Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1920)

1888 Fernando Pessoa Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)

1888 Ramón López Velarde Mexican poet and author (d. 1921)

1888 Alexander Friedmann Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925)

1888 Peter Stoner American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)

1888 Heinz Guderian German general (d. 1954)

1888 Arthur Massey Berry Canadian soldier and pilot (d. 1970)

1888 Harold Hitz Burton American lawyer and politician 45th Mayor of Cleveland (d. 1964)

1888 Bronson M. Cutting American publisher and politician (d. 1935)

1888 Gerrit Rietveld Dutch architect designed the Rietveld Schröder House (d. 1964)

1888 Lewis Bernstein Namier Polish-English historian and academic (d. 1960)

1888 Antoinette Perry American actress and director (d. 1946)

1888 George Challenor Barbadian cricketer (d. 1947)

1888 Stefi Geyer Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1956)

1888 Squizzy Taylor Australian gangster (d. 1927)

1888 Ramón Gómez de la Serna Spanish author and playwright (d. 1963)

1888 Henry Armetta Italian-American actor and singer (d. 1945)

1888 Herbert Spencer Gasser American physiologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963)

1888 Louise Freeland Jenkins American astronomer and academic (d. 1970)

1888 Giorgio de Chirico Greek-Italian painter and set designer (d. 1978)

1888 Toyohiko Kagawa Japanese evangelist author and activist (d. 1960)

1888 Carl Schmitt German philosopher and jurist (d. 1985)

1888 Scipio Slataper Italian author and critic (d. 1915)

1888 Shmuel Yosef Agnon Ukrainian-Israeli novelist short story writer and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

1888 Enno Lolling German physician (d. 1945)

1888 Kirk Bryan American geologist and academic (d. 1950)

1888 Selman Waksman Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

1888 Raymond Chandler American crime novelist and screenwriter (d. 1959)

1888 Arthur Richardson Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1973)

1888 Reginald Hands South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1918)

1888 Vladimir K. Zworykin Russian-American engineer invented the Iconoscope (d. 1982)

1888 Taher Saifuddin Indian religious leader 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)

1888 Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (d. 1940)

1888 Gleb W. Derujinsky Russian-American sculptor (d. 1975)

1888 Armand J. Piron American violinist composer and bandleader (d. 1943)

1888 Monty Woolley American actor raconteur and pundit (d. 1963)

1888 Tôn Đức Thắng Vietnamese politician 2nd President of Vietnam (d. 1980)

1888 Valentine Baker Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (d. 1942)

1888 Gustavo R. Vincenti Maltese architect and developer (d. 1974)

1888 Evadne Price Australian actress astrologer and author (d. 1985)

1888 Salme Dutt Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)

1888 Oskar Schlemmer German painter sculptor designer and choreographer (d. 1943)

1888 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Indian philosopher and politician 2nd President of India (d. 1975)

1888 Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. American businessman and diplomat 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1969)

1888 Israel Abramofsky Russian-American painter (d. 1976)

1888 Maurice Chevalier French actor singer and dancer (d. 1972)

1888 Antonio Ascari Italian race car driver (d. 1925)

1888 Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finnish author Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)

1888 Grey Owl English-Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 1938)

1888 Toni Wolff Swiss psychologist and author (d. 1953)

1888 James Waddell Alexander II American mathematician and topologist (d. 1971)

1888 Porter Hall American actor (d. 1953)

1888 Hanna Ralph German actress (d. 1978)

1888 J. Frank Dobie American journalist and author (d. 1964)

1888 Wade Boteler American actor and screenwriter (d. 1943)

1888 Lucy Tayiah Eads American tribal chief (d. 1961)

1888 Oscar Mathisen Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)

1888 Mary Fuller American actress and screenwriter (d. 1973)

1888 Roland Garros French soldier and pilot (d. 1918)

1888 Henry A. Wallace American agronomist and politician 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)

1888 Edna Meade Colson American educator and activist (d. 1985)

1888 Ernst Kretschmer German psychiatrist and author (d. 1964)

1888 Nikolai Bukharin Russian journalist and politician (d. 1938)

1888 Irving Cummings American actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1959)

1888 Yukio Sakurauchi Japanese businessman and politician 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (d. 1947)

1888 S. S. Van Dine American author and critic (d. 1939)

1888 Paul Popenoe American founder of relationship counseling (d. 1979)

1888 Paul Vermoyal French actor (d. 1925)

1888 Onésime Gagnon Canadian scholar and politician 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1961)

1888 Nils Dardel Swedish-American painter (d. 1943)

1888 Jan Palouš Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 1971)

1888 Léon Tom Belgian fencer and bobsledder

1888 Runar Schildt Finnish author (d. 1925)

1888 Christopher Vane 10th Baron Barnard English soldier and politician Lord Lieutenant of Durham (d. 1964)

1888 Louis Menges American soccer player soldier and politician (d. 1969)

1888 Konstantinos Tsiklitiras Greek footballer and high jumper (d. 1913)

1888 Napoleon Lapathiotis Greek poet and author (d. 1944)

1888 George Kenner German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)

1888 Michał Sopoćko Polish cleric and academic (d. 1975)

1888 C. V. Raman Indian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

1888 David Monrad Johansen Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1974)

1888 Nestor Makhno Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (d. 1934)

1888 Jean Monnet French economist and diplomat (d. 1979)

1888 Andrei Tupolev Russian engineer and designer founded the Tupolev Company (d. 1972)

1888 Abul Kalam Azad Indian activist scholar and politician Indian Minister of Education (d. 1958)

1888 J. B. Kripalani Indian lawyer and politician (d.1982)

1888 Artie Matthews American pianist and composer (d. 1958)

1888 Luis Cluzeau Mortet Uruguayan pianist and composer (d. 1957)

1888 Frances Marion American screenwriter novelist and journalist (d. 1973)

1888 Dennis Fenton American sports shooter (d. 1954)

1888 Harpo Marx American comedian and musician (d. 1964)

1888 Dale Carnegie American author and educator (d. 1955)

1888 Fredrick Willius American cardiologist and author (d. 1972)

1888 Ford Beebe American director and screenwriter (d. 1978)

1888 Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar Indian activist and politician 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1956)

1888 Harry Altham English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)

1888 Will Hay English actor director and screenwriter (d. 1949)

1888 Joyce Cary Irish novelist (d. 1957)

1888 Hamilton Fish III American captain and politician (d. 1991)

1888 Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)

1888 Alphonse Juin Algerian-French general (d. 1967)

1888 Gladys Cooper English actress and singer (d. 1971)

1888 Robert Moses American urban planner (d. 1981)

1888 Fritz Reiner Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1963)

1888 Yitzhak Baer German-Israeli historian and academic (d. 1980)

1888 Fred Merkle American baseball player and manager (d. 1956)

1888 Jean Bouin French runner and rugby player (d. 1914)

1888 J. Arthur Rank 1st Baron Rank English businessman founded Rank Organisation (d. 1972)

1888 Marius Canard French orientalist and historian (d. 1982)

1888 Thea von Harbou German actress director and screenwriter (d. 1954)

1888 F. W. Murnau German-American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1931)

1888 Viktor Kingissepp Estonian politician (d. 1922)

1888 Zygmunt Janiszewski Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1920)

1888 Percy Kilbride American actor (d. 1964)

1888 Frits Zernike Dutch physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)

1888 Francesco Baracca Italian fighter pilot (d. 1918)

1888 Rolf de Maré Swedish art collector (d. 1964)

1888 Maximilian Kronberger German poet and author (d. 1904)

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