Birthdays In History 1891

1891 Sampurnanand Indian educator and politician 3rd Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1969)

1891 Giovanni Michelucci Italian architect and urban planner designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)

1891 Edward Brooker English-Australian sergeant and politician 31st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)

1891 Ted McDonald Australian cricketer (d. 1937)

1891 Zora Neale Hurston American novelist short story writer and folklorist (d. 1960)

1891 Walther Bothe German physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)

1891 Storm Jameson English journalist and author (d. 1986)

1891 Bronislava Nijinska Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972)

1891 Heinrich Behmann German mathematician and academic (d. 1970)

1891 Ann Shoemaker American actress (d. 1978)

1891 Andrew Sockalexis American runner (d. 1919)

1891 Ray Chapman American baseball player (d. 1920)

1891 Mischa Elman Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)

1891 Albert Battel German Army lieutenant and lawyer (d. 1952)

1891 Francisco Lázaro Portuguese marathon runner (d. 1912)

1891 Antonio Gramsci Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1937)

1891 Walter Model German field marshal (d. 1945)

1891 August Froehlich German priest and martyr (d. 1942)

1891 M. A. Ayyangar Indian lawyer and politician second Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1978)

1891 Renato Petronio Italian rower (d. 1976)

1891 Kate Roberts Welsh author and activist (d. 1985)

1891 Grant Wood American painter and academic (d. 1942)

1891 Katherine Stinson American aviator (d. 1977)

1891 Hans F. K. Günther German eugenicist and academic (d. 1968)

1891 Abraham Fraenkel German-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1965)

1891 Vlas Chubar Russian economist and politician (d. 1939)

1891 David Sarnoff American businessman founded RCA (d. 1971)

1891 Ralph Hitz Austrian-American hotelier (d. 1940)

1891 Damaskinos of Athens Greek archbishop (d. 1949)

1891 Dazzy Vance American baseball player (d. 1961)

1891 Ross McLarty Australian politician 17th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1962)

1891 Po Kya Burmese author and educationist (d. 1942)

1891 Lajos Zilahy Hungarian novelist and playwright (d. 1974)

1891 Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski Belarusian-Lithuanian architect journalist and diplomat created the Flag of Belarus (d. 1959)

1891 Yvan Goll French-German poet and playwright (d. 1950)

1891 Alfred Neubauer Austrian race car driver and manager (d. 1980)

1891 Chunseong Korean monk writer and philosopher (d. 1977)

1891 Victor Varconi Hungarian-American actor and director (d. 1976)

1891 Jack Buchanan Scottish entertainer (d. 1957)

1891 Max Ernst German painter sculptor and poet (d. 1976)

1891 Tristão de Bragança Cunha Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from Goa (d. 1958)

1891 Arnold Jackson English runner soldier and lawyer (d. 1972)

1891 Laura Vicuña Chilean nun (d. 1904)

1891 Ole Kirk Christiansen Danish businessman founded the Lego Group (d. 1958)

1891 Maurice Buckley Australian sergeant Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1921)

1891 Nella Larsen Danish/African-American nurse librarian and author (d. 1964)

1891 Robert Scholl German accountant and politician (d. 1973)

1891 Dorothy P. Lathrop American author and illustrator (d. 1980)

1891 George Adamski Polish-American ufologist and author (d. 1965)

1891 Françoise Rosay French actress (d. 1974)

1891 Laura Gilpin American photographer (d. 1979)

1891 Vittorio Jano Italian engineer (d. 1965)

1891 Harold Jeffreys English mathematician geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1989)

1891 Nicola Sacco Italian-American anarchist (d. 1927)

1891 Sergei Prokofiev Russian pianist composer and conductor (d. 1953)

1891 Bharathidasan Indian poet and activist (d. 1964)

1891 Lillian Estelle Fisher American historian of Spanish America (d. 1988)

1891 Tadeusz Peiper Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)

1891 Eppa Rixey American baseball pitcher (d. 1963)

1891 Harry McShane Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)

1891 Mahmoud Mokhtar Egyptian sculptor and academic (d. 1934)

1891 Mikhail Bulgakov Russian novelist and playwright (d. 1940)

1891 Hjalmar Dahl Finnish journalist translator and writer (d. 1960)

1891 Fritz Feigl Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (d. 1971)

1891 Napoleon Zervas Greek general and politician (d. 1957)

1891 Oswald Boelcke German captain and pilot (d. 1916)

1891 Johannes R. Becher German politician novelist and poet (d. 1958)

1891 Pär Lagerkvist Swedish novelist playwright and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

1891 William F. Albright American archaeologist philologist and scholar (d. 1971)

1891 Claude Champagne Canadian violinist pianist and composer (d. 1965)

1891 Jaan Kärner Estonian poet and author (d. 1958)

1891 Thurman Arnold American lawyer and judge (d. 1969)

1891 Takijirō Ōnishi Japanese admiral and pilot (d. 1945)

1891 Masti Venkatesha Iyengar Indian author and academic (d. 1986)

1891 Erich Marcks German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa (d. 1944)

1891 William Funnell Australian public servant (d. 1962)

1891 Al Dubin Swiss-American songwriter (d. 1945)

1891 John Heartfield German photographer and activist (d. 1968)

1891 Giannina Arangi-Lombardi Italian soprano (d. 1951)

1891 John A. Costello Irish lawyer and politician 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976)

1891 Pier Luigi Nervi Italian architect and engineer co-designed the Pirelli Tower and Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (d. 1979)

1891 Hermann Scherchen German-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 1966)

1891 Franz Alexander Hungarian psychoanalyst and physician (d. 1964)

1891 Esther Forbes American historian and author (d. 1968)

1891 Carl Spaatz American general (d. 1974)

1891 Man Mountain Dean American wrestler and sergeant (d. 1953)

1891 Ed Lewis American wrestler and manager (d. 1966)

1891 Stanley Spencer English painter (d. 1959)

1891 John Howard Northrop American chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

1891 Tin Ujević Croatian poet and translator (d. 1955)

1891 Tadamichi Kuribayashi Japanese general and poet (d. 1945)

1891 Virginia Rappe American model and actress (d. 1921)

1891 Edith Quimby American medical researcher and physicist (d. 1982)

1891 Julius Saaristo Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (d. 1969)

1891 Louis T. Wright American surgeon and civil rights activist (d. 1952)

1891 Jacob van der Hoeden Dutch-Israeli veterinarian and academic (d. 1968)

1891 Bernhard Zondek German-Israeli gynecologist and academic (d. 1966)

1891 Karl Kobelt Swiss lawyer and politician 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1968)

1891 Arthur Bliss English composer and conductor (d. 1975)

1891 Viktor Zhirmunsky Russian linguist and historian (d. 1971)

1891 William Slim 1st Viscount Slim English field marshal and politician 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)

1891 Adolf Busch German violinist and composer (d. 1952)

1891 Stancho Belkovski Bulgarian architect and educator (d. 1962)

1891 Edgar Zilsel Austrian historian and philosopher of science linked to the Vienna Circle (d. 1944)

1891 C. E. M. Joad English philosopher and academic (d. 1953)

1891 John McDermott American golfer (d. 1971)

1891 Emiliano Mercado del Toro Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2007)

1891 Henry Bachtold Australian soldier and railway engineer (d. 1983)

1891 Jacques Lipchitz Lithuanian-Italian sculptor (d. 1973)

1891 Roy Agnew Australian pianist and composer (d. 1944)

1891 Minna Craucher Finnish socialite and spy (d. 1932)

1891 David Shimoni Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (d. 1956)

1891 Acharya Chatursen Shastri Indian author and playwright (d. 1960)

1891 Benno Schotz Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (d. 1984)

1891 Marquis James American journalist and author (d. 1955)

1891 Fritz Todt German engineer and politician (d. 1942)

1891 William Thomas Walsh American historian author and educator (d. 1949)

1891 Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (d. 1965)

1891 Jean-François Martial Belgian actor (d. 1977)

1891 Arthur Hays Sulzberger American publisher (d. 1968)

1891 Max Pruss German captain and pilot (d. 1960)

1891 Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983)

1891 Stephanie von Hohenlohe Austrian-German spy (d. 1972)

1891 Rafael Pérez y Pérez Spanish author (d. 1984)

1891 Tomás Garrido Canabal Mexican revolutionary (d. 1943)

1891 Alma Thomas American painter and educator (d. 1978)

1891 William McKell Australian politician 12th Governor General of Australia (d. 1985)

1891 Charles Münch French violinist and conductor (d. 1968)

1891 Hans Reichenbach German philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1953)

1891 Ian Fairweather Scottish-Australian painter (d. 1974)

1891 Hendrik Adamson Estonian poet and educator (d. 1946)

1891 Edith Stein Polish nun and martyr; later canonized (d. 1942)

1891 Fumimaro Konoe Japanese soldier and politician 39th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1945)

1891 Irene Rich American actress (d. 1988)

1891 Samuel Flagg Bemis American historian and author (d. 1973)

1891 Brenda Ueland American journalist author and educator (d. 1985)

1891 Charles Coughlin Canadian-American priest and radio host (d. 1979)

1891 Karl Elmendorff German conductor (d. 1962)

1891 Fanny Brice American actress and singer (d. 1951)

1891 Genrikh Yagoda director of the NKVD (d. 1938)

1891 Louisa E. Rhine American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1983)

1891 Carl Stalling American pianist and composer (d. 1972)

1891 Rabbit Maranville American baseball player and manager (d. 1954)

1891 Grunya Sukhareva Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer (d. 1981)

1891 W. Averell Harriman American businessman and politician 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1986)

1891 Lester Allen American screen stage vaudeville circus actor and film director (d. 1949)

1891 Gio Ponti Italian architect industrial designer furniture designer artist and publisher.(d. 1979)

1891 Reginald Denny English actor (d. 1967)

1891 Edward Bernays Austrian-American publicist (d. 1995)

1891 Vasil Gendov Bulgarian actor director and screenwriter (d. 1970)

1891 Ōnishiki Uichirō Japanese sumo wrestler the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941)

1891 Scott Bradley American pianist composer and conductor (d. 1977)

1891 Gregorio Perfecto Filipino journalist jurist and politician (d. 1949)

1891 Mabel Alvarez American painter (d. 1985)

1891 Julius Raab Austrian engineer and politician 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964)

1891 Otto Dix German painter and illustrator (d. 1969)

1891 Charles H. Wesley American historian and author (d. 1987)

1891 Thomas Farrell American general (d. 1967)

1891 Paul Kogerman Estonian chemist and academic (d. 1951)

1891 Maksim Bahdanovič Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917)

1891 Harold Alexander 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis English field marshal and politician 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)

1891 Arlie Mucks American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1967)

1891 A.P. Carter American country singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1960)

1891 Edward Bernard Raczyński Polish politician and diplomat 4th President-in-exile of Poland (d. 1993)

1891 Erik Almlöf Swedish triple jumper (d. 1971)

1891 John William McCormack American lawyer and politician 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1980)

1891 Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky Russian illustrator and painter (d. 1970)

1891 Kenneth Anderson Indian-English general and politician Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1959)

1891 Clarrie Grimmett New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980)

1891 Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951)

1891 Frank Barson English footballer and coach (d. 1968)

1891 Rudolf Carnap German-American philosopher and academic (d. 1970)

1891 Dave Bancroft American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)

1891 B. R. Ambedkar Indian economist jurist and politician 1st Indian Minister of Law and Justice (d. 1956)

1891 Otto Lasanen Finnish wrestler (d. 1958)

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