Birthdays In History 1893

1893 Mordechai Frizis Greek colonel (d. 1940)

1893 Paramahansa Yogananda Indian-American guru and philosopher (d. 1952)

1893 Edwin Baker Canadian soldier and educator co-founded the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (d. 1968)

1893 Albert Jacka Australian captain Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1932)

1893 Ellinor Aiki Estonian painter (d. 1969)

1893 Charles Fraser Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1981)

1893 Anthony M. Rud American journalist and author (d. 1942)

1893 Hermann Göring German commander pilot and politician Minister President of Prussia (d. 1946)

1893 Alfred Rosenberg Estonian-German architect and politician Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (d. 1946)

1893 Charles Arnison English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1974)

1893 Roy Cazaly Australian footballer and coach (d. 1963)

1893 Clark Ashton Smith American poet sculptor painter and author (d. 1961)

1893 Chaïm Soutine Belarusian-French painter (d. 1943)

1893 Ivor Novello Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1951)

1893 Daisy Kennedy Australian-English violinist (d. 1981)

1893 Jorge Guillén Spanish poet critic and academic (d. 1984)

1893 Magda Tagliaferro Brazilian pianist and educator (d. 1986)

1893 Georg Åberg Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946)

1893 Conrad Veidt German-American actor director and producer (d. 1943)

1893 Giuseppe Genco Russo Italian mob boss (d. 1976)

1893 Cornelius Lanczos Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)

1893 Raoul Riganti Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)

1893 Damdin Sükhbaatar Mongolian soldier and politician (d. 1924)

1893 Gaston Julia Algerian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1978)

1893 Joseph Algernon Pearce Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)

1893 Nicanor Abelardo Filipino pianist composer and teacher (d. 1934)

1893 Ba Maw Burmese lawyer and politician Prime Minister of Burma (d. 1977)

1893 Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas Greek lawyer and politician 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)

1893 Roman Najuch Polish professional tennis player (d. 1967)

1893 Katharine Cornell American actress and producer (d. 1974)

1893 Wally Pipp American baseball player and journalist (d. 1965)

1893 Maksim Haretski Belarusian prose writer journalist and activist (d. 1938)

1893 Cedric Hardwicke English actor and director (d. 1964)

1893 Elizabeth Holloway Marston American psychologist and author (d. 1993)

1893 Celia Lovsky Austrian-American actress (d. 1979)

1893 Andrés Segovia Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)

1893 Mercedes de Acosta American author poet and playwright (d. 1968)

1893 Beatrice Wood American illustrator and potter (d. 1998)

1893 Charles Herbert Colvin American engineer co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (d. 1985)

1893 Adolph Lowe German sociologist and economist (d. 1995)

1893 Wanda Gág American author and illustrator (d. 1946)

1893 Costante Girardengo Italian cyclist (d. 1978)

1893 Gertrud Dorka German archaeologist prehistorian and museum director (died 1976)

1893 Cedric Gibbons Irish-American art director and production designer (d. 1960)

1893 Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974)

1893 Johannes Villemson Estonian runner (d. 1971)

1893 James Bryant Conant American chemist academic and diplomat 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany (d. 1978)

1893 Karl Mannheim Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (d. 1947)

1893 G. Lloyd Spencer American lieutenant and politician (d. 1981)

1893 George Beranger Australian-American actor and director (d. 1973)

1893 Spyros Skouras Greek-American businessman (d. 1971)

1893 Astrid Holm Danish actress (d. 1961)

1893 Clemens Krauss Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1954)

1893 Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt German physician and historian (d. 1982)

1893 Cicely Courtneidge Australian-English actress (d. 1980)

1893 Leslie Howard English actor (d. 1943)

1893 Frithjof Andersen Norwegian wrestler (d. 1975)

1893 José Sobral de Almada Negreiros Portuguese artist (d. 1970)

1893 Charles E. Burchfield American painter (d.1967)

1893 Victor Gollancz English publisher founded Victor Gollancz Ltd (d. 1967)

1893 Rahul Sankrityayan Indian linguist author and scholar (d. 1963)

1893 Dean Acheson American lawyer and politician 51st United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)

1893 Germaine Guèvremont Canadian journalist and author (d. 1968)

1893 John Norton American hurdler (d. 1979)

1893 Romeo Bertini Italian runner (d. 1973)

1893 Frank Borzage American actor and director (d. 1952)

1893 Allen Sothoron American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1939)

1893 Harold Urey American chemist and astronomer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)

1893 Harold Breen Australian public servant (d. 1966)

1893 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia Georgian author (d. 1975)

1893 Frank J. Selke Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985)

1893 Francis Ouimet American golfer (d. 1967)

1893 Edd Roush American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)

1893 Teddy Wakelam English rugby player and sportscaster (d. 1963)

1893 Tonita Peña San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist (d. 1949)

1893 Louis Verneuil French actor and playwright (d. 1952)

1893 José Nepomuceno Filipino filmmaker founder of Philippine cinema (d. 1959)

1893 Frederick McKinley Jones American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1961)

1893 H. Bonciu Romanian author poet and journalist (d. 1950)

1893 Arthur Carr English cricketer (d. 1963)

1893 Giles Chippindall Australian public servant (d. 1969)

1893 Ernest "Pop" Stoneman American country musician (d. 1968)

1893 Eugene Aynsley Goossens English conductor and composer (d. 1962)

1893 Max Brand American journalist and author (d. 1944)

1893 Gillis Grafström Swedish figure skater and architect (d. 1938)

1893 Ernst Marcus German zoologist (d. 1968)

1893 Gaby Morlay French actress (d. 1964)

1893 Irish Meusel American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)

1893 Alan Arnold Griffith English engineer (d. 1963)

1893 Dorothy L. Sayers English author and poet (d. 1957)

1893 Wilhelm Zaisser German soldier and politician (d. 1958)

1893 Alois Hába Czech composer and educator (d. 1973)

1893 Roy O. Disney American businessman co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)

1893 Dorothy Fuldheim American journalist and news anchor(d. 1989)

1893 August Zamoyski Polish-French sculptor (d. 1970)

1893 Aarre Merikanto Finnish composer and educator (d. 1958)

1893 Nellah Massey Bailey American politician and librarian (d. 1956)

1893 Ralph Hancock Welsh gardener and author (d. 1950)

1893 Sándor Bortnyik Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d. 1976)

1893 Anthony Berkeley Cox English writer (d. 1971)

1893 Giuseppe Caselli Italian painter (d. 1976)

1893 Herbert Feis American historian and author (d. 1972)

1893 Miroslav Krleža Croatian author poet and playwright (d. 1981)

1893 R. Carlyle Buley American historian and author (d. 1968)

1893 George Geary English cricketer and coach (d. 1981)

1893 Clarence J. Brown American publisher and politician 36th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (d. 1965)

1893 Garimella Satyanarayana Indian poet and author (d. 1952)

1893 Enid Bennett Australian-American actress (d. 1969)

1893 Dick Rauch American football player and coach (d. 1970)

1893 David Ogilvy 12th Earl of Airlie Scottish peer soldier and courtier (d. 1968)

1893 George Llewelyn Davies English soldier (d. 1915)

1893 Hans Fallada German author (d. 1947)

1893 Jesse Haines American baseball player and coach (d. 1978)

1893 Karl Menninger American psychiatrist and author (d. 1990)

1893 George Grosz German painter and illustrator (d. 1959)

1893 Ugo Agostoni Italian cyclist (d. 1941)

1893 Rued Langgaard Danish organist and composer (d. 1952)

1893 Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)

1893 Fritz Gause German historian and curator (d. 1973)

1893 Wright Patman American lieutenant and politician (d. 1976)

1893 Leslie Comrie New Zealand astronomer and academic (d. 1950)

1893 John Brahm German-American director and production manager (d. 1982)

1893 Burleigh Grimes American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)

1893 Ernest MacMillan Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1973)

1893 Wilfred Kitching English 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977)

1893 Ernest H. Volwiler American chemist (d. 1992)

1893 Haim Ernst Wertheimer German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1978)

1893 Henry Trendley Dean American dentist (d. 1962)

1893 Lily Laskine French harp player (d. 1988)

1893 Yasuo Kuniyoshi Japanese-American painter and photographer (d. 1953)

1893 Claire Lee Chennault American general and pilot (d. 1958)

1893 Leslie Hore-Belisha English politician Secretary of State for War (d. 1957)

1893 Douglas Hawkes English-Greek racing driver and engineer (d. 1974)

1893 Larry Shields American clarinet player (d. 1953)

1893 Alexander Korda Hungarian-English director producer and screenwriter (d. 1956)

1893 Albert Szent-Györgyi Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1893 Arthur Benjamin Australian pianist composer and conductor (d. 1960)

1893 William March American soldier and author (d. 1954)

1893 Colin Fraser Barron Scottish-Canadian sergeant Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1958)

1893 Hermann Lux German footballer and manager (d. 1962)

1893 Erna Scheffler German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (d. 1983)

1893 Blind Lemon Jefferson American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1929)

1893 Harald Cramér Swedish mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)

1893 Hilda Geiringer Austrian mathematician (d. 1973)

1893 Giannis Skarimpas Greek author poet and playwright (d. 1984)

1893 Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer American lieutenant lawyer and politician (d. 1964)

1893 Cliff Friend American pianist and songwriter (d. 1974)

1893 Ip Man Chinese martial artist (d. 1972)

1893 Leroy Shield American composer and conductor (d. 1962)

1893 Meghnad Saha Indian astrophysicist astronomer and academic (d. 1956)

1893 Alice Dalgliesh Trinidadian-American author and publisher (d. 1979)

1893 Clarence Williams American pianist and composer (d. 1965)

1893 Mário de Andrade Brazilian author poet and photographer (d. 1945)

1893 Velvalee Dickinson American spy (d. 1980)

1893 Kurt Reidemeister German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (d. 1971)

1893 Lois Lenski American author and illustrator (d. 1974)

1893 Lillian Gish American actress (d. 1993)

1893 Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)

1893 Raffaele Bendandi Italian clockmaker and seismologist (d. 1979)

1893 Sidney Holland New Zealand lieutenant and politician 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)

1893 George Ohsawa Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966)

1893 Charley Chase American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1940)

1893 Ernst Öpik Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)

1893 Luis Otero Spanish footballer (d. 1955)

1893 Miloš Crnjanski Serbian poet and author (d. 1977)

1893 Christopher Kelk Ingold British chemist (d. 1970)

1893 Charles Atlas Italian-American bodybuilder (d. 1972)

1893 Roland Freisler German soldier lawyer and judge (d. 1945)

1893 Battista Farina Italian businessman founded the Pininfarina Company (d. 1966)

1893 Raymond Loewy French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)

1893 Leatrice Joy American actress (d. 1985)

1893 Margaret Leech American historian and author (d. 1974)

1893 Prajadhipok Thai king (d. 1941)

1893 John P. Marquand American author (d. 1960)

1893 Edward Adelbert Doisy American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1893 René Voisin French trumpet player (d. 1952)

1893 André Bloch French mathematician (d. 1948)

1893 Grace Darmond Canadian-American actress (d. 1963)

1893 Harley Earl American businessman (d. 1969)

1893 Lazar Kaganovich Soviet politician (d. 1991)

1893 Charles F. Hurley American soldier and politician 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)

1893 Joseph Wood Krutch American author and critic (d. 1970)

1893 Herbert Read English poet and critic (d. 1968)

1893 Homer N. Wallin American admiral (d. 1984)

1893 Sylvia Townsend Warner English author and poet (d. 1978)

1893 Fay Bainter American actress (d. 1968)

1893 Hermann Balck German general (d. 1982)

1893 Leo Ornstein Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 2002)

1893 Edward G. Robinson American actor (d. 1973)

1893 Charles C. Banks English captain and pilot (d. 1971)

1893 Erwin Piscator German director and producer (d. 1966)

1893 Harry Warren American pianist and composer (d. 1981)

1893 Soong Ching-ling Chinese politician Honorary President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1981)

1893 Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Pakistani politician and diplomat 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs for Pakistan (d. 1985)

1893 Wallace Fard Muhammad American religious leader founded the Nation of Islam (disappeared 1934)

1893 Dorothy Whipple English novelist (d. 1966)

1893 Furry Lewis American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)

1893 Ella P. Stewart pioneering Black American pharmacist (d. 1987)

1893 Walter Baade German astronomer and author (d. 1960)

1893 George Sisler American baseball player and scout (d. 1973)

1893 Otto Steinböck Austrian zoologist (d. 1969)

1893 William Moulton Marston American psychologist and author (d. 1947)

1893 Harold Lloyd American actor comedian and producer (d. 1971)

1893 Joan Miró Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)

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