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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Eddie Acuff
Actor
3-Jun-1903 17-Dec-1956 Mr. Beasley in Blondie
Roy Acuff
Country Musician
15-Sep-1903 23-Nov-1992 Country music pioneer
Luther Adler
Actor
4-May-1903 8-Dec-1984 Broadway actor
Theodor Adorno
Philosopher
11-Sep-1903 6-Aug-1969 Dialectic of Enlightenment
Adrian
Fashion Designer
3-Mar-1903 13-Sep-1959 Head of wardrobe for Cecil B. DeMille
Hardie Albright
Actor
16-Dec-1903 7-Dec-1975 Angel on My Shoulder
George V. Allen
Diplomat
3-Nov-1903 11-Jul-1970 US Ambassador to Iran, 1946-48
Artie Auerbach
Actor
17-May-1903 3-Oct-1957 Mr. Kitzel on The Jack Benny Program
Binnie Barnes
Actor
25-May-1903 27-Jul-1998 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Ary Barroso
Musician
7-Nov-1903 9-Feb-1964 Songwriter composed Aquarela do Brasil
Mustafa Barzani
Military
14-Mar-1903 1-Mar-1979 Kurdish nationalist
George Beadle
Scientist
22-Oct-1903 9-Jun-1989 One gene, one enzyme theory
James Beard
Chef
5-May-1903 23-Jan-1985 First prominent TV chef
Harry Beck
Designer
1903 1974 Responsible for the London Underground map
Bix Beiderbecke
Jazz Musician
10-Mar-1903 6-Aug-1931 Celebrated jazz cornetist
Cool Papa Bell
Baseball
17-May-1903 7-Mar-1991 Negro Leagues star
Rex Bell
Actor
16-Oct-1903 5-Jul-1962 Cowboy actor, Nevada politician
Edgar Bergen
Actor
16-Feb-1903 30-Sep-1978 Radio's greatest ventriloquist
Bruno Bettelheim
Psychologist
28-Aug-1903 13-Mar-1990 Fraudulent child psychologist
Hiram Bingham IV
Diplomat
17-Jul-1903 12-Jan-1988 Consul signed visas for 2000 Jews
Boris Blacher
Composer
19-Jan-1903 30-Jan-1975 Die Nachtschwalbe
Alan Blumlein
Inventor
29-Jun-1903 7-Jun-1942 Stereophonic recording
Ward Bond
Actor
9-Apr-1903 5-Nov-1960 Wagon Train
Charles F. Brannan
Politician
23-Aug-1903 2-Jul-1992 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1948-53
Henry Brooke
Politician
9-Apr-1903 29-Mar-1984 UK Home Secretary, 1962-64
Ernest S. Brown
Attorney
25-Sep-1903 23-Jul-1965 US Senator from Nevada, 1954
Milton Brown
Musician
7-Sep-1903 13-Apr-1936 Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
Edgar Buchanan
Actor
20-Mar-1903 4-Apr-1979 Uncle Joe Carson on Petticoat Junction
Howard Homan Buffett
Business
13-Aug-1903 30-Apr-1964 Congressman, father of Warren Buffett
Adolf Butenandt
Chemist
24-Mar-1903 18-Jan-1995 Research in sex hormones
W. Walton Butterworth
Diplomat
7-Sep-1903 31-Mar-1975 US Ambassador to Canada, 1962-68
Erskine Caldwell
Author
17-Dec-1903 11-Apr-1987 Tobacco Road
Morley Callaghan
Novelist
22-Sep-1903 25-Aug-1990 Strange Fugitive
Nancy Carroll
Actor
19-Nov-1903 6-Aug-1965 The Devil's Holiday
Nikolai Cherkasov
Actor
27-Jul-1903 14-Sep-1966 Aleksandr Nevsky
Kenneth Clark
Historian
10-Jul-1903 21-May-1983 Civilisation
Mickey Cochrane
Baseball
6-Apr-1903 28-Jun-1962 Detroit Tigers catcher
Claudette Colbert
Actor
13-Sep-1903 30-Jul-1996 It Happened One Night
Cyril Connolly
Critic
10-Sep-1903 26-Nov-1974 Enemies of Promise
Morgan Conway
Actor
16-Mar-1903 16-Nov-1981 Dick Tracy
Elisha Cook, Jr.
Actor
26-Dec-1903 18-May-1995 The Maltese Falcon
Joseph Cornell
Sculptor
24-Dec-1903 29-Dec-1972 Exponent of Assemblage
George Coulouris
Actor
1-Oct-1903 25-Apr-1989 Watch on the Rhine
James Gould Cozzens
Novelist
19-Aug-1903 9-Aug-1978 Guard of Honor
Bing Crosby
Singer
3-May-1903 14-Oct-1977 White Christmas
Countee Cullen
Poet
30-May-1903 9-Jan-1946 Harlem Renaissance poet
Claude Dauphin
Actor
19-Aug-1903 16-Nov-1978 Barbarella
Paul A. Dever
Politician
15-Jan-1903 11-Apr-1958 Governor of Massachusetts, 1949-53
Thorold Dickinson
Film Director
16-Nov-1903 14-Apr-1984 Gaslight
John Dillinger
Criminal
22-Jun-1903 22-Jul-1934 Public Enemy Number One
Alec Douglas-Home
Head of State
2-Jul-1903 9-Oct-1995 UK Prime Minister, 1963-64
Billie Dove
Actor
14-May-1903 31-Dec-1997 The Black Pirate
John Eccles
Scientist
27-Jan-1903 2-May-1997 Membrane potential of nerves
Wild Bill Elliott
Actor
16-Oct-1903 26-Nov-1965 1940s movie cowboy
Walker Evans
Photographer
3-Nov-1903 10-Apr-1975 Depression-era Photographer
Fernandel
Actor
8-May-1903 26-Feb-1971 Prolific French comedy star
Dudley Fitts
Scholar
28-Apr-1903 10-Jul-1968 Translator of Greek literature
J. Allen Frear
Politician
7-Mar-1903 15-Jan-1993 US Senator from Delaware, 1949-61
Jake Gaither
Football
11-Apr-1903 18-Feb-1994 Head Coach, Florida A&M, 1945-69
Lou Gehrig
Baseball
19-Jun-1903 2-Jun-1941 Played 2,130 consecutive games
Arnold Gingrich
Journalist
5-Dec-1903 9-Jul-1976 Founder of Esquire magazine
Arthur Godfrey
Actor
31-Aug-1903 16-Mar-1983 Arthur Godfrey and His Friends
Red Grange
Football
13-Jun-1903 28-Jan-1991 The Galloping Ghost
Victor Gruen
Architect
18-Jul-1903 14-Feb-1980 Popularized the shopping mall
Haldan K. Hartline
Scientist
22-Dec-1903 17-Mar-1983 Physiology of the retina
Sadeq Hedayat
Author
17-Feb-1903 9-Apr-1951 The Blind Owl
Johannes Heesters
Actor
5-Dec-1903   Dutch/German film actor
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.
Politician
25-Jun-1903 13-Sep-1960 US Senator from Missouri, 1951-60
Barbara Hepworth
Sculptor
10-Jan-1903 20-May-1975 British abstract sculptor
Al Hirschfeld
Artist
21-Jun-1903 20-Jan-2003 Pen and ink caricaturist
Bob Hope
Comic
29-May-1903 27-Jul-2003 Centenarian comic
Paul Horgan
Author
1-Aug-1903 8-Mar-1995 Great River: The Rio Grande
Vladimir Horowitz
Pianist
1-Oct-1903 5-Nov-1989 Virtuoso pianist
Curly Howard
Actor
22-Oct-1903 18-Jan-1952 Highest pitched Stooge
Carl Hubbell
Baseball
22-Jun-1903 21-Nov-1988 New York Giants pitcher
Charles R. Jackson
Novelist
6-Apr-1903 21-Sep-1968 The Lost Weekend
Dean Jagger
Actor
7-Nov-1903 5-Feb-1991 Twelve O'Clock High
Howard Jarvis
Activist
22-Sep-1903 11-Aug-1986 Anti-tax crusader
Tor Johnson
Wrestling
19-Oct-1903 12-May-1971 Plan 9 from Outer Space
Hans Jonas
Philosopher
10-May-1903 5-Feb-1993 Gnostic philosopher
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Military
4-Oct-1903 16-Oct-1946 Commanded the Reich Central Security Office
Younghill Kang
Author
10-May-1903 11-Dec-1972 The Grass Roof
Estes Kefauver
Politician
26-Jul-1903 10-Aug-1963 US Senator from Tennessee, 1949-63
Aram Khachaturian
Composer
24-May-1903 1-May-1978 Gayane
Lester A. Kirkendall
Sociologist
1903 31-May-1991 Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships
Tony Lazzeri
Baseball
6-Dec-1903 6-Aug-1946 Yankees second baseman, Hall-of-Famer
Louis Leakey
Anthropologist
7-Aug-1903 1-Oct-1972 Discovered Homo Habilis
Rex Lease
Actor
11-Feb-1903 3-Jan-1966 The Monster Walks
Abba Lerner
Economist
28-Oct-1903 27-Oct-1982 The Economics of Control
John Davis Lodge
Politician
20-Oct-1903 29-Oct-1985 Governor of Connecticut, 1951-55
Konrad Lorenz
Zoologist
7-Nov-1903 27-Feb-1989 Founder of modern ethology
Clare Boothe Luce
Politician
10-Apr-1903 9-Oct-1987 Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce
Cecil B. Lyon
Diplomat
8-Nov-1903 6-Apr-1993 US Ambassador to Chile, Sri Lanka
Jeanette MacDonald
Actor
18-Jun-1903 14-Jan-1965 The Merry Widow
Mike Mansfield
Politician
16-Mar-1903 5-Oct-2001 US Senator from Montana, 1953-77
J. Howard McGrath
Government
28-Nov-1903 2-Sep-1966 US Attorney General, 1949-52
Livingston T. Merchant
Diplomat
23-Nov-1903 15-May-1976 Twice US Ambassador to Canada
Una Merkel
Actor
10-Dec-1903 2-Jan-1986 Summer and Smoke
Albert Cardinal Meyer
Religion
9-Mar-1903 9-Apr-1965 Archbishop of Chicago, 1958-65
Vincente Minnelli
Film Director
28-Feb-1903 25-Jul-1986 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Millard Mitchell
Actor
14-Aug-1903 13-Oct-1953 My Six Convicts
Malcolm Muggeridge
Author
24-Mar-1903 14-Nov-1990 Highly iconoclastic English wit
Ferenc Nagy
Head of State
8-Oct-1903 12-Jun-1979 Exiled Prime Minister of Hungary
Alan Napier
Actor
7-Jan-1903 8-Aug-1988 Alfred on Batman
Giulio Natta
Chemist
26-Feb-1903 2-May-1979 Ziegler-Natta catalysts
Eliot Ness
Government
19-Apr-1903 16-May-1957 Treasury Agent, The Untouchables
Anaïs Nin
Author
21-Feb-1903 14-Jan-1977 Diary of Anaïs Nin
Frank O'Connor
Author
17-Sep-1903 10-Mar-1966 Guests of the Nation
Jack Oakie
Actor
12-Nov-1903 23-Jan-1978 The Great Dictator,
Lars Onsager
Chemist
27-Nov-1903 5-Oct-1976 Irreversible chemical processes
George Orwell
Author
25-Jun-1903 21-Jan-1950 Author of 1984 and Animal Farm
Alan Paton
Author
11-Jan-1903 12-Apr-1988 Cry, the Beloved Country
Gregory Pincus
Scientist
9-Apr-1903 22-Aug-1967 Inventor of oral contraceptives
Nikolai Podgorny
Head of State
18-Feb-1903 11-Jan-1983 President of the USSR, 1965-77
Cecil Powell
Physicist
5-Dec-1903 9-Aug-1969 Discovered the pi-meson
Raymond Queneau
Novelist
21-Feb-1903 25-Oct-1976 Zazie dans le métro
Raymond Radiguet
Novelist
18-Jun-1903 12-Dec-1923 Le Diable au Corps
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Head of State
8-Feb-1903 6-Dec-1990 First Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1957-70
Anne Revere
Actor
25-Jun-1903 18-Dec-1990 National Velvet
Dennis J. Roberts
Politician
8-Apr-1903 30-Jun-1994 Governor of Rhode Island, 1951-59
Mark Rothko
Painter
25-Sep-1903 25-Feb-1970 Painter of fuzzy rectangles
Vernon Sewell
Film Director
4-Jul-1903 21-Jun-2001 Director of British B movies
Georges Simenon
Novelist
13-Feb-1903 4-Sep-1989 Prolific Belgian-French novelist
George D. Snell
Scientist
19-Dec-1903 6-Jun-1996 Recognition of HLA antigens
Benjamin Spock
Doctor
2-May-1903 15-Mar-1998 Baby and Child Care
Charles Starrett
Actor
28-Mar-1903 22-Mar-1986 The Durango Kid
Irving Stone
Novelist
14-Jul-1903 26-Aug-1989 Historical biographical novelist
Robert Strausz-Hupé
Diplomat
25-Mar-1903 24-Feb-2002 US Ambassador to Turkey, 1981-89
Hugo Theorell
Scientist
6-Jul-1903 15-Aug-1982 Oxidation enzymes
Jan Tinbergen
Economist
12-Apr-1903 9-Jun-1994 Economic Policy
Preston Tucker
Business
21-Sep-1903 26-Dec-1956 The car of tomorrow -- today
Tom Tyler
Actor
9-Aug-1903 3-May-1954 Adventures of Captain Marvel
John von Neumann
Scientist
28-Dec-1903 8-Feb-1957 Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Edward T. Wailes
Diplomat
16-Feb-1903 1969 US Ambassador to Iran, 1958-61
Ernest T. S. Walton
Physicist
6-Oct-1903 25-Jun-1995 Split the atom
Evelyn Waugh
Novelist
28-Oct-1903 10-Apr-1966 Brideshead Revisited
Lawrence Welk
Conductor
11-Mar-1903 17-May-1992 Big band leader, TV champagne music host
Nathanael West
Author
17-Oct-1903 22-Dec-1940 The Day of the Locust
Chill Wills
Actor
18-Jul-1903 15-Dec-1978 The Alamo
Cornell Woolrich
Novelist
4-Dec-1903 25-Sep-1968 The Bride Wore Black
John Wyndham
Author
10-Jul-1903 11-Mar-1969 The Day of the Triffids
Ralph Yarborough
Politician
8-Jun-1903 27-Jan-1996 US Senator from Texas, 1957-71
Marguerite Yourcenar
Novelist
8-Jun-1903 17-Dec-1987 Mémoires d'Hadrien


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