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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ernest Ansermet
Conductor
11-Nov-1883 20-Feb-1969 Founder, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ray Atherton
Diplomat
1883 1960 US Ambassador to Canada, 1943-48
Clement Attlee
Head of State
3-Jan-1883 8-Oct-1967 UK Prime Minister, 1945-51
Arnold Bax
Composer
8-Nov-1883 3-Oct-1953 Symphonist, Tone Poet
Celal Bayar
Head of State
16-May-1883 22-Aug-1986 President of Turkey, 1950-60
Jules Berry
Actor
9-Feb-1883 23-Apr-1951 Le Jour se lève
Eubie Blake
Jazz Musician
7-Feb-1883 12-Feb-1983 Ragtime jazz pianist
Samuel Blanc
Inventor
13-Feb-1883 20-Dec-1964 Founder of Roto-Rooter
Homer T. Bone
Politician
25-Jan-1883 11-Mar-1970 US Senator from Washington, 1933-44
Alan Brooke
Military
23-Jul-1883 17-Jun-1963 Chief military advisor to Churchill
Stanley Bruce
Head of State
15-Apr-1883 25-Aug-1967 Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29
Francis X. Bushman
Actor
10-Jan-1883 23-Aug-1966 Ben-Hur
Alfredo Casella
Composer
25-Jul-1883 5-Mar-1947 Rejuvinated Vivaldi
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
19-Aug-1883 10-Jan-1971 Chanel No. 5
Lon Chaney
Actor
1-Apr-1883 26-Aug-1930 The Phantom of the Opera
Charles Demuth
Painter
8-Nov-1883 23-Oct-1935 I Saw the Figure Five in Gold
Wild Bill Donovan
Government
1-Jan-1883 8-Feb-1959 Founded the OSS
James H. Duff
Politician
21-Jan-1883 20-Dec-1969 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947-51
Max Eastman
Author
12-Jan-1883 25-Mar-1969 Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Actor
23-May-1883 12-Dec-1939 The Thief of Baghdad
Faisal I
Royalty
20-May-1883 8-Sep-1933 King of Iraq, 1921-33
Stanley Fields
Actor
20-May-1883 23-Apr-1941 Way Out West
Martin Flavin
Novelist
2-Nov-1883 27-Dec-1967 Journey in the Dark
Victor Fleming
Film Director
23-Feb-1883 6-Jan-1949 Gone With the Wind
Raymond B. Fosdick
Business
9-Jun-1883 19-Jul-1972 President of the Rockefeller Foundation
Pauline Frederick
Actor
12-Aug-1883 19-Sep-1938 This Modern Age
Khalil Gibran
Poet
6-Jan-1883 10-Apr-1931 The Prophet
Rube Goldberg
Cartoonist
4-Jul-1883 7-Dec-1970 Designer of impossible contraptions
Walter Gropius
Architect
18-May-1883 5-Jul-1969 Founder of the Bauhaus school
Sam Hardy
Actor
21-Mar-1883 16-Oct-1935 King Kong
Jaroslav Hasek
Author
30-Apr-1883 3-Jan-1923 The Good Soldier Svejk
Norman Haworth
Chemist
19-Mar-1883 19-Mar-1950 Carbohydrates and vitamin C
Victor Francis Hess
Physicist
24-Jun-1883 17-Dec-1964 Proved cosmic origin of radiation
Clifford Holland
Architect
13-Mar-1883 27-Oct-1924 Chief engineer, Holland Tunnel
T. E. Hulme
Poet
16-Sep-1883 28-Sep-1917 Modernist poet and critic
Patrick J. Hurley
Military
8-Jan-1883 30-Jul-1963 US Secretary of War, 1929-33
Karl Jaspers
Philosopher
23-Feb-1883 26-Feb-1969 Existential thinker
Ernest Just
Biologist
14-Aug-1883 27-Oct-1941 Cell surfaces and egg fertilization
Franz Kafka
Novelist
3-Jul-1883 3-Jun-1924 Metamorphosis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist
18-Feb-1883 26-Oct-1957 Zorba the Greek
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
5-Jun-1883 21-Apr-1946 Father of Keynesian economics
Frank King
Cartoonist
9-Apr-1883 24-Jun-1969 Gasoline Alley
Alfred Kreymborg
Author
10-Dec-1883 Aug-1966 Founder of The Glebe
Pierre Laval
Head of State
28-Jun-1883 15-Oct-1945 Prime Minister of Vichy France
Max Linder
Actor
16-Dec-1883 31-Oct-1925 Seven Years Bad Luck
Marion Lorne
Actor
12-Aug-1883 9-May-1968 Aunt Clara on Bewitched
Robert H. Lowie
Anthropologist
12-Jun-1883 21-Sep-1957 American ethnologist
Hall S. Lusk
Judge
21-Sep-1883 15-May-1983 Oregon State Supreme Court Justice, 1937-68
Compton MacKenzie
Novelist
17-Jan-1883 30-Nov-1972 Carnival
Frank Mars
Business
24-Sep-1883 8-Apr-1934 Invented Milky Way and Snickers bars
Victor McLaglen
Actor
11-Dec-1883 7-Nov-1959 The Informer
Tom Moore
Actor
1-May-1883 12-Feb-1955 Irish-American character actor
Polly Moran
Actor
28-Jun-1883 25-Jan-1952 Adam's Rib
Ralph Morgan
Actor
6-Jul-1883 11-Jun-1956 The Kennel Murder Case
Clarence E. Mulford
Novelist
3-Feb-1883 10-May-1956 Hopalong Cassidy
Benito Mussolini
Head of State
29-Jul-1883 28-Apr-1945 Fascist Dictator of Italy
Scott Nearing
Economist
6-Aug-1883 24-Aug-1983 Socialist economist
Edwin G. Nourse
Economist
20-May-1883 7-Apr-1974 Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49
Edna May Oliver
Actor
9-Nov-1883 9-Nov-1942 Drums Along the Mohawk
José Clemente Orozco
Painter
23-Nov-1883 7-Sep-1949 20th c. Mexican muralist
Gustav Otto
Business
12-Jan-1883 28-Feb-1926 Founder of BMW and Flottweg AG
George Papanicolaou
Scientist
13-May-1883 19-Feb-1962 Pap smear
George A. Parks
Politician
29-May-1883 11-May-1984 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1925-33
Lester Patrick
Hockey
30-Dec-1883 1-Jun-1960 NY Rangers Head Coach, 1926-39
E. J. Pratt
Poet
4-Feb-1883 26-Apr-1964 Newfoundland Verse
Raimu
Actor
18-Dec-1883 20-Sep-1946 Marius
Henry F. Schricker
Politician
30-Aug-1883 28-Dec-1966 Twice Governor of Indiana
Joseph Schumpeter
Economist
8-Feb-1883 8-Jan-1950 Creative Destruction
Charles Sheeler
Painter
16-Jul-1883 7-May-1965 American modernist painter, precisionist
Ned Sparks
Actor
19-Nov-1883 3-Apr-1957 Unsmiling character actor
Joseph Stilwell
Military
19-Mar-1883 12-Oct-1946 Led US and Chinese forces in WWII China
Edgard Varèse
Composer
22-Dec-1883 8-Nov-1965 Poème électronique
Andrei Vyshinsky
Government
10-Dec-1883 22-Nov-1954 Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Military
23-Aug-1883 2-Sep-1953 Commander of the Philippines
Otto Warburg
Scientist
8-Oct-1883 1-Aug-1970 Effect of oxygen on cancer
Archibald Wavell
Military
5-May-1883 24-May-1950 British Field Marshal in WWII
Anton Webern
Composer
3-Dec-1883 15-Sep-1945 Atonal composer
William Carlos Williams
Poet
17-Sep-1883 4-Mar-1963 Pictures from Brueghel
Estelle Winwood
Actor
24-Jan-1883 20-Jun-1984 The Producers
Sam Wood
Film Director
10-Jul-1883 22-Sep-1949 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Grigory Zinoviev
Government
23-Sep-1883 25-Aug-1936 Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge


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