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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William Foxwell Albright
Archaeologist
24-May-1891 19-Sep-1971 Biblical archaeologist at Johns Hopkins
Stanley Andrews
Actor
28-Aug-1891 23-Jun-1969 Death Valley Days
Thurman Arnold
Attorney
2-Jun-1891 7-Nov-1969 Trust-busting attorney
J. Hugo Aronson
Politician
1-Sep-1891 25-Feb-1978 Governor of Montana, 1953-61
Fay Bainter
Actor
7-Dec-1891 16-Apr-1968 Jezebel
Frederick G. Banting
Scientist
14-Nov-1891 21-Feb-1941 Discovered insulin
Daniel W. Bell
Government
23-Jul-1891 ? Undersecretary of the Treasury
Edward Bernays
Business
22-Nov-1891 9-Mar-1995 Propaganda
Dana X. Bible
Football
8-Oct-1891 19-Jan-1980 Legendary Texas football coach
Charles Bickford
Actor
1-Jan-1891 9-Nov-1967 The Song of Bernadette
Arthur Bliss
Composer
2-Aug-1891 28-Mar-1975 Morning Heroes
Walther Bothe
Physicist
8-Jan-1891 8-Feb-1957 Coincidence method
Fanny Brice
Singer
29-Oct-1891 29-May-1951 The Baby Snooks Show
Helen Broderick
Actor
11-Aug-1891 25-Sep-1959 Top Hat
C. Norman Brunsdale
Politician
9-Jul-1891 27-Jan-1978 Governor of North Dakota, 1951-57
Jack Buchanan
Actor
2-Apr-1891 20-Oct-1957 The Band Wagon
Mikhail Bulgakov
Author
3-May-1891 10-Mar-1940 The Master and Margarita
William C. Bullitt
Diplomat
25-Jan-1891 15-Feb-1967 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1933-36
Leo Burnett
Business
21-Oct-1891 7-Jun-1971 American advertising pioneer
Mae Busch
Actor
18-Jun-1891 19-Apr-1946 The Ever-Popular Mae Busch
Rudolf Carnap
Philosopher
18-May-1891 14-Sep-1970 The Logical Syntax of Language
James Chadwick
Physicist
20-Oct-1891 24-Jul-1974 Discovered the neutron
Ray Chapman
Baseball
15-Jan-1891 17-Aug-1920 Fatally hit by pitch
Edward F. Cline
Film Director
4-Nov-1891 22-May-1961 The Bank Dick
Ronald Colman
Actor
9-Feb-1891 19-May-1958 A Double Life
Con Conrad
Songwriter
18-Jun-1891 28-Sep-1938 The Continental
Father Charles Coughlin
Religion
25-Oct-1891 27-Oct-1979 Radio opponent of FDR
Reginald Denny
Actor
20-Nov-1891 16-Jun-1967 English actor and RC airplane popularizer
Otto Dix
Painter
2-Dec-1891 25-Jul-1969 Expressionist vividly depicted WWI
Karl Doenitz
Military
16-Sep-1891 2-Dec-1980 U-Boat admiral
Phil M. Donnelly
Politician
16-Mar-1891 12-Sep-1961 Twice Governor of Missouri
Al Dubin
Songwriter
10-Jun-1891 11-Feb-1945 Lullaby of Broadway
E. A. Dupont
Film Director
25-Dec-1891 12-Dec-1956 Piccadilly
Mischa Elman
Violinist
20-Jan-1891 5-Apr-1967 Ukrainian-American violin prodigy
Max Ernst
Painter
2-Apr-1891 1-Apr-1976 The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child
William Friedman
Scientist
24-Sep-1891 12-Nov-1969 Cryptography pioneer
Assar Gabrielsson
Business
13-Aug-1891 28-May-1962 Co-Founder of Volvo
Marjorie Gateson
Actor
17-Jan-1891 17-Apr-1977 Goin' to Town
E. Urner Goodman
Administrator
15-May-1891 13-Mar-1980 Cofounder, Order of the Arrow
Edmund Goulding
Film Director
20-Mar-1891 24-Dec-1959 Grand Hotel
Antonio Gramsci
Activist
23-Jan-1891 27-Apr-1937 Founder of the Italian Communist Party
Jonathan Hale
Actor
21-Mar-1891 28-Feb-1966 J. C. Dithers
Joyce C. Hall
Business
29-Aug-1891 29-Oct-1982 Founder of Hallmark Cards
Erle P. Halliburton
Business
22-Sep-1891 13-Oct-1957 Founder of Halliburton
W. Averell Harriman
Diplomat
15-Nov-1891 26-Jul-1986 Ambassador to USSR, Governor of NY
Sidney Coe Howard
Playwright
26-Jun-1891 23-Aug-1939 They Knew What They Wanted
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist
7-Jan-1891 28-Jan-1960 Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sam Jaffe
Actor
10-Mar-1891 24-Mar-1984 Gunga Din
Storm Jameson
Novelist
8-Jan-1891 1986 The Pot Boils
Isabel Jeans
Actor
16-Sep-1891 4-Sep-1985 Easy Virtue
Louis A. Johnson
Government
10-Jan-1891 24-Apr-1966 US Secretary of Defense, 1949-50
Roscoe Karns
Actor
7-Sep-1891 6-Feb-1970 It Happened One Night
Madge Kennedy
Actor
19-Apr-1891 9-Jun-1987 The Marrying Kind
Victor Kilian
Actor
6-Mar-1891 11-Mar-1979 Raymond Larkin on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Willard M. Kiplinger
Journalist
8-Jan-1891 6-Aug-1967 Kiplinger Washington Editors
Pär Lagerkvist
Author
23-May-1891 11-Jul-1974 Barabbas
Nella Larsen
Novelist
13-Apr-1891 30-Mar-1964 Quicksand
José P. Laurel
Head of State
9-Mar-1891 6-Nov-1959 3rd President of the Philippines
Rowland V. Lee
Film Director
6-Sep-1891 21-Dec-1975 Son of Frankenstein
Rush Hudson Limbaugh
Politician
27-Sep-1891 8-Apr-1996 Rush's grandfather
Gene Lockhart
Actor
18-Jul-1891 31-Mar-1957 Algiers
Grace Lumpkin
Novelist
3-Mar-1891 1980 To Make My Bread
Osip Mandelshtam
Poet
1891 27-Dec-1938 Acmeist Russian poet
Percy Marks
Novelist
9-Sep-1891 27-Dec-1956 The Plastic Age
George E. Marshall
Film Director
29-Dec-1891 17-Feb-1975 Destry Rides Again
Archie Mayo
Film Director
29-Jan-1891 4-Dec-1968 The Adventures of Marco Polo
John W. McCormack
Politician
21-Dec-1891 22-Nov-1980 Speaker of the House, 1962-70
Paul V. McNutt
Politician
19-Jul-1891 24-Mar-1955 Governor of Indiana, 1933-37
Henry Miller
Novelist
26-Dec-1891 7-Jun-1980 Tropic of Cancer
Walter Monckton
Politician
17-Jan-1891 9-Jan-1965 UK Minister of Defence, 1955-56
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Government
11-May-1891 6-Feb-1967 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45
Charles Münch
Conductor
26-Sep-1891 6-Nov-1968 Conductor, Orchestre National de France, 1962-68
Greasy Neale
Football
5-Nov-1891 2-Nov-1973 NFL Hall of Fame Coach
Pier Luigi Nervi
Architect
21-Jun-1891 9-Jan-1979 Experimented with reinforced concrete
Seth Barnes Nicholson
Astronomer
12-Nov-1891 2-Jul-1963 Four satellites of Jupiter
John H. Northrop
Chemist
5-Jul-1891 27-May-1987 Bacteriophages
Warder Norton
Business
17-Sep-1891 7-Nov-1945 W. W. Norton & Company
Henry O'Neill
Actor
10-Aug-1891 18-May-1961 Anchors Aweigh
Carl Panzram
Criminal
28-Jun-1891 5-Sep-1930 Relentless sociopath, serial killer
Robert P. Patterson
Judge
12-Feb-1891 22-Jan-1952 US Secretary of War, 1945-47
Irving Pichel
Film Director
24-Jun-1891 13-Jul-1954 Destination Moon
Cole Porter
Composer
9-Jun-1891 15-Oct-1964 I've Got You Under My Skin
Sergei Prokofiev
Composer
23-Apr-1891 5-Mar-1953 Peter and the Wolf
Julius Raab
Head of State
29-Nov-1891 8-Jan-1964 Chancellor of Austria, 1953-61
Virginia Rappe
Victim
7-Jul-1891 9-Sep-1921 Fatty Arbuckle scandal
Wallace Reid
Actor
15-Apr-1891 18-Jan-1923 Silent film actor and director
Irene Rich
Actor
13-Oct-1891 22-Apr-1988 The Mortal Storm
Sid Richardson
Business
25-Apr-1891 30-Sep-1959 Oilman, Bass family benefactor
Erwin Rommel
Military
15-Nov-1891 14-Oct-1944 The Desert Fox
Nicola Sacco
Anarchist
22-Apr-1891 27-Aug-1927 Sacco and Vanzetti
Nelly Sachs
Poet
10-Dec-1891 12-May-1970 O the Chimneys
Pedro Salinas
Poet
27-Nov-1891 4-Dec-1951 Generation of '27
David Sarnoff
Business
27-Feb-1891 12-Dec-1971 CEO of RCA, founder of NBC
David Sholtz
Politician
6-Oct-1891 21-Mar-1953 Governor of Florida, 1933-37
Carl A. Spaatz
Military
28-Jun-1891 14-Jul-1974 USAF Chief of Staff, 1947-48
Robert G. Sproul
Educator
22-May-1891 10-Sep-1975 President, University of California, 1930-58
Carl Stalling
Composer
10-Nov-1891 29-Nov-1972 Composer for hundreds of Looney Tunes
John H. Stelle
Politician
10-Aug-1891 5-Jul-1962 Governor of Illinois, 1940-41
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Publisher
12-Sep-1891 11-Dec-1968 New York Times Publisher, 1935-61
Fritz Todt
Government
4-Sep-1891 8-Feb-1942 Nazi engineer, finished the Autobahn
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
Head of State
24-Oct-1891 30-May-1961 Dictator of the Dominican Republic
Victor Varconi
Actor
31-Mar-1891 6-Jun-1976 Hungarian-American character actor
Urban J. Vehr
Religion
30-May-1891 19-Sep-1973 Archbishop of Denver, 1941-67
Monrad C. Wallgren
Politician
17-Apr-1891 18-Sep-1961 Governor of Washington, 1945-49
Earl Warren
Judge
19-Mar-1891 9-Jul-1974 US Chief Justice, 1953-69
Richard A. Whiting
Composer
12-Nov-1891 10-Feb-1938 Ain't We Got Fun?
Richard B. Wigglesworth
Government
25-Apr-1891 22-Oct-1960 Congressman from Massachusetts, 1928-58


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