| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Margery Allingham |
Novelist |
20-May-1904 |
30-Jun-1966 |
Albert Campion detective novels |
| Don Ameche |
Actor |
31-May-1904 |
6-Dec-1993 |
Trading Places |
| Jack Z. Anderson |
Politician |
22-Mar-1904 |
9-Feb-1981 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
| Sigurd Anderson |
Politician |
22-Jan-1904 |
21-Dec-1990 |
Governor of South Dakota, 1951-55 |
| Peter Arno |
Cartoonist |
8-Jan-1904 |
22-Feb-1968 |
The New Yorker |
| Edward Ashley |
Actor |
12-Aug-1904 |
5-May-2000 |
British-American character actor |
| Nnamdi Azikiwe |
Head of State |
16-Nov-1904 |
11-May-1996 |
First President of Nigeria, 1963-66 |
| Angela Baddeley |
Actor |
4-Jul-1904 |
22-Feb-1976 |
Upstairs, Downstairs |
| Raymond Bailey |
Actor |
6-May-1904 |
15-Apr-1980 |
Milburn on Beverly Hillbillies |
| Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
| George Balanchine |
Dancer |
22-Jan-1904 |
30-Apr-1983 |
Choreographer co-founded NYC Ballet |
| Bob Bartlett |
Politician |
20-Apr-1904 |
11-Dec-1968 |
US Senator from Alaska, 1959-68 |
| Count Basie |
Pianist |
21-Aug-1904 |
26-Apr-1984 |
Big band pianist |
| Gregory Bateson |
Anthropologist |
9-May-1904 |
4-Jul-1980 |
Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
| Alfonso Bedoya |
Actor |
16-Apr-1904 |
15-Dec-1957 |
Doesn't need no stinking badges |
| Ralph Bellamy |
Actor |
17-Jun-1904 |
29-Nov-1991 |
Trading Places |
| Constance Bennett |
Actor |
22-Oct-1904 |
24-Jul-1965 |
The Affairs of Cellini |
| Benny Binion |
Business |
20-Nov-1904 |
25-Dec-1989 |
Founder, World Series of Poker |
| Earle Birney |
Novelist |
13-May-1904 |
3-Sep-1995 |
Now Is Time |
| Charles E. Bohlen |
Diplomat |
30-Aug-1904 |
31-Dec-1974 |
US Ambassador to USSR, 1953-57 |
| Ray Bolger |
Actor |
10-Jan-1904 |
15-Jan-1987 |
The Wizard of Oz Scarecrow |
| W. A. Boyle |
Labor Leader |
1-Dec-1904 |
31-May-1985 |
UMW President, 1963-72 |
| Johnny Mack Brown |
Actor |
1-Sep-1904 |
14-Nov-1974 |
College All-American turned film star |
| Wally Brown |
Actor |
9-Oct-1904 |
13-Nov-1961 |
Zombies on Broadway |
| Herbert Brownell, Jr. |
Government |
20-Feb-1904 |
1-May-1996 |
US Attorney General, 1953-57 |
| George Buchanan |
Novelist |
9-Jan-1904 |
1989 |
Entanglement |
| Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
| Arthur F. Burns |
Economist |
27-Apr-1904 |
6-Jun-1987 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 |
| Bruce Cabot |
Actor |
20-Apr-1904 |
3-May-1972 |
Saved Fay Wray from King Kong |
| Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
| Joseph Campbell |
Author |
26-Mar-1904 |
31-Oct-1987 |
The Power of Myth |
| Henri Cartan |
Mathematician |
8-Jul-1904 |
13-Aug-2008 |
Leader of the math Bourbakistes |
| Pavel A. Cherenkov |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1904 |
6-Jan-1990 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Bob Chester |
Musician |
20-Mar-1904 |
1977 |
Big band leader, Sunburst |
| Christian-Jaque |
Film Director |
4-Aug-1904 |
8-Jul-1994 |
Fan-Fan the Tulip |
| Claud Cockburn |
Journalist |
12-Apr-1904 |
15-Dec-1981 |
Radical British journalist |
| Iron Eyes Cody |
Actor |
3-Apr-1904 |
4-Jan-1999 |
Keep America Beautiful |
| Lester Cole |
Screenwriter |
19-Jun-1904 |
15-Aug-1985 |
Born Free |
| Jerry Colonna |
Radio Personality |
17-Sep-1904 |
21-Nov-1986 |
Sidekick of Bob Hope |
| Tom Conway |
Actor |
15-Sep-1904 |
22-Apr-1967 |
I Walked with a Zombie |
| Salvador Dali |
Painter |
11-May-1904 |
23-Jan-1989 |
Surrealist painter |
| Luigi Dallapiccola |
Composer |
3-Feb-1904 |
19-Feb-1975 |
Canti di Prigionia |
| George Dangerfield |
Historian |
28-Oct-1904 |
26-Dec-1986 |
The Strange Death of Liberal England |
| Jean Dasté |
Actor |
18-Aug-1904 |
15-Oct-1994 |
L'Atalante |
| Delmer Daves |
Film Director |
24-Jul-1904 |
17-Aug-1977 |
Destination Tokyo |
| Cecil Day-Lewis |
Poet |
27-Apr-1904 |
22-May-1972 |
UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72 |
| Willem de Kooning |
Painter |
24-Apr-1904 |
19-Mar-1997 |
Abstract expressionist |
| George Docking |
Politician |
23-Feb-1904 |
20-Jan-1964 |
Governor of Kansas, 1957-61 |
| Jimmy Dorsey |
Musician |
29-Feb-1904 |
12-Jun-1957 |
Popular bandleader and swing musician |
| Charles Drew |
Doctor |
3-Jun-1904 |
1-Apr-1950 |
First to separate blood plasma |
| Henry Dreyfuss |
Inventor |
2-Mar-1904 |
5-Oct-1972 |
Product designer, human factors engineer |
| James O. Eastland |
Politician |
28-Nov-1904 |
19-Feb-1986 |
US Senator from Mississippi, 1943-78 |
| Richard Eberhart |
Poet |
5-Apr-1904 |
9-Jun-2005 |
Collected Poems |
| King Faisal |
Royalty |
1904 |
25-Mar-1975 |
King of Saudi Arabia, 1964-75 |
| Glenda Farrell |
Actor |
30-Jun-1904 |
1-May-1971 |
Torchy Blane |
| James T. Farrell |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1904 |
22-Aug-1979 |
Studs Lonigan trilogy |
| John Farrow |
Screenwriter |
10-Feb-1904 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Terence Fisher |
Film Director |
23-Feb-1904 |
18-Jun-1980 |
Dracula, Prince of Darkness |
| Pretty Boy Floyd |
Criminal |
3-Feb-1904 |
22-Oct-1934 |
Bank robber |
| Werner Forssmann |
Doctor |
29-Aug-1904 |
1-Jun-1979 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Otto Robert Frisch |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1904 |
22-Sep-1979 |
Described fission |
| Jean Gabin |
Actor |
17-May-1904 |
15-Nov-1976 |
The Lower Depths |
| Richard Gaines |
Actor |
23-Jul-1904 |
20-Jul-1975 |
Double Indemnity |
| George Gamow |
Physicist |
4-Mar-1904 |
19-Aug-1968 |
Proponent of Big Bang Theory |
| Greer Garson |
Actor |
29-Sep-1904 |
6-Apr-1996 |
Mrs. Miniver |
| John Gielgud |
Actor |
14-Apr-1904 |
21-May-2000 |
Prospero's Books |
| Mack Gordon |
Composer |
21-Jun-1904 |
28-Feb-1959 |
Chattanooga Choo Choo |
| Arshile Gorky |
Painter |
15-Apr-1904 |
21-Jul-1948 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Sheilah Graham |
Columnist |
15-Sep-1904 |
17-Nov-1988 |
Beloved Infidel |
| Cary Grant |
Actor |
18-Jan-1904 |
29-Nov-1986 |
North by Northwest |
| Graham Greene |
Novelist |
2-Oct-1904 |
3-Apr-1991 |
The Third Man |
| Erwin Griswold |
Attorney |
14-Jul-1904 |
19-Nov-1994 |
US Solicitor General, 1967-73 |
| Patrick Hamilton |
Playwright |
17-Mar-1904 |
23-Sep-1962 |
Gaslight |
| Phil Harris |
Musician |
24-Jun-1904 |
11-Aug-1995 |
That's What I Like About the South |
| Robert Harrison |
Publisher |
14-Apr-1904 |
17-Feb-1978 |
Publisher of tabloid Confidential |
| Moss Hart |
Playwright |
24-Oct-1904 |
20-Dec-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| Paul Hartman |
Actor |
1-Mar-1904 |
2-Oct-1973 |
Emmett Clark on Mayberry R.F.D. |
| Coleman Hawkins |
Jazz Musician |
21-Nov-1904 |
19-May-1969 |
Jazz tenor saxophonist |
| Tom Helmore |
Actor |
4-Jan-1904 |
12-Sep-1995 |
Vertigo |
| Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
| Reinhard Heydrich |
Military |
7-Mar-1904 |
4-Jun-1942 |
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia |
| John R. Hicks |
Economist |
8-Apr-1904 |
20-May-1989 |
Value and Capital |
| Alger Hiss |
Government |
11-Nov-1904 |
15-Nov-1996 |
Accused spy for the Soviet Union |
| Keith Holyoake |
Head of State |
11-Feb-1904 |
8-Dec-1983 |
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1960-72 |
| Roman Hruska |
Politician |
16-Aug-1904 |
25-Apr-1999 |
US Senator from Nebraska, 1954-76 |
| Raymond Huntley |
Actor |
23-Apr-1904 |
19-Oct-1990 |
Passport to Pimlico |
| Hank Iba |
Basketball |
6-Aug-1904 |
15-Jan-1993 |
Oklahoma A&M Head Coach, 1934-70 |
| Christopher Isherwood |
Author |
26-Aug-1904 |
4-Jan-1986 |
The Berlin Stories |
| Leigh Jason |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1904 |
19-Feb-1979 |
The Mad Miss Manton |
| Jacob K. Javits |
Politician |
18-Mar-1904 |
7-Mar-1986 |
US Senator from New York, 1957-81 |
| Kay Johnson |
Actor |
29-Nov-1904 |
17-Nov-1975 |
Of Human Bondage |
| Joseph M. Juran |
Scientist |
24-Dec-1904 |
28-Feb-2008 |
The Pareto Principle |
| Om Kalsoum |
Singer |
4-Apr-1904 |
3-Feb-1975 |
Star of the East |
| MacKinlay Kantor |
Author |
4-Feb-1904 |
11-Oct-1977 |
Andersonville |
| George F. Kennan |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1904 |
17-Mar-2005 |
Architect of US policy of Soviet containment |
| Ancel Keys |
Scientist |
26-Jan-1904 |
20-Nov-2004 |
Nutritionist, created the K ration |
| Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Head of State |
6-Apr-1904 |
9-Mar-1988 |
German Chancellor, 1966-69 |
| Walter J. Kohler, Jr. |
Politician |
4-Apr-1904 |
21-Mar-1976 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1951-57 |
| Martin Kosleck |
Actor |
24-Mar-1904 |
15-Jan-1994 |
German-American character actor |
| Alexei Kosygin |
Head of State |
20-Feb-1904 |
18-Dec-1980 |
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1964-80 |
| Elissa Landi |
Actor |
6-Dec-1904 |
21-Oct-1948 |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Frank Lawton |
Actor |
30-Sep-1904 |
10-Jun-1969 |
A Night to Remember |
| A. J. Liebling |
Journalist |
18-Oct-1904 |
28-Dec-1963 |
The New Yorker |
| Robert Livingston |
Actor |
9-Dec-1904 |
7-Mar-1988 |
The Lone Ranger Rides Again |
| Selwyn Lloyd |
Politician |
28-Jul-1904 |
18-May-1978 |
Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76 |
| Peter Lorre |
Actor |
26-Jun-1904 |
23-Mar-1964 |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Keye Luke |
Actor |
18-Jun-1904 |
12-Jan-1991 |
Charlie Chan's No. 1 Son, Lee |
| Seán MacBride |
Activist |
26-Jan-1904 |
15-Jan-1988 |
Irish revolutionary, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Ted Mack |
TV Personality |
12-Feb-1904 |
12-Jul-1976 |
Original Amateur Hour |
| Forrest Mars |
Business |
21-Mar-1904 |
1-Jul-1999 |
Invented M&Ms |
| Pepper Martin |
Baseball |
29-Feb-1904 |
5-Mar-1965 |
St. Louis Cardinals |
| Harry Martinson |
Poet |
6-May-1904 |
11-Feb-1978 |
Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space |
| Andrew Marton |
Film Director |
26-Jan-1904 |
7-Jan-1992 |
Directed chariot race in Ben-Hur |
| Ernst Mayr |
Biologist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Neil H. McElroy |
Government |
30-Oct-1904 |
30-Nov-1972 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1957-59 |
| Clarence W. Meadows |
Politician |
11-Feb-1904 |
12-Sep-1961 |
Governor of West Virginia, 1945-49 |
| George Meeker |
Actor |
5-Mar-1904 |
19-Aug-1984 |
History Is Made at Night |
| Aparicio Méndez |
Head of State |
24-Aug-1904 |
26-Jun-1988 |
President of Uruguay, 1976-81 |
| Glenn Miller |
Musician |
1-Mar-1904 |
15-Dec-1944 |
Popular bandleader and trombonist |
| Nathan Milstein |
Violinist |
31-Dec-1904 |
21-Dec-1992 |
Virtuoso violinist, interpreter of Bach |
| Nancy Mitford |
Novelist |
28-Nov-1904 |
30-Jan-1973 |
The Pursuit of Love |
| Robert Montgomery |
Actor |
21-May-1904 |
27-Sep-1981 |
Mr. and Mrs. Smith |
| Russ Morgan |
Musician |
29-Apr-1904 |
8-Aug-1969 |
Bandleader, arranger and trombonist |
| Clive Morton |
Actor |
16-Mar-1904 |
24-Sep-1975 |
Kind Hearts and Coronets |
| Alfred P. Murrah |
Judge |
27-Oct-1904 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Oklahoma City Federal Building namesake |
| Anna Neagle |
Singer |
20-Oct-1904 |
3-Jun-1986 |
Victoria the Great |
| Louis Néel |
Physicist |
22-Nov-1904 |
17-Nov-2000 |
Magnetic properties of solids |
| Pablo Neruda |
Poet |
12-Jul-1904 |
23-Sep-1973 |
Residencia en la Tierra |
| Theodore Newton |
Actor |
4-Aug-1904 |
28-Feb-1963 |
The Working Man |
| Marian Nixon |
Actor |
20-Oct-1904 |
13-Feb-1983 |
The Sweetest Girl In Hollywood |
| Jay Novello |
Actor |
22-Aug-1904 |
2-Sep-1982 |
The Lost World |
| J. Pat O'Malley |
Actor |
15-Mar-1904 |
27-Feb-1985 |
Harry Burns on My Favorite Martian |
| Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
| Doris Packer |
Actor |
30-May-1904 |
31-Mar-1979 |
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis |
| Charles J. Pedersen |
Chemist |
3-Oct-1904 |
26-Oct-1989 |
Synthesis of crown ethers |
| Jan Peerce |
Singer |
3-Jun-1904 |
15-Dec-1984 |
Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Joe Penner |
Radio Personality |
11-Nov-1904 |
10-Jan-1941 |
Wanna buy a duck? |
| S. J. Perelman |
Author |
1-Feb-1904 |
17-Oct-1979 |
New Yorker humorist |
| Laura La Plante |
Actor |
1-Nov-1904 |
14-Oct-1996 |
The Cat and the Canary |
| H. C. Potter |
Film Director |
13-Nov-1904 |
31-Aug-1977 |
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House |
| Dick Powell |
Actor |
14-Nov-1904 |
2-Jan-1963 |
The Bad and the Beautiful |
| Karl Rahner |
Religion |
5-Mar-1904 |
30-Mar-1984 |
Leading Roman Catholic theologian |
| Duncan Renaldo |
Actor |
23-Apr-1904 |
3-Sep-1980 |
The Cisco Kid |
| Dorothy Revier |
Actor |
18-Apr-1904 |
19-Nov-1993 |
The Dance of Life |
| James W. Riddleberger |
Diplomat |
21-Sep-1904 |
17-Oct-1982 |
Chief of Central European Affairs, 1944-47 |
| Buddy Rogers |
Actor |
13-Aug-1904 |
21-Apr-1999 |
With Mary Pickford in My Best Girl |
| Selena Royle |
Actor |
6-Nov-1904 |
23-Apr-1983 |
The Fighting Sullivans |
| Victor H. Schiro |
Politician |
6-May-1904 |
29-Aug-1992 |
Mayor of New Orleans, 1961-70 |
| Dr. Seuss |
Author |
2-Mar-1904 |
24-Sep-1991 |
The Cat in the Hat |
| William L. Shirer |
Historian |
23-Feb-1904 |
28-Dec-1993 |
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| Joseph H. Short |
Government |
11-Feb-1904 |
18-Sep-1952 |
Harry S. Truman's press secretary |
| Denny Shute |
Golf |
25-Oct-1904 |
13-May-1974 |
Winner of 3 Majors |
| Clifford D. Simak |
Novelist |
3-Aug-1904 |
25-Apr-1988 |
City and The Visitors |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Author |
14-Jul-1904 |
24-Jul-1991 |
Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy |
| John Sirica |
Judge |
19-Mar-1904 |
14-Aug-1992 |
Watergate judge |
| B. F. Skinner |
Psychologist |
20-Mar-1904 |
18-Aug-1990 |
Radical Behaviorism |
| Pinetop Smith |
Pianist |
11-Jun-1904 |
15-Mar-1929 |
Inventor of Boogie-Woogie |
| R. G. Springsteen |
Film Director |
8-Sep-1904 |
9-Dec-1989 |
Taggart |
| Wendell M. Stanley |
Chemist |
16-Aug-1904 |
15-Jun-1971 |
First to crystallize a virus |
| George Stevens |
Film Director |
18-Dec-1904 |
8-Mar-1975 |
A Place in the Sun |
| Clyfford Still |
Painter |
30-Nov-1904 |
23-Jun-1980 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Milburn Stone |
Actor |
5-Jul-1904 |
12-Jun-1980 |
Doc Adams on Gunsmoke |
| Verree Teasdale |
Actor |
15-Mar-1904 |
17-Feb-1987 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Llewellyn E. Thompson |
Diplomat |
24-Aug-1904 |
6-Feb-1972 |
Twice US Ambassador to USSR |
| Jacques Tourneur |
Film Director |
12-Nov-1904 |
19-Dec-1977 |
Original 1942 Cat People |
| Edgar G. Ulmer |
Film Director |
17-Sep-1904 |
30-Sep-1972 |
Detour |
| Umberto II |
Royalty |
15-Sep-1904 |
18-Mar-1983 |
King of Italy, 1946 |
| Joseph Vlasic |
Business |
1904 |
10-Jul-1986 |
Pickle baron |
| Fats Waller |
Jazz Musician |
21-May-1904 |
15-Dec-1943 |
Influential jazz pianist |
| Johnny Weissmuller |
Actor |
2-Jun-1904 |
20-Jan-1984 |
Gold Medalist became Tarzan |
| Alice White |
Actor |
25-Aug-1904 |
19-Feb-1983 |
The Widow from Chicago |
| John Hay Whitney |
Business |
17-Aug-1904 |
8-Feb-1982 |
New York Herald Tribune |
| Hugh Williams |
Actor |
6-Mar-1904 |
7-Dec-1969 |
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing |
| John J. Williams |
Politician |
17-May-1904 |
11-Jan-1988 |
US Senator from Delaware, 1947-70 |
| Arthur Winstead |
Politician |
6-Jan-1904 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Congressman from Mississippi, 1943-65 |
| Roland Winters |
Actor |
22-Nov-1904 |
22-Oct-1989 |
Charlie Chan |
| Grant Withers |
Actor |
17-Jan-1904 |
27-Mar-1959 |
American character actor |
| Deng Xiaoping |
Politician |
22-Aug-1904 |
19-Feb-1997 |
Communist Chinese leader |
| Louis Zukofsky |
Poet |
23-Jan-1904 |
12-May-1978 |
Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement |
