| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Edgar Adrian |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1889 |
4-Aug-1977 |
Electricity within nerve cells |
| Conrad Aiken |
Poet |
5-Aug-1889 |
17-Aug-1973 |
Earth Triumphant |
| Anna Akhmatova |
Poet |
11-Jun-1889 |
5-Mar-1966 |
Poem Without a Hero |
| Hervey Allen |
Poet |
8-Dec-1889 |
28-Dec-1949 |
Ballads of the Border |
| Lloyd Bacon |
Film Director |
4-Dec-1889 |
15-Nov-1955 |
Knute Rockne All American |
| Enid Bagnold |
Novelist |
27-Oct-1889 |
31-Mar-1981 |
National Velvet |
| Warner Baxter |
Actor |
29-Mar-1889 |
7-May-1951 |
In Old Arizona |
| Naaman Belkind |
Spy |
1889 |
16-Dec-1917 |
Israeli spy |
| Robert Benchley |
Author |
15-Sep-1889 |
21-Nov-1945 |
Humorist and screenwriter |
| Thomas Hart Benton |
Painter |
15-Apr-1889 |
19-Jan-1975 |
Muralist |
| Herman Bing |
Actor |
30-Mar-1889 |
9-Jan-1947 |
1930s character actor |
| Gordon Browning |
Politician |
22-Nov-1889 |
23-May-1976 |
Twice Governor of Tennessee |
| Charlie Chaplin |
Actor |
16-Apr-1889 |
25-Dec-1977 |
Silent film comedian |
| Jean Cocteau |
Poet |
5-Jul-1889 |
11-Oct-1963 |
La Belle et la Bête |
| George Douglas Howard Cole |
Economist |
25-Sep-1889 |
14-Jan-1959 |
British Labour theorist |
| R. G. Collingwood |
Historian |
22-Feb-1889 |
9-Jan-1943 |
The Idea of History |
| Ray Collins |
Actor |
10-Dec-1889 |
11-Jul-1965 |
Lt. Tragg on Perry Mason |
| Jesse Martin Combs |
Politician |
7-Jul-1889 |
21-Aug-1953 |
Congressman from Texas, 1945-53 |
| Joseph Force Crater |
Victim |
1889 |
6-Aug-1930 |
NY State Judge vanished |
| Stafford Cripps |
Politician |
24-Apr-1889 |
21-Apr-1952 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1947-50 |
| Harold W. Dodds |
Educator |
28-Jun-1889 |
25-Oct-1980 |
President, Princeton University, 1932-57 |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer |
Film Director |
3-Feb-1889 |
20-Mar-1968 |
Greatest Danish film director |
| W. S. Van Dyke |
Film Director |
21-Mar-1889 |
5-Feb-1943 |
The Thin Man |
| Stephen T. Early |
Government |
27-Aug-1889 |
11-Aug-1951 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary |
| Otto Frank |
Relative |
12-May-1889 |
19-Aug-1980 |
Father of Anne Frank |
| Waldo Frank |
Author |
25-Aug-1889 |
9-Jan-1967 |
American cultural critic and social historian |
| Abel Gance |
Film Director |
25-Oct-1889 |
10-Nov-1981 |
Napoléon |
| Erle Stanley Gardner |
Novelist |
17-Jul-1889 |
11-Mar-1970 |
Creator of Perry Mason |
| Alfred E. Green |
Film Director |
11-Jul-1889 |
4-Sep-1960 |
Dangerous |
| Gunnar Gunnarsson |
Novelist |
18-May-1889 |
21-Nov-1975 |
Af Borgslaegtens Historie |
| Carl Hatch |
Politician |
27-Nov-1889 |
15-Sep-1963 |
Hatch Act |
| Sessue Hayakawa |
Actor |
10-Jun-1889 |
23-Nov-1973 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Lambert Hillyer |
Film Director |
8-Jul-1889 |
5-Jul-1969 |
Dracula's Daughter |
| Adolf Hitler |
Head of State |
20-Apr-1889 |
30-Apr-1945 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45 |
| Edwin Hubble |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1889 |
28-Sep-1953 |
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law |
| H. L. Hunt |
Business |
17-Feb-1889 |
29-Nov-1974 |
Founder of Hunt Oil |
| Shoeless Joe Jackson |
Baseball |
16-Jul-1889 |
5-Dec-1951 |
Say it ain't so, Joe |
| Buck Jones |
Actor |
4-Dec-1889 |
30-Nov-1942 |
Cowboy actor died at Cocoanut Grove |
| Paul Karrer |
Chemist |
21-Apr-1889 |
18-Jun-1971 |
Studied pigments, beta-carotene, etc. |
| George S. Kaufman |
Playwright |
16-Nov-1889 |
2-Jun-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| William Keighley |
Film Director |
4-Aug-1889 |
24-Jun-1984 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Walter Knott |
Business |
11-Dec-1889 |
3-Dec-1981 |
Founder of Knott's Berry Farm |
| David L. Lawrence |
Politician |
18-Jun-1889 |
21-Nov-1966 |
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1959-63 |
| Robert Z. Leonard |
Film Director |
7-Oct-1889 |
27-Aug-1968 |
The Divorcee |
| Howard Lindsay |
Playwright |
29-Mar-1889 |
11-Feb-1968 |
The Sound of Music |
| Walter Lippmann |
Journalist |
23-Sep-1889 |
14-Dec-1974 |
Today and Tomorrow |
| Oren E. Long |
Politician |
4-Mar-1889 |
6-May-1965 |
US Senator from Hawaii, 1959-62 |
| Donald MacBride |
Actor |
23-Jun-1889 |
21-Jun-1957 |
High Sierra |
| Gabriel Marcel |
Philosopher |
7-Dec-1889 |
8-Oct-1973 |
French existential philosopher |
| Gabriela Mistral |
Poet |
7-Apr-1889 |
10-Jan-1957 |
Desolación |
| Stanley Morison |
Typographer |
6-May-1889 |
11-Oct-1967 |
Responsible for Times New Roman |
| Mae Murray |
Actor |
10-May-1889 |
23-Mar-1965 |
The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips |
| John Middleton Murry |
Critic |
6-Aug-1889 |
13-Mar-1957 |
The Story of D. H. Lawrence |
| Jawaharlal Nehru |
Head of State |
14-Nov-1889 |
27-May-1964 |
First Prime Minister of India |
| Philip Noel-Baker |
Politician |
1-Nov-1889 |
8-Oct-1982 |
Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN |
| Claude Rains |
Actor |
10-Nov-1889 |
30-May-1967 |
The Invisible Man |
| Marjorie Rambeau |
Actor |
15-Jul-1889 |
6-Jul-1970 |
The Primrose Path |
| A. Philip Randolph |
Activist |
15-Apr-1889 |
16-May-1979 |
20th century civil rights leader |
| B. Carroll Reece |
Politician |
22-Dec-1889 |
19-Mar-1961 |
Congressman from Tennessee |
| Alfonso Reyes |
Author |
17-May-1889 |
27-Dec-1959 |
Visión de Anáhuac |
| Kermit Roosevelt |
Relative |
10-Oct-1889 |
4-Jun-1943 |
Theodore Roosevelt's son |
| Wesley Ruggles |
Film Director |
11-Jun-1889 |
8-Jan-1972 |
Cimarron |
| António de Oliveira Salazar |
Head of State |
28-Apr-1889 |
27-Jul-1970 |
Ruler of Portugal, 1932-68 |
| Igor Sikorsky |
Business |
25-May-1889 |
26-Oct-1972 |
Helicopter magnate |
| Donald Somervell |
Politician |
24-Aug-1889 |
18-Nov-1960 |
AG for England and Wales, 1936-45 |
| Robert A. Taft |
Politician |
8-Sep-1889 |
31-Jul-1953 |
US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53 |
| Arnold Toynbee |
Historian |
14-Apr-1889 |
22-Oct-1975 |
A Study of History |
| Carl von Ossietzky |
Activist |
3-Oct-1889 |
4-May-1938 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| DeWitt Wallace |
Author |
12-Nov-1889 |
30-Mar-1981 |
Founder of Reader's Digest |
| Lila Wallace |
Business |
25-Dec-1889 |
8-May-1984 |
Readers Digest co-founder |
| Clifton Webb |
Actor |
11-Nov-1889 |
13-Oct-1966 |
Laura |
| James Whale |
Film Director |
22-Jul-1889 |
29-May-1957 |
Frankenstein |
| Pearl White |
Actor |
4-Mar-1889 |
4-Aug-1938 |
Heroine of silent serial films |
| John G. Winant |
Politician |
23-Feb-1889 |
3-Nov-1947 |
New Hampshire governor, committed suicide |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosopher |
26-Apr-1889 |
29-Apr-1951 |
Destroyed metaphysics |
| Robert W. Woodruff |
Business |
6-Dec-1889 |
7-Mar-1985 |
President of Coca-Cola, 1923-54 |
| Harry Woods |
Actor |
5-May-1889 |
28-Dec-1968 |
Perpetual Hollywood villain |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
| Henry M. Wriston |
Educator |
4-Jul-1889 |
7-Mar-1978 |
President of Brown University, 1937-55 |
| Herbert O. Yardley |
Scientist |
13-Apr-1889 |
7-Aug-1958 |
U.S. cryptographer during WWI |
| Vladimir Zworykin |
Inventor |
30-Jul-1889 |
29-Jul-1982 |
Patented color televison |
