| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
