Born in 1891
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
Born in 1891
LISTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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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