Famous people born in 1876

The best-known people born in 1876, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
January 5 · d. 1967
Photo: Katherine Young (1906–1993), CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
January 12 · d. 1916
Photo: published by L C Page and Company Boston 1903, Public domain
Pius XII
pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
March 2 · d. 1958
Photo: Michael Pitcairn, Public domain
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
politician and the founder of Pakistan (1876–1948)
December 25 · d. 1948
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Ibn Saud
King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 1953
January 15 · d. 1953
Photo: Lcxzdf56 ( talk · contribs ), Public domain
Mata Hari
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)
August 7 · d. 1917
Photo: Koene & Com / Batavia-Amsterdam, Public domain
Otto Diels
German chemist (1876–1954)
January 23 · d. 1954
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
April 22 · d. 1936
Photo: Emil Finn, Public domain
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)
December 22 · d. 1944
Photo: Emilio Sommariva, Public domain
Sherwood Anderson
American writer (1876–1941)
September 13 · d. 1941
Photo: Alfred Stieglitz, Public domain
John James Rickard Macleod
Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
September 6 · d. 1935
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Constantin Brâncuși
Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876-1960)
February 19 · d. 1957
Photo: Edward Steichen, Public domain
Adolf Windaus
German chemist (1876–1959)
December 25 · d. 1959
Pau Casals
Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)
December 29 · d. 1973
Photo: Bain News Service, Public domain
Erich Raeder
German admiral (1876–1960)
April 24 · d. 1960
Photo: Ernst Sandau Jr., CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Thubten Gyatso
13th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1876-1933)
February 12 · d. 1933
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Wilhelm Pieck
German communist politician, president of GDR (1876-1960)
January 3 · d. 1960
Photo: Richard Peter, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer (1876–1946)
November 23 · d. 1946
Photo: Archivo Manuel de Falla, Public domain
Paula Modersohn-Becker
German expressionist painter (1876–1907)
February 8 · d. 1907
Photo: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Public domain
Max Jacob
French poet, painter, writer and critic (1876-1944)
July 12 · d. 1944
Photo: Carl van Vechten, Public domain
Ivan Cankar
Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)
May 10 · d. 1918
Photo: Avgust Berthold, Public domain
Natalie Clifford Barney
American writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972)
October 31 · d. 1972
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Hermann Müller
German politician (1876–1931)
May 18 · d. 1931
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Alexander I of Serbia
king of Serbia 1889-1903
August 14 · d. 1903
Photo: Mijatovic, Cedomilj, 1842-1932, Public domain
Anna de Noailles
Romanian-French writer (1876-1933)
November 15 · d. 1933
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Maxim Litvinov
Soviet diplomat and foreign minister (1876–1951)
July 17 · d. 1951
Zewditu I of Ethiopia
Empress of Ethiopia (1876-1930)
April 29 · d. 1930
Wilhelm Cuno
German chancellor (1876-1933)
July 2 · d. 1933
Ernst Barlach
German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)
January 2 · d. 1938
Maurice de Vlaminck
French Fauvist and Cubist painter (1876–1958)
April 4 · d. 1958

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Month by month

January

January 9 · Robert Michels, German sociologist (1876–1936)
January 10 · Issai Schur, German mathematician (1875–1941)
January 11 · Thomas Hicks, American track and field athlete
January 12 · Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish military officer and statesperson (1876–1950)
January 18 · Elsa Einstein, second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein (1876-1936)
January 20 · Józef Kazimierz Hofmann, Polish musician (1876-1957)

February

February 2 · Maurice Tourneur, French film director and screenwriter (1876–1961)
February 6 · Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, French fencer (1876-1939)
February 16 · G. M. Trevelyan, British historian (1876–1962)
February 22 · Zitkala-Sa, Yankton Dakota writer (1876-1938)
February 23 · Senjūrō Hayashi, Japanese politician and general (1876–1943)
February 26 · Agustín Pedro Justo, former President of Argentina (1876-1943)

March

March 1 · Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian sports executive (1876-1942)
March 3 · Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Greek Royal
March 8 · Franco Alfano, Italian composer and pianist (1875-1954)
March 14 · Lev Berg, Russian and Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist (1876–1950)
March 23 · Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist and writer (1876–1924)
March 26 · William, Prince of Albania, Prince of Albania (1876–1945)

April

April 9 · Ettore Bastico, Italian general (1876-1972)
April 19 · Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince consort of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1934 (1876-1934)
April 23 · Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (1876–1925)
April 23 · Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and linguist (1876-1940)
April 24 · Aino Ackté, Finnish soprano (1876-1944)
April 27 · Claude Farrère, French writer and navy officer (1876-1957)

May

May 5 · John Garstang, British archaeologist (1876-1956)
May 7 · Paul Rivet, French ethnologist (1876-1958)
May 10 · Jean Longuet, French politician and journalist (1876–1938)
May 21 · Aaron Aaronsohn, Jewish agronomist, botanist, and Zionist activist (1876-1919)
May 26 · Robert Yerkes, American psychologist (1876–1956)
May 30 · Vladimir Nazor, Croatian writer and politician (1876-1949)

June

June 10 · Wilhelm Ernst I, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
June 11 · Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist (1876–1960)
June 13 · William Sealy Gosset, British statistician (1876–1937)
June 15 · Margaret Abbott, American golfer (1878–1955)
June 22 · Gwen John, Welsh painter (1876-1939)
June 28 · Robert Guérin, President of FIFA (1876-1952)

July

July 1 · Susan Glaspell, American writer (1876-1948)
July 15 · Alaiza Pashkievich, Belarusian writer & poet
July 19 · Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor during the 1920s (1876–1932)
July 24 · Jean Webster, American novelist (1876-1916)
July 25 · Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians, Queen of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1876–1965)
July 29 · Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian actress (1876-1949)

August

August 14 · Sibilla Aleramo, Italian writer and feminist, editor (1876-1960)
August 16 · Ivan Bilibin, celebrated Russian illustrator (1876-1942)
August 17 · Dragutin Dimitrijević, Serbian military commander (1876–1917)
August 29 · Kim Ku, Korean politician (1876–1949)
August 29 · Charles F. Kettering, American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents (1876–1958)
August 30 · Shushanik Kurghinian, Armenian poet (1876–1927)

September

September 2 · Francesc Cambó, Spanish politician (1876-1947)
September 15 · Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)
September 15 · Bruno Walter, German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)
September 18 · James Scullin, Australian politician, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (1876-1953)
September 21 · Julio González, Spanish artist (1876–1942)
September 22 · André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (1876–1945)

October

October 8 · Prince Harald of Denmark, Danish prince (1876–1949)
October 9 · Sol Plaatjie, South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer; founding member and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress; regarded as the first Black South African to write a novel in English
October 11 · Paul Masson, French cyclist (1876–1944)
October 11 · Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer of novels, poems and essays (1876-1971)
October 12 · Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Head of the House of Romanov (1924-1938)
October 15 · Elmer Drew Merrill, U.S. botanist (1876–1956)

November

November 9 · Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese bacteriologist (1876–1928)
November 19 · Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician and physicist (1876-1964)
November 24 · Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and landscape architect (1876-1937)
November 25 · Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Russia (1876–1936)
November 26 · Willis Carrier, American inventor (1876–1950)
November 29 · Nellie Tayloe Ross, First woman state governor in the U.S.

December

December 11 · Mieczysław Karłowicz, Polish composer and conductor (1876-1909)
December 12 · Alvin Kraenzlein, American athletics competitor (1876-1928)
December 16 · Rodolphe Seeldrayers, President of FIFA (1876-1955)
December 20 · Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer
December 21 · Helen Rowland, American journalist (1875–1950)
December 26 · Virginia Bolten, Argentine anarchist

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