Famous people born in 1878

The best-known people born in 1878, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Carl Sandburg
American writer and editor (1878–1967)
January 6 · d. 1967
Photo: Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain
Gustav Stresemann
German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1878-1929)
May 10 · d. 1929
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Reza Shah
Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty
March 15 · d. 1944
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Pancho Villa
Mexican revolutionary (1878-1923)
June 5 · d. 1923
Photo: Bain News Service, publisher. Photographer is unknown., Public domain
Martin Buber
German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)
February 8 · d. 1965
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Janusz Korczak
Polish-Jewish educator and physician (1878–1942)
July 21 · d. 1942
Photo: portret bezautorski, Public domain
Upton Sinclair
American writer (1878–1968)
September 20 · d. 1968
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
John B. Watson
American psychologist (1878
January 9 · d. 1958
Photo: Unknown (pre-1923 photo) Watson, per the link in the source, left Johns Hopkins in 1921 (on bad term, Public domain
Alfred Döblin
German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)
August 10 · d. 1957
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Pyotr Wrangel
Russian army general of Baltic German origin (1878-1928)
August 27 · d. 1928
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Lionel Barrymore
American actor, director and screenwriter (1878–1954)
April 28 · d. 1954
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain
Eino Leino
Finnish poet and journalist (1878–1926)
July 6 · d. 1926
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Manuel L. Quezon
President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
August 19 · d. 1944
Photo: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, Public domain
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Argentine politician (1878-1959)
November 1 · d. 1959
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Shigeru Yoshida
Prime minister of Japan (1878–1967)
September 22 · d. 1967
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
George Whipple
American physician and biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
August 28 · d. 1976
Photo: The Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Akiko Yosano
Japanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
December 7 · d. 1942
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Robert Walser
Swiss writer (1878–1956)
April 15 · d. 1956
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Swiss writer (1878-1947)
September 24 · d. 1947
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
André Citroën
French businessman (1878-1935)
February 5 · d. 1935
Ferenc Molnár
Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist (1878-1952)
January 12 · d. 1952
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke of Russia (1878–1918); youngest son of Alexander III of Russia and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
December 4 · d. 1918
Lucien Febvre
French historian (1878-1956)
July 22 · d. 1956
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878–1972)
December 10 · d. 1972
Paul Reynaud
French politician and lawyer (1878-1966)
October 15 · d. 1966
Boris Kustodiev
Russian painter and stage designer (1878-1927)
February 23 · d. 1927
Sergio Osmeña
(1878-1961) President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946
September 9 · d. 1961
Werner von Blomberg
German Army field marshal and Military Chief of the Wehrmacht Military Forces (Heer,Luftwaffe,Kriegsmarine) (1878-1946)
September 2 · d. 1946
Jan Łukasiewicz
Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the University of Warsaw (1878–1956)
December 21 · d. 1956
A. H. Tammsaare
Estonian writer (1878–1940)
January 30 · d. 1940

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Month by month

January

January 14 · Victor Segalen, French poet (1878–1919)
January 16 · Harry Carey, American actor (1878–1947)
January 19 · Herbert Chapman, English association football player and manager (1878-1934)
January 21 · Egon Friedell, Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer (Kabarettist) and theatre critic (1878–1938)
January 23 · Oton Župančič, Slovenian poet, writer (1878-1949)
January 25 · Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish American electrical engineer (1878–1975)

February

February 1 · Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer, footballer, and architect (1878-1955)
February 1 · Milan Hodža, Slovak politician and journalist (1878-1944)
February 4 · Zabel Yesayan, Armenian writer (1878–1943)
February 16 · Pamela Colman Smith, British occultist, artist and illustrator (1878–1951)
February 19 · Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (1878-1961)
February 24 · Abdelaziz of Morocco, Sultan of Morocco (1878-1943)

March

March 4 · Takeo Arishima, Japanese writer (1878-1923)
March 12 · Gemma Galgani, Italian saint (1878-1903)
March 16 · Clemens August von Galen, German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism (1878–1946)
March 16 · Alexander Tamanian, Armenian architect (1878–1936)
March 17 · Petr Uspensky, Russian esotericist (1878–1947)
March 31 · Jack Johnson, American boxer (1878–1946)

April

April 1 · Carl Sternheim, German writer and art collector (1878-1942)
April 2 · Edward Kasner, American mathematician (1878–1955)
April 6 · Erich Mühsam, German-Jewish anarchist writer (1878–1934)
April 9 · Marcel Grossmann, mathematician (1878-1936)
April 17 · Dimitrios Petrokokkinos, Greek tennis player (1878-1942)
April 27 · Sadriddin Ayni, Tajik writer (1878-1954)

May

May 7 · Princess Isabelle d’Orléans, Orléans-French Royal (1878-1961)
May 12 · Massimo Bontempelli, Italian writer (1878-1960)
May 21 · Glenn Curtiss, American aviator and industrialist (1878-1930)
May 24 · Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)
May 28 · Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (1878-1945)
May 29 · René Maire, French botanist and mycologist (1878–1949)

June

June 1 · John Masefield, English poet and writer (1878–1967)
June 8 · Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish explorer and writer (1878–1945)
June 12 · James Oliver Curwood, American writer and conservationist (1878–1927)
June 15 · Margaret Abbott, American golfer (1878–1955)
June 16 · Gustav Schuft, gymnast
June 19 · Yakov Yurovsky, Chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II (1878–1938)

July

July 3 · George M. Cohan, American entertainer, composer and playwright (1878–1942)
July 7 · Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (1878-1960)
July 9 · Richard Sheldon, American shot put and discus Olympian (1878-1935)
July 10 · Otto Freundlich, German Jewish artist murdered by Nazis in a concentration camp (1878-1943)
July 24 · Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Irish writer and dramatist (1878–1957)
July 26 · Lina Stern, Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist (1875-1968)

August

August 2 · Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, Danish and Swedish royal
August 2 · Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian writer (1878-1956)
August 8 · Eileen Gray, Irish architect and designer (1878–1976)
August 17 · Paul Troost, German architect (1878–1934)
August 30 · Paul Hazard, French historian (1878-1944)
August 31 · Frank Jarvis, American athlete, Olympic medalist (1878–1933)

September

September 1 · Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, fourth child and third daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1878–1942)
September 1 · J. F. C. Fuller, British Army general (1878-1966)
September 2 · Milan Nedić, Serbian general and politician (1878-1946)
September 2 · Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (1878–1973)
September 3 · Dorothea Douglass, English tennis and badminton player (1878–1960)
September 26 · Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, German general (1878–1943)

October

October 5 · Louise Dresser, American actress (1878–1965)
October 13 · Stepan Shahumyan, Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary (1878–1918)
October 16 · Franz Reichelt, Austro-Hungarian-born French parachuting pioneer
October 16 · Maxie Long, American sprinter (1878–1959)
October 20 · Arthur Scherbius, German cryptographer (1878–1929)
October 29 · Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general (1878-1966)

November

November 5 · Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (1878–1939)
November 5 · Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer and playwright (1878–1927)
November 14 · Leopold Staff, Polish poet (1878-1957)
November 21 · Gustav Radbruch, German politician (1878-1949)
November 23 · Ernest King, United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (1878-1956)
November 25 · Georg Kaiser, German dramatist (1878-1945)

December

December 8 · Walter Heitz, German general (1878–1944)
December 22 · Myer Prinstein, American track athlete (1878-1925)
December 22 · Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian & American engineer (1878–1972)
December 25 · Louis Chevrolet, Swiss motor company founder and racecar driver (1878-1941)
December 31 · Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (1878–1937)
December 31 · Elizabeth Arden, Canadian American businesswoman

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