Famous people born in 1880

The best-known people born in 1880, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
June 27 · d. 1968
Photo: Los Angeles Times; restored by User:Rhododendrites, Public domain
Douglas MacArthur
United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea (1880–1964)
January 26 · d. 1964
Photo: Photographer not credited., Public domain
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet (1880–1918)
August 26 · d. 1918
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
George Marshall
American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)
December 31 · d. 1959
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Alexander Blok
Russian poet (1880–1921)
November 28 · d. 1921
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
May 29 · d. 1936
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Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)
November 6 · d. 1942
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Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
November 1 · d. 1930
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Premchand
Indian writer of Hindi and Urdu fiction (1880–1936); pioneer of social realism in Hindustani literature
July 31 · d. 1936
Photo: Ankur8563, CC BY-SA 3.0
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 (1880-1962)
August 31 · d. 1962
Photo: Studio of Jacob Merkelbach, Public domain
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)
May 6 · d. 1938
Photo: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Public domain
Franz Marc
German artist (1880–1916)
February 8 · d. 1916
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H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
September 12 · d. 1956
Photo: Ben Pinchot, Public domain
Manuel Azaña
prime minister of Spain, president of Spain (1880-1940)
January 10 · d. 1940
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Andrei Bely
Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
October 26 · d. 1934
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Otto Weininger
Austrian philosopher and writer (1880-1903)
April 3 · d. 1903
Photo: Photogravure Richard Paulussen (1852-1906), Wien, Public domain
Fedor von Bock
German field marshal (1880–1945)
December 3 · d. 1945
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André Derain
French painter and engraver (1880–1954)
June 17 · d. 1954
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Álvaro Obregón
Mexican politician, president of Mexico
February 19 · d. 1928
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Alexander Grin
Russian writer (1880–1932)
August 23 · d. 1932
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Jeannette Rankin
American congresswoman for Montana (1880-1973)
June 11 · d. 1973
Photo: Adam Cuerden, Public domain
John Boyd Orr
Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)
September 23 · d. 1971
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Seán O'Casey
Irish writer (1880–1964)
March 30 · d. 1964
Marie Stopes
British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958)
October 15 · d. 1958
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)
January 18 · d. 1933
Mack Sennett
Canadian-American actor, producer and director (1880–1960)
January 17 · d. 1960
W. C. Fields
American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (1880–1946)
January 29 · d. 1946
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Bengali feminist writer and social reformer (1880-1932)
December 9 · d. 1932
Carl Van Vechten
American writer and photographer (1880–1964)
June 17 · d. 1964
Gideon Sundback
Swedish-American inventor (1880-1954)
April 24 · d. 1954

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Month by month

January

January 2 · Vasily Degtyaryov, Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1880-1949)
January 3 · Mohammed Alim Khan, The last Amir of Emirate of Bukhara (1911–1920)
January 5 · Nikolai Medtner, Russian composer and pianist (1879–1951)
January 6 · Tom Mix, American film actor (1880-1940)
January 13 · Herbert Brenon, Irish film director and screenwriter (1880-1958)
January 22 · Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis (1880–1956)

February

February 2 · Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder (1880-1969)
February 9 · Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (1880–1959)
February 22 · Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (1880–1930)
February 24 · Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, British Conservative politician (1880-1959)
February 26 · Lionel Logue, Australian speech and language pathologist; speech therapist (1880-1953)
February 28 · Martiros Saryan, Armenian painter (1880–1972)

March

March 1 · Lytton Strachey, English writer (1880–1932)
March 2 · Mitsumasa Yonai, Prime Minister of Japan (1880-1948)
March 4 · Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician (1880-1946)
March 17 · Lawrence Oates, British explorer (1880-1912)
March 21 · Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, writer, film director, and film producer (1880–1971)
March 27 · Arkady Averchenko, Russian comic and satirical writer, theatre critic (1881–1925)

April

April 4 · Georg von Trapp, Trapp family's father (1880–1947)
April 8 · Margherita Sarfatti, Italian writer, journalist, art critic and unmarried partner of Benito Mussolini (1880-1961)
April 10 · Frances Perkins, Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
April 15 · Max Wertheimer, Austro-Hungarian psychologist (1880–1943)
April 17 · Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist (1880–1960)
April 29 · Ali Fethi Okyar, 2nd Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1880–1943)

May

May 4 · Bruno Taut, German architect (1880–1938)
May 5 · Adrian Carton de Wiart, recipient of the Victoria Cross (1880–1963)
May 7 · Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar (1880–1972)
May 12 · Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (1880–1951)
May 14 · Bertie Charles Forbes, American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880–1954)
May 21 · Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer and political figure (1880–1967)

June

June 2 · Parashqevi Qiriazi, Albanian educational theorist
June 6 · W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (1880-1965)
June 10 · Margit Kaffka, Hungarian writer (1880-1918)
June 16 · Alice Bailey, British-American esoteric, theosophist and writer (1880-1949)
June 24 · Oswald Veblen, American mathematician (1880–1960)
June 29 · Ludwig Beck, German general (1880–1944)

July

July 12 · Tod Browning, American film actor and director (1880–1962)
July 20 · Hermann von Keyserling, Baltic German philosopher (1880–1946)
July 21 · Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, diplomat, French Army general and astronomer (1880-1919)
July 24 · Ernest Bloch, American composer (1880-1959)
July 25 · Giuseppe Moscati, Italian biochemist and saint (1880–1927)
July 28 · Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian writer, playwright, artist, political activist, revolutionary, politician, and statesman (1880–1951)

August

August 4 · Werner von Fritsch, German general (1880–1939)
August 8 · Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (1880-1961)
August 12 · Radclyffe Hall, British poet and author (1880–1943)
August 22 · George Herriman, American cartoonist (1880-1944)
August 22 · Lajos Bíró, Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1880–1948)
August 25 · Robert Stolz, Austrian conductor and composer (1880–1975)

September

September 11 · María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Spanish princess and Spanish infanta (1880–1904)
September 13 · Jesse Louis Lasky, American film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures (1880–1958)
September 14 · Archie Hahn, German-American athlete
September 20 · Ugo Cavallero, Italian general (1880-1943)
September 22 · Christabel Pankhurst, suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor (1880-1958)
September 24 · Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (1880–1999)

October

October 12 · Louis Hémon, French writer (1880–1913)
October 21 · Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Russian Jewish poet, founder of Revisionist Zionist movement (1880–1940)
October 23 · Una O'Connor, Irish actress (1880–1959)
October 29 · Abram Ioffe, Soviet physicist (1880–1960)
October 30 · Sara Allgood, Irish actress (1880-1950)
October 31 · Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet politician (1880-1936)

November

November 5 · Mihail Sadoveanu, Romanian writer, journalist and politician (1880–1961)
November 10 · Jacob Epstein, American-British sculptor (1880–1959)
November 16 · Thomas H. Ince, American film producer (1882–1924)
November 20 · Mikheil Javakhishvili, Soviet writer (1880–1937)
November 25 · Leonard Woolf, English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant (1880-1969)
November 30 · Adam Czerniaków, Polish politician (1880–1942)

December

December 1 · Akiba Rubinstein, Russian-Polish chess player
December 3 · Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian World War I veteran (1880–1920)
December 8 · Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and Fennophile (1880–1973)
December 26 · Elton Mayo, Australian psychologist and sociologist
December 30 · Alfred Einstein, German-American musicologist and music editor
December 30 · Dezső Földes, Hungarian fencer (1880–1950)

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