Famous people born in 1882

The best-known people born in 1882, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
January 30 · d. 1945
Photo: Leon Perskie, CC BY 2.0
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
February 2 · d. 1941
Photo: James_Joyce_by_Alex_Ehrenzweig,_1915_restored.jpg : * James_Joyce_by_Alex_Ehrenzweig,_1915.jpg : Ale, Public domain
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
January 25 · d. 1941
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Igor Stravinsky
Russian, French, and American composer (1882–1971)
June 17 · d. 1971
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection, Public domain
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
December 11 · d. 1970
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian writer (1882–1949)
May 20 · d. 1949
Photo: Aage Remfeldt / Aage Rasmussen (1889-1983), Public domain
Yanka Kupala
Belarusian writer (1882–1942)
July 7 · d. 1942
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
March 23 · d. 1935
Photo: Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
James Franck
German-American physicist (1882–1964)
August 26 · d. 1964
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Georges Braque
French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)
May 13 · d. 1963
Photo: Photographer non-identified, anonymous, Public domain
Anna Pavlova
Russian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
February 12 · d. 1931
Photo: Photography studio of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire., Public domain
Getúlio Vargas
President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)
April 19 · d. 1954
Photo: Governo do Brasil, Public domain
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
October 5 · d. 1945
Photo: NASA, Public domain
A. A. Milne
British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956)
January 18 · d. 1956
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
April 21 · d. 1961
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
December 28 · d. 1944
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C, Public domain
Yakub Kolas
Belarusian writer (1882–1956)
November 3 · d. 1956
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Éamon de Valera
Irish statesman (1882–1975)
October 14 · d. 1975
Photo: National Photo Company, Public domain
Georgi Dimitrov
Bulgarian politician (1882–1949)
June 30 · d. 1949
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Abdullah I of Jordan
Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951
February 2 · d. 1951
Mohammad Mosaddegh
former Prime Minister of Iran (1882–1967)
June 16 · d. 1967
Photo: International News Photos, Public domain
Bela Lugosi
Hungarian-American actor (1882–1956)
October 20 · d. 1956
Photo: Fortepan adományozó SALY NOÉMI, Public domain
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
King of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
November 11 · d. 1973
Photo: Unknown photographer for Anefo, CC0
Kurt von Schleicher
German chancellor (1882-1934)
April 7 · d. 1934
Photo: Unknown Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Jean Giraudoux
French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (1882–1944)
October 29 · d. 1944
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Abd el-Krim
war leader and president of the Rif Republic from 1921 to 1926
January 12 · d. 1963
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Edward Hopper
American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967)
July 22 · d. 1967
Photo: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain
Korney Chukovsky
Russian children's poet (1882–1969)
March 31 · d. 1969
Photo: mos.ru / Главархив Москвы, CC BY 4.0
René Coty
17th President of the French Republic (1882–1962)
March 20 · d. 1962
Photo: SyntaxTerror, CC0
Hans Geiger
German physicist (1882–1945)
September 30 · d. 1945
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain

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January

January 6 · Fan S. Noli, Albanian politician (1882-1965)
January 10 · Eugène Joseph Delporte, Belgian astronomer (1882–1955)
January 15 · Princess Margaret of Connaught, British princess; Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf (1882-1920)
January 18 · Aleksandra Ekster, Ukrainian and French painter and designer (1882–1949)
January 21 · Pavel Florensky, Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr (1882–1937)
January 29 · Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Russian grand duchess and Greek royal (1882-1957); only daughter and youngest child of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia and Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

February

February 1 · Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (1882-1973)
February 2 · Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Greek prince; father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, grandfather Charles III (1882-1944)
February 5 · August Kopff, German astronomer (1882-1960)
February 20 · Nicolai Hartmann, German philosopher (1882–1950)
February 26 · Husband E. Kimmel, United States admiral (1882-1968)
February 28 · Geraldine Farrar, American soprano opera singer and film actress (1882–1967)

March

March 3 · Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman and con artist (1882–1949)
March 14 · Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician
March 15 · Júlio Prestes, Brazilian politician, elected President of Brazil (1882-1946)
March 16 · James Lightbody, American middle distance runner (1882-1953)
March 18 · Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer of the 20th century (1882-1973)
March 30 · Melanie Klein, British Austrian born psychoanalyst (1882–1960)

April

April 10 · Frances Perkins, Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
April 14 · Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (1882-1936)
April 17 · Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist (1882-1951)
April 18 · Leopold Stokowski, British-born American conductor (1882–1977)
April 18 · Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (1882–1948)
April 24 · Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, British officer in the Royal Air Force (1882-1970)

May

May 2 · James F. Byrnes, American politician (1882–1972)
May 5 · Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist and socialist (1882–1960)
May 5 · Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
May 6 · Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Prussian Crown Prince (1882-1951)
May 9 · Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (1882–1967)
May 16 · Elin Wägner, Swedish writer, journalist and Suffragette (1882–1949)

June

June 4 · John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator (1882-1918)
June 4 · Karl Valentin, Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer (1882–1948)
June 9 · Robert Kerr, Canadian athlete (1882–1963)
June 13 · Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Russia (1882–1960); youngest child of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
June 21 · Lluís Companys, 123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)
June 21 · Rockwell Kent, American artist (1882-1971)

July

July 2 · Marie Bonaparte, French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962)
July 5 · Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism
July 8 · Percy Grainger, Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)
July 21 · David Burliuk, Ukrainian & American artist (1882-1967)
July 23 · Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and statesperson (1882–1948)
July 27 · Donald Crisp, English film actor and film director (1882–1974)

August

August 11 · Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general (1882-1955)
August 11 · Kimon Georgiev, Bulgarian politician and general (1882-1969)
August 12 · George Bellows, American painter (1882-1925)
August 17 · Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American film producer (1882–1974)
August 22 · Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence
August 25 · Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland (1882-1966)

September

September 4 · Leonhard Frank, German writer (1882–1961)
September 10 · Károly Huszár, Hungarian politician (1882-1941)
September 20 · Ossip Bernstein, Ukrainian-French chess player
September 24 · Max Decugis, French tennis player (1882-1978)
September 29 · Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
September 30 · George Bancroft, American actor (1882–1956)

October

October 2 · Boris Shaposhnikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1882-1945)
October 18 · Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist
October 19 · Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (1882-1916)
October 24 · Emmerich Kálmán, Hungarian-born composer of operettas (1882–1953)
October 30 · Günther von Kluge, German general (1882-1944)
October 30 · William Halsey Jr., United States admiral (1882–1959)

November

November 2 · Leo Perutz, Austrian mathematician and writer (1882-1957)
November 17 · Germaine Dulac, French film director (1882-1942)
November 18 · Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (1882–1973)
November 18 · Wyndham Lewis, English painter, writer and critic (1882–1957)
November 19 · Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Syrian Muslim preacher (1882–1935)
November 23 · John Rabe, German businessman (1882–1950)

December

December 10 · Otto Neurath, Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)
December 11 · Fiorello H. La Guardia, American politician; 99th Mayor of New York City (1934–45)
December 11 · Subramanya Bharathi, Tamil poet, social reformer, fighter for Indian freedom & women's rights
December 12 · Akiba Rubinstein, Russian-Polish chess player
December 16 · Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
December 28 · Lili Elbe, Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)

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