Famous people born in 1883

The best-known people born in 1883, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
July 3 · d. 1924
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
June 5 · d. 1946
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)
January 6 · d. 1931
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Coco Chanel
French fashion designer (1883–1971)
August 19 · d. 1971
Photo: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0
Clement Attlee
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 (1883–1967)
January 3 · d. 1967
Photo: Presumably Yousuf Karsh, Public domain
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)
February 23 · d. 1969
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
Jaroslav Hašek
Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist (1883-1923)
April 30 · d. 1923
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Walter Gropius
German-American architect (1883–1969)
May 18 · d. 1969
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
March 2 · d. 1957
José Ortega y Gasset
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
May 9 · d. 1955
Photo: SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Public domain
Victor Francis Hess
Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)
June 24 · d. 1964
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Aleksey Tolstoy
Russian-Soviet writer (1883-1945)
January 10 · d. 1945
Photo: ИППИ, Public domain
Celâl Bayar
3rd President of the Republic of Turkey (1883–1986)
May 16 · d. 1986
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)
February 8 · d. 1950
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Faisal I of Iraq
1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933
May 20 · d. 1933
Photo: Vandyk photographic studio, Public domain
Napoleon Hill
American author (1883-1970)
October 26 · d. 1970
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Lev Kamenev
Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1883–1936)
July 18 · d. 1936
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Morihei Ueshiba
Japanese aikidoka (1883-1969)
December 14 · d. 1969
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Grigory Zinoviev
Russian revolutionary (1883-1936)
September 23 · d. 1936
Photo: Moisei Nappelbaum, Public domain
William Carlos Williams
American poet (1883-1963)
September 17 · d. 1963
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
October 8 · d. 1970
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Pierre Laval
French politician (1883–1945)
June 28 · d. 1945
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Douglas Fairbanks
American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer (1883–1939)
May 23 · d. 1939
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)
August 30 · d. 1931
Photo: Anonymous ( Netherlands ) Unknown author circa 1915 date QS:P,+1915-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902, Public domain
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
December 3 · d. 1945
Photo: Georg Fayer, Public domain
Norman Haworth
British chemist (1883-1950)
March 19 · d. 1950
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Semyon Budyonny
Soviet marshal (1883-1973)
April 25 · d. 1973
Photo: не указан, CC BY 4.0
Marie Under
Estonian poet (1883-1980)
March 27 · d. 1980
Photo: Max F. Meixner (Life time: circa 1850-1920), Public domain
José Clemente Orozco
Mexican artist (1883–1949)
November 23 · d. 1949
Photo: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
British Army general and Viceroy of India
May 5 · d. 1950
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Ichirō Hatoyama, Prime Minister of Japan from 1954 to 1956
January 1 · William J. Donovan, U.S. Army soldier during WWII, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, head of the OSS (1883-1959)
January 7 · Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Royal Navy officer (1883–1963)
January 14 · Nina Ricci, Italian fashion designer (1883-1970)
January 19 · Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (1883-1956)
January 27 · Gottfried Feder, German economist and politician (1883-1941)

February

February 7 · Eric Temple Bell, Scottish American mathematician and science fiction author (1883-1960)
February 10 · Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (1884–1959)
February 12 · Zaifeng, Prince Chun, Qing Dynasty prince (1883-1951)
February 13 · Evgeny Vakhtangov, Russian actor and theatre director (1883-1922)
February 22 · Marguerite Clark, American actress (1883–1940)
February 25 · Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Member of the House of Windsor

March

March 9 · Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (1883-1957)
March 11 · Paul Levi, German politician (1883-1930)
March 19 · Joseph Stilwell, United States Army general (1883–1946)
March 19 · Fyodor Sergeyev, Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist (1883-1921)
March 21 · Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader/diplomat (1883-1938)
March 23 · Alberto Braglia, gymnast (1883-1954)

April

April 1 · Lon Chaney, American actor (1883–1930)
April 9 · Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan from 1929 to 1933
April 9 · Ivan Ilyin, Russian political philosopher (1883–1954)
April 13 · Alexander Alexandrov, Russian composer (1883-1946)
April 15 · S. M. Bruce, Australian politician, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (1883-1967)
April 19 · Richard von Mises, Austrian physicist and mathematician (1883-1953)

May

May 4 · Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician, leader of Wang Jingwei regime (1883-1944)
May 5 · Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian chess player (1883–1942)
May 13 · Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek pathologist (1883-1962)
May 18 · Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil from 1946 to 1951
May 28 · Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian politician (1883–1966)
May 31 · Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician; the 2nd President of Finland (1883–1942)

June

June 7 · Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S. (1883–1948)
June 15 · Henri Delaunay, French football administrator (1883-1955)
June 21 · Lluís Companys, 123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)
June 21 · Fyodor Gladkov, Russian-Soviet writer
June 23 · Ludwig Müller, Leading member of the German Christians and Reichsbischof (1883–1945)
June 24 · Jean Metzinger, French painter (1883-1956)

July

July 4 · Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (1883–1970)
July 10 · Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (1883–1948)
July 10 · Sam Wood, Director, producer, actor (1883-1949)
July 23 · Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British Field Marshal (1883-1963)
July 25 · Alfredo Casella, Italian composer, pianist and conductor (1883-1947)
July 31 · Erich Heckel, German artist (1883–1970)

August

August 7 · Joachim Ringelnatz, German poet and artist (1883–1934)
August 8 · Yen Hsi-shan, Chinese military officer (1883–1960)
August 15 · Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect (1883–1962)
August 19 · Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Swedish 20th century prime minister (1883-1954)
August 19 · José Mendes Cabeçadas, President of Portugal (1883-1965)
August 31 · Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (1883–1959)

September

September 2 · Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (1883-1963)
September 2 · Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist, physician, and inventor (1883-1957)
September 5 · Mel Sheppard, American athlete (1883–1942)
September 13 · Giovanni Pastrone, Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician (1883-1959)
September 13 · August Zaleski, Polish economist, politician, and diplomat (1883-1972)
September 14 · Richard Gerstl, Austrian artist (1883-1908)

October

October 2 · Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics" (1883–1963)
October 17 · A. S. Neill, Scottish educator and theorist (1883-1973)
October 22 · Adolph Joffe, Soviet diplomat (1883-1927)
October 25 · Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1883-1939)
October 25 · Nikolai Krestinsky, Soviet diplomat (1883-1938)
October 31 · Marie Laurencin, French painter, poet and printmaker (1883-1956)

November

November 8 · Charles Demuth, American painter (1883-1935)
November 8 · Arnold Bax, English composer, poet, and author (1883–1953)
November 9 · Edna May Oliver, American actress (1883–1942)
November 10 · Olaf Bull, Norwegian poet (1883–1933)
November 11 · Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (1883–1969)
November 26 · Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet, translator (1883-1941)

December

December 7 · Sergey Belyavsky, Soviet/Russian astronomer (1883-1953)
December 9 · Alexandros Papagos, Greek military leader and politician (1883-1955)
December 10 · Andrey Vyshinsky, Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat (1883-1954)
December 10 · Giovanni Messe, Italian general (1883-1968)
December 22 · Edgard Varèse, French composer (1883-1965)
December 26 · Maurice Utrillo, French painter (1883-1955)

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