Famous people born in 1884

The best-known people born in 1884, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Harry S. Truman
president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician (1884–1972)
May 8 · d. 1972
Photo: National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Libr, Public domain
Eleanor Roosevelt
American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
October 11 · d. 1962
Photo: FDR Presidential Library & Museum, CC BY 2.0
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)
July 12 · d. 1920
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
İsmet İnönü
2nd President of the Republic of Turkey (1884–1973)
September 24 · d. 1973
Photo: Unknown. Official photo of President., Public domain
Rajendra Prasad
Indian statesman, lawyer and writer (1884–1963); first President of India
December 3 · d. 1963
Photo: Food_Minister_Rajendra_Prasad_during_a_radio_broadcast_in_Dec_1947.jpg : photodivision.gov.in deriva, Public domain
Peter Debye
Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)
March 24 · d. 1966
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese Marshal Admiral (1884–1943)
April 4 · d. 1943
Photo: The Advance in Nippon 画報躍進之日本 (Gaho Yakushin no Nihon), Public domain
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author (1884–1937)
February 1 · d. 1937
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Edvard Beneš
Czechoslovak politician (1884-1948)
May 28 · d. 1948
Photo: Unknown Unknown . Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Was, Public domain
Edward Sapir
American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)
January 26 · d. 1939
Photo: unnkown, Public domain
Theodor Heuss
German journalist and politician (1884-1963)
January 31 · d. 1963
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Theodor Svedberg
Swedish chemist (1884-1971)
August 30 · d. 1971
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Édouard Daladier
French politician (1884-1970)
June 18 · d. 1970
Photo: Henri Manuel, Public domain
Friedrich Bergius
German chemist (1884–1949)
October 11 · d. 1949
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
April 7 · d. 1942
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, No restrictions
Vincent Auriol
16th President of the French Republic (1884–1966)
August 27 · d. 1966
Photo: Abbie Rowe, Public domain
Max Beckmann
German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer (1884–1950)
February 27 · d. 1950
Photo: Hugo Erfurth, Public domain
Casimir Funk
Polish-American biochemist
February 23 · d. 1967
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Lion Feuchtwanger
German writer (1884-1958)
July 7 · d. 1958
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Gaston Bachelard
French writer and philosopher (1884-1962)
June 27 · d. 1962
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist (1884-1951)
April 12 · d. 1951
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Emil Jannings
German actor (1884-1950)
July 23 · d. 1950
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
May 27 · d. 1968
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Georges Duhamel
French writer (1884–1966)
June 30 · d. 1966
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Hermann Rorschach
Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1885–1922)
November 8 · d. 1922
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Anton Drexler
German politician (1884-1942)
June 13 · d. 1942
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Franz Halder
German general (1884–1972)
June 30 · d. 1972
Walter Huston
Canadian actor and singer (1883–1950)
April 6 · d. 1950
Photo: Unknown Unknown, Public domain
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian (1884–1976)
August 20 · d. 1976
Photo: Dbleicher ( Diskussion ), CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Otto Rank
Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)
April 22 · d. 1939
Photo: Salni, Public domain

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January

January 6 · Isaak Brodsky, Russian artist (1884-1939)
January 18 · Arthur Ransome, English author and journalist (1884–1967)
January 26 · Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer, naturalist, and writer (1884–1960)
January 28 · Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (1884–1962)
January 29 · Rickard Sandler, Prime Minister of Sweden (1884-1964)
January 31 · Mahammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani politician (1884–1955)

February

February 12 · Johan Laidoner, Estonian general and politician (1884-1953)
February 12 · Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko, Ukrainian historian
February 16 · Robert J. Flaherty, American documentary filmmaker (1884-1951)
February 19 · Maciej Rataj, Marshal of the Polish Sejm
February 24 · Alexander Bustamante, Jamaican politician and labour leader (1884–1977)
February 28 · Ants Piip, Estonian politician, diplomat and legal scholar (1884–1942)

March

March 13 · Hugh Walpole, British writer (1884-1941)
March 16 · Alexander Belyayev, Soviet writer (1884–1942)
March 17 · Ralph Waldo Rose, American track and field athlete (1885-1913)
March 21 · George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (1884-1944)
March 26 · Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (1884–1969)
March 31 · Henri Queuille, French Prime Minister (1884-1970)

April

April 3 · Andrei Bubnov, Russian revolutionary leader (1884-1938)
April 14 · Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Prime Minister of Greece (1884-1970)
April 18 · Jaan Anvelt, Estonian communist and writer (1884-1937)
April 20 · Daniel Varujan, Armenian poet (1884-1915)
April 20 · Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, British princess (1884-1966)
April 20 · Oliver Kirk, American boxer (1884–1960)

May

May 4 · Giannino Castiglioni, Italian sculptor and painter (1884-1971)
May 5 · Alice Milliat, pioneer of women's sport (1884–1957)
May 8 · Santiago Casares Quiroga, Spanish politician (1884-1950)
May 14 · Claudius Dornier, German aerospace engineer and inventor (1884–1969)
May 23 · Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (1884–1965)
May 24 · Clark L. Hull, American psychologist (1884–1952)

June

June 11 · Halide Edib Adıvar, Turkish social reformer and statesperson (1884–1964)
June 13 · Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (1884-1978)
June 13 · Gerald Gardner, British Wiccan leader (1884–1964)
June 17 · Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, Swedish prince (1884–1965)
June 21 · Claude Auchinleck, British World War II Army commander (1884–1981)
June 25 · Empress Teimei, Japanese empress consort (1884–1951)

July

July 12 · Louis B. Mayer, Canadian-American film producer (1884–1957)
July 14 · Prince Adalbert of Prussia, German prince (1884-1948)
July 15 · Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada, Prime Minister of Siam from 1932 to 1933
July 29 · Boris Asafyev, Russian composer (1884-1949)
July 30 · Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, Ukrainian printmaker (1884-1937)
July 31 · Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician and member of the 20 July plot (1884-1945)

August

August 2 · Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan politician and writer (1884–1969)
August 4 · Béla Balázs, Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet (1884–1949)
August 7 · Billie Burke, American stage and film actress (1884-1970)
August 8 · Sara Teasdale, American writer and poet (1884–1933)
August 10 · Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (1884–1935)
August 16 · Hugo Gernsback, American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967)

September

September 3 · Solomon Lefschetz, Jewish American mathematician (1884-1972)
September 18 · Margit Slachta, Hungarian activist, editor (1884-1974)
September 21 · Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (1884-1944)
September 24 · Gustave Garrigou, French racing cyclist (1884–1963)
September 24 · Hugo Schmeisser, German firearm designer (1884–1953)
September 25 · Tanzan Ishibashi, Prime Minister of Japan from 1956 to 1957

October

October 4 · Félix Gouin, French politician and jurist, temporary Prime Minister of France (1884-1977)
October 4 · Damon Runyon, American writer (1880–1946)
October 8 · Agus Salim, Indonesian politician (1884–1954)
October 9 · Helene Deutsch, American psychoanalyst (1884–1982)
October 20 · Don Stephen Senanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1884-1952)
October 22 · Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet

November

November 1 · Albert Londres, French journalist and writer (1884–1932)
November 4 · Princess Jelena of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavian Royal (1884–1962)
November 4 · Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian activist (1884-1942)
November 10 · Zofia Nałkowska, Polish prose writer, journalist & dramatist (1884-1954)
November 20 · Norman Thomas, American Presbyterian minister and socialist (1884-1968)
November 24 · Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)

December

December 1 · Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German artist (1884–1976)
December 2 · Jean Paulhan, French writer (1884–1968)
December 7 · Petru Groza, 46th Prime Minister of Romania (1945-1952)
December 10 · Zinaida Serebryakova, Russian and French painter (1884-1967)
December 19 · Antonín Zápotocký, Czech politician (1884–1957)
December 31 · Elizabeth Arden, Canadian American businesswoman

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