Famous people born in 1888

The best-known people born in 1888, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
September 26 · d. 1965
Photo: Thomas Stearns Eliot with his sister and his cousin by Lady Ottoline Morrell.jpg : Lady Ottoline Mor, Public domain
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
November 7 · d. 1970
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Eugene O'Neill
American playwright (1888–1953)
October 16 · d. 1953
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares
June 13 · d. 1935
Photo: S.A. e Maria José de Lencastre, Public domain
Dale Carnegie
American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)
November 24 · d. 1955
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
T. E. Lawrence
British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)
August 16 · d. 1935
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
José Raúl Capablanca
Cuban chess player (1888-1942)
November 19 · d. 1942
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author (Keystone-France), Public domain
Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
February 17 · d. 1969
Photo: Nobelprize.org, Public domain
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2nd President and 1st Vice President of India, Indian philosopher and politician (1888–1975)
September 5 · d. 1975
Photo: White House, Public domain
Raymond Chandler
American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)
July 23 · d. 1959
Photo: Photographer uncredited. Published by Alfred A. Knopf ., Public domain
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Finnish writer (1888–1964)
September 16 · d. 1964
Photo: The original uploader was Blofeld of SPECTRE at English Wikipedia ., Public domain
John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
August 13 · d. 1946
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
October 9 · d. 1938
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Nestor Makhno
Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)
November 7 · d. 1934
Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist (1888–1966)
July 16 · d. 1966
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Irving Berlin
American composer and lyricist (1888–1989)
May 11 · d. 1989
Photo: Pach Brothers, Public domain
Heinz Guderian
German general (1888–1954)
June 17 · d. 1954
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Henry A. Wallace
American politician (1888–1965); Vice President of the United States from 1941 to 1945
October 7 · d. 1965
Photo: Photo copyrighted by D.N. Townsend; no renewal in the U.S. Copyright Office, Public domain
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
July 22 · d. 1973
Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Higgins, Roger, photographer., Public domain
Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand author (1888–1923)
October 14 · d. 1923
Photo: Original: Unknown Unknown Derivative work: Carnby, Public domain
Maurice Chevalier
French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888–1972)
September 12 · d. 1972
Photo: William Morris Agency (management)., Public domain
Giorgio de Chirico
Italian artist (1888–1978)
July 10 · d. 1978
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
Carl Schmitt
German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (1888–1985)
July 11 · d. 1985
Photo: ABC, Public domain
Georges Bernanos
French writer (1888–1948)
February 20 · d. 1948
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Abul Kalam Azad
Indian politician and writer (1888–1958)
November 11 · d. 1958
Photo: Template:Susmit, Public domain
Jim Thorpe
American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)
May 28 · d. 1953
Photo: Harris & Ewing, Public domain
Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Prince regent of Kingdom of Serbia and later King of Yugoslavia 1921–34
December 16 · d. 1934
Photo: Auguste Léon, CC0
Alexander Friedmann
Russian mathematician (1888-1925)
June 16 · d. 1925
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Inge Lehmann
Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth's inner core (1888-1993)
May 13 · d. 1993
Photo: Even Neuhaus (6.2.1863-20.4.1946), Public domain
Jean Monnet
French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979)
November 9 · d. 1979
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author (Keystone France), Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 8 · Richard Courant, German American mathematician (1888-1972)
January 24 · Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (1888–1960)
January 24 · Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
January 27 · Viktor Goldschmidt, Norwegian mineralogist (1888-1947)
January 29 · Wellington Koo, Diplomat and former President of the Republic of China
January 29 · Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970)

February

February 8 · Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet, writer and university teacher
February 8 · Edith Evans, British actress (1888–1976)
February 12 · Clara Campoamor, Spanish politician, feminist (1888-1972)
February 13 · Georgios Papandreou, Prime minister of Greece (1888–1968)
February 14 · Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and entrepreneur (1888–1956)
February 25 · John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (1888-1959)

March

March 10 · Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (1888–1961)
March 12 · Hans Knappertsbusch, German musician (1888-1965)
March 13 · Anton Makarenko, Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer
March 13 · Paul Morand, French writer (1888-1976)
March 19 · Josef Albers, German-American designer, painter, educator and typographer (1888–1976)
March 30 · Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish-American actress (1888–1974)

April

April 6 · Dan Andersson, Swedish author, poet and composer (1888–1920)
April 6 · Hans Richter, German artist (1888–1976)
April 12 · Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (1888–1964)
April 23 · Marcel L'Herbier, French film director (1888–1979)
April 26 · Anita Loos, American actress and writer (1888–1981)
April 30 · Antonio Sant'Elia, Italian architect (1888-1916)

May

May 3 · Beulah Bondi, American actress (1888/1889–1981)
May 10 · Max Steiner, Austrian-born American music composer and conductor (1888–1971)
May 19 · Nikolai Shvernik, Soviet politician, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1888–1970)
May 25 · Jean Wahl, French philosopher (1888–1974)
May 27 · Louis Durey, French composer (1888–1979)
May 28 · Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian politician (1888–1942)

June

June 1 · Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Danish princess (1888-1962)
June 6 · Valerian Kuybyshev, Soviet politician (1888-1935)
June 13 · Elisabeth Schumann, German soprano (1888–1952)
June 17 · Jakow Trachtenberg, Russian mathematician (1888–1951)
June 24 · Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch furniture designer and architect (1888-1964)
June 26 · Paul Niggli, Swiss crystallographer and professor (1888-1953)

July

July 3 · Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (1888–1963)
July 4 · Ossip Zadkine, French sculptor and painter of Russian origin (1888–1967)
July 5 · Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist (1888-1963)
July 14 · Odile Defraye, Belgian cyclist (1888–1965)
July 26 · Marcel Jouhandeau, French writer (1888–1979)
July 29 · Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer (1888–1982)

August

August 3 · August Kubizek, Austrian musician, soldier, and friend of Adolf Hitler (1888–1956)
August 10 · Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Greek prince (1888-1940); youngest child of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia
August 17 · Monty Woolley, American actor (1888–1963)
August 20 · Tôn Đức Thắng, President of North Vietnam (1888–1980)
August 20 · Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Egyptian writer (1888–1956)
August 23 · Harilal Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi (1888-1948)

September

September 3 · Nereu Ramos, President of Brazil from 1955 to 1956
September 4 · Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer (1888–1943)
September 6 · Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
September 12 · Carl Hilpert, German general (1888-1947)
September 18 · Grey Owl, Canadian writer and lecturer (1888–1938) who passed as half Indian in the latter years of his life
September 25 · Sándor Pósta, Hungarian fencer (1888–1952)

October

October 4 · Friedrich Olbricht, German general (1888–1944)
October 6 · Roland Garros, Reunionese aviator
October 8 · Friedrich Fromm, German general (1888–1945)
October 9 · Irving Cummings, actor, film director (1888–1959)
October 20 · Inayatullah Khan, King of Afghanistan in 1929
October 25 · Richard E. Byrd, American naval officer, explorer (1888-1957)

November

November 10 · Andrei Tupolev, Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer (1888-1972)
November 11 · Johannes Itten, Swiss painter and art educator (1888-1967)
November 15 · Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian oceanographer (1888–1957)
November 17 · Curt Goetz, German actor and writer (1888-1960)
November 18 · Frances Marion, American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter (1888-1973)
November 23 · Harpo Marx, American comedian

December

December 15 · Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and writer (1888–1959)
December 18 · Gladys Cooper, British actress (1888-1971)
December 18 · Robert Moses, American urban planner (1888–1981)
December 26 · Kan Kikuchi, Japanese writer and businessman (1888-1948)
December 27 · Thea von Harbou, German screenwriter (1888–1954)
December 28 · F. W. Murnau, German film director (1888–1931)

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