Famous people born in 1889

The best-known people born in 1889, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Charlie Chaplin
English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
April 16 · d. 1977
Photo: Strauss-Peyton Studio, Public domain
Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
November 14 · d. 1964
Photo: Keystone View Company/FPG, Public domain
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
April 26 · d. 1951
Photo: Moritz Nähr, Public domain
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889–1976)
September 26 · d. 1976
Photo: Willy Pragher, CC BY-SA 3.0
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet (1889–1966)
June 23 · d. 1966
Photo: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Public domain
Gabriela Mistral
Chilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)
April 7 · d. 1957
Photo: Anna Riwkin-Brick, Public domain
Jean Cocteau
French writer and film director (1889–1963)
July 5 · d. 1963
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Edwin Hubble
American astronomer (1889–1953)
November 20 · d. 1953
Photo: Johan Hagemeyer, Public domain
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
April 28 · d. 1970
Photo: Manuel Alves de San Payo, Public domain
Arnold J. Toynbee
British historian (1889–1975)
April 14 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Soviet and Polish military commander (1896-1968)
September 15 · d. 1968
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 4.0
Carl von Ossietzky
German journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize (1889–1938)
October 3 · d. 1938
Photo: Sohst, Walter / Kurzbein, Heiner, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Paul Karrer
Swiss chemist (1889-1971)
April 21 · d. 1971
Photo: Unknown Unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0
Igor Sikorsky
American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)
June 6 · d. 1972
Photo: SDASM Archives, Public domain
Edgar Douglas Adrian
English electrophysiologist (1889-1977)
November 30 · d. 1977
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
December 7 · d. 1973
Photo: Fotograaf Onbekend / Anefo, CC0
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Danish film director (1889–1968)
February 3 · d. 1968
Photo: Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
British athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1889–1982)
November 1 · d. 1982
Photo: Howard Coster, Public domain
Idris I of Libya
King of Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1969
March 12 · d. 1983
Photo: Anefo, CC0
Manuel II of Portugal
King of Portugal (1889–1932)
November 15 · d. 1932
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Vera Mukhina
Soviet sculptor (1889-1953)
July 1 · d. 1953
Photo: Mikhail Nesterov, Public domain
Victor Fleming
American film director, cinematographer, and producer (1889–1949)
February 23 · d. 1949
Photo: Photographer unknown; work-for-hire on behalf of Paramount Pictures ., Public domain
Risto Ryti
President of Finland (1889–1956)
February 3 · d. 1956
Walter Lippmann
American journalist and political commentator (1889–1974)
September 23 · d. 1974
Photo: Pirie MacDonald, Public domain
Pitirim Sorokin
Russian sociologist (1889-1968)
February 4 · d. 1968
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Warner Baxter
American actor (1889–1951)
March 29 · d. 1951
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Taha Hussein
Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)
November 14 · d. 1973
Vasily Blyukher
Soviet marshal (1889–1938)
December 1 · d. 1938
Photo: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, CC BY 4.0
Abel Gance
French film director and producer, writer and actor (1889-1981)
October 25 · d. 1981
Claude Rains
British actor (1889–1967)
November 10 · d. 1967

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Month by month

January

January 2 · Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (1889-1965)
January 13 · Lev Mekhlis, Soviet politician (1889-1953)
January 17 · Ralph H. Fowler, English physicist (1889-1944)
January 19 · Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (1889–1943)
January 22 · Henri Pélissier, French racing cyclist (1889–1935)
January 24 · Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, German general (1889-1968)

February

February 2 · Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French army general, Marshal of France (1889-1952)
February 2 · Amrit Kaur, Indian politician (1889–1964)
February 7 · Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American physicist and electrical engineer (1889–1976)
February 8 · Siegfried Kracauer, German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)
February 22 · R. G. Collingwood, British historian and philosopher (1889–1943)
February 22 · Olave Baden-Powell, (1889-1977) World Chief Guide

March

March 4 · Pearl White, American actress (1889–1938)
March 6 · Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Uzbek screenwriter and poet (1889-1929)
March 16 · Reggie Walker, South African athlete, Olympic medalist (1889–1951)
March 21 · W. S. Van Dyke, American film director (1889–1943)
March 21 · Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, military leader, viceroy, Victoria Cross (1889-1963)
March 24 · Albert Hill, British athlete

April

April 4 · Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, German general (1889-1962)
April 13 · Efim Bogoljubov, Russian chess player (1889–1952)
April 15 · Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (1889–1975)
April 21 · Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 41st & 46th President of Peru (1889-1967)
April 24 · Stafford Cripps, British politician, lawyer and diplomat (1889–1952)
April 26 · Anita Loos, American actress and writer (1888–1981)

May

May 3 · Beulah Bondi, American actress (1888/1889–1981)
May 6 · Lyubov Popova, Russian artist (1889-1924)
May 12 · Otto Heinrich Frank, father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1889–1980)
May 18 · Jacob L. Moreno, Austrian-American psychiatrist
May 18 · Thomas Midgley, American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
May 28 · Richard Réti, Czechoslovakian chess player (1889–1929)

June

June 4 · Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist (1889-1960)
June 10 · Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (1889–1973)
June 13 · Amadeo Bordiga, Italian politician (1889-1970)
June 15 · Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, German general (1889–1968)
June 21 · Ralph Craig, American athlete (1889–1972)
June 28 · Abbas el-Akkad, Egyptian writer (1889-1964)

July

July 13 · Louise Mountbatten, Queen consort of Sweden (1950-1965)
July 17 · Erle Stanley Gardner, American writer and lawyer (1889–1970)
July 22 · James Whale, British-born American film director
July 29 · Ernst Reuter, German mayor of West Berlin (1889–1953)
July 30 · Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer (1888–1982)
July 30 · Frans Masereel, Flemish artist (1889–1972)

August

August 1 · Walter Gerlach, German physicist (1889-1979)
August 5 · Conrad Aiken, American novelist and poet (1889–1973)
August 7 · Léon Brillouin, French physicist (1889-1969)
August 10 · Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer
August 12 · Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Peruvian politician (1889-1933)
August 19 · Arthur Waley, British orientalist and sinologist (1889–1966)

September

September 8 · Robert A. Taft, American politician, son of 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft (1889–1953)
September 13 · Pierre Reverdy, French poet (1889-1960)
September 14 · María Capovilla, Ecuadorian supercentenarian (1889–2006)
September 15 · Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (1889-1945)
September 15 · Claude McKay, Jamaican American writer, poet (1889–1948)
September 16 · Mercédès Jellinek, namesake of Mercedes-Benz

October

October 6 · Maria Dąbrowska, Polish writer (1889–1965)
October 7 · Robert Z. Leonard, American film director (1889-1968)
October 8 · Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist; three-time champion of the Tour de France (1889–1971)
October 10 · Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (1889-1947)
October 17 · Mīkhāʼīl Nuʻaymah, author, poet, novelist, critic, biographer
October 29 · Li Dazhao, co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1889–1927)

November

November 1 · Hannah Höch, German artist (1889–1978)
November 16 · George S. Kaufman, American writer (1889-1961)
November 18 · Zoltán Tildy, President of Hungary (1889-1961)
November 18 · Hannes Meyer, Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus (1889-1954)
November 19 · Clifton Webb, American actor, singer and dancer (1889–1966)
November 25 · Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish writer (1889–1956)

December

December 4 · Lloyd Bacon, actor, director (1889-1955)
December 9 · Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner
December 13 · Zofia Zamenhof, Polish Esperantist (1889-1942)
December 21 · Sewall Wright, American geneticist (1889-1988)
December 22 · Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (1963–1973)
December 23 · Emil Brunner, Swiss theologian (1889–1966)

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