Famous people born in 1891

The best-known people born in 1891, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer (1891–1956)
April 14 · d. 1956
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
January 22 · d. 1937
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
May 15 · d. 1940
Photo: Moisej Nappelbaum, Public domain
Erwin Rommel
German field marshal (1891–1944)
November 15 · d. 1944
Photo: Winkelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Nelly Sachs
Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)
December 10 · d. 1970
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
October 20 · d. 1974
Photo: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Attribution
Henry Miller
American novelist (1891–1980)
December 26 · d. 1980
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Sergei Prokofiev
Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)
April 23 · d. 1953
Photo: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish writer (1891–1974)
May 23 · d. 1974
Photo: Ateljé Uggla, Public domain
Walther Bothe
German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891–1957)
January 8 · d. 1957
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Frederick Banting
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
November 14 · d. 1941
Photo: Arthur Goss, Public domain
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
October 12 · d. 1942
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
January 14 · d. 1938
Photo: Photographer unknown, uploader Koperczak 18:30, 4 April 2009 (UTC), Public domain
Max Ernst
German artist (1891–1976)
April 2 · d. 1976
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC0
John Howard Northrop
American biochemist (1891-1987)
July 5 · d. 1987
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Rudolf Carnap
German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)
May 18 · d. 1970
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Otto Dix
German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
December 2 · d. 1969
Photo: Hans-Joachim Koch, CC BY-SA 4.0
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
January 7 · d. 1960
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
January 26 · d. 1967
Photo: Unknown Unknown, Public domain
Rafael Trujillo
President of the Dominican Republic (1891-1961)
October 24 · d. 1961
Photo: Unknown author., Public domain
Antonio Segni
4th President of Italy (1891-1972)
February 2 · d. 1972
Photo: Presidenza della Repubblica, Attribution
Cole Porter
American composer and songwriter (1891–1964)
June 9 · d. 1964
Photo: unattributed, see link, Public domain
Walter Model
German field marshal (1891-1945)
January 24 · d. 1945
Photo: Jäger, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Grant Wood
American painter (1891–1942)
February 13 · d. 1942
Photo: Grant Wood, Public domain
Ronald Colman
British actor (1891–1958)
February 9 · d. 1958
Photo: Studio, Public domain
Genrikh Yagoda
Soviet secret police official (1891–1938)
November 7 · d. 1938
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Fumimaro Konoe
politician and former Prime Minister of Japan (1891–1945)
October 12 · d. 1945
Otto Schmidt
Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)
September 30 · d. 1956
Edward Bernays
American propaganda and marketing pioneer (1891-1995)
November 22 · d. 1995
Johannes R. Becher
German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)
May 22 · d. 1958

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Charles Bickford, American actor (1891–1967)
January 8 · Bronislava Nijinska, Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1891–1972)
January 13 · Julio Baghy, Hungarian actor, author, novelist, poet, publisher and Esperantist (1891-1967)
January 17 · Walter Eucken, German economist (1891–1950)
January 22 · Franz Alexander, American Hungarian-born psychoanalyst (1891-1964)
January 23 · Pavlo Tychyna, Soviet Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman (1891-1967)

February

February 4 · Jüri Lossmann, Estonian athletics competitor and association football player (1891–1984)
February 9 · Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (1891–1980)
February 16 · Hans F. K. Günther, German Eugenicist (1891–1968)
February 17 · Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician (1891-1965)
February 23 · Evgeny Pashukanis, Soviet-Russian legal scholar (1891-1937)
February 27 · David Sarnoff, Russian-born American businessman (1891–1971)

March

March 3 · Arthur Drewry, English football administrator (1891-1961)
March 9 · José Paciano Laurel, President of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945
March 10 · Sam Jaffe, American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (1891-1984)
March 19 · Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 (1891–1974)
March 24 · Sergey Vavilov, Soviet physicist
March 29 · Yvan Goll, French-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)

April

April 4 · Agnes Ayres, American actress (1892–1940)
April 7 · Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (1891-1958)
April 13 · Nella Larsen, American novelist, librarian, nurse (1891–1964)
April 15 · Wallace Reid, American actor (1891–1923)
April 17 · George Adamski, American ufologist (1891–1965)
April 22 · Harold Jeffreys, British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)

May

May 1 · Charley Patton, American Delta blues musician (1891–1934)
May 11 · Henry Morgenthau Jr., American politician (1891–1967)
May 15 · Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, (1893-1975) Georgian writer
May 17 · Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, British princess; elder daughter of Louise, Princess Royal, and Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1891-1959)
May 19 · Oswald Boelcke, German First World War flying ace (1891–1916)
May 24 · William F. Albright, American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics (1891-1971)

June

June 2 · Takijirō Ōnishi, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral (1891-1945)
June 14 · Yevhen Konovalets, military commander of the UNR army and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement (1891-1938)
June 19 · John Heartfield, German artist (1891–1968)
June 20 · John A. Costello, 3rd Taoiseach from 1948 to 1951, and 1954 to 1957
June 21 · Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer (1891-1979)
June 23 · Vladislav Vančura, Czech writer, film director, playwright and screenwriter (1891–1942)

July

July 5 · Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (1891–1955)
July 7 · Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general (1891-1945)
July 13 · Fréhel, French singer and actress (1891-1951)
July 17 · Boris Lavrenyov, Russian writer (1891–1959)
July 18 · Gene Lockhart, actor (1891-1957)
July 23 · Harry Cohn, American film studio executive (1891-1958)

August

August 2 · Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (1891–1975)
August 6 · William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, former Governor-General of Australia (1891-1970)
August 20 · Shiso Kanakuri, Japanese long-distance runner
August 22 · Jacques Lipchitz, American and French sculptor (1891–1973)
August 25 · Otilio Ulate Blanco, President of Costa Rica (1891-1973)
August 29 · Michael Chekhov, Russian actor and director (1891-1955)

September

September 6 · Yrjö Väisälä, Finnish astronomer and physicist
September 11 · Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, German general (1891–1948)
September 14 · Ivan Vinogradov, Soviet mathematician (1891-1983)
September 18 · Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Russian grand duke (1891-1942); grandson of Alexander II, son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark
September 22 · Hans Albers, German actor (1891-1960)
September 26 · Hans Reichenbach, German–American philosopher

October

October 3 · Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico (1928-1930)
October 6 · Kálmán Kalocsay, physician, writer of Esperanto literature (1891–1976)
October 11 · Kim Seong-su, South Korean educator, activist, journalist, entrepreneur and politician (1891-1955)
October 21 · Shukri al-Quwatli, 1st President of Syrian Republic (1891–1967)
October 25 · Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American Catholic priest and radio commentator (1891–1979)
October 29 · Fanny Brice, American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)

November

November 7 · Dmitry Furmanov, Russian writer (1891-1926)
November 11 · Lilya Brik, muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky
November 12 · Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer (1891–1963)
November 15 · W. Averell Harriman, American businessman, politician and diplomat (1891–1986)
November 29 · Julius Raab, Austrian chancellor and politician (1891-1964)
November 30 · Lola Anglada, Spanish writer, comics artist and illustrator (1892-1984)

December

December 5 · Alexander Rodchenko, Russian artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer (1891—1955)
December 8 · John Langenus, Belgian football referee (1891-1952)
December 9 · Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian writer (1891–1917)
December 10 · Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British military commander and field marshal; Governor General of Canada (1891-1969)
December 17 · Hu Shih, Chinese scholar, writer and philosopher (1891–1962)
December 30 · Antoine Pinay, French politician (1891-1994)

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