Famous people born in 1892

The best-known people born in 1892, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
January 3 · d. 1973
Photo: Unknown photo studio commissioned by Tolkien's students 1925/6 (private communication from Catherine, Public domain
Pearl S. Buck
Chinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary (1892–1973)
June 26 · d. 1973
Photo: Unknown (see print without name, Public domain
Francisco Franco
Spanish general and dictator (1892-1975)
December 4 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC0
Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)
May 7 · d. 1980
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Ivo Andrić
Yugoslav novelist (1892–1975)
October 10 · d. 1975
Photo: Stevan Kragujević, CC BY-SA 3.0 rs
Haile Selassie I
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
July 23 · d. 1975
Photo: unknown; according to [1] and [2] an official portrait of which b/w copies were distributed by the E, Public domain
Mary Pickford
Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
April 8 · d. 1979
Photo: Rufus Porter Moody, Public domain
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
August 15 · d. 1987
Photo: Agence Rol, Public domain
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
July 15 · d. 1940
Photo: Photo d'identité sans auteur, 1928, Public domain
Marina Tsvetaeva
Russian poet (1892 – 1941)
October 8 · d. 1941
Photo: Pierre Choumoff, Public domain
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese writer (1892–1927)
March 1 · d. 1927
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist (1892–1962)
September 10 · d. 1962
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
Alexander Alekhine
Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)
October 31 · d. 1946
Photo: Alexandre_Alekhine_01.jpg : George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) derivative work: J, Public domain
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist (1892–1965)
September 6 · d. 1965
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
May 3 · d. 1975
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician (1892–1945)
March 30 · d. 1945
Photo: nieznany/unknown, Public domain
Martin Niemöller
German theologian (1892–1984)
January 14 · d. 1984
Photo: J.D. Noske / Anefo, CC0
César Vallejo
Peruvian writer
March 16 · d. 1938
Photo: Prefecture of Police of Paris, Public domain
Engelbert Dollfuss
Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman (1892-1934)
October 4 · d. 1934
Photo: © Knozer (F. Knozer), Public domain
Manfred von Richthofen
German fighter pilot (1892-1918)
May 2 · d. 1918
Photo: C. J. von Dühren, Public domain
J.B.S. Haldane
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)
November 5 · d. 1964
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet (1892–1950)
February 22 · d. 1950
Photo: en:Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), Public domain
Mátyás Rákosi
former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party (1892-1971)
March 9 · d. 1971
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
J. Paul Getty
American industrialist and art collector (1892–1976)
December 15 · d. 1976
Photo: Publication:Los Angeles Daily News, Public domain
Ernst Lubitsch
German-American actor and film director (1892–1947)
January 29 · d. 1947
Photo: Unknown (George Grantham Bain collection), Public domain
Arthur Honegger
Swiss composer (1892-1955)
March 10 · d. 1955
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0
Rebecca West
British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist (1892-1983)
December 21 · d. 1983
Photo: Madame Yévonde, CC BY-SA 3.0
Oliver Hardy
American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy (1892–1957)
January 18 · d. 1957
Photo: Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984, CC0
Bruno Schulz
Jewish novelist and painter (1892-1942)
July 12 · d. 1942
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
William P. Murphy
American scientist (1892–1987)
February 6 · d. 1987
Photo: The Nobel Foundation, Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948
January 14 · Hal Roach, American filmmaker (1892–1992)
January 19 · Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician (1892-1964)
January 22 · Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
January 26 · Bessie Coleman, American aviator (1892–1926)
January 31 · Eddie Cantor, American comedian and actor (1892–1964)

February

February 3 · Juan Negrín, Prime Minister of Spain (1892-1956)
February 4 · Andreu Nin, Spanish politician (1892-1937)
February 13 · Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court justice from 1941 to 1954 (1892–1954)
February 15 · James Forrestal, United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy (1892-1949)
February 18 · Wendell Willkie, American lawyer and corporate executive (1892–1944)
February 24 · Konstantin Fedin, Russian-Soviet writer and poet (1892–1977)

March

March 8 · Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan writer (1892–1979)
March 9 · Vita Sackville-West, English writer, poet, and gardener (1892–1962)
March 16 · Nikolai Kondratiev, Soviet economist (1892-1938)
March 28 · Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist (1892-1968)
March 29 · József Mindszenty, Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary
March 30 · Erwin Panofsky, German art historian (1892–1968)

April

April 4 · Edith Södergran, Finland Swedish poet and writer (1892–1923)
April 4 · Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, German astronomer (1892–1979)
April 8 · Richard Neutra, Austrian–American architect (1892-1970)
April 13 · Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Royal Air Force air marshal and writer (1892-1984)
April 14 · Vere Gordon Childe, British prehistorian archaeologist (1892–1957)
April 18 · Bolesław Bierut, Polish politician and leader of Poland (1947–1956)

May

May 7 · Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982)
May 9 · Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918
May 11 · Margaret Rutherford, British actress (1892–1972)
May 23 · Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (1892–1922)
May 29 · Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer and poet
May 31 · Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian writer (1892–1968)

June

June 1 · Amanullah Khan, King and Emir of Afghanistan (1892-1960)
June 12 · Djuna Barnes, American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)
June 13 · Basil Rathbone, English actor (1892–1967)
June 21 · Reinhold Niebuhr, American Protestant theologian (1892–1971)
June 25 · Shirō Ishii, Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)
June 28 · E. H. Carr, British historian, journalist, diplomat and political scientist (1892–1982)

July

July 1 · James M. Cain, American novelist, short story writer, journalist (1892–1977)
July 8 · Richard Aldington, English writer and poet (1892–1962)
July 11 · Thomas Mitchell, American actor, playwright and screenwriter (1892-1962)
July 18 · Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (1892–1969)
July 24 · Alice Augusta Ball, African American chemist (1892–1916)
July 29 · William Powell, American actor (1892–1984)

August

August 2 · Jack Warner, American film executive (1892–1978)
August 11 · Władysław Anders, Polish general, politician and national hero (1892–1970)
August 11 · Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962)
August 14 · Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (1892–1988)
August 17 · Tamon Yamaguchi, Japanese admiral (1892-1942)
August 29 · Alexandre Koyré, French philosopher (1892–1964)

September

September 4 · Darius Milhaud, French composer (1892–1974)
September 5 · Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian born American violinist (1892-1973)
September 8 · Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengali barrister and politician (1892–1963)
September 13 · Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1892–1980)
September 16 · Werner Bergengruen, German writer (1892–1964)
September 28 · Elmer Rice, American playwright (1892–1967)

October

October 14 · Andrey Yeryomenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1892-1970)
October 21 · Lydia Lopokova, Russian ballet dancer (1892–1981)
October 21 · Otto Nerz, German football player and coach (1892–1949)
October 23 · Gummo Marx, American comedian (1893–1977)
October 27 · Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer and mayor (1892-1953)
October 29 · Harry Dexter White, American economist and Soviet spy (1892–1948)

November

November 2 · Alice Brady, American actress (1892–1939)
November 2 · Paul Abraham, Jewish-Hungarian composer (1892–1960)
November 9 · Erich Auerbach, German philologist (1892-1957)
November 10 · Mabel Normand, American actress (1893–1930)
November 16 · Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (1892-1978)
November 16 · Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racecar driver

December

December 4 · Liu Bocheng, Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1892-1986)
December 7 · Stuart Davis, American painter (1892-1964)
December 18 · Mykola Kulish, Ukrainian writer and playwright (1892–1937)
December 22 · Herman Potočnik, Slovenian inventor (1892-1929)
December 22 · Gheorghe Tătărescu, Romanian politician (1886–1957)
December 24 · Ruth Chatterton, American actress (1892–1961)

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