Famous people born in 1893

The best-known people born in 1893, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
December 26 · d. 1976
Photo: Chen Zhengqing (1917–1966), Public domain
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)
July 19 · d. 1930
Photo: Unidentified photographer, Public domain
Mae West
American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)
August 17 · d. 1980
Photo: Paramount Pictures, Public domain
Joan Miró
Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983)
April 20 · d. 1983
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
Lillian Gish
American actor, actress, motion picture producers and director, screenwriter
October 14 · d. 1993
Photo: Bain News Service; Uploaded by Calliopejen ; Edited by jjron ., Public domain
Jomo Kenyatta
first Prime Minister (1963 to 1964) and President (1964 to 1978) of self-governing Kenya
October 20 · d. 1978
Photo: Pridan Moshe, Public domain
Paramahansa Yogananda
Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship (1893-1952)
January 5 · d. 1952
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
September 16 · d. 1986
Photo: J.W. McGuire, Public domain
Harold Urey
American physical chemist (1893-1981)
April 29 · d. 1981
Photo: Flickr: ENERGY.GOV - Unknown photographer. Restored by Creator:Adam Cuerden, Public domain
Harold Lloyd
American actor and comedian (1893–1971)
April 20 · d. 1971
Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)
August 22 · d. 1967
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
George Grosz
German artist (1893–1959)
July 26 · d. 1959
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Hattie McDaniel
American actress (1893-1952)
June 10 · d. 1952
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1893—1937)
February 16 · d. 1937
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Soong Ching-ling
former Vice President of the People's Republic of China and third wife of Sun Yat-sen (1893–1981)
January 27 · d. 1981
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Omar Bradley
United States Army general (1893–1981)
February 12 · d. 1981
Photo: United States Army, Public domain
Edward Adelbert Doisy
American biochemist (1893-1986)
November 13 · d. 1986
Photo: The Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Walter Baade
German astronomer (1893–1960)
March 24 · d. 1960
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Lazar Kaganovich
Soviet politician (1893–1991)
November 22 · d. 1991
Photo: Eleazar Langman, Public domain
Prajadhipok
King of Siam
November 8 · d. 1941
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Dorothy L. Sayers
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer (1893-1957)
June 13 · d. 1957
Photo: uncredited; published by Boni and Liveright in connexion with her 1925 release Whose Body, Public domain
Edward G. Robinson
Romanian-American actor (1893-1973)
December 12 · d. 1973
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Wilfred Owen
English Skateboarder 1893-1918)
March 18 · d. 1918
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Ip Man
Hong Kong martial artist (1893–1972)
October 1 · d. 1972
Photo: Dever, Public domain
Dean Acheson
American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)
April 11 · d. 1971
Photo: U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain
Alexander of Greece
King of Greece (1917–1920)
August 1 · d. 1920
Photo: Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Public domain
Karl Mannheim
Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist (1893-1947)
March 27 · d. 1947
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Palmiro Togliatti
former leader of the Italian Communist Party (1893–1964)
March 26 · d. 1964
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Fay Bainter
American actress (1893–1968)
December 7 · d. 1968
Photo: Arnold Genthe, Public domain
Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet Jewish writer
January 24 · d. 1984
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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January

January 3 · Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French writer
January 12 · Mikhail Gurevich, Soviet aircraft designer (1893–1976)
January 13 · Chaïm Soutine, Belarusian-French painter (1893–1943)
January 13 · Clark Ashton Smith, American author (1893-1961)
January 18 · Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet (1893–1984)
January 22 · Conrad Veidt, German actor (1893–1943)

February

February 2 · Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian military leader (1893-1923)
February 4 · Raymond Dart, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (1893-1988)
February 10 · Bill Tilden, American tennis player (1893–1953)
February 10 · Jimmy Durante, American actor, comedian and singer (1893–1980)
February 21 · Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (1893–1987)
February 28 · Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)

March

March 9 · Umberto Saba, Italian poet and novelist (1883-1957)
March 10 · Sam Jaffe, American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (1891-1984)
March 19 · José María Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador (1934 - 1935) / (1944 - 1947) / (1952 - 1956) / (1960 - 1961) / (1968 - 1972)
March 23 · Cedric Gibbons, American art director (1890–1960)
March 24 · Emmy Göring, German actress, art collector (1893-1973)
March 26 · James Bryant Conant, American chemist (1893–1978)

April

April 3 · Leslie Howard, British actor (1893–1943)
April 7 · Allen Dulles, first civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
April 17 · Marguerite Broquedis, French tennis player
April 20 · Edna Ruth Parker, American supercentenarian (1893–2008)
April 27 · Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1893-1976)
April 29 · Elisaveta Bagryana, Bulgarian poet and writer (1893–1991)

May

May 1 · Qazi Muhammad, Founder and Supreme Guide of the Republic of Mahabad (1893–1947)
May 1 · Nestor Lakoba, Abkhazian politician (1893-1936)
May 9 · Pitigrilli, Italian writer (1893-1975)
May 9 · William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, lawyer, inventor, and comic book writer (1893–1947)
May 13 · Henry Murray, American psychologist and academic (1893–1988)
May 28 · Mina Witkojc, Sorbian poet (1893–1975)

June

June 4 · Armand Călinescu, Romanian politician (1893-1939)
June 8 · Oscar Torp, 23rd Prime Minister of Norway (1893–1958)
June 21 · Alois Hába, Czech music educator and composer (1893-1973)
June 24 · Roy O. Disney, American businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (1893–1971)
June 29 · Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (1893–1972)
June 30 · Harold Laski, British academic (1893-1950)

July

July 7 · Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (1893–1981)
July 8 · Fritz Perls, German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist (1893-1970)
July 14 · Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, former Prime Minister of South Africa (1893–1958)
July 15 · William Dieterle, German/American actor and film director (1893–1972)
July 21 · Hans Fallada, German writer (1893–1947)
July 31 · Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967)

August

August 2 · Ángel Romano, Uruguayan footballer (1893–1972)
August 5 · Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian-born actress of Imperial Russian silent cinema (1893–1919)
August 15 · Harlow Curtice, American businessman (1893–1962)
August 21 · Lili Boulanger, French composer (1893–1918)
August 22 · Cecil Kellaway, South African actor (1890–1973)
August 30 · Huey Long, American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator (1893-1935)

September

September 6 · Claire Lee Chennault, US general
September 16 · Alexander Korda, British film director (1893–1956)
September 20 · Hans Scharoun, German architect (1893-1972)
September 24 · Blind Lemon Jefferson, American blues singer and guitarist (1893–1929)
September 28 · Prince Felix, Prince Consort of Luxembourg, Consort of Luxembourg from 1919 to 1964
September 28 · Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)

October

October 6 · Meghnad Saha, Bengali astrophysicist (1893–1956)
October 9 · Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer (1893–1945)
October 15 · Carol II of Romania, king of Romania from 1930 to 1940
October 22 · Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (1893-1985)
October 24 · Merian C. Cooper, American aviator, actor, director and producer (1893-1973)
October 30 · Roland Freisler, German jurist and politician (1893–1945)

November

November 5 · Raymond Loewy, French-born American industrial designer (1893-1986)
November 6 · Edsel Bryant Ford, American businessman (1893-1943)
November 7 · Leatrice Joy, American actress (1893-1985)
November 11 · Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman (1893-1973)
November 14 · Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer (1893-1973)
November 18 · Karimeh Abbud, Palestinian professional photographer and artist (1893–1940)

December

December 1 · Ernst Toller, German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)
December 4 · T. V. Soong, Chinese businessman and politician (1894-1971)
December 7 · Hermann Balck, Panzer general of the German Wehrmacht, "The Forgotten Panzer General" (1893-1982)
December 17 · Erwin Piscator, German theatre director (1893–1966)
December 28 · Ana Pauker, Romanian politician (1893-1960)
December 29 · Vera Brittain, English writer (1893-1970)

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