Famous people born in 1894

The best-known people born in 1894, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Nikita Khrushchev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
April 15 · d. 1971
Photo: TASS / distributed by Associated Press, Public domain
Aldous Huxley
viva el completo (1894–1963)
July 26 · d. 1963
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Edward VIII
King of the United Kingdom in 1936
June 23 · d. 1972
Photo: Attributed to Angelo Laviosa / Formerly attributed to Vincenzo Laviosa, Public domain
Harold Macmillan
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963
February 10 · d. 1986
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
May 27 · d. 1961
Photo: Agence Meurisse, Public domain
Pyotr Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
July 8 · d. 1984
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
John Ford
American film director (1894–1973)
February 1 · d. 1973
Photo: Los Angeles Daily News, Public domain
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
January 1 · d. 1974
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
July 17 · d. 1966
Photo: unknown photographer, probably a CalTech employee. Cropped by Artistosteles, Public domain
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
November 26 · d. 1964
Photo: Konrad Jacobs, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Dashiell Hammett
American writer (1894–1961)
May 27 · d. 1961
Jean Renoir
French film director and screenwriter (1894–1979)
September 15 · d. 1979
Photo: Studio Harcourt, Public domain
Isaak Babel
Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)
July 12 · d. 1940
Photo: anonimous, Public domain
Joseph Roth
Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
September 2 · d. 1939
Photo: s/a, Public domain
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher
November 16 · d. 1972
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Kōnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)
November 27 · d. 1989
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
V. V. Giri
Indian politician and 4th president of India (1894-1980)
August 10 · d. 1980
Photo: India Post, Government of India, GODL-India
Alexander Oparin
Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)
March 2 · d. 1980
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 4.0
Maximilian Kolbe
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1894–1941)
January 8 · d. 1941
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Heinrich Lübke
German politician (1894-1972)
October 14 · d. 1972
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
E. E. Cummings
American author (1894–1962)
October 14 · d. 1962
Alfred Kinsey
American sexologist (1894–1956)
June 23 · d. 1956
Boris III of Bulgaria
king of Bulgaria (1894–1943)
January 30 · d. 1943
Photo: Dimitar Karastoyanov, Public domain
Moshe Sharett
2nd Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955
October 16 · d. 1965
Photo: GPO Photographer, Public domain
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)
September 10 · d. 1956
Photo: Na, Public domain
Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)
May 11 · d. 1991
Photo: Los Angeles Daily News, CC BY 4.0
Bessie Smith
American blues singer (1892–1937)
April 15 · d. 1937
Walter Brennan
American actor (1894–1974)
July 25 · d. 1974
Photo: ABC Television (ABC Photo); Bath & Wiener-photographer., Public domain
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
June 25 · d. 1989
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Norman Rockwell
American painter and illustrator (1894–1978)
February 3 · d. 1978
Photo: en:Underwood & Underwood, Public domain

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January

January 3 · ZaSu Pitts, American actress (1894-1963)
January 4 · Évariste Lévi-Provençal, French historian (1894-1956)
January 15 · José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, President of Peru (1894-1989)
January 16 · Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Romanian soldier (1894–1917)
January 20 · Walter Piston, American composer (1894–1976)
January 25 · Aino Aalto, Finnish architect, designer and business leader (1894–1949)

February

February 8 · King Vidor, American film director, film producer, and screenwriter (1894-1982)
February 14 · Jack Benny, American comedic entertainer (1894–1974)
February 15 · Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Mongolian politician (1894-1962)
February 20 · Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Polish writer (1894–1980)
February 25 · Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (1894–1969)
February 28 · Ben Hecht, American writer, director, and producer (1894–1964)

March

March 3 · Goro Yamada, Japanese association football player and manager
March 8 · Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish artist and sculptor (1894–1966)
March 11 · Otto Grotewohl, German politician (1894–1964)
March 20 · Hans Langsdorff, Recipient of the Iron Cross (1894–1939)
March 28 · Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer
March 30 · Sergey Ilyushin, Soviet aircraft engineer and aeroplanes designer (1894–1977)

April

April 10 · Ben Nicholson, British painter (1894-1982)
April 12 · Francisco Craveiro Lopes, President of Portugal (1894-1964)
April 13 · Arthur Fadden, Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (1894-1973)
April 16 · Jerzy Neyman, Polish statistician (1894-1981)
April 22 · Max Weinreich, American/Latvian linguist (1894–1969)
April 23 · Frank Borzage, American film director and actor (1894-1962)

May

May 9 · Benjamin Graham, American economist and investor (1894-1976)
May 13 · Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland (1894-1972) Governor of Surtsey (1963-1968)
May 22 · Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian and American composer
May 26 · Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (1891-1971)
May 29 · Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American film director (1894-1969)
May 31 · Fred Allen, American comedian (1894–1956)

June

June 9 · Nedo Nadi, Italian fencer (1894-1940)
June 11 · Kiichirō Toyoda, Japanese businessman (1894–1952)
June 14 · Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 to 1919
June 14 · José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)
June 16 · Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin, Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1894-1949)
June 19 · Nazli Sabri, Egyptian queen consort (1894–1978)

July

July 2 · André Kertész, Hungarian photographer (1894–1985)
July 3 · Mississippi John Hurt, American country blues singer and guitarist (1892-1966)
July 9 · Percy Spencer, American engineer and inventor (1894–1970)
July 10 · Kim Hyŏng-jik, father of Kim Il-sung
July 19 · Khawaja Nazimuddin, Pakistani politician and statesman (1894–1964)
July 22 · Oskar Maria Graf, German writer and activist (1894-1967)

August

August 1 · Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian racing cyclist (1894–1927)
August 2 · Bertha Lutz, Brazilian scientist (1894-1976)
August 2 · Ángel Romano, Uruguayan footballer (1893–1972)
August 4 · Carlos Luz, 19th President of Brazil (1894–1961)
August 9 · Mikhail Zoshchenko, Soviet writer (1894–1958)
August 28 · Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (1894-1981)

September

September 7 · Gala Dalí, Russian and Spanish model and artist; wife of, first, Paul Éluard, then Salvador Dalí (1894–1982)
September 12 · Friedrich Ebert Jr., German politician (1894-1979)
September 12 · Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indian Bengali author (1894–1950)
September 13 · Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (1894–1953)
September 13 · J. B. Priestley, English writer (1894–1984)
September 15 · Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist

October

October 11 · Boris Pilnyak, Soviet writer (1894-1938)
October 12 · Princess Elisabeth of Romania, Romanian Royal; Queen Consort of Greece (1922 - 1924)
October 21 · Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese writer (1894–1965)
October 22 · Mei Lanfang, Peking opera artist (1894-1961)
October 25 · Claude Cahun, French artist (1894–1954)
October 30 · Jean Rostand, French writer (1894–1977)

November

November 9 · Dietrich von Choltitz, German general (1894-1966)
November 9 · Mae Marsh, American actress (1894-1968)
November 19 · Américo Tomás, (1894-1987) President of Portugal
November 21 · Corinne Griffith, American actress, film producer, author (1894–1979)
November 26 · Ivan Papanin, Soviet explorer (1894–1986)
November 28 · Henry Hazlitt, American journalist & writer (1894–1993)

December

December 4 · T. V. Soong, Chinese businessman and politician (1894-1971)
December 5 · Charles Robberts Swart, South African politician (1894–1982)
December 8 · James Thurber, American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961)
December 17 · Hans Kramers, Dutch physicist (1894–1952)
December 20 · Robert Menzies, Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (1894-1978)
December 22 · Borys Liatoshynsky, Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher (1894–1968)

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