Famous people born in 1895

The best-known people born in 1895, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

George VI
King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
December 14 · d. 1952
Photo: Matson Photo Service, Public domain
Sergei Yesenin
Russian poet (1895–1925)
October 3 · d. 1925
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer (1895–1986)
May 12 · d. 1986
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Buster Keaton
American actor, comedian, and director (1895–1966)
October 4 · d. 1966
Photo: Bain News Service, Public domain
Juan Perón
president of Argentina (1946–55, 1973–74)
October 8 · d. 1974
Photo: Unknown author., Public domain
Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
July 12 · d. 1983
Photo: en:User:Edgy01 (Dan Lindsay), CC BY 3.0
Paul Éluard
French poet (1895–1952)
December 14 · d. 1952
Igor Tamm
Soviet physicist (1895–1971)
July 8 · d. 1971
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Babe Ruth
American baseball player (1895–1948)
February 6 · d. 1948
Photo: Charles M. Conlon, Public domain
Robert Graves
English poet and novelist (1895-1985)
July 24 · d. 1985
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Cemal Gürsel
4th President of the Republic of Turkey (1895–1966)
October 13 · d. 1966
Photo: THA, CC0
Ragnar Frisch
Norwegian economist (1895–1973)
March 3 · d. 1973
Photo: Borgens Atelier, Public domain
Ernst Jünger
German writer (1895–1998)
March 29 · d. 1998
Photo: Magnus Merck, Public domain
Dolores Ibárruri
Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)
December 9 · d. 1989
Photo: Nemo, CC BY-SA 3.0
Gerhard Domagk
German bacteriologist (1895-1964)
October 30 · d. 1964
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Anastas Mikoyan
Soviet revolutionary and statesman (1895–1978)
November 25 · d. 1978
Photo: G. Weil for TASS, Public domain
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
November 17 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Rudolph Valentino
Italian actor (1895–1926)
May 6 · d. 1926
Photo: Henry Waxman, Public domain
Marcel Pagnol
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974)
February 28 · d. 1974
Photo: Studio Harcourt, Public domain
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Finnish chemist and professor (1895–1973)
January 15 · d. 1973
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, CC BY 4.0
Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
February 14 · d. 1973
Photo: Jeremy J. Shapiro, CC BY-SA 3.0
J. Edgar Hoover
American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)
January 1 · d. 1972
Photo: Marion S. Trikosko, Public domain
Carl Orff
German composer (1895–1982)
July 10 · d. 1982
Photo: Orff-Zentrum München, CC BY-SA 4.0
Zog I of Albania
Albanian prime minister, president and king (1895-1961) (r.1922-1939)
October 8 · d. 1961
Levi Eshkol
Israeli politician, a founder of the Israeli Labor Party and Prime Minister (1895-1969)
October 25 · d. 1969
Photo: David Eldan, CC BY-SA 4.0
Liaquat Ali Khan
1st Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951
October 1 · d. 1951
Photo: Liaquat Ali Khan, Public domain
Henrik Dam
Danish biochemist and physiologist (1895-1976)
February 21 · d. 1976
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Anna Freud
austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)
December 3 · d. 1982
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC0
William Giauque
American chemist (1895-1982)
May 12 · d. 1982
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977)
September 30 · d. 1977
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 4.0

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January

January 1 · Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Palestinian Arab nationalist (1897–1974)
January 1 · Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Ruler of Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1965
January 2 · Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (1895–1948)
January 7 · Clara Haskil, Romanian-Swiss classical pianist (1895-1960)
January 7 · Vasili Blokhin, NKVD officer and chief executioner (1895-1955)
January 21 · Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (1895-1972)

February

February 4 · Iyasu V, Emperor of Abyssinia (1895-1935) and temporary loyalist of Garad Diiriye Guure
February 8 · Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Mongolian general and political leader from the 1930s to 1952
February 15 · Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (1895–1945)
February 18 · Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet military commander (1895-1970)
February 19 · Louis Calhern, American stage and screen actor (1895-1956)
February 24 · Vsevolod Ivanov, screenwriter, author

March

March 3 · Matthew Ridgway, United States Army general (1895–1993)
March 9 · Albert Göring, German engineer, businessman, and the younger brother of Hermann Göring (1895-1966)
March 19 · Maksym Rylsky, Ukrainian poet (1895–1964)
March 21 · Leonid Utyosov, Soviet musician (1895–1982)
March 28 · Christian Herter, American politician (1895–1966)
March 30 · Jean Giono, French writer (1895–1970)

April

April 9 · Michel Simon, Swiss French language actor (1895-1975)
April 15 · Corrado Alvaro, Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays, and plays (1895–1956)
April 20 · Henry de Montherlant, French writer (1895–1972)
April 23 · Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (1895–1982)
April 25 · Stanley Rous, 6th President of FIFA (1895–1986)
April 28 · Vladimir Propp, Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist (1895–1970)

May

May 1 · Nikolai Yezhov, NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)
May 2 · Wilm Hosenfeld, German army officer (1895-1952)
May 9 · Richard Barthelmess, American actor (1895–1963)
May 18 · Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary and guerrilla leader (1895–1934) who led resistance to the United States occupation of Nicaragua
May 21 · Lázaro Cárdenas, 51st President of Mexico
May 26 · Dorothea Lange, American photojournalist (1895-1965)

June

June 1 · Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Polish military leader (1895–1966)
June 4 · Dino Grandi, Italian politician (1895–1988)
June 8 · Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (1895-1978)
June 11 · Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (1895–1975)
June 14 · José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)
June 24 · Jack Dempsey, American boxer (1895-1983)

July

July 12 · Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (1895-1962)
July 12 · Oscar Hammerstein II, American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals (1895–1960)
July 15 · Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Russian princess (1895-1970)
July 20 · László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian artist (1895–1946)
July 22 · Paval Sukhi, Soviet aeroplanes designer
July 26 · Gracie Allen, American actress and entertainer (1896–1964)

August

August 11 · Egon Pearson, British statistician (1895-1980)
August 13 · Bert Lahr, American actor (1895–1967)
August 16 · Albert Cohen, Swiss writer (1895-1981)
August 16 · Liane Haid, Actress, singer (1895-2000)
August 24 · Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, 1st Yang Di-Pertuan Agong (1895-1960)
August 26 · Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Polish linguist (1895–1978)

September

September 11 · Vinoba Bhave, Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights (1895-1982)
September 18 · John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (1895-1979)
September 21 · Juan de la Cierva, Spanish aeronautical engineer and pilot; inventor of the autogyro (1895-1936)
September 22 · Paul Muni, Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)
September 24 · André Frédéric Cournand, French physiologist (1895–1988)
September 30 · Lewis Milestone, Russian-American film director (1895-1980)

October

October 4 · Richard Sorge, Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)
October 10 · Lin Yutang, Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895–1976)
October 10 · Wolfram von Richthofen, German military officer and aviator (1895–1945)
October 19 · Lewis Mumford, American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
October 30 · Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel Prize recipient (1895-1973)
October 31 · B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian and theoretician of war (1895-1970)

November

November 9 · Mabel Normand, American actress (1893–1930)
November 12 · Nima Yushij, Iranian poet (1895–1960)
November 15 · Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Russia (1895–1918); eldest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
November 16 · Paul Hindemith, German composer (1895–1963)
November 25 · Ludvík Svoboda, Czechoslovak general and politician (1895-1979)
November 29 · William Tubman, Liberian politician, 19th president of Liberia (1895-1971)

December

December 4 · Feng Youlan, Chinese philosopher and historian (1895–1990)
December 9 · Lancelot Hogben, British zoologist, statistician, science writer (1895–1975)
December 9 · Whina Cooper, Māori leader (1895–1994)
December 13 · Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Spanish poet, journalist, sindicalist, anarchist and feminist (1895-1970)
December 20 · Susanne Langer, American philosopher (1895–1985)
December 30 · L. P. Hartley, British novelist and short story writer (1895–1972)

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