Birthdays in History in 1889

Birthdays in History

Arnold J. Toynbee

Apr 14 Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (A Study of History), born in London (d. 1975)

Apr 15 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
Apr 15 Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
Apr 18 Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter
Apr 19 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)

Adolf Hitler

Apr 20 Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45), born in Gasthof zum Pommer, Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)

Apr 20 Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist, born in Milas, Turkey (d. 1996)
Apr 21 Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
Apr 22 Ludwig Renn, German writer, born in Dresden (d. 1979)
Apr 22 Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945, by suicide)
Apr 23 Charles Warrell, English schoolteacher and creator of the I-Spy books, born in Farmborough, Somerset (d. 1995)
Apr 24 Stafford Cripps, British Labour politician, born in London (d. 1952)
Apr 24 Lyubov Popova, Russian avant-garde artist and painter, born in Ivanovskoe, Moscow (d. 1924)
Apr 26 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian English philosopher ( Philosophical Investigations), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1951)
Apr 28 António de Oliveira Salazar, Dictator of Portugal (1932-68) who founded and controlled the Estado Novo (New State), born in Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão, Portugal (d. 1970)
Apr 28 Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear admiral
May 1 John Evans, England Test batsman (author 'The Escaping Club'), born in Newtown, Hampshire (d. 1960)
May 4 Francis Spellman, American Bishop and Cardinal of Roman Catholic Church, born in Whitman, Massachusetts (d. 1967)
May 6 Arthur Morison, typographer
May 12 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
May 15 Bessie Hillman, founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
May 16 Joan Collette, Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft)
May 17 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
May 18 Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (The Church on the Mountain), born Fljótsdalur, Iceland (d. 1975)
May 18 Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
May 20 Margery Allingham, detective story writer
May 20 William Lawther, union leader
May 23 Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)

Igor Sikorsky

May 25 Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, born in Kiev, Ukraine (d. 1972)

Jun 8 Josef Hromádka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957), born in Hodslavice, Moravia (d. 1969)
Jun 14 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
Jun 18 Paul Joostens, Flemish painter
Jun 19 Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland)
Jun 20 John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer, born in Piraeus, Greece (d. 1951)
Jun 23 Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1966)

Jun 25 Margriet Baers, Flemish philosopher and social worker, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1922)
Jun 27 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1967)
Jul 9 Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian hockey executive, born in Bourbonnais, Illinois (d. 1964)
Jul 11 Alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story)
Jul 13 Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)

Ante Pavelić

Jul 14 Ante Pavelić, Croatian leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia, born in Bradina, Austria-Hungary (d. 1959)

Erle Stanley Gardner

Jul 17 Erle Stanley Gardner, American detective writer (Perry Mason), born in Malden, Massachusetts (d. 1970)

Jul 29 Karl Otten, German Expressionist writer, born in Oberkrüchten (d. 1963)
Aug 1 John Friend Mahoney, American physician who pioneered the treatment of syphilis with penicillin, born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 1957)
Aug 1 Walther Gerlach, German physicist who, with Otto Stern, co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field (Stern–Gerlach effect), born in Biebrich, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany (d. 1979)
Aug 5 Conrad P Aiken, American Pulitzer poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation)
Aug 6 George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
Aug 6 John Middleton Murry, English poet and literary critic (Between Two Worlds), born in London, England (d. 1957)
Aug 10 Charles Darrow, Inventor (d. 1967)
Aug 12 Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
Aug 13 Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician and Mayor of Montreal, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (d. 1958)
Aug 19 Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
Aug 23 Alfred Lichtenstein, German writer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1914)
Aug 24 Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congolese religious leader and founder of Kimbanguism, born in Nkamba, Congo (d. 1951)
Sep 6 Sarat Chandra Bose, Indian activist for independence, born in Howrah, British India (d. 1950)
Sep 7 Bruce Frederick Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man), born in barnstaple, England (d. 1919)
Sep 8 Robert A. Taft, American politician (U.S. Senator from Ohio), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1953)
Sep 13 Pierre Reverdy, French poet (Nord-Sud), born in Occitanie (d. 1960)
Sep 16 Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press)
Sep 18 Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (Member of the Australian Parliament for Bourke), born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia (d. 1970)
Sep 19 Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany, American author and teacher, born in Lynch's Station, Campbell County, Virginia (d. 1999)

Walter Lippmann

Sep 23 Walter Lippmann, American journalist/political writer (Public Opinion), born in NYC, New York

Sep 25 G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist and socialist, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1959)
Sep 25 C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator, born in Stirlingshire, Scotland (d. 1930)
Sep 26 Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Being & Time), born in Meeskirch, Germany (d. 1976)
Oct 3 Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1935), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1938)
Oct 5 Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (Memorias de Mamá Blanca), born in Paris (d. 1936)
Oct 6 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Noce I Dnie)
Oct 8 Collett E. Woolman, American airline founder (Delta Air Service), born in Bloomington, Indiana (d. 1966)
Oct 10 Han [Henricus Antonius] van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (Vermeer), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1947)
Oct 14 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, Belgium (d. 1963)
Oct 18 Fannie Hurst, novelist (Anatomy of Me)
Oct 27 Enid Bagnold, British novelist (Chalk Garden, 1956 Award of Merit), born in Rochester, Kent (d. 1981)
Nov 1 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)
Nov 3 Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer
Nov 12 DeWitt Wallace, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Jawaharlal Nehru

Nov 14 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, born in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India (d. 1964)

Nov 16 August Croegaert, Flemish liturgist
Nov 16 George S Kaufman, playwright (This is Show Business), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nov 18 Maria Realino, [Frederikus Janssen], teacher (Botany of Curacao)

Edwin Hubble

Nov 20 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift), born in Marshfield, Missouri (d. 1953)

Nov 24 Cissy van Marxfield, [Setske Beek-de Haan], Dutch author
Nov 30 Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist (Nobel 1932)
Dec 8 W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse)
Dec 11 Paul Kornfeld, Czech playwright, born in Prague (d. 1942)

Walter Knott

Dec 11 Walter Knott, American farmer who created the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in California and introduced the boysenberry to America, born in San Bernardino, California (d. 1981)

Dec 21 Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
Dec 22 Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright
Dec 28 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Dec 30 Georg von der Vring, German painter and writer (Soldier Suhren), born in Brake, Lower Saxony, Germany (d. 1968)

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