Historical Figures Born in 1895

J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)

Jan 1 American 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72), born in Washington, D.C.

Jan 2 Greve Folke Bernadotte, Swedish statesman (Red Cross, UN), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1948)
Jan 4 Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
Jan 4 Lourens Baas Becking, Dutch botanist (Baas Becking hypothesis), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1963)
Jan 5 Jeannette Piccard, American high-altitude balloonist & Episcopal priest, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1981)

Hudson Fysh (1895-1974)

Jan 7 Australian aviator, businessman and co-founder of QANTAS, born in Launceston, Tasmania

Jan 7 Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist, born in Soisy-sur-Seine, Essonne (d. 1990)
Jan 13 Anton Betzner, German writer, born in Cologne (d. 1976)
Jan 14 George Richard Samways, English children's writer, born in Hampshire, England (d. 1996)
Jan 15 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
Jan 16 Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
Jan 21 Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier 'The Master', born in Getaria, Spain (d. 1972)
Jan 24 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet and writer (Der Halbe Mensch), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1941)
Jan 24 Eugen Roth, German poet, born in Munich (d. 1976)
Jan 29 Muna Lee, American poet and activist, born in Raymond, Mississippi (d. 1965)
Feb 3 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (founded APRA-Peru, drafted constitution), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 1979) [or Feb 22]
Feb 4 Annie Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters), born in Hatert, Netherlands (d. 1978)
Feb 4 [Johann Baptist] Hanns Albin Rauter, German SS and Police leader in the occupied Netherlands, born in Klagenfurt, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1949)
Feb 9 Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
Feb 14 Max Horkheimer, German philosopher & sociologist (Studies in prejudice), born in Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Germany (d. 1973)
Feb 18 Semjon Timoshenko, Russian military officer (Marshal of the Soviet Union, held commands during Soviet-Finnish War and on WWII Eastern Front), born in Orman, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1970)
Feb 18 Semyon Timoshenko, Russian marshal and army officer (most senior Russian officer on the front line in WWII), born in Orman, Russia (d. 1976) (OS 6 Feb)
Feb 21 Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, (1943 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for discovery of vitamin K), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1976)
Feb 22 Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician and author (founder of Peruvian Aprista Party), born in Trujillo, Peru (d. 1979)
Mar 3 Matthew Ridgway, American general (World War II, Korean War, NATO Supreme Commander) and Chief of Staff of the US Army (1953-55), born in Fort Monroe, Virginia (d. 1993)
Mar 3 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and 1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 1969, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1973)
Mar 4 Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (Count Screwloose), born in The Bronx. New York (d. 1953)
Mar 5 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle) (d. 1982)
Mar 12 William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
Mar 14 François Louis Ganshof, Belgian medieval historian, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1980)
Mar 20 Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
Mar 23 Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
Mar 25 Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
Mar 28 Christian Herter, American Republican politician, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (1953-57) and US Secretary of State (1959-61), born in Paris, France (d. 1966)
Mar 28 Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1985)
Mar 29 Ernst Jünger, German author and entomologist (Storm of Steel), born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1998)
Mar 30 Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant), born in Manosque, France (d. 1970)
Mar 31 John Jay McCloy, American lawyer and banker (Secretary of War 1941-45, Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, President of World Bank 1947-49), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
Mar 31 Vardis Fisher, American author (Darkness & Deep), born in Annis, Idaho (d. 1968)
Apr 7 Lewis B Combs, American civil engineer and US Navy officer (1917-45), founding member and commander of the "Seabees", born in Manchester Center, Vermont (d. 1996)
Apr 13 Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Ingham, Queensland, Australia (d. 1973)
Apr 15 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte), born in San Luca, Italy (d. 1956)
Apr 16 Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer of travel literature (Life on Puka Puka), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1948)
Apr 19 Anton Pieck, Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel), born in Den Helder, Netherlands (d. 1987)
Apr 23 Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand detective writer and producer, born in Christchurch, New Zealand (d. 1982)
Apr 30 Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (Trente arpents), born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec (d. 1960)
May 2 Alfred Kurella, German author and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Germany, born in Brieg, Silesia (d. 1975)
May 2 Peggy Bacon, American author and illustrator (Off With Their Heads), born in Ridgefield, Connecticut (d. 1987)
May 3 Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher and Christian apologist, Grootegast, Netherlands (d. 1987)
May 3 Ernst Kantorowicz, German-American historian (Laudes regiae), born in Posen, Prussia (d. 1963)
May 6 Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary), born in Szentgyörgy, Austria-Hungary (d. 1946)
May 6 Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (The Man Who Counted), born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1974)
May 8 Edmund Wilson, American literary critic and writer (Patriotic Gore), born in Red Bank, New Jersey (d. 1972)
May 8 Fulton J. Sheen, America bishop (Life is Worth Living), born in El Paso, Illinois (d. 1979)
May 8 James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
May 8 José Gómez Ortega [Joselito el Gallo], Spanish matador (one of 20th century's most famous bullfighters), born in Gelves, Spain (d. 1920)
May 9 Lucian Blaga, Romanian philosopher and poet (Dogmatic Aeon), born in Lámkerék, Szeben County, Austria-Hungary (d. 1961)
May 11 Jan Parandowski, Polish writer and translator, born in Lwów, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 19780
May 12 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Songs of Life), born in Madanapalle, India (d. 1986)
May 15 Charles Lamont, American actor and director (Abbott & Costello films), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1993)
May 15 William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
May 18 Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot and revolutionary, born in Niquinohomo, Nicaragua (d. 1934)
May 20 Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire)
May 24 Samuel I Newhouse Sr., American businessman and publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour), born in NYC, New York (d. 1979)
May 26 Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1965)
Jun 3 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, Indian statesman and diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), born in Travancore, British India (d. 1963)
Jun 4 Dino Conte Grandi, Italian Fascist politician and delegate to league of nations (1925-32), born in Mordano, Italy (d. 1988)
Jun 10 Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian writer (Worlds in Collision), born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (d. 1979)
Jun 11 Nikolai A Bulganin, Soviet-Russian marshal and 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (1955-58), born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (d. 1975)
Jun 12 Eugénie Brazier, French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars (1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants, born in La Tranclière, Ain, France (d. 1977)
Jun 14 Louis Finkelstein, American historian and theologist (Pharizees), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1991)
Jun 18 Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2009)
Jun 26 Jankel Adler, Polish painter and printmaker, born in Tuszyn, Łódź, Poland (d. 1949)
Jul 4 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter and illustrator, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1971)
Jul 8 Anton van de Velde, Flemish writer and director (God & the Worms)
Jul 10 Maarten Pleun Vrij, Dutch lawyer and criminologist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1955)
Jul 10 Nahum Goldmann, Israeli-Zionist leader (Zionist World Organization), born in Wisznewo, Lithuania (d. 1982)
Jul 11 Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
Jul 12 R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and inventor (geodesic dome), born in Milton, Massachusetts (d. 1983)
Jul 14 Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)

George "Machine Gun" Kelly (1895-1954)

Jul 18 American gangster during the Prohibition era, born in Memphis, Tennessee

Jul 19 Xu Beihong, Chinese painter, born in Yixing, China (d. 1953)
Jul 20 László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
Jul 22 James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, born in Debe Nek, King Williamstown, South Africa (d. 1983)
Jul 24 Robert Graves, English writer and poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26], born in London, England (d. 1985)
Jul 26 Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person measuring 2.41 metres (7 ft 11 in) at the time of her death, born in Bartley Green, Northfield, Birmingham (d. 1922)
Aug 1 Benjamin Mays, African-American educator (Morehouse, Howard University) and civil rights leader, born in Ninety Six, South Carolina (d. 1984)
Aug 10 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, born in Saint Petersburg (d. 1958)
Aug 16 Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (Belle du Seigneur), born in Corfu, Greece (d. 1981)
Aug 19 Arnoldt Bronnen, Austrian playwright, born in Vienna (d. 1959)
Aug 22 Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician, born in Pierreville, Quebec (d. 1966)
Aug 24 Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston (1944-70), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
Sep 10 Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu writer (Ramayana Kalpa Vrukshamu, Veyipadagalu), born in Nandamuru, Madras state, British India (d. 1976)
Sep 15 Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)

John Diefenbaker (1895-1979)

Sep 18 13th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1957-63), born in Neustadt, Ontario

Sep 18 Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian who dies of old age at 113, born in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan (d. 2009)
Sep 21 Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet, born in Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1925)
Sep 22 Babette Deutsch, American poet (Animal vegetable mineral), born in New York City (d. 1982)
Sep 23 Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
Sep 24 André F. Cournand, French physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), born in Paris (d. 1988)
Sep 26 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, born in Detmold, Germany (d. 1952)
Sep 28 Charles Petrie, British historian known for his study of royalism and Jacobitism (If: A Jacobite Fantasy), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1977)
Sep 29 Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
Sep 29 Louise Granville, Australian entertainer, born in Sydney, New South Wales
Sep 29 Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
Oct 1 Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947-51), born in Karnal, Punjab, British India (d. 1951)
Oct 2 Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer and resistor (Law), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1982)
Oct 2 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1986)
Oct 4 Richard Sorge, German spy for the Soviet Union in Tokyo during World War II, born in Baku, Russian Empire (d. 1944)
Oct 4 Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyric poet, born in Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1925)
Oct 5 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. Army general (WWII) and head of CIA (1950-52), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1961)
Oct 6 Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
Oct 8 Jeanne Gabrielle Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl), born in Amsterdam (d. 1984)

Juan Perón (1895-1974)

Oct 8 Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), born in Buenos Aires

Oct 8 Zog I, King of Albania (1928-39), born in Burgajet Castle, Ottoman Empire (d. 1961)

Eugene Bullard (1895-1961)

Oct 9 1st African-American military pilot, flew for France in World War I as part of the French Foreign Legion, born in Columbus, Georgia

Oct 10 Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (German Air Force-WW II), born in Barzdorf, German Empire (d. 1945)
Oct 13 Kurt Schumacher, German political chairman (SPD), born in Kulm, Germany (d. 1952)
Oct 15 Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil), born in Lautenburg, Germany (now in Poland) (d. 1952)
Oct 17 Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (Dances of Women), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1958)
Oct 18 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista)
Oct 19 Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d. 1999)
Oct 19 Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer
Oct 21 Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur
Oct 25 Levi Eshkol [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69), born in Oratov, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1969)
Oct 30 Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (Nobel 1956 - development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases), born in Orange, New Jersey (d. 1973)
Oct 30 Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1939 in Physiology or Medicine - first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil), born in Lagow, Brandenburg (d. 1964)
Oct 31 B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian and publicist (The Rommel Papers), born in Paris (d. 1970)
Nov 7 Jacob Kaplan, French Grand Rabbi (1955-81), born in Paris (d. 1994)
Nov 8 Photis Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer, born in Ayvalık, Turkey (d. 1965)
Nov 10 John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft designer (Northrop Air), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1981)
Nov 11 Beulah Ecton Woodard, African-American sculptor, born in Frankfort, Ohio (d. 1955)
Nov 14 Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
Nov 15 Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
Nov 15 Olga Nikolaevna, eldest daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, born in Alexander Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1918)
Nov 16 Eduard Bagritsky, Russian-Soviet poet and journalist (South-West), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
Nov 16 Michael Arlen [Dikran Kouyoumdjian], British author and scriptwriter (An American Verdict), born in Ruse, Bulgaria (d. 1956)
Nov 17 Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
Nov 17 Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher, born in Oryol, Russian Empire (d. 1975)
Nov 19 Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American fashion photographer, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1989)
Nov 25 Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian revolutionary and member of Supreme Soviet, born in Sanahin, Yelizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1978)
Nov 25 Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer ("...And Ladies of the Club"), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1986)
Nov 25 Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician (8th President of Czechoslovakia, 1968-75), born in Hroznatín, Moravia, Austria Hungary (d. 1979)
Nov 26 Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system), born in Örebro, Sweden (d. 1965)
Nov 26 Bill Wilson, American co-founder (alcoholics anonymous), born in East Dorset, Vermont (d. 1971)
Nov 29 William V. S. Tubman, Liberian politician (President of Liberia 1943-70), born in Harper, Liberia (d. 1971)
Dec 1 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), born in Bedfordshire, England (d. 1977)
Dec 2 Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1975)
Dec 3 Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1982)
Dec 4 Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag), born in Vollsjö, Sweden (d. 1972)
Dec 4 Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher, born in Tanghe County, Henan, Qing Dynasty (d. 1990)
Dec 5 Elbert Frank Cox, African-American mathematician (first African-American to receive PhD in Mathematics), born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 1969)
Dec 9 Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy radioman, Medal of Honor recipient, born in Thomaston, Connecticut (d. 1941)

George VI (1895-1952)

Dec 14 King of the United Kingdom (1936-52), born in Norfolk, England

Dec 14 Paul Éluard, French communist and poet, born in Saint-Denis, France (d. 1952)
Dec 16 Lidj Jasu [Iyasu], Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-16), born in Dessie, Ethiopia (d. 1935)
Dec 19 Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet (Loke Saar Havre), born in Hedmark, Norway (d. 1989)
Dec 19 Maurice Roelants, Flemish novelist and poet (Komen en gaan, Prayer for a Good End), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1966)
Dec 20 Susanne Langer, American philosopher & educator (Philosophy in a New Key), born in Manhattan, New York City (d. 1985)
Dec 24 E. Roland Harriman, American financier, born in NYC, New York (d. 1978)
Dec 28 Carol Ryrie Brink, American Newberry Medal-winning novelist (Caddie Woodlawn), born in Moscow, Idaho (d. 1981)
Dec 30 August De Boodt, Belgian politician (Minister of Reconstruction), born in Nieuwmunster, Belgium (d. 1986)

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