List of people on the cover of Time magazine (1930s)
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 in the 1930s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading newsmagazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of a person's notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles about the person.

For other decades, see Lists of people on the cover of Time magazine.

1930

  • 6 Jan - Owen D. Young
  • 13 Jan - Domingo Ugalde
  • 20 Jan - André Tardieu
    André Tardieu
    André Pierre Gabriel Amédée Tardieu was three times Prime Minister of France and a dominant figure of French political life in 1929-1932.-Biography:...

  • 27 Jan - William D. Mitchell
    William D. Mitchell
    William DeWitt Mitchell was appointed to the position of U.S. Solicitor General by Calvin Coolidge on June 4, 1925, which he held until he was appointed to the position of U.S. Attorney General for the entirety of Herbert Hoover's Presidency.Born in Winona, Minnesota to William B...

  • 3 Feb - Maria Montessori
    Maria Montessori
    Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Catholic best known for the philosophy of education which bears her name...

  • 10 Feb - Ray Lyman Wilbur
    Ray Lyman Wilbur
    Ray Lyman Wilbur was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.-Early life:...

  • 17 Feb - Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

  • 24 Feb - Cyrus S. Eaton
    Cyrus S. Eaton
    Cyrus Stephen Eaton was a Canadian-born investment banker, businessman and philanthropist in the United States, with a career that spanned seventy years....

  • 3 Mar - Pointer Mary Blue
  • 10 Mar - Royal Cortissoz
    Royal Cortissoz
    Royal Cortissoz was an American art historian and long-time art critic for the New York Herald Tribune from 1891 until his death. During his tenure, he consistently championed traditionalism and decried modernism...

  • 17 Mar - Queen Mary
    Mary of Teck
    Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....

  • 24 Mar - Al Capone
    Al Capone
    Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the "Capones", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early...

  • 31 Mar - Mahatma Gandhi
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...

  • 7 Apr - Heber Jedediah Grant
  • 14 Apr - William H. Welch
    William H. Welch
    William Henry Welch, M.D. was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school administrator. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital. William Henry Welch, M.D. (April 8, 1850 - April 30, 1934) was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school...

  • 21 Apr - Philip Snowden
  • 28 Apr - Leopold Stokowski
    Leopold Stokowski
    Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British-born, naturalised American orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.In America, Stokowski...

  • 5 May - Julius H. Barnes
  • 12 May - Alois Lang
    Alois Lang
    Alois Lang was a Master Woodcarver at the American Seating Company, and one of the artists responsible for bringing the medieval art of ecclesiastical carving to life in the United States....

  • 19 May - Yen Hsi-shan
  • 26 May - Edward G.V. Stanley
    Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
    Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, KGStJ, JP , known as Lord Stanley from 1893 to 1908, was a British soldier, Conservative politician, diplomat and racehorse owner. He was twice Secretary of State for War and also served as British Ambassador to...

  • 2 Jun - William Adams Delano
    William Adams Delano
    William Adams Delano , an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich. The firm worked in the Beaux-Arts tradition for elite clients in New York City, Long Island and elsewhere, building townhouses, country houses, clubs, banks and buildings for...

  • 9 Jun - Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

  • 16 Jun - Col. William C. Procter
  • 23 Jun - Julio Prestes
    Júlio Prestes
    Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque was a Brazilian politician. Governor of São Paulo state in 1926, he was elected president of Brazil on March 1, 1930, but never took office because the government was overthrown in the Revolution of 1930 that brought Getulio Vargas to power, three weeks before Prestes'...

  • 30 Jun - Lucrezia Bori
    Lucrezia Bori
    Lucrezia Bori was a Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano.-Biography:Lucrezia Bori was born in Valencia, Spain. Her real name was Lucrecia Borja y González de Riancho and her family were reputed to be descended from the Borgias.Her voice had a unique timbre and transparent quality unlike any...

  • 7 Jul - Louis D. Brandeis
  • 14 Jul - Herbert Hoover Jr.
  • 21 Jul - David A. Reed
    David A. Reed
    David Aiken Reed was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate....

  • 28 Jul - Richard B. Bennett
  • 4 Aug - Alexander Legge
    Alexander Legge
    Alexander Legge was a prominent American business executive, serving as president of International Harvester from 1922-1933. He performed public service during World War I on the War Industries Board and at the Versailles Peace Conference, and again during the Great Depression on the Federal Farm...

  • 11 Aug - Duchess of York
    Duchess of York
    Duchess of York is the principal courtesy title held by the wife of the Duke of York. The title is gained with marriage alone and is forfeited upon divorce. Four of the twelve Dukes of York did not marry or had already assumed the throne prior to marriage, therefore there have only ever been eleven...

  • 18 Aug - Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock
  • 26 Aug - Wilbert Robinson
    Wilbert Robinson
    Wilbert Robinson , nicknamed "Uncle Robbie", was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball...

  • 1 Sep - Lord Dawson
    Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn
    Bertrand Edward Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, GCVO, KCB, KCMG, PC, FRCP was a physician to the British Royal Family and President of the Royal College of Physicians‎.-Early life and education:...

  • 8 Sep - Augusto B. Leguía
    Augusto B. Leguía
    Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo was a Peruvian politician who twice occupied the Presidency of Peru, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930.-Early life:...

  • 15 Sep - Harold S. Vanderbilt
  • 22 Sep - Bobby Jones
    Bobby Jones (golfer)
    Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level...

  • 29 Sep - Dwight W. Morrow
  • 6 Oct - Harry Emerson Fosdick
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    Harry Emerson Fosdick was an American clergyman. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Colgate University in 1900, and Union Theological Seminary in 1904. While attending Colgate University he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1903 at the...

  • 13 Oct - Sergei Koussevitsky
    Serge Koussevitzky
    Serge Koussevitzky , was a Russian-born Jewish conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949.-Early career:...

  • 20 Oct - Henri Matisse
    Henri Matisse
    Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...

  • 27 Oct - King George V & Queen Mary
    Mary of Teck
    Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....

  • 3 Nov - Haile Selassie
  • 10 Nov - Jouett Shouse
  • 17 Nov - Football's Public
  • 24 Nov - Robert Bulkley
  • 1 Dec - James J. Davis
    James J. Davis
    James John Davis was an American steel worker and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate...

  • 8 Dec - King Haakon VII
  • 15 Dec - Mary Garden
    Mary Garden
    Mary Garden , was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century...

  • 22 Dec - Elsa Einstein
  • 29 Dec - Pope Pius XI
    Pope Pius XI
    Pope Pius XI , born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939...


1931

  • 5 Jan - Mahatma Gandhi
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...

  • 12 Jan - James Ewing
  • 19 Jan - Gerardo Machado
    Gerardo Machado
    Gerardo Machado y Morales was President of Cuba and a general of the Cuban War of Independence...

  • 26 Jan - William Borah
  • 2 Feb - George Wickersham
  • 9 Feb - Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin
    Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...

  • 16 Feb - Joseph Deems Taylor aka Deems Taylor
    Deems Taylor
    Joseph Deems Taylor was a U.S. composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music.-Career:Taylor initially planned to become an architect; however, despite minimal musical training he soon took to music composition. The result was a series of works for orchestra and/or voices...

  • 23 Feb - Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
    Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
    Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky was a Polish-Russian revolutionary, a Soviet statesman and Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934...

  • 2 Mar - David S. Ingalls
  • 9 Mar - Charles R. Crane
  • 16 Mar - Oswald Moseley
  • 23 Mar - John F. Curry
    John F. Curry
    Major General John Francis Curry was the first national commander of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary. He was also a Major General in the United States Army Air Corps.-Biography:...

  • 30 Mar - Walter Lippman
  • 6 Apr - King Alfonso XIII
  • 13 Apr - Roy W. Howard
  • 20 Apr - King Prajadhipok
  • 27 Apr - Mrs. Nanaline Duke
  • 4 May - Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
    Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
    Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served, briefly, as the first premier minister of the Second Spanish Republic, and then — from 1931 to 1936—as its president....

  • 11 May - Hubert Lyautey
    Hubert Lyautey
    Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey was a French Army general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France.-Early life:...

  • 18 May - Kenkichi Kagami
  • 25 May - Walter Coffey
    Walter Coffey
    Walter Coffey was the seventh president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1941 to 1945.Coffey was raised in Indiana. He received a degree from Franklin College. He latter went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign first as a sheep herder and later as a student and...

    , John Humber & Grace Hammond Conners
  • 1 Jun - Samuel R. McKelvie
    Samuel R. McKelvie
    Samuel Roy McKelvie was a Nebraska Republican politician best known for being the 19th Governor of Nebraska. He was also the Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska from 1913 to 1915 and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936 and 1944. In On April 15, 1922 he helped break ground for...

  • 8 Jun - David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan
    David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...

  • 15 Jun - Heinrich Brüning
    Heinrich Brüning
    Heinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....

  • 22 Jun - Morton Downey
    Morton Downey
    Morton Downey was a singer popular in the United States, enjoying his greatest success in the 1930s and 1940s. Downey was nicknamed "The Irish Nightingale".-Early years:...

  • 29 Jun - Cyril Alington
    Cyril Alington
    Cyril Argentine Alington was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author. He was the headmaster of both Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He also served as chaplain to King George V and as Dean of Durham....

  • 6 Jul - Betty Nuthall
    Betty Nuthall
    Betty May Nuthall Shoemaker was an English tennis player.Known for her powerful forehand, according to Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Shoemaker was ranked in the world top ten in 1927, 1929 through 1931, and 1933, reaching a career high in those rankings of World No...

  • 13 Jul - Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden Livingston Mills was an American businessman and politician.-Biography:The son of Ogden Mills and Ruth T. Livingston, he had twin sisters Beatrice Mills and Gladys Livingston Mills. Odgen L. Mills was the grandson of Darius O...

  • 20 Jul - Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...

  • 27 Jul - Paul Von Hindenburg
    Paul von Hindenburg
    Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....

  • 3 Aug - Willa Cather
    Willa Cather
    Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...

  • 10 Aug - Paul W. Litchfield
  • 17 Aug - Samuel Seabury
    Samuel Seabury (judge)
    Samuel Seabury was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of William Jones Seabury, professor of canon law and descendant of Bishop Samuel Seabury, and Alice Van Wyck Beare. He graduated from New York Law School in 1893, and was admitted to the bar in 1894...

  • 24 Aug - Albert H. Wiggin
    Albert H. Wiggin
    thumb|Wiggin, circa 1913Albert Henry Wiggin was an American banker.Born in the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, Albert Wiggin was the son of a Unitarian minister and a cousin of Arthur Francis Holme Wiggin CMG. At age seventeen, he went to work for a Boston bank and in 1892 he married Jessie...

  • 31 Aug - Winthrop W. Aldrich
    Winthrop W. Aldrich
    Winthrop Williams Aldrich GBE was an American banker and financier, scion of a prominent political family, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom.-Early years:...

  • 7 Sep - Ramsay MacDonald
    Ramsay MacDonald
    James Ramsay MacDonald, PC, FRS was a British politician who was the first ever Labour Prime Minister, leading a minority government for two terms....

    , Stanley Baldwin
    Stanley Baldwin
    Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars...

     & David Lloyd George
    David Lloyd George
    David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...

  • 14 Sep - Patrick Jay Hurley
  • 21 Sep - Ross S. Sterling
    Ross S. Sterling
    Ross Shaw Sterling was a U.S. political figure who was the 31st Governor of Texas, having served a single two-year term between January 20, 1931, and January 17, 1933....

  • 28 Sep - Pierre Laval
    Pierre Laval
    Pierre Laval was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of...

     & Aristide Briand
    Aristide Briand
    Aristide Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and received the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.- Early life :...

  • 5 Oct - Primo Carnera
    Primo Carnera
    Primo Carnera was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion.-Biography:...

  • 12 Oct - Baron Kijuro Shidehara
  • 19 Oct - William Green
    William Green (labor leader)
    William Green was an American trade union leader. Green is best remembered for serving as the President of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952.-Early years:...

  • 26 Oct - Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

     & Mme. Chiang
    Mao Fumei
    Mao Fumei 毛福梅 was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo. She was born in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and married Chiang Kai-Shek in an arranged marriage. She died in World War II during a bombardment. Like most women of the era, she was not given the...

  • 2 Nov - Eugene O'Neill
    Eugene O'Neill
    Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...

  • 9 Nov - Rosa Ponselle
    Rosa Ponselle
    Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano with a large, opulent voice. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years.-Early life:She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897,...

  • 16 Nov - Dino Grandi
    Dino Grandi
    Dino Grandi , Conte di Mordano, was an Italian Fascist politician, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs and president of parliament.- Early life :...

  • 23 Nov - Barry Wood
  • 30 Nov - Walter Runciman
    Walter Runciman
    Walter Runciman may refer to:*Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman , shipping magnate, Liberal MP, and peer*Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford , son of the above, Liberal and later National Liberal MP and government minister*Walter Leslie Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford *...

  • 7 Dec - John Nance Garner
    John Nance Garner
    John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...

  • 14 Dec - James H. Breasted
  • 21 Dec - Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

  • 28 Dec - Ki Inukai

1932

  • 4 Jan - Pierre Laval
    Pierre Laval
    Pierre Laval was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of...

  • 11 Jan - Daniel Willard
    Daniel Willard
    Daniel Willard was a railroad executive best known as the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1910 to 1941. He served on or headed several government railroad commissions in World War I and appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1932 due to his part in negotiating wage cuts in the...

  • 18 Jan - Errett Lobban Cord
    Errett Lobban Cord
    Errett Lobban "E. L." Cord was a leader in United States transport during the early and middle 20th century.Cord founded the Cord Corporation in 1929 as a holding company for over 150 companies he controlled, mostly in the field of transportation...

  • 25 Jan - Philip Barry
    Philip Barry
    Philip James Quinn Barry was an American playwright born in Rochester, New York.-Early life:Philip Barry was born on June 18, 1896 in Rochester, New York to James Corbett Barry and Mary Agnes Quinn Barry. James would die from appendicitis a year after Philip's birth, and his father's marble and...

  • 1 Feb - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

  • 8 Feb - Hugh S. Gibson
  • 15 Feb - Nicholas M. Butler
    Nicholas M. Butler
    Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize...

  • 22 Feb - Yehudi Menuhin
    Yehudi Menuhin
    Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...

  • 29 Feb - William Murray
    William Murray
    -Nobility:*William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield , British jurist*William Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield , British nobleman*William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield -Nobility:*William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793), British jurist*William Murray, 4th Earl of...

  • 7 Mar - John Barrymore
    John Barrymore
    John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...

     & Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...

  • 14 Mar - Clarence Young
    Clarence Young
    Clarence Young was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for series of books for boys, the most well-known being the "Motor Boys" series.The following series were published under the name Clarence Young:*Jack Ranger—6 volumes...

  • 21 Mar - John A. Simon
  • 28 Mar - Gabby Street
    Gabby Street
    Charles Evard “Gabby” Street , also nicknamed "The Old Sarge", was an American catcher, manager, coach and radio broadcaster in Major League Baseball during the first half of the 20th century. As a catcher, he participated in one of the most publicized baseball stunts of the century's first decade....

  • 4 Apr - Robinson Jeffers
    Robinson Jeffers
    John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.-Life:Jeffers was born in...

  • 11 Apr - Éamon de Valera
    Éamon de Valera
    Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...

  • 18 Apr - The Circus
  • 25 Apr - Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain
    Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...

  • 2 May - Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.
  • 9 May - Reverend Freemen
  • 16 May - Édouard Herriot
    Édouard Herriot
    Édouard Marie Herriot was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies....

  • 23 May - Newton D. Baker
    Newton D. Baker
    Newton Diehl Baker, Jr. was an American politician who belonged to the Democratic Party. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915 and as U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921.-Early years:...

  • 31 May - Eugene Meyer
    Eugene Meyer
    Eugene Isaac Meyer was an American financier, public official, publisher of the Washington Post newspaper. He served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. He was the father of publisher Katharine Graham.-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, he was one of eight children of...

  • 6 Jun - Emperor Hirohito
  • 13 Jun - Walter F. Brown
    Walter Folger Brown
    Walter Folger Brown was Postmaster General of the United States from 1929 through 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He was best known for his involvement in the Air Mail scandal...

  • 20 Jun - Carlos Dávila
    Carlos Dávila
    Carlos Gregorio Dávila Espinoza , was a Chilean political figure, Chairman of Government Junta of Chile in 1932, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1954 until his death in 1955.-Early life:...

  • 27 Jun - Alfred E. Smith
  • 4 Jul - Franz von Papen
    Franz von Papen
    Lieutenant-Colonel Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934...

  • 11 Jul - Ben Eastman
    Ben Eastman
    Benjamin "Ben" Bangs Eastman , alias "Blazin' Ben", was an American middle distance runner. He was born in Burlingame, California, and graduated from Stanford University in 1933....

  • 18 Jul - Pauline Sabin
    Pauline Sabin
    Pauline Sabin was a New Yorker who founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform in 1929. Time recognized her work promoting the repeal of prohibition by featuring her on its cover on July 18, 1932.-Background:...

  • 25 Jul - Earl of Bessborough
    Earl of Bessborough
    Earl of Bessborough is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1739 for Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, who had previously represented Newtownards and County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons...

  • 1 Aug - Ellsworth Vines
    Ellsworth Vines
    Henry Ellsworth Vines, Jr. was an American tennis champion of the 1930s, the World No. 1 player or the co-No. 1 for four years in 1932, 1935, 1936 and 1937.-Biography:...

  • 8 Aug - Norman M. Thomas
  • 15 Aug - Groucho, Harpo, Chico & Zeppo Marx
    Marx Brothers
    The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950...

  • 22 Aug - Kurt von Schleicher
    Kurt von Schleicher
    Kurt von Schleicher was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic. Seventeen months after his resignation, he was assassinated by order of his successor, Adolf Hitler, in the Night of the Long Knives....

  • 29 Aug - William G. McAdoo
  • 5 Sep - Yasuya Uchida
    Yasuya Uchida
    Count was a statesman, diplomat and interim prime minister, active in Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. He was also known as Uchida Yasuya.- Biography :...

  • 12 Sep - Henry L. Stevens Jr.
  • 19 Sep - Jacob Ruppert
    Jacob Ruppert
    Jacob Ruppert, Jr. , sometimes referred to as Jake Ruppert, was a National Guard colonel; a U.S. Representative from New York; and brewery owner, who went on to own the New York Yankees...

  • 26 Sep - Edward D. Duffield
  • 3 Oct - Huey P. Long
  • 10 Oct - King George V
  • 17 Oct - Lily Pons
    Lily Pons
    Lily Pons was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was particularly associated with the title roles in Léo Delibes' Lakmé and Gaetano...

  • 24 Oct - Rufus D. Isaacs
    Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
    Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, KC , was an English lawyer, jurist and politician...

  • 31 Oct - James Farley
    James Farley
    James Aloysius Farley was the first Irish Catholic politician in American history to achieve success on a national level, serving as Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as Postmaster General simultaneously under the first two...

  • 7 Nov - Common Citizens
  • 14 Nov - Howard H. Jones
  • 21 Nov - Melvin A. Traylor
    Melvin Alvah Traylor
    Melvin Alvah Traylor , the eldest of seven children of James Milton Traylor and Kitty Frances Traylor née Harvey...

  • 28 Nov - T.E. Lawrence
  • 5 Dec - Charles Curtis
    Charles Curtis
    Charles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...

  • 12 Dec - Norman H. Davis
  • 19 Dec - Henry T. Rainey
    Henry T. Rainey
    Henry Thomas Rainey was a prominent U.S. politician during the first third of the 20th century. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1921 and from 1923 to his death as a Democrat from Illinois, and was its Speaker during the famous Hundred days of Franklin D...

  • 26 Dec - Katharine Cornell
    Katharine Cornell
    Katharine Cornell was an American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York.Cornell is known as the greatest American stage actress of the 20th century...


1933

  • 2 Jan - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

    , Man of the Year
  • 9 Jan - Charles F. Kettering
  • 16 Jan - Lawrence Tibbett
    Lawrence Tibbett
    Lawrence Mervil Tibbett was a great American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone, he sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera company more than 600 times from 1923 to 1950...

  • 23 Jan - Sadao Araki
    Sadao Araki
    Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...

  • 30 Jan - Noel Coward
    Noël Coward
    Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...

  • 6 Feb - Carter Glass
    Carter Glass
    Carter Glass was a newspaper publisher and politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He served many years in Congress as a member of the Democratic Party. As House co-sponsor, he played a central role in the development of the 1913 Glass-Owen Act that created the Federal Reserve System. Glass...

  • 13 Feb - Richard Leigh
  • 20 Feb - William W. Atterbury
    William W. Atterbury
    William Wallace Atterbury was a Brigadier General during World War I. He was instrumental in reorganizing railroad traffic during the war for more efficient transportation of troops and supplies for the American Expeditionary Forces. After the war, he became the 10th president of the...

  • 27 Feb - Pat Harrison
    Pat Harrison
    Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death....

  • 6 Mar - Sara Delano Roosevelt
  • 13 Mar - Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

  • 20 Mar - William H. Woodin
  • 27 Mar - John Hay Whitney
    John Hay Whitney
    John Hay Whitney , colloquially known as "Jock" Whitney, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and a member of the Whitney family.-Family:...

  • 3 Apr - Pope Pius XI
    Pope Pius XI
    Pope Pius XI , born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939...

  • 10 Apr - Henry A. Wallace
    Henry A. Wallace
    Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...

  • 17 Apr - Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during much of World War II...

  • 24 Apr - Maxim Litvinov
    Maxim Litvinov
    Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was a Russian revolutionary and prominent Soviet diplomat.- Early life and first exile :...

  • 1 May - William R. Hearst
  • 8 May - Raymond Moley
    Raymond Moley
    Raymond Charles Moley was a leading New Dealer who became its bitter opponent before the end of the Great Depression....

  • 15 May - Gerardo Machado
    Gerardo Machado
    Gerardo Machado y Morales was President of Cuba and a general of the Cuban War of Independence...

  • 22 May - Rufus C. Dawes
    Rufus C. Dawes
    Rufus Cutler Dawes was an American businessman from a prominent Ohio family.Dawes was born in Marietta, Ohio, to American Civil War Brigadier General Rufus R. Dawes and Mary Beman Dawes. He was a younger brother of Charles G. Dawes and great-great-grandson of Revolutionary War figure William Dawes...

  • 29 May - Édouard Daladier
    Édouard Daladier
    Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.-Career:Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined...

  • 5 Jun - Frank Aydelotte
    Frank Aydelotte
    Frank Aydelotte was a U.S. educator. His full name was Franklin Ridgeway Aydelotte. He is known for redefining Swarthmore College as an institution while he was president between 1921 and 1940 and was also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1939 until 1947.Aydelotte was born in...

  • 12 Jun - Ferdinand Pecora
    Ferdinand Pecora
    Ferdinand Pecora was an American lawyer and judge who became famous in the 1930s as Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency during its investigation of Wall Street banking and stock brokerage practices.-Early career:Ferdinand Pecora was born in Nicosia, Sicily,...

  • 19 Jun - Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain
    Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...

  • 26 Jun - Italo Balbo
    Italo Balbo
    Italo Balbo was an Italian Blackshirt leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force , Governor-General of Libya, Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa , and the "heir apparent" to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.After serving in...

  • 3 Jul - Hugh S. Johnson
  • 10 Jul - Joseph Goebbels
    Joseph Goebbels
    Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

  • 17 Jul - Curtis Bok
    Curtis Bok
    William Curtis Bok was a Pennsylvania jurist, philanthropist and writer. Heir to an enormous fortune, he was also a devout Quaker and an avid sailor.-Biography:...

  • 24 Jul - Harold L. Ickes
    Harold L. Ickes
    Harold LeClair Ickes was a United States administrator and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and the second longest serving Cabinet member in U.S. history next to James Wilson. Ickes...

  • 31 Jul - Juan Trippe
    Juan Trippe
    Juan Terry Trippe was an American airline entrepreneur and pioneer, and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the world's most prominent airlines of the twentieth century.-Early years:...

  • 7 Aug - Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler was a Canadian-American actress and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930-31 in Min and Bill.-Early life and stage career:...

  • 14 Aug - Frances Perkins
    Frances Perkins
    Frances Perkins , born Fannie Coralie Perkins, was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition...

  • 21 Aug - Hermann Göring
    Hermann Göring
    Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...

  • 28 Aug - Edward J. Kelly
  • 4 Sep - Jack Crawford
  • 11 Sep - Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...

  • 18 Sep - George F. Zook
    George F. Zook
    George Frederick Zook was an American educator who was President of the University of Akron, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and President of the American Council on Education....

  • 25 Sep - Engelbert Dollfuss
    Engelbert Dollfuss
    Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman. Serving previously as Minister for Forest and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government...

  • 2 Oct - John L. Lewis
    John L. Lewis
    John Llewellyn Lewis was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960...

  • 9 Oct - George M. Cohan
    George M. Cohan
    George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....

  • 16 Oct - Percy S. Straus
  • 23 Oct - Fiorello LaGuardia, John P. O'Brien
    John P. O'Brien
    John Patrick O'Brien was an Irish-American politician who served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1 to December 31, 1933.-Biography:He was born on February 1, 1873 to Mary and Patrick O'Brien....

     & Joseph V. McKee
    Joseph V. McKee
    Joseph V. McKee, Sr. was originally a teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, but later became a politically active Democrat and briefly served as the Mayor of New York City.-Biography:...

  • 30 Oct - Maxim Weygand
    Maxime Weygand
    Maxime Weygand was a French military commander in World War I and World War II.Weygand initially fought against the Germans during the invasion of France in 1940, but then surrendered to and collaborated with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.-Early years:Weygand was born in Brussels...

  • 6 Nov - George Peek
    George Peek
    George Nelson Peek was an American agricultural economist, business executive, and civil servant. He was the first Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the first President of the two banks that would become the Export-Import Bank of the United States.-Early life and...

  • 13 Nov - Football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

  • 20 Nov - Eleanor Roosevelt
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...

  • 27 Nov - George F. Warren
  • 4 Dec - Seton Porter
  • 11 Dec - Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

  • 18 Dec - Eugene Luther Vidal
    Eugene Luther Vidal
    Eugene Luther "Gene" Vidal was an American athlete and aviation pioneer. He was the father of author Gore Vidal.-Biography:He was born on April 13, 1895 in Madison, South Dakota.Vidal was a versatile athlete...

  • 25 Dec - Alice in Wonderland

1934

  • 1 Jan - Hugh S. Johnson, Man of the Year
  • 8 Jan - Walter P. Chrysler
  • 15 Jan - Elmer Thomas & Charles Coughlin
    Charles Coughlin
    Father Charles Edward Coughlin was a controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than thirty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the...

  • 22 Jan - Jesse H. Jones
  • 29 Jan - James Joyce
    James Joyce
    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

  • 5 Feb - James B. Conant
  • 12 Feb - Klimentiy Voroshilov
  • 19 Feb - Harry L. Hopkins
  • 26 Feb - Richard Whitney
    Richard Whitney (financier)
    Richard Whitney was an American financier, president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1930 to 1935, and a convicted embezzler.-Biography:He was born on August 1, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts to George Whitney, Sr....

  • 5 Mar - Puyi
    Puyi
    Puyi , of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan, was the last Emperor of China, and the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing Dynasty. He ruled as the Xuantong Emperor from 1908 until his abdication on 12 February 1912. From 1 to 12 July 1917 he was briefly restored to the throne as a nominal emperor by the...

  • 12 Mar - Gaston Doumergue
    Gaston Doumergue
    Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston Doumergue was a French politician of the Third Republic.Doumergue came from a Protestant family. Beginning as a Radical, he turned more towards the political right in his old age. He served as Prime Minister from 9 December 1913 to 2 June 1914...

  • 19 Mar - Robert F. Wagner
    Robert F. Wagner
    Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.-Origin and early life:...

  • 26 Mar - George Arliss
    George Arliss
    George Arliss was an English actor, author and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award.-Life and career:...

  • 2 Apr - Arturo Toscanini
    Arturo Toscanini
    Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, he was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory...

  • 9 Apr - Vincent Astor
    Vincent Astor
    William Vincent Astor was a businessman and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Astor family.-Early life:...

  • 16 Apr - Sir Arthur Eddington
  • 23 Apr - Errett Lobban Cord
    Errett Lobban Cord
    Errett Lobban "E. L." Cord was a leader in United States transport during the early and middle 20th century.Cord founded the Cord Corporation in 1929 as a holding company for over 150 companies he controlled, mostly in the field of transportation...

  • 30 Apr - Robert Lee Doughton
  • 7 May - Edward R. Bradley
    Edward R. Bradley
    Colonel Edward Riley Bradley was an American steel mill laborer, gold miner, businessman and philanthropist. As well as a race track proprietor, he was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the first three decades of the 20th Century...

  • 14 May - Samuel Insull
    Samuel Insull
    Samuel Insull was an Anglo-American innovator and investor based in Chicago who greatly contributed to creating an integrated electrical infrastructure in the United States. Insull was notable for purchasing utilities and railroads using holding companies, as well as the abuse of them...

  • 21 May - Koki Hirota
    Koki Hirota
    was a Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937.-Early life:Hirota was born in what is now part of Chūō-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka Prefecture. His father was a stonemason, and he was adopted into the Hirota family. After attending...

  • 28 May - Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...

  • 4 Jun - Joseph M. Reeves
    Joseph M. Reeves
    Joseph Mason "Bull" Reeves was an admiral in the United States Navy, who was an early and important supporter of U.S. Naval Aviation...

  • 11 Jun - Thomas Mann
    Thomas Mann
    Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...

  • 18 Jun - Harold Willis Dodds
  • 25 Jun - Rexford G. Tugwell
  • 2 Jul - Riza Shah Pahlevi
  • 9 Jul - Vernon Gomez
  • 16 Jul - Paul von Hindenburg
    Paul von Hindenburg
    Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....

  • 23 Jul - Joseph B. Poindexter
  • 30 Jul - James Farley
    James Farley
    James Aloysius Farley was the first Irish Catholic politician in American history to achieve success on a national level, serving as Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as Postmaster General simultaneously under the first two...

  • 6 Aug - Kurt Schmitt
    Kurt Schmitt
    Kurt Paul Schmitt was a German economic leader and the Reich Economy Minister....

  • 13 Aug - Elsa Schiaparelli
    Elsa Schiaparelli
    Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators...

  • 20 Aug - Cavalcade
    Cavalcade
    Cavalcade may refer to:*Cavalcade, a horseback procession, parade, or mass trail ride*A huge parade*A huge procession*Suzuki GV1400 Cavalcade, a Suzuki luxury touring motorcycle available from 1985 to 1988 in North America...

  • 27 Aug - Cecil B. DeMille
    Cecil B. DeMille
    Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...

  • 3 Sep - Fred Perry
    Fred Perry
    Frederick John Perry was a championship-winning English tennis and table tennis player who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships between 1934 and 1936 and was World No. 1 four years in a row...

  • 10 Sep - Donald Richberg
    Donald Richberg
    Donald Randall Richberg was an American attorney, civil servant, and author who was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's key aides and who played a critical role in the New Deal. He co-wrote the National Industrial Recovery Act, was general counsel and executive director of the National...

  • 17 Sep - Henry Morgenthau
    Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
    Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal...

  • 24 Sep - Louis Barthou
    Louis Barthou
    Jean Louis Barthou was a French politician of the Third Republic.-Early years:He was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and served as Deputy from that constituency. He was an authority on trade union history and law. Barthou was Prime Minister in 1913, and held ministerial office...

  • 1 Oct - Henry N. MacCracken
  • 8 Oct - Helen Reid & Friends
  • 15 Oct - Reverend James Perry
    James DeWolf Perry
    James De Wolf Perry was an American Episcopal clergyman and prelate. He was the 7th Bishop of Rhode Island and the 18th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church .-Life:The third of five children, Perry was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Rev...

  • 22 Oct - Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair
    Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S...

  • 29 Oct - Roscoe Turner
    Roscoe Turner
    Roscoe Turner was an aviator who was a three time winner of the Thompson Trophy.-Background:Turner was born in Corinth, Mississippi, the eldest son of a poor but respectable farmer. He came to realize that he did not want to be a farmer and found that he was attracted to mechanical devices instead...

  • 5 Nov - Henry P. Fletcher
    Henry P. Fletcher
    Henry Prather Fletcher was an American diplomat.Fletcher was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania in 1873. He was the fourth cousin once removed of William McKinley.He served in the U.S...

  • 12 Nov - Joseph C. Grew
  • 19 Nov - Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
    Robert Marion "Young Bob" La Follette, Jr. was an American senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the brother of Philip La Follette, and Fola La Follette, whose husband was the playwright George Middleton.- Early life:La Follette was born in Madison,...

  • 26 Nov - Benjamin N. Cardozo
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in addition to his modesty, philosophy, and vivid prose style...

  • 3 Dec - Lázaro Cárdenas
    Lázaro Cárdenas
    Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.-Early life:Lázaro Cárdenas was born on May 21, 1895 in a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán. He supported his family from age 16 after the death of his father...

  • 10 Dec - Maxwell Anderson
    Maxwell Anderson
    James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.-Early years:Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson, both of Scots and Irish descent...

  • 17 Dec - White House Staffers
  • 24 Dec - Thomas Hart Benton
    Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
    Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States...

  • 31 Dec - Herbert H. Lehman
    Herbert H. Lehman
    Herbert Henry Lehman was a Democratic Party politician from New York. He was the 45th Governor of New York from 1933 to 1942, and represented New York in the United States Senate from 1950 to 1957.-Lehman Brothers:...


1935

  • 7 Jan - Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

    , Man of the Year
  • 14 Jan - Henry Ford
    Henry Ford
    Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...

  • 21 Jan - John T. Taylor
  • 28 Jan - Kathleen Norris
    Kathleen Norris
    Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909...

  • 4 Feb - Pierre-Étienne Flandin
  • 11 Feb - Lorne Chabot
    Lorne Chabot
    Lorne "Chabotsky" Chabot was a Canadian ice hockey goaltender.-Playing career:Lorne played in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937. During this time, he played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Maroons, and New York Americans...

  • 18 Feb - Lotte Lehmann
    Lotte Lehmann
    Charlotte "Lotte" Lehmann was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart and Massenet. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest...

  • 25 Feb - Samuel Clay Williams
  • 4 Mar - Richard B. Harrison
    Richard B. Harrison
    Richard Berry Harrison was a renowned actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer. He was featured on the cover of TIME magazine on March 4, 1935. The son of fugitive slaves, Harrison was born in London, Ontario, Canada, on September 28, 1864, the eldest of five siblings.Harrison's parents had...

  • 11 Mar - Frank J. Hogan
  • 18 Mar - Wang Ching-wei
  • 25 Mar - General Douglas MacArthur
  • 1 Apr - Huey P. Long
  • 8 Apr - Anthony Eden
    Anthony Eden
    Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957...

     & Sir John Simon
  • 15 Apr - Dizzy Dean
    Dizzy Dean
    Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season. Dean was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953....

  • 22 Apr - Joseph W. Byrns
  • 29 Apr - John Francis Neylan
    John Francis Neylan
    John Francis Neylan, lawyer, journalist, political and educational figure, was born in New York City on November 6 1885.After graduation from Seton Hall College in New Jersey in 1903, he went West. California was his destination, but he stopped off in Arizona and worked there for several years as a...

  • 6 May - King George V
  • 13 May - Harry F. Byrd
    Harry F. Byrd
    Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia, was an American newspaper publisher, farmer and politician. He was a descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia...

  • 20 May - Hirosi Saito
  • 27 May - Miriam Hopkins
    Miriam Hopkins
    Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an American actress known for her versatility in a wide variety of roles.Hopkins was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in Bainbridge, a town in the state's southwest near the Alabama border...

  • 3 Jun - John Nance Garner
    John Nance Garner
    John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...

  • 10 Jun - Dr. Emanuel Libman
  • 17 Jun - Stanley Baldwin
    Stanley Baldwin
    Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars...

  • 24 Jun - Robert M. Hutchins
  • 1 Jul - John Cowles
  • 8 Jul - Joseph Lyons
    Joseph Lyons
    Joseph Aloysius Lyons, CH was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931...

  • 15 Jul - Joseph T. Robinson
  • 22 Jul - Joseph P. Kennedy
  • 29 Jul - Harlow Shapley
    Harlow Shapley
    Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer.-Career:He was born on a farm in Nashville, Missouri, and dropped out of school with only the equivalent of a fifth-grade education...

  • 5 Aug - J. Edgar Hoover
    J. Edgar Hoover
    John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972...

  • 12 Aug - Queen Wilhelmina
    Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
    Wilhelmina was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial...

  • 19 Aug - Jean Harlow
    Jean Harlow
    Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde" , Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute...

  • 26 Aug - Hugo L. Black
  • 2 Sep - Donald Budge
  • 9 Sep - Clyde L. Herring
    Clyde L. Herring
    Clyde LaVerne Herring , an American politician and Democrat, served as the 26th Governor of Iowa, and then one of its U.S. Senators, during the last part of the Great Depression and the first part of World War II....

  • 16 Sep - Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation...

  • 23 Sep - Sir Samuel Hoare
  • 30 Sep - Cardinal Hayes
  • 7 Oct - Mickey Cochrane
    Mickey Cochrane
    Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane was a professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers...

  • 14 Oct - Herbert C. Hoover
  • 21 Oct - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation....

  • 28 Oct - Bruno Mussolini
    Bruno Mussolini
    Bruno Mussolini was the second son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Mussolini's wife Rachele.-Biography:Bruno Mussolini was born in Milan in Lombardy. His father, Benito Mussolini, was the editor of "The People of Italy" newspaper before the birth and, on 22 April, needed to be away for...

    , Benito Mussolini
    Benito Mussolini
    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

     & Vittorio Mussolini
    Vittorio Mussolini
    Vittorio Mussolini was an Italian film critic and producer. He was also the second son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. However, he was the first son of Mussolini with his second wife Rachele.-Biography:...

  • 4 Nov - James A. Macauley
  • 11 Nov - Football Spectators
  • 18 Nov - Mark Sullivan
    Mark Sullivan
    Mark Sullivan may refer to:* Mark J. Sullivan, Director of the United States Secret Service, 2006-* Mark Sullivan, founder Snowboard Magazine* Mark Sullivan , justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1973-1981...

  • 25 Nov - Manuel L. Quezon
    Manuel L. Quezon
    Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines...

  • 2 Dec - Edwin C. Musick
  • 9 Dec - William Phillips
    William Phillips
    William Phillips may refer to:*William Phillips , artilleryman and general officer in the British Army who served as a major-general in the American Revolutionary War...

  • 16 Dec - Alexei Stakhanov
  • 23 Dec - Kirsten Flagstad
    Kirsten Flagstad
    Kirsten Målfrid Flagstad was a Norwegian opera singer and a highly regarded Wagnerian soprano...

  • 30 Dec - Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes Brown was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of twelve people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award...


1936

  • 6 Jan - Haile Selassie, Man of the Year
  • 13 Jan - Arthur H. Compton
  • 20 Jan - J. P. Morgan, Jr.
    J. P. Morgan, Jr.
    John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr. was an American banker and philanthropist.-Biography:He was born on September 7, 1867 in Irvington, New York to John Pierpont Morgan, Sr. and Frances Louisa Tracy. He graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of the Delphic Club, formerly known as the...

  • 27 Jan - Abby Rockefeller
    Abby Rockefeller
    Abby Rockefeller, born 1943, is a member of the Rockefeller family.- Biography :Abby Rockefeller is the eldest and most rebellious daughter of David Rockefeller, Sr.. She was drawn to Marxism and was an ardent admirer of Fidel Castro and a late 1960s/early '70s radical feminist who belonged to the...

  • 3 Feb - George Santayana
    George Santayana
    George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States and identified himself as an American. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters...

  • 10 Feb - Marriner S. Eccles
  • 17 Feb - Leni Riefenstahl
    Leni Riefenstahl
    Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film was Triumph des Willens , a propaganda film made at the 1934 Nuremberg congress of the Nazi Party...

  • 24 Feb - Hirohito
    Hirohito
    , posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to...

    , Pu Yi, Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

     & Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

  • 2 Mar - Emil Hurja
    Emil Hurja
    Emil Edward Hurja was an American politician. He founded a newspaper called "Breckenridge" in a Texas oil town, and is known to have bummed his way to Seattle in the hayrack of a cattle car from Michigan. Hurja was 6'1" and weighed 218 pounds...

  • 9 Mar - Léon Blum
    Léon Blum
    André Léon Blum was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France.-First political experiences:...

  • 16 Mar - Martin W. Clement
    Martin W. Clement
    Martin W. Clement was the 11th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad .He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, ....

  • 23 Mar - Isaiah Bowman
    Isaiah Bowman
    Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer...

  • 30 Mar - William Borah
  • 6 Apr - Daniel W. Hoan
  • 13 Apr - Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

  • 20 Apr - Frank N.D. Buchman
  • 27 Apr - Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple Black , born Shirley Jane Temple, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia...

  • 4 May - Torkild Rieber
  • 11 May - Franz Boas
    Franz Boas
    Franz Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did...

  • 18 May - Alfred Landon
  • 25 May - Joseph DeLee
  • 1 Jun - Pat Harrison
    Pat Harrison
    Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death....

  • 8 Jun - James Allred
  • 15 Jun - James R. Angell
  • 22 Jun - French Strikers
  • 29 Jun - Sir Samuel Hoare
  • 6 Jul - John L. Lewis
    John L. Lewis
    John Llewellyn Lewis was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960...

  • 13 Jul - Joe DiMaggio
    Joe DiMaggio
    Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio , nicknamed "Joltin' Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper," was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak , a record that still stands...

  • 20 Jul - Benito Mussolini
    Benito Mussolini
    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

  • 27 Jul - Leroy Miner
  • 3 Aug - Charles P. Taft
  • 10 Aug - John Dos Passos
    John Dos Passos
    John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos , a distinguished lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison of Petersburg, Virginia. The elder Dos Passos...

  • 17 Aug - William L. Clayton
    William L. Clayton
    William Lockhart "Will" Clayton was an American business leader and government official.-Early life and career:...

  • 24 Aug - Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

    , Emilio Mola
    Emilio Mola
    Emilio Mola y Vidal, 1st Duke of Mola, Grandee of Spain was a Spanish Nationalist commander during the Spanish Civil War. He is best-known for having coined the term "fifth column".-Early life:...

     & Manuel Azaña
    Manuel Azaña
    Manuel Azaña Díaz was a Spanish politician. He was the first Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic , and later served again as Prime Minister , and then as the second and last President of the Republic . The Spanish Civil War broke out while he was President...

  • 31 Aug - Clark Gable
    Clark Gable
    William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

  • 7 Sep - Eugene Talmadge
    Eugene Talmadge
    Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in 1946, he died before taking office...

  • 14 Sep - Helen Hull Jacobs
  • 21 Sep - John D. M. Hamilton
    John Hamilton (20th century politician)
    John D. M. Hamilton was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Kansas.Hamilton of Topeka was chairman of the Kansas Republican Party in 1931 and chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1936-40...

  • 28 Sep - James B. Conant
  • 5 Oct - Lou Gehrig
    Lou Gehrig
    Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig , nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability, was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 17-year baseball career for the New York Yankees . Gehrig set several major league records. He holds the record for most career grand slams...

     & Carl Hubbell
    Carl Hubbell
    Carl Owen Hubbell was an American baseball player. He was a member of the New York Giants in the National League from 1928 to 1943, and remained on the Giants' payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco.Twice voted the National League's Most Valuable Player, Hubbell...

  • 12 Oct - Lord Linlithgow
  • 19 Oct - Cardinal Pacelli
  • 26 Oct - Thomas Parran, Jr.
    Thomas Parran, Jr.
    Thomas Parran, Jr. was an American physician and Public Health Service officer. He was appointed the sixth Surgeon General of the United States from 1936 to 1948.-Early years :...

  • 2 Nov - Joseph M. Patterson & Robert R. McCormick
    Robert R. McCormick
    Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick was a member of the McCormick family of Chicago who became owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper...

  • 9 Nov - Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

  • 16 Nov - Anthony Grzebyk
  • 23 Nov - Edward F. McGrady
  • 30 Nov - Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich
    Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...

  • 7 Dec - Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during much of World War II...

  • 14 Dec - Salvador Dalí
    Salvador Dalí
    Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

  • 21 Dec - Edward Johnson
    Edward Johnson (tenor)
    Edward Patrick Johnson CBE was a Canadian operatic tenor who was billed outside North America as Edoardo Di Giovanni, and became director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.- Early life :...

  • 28 Dec - Emperor Hirohito

1937

  • 4 Jan - Wallis Warfield Simpson, Woman of the Year
  • 11 Jan - George Norris
  • 18 Jan - William S. Knudsen
    William S. Knudsen
    William Signius Knudsen was a leading automotive industry executive. His experience and success as a key senior manager in the operations sides of Ford Motor Company and later General Motors led the Franklin Roosevelt Administration to commission him as a Lieutenant General in the United States...

  • 25 Jan - Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky , born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army....

  • 1 Feb - Thomas E. Dewey
  • 8 Feb - John J. Pelley
  • 15 Feb - Cardinal Dougherty
  • 22 Feb - Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII
  • 1 Mar - Charles E. Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes
    Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , United States Secretary of State , a judge on the Court of International Justice , and...

  • 8 Mar - King George VI
  • 15 Mar - Joseph E. Davies
    Joseph E. Davies
    Joseph Edward Davies was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912, and First Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1915. He was the second Ambassador to represent the United States in the Soviet Union and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg...

  • 22 Mar - Clarence Little
  • 29 Mar - Clyde Beatty
    Clyde Beatty
    Clyde Beatty joined the circus as a cage cleaner as a teen and became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer. He also became a circus impresario who owned his own show that later merged with the Cole Bros. Circus to form the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros...

  • 5 Apr - Harry B Housser
  • 12 Apr - Virginia Woolf
    Virginia Woolf
    Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

  • 19 Apr - Bob Feller
    Bob Feller
    On December 8, 1941, Feller enlisted in the Navy, volunteering immediately for combat service, becoming the first Major League Baseball player to do so following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. Feller served as Gun Captain aboard the USS Alabama, and missed four seasons during his service...

  • 26 Apr - Fulgencio Batista
    Fulgencio Batista
    Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was the United States-aligned Cuban President, dictator and military leader who served as the leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1944 and from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution....

  • 3 May - Billy and Bobby Mauch
    Billy and Bobby Mauch
    William John Mauch , known as Billy, and his identical twin brother, Robert Joseph Mauch, , known as Bobby, were child actors in the 1930s...

  • 10 May - Matt Winn
    Matt Winn
    Colonel Martin J. "Matt" Winn was a prominent personality in American thoroughbred horse racing history and president of Churchill Downs racetrack, home to the Kentucky Derby race that he made famous....

  • 17 May - King Christian X
  • 24 May - Cosmo Gordon Lang
  • 31 May - Dionne Quintuplets
    Dionne quintuplets
    The Dionne quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario, Canada near the village of Corbeil.The Dionne girls were born two months premature...

  • 7 Jun - Sidney Howard
    Sidney Howard
    Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.-Early life:...

  • 14 Jun - Paul van Zeeland
    Paul van Zeeland
    Paul Guillaume van Zeeland was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman born in Soignies....

  • 21 Jun - Morris Fishbein
    Morris Fishbein
    Morris Fishbein M.D. was a physician and the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1924 to 1950. In 1961 he became the founding Editor of Medical World News, a magazine for doctors. In 1970 he endowed the Morris Fishbein Center...

  • 28 Jun - Ethel du Pont
    Ethel du Pont
    Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren was an American heiress and socialite and a member of the prominent du Pont family.Born in Wilmington, Delaware, she was the daughter of Eugene du Pont, Jr...

     & Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. was an American politician. He was the fifth child of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sr. and his wife Eleanor.-Personal life:...

  • 5 Jul - George Earle III
  • 12 Jul - James E. West
    James E. West (Scouting)
    Dr. James E. West was a lawyer and an advocate of children's rights, who became the first professional Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America , serving from 1911–1943. Upon his retirement from the BSA, West was given the title of Chief Scout.-Personal life:His father died around the...

  • 19 Jul - Harry Bridges
    Harry Bridges
    Harry Bridges was an Australian-American union leader, in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union , a longshore and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawaii and Alaska which he helped form and led for over 40 years...

  • 26 Jul - Prince Konoye
  • 2 Aug - Fiorello LaGuardia
  • 9 Aug - King Farouk I
  • 16 Aug - Paul Muni
    Paul Muni
    Paul Muni was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor...

  • 23 Aug - Alben Barkley
  • 30 Aug - Mitsumasa Yonai
    Mitsumasa Yonai
    was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and politician. He was the 37th Prime Minister of Japan from 16 January to 22 July 1940.-Early life & Naval career:...

  • 6 Sep - Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

  • 13 Sep - Gottfried von Cramm
    Gottfried von Cramm
    Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm was a German amateur tennis champion and twice French Open champion.-Birth:...

  • 20 Sep - Mitchell Hepburn
    Mitchell Hepburn
    Mitchell Frederick Hepburn was the 11th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1934 to 1942. He was the youngest Premier in Ontario history, appointed at age 37....

  • 27 Sep - Walter Lippman
  • 4 Oct - William Green
    William Green (labor leader)
    William Green was an American trade union leader. Green is best remembered for serving as the President of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952.-Early years:...

  • 11 Oct - William O. Douglas
    William O. Douglas
    William Orville Douglas was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court...

  • 18 Oct - Ernest Hemingway
    Ernest Hemingway
    Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

  • 25 Oct - Wallace Wade
  • 1 Nov - Ernest O. Lawrence
  • 8 Nov - Alfred Lunt
    Alfred Lunt
    Alfred Lunt was an American stage director and actor, often identified for a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne...

     & Lynn Fontanne
    Lynn Fontanne
    Lynn Fontanne was a British actress and major stage star in the United States for over 40 years. She teamed with her husband Alfred Lunt.She lived in the United States for more than 60 years but never relinquished her British citizenship. Lunt and Fontanne shared a special Tony Award in 1970...

  • 15 Nov - Louis Brandeis
    Louis Brandeis
    Louis Dembitz Brandeis ; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular mode...

  • 22 Nov - King Leopold III
  • 29 Nov - William B. Bankhead
    William B. Bankhead
    William Brockman Bankhead was an American politician from Alabama who served as U.S. Representative and Speaker of the House. He was a Democrat. Bankhead was a prominent supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of pro-labor union legislation, thus clashing with most other southern...

  • 6 Dec - Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...

  • 13 Dec - Colby M. Chester
  • 20 Dec - Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

  • 27 Dec - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney
    Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...


1938

  • 3 Jan - Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek
    Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

     & Mme. Chiang
    Mao Fumei
    Mao Fumei 毛福梅 was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo. She was born in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and married Chiang Kai-Shek in an arranged marriage. She died in World War II during a bombardment. Like most women of the era, she was not given the...

    , Couple of the Year
  • 10 Jan - Wesley W. Stout
  • 17 Jan - Frank Lloyd Wright
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...

  • 24 Jan - Walter F. White
  • 31 Jan - Roswell Magill
    Roswell Magill
    Roswell Foster Magill was an American tax lawyer and Treasury Department official. He was one of the most important tax officials of the 1930s and one of the leading tax experts....

  • 7 Feb - John L. Lewis
    John L. Lewis
    John Llewellyn Lewis was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960...

  • 14 Feb - Sebastián Pozas Perea
    Sebastián Pozas Perea
    Sebastián Pozas Perea was a Spanish military officer and civil servant. Trained in the cavalry, Pozas offered a long service in Spanish Morocco, fighting in the Rif Wars and attaining the rank of general in 1926, by order of the Miguel Primo de Rivera government.In the 1930s, Pozas served the...

  • 21 Feb - John G. Bates
  • 28 Feb - James Roosevelt
    James Roosevelt
    James Roosevelt was the oldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a United States Congressman, an officer in the United States Marine Corps, an aide to his father, the official Secretary to the President, a Democratic Party activist, and a businessman.-Early life:Roosevelt was...

  • 7 Mar - Subhas Chandra Bose
  • 14 Mar - Dave Kerr
    Dave Kerr
    David Alexander Kerr was a Canadian NHL goaltender who played for the Montreal Maroons, New York Americans and New York Rangers-Playing career:...

  • 21 Mar - Kurt von Schuschnigg
  • 28 Mar - Bette Davis
    Bette Davis
    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...

  • 4 Apr - Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...

  • 11 Apr - Joe Martin
    Joe Martin
    Joe Martin may refer to:*Joe Martin , character on All My Children*Joe Martin , American football linebacker for Baltimore Ravens*Joe Martin , American cartoonist...

  • 18 Apr - Lewis Mumford
    Lewis Mumford
    Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer...

  • 25 Apr - Reza Shah Pahlavi
  • 2 May - Claude Pepper
    Claude Pepper
    Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s...

  • 9 May - Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...

  • 16 May - Frank R. McNinch
    Frank R. McNinch
    Frank Ramsay McNinch was born in Charlotte, NC. He was a political figure who served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, as chairman of the Federal Power Commission, and as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The controversial 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio...

  • 23 May - Donald W. Douglas
  • 30 May - Earl Browder
    Earl Browder
    Earl Russell Browder was an American communist and General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 to 1945. He was expelled from the party in 1946.- Early years :...

  • 6 Jun - Johnny Goodman
    Johnny Goodman
    Johnny G. Goodman was the last amateur golfer to win the U.S. Open, doing so in 1933; he also won the U.S. Amateur in 1937....

  • 13 Jun - Charles A. Lindbergh & Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation...

  • 20 Jun - Robert W. Wood
    Robert W. Wood
    Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and is best known for giving birth to the so-called "black-light effect"...

  • 27 Jun - Eduard Benes
  • 4 Jul - Orway H. Chalkley
  • 11 Jul - Walter Winchell
    Walter Winchell
    Walter Winchell was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.-Professional career:Born Walter Weinschel in New York City, he left school in the sixth grade and started performing in a vaudeville troupe known as Gus Edwards' "Newsboys Sextet."His career in journalism was begun by posting...

  • 18 Jul - Harry L. Hopkins
  • 25 Jul - Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss
    Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...

  • 1 Aug - Albert B. Chandler
  • 8 Aug - Frank Capra
    Frank Capra
    Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...

  • 15 Aug - William McChesney Martin, Jr.
    William McChesney Martin, Jr.
    William McChesney Martin, Jr. was the ninth and longest-serving Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, serving from April 2, 1951 to January 31, 1970 under five Presidents...

  • 22 Aug - Louis A. Johnson
    Louis A. Johnson
    Louis Arthur Johnson was the second United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from March 28, 1949 to September 19, 1950....

  • 29 Aug - Lázaro Cárdenas
    Lázaro Cárdenas
    Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.-Early life:Lázaro Cárdenas was born on May 21, 1895 in a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán. He supported his family from age 16 after the death of his father...

  • 5 Sep - Holger Cahill
    Holger Cahill
    Edgar Holger Cahill was the National Director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal.-Biography:...

  • 12 Sep - Thomas Corcoran
    Thomas Gardiner Corcoran
    Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was one of several Irish American advisors in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's brain trust during the New Deal, and later, a close friend and advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson....

     & Benjamin V. Cohen
  • 19 Sep - William S. Paley
    William S. Paley
    William S. Paley was the chief executive who built Columbia Broadcasting System from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.-Early life:...

  • 26 Sep - Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers
    Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...

     & Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...

  • 3 Oct - William L. Bragg
  • 10 Oct - Sergei Koussevitzky
    Serge Koussevitzky
    Serge Koussevitzky , was a Russian-born Jewish conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949.-Early career:...

  • 17 Oct - Neville Chamberlain
    Neville Chamberlain
    Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...

  • 24 Oct - Sheridan Downey
    Sheridan Downey
    Sheridan Downey was a lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950.-Early life:...

  • 31 Oct - Frederick L. Redefer
  • 7 Nov - André Malraux
    André Malraux
    André Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...

  • 14 Nov - Henry Grady Weaver
    Henry Grady Weaver
    Henry Grady Weaver was the director of Customer Research Staff for General Motors Corporation, and shown on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of Time Magazine.-Early life and education:...

  • 21 Nov - Elmer F. Andrews
  • 28 Nov - Lord Beaverbrook
  • 5 Dec - Clifford Odets
    Clifford Odets
    Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, socialist, and social protester.-Early life:Odets was born in Philadelphia to Romanian- and Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Louis Odets and Esther Geisinger, and raised in Philadelphia and the Bronx, New York. He dropped out of high...

  • 12 Dec - Prince Paul
    Prince Paul
    Paul Huston, better known by the stage name Prince Paul, is an American disc jockey and hip-hop record producer. He was also a founding member of the Gravediggaz where he used the name The Undertaker.- Biography :...

  • 19 Dec - Henry A. Wallace
    Henry A. Wallace
    Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...

  • 26 Dec - Charlot's 'Nativity'

1939

  • 2 Jan - Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

    , Man of the Year
  • 9 Jan - Oscar Riddle
    Oscar Riddle
    Oscar Riddle was an American biologist. He is known for his research into the pituitary gland and for isolating the hormone prolactin. Riddle was named the Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 1958.-Early career:Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Indiana to Jonathan Riddle, Jr...

  • 16 Jan - Julius P. Heil
    Julius P. Heil
    Julius Peter Heil was the 30th Governor of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1943. A Republican, he was born in Düssmund an der Mosel, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1881. In 1901, he founded the Heil Company in Milwaukee, which fabricated steel tank cars. He served two two-year terms as...

  • 23 Jan - William Faulkner
    William Faulkner
    William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...

  • 30 Jan - Henry E. Sigerist
    Henry E Sigerist
    Henry Ernest Sigerist was born in Paris and died in Switzerland. He graduated M.D. at the University of Zurich in 1917.He devoted himself to the study of history of medicine. Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union , and History of Medicine were among his most important works. He emerged as a...

  • 6 Feb - Robert Fechner
    Robert Fechner
    Robert Fechner was a national labor union leader and director of the Civilian Conservation Corps , which played a central role in the development of state and national parks in the United States. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee...

  • 13 Feb - Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

  • 20 Feb - Charles Edison
    Charles Edison
    Charles Edison was son of Thomas Edison to Mina, businessman, Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey.-Biography:...

  • 27 Feb - Ignace J. Paderewski
  • 6 Mar - Josef Beck
  • 13 Mar - William R. Hearst
  • 20 Mar - John Nance Garner
    John Nance Garner
    John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...

  • 27 Mar - Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco
    Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

  • 3 Apr - Lewis H. Brown
    Lewis H. Brown
    Lewis Herold Brown was an industrialist.-Early life and career:Born in Creston, Iowa on February 13, 1894, he attended the University of Iowa in 1915. Brown served in France as an infantry captain during World War I. After the war, Brown was employed by Montgomery Ward and was promoted to...

  • 10 Apr - Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....

  • 17 Apr - Eleanor Roosevelt
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...

  • 24 Apr - Heinrich Himmler
    Heinrich Himmler
    Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...

  • 1 May - Grover A. Whalen
  • 8 May - James Joyce
    James Joyce
    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

  • 15 May - King George VI
  • 22 May - Nelson Rockefeller
    Nelson Rockefeller
    Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st Vice President of the United States , serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York , as well as serving the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions...

  • 29 May - Glenn L. Martin
  • 5 Jun - Édouard Daladier
    Édouard Daladier
    Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.-Career:Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. Later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined...

  • 12 Jun - Dorothy Thompson
    Dorothy Thompson
    Dorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential women in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt...

  • 19 Jun - Charles A. Lindbergh
  • 26 Jun - Sigmund Freud
    Sigmund Freud
    Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

  • 3 Jul - Edwin G. Conklin
  • 10 Jul - Paul V. McNutt
    Paul V. McNutt
    Paul Vories McNutt was an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Indiana during the Great Depression, high commissioner to the Philippines, administrator of the Federal Security Agency, chairman of the War Manpower Commission and ambassador to the Philippines.-Family and...

  • 17 Jul - Sonja Henie
    Sonja Henie
    Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic Champion in Ladies Singles, a ten-time World Champion and a six-time European Champion . Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater...

  • 24 Jul - Edda Ciano
  • 31 Jul - Wendell L. Willkie
  • 7 Aug - William Woodward
  • 14 Aug - Maurice Gamelin
    Maurice Gamelin
    Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general. Gamelin is best remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defense of republican values....

  • 21 Aug - Eleanor Holm
    Eleanor Holm
    Eleanor G. Holm was an American swimmer. An Olympic champion, she is best known for having been suspended from the 1936 Summer Olympics team, after she had attended a cocktail party on the transatlantic cruise ship taking her to Germany...

  • 28 Aug - Frank Murphy
    Frank Murphy
    William Francis Murphy was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District , Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit . Mayor of Detroit , the last Governor-General of the Philippines , U.S...

  • 4 Sep - Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

  • 11 Sep - Edward Rydz-Śmigły
  • 18 Sep - Joseph P. Kennedy
  • 25 Sep - Walther von Brauchitsch
    Walther von Brauchitsch
    Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch was a German field marshal and the Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres in the early years of World War II.-Biography:...

  • 2 Oct - Arthur Vandenberg
  • 9 Oct - Queen Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
    Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

  • 16 Oct - Kaufman T. Keller
  • 23 Oct - Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
    Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
    Marshal of the Royal Air Force Cyril Louis Norton Newall, 1st Baron Newall GCB OM GCMG CBE AM , was a British soldier and airman, who headed the Royal Air Force as the Chief of the Air Staff during the early part of the Second World War before serving as the sixth Governor-General of New Zealand...

  • 30 Oct - King Gustav V
  • 6 Nov - Tom Harmon
    Tom Harmon
    Thomas Dudley Harmon was a star player in American college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors...

  • 13 Nov - King Carol II
  • 20 Nov - George S. Kaufman
    George S. Kaufman
    George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals, notably for the Marx Brothers...

  • 27 Nov - Queen Wilhelmina
    Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
    Wilhelmina was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial...

  • 4 Dec - Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."-Biography:Sandburg was born in Galesburg,...

  • 11 Dec - Nelson T. Johnson
    Nelson T. Johnson
    Nelson Trusler Johnson was the United States ambassador to the Republic of China prior to World War II, and to Australia during World War II.-Early life and career:...

  • 18 Dec - Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

  • 25 Dec - Vivien Leigh
    Vivien Leigh
    Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...

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