1. Hal Chase (1883)

American Baseball Player Manager

'Prince Hal' was an outstanding defensive first baseman whose career was marred by accusations of fixing games.

2. Jack Daley (1883)

Movie Actor

Actor who was uncredited in all of his films until appearing in 1949's Search for Danger. He was credited again in the 1951 film,Pickup.

3. Khalil Gibran (1883)

Poet

Lebanese poet, author, and artist best known for The Prophet, a mystical, inspirational work that attained a cult following. He is also known for his 1912 poetic novel, Broken Wings....

4. Vernon Dalhart (1883)

American Opera Singer

Singer-songwriter known for having a major influence in country music.

5. Cliff Sterrett (1883)

American Cartoonist

Creator of the comic strip Polly and Her Pals, one of the most innovative comics of its time. Some of his work was included in a Library of Congress exhibition...

6. Hubert Harrison (1883)

Activist

Radical socialist activist and writer who was associated with the twentieth-century New Negro movement. He established the movement's primary publication, The Voice, and later edited The Negro World.

7. Lesley J. McNair (1883)

War Hero

Lesley J. McNair is a famous War Hero, who was born on May 25, 1883 in United States. Commander of the WWII Army ground forces who was one of the...

8. Johnston McCulley (1883)

American Writer

Screenwriter and children's author, most recognized for producing characters like Zorro and the character The Black Star from 1916's Detective Story Magazine.

9. Walter Huston (1883)

Movie Actor

Academy Award-winning actor who starred in Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre in 1948. His other films include The Sign of the Cross and...

10. Estelle Winwood (1883)

Stage Actress

English film and stage actress who starred in the 1961 film, The Misfits, with top actors including Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift.

11. Charles Demuth (1883)

American Artist

Watercolorist and oil painter whose best-known works included 'I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold' and 'Wild Orchids.' He would honor such friends as Gertrude Stein, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Dove, and...

12. Joseph Schumpeter (1883)

Austrian Economist

Austrian-Hungarian-American scientist and one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. He came up with the recognized term 'creative destruction', which refers to the linked processes of the...

13. Franz Kafka (1883)

German-language Writer

Czech modernist author of the famous novella, The Metamorphosis, in which a businessman awakes to find that he has become a giant dung beetle. Kafka's other major works include The...

14. Elsa Maxwell (1883)

Actor

Known as the Hostess with the Mostess, she was the world's premiere party-giver during the Roaring Twenties. She first gained fame as an author and gossip columnist.

15. Aubrey Fitch (1883)

United States Navy Admiral

Superintendent of the Naval Academy who served as an Admiral in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

16. Clough Williams-Ellis (1883)

Architect

Clough Williams-Ellis is a famous Architect, who was born on May 28, 1883 in United Kingdom. Creator of the Italian tourist village, Portmeirion, located in North Wales. He also designed...

17. Godfrey Huggins (1883)

Politician

Rhodesian politician and physician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953. He was the longest serving prime minister in British Commonwealth history until...

18. William F. Allen (1883)

Politician

Member of the Democratic Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1939.

19. Chuon Nath (1883)

Religious Leader

Buddhist monk who was the Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia from 1948 to 1969.

20. Ricardo Miró (1883)

Panamanian Writer

Significant Panamanian poet and author of the early twentieth century. His modernist works include Silent Ways, Maria Flower, and The Pacific Legend.

21. Ștefan Ciobanu (1883)

Moldovan Politician And Historia

Famous as both an historian and a high-ranking government official, he published important works such as Un Decument Inedit din Timurile lui Stefan cel Mare (1944) and Manastirea Tiganesti (1931)...

22. Ford Sterling (1883)

Movie Actor

Ford Sterling is a famous Movie Actor, who was born on November 3, 1883 in United States. Keystone Studios leading man who appeared as the chief of the inept troupe...

23. Marcus Hurley (1883)

American Racing Cyclist

American cyclist who won four gold medals at the 1904 Olympics, as well as a bronze in the 2 mile race.

24. Austin Tappan Wright (1883)

Novelist

An American legal scholar, he also became known for Islandia, a famous work of Utopian fiction. The 1942 novel tells the story of a lawyer living in an imaginary country.

25. Ole Lilloe-Olsen (1883)

Sport Shooter

Norwegian rifle shooter who won five Olympic gold medals in the 1920s in Antwerp and Paris.

26. Mamie Smith (1883)

American Vaudeville Singer Dance

The Queen of the Blues who was a vaudeville actress, singer, and was the first African American singer to record blues music.

27. Gus Cannon (1883)

American Blues Musician

Blues musician who was a pioneer in the jug band movement and founded Cannon's Jug Stompers group.

28. Ramón Fonst (1883)

Cuban Fencer

Cuban fencer and four-time Olympic gold medalist, he won one in 1900 and two in 1904.

29. Homer Croy (1883)

American Writer

Author and occasional screenwriter who wrote novels like When to Lock the Stable, 1918's How Motion Pictures Are Made, 1918's Boone Stop, and 1920's Turkey Bowman.

30. Angela Hitler (1883)

Adolf Hitler's Half-sister

Half-sister of Adolf Hitler with whom she was very close. She was a manager of Mensa Academia Judaica and defended her students against anti-Semitic rioters.

31. Léon Lemartin (1883)

Pioneer Aviator

French aviator who broke a world record by flying seven passengers on his experimental aircraft the Blériot XIII. A month later, he took eight, 11, and 13 passengers on the...

32. Tony Wilding (1883)

New Zealand Tennis Player

Four-time Wimbledon singles champion and two-time Australian Open singles winner who was killed serving in World War I.

33. Charles Graham Baker (1883)

Screenwriter

American screenwriter most known for films like Frauds and Frenzies (1918), The Inner Chamber (1921), Fortune's Mask (1922), and The Girl in the Limousine (1924).

34. Sonia Greene (1883)

Novelist

Wife of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft who published several works of fiction and a memoir about her husband.

35. Franklin Clarence Mars (1883)

Celebrity

Franklin Clarence Mars is a famous Celebrity, who was born on September 24, 1883 in United States. Founder of the Mar-O-Bar chocolate candy company, better known as Mars, Inc. According...

36. Benito Mussolini (1883)

Prime-minister And Fascist Dicta

Italian dictator who came to power after his successful March on Rome in 1922. He threw out his country's constitution in 1925 in favor of a dictatorship and he allied...

37. Jules Auguste Muraire (1883)

Movie Actor

Jules Auguste Muraire is a famous Movie Actor, who was born on December 18, 1883 in France. French actor who went by the stage name Raimu and appeared in the...

38. Max Fleischer (1883)

Animator Inventor. Film Director

Famous for creating the Popeye, Betty Boop, Superman, and Koko the Clown cartoon characters, Fleischer is also known for inventing the rotoscoping animation technique.

39. Augustinas Voldemaras (1883)

Prime Minister Of Lithuania

Lithuanian nationalist political figure who served as Lithuania's first Prime Minister in 1918, and again from 1926 to 1929.

40. Peter Kürten (1883)

German Serial Killer

German serial killer who is known as The Vampire of Dusseldorf and the Dusseldorf Monster due to his lengthy record of grisly murders and sexual assaults.

41. José Clemente Orozco (1883)

Painter

José Clemente Orozco is a famous Painter, who was born on November 23, 1883 in Mexico. Mexican social realist painter who specialized in murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance....

42. Charles Pope (1883)

Recipient Of The Victoria Cross

Lieutenant in the Australian Army who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his courageous actions during the Battle of Lagnicourt in World War I.

43. Sima Pandurovic (1883)

Poet

Serbian Symbolist and Moderna poet who is known for Okovane Slogove (published in 1918) and other works.

44. Gustav Suits (1883)

Estonian Poet

Estonian poet who rose to literary prominence during the first half of the twentieth century. His best-known works include The Fire of Life, Fire and Wind, and All is But...

45. John Maynard Keynes (1883)

British Economist

British economist and founder of modern macroeconomics whose ideas about the causes of business cycles are known as Keynesian economics. He was included in Time Magazine's 1999 list of the...

46. Clement Attlee (1883)

British Politician Prime Ministe

British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. His government...

47. Charles Sheeler (1883)

American Artist

Painter and photographer who pioneered American Modernism and was known for his precise, linear images. He and Paul Strand were behind the film, "Manhatta," from 1920.

48. Ernest Everett Just (1883)

Biologist

Ernest Everett Just is a famous Biologist, who was born on August 14, 1883 in United States. Pioneering African-American biologist who is best known for studying the role of the...

49. Rube Goldberg (1883)

Actor

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who co-founded the National Cartoonists Society and drew complicated machines intended to perform simple tasks.

50. Norman Haworth (1883)

Carbohydrate Chemist

A British chemist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on vitamin C. He also won the National Medal of Science in 1965.