Beginning with his first film in 1911 and in the years leading up to World War II, Hans Albers was one of Germany's most beloved movie stars.
1891-1960
1891-1969
Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian scientist and doctor, whose research led to the discovery of insulin to treat diabetic patients.
1891-1941
1891-1951
A.P. Carter is best known for forming the Carter Family band, which combined traditional Appalachian sounds with a unique guitar style and African American gospel influences.
1891-1960
Ronald Colman was an Academy Award-winning British actor.
1891-1958
1891-1976
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Communist Party leader. He was arrested for speaking out against fascism and wrote his Prison Notebooks before dying in jail.
1891-1937
Anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance before writing her masterwork, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
1891-1960
Henry Miller was a 20th century American writer, who created a new sort of novel—later characterized as a fictionalized autobiography.
1891-1980
1891-1984
1891-1964
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was one of German's most popular generals during World War II, and gained his enemies' respect with his victories as commander of the Afrika Korps. Implicated in a plot to overthrow Hitler, Rommel took his life in 1944.
1891-1944
1891-1970
Margaret Suckley was a close friend and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as the archivist for the first American presidential library.
1891-1991
Rafael Trujillo was a dictator of the Dominican Republic for decades. He was assassinated in 1961.
1891-1961
1891-1974
1891-1958
1891-1942