Anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance before writing her masterwork, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.'

• Civil Rights Activist, Author
  (1891–1960)

Fanny Brice was a popular American singer and comedian who was long associated with the Ziegfeld Follies. She was portrayed by Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.

• Film Actress, Radio Personality, Comedian, Theater Actress, Singer
  (1891–1951)

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.

• General
  (1891–1944)

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.

• Guitarist
  (1891–1960)

Henry Miller was a 20th century American writer, who created a new sort of novel—later characterized as a fictionalized autobiography.

• Author
  (1891–1980)

Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren was a former California governor who also headed the commission that investigated the JFK assassination.

• Governor, Supreme Court Justice
  (1891–1974)

Rafael Trujillo was a dictator of the Dominican Republic for decades. He was assassinated in 1961.

• War Crimes, Dictator, President (non-U.S.)
  (1891–1961)

Notorious mobster Frank "the Prime Minister" Costello headed the Luciano crime family, the most powerful crime family in New York, from the mid-1930s until 1957.

• Organized Crime
  (1891–1973)

Margaret Suckley was a close friend and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as the archivist for the first American presidential library.

• Historian, Writer
  (1891–1991)

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.

• Singer, Film Actor
  (1891–1960)

Iowan painter Grant Wood is best known for the iconic work 'American Gothic.'

• Painter, Educator
  (1891–1942)

A gifted composer and lyricist, Cole Porter created songs like "Night and Day," and the music for Broadway shows such as Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate.

• Pianist, Songwriter
  (1891–1964)

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.

• Linguist, Journalist, Philosopher
  (1891–1937)

Ronald Colman was an Academy Award-winning British actor.

• Military Leader, Theater Actor, Film Actor, Warrior
  (1891–1958)

Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian scientist and doctor, whose research led to the discovery of insulin to treat diabetic patients.

• Medical Professional, Doctor, Inventor
  (1891–1941)

British commander Harold Alexander fought in both World War I and World War II, during which he helped drive Nazi forces from Northern Africa.

• General
  (1891–1969)

Max Ernst was a German artist--in painting, sculpture and collage--who was a key figure in the Dadaist and Surrealist art movements.

• Sculptor, Editor, Painter
  (1891–1976)

Guatemalan muralist Carlos Mérida created work inspired by the social revolution in Mexico. An earthquake destroyed his mosaic murals in Mexico City in 1985.

• Painter
  (1891–1984)

German poet and playwright Nelly Sachs won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 for expressing the grief and yearning of her fellow Jews after WWII.

• Poet, Playwright
  (1891–1970)