1877 births

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)

South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician

British mathematician (1877–1947)

English radiochemist (1877–1956)

Bolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926)

English physicist (1877-1944)

British chemist (1877-1945)

vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953

President of Italy from 1946 to 1948

British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)

German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957)

German Nazi Party politician (1877–1946)

German politician and economist (1877–1970)

Hungarian poet (1877–1919)

Prime Minister of Latvia and agronomist (1877-1942)

American astronomer (1877–1957)

French painter (1877–1953)

Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer (1877-1931)

47th President of Mexico

Dutch painter (1877-1968)

American stage and film actress (1877-1957)

purported clairvoyant healer and psychic (1877–1945)

Swiss football pioneer, player and club president (1877-1930)

British actor (1877–1959)

American chess player

Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician (1877–1947)

motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce

British economist (1877-1959)

Spanish lawyer and politician (1877-1949)

Swiss biochemist and physiologist (1877–1950)

48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community (1877-1957)

Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor

Russian poet (1877-1932)

German painter (1877–1962)

German Jewish mathematician (1877-1938)

American film, theater actor (1877–1961)

Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher

Ukrainian composer, ethnomusicologist, and conductor (1877–1921)

German politician (1877-1941)

Hungarian activist, editor (1877-1948)

British poet who wrote in French

Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist (1877–1960)

Serbian writer (1877–1958)

French minister of war (1922 - '24; 1929 - '32)

French industrialist

German psychoanalyst (1877–1925)

Japanese officer and general (1877–1966)

Austrian illustrator, cartoonist and writer (1877-1959)

French sociologist (1877-1945), died in Buchenwald concentration camp

Bulgarian politician (1877—1950)

Bosnian Serb writer (1877-1916)

German explorer (1877-1957)

Chilean army officer and political figure (1877-1960)

French racing cyclist

Swiss explorer and author (1877-1904)

President of Mexico (1930-1932)

American writer (1877-1967)

Russian entrepreneur, organizer of film production, screenwriter, director

French priest and academic (1877–1961)

British bacteriologist