1889 births

British-born American film director

President of Colombia (1889-1965)

American athlete (1889–1972)

President of Peru (1889-1967)

Hungarian association football player (1889–1959)

German physicist (1889-1979)

Flemish artist (1889–1972)

Ecuadorian supercentenarian (1889–2006)

American geneticist (1889-1988)

Icelandic author (1889–1975)

President of Mexico (1932-1934)

French prime minister (1889-1958)

American film director (1889–1943)

Indonesian educator, activist (1889-1959)

Peruvian politician (1889-1933)

French racing cyclist (1889–1935)

German politician (1889-1946)

Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)

American politician, son of 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft (1889–1953)

Prime Minister of France (1889-1975)

military leader, viceroy, Victoria Cross (1889-1963)

German general (1889–1968)

Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus (1889-1954)

Swedish prince (1889-1918)

Italian politician (1889-1970)

American actress (1889-1970)

English physicist (1889-1944)

Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is known for her acting in silent films, and rose to fame for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires as Irma Vep and in Judex as Marie Verdier.

British orientalist and sinologist (1889–1966)

Japanese admiral

Polish writer

Swedish sinologist and linguist (1889–1978)

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1889-1928)

British conductor (1889–1983)

Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat (1889-1959)

British–New Zealand physicist (1889–1970)

Finnish long distance runner (1889–1971)

Swiss theologian (1889–1966)

Jamaican American writer, poet (1889–1948)

American silent film actress, singer, model (1889–1946)

Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder

Ukrainian writer (1889–1956)

Ecuadorian physician and suffragist (1889-1974)

American actress (1889–1938)

Duke of Parma (1889–1977)

British athlete

South African athlete, Olympic medalist (1889–1951)

English linguist, philosopher, writer (1889–1957)

Muslim scholar (1889–1940)

German general (1889-1945); SS-Gruppenführer, head of the inspection of the concentration camps

American Catholic cardinal (1889–1967)

German politician (1889-1940)

American writer (1889-1961)

American sideshow performer (1889–1966)

Turkish social reformer (1889–1958)

Egyptian writer (1889-1964)

British Army general (1889-1981)

Soviet politician (1889-1939)

American film director (1889-1972)

American Olympic rower (1889–1960)