1890s births

First president of Malawi

Palestinian Arab nationalist (1897–1974)

American actress (1893–1930)

Iranian poet (1895–1960)

American Delta blues musician (1891–1934)

American/Latvian linguist (1894–1969)

American country blues singer and guitarist (1892-1966)

communist Indonesian politician (1897-1949)

Chinese politician (1898–1975)

American swimmer (1896-1953)

Mongolian politician (1892-1937)

Russian ballet dancer (1892–1981)

Georgian poet

American comedian (1893–1977)

American composer and pianist (1895–2002)

Russian-American actor, director and producer (1897–1960)

Chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party and the National Government of Azerbaijan.

Syrian politician (1893–1960)

Polish artist (1898-1978)

Indian tribal leader and revolutionary (1897–1924)

American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher (1893-1965)

Russian artist (1890-1956)

United States Army general (1897-1989)

Hungarian mathematician and physicist specializing in continuum mechanics

Greek politician

French actor and dancer (1891–1945)

Kurdish soldier and politician (1892-1976)

Mistress of King Carol II of the Romanians (1899-1977)

American jazz drummer (1895–1982)

African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer and lyricist (1898-1951)

Russian chess player (1891-1942)

blues guitarist and songwriter (1893–1981)

last bearer of any Sayan Samoyedic language (1893–1989)

silent film actress (1899–1935)

Turkish writer (1886–1973)

Ottoman noble; consort of sultan Mehmed V (1890–1952)

Prime Minister of Syria (1893-1947)

American journalist (1896–1969)

Austrian engineer and author

Austrian footballer (1895–1983)

Russian painter and poet (1893-1975)

Australian actress

Korean writer (1896–1984)

German-born American pathologist

German actor (1897–1975)

Canadian ice hockey player (1898-1962)

Iraqi politician; Prime Minister of Iraq under King Faisal I

Commander of German propaganda troops (1898-1961)

Austrian-born film and sideshow performer

Italian archaeologist (1898-1991)

Iranian literary scholar, historian, translator, and Man of letters

American silent film actress (1892–1955)

German admiral (1891–1974)

Ethiopian noble and army commander (1892–1937)

Sierra Leonean trade unionist, journalist, activist, and politician (1894–1965)

Hungarian sprinter and cross-country skier

Chinese general (1895-1941)

Vietnamese politician

American zoologist (1889–1964)