1891 births

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism, inspiring the Dalit Buddhist movement.

Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)

Russian author (1891–1940)

German field marshal (1891-1944)

Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)

English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932

Swedish writer (1891–1974)

American novelist (1891–1980)

Russian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)

German admiral and former president of Nazi Germany in 1945 (born 1891-1980)

German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)

Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)

Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)

German artist (1891–1976)

American biochemist (1891-1987)

Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)

German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)

German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

President of the Dominican Republic (1891-1961)

4th President of Italy (1891-1972)

American composer and songwriter (1891–1964)

German field marshal (1891-1945)

American painter (1891–1942)

British actor (1891–1958)

politician and former Prime Minister of Japan (1891–1945)

Soviet secret police official (1891–1938)

American propaganda and marketing pioneer (1891-1995)

German engineer and senior Nazi figure (1891-1942)

Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin (1891-1956)

German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)

British military commander and field marshal; Governor General of Canada (1891-1969)

Russian artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer (1891—1955)

Soviet physicist

President of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 (1891–1974)

Japanese general (1891-1945)

South Korean educator, activist, journalist, entrepreneur and politician (1891-1955)

Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)

Russian actor and director (1891-1955)

Chinese scholar, writer and philosopher (1891–1962)

Wehrmacht general (1891–1955)

Belarusian writer (1891–1917)

Soviet Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman (1891-1967)

Italian engineer (1891-1979)

Croatian poet (1891–1955)

American businessman, politician and diplomat (1891–1986)

American politician (1891–1967)

Finnish astronomer and physicist

muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Danish businessman (1891-1958)

American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)

Japanese long-distance runner

Estonian athletics competitor and association football player (1891–1984)

German actor (1891-1960)

Soviet mathematician (1891-1983)

Japanese association football player and manager (born 1891)

British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)

physician, writer of Esperanto literature (1891–1976)