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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
Pearl S. Buck
American writer (1892–1973)
Francisco Franco
Spanish general and dictator (1892-1975)
Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman (1892−1980)
Ivo Andrić
Yugoslav novelist (1892–1975)
Haile Selassie I
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
Mary Pickford
Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
Marina Tsvetaeva
Russian poet (1892 – 1941)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese writer (1892–1927)
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist (1892–1962)
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist (1892–1965)
Alexander Alekhine
Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)
George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
Stefan Banach
Polish mathematician (1892–1945)
Martin Niemöller
German theologian (1892–1984)
César Vallejo
Peruvian writer
Manfred von Richthofen
German fighter pilot (1892-1918)
Engelbert Dollfuss
Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman (1892-1934)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Austrian Nazi politician, and Nazi ruler of occupied Netherlands, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (1892–1946)
J.B.S. Haldane
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)
Ernst Lubitsch
German-American actor and film director (1892–1947)
J. Paul Getty
American industrialist and art collector (1892–1976)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American poet (1892–1950)
Mátyás Rákosi
former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party (1892-1971)
Oliver Hardy
American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy (1892–1957)
Arthur Honegger
Swiss composer (1892-1955)
William P. Murphy
American scientist (1892–1987)
Bruno Schulz
Polish novelist and painter (1892-1942)
Rebecca West
British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist (1892-1983)
E. H. Carr
British historian, journalist, diplomat and political scientist (1892–1982)
Bolesław Bierut
Polish politician and leader of Poland (1947–1956)
Bessie Smith
American blues singer (1892–1937)
Amanullah Khan
King and Emir of Afghanistan (1892-1960)
Corneille Heymans
Belgian physiologist (1892-1968)
Alfonsina Storni
Argentine writer and poet
Richard Aldington
English writer and poet (1892–1962)
Konstantin Paustovsky
Russian writer (1892–1968)
Alice Brady
American actress (1892–1939)
Vere Gordon Childe
British prehistorian archaeologist (1892–1957)
Margaret Rutherford
British actress (1892–1972)
Thomas Mitchell
American actor, playwright and screenwriter (1892-1962)
Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918
Manuel Roxas
President of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948
Djuna Barnes
American Modernist writer, poet and artist (1892-1982)
Edith Södergran
Finland Swedish poet and writer (1892–1923)
Basil Rathbone
English actor (1892–1967)
William Powell
American actor (1892–1984)
Richard Neutra
Austrian–American architect (1892-1970)
Erwin Panofsky
German art historian (1892–1968)
Reinhold Niebuhr
American Protestant theologian (1892–1971)
Darius Milhaud
French composer (1892–1974)
Bessie Coleman
American aviator (1892–1926)
Gregor Strasser
German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Party (1892-1934)
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
German astronomer (1892–1979)
Władysław Anders
Polish Army general (1892–1970)
Andrey Yeryomenko
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1892-1970)
Erhard Milch
German officer, NSDAP, most recently field marshal in the Third Reich, war criminal (1892–1972)
Sepp Dietrich
German Military Officer and Waffen-SS general and a convicted Nazi Military war criminal (1892-1966)