1893 births

1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)

Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)

Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He also served as Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe, a position he held until the final days of the regime.

American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)

Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983)

American actress (1893–1993)

German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship (1893-1952)

American physical chemist

German communist politician and dictator (1893–1973)

American actor and comedian (1893–1971)

Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)

German artist (1893–1959)

American actress (1893-1952)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1893—1937)

American biochemist (1893-1986)

German astronomer (1893–1960)

Soviet politician (1893–1991)

United States Army general (1893–1981)

Prajadhipok, also known as Rama VII (8 November 1893 – 30 May 1941) was the seventh monarch of the Chakri dynasty and the last king of Siam under the absolute monarchy. He ascended the throne in 1925 and reigned until his abdication in 1935 during his self-imposed exile following his fallout with the new democratic government after the 1932 Siamese Revolution, which brought an end to the country’s absolute monarchy.

Romanian-American actor (1893-1973)

English poet and soldier (1893-1918)

Hong Kong martial artist (1893–1972)

American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971)

Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist (1893-1947)

King of Greece (1917–1920)

former leader of the Italian Communist Party (1893–1964)

American actress (1893–1968)

American tennis player (1893–1953)

Soviet Jewish writer

king of Romania from 1930 to 1940

Spanish guitarist (1893–1987)

German writer (1893–1947)

Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)

first civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)

Belarusian-French painter (1893–1943)

Croatian writer (1893–1981)

Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967)

British actor (1893–1943)

Bengali Astrophysicist (1893–1956)

German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)

German jurist and politician (1893–1945)

Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (1893-1985)

French composer (1893–1918)

French writer

German actor (1893–1943)

Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer (1893–1945)

Spanish poet (1893–1984)

German architect (1893-1972)

Romanian politician (1893-1960)

Yugoslav general (1893-1946)

American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator (1893-1935)

American businessman and producer, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company (1893–1971)

English writer (1893-1970)

British film director (1893–1956)

American aviator, actor, director and producer (1893-1973)

British academic (1893-1950)

American actor, comedian and singer (1893–1980)