1897 births

Romanian biologist and physician (1897–1988)

Ukrainian Soviet scientist (1897–1942)

grandson of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957

German footballer and manager (1897-1977)

German politician, former member of the Nazi Party, rival of Adolf Hitler and founder of the Black Front (1888-1974)

former Head of State of the People's Republic of China (1897-1986)

Welsh politician (1897-1960)

Soviet writer and journalist (1897–1937)

German film director (1897–1987)

French writer (1897–1990)

Empresaria, Chica reality (1989)

Canadian actor (1897-1984)

member of the United States Senate from Maine (1897-1995)

American actor and film director (1899–1936)

American actress (1897–1974)

Baltic German astronomer (1897–1963)

American film and television costumer (1897-1981)

American gossip journalist (1897-1972)

American religious leader (1897-1975)

American boxer and bobsledder (1897-1967)

German SS general and Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1897-1946)

French astronomer (1897-1952)

German-Israeli philosopher (1897–1982)

Polish photographer

Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also participated in the crimes at Buchenwald.

Austrian-German actress (1897–1986)

Hungarian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1897-1985)

German philosopher (1897-1973)

American film director and film editor (1897–1979)

Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970)

Soviet general

American country singer (1897–1933)

English actress (1897–1987)

Indian guru (1897-1981)

Pakistani politician and diplomat (1897–1960)

French politician (1897-1974)

Austrian architect (1897–2000)

Italian footballer (1897–1986)

American composer, music theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario (1897-1965)

German Jewish film actor, director and singer murdered at Auschwitz (1897-1944)

Wife of Siegfried Wagner (1897–1980)

Chinese poet (1897-1931)

Polish-born American logician (1897–1954)

American screenwriter (1897-1953)

Italian-born American mobster(1897-1969)

British mathematician and physicist (1897-1958)

American boxer (1897-1978)

German general (1897-1982)

British military officer, scholar and author (1897–1986)

athletics competitor (1897–1986)

American blues musician (1897–1945)

Bosnian Serb politician (1897-1990)

revolutionary, poet & writer (1897–1927)

American comedian and actor (1897–1975)

Polish general (1897-1947)

German general of infantry in the Second World War (1897-1986)

American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1897–1952)

American writer and journalist (1897-1976)

American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1897–1973)

Australian aviator (1897-1935)