1901 births

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)

American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

, known colloquially by his personal name was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor in Japanese history and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world. As emperor during the Shōwa era, Hirohito presided over the rise of Japanese militarism, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Asia-Pacific theater of World War II, and the nation's postwar economic miracle.

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

Sukarno (born Koesno Sosrodihardjo; 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967.

American scientist (1901–1994)

American actor (1901–1960)

French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)

American actor (1901–1961)

American anthropologist (1901-1978)

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate (1901–1986)

American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)

President of Cuba, 1940–1944; dictator, 1952-1959 (1901-1973)

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

Soviet politician (1902–1988)

Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972

Italian film director (1901-1974)

French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)

Dutch chess player and mathematician

South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963

king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)

French artist (1901–1985)

Grand Duchess of Russia (1901–1918)

economist

Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)

1st President of the Republic of Egypt (1901–1984)

French film director (1901–1999)

English writer and media personality (1901-2000)

King of Greece from 1947 to 1964

American biochemist (1901–1978)

German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)

Polish-American logician (1901-1983)

American actor (1901-1981)

German politician (1901–1945)

Russian-American violinist (1901–1987)

American theatre director, actor and acting teacher (1901–1982)

American cartoonist (1901-2000)

Spanish composer, best known for his Concierto de Aranjuez (1901–1999)

Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966

47th Prime Minister of Romania (1952-1955)

Polish underground resistance soldier, World War II concentration camp resistance leader (1901-1948)

Soviet general

Crown Princess of Norway (1901–1954)

Russian lieutenant general (1901–1946)

Austro-Hungarian writer (1901–1938)

Irish scientist (1901-1971)

American television host (1901-1974)

Uruguayan footballer

Estonian-American architect (1901–1974)

French philosopher (1901-1991)

Soviet writer and politician (1901-1956)

Spanish association football player

Swedish 20th century prime minister (1901-1985)

Chilean botanist (1901–1997)

Argentine and Italian footballer (1901-1983)

Argentine-Italian footballer (1901-1986)

Polish Roman Catholic cardinal (1901-1981)

German general and member of the resistance of 20 July 1944 (1901-1944)