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Ub Iwerks
American animator and special effects pioneer (1901–1971)
Eric Voegelin
American philosopher (1901–1985)
Walter Hallstein
German diplomat and statesman (1901–1982)
Mikhail Romm
Soviet film director (1901–1971)
James Dunn
actor, Vaudeville performer (1901–1967)
Fernando Tambroni
Prime Minister of Italy (1901-1963)
Ed Begley
American actor (1901–1970)
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
second wife of Joseph Stalin
Mildred Harris
American actress (1901–1944)
Robert J. Van de Graaff
American physicist (1901–1967)
Rose Ausländer
Jewish poet from the Bukowina writing in German and English (1901-1988)
Nicola Abbagnano
Italian existential philosopher (1901-1990)
Souvanna Phouma
Prime Minister of Laos (1901–1984)
Harry Partch
American composer, music theorist, creator of musical instruments
George Gallup
American statistician (1901–1984)
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
British aristocrat (1900–2004); wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Nina Berberova
Russian novelist and short story writer (1901–1993)
Milton H. Erickson
American psychiatrist (1901–1980)
Chen Yi
Chinese military officer, People's Republic of China (1901-1972)
Joe Davis
English snooker and billiards player (1901–1978)
Vasily Kuznetsov
Soviet politician (1901-1990)
René Pleven
French politician (1901-1993)
Umberto Caligaris
Italian footballer (1901-1940)
Stella Adler
American actress and acting teacher (1901–1992)
Maxwell D. Taylor
American military officer and diplomat (1901-1987)
Mark Oliphant
nuclear physicist, Governor of South Australia (1901–2000)
Zeppo Marx
American film star; member of the Marx Brothers (1901–1979)
Michael Oakeshott
British philosopher (1901-1990)
Karl-August Fagerholm
Finland Swedish politician (1901-1984)
Zhang Xueliang
militant (1901–2001)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Austrian biologist and philosopher (1901–1972)
Milada Horáková
Czechoslovak politician and resistance fighter (1901-1950)
Gino Cervi
Italian actor (1901-1974)
Alice Prin
French painter (1901–1953)
Antal Szerb
Hungarian literary scholar and writer (1901–1945)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Turkish writer (1901–1962)
Rudolf Slánský
Czechoslovak politician (1901-1952)
Manly P. Hall
Canadian writer and mystic (1901–1990)
Michel Leiris
French surrealist writer and ethnographer (1901–1990)
Chester Morris
American actor (1901–1970)
Rudolf Caracciola
German/Swiss racing and motorcycle driver (1901–1959)
Henri Cochet
French tennis player (1901-1987)
Manuel Urrutia Lleó
President of Cuba (1901-1981)
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Indian politician, barrister and academic (1901-1953)
Paul Lazarsfeld
Austrian-American sociologist
Kjeld Abell
playwright (1901-1961)
Eiji Tsuburaya
Japanese film director (1901-1970)
Ernest Nagel
American philosopher (1901-1985)
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
German novelist (1901-1974)
C. L. R. James
Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist (1901–1989)
Arnulfo Arias
President of Panama (1901-1988)
Jean Prouvé
French architect and designer (1901-1984)
Marino Marini
Italian sculptor (1901-1980)
Rudy Vallée
American singer, actor, and entertainer (1901–1986)
Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid
Turkish painter (1901–1991)
Stanisław Mikołajczyk
Polish politician (1901–1966)
Ramón Serrano Suñer
Spanish politician (1901-2003)
Willy Fritsch
German-Silesian actor (1901-1973)
Nelson Eddy
American actor and singer (1901–1967)
Bud Houser
American shot putter and discus thrower (1901-1994)