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Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
Ayn Rand
Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961)
Mikhail Sholokhov
Soviet writer (1905-1984)
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
Greta Garbo
Swedish-American actress (1905–1990)
Henry Fonda
American actor (1905–1982)
Carl David Anderson
American physicist
Albert Speer
German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist (1905-1983)
Emilio G. Segrè
Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
Christian Dior
French fashion designer (1905–1957)
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist (1906-1999)
Raymond Aron
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983)
Severo Ochoa
Spanish physician
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
First President of Ivory Coast, from 1960 to 1993 (1905-1993)
Gerard Kuiper
Netherlands-born American astronomer (1905–1973)
Clara Bow
American actress (1905–1965)
Simo Häyhä
Finnish military sniper (1905–2002)
Władysław Gomułka
Polish politician (1905-1982)
Ulf von Euler
Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist (1905–1983)
Daniil Kharms
Russian writer (1905–1942)
George H. Hitchings
Nobel Prize-winning American physician
Shojiro Sugimura
Japanese association football player (1905–1975)
Vasily Grossman
Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)
Astrid of Sweden
queen consort of the Belgians (1905-1935)
Robert Donat
English actor (1905–1958)
Otto Preminger
American director, producer and actor (1905–1986)
Joseph Cotten
American actor (1905–1994)
Myrna Loy
American actress (1905–1993)
Attila József
Hungarian poet (1905–1937)
Major Dhyan Chand Singh
Indian field hockey player (1905–1979)
Takeo Fukuda
Prime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978
Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
Artem Mikoyan
Soviet aircraft designer (1905–1970)
C. P. Snow
English novelist and physical chemist (1905–1980)
Dalton Trumbo
American screenwriter (1905–1976)
Fred Trump
Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four other children.
Karl Guthe Jansky
American physicist and radio engineer
Max Schmeling
German boxer (1905-2005)
Anna May Wong
Chinese American actress (1905-1961)
Federica Montseny
Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer (1905–1994)
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov
Soviet prime minister 1980-1985, metallurgist
Piet Hein
20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet (1905–1996)
Lillian Hellman
American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)
Mohammad Hidayatullah
Vice President of India from 1979 to 1984
Takashi Shimura
Japanese actor (1905–1982)
Marcel Lefebvre
French traditionalist Catholic archbishop
Mulk Raj Anand
Indian English writer (1905–2004)
Jean Vigo
French film director (1905–1934)
Lale Andersen
German singer and actress (1905–1972)
Savitri Devi
Greek-French writer (1905-1982)
Angelo Schiavio
Italian footballer (1905-1990)
Raymond Cattell
British-American psychologist (1905–1998)
Enrique Ballestrero
Uruguayan footballer (1905-1969)
Emílio Garrastazu Médici
Brazilian politician (1905–1985), president of Brazil (1969–1974)
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Swiss Catholic theologian (1905–1988)