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Famous People Born in 1882
Born in 1882? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
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The 1880s
The most famous people born in 188241
1882–1945Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd US President, elected four times, who led America through the Great Depression with the New Deal and through most of the Second World War
Photo: Leon Perskie · CC BY 2.0
1882–1941James Joyce
Irish modernist writer of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the landmark novel Ulysses
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1882–1941Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, and a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group
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1882–1971Igor Stravinsky
Russian-born composer whose ballets The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring transformed 20th-century music
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection · Public domain
1882–1970Max Born
German-British physicist who gave the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics and won the Nobel Prize
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1882–1949Sigrid Undset
Norwegian novelist of the medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928
Photo: Aage Remfeldt / Aage Rasmussen (1889-1983) · Public domain
1882–1935Emmy Noether
Mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and physics
Photo: Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
1882–1942Yanka Kupala
National poet and symbol of Belarusian cultural identity
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Born in 1882, month by month
- January
- Abd el-Krim (January 12) · Moroccan revolutionary who led the Republic of the Rif
- A. A. Milne (January 18) · British author who created the Winnie-the-Pooh books
- Virginia Woolf (January 25) · English modernist writer of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, and a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30) · 32nd US President, elected four times, who led America through the Great Depression with the New Deal and through most of the Second World War
- February
- James Joyce (February 2) · Irish modernist writer of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the landmark novel Ulysses
- Abdullah I of Jordan (February 2) · First King of Jordan who secured the country's independence
- Anna Pavlova (February 12) · Russian prima ballerina and one of the world’s most celebrated dancers
- John Barrymore (February 14) · Acclaimed American stage and screen actor from a legendary theatrical family
- March
- Korney Chukovsky (March 19) · Popular Russian children's poet and literary critic
- René Coty (March 20) · Last president of the Fourth French Republic
- Emmy Noether (March 23) · Mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and physics
- Melanie Klein (March 30) · Psychoanalyst who pioneered work in child therapy
- April
- Kurt von Schleicher (April 7) · Final Chancellor of Germany before the Nazi regime took power
- Moritz Schlick (April 14) · German philosopher and a founder of the Vienna Circle
- Getúlio Vargas (April 19) · Long-serving President of Brazil known as the father of the poor
- Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on high pressures
- May
- Georges Braque (May 13) · French painter who co-founded the Cubist art movement
- Mohammad Mosaddegh (May 19) · Iranian Prime Minister who nationalised the country's vast oil industry
- Sigrid Undset (May 20) · Norwegian novelist of the medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928
- June
- Ion Antonescu (June 2) · Military leader and Prime Minister of Romania during World War II
- Igor Stravinsky (June 5) · Russian-born composer whose ballets The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring transformed 20th-century music
- Georgi Dimitrov (June 18) · First communist leader of Bulgaria and head of the Comintern
- Yanka Kupala (June 25) · National poet and symbol of Belarusian cultural identity
- July
- Edward Hopper (July 22) · Realist painter best known for his iconic work Nighthawks
- August
- James Franck (August 26) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for the Franck-Hertz experiment
- September
- Wilhelm Keitel (September 22) · German field marshal who headed the armed forces high command
- Hans Geiger (September 30) · German physicist who co-invented the radiation-detecting Geiger counter
- October
- Robert H. Goddard (October 5) · American physicist who built the first liquid-fueled rocket
- Éamon de Valera (October 14) · Irish statesman who served as Taoiseach and President of Ireland
- Umberto Boccioni (October 19) · Italian painter and sculptor who helped lead the Futurist movement
- Bela Lugosi (October 20) · Actor best known for playing Dracula in the 1931 film
- Yakub Kolas (October 22) · Prominent Belarusian writer and poet who shaped modern Belarusian literature
- Jean Giraudoux (October 29) · French playwright and diplomat active between the World Wars
- Günther von Kluge (October 30) · German field marshal who commanded forces during the Second World War
- November
- Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (November 11) · King of Sweden from the mid-twentieth century
- Jacques Maritain (November 18) · French Catholic philosopher who helped draft human rights declarations
- December
- Max Born (December 11) · German-British physicist who gave the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics and won the Nobel Prize
- Zoltán Kodály (December 16) · Hungarian composer and pioneer of music education techniques
- Arthur Eddington (December 28) · English astrophysicist who provided observational evidence for general relativity
- Lili Elbe (December 28) · Danish painter and pioneer of gender-affirming surgery
- Aleksey Tolstoy (December 29) · Russian writer known for science fiction and historical novels