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Famous People Born in 1890
Born in 1890? 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 1890s
The most famous people born in 189028
1890–1970Charles de Gaulle
French general who led the Free French in the Second World War, founded the Fifth Republic and served as its president
Photo: The National Archives UK · No restrictions
1890–1976Agatha Christie
English crime novelist who created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and became the best-selling fiction writer of all time
Photo: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo · CC0
1890–1969Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander who planned the D-Day landings and later served two terms as the 34th US President
Photo: White House · Public domain
1890–1969Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist revolutionary who led the fight for independence from France and became North Vietnam's first president
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1890–1960Boris Pasternak
Russian poet and author of Doctor Zhivago, who was forced by Soviet authorities to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature
Photo: Владимир Савостьянов / ТАСС · Public domain
1890–1937H. P. Lovecraft
American horror writer of The Call of Cthulhu whose cosmic Cthulhu Mythos has inspired generations of writers
Photo: Lucius B. Truesdell · Public domain
1890–1938Karel Čapek
Czech writer whose 1920 play R.U.R. introduced the word robot, and author of the satire War with the Newts
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1890–1977Groucho Marx
Comedian and film star known for his quick-witted ad-libbed insults
Photo: ABC Photo · Public domain
Born in 1890, month by month
- January
- Karel Čapek (January 9) · Czech writer whose 1920 play R.U.R. introduced the word robot, and author of the satire War with the Newts
- February
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan (February 6) · Pashtun leader and non-violent activist against British colonial rule
- Boris Pasternak (February 10) · Russian poet and author of Doctor Zhivago, who was forced by Soviet authorities to decline the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Robert Ley (February 15) · German Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front
- Ronald Fisher (February 17) · British scientist who founded modern statistical science and population genetics
- March
- Vyacheslav Molotov (March 9) · Leading Soviet politician and diplomat during the era of Joseph Stalin
- Vannevar Bush (March 11) · American engineer who oversaw military research during the Second World War
- William Lawrence Bragg (March 31) · Nobel Prize winner who pioneered X-ray crystallography
- May
- Alfred Jodl (May 10) · High-ranking German military officer during World War II
- Ho Chi Minh (May 19) · Vietnamese communist revolutionary who led the fight for independence from France and became North Vietnam's first president
- June
- Egon Schiele (June 12) · Austrian Expressionist painter known for raw and intense figurative works
- Stan Laurel (June 16) · English comic actor who was half of the duo Laurel and Hardy
- July
- George II of Greece (July 19) · King of Greece who reigned during the Second World War
- August
- H. P. Lovecraft (August 20) · American horror writer of The Call of Cthulhu whose cosmic Cthulhu Mythos has inspired generations of writers
- Man Ray (August 27) · Artist and photographer who was a key figure in Surrealism
- September
- Kurt Zadek Lewin (September 9) · Psychologist known as the pioneer of social and organisational psychology
- Harland Sanders (September 9) · Entrepreneur who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain
- Franz Werfel (September 10) · Austrian novelist and playwright famous for The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
- Agatha Christie (September 15) · English crime novelist who created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and became the best-selling fiction writer of all time
- Friedrich Paulus (September 21) · German Field Marshal who surrendered at the Battle of Stalingrad
- October
- Groucho Marx (October 2) · Comedian and film star known for his quick-witted ad-libbed insults
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (October 14) · Supreme Allied Commander who planned the D-Day landings and later served two terms as the 34th US President
- Michael Collins (October 16) · Irish revolutionary leader and key figure in the War of Independence
- November
- Elpidio Quirino (November 16) · Sixth President of the Philippines who served from 1948 to 1953
- Charles de Gaulle (November 22) · French general who led the Free French in the Second World War, founded the Fifth Republic and served as its president
- December
- Fritz Lang (December 5) · Director of the pioneering science-fiction film Metropolis
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (December 20) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who invented the polarographic method of analysis
- Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21) · American geneticist who won a Nobel Prize for studying radiation mutations