Famous People Born in 1891

B. R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau.

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Antonio Gramsci

Italian Marxist thinker who co-founded the Italian Communist Party and wrote his influential Prison Notebooks in Mussolini's jails

Antonio Francesco Gramsci (UK: GRAM-shee, US: GRAHM-shee; Italian:; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Soviet writer whose satirical novel The Master and Margarita, with the Devil visiting Moscow, was only published after his death

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, IPA: 15 May 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

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Erwin Rommel

German field marshal nicknamed the Desert Fox for his North African campaign, forced to take poison after the plot against Hitler

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (pronounced; 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), known as The Desert Fox (German: Der Wüstenfuchs, pronounced ), was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.

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Nelly Sachs

German-Jewish poet who escaped to Sweden in 1940 and won the 1966 Nobel Prize for her poetry of Holocaust grief

Nelly Sachs (German pronunciation:; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German–Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews.

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James Chadwick

British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the neutron

Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts.

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Pär Lagerkvist

Nobel Prize-winning Swedish author of the novel Barabbas

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf and Romeo and Juliet

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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