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Famous People Born in 1892
Born in 1892? 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 189243
1892–1973J. R. R. Tolkien
Oxford professor who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, creating Middle-earth and shaping modern fantasy
Photo: Unknown photo studio commissioned by Tolkien's students 1925/6 (private communication from Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien · Public domain
1892–1973Pearl S. Buck
American writer raised in China whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize; she later won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Photo: Unknown (see print without name · Public domain
1892–1975Francisco Franco
Spanish general who won the Spanish Civil War and ruled the country as dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975
Photo: Unknown author · CC0
1892–1980Josip Broz Tito
Partisan leader who freed Yugoslavia from Nazi occupation and ruled it for 35 years, defying Stalin
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1892–1975Ivo Andrić
Yugoslav novelist of The Bridge on the Drina, a sweeping history of Bosnia, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Photo: Stevan Kragujević · CC BY-SA 3.0 rs
1892–1975Haile Selassie I
Emperor of Ethiopia who resisted Italy's invasion, helped found the African Union and is revered by Rastafarians
Photo: unknown; according to [1] and [2] an official portrait of which b/w copies were distributed by the Ethiopian government · Public domain
1892–1987Louis de Broglie
French physicist who discovered that matter behaves like a wave
Photo: Agence Rol · Public domain
1892–1979Mary Pickford
Silent film star and co-founder of the United Artists studio
Photo: Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain
Born in 1892, month by month
- January
- J. R. R. Tolkien (January 3) · Oxford professor who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, creating Middle-earth and shaping modern fantasy
- Martin Niemöller (January 14) · Anti-Nazi theologian known for the poem First they came
- Oliver Hardy (January 18) · Half of the legendary comedy double act Laurel and Hardy
- Ernst Lubitsch (January 29) · Sophisticated Hollywood film director known for his witty comedies
- February
- William P. Murphy (February 6) · Nobel Prize-winning physician who pioneered a treatment for anaemia
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22) · Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for her lyrical and feminist verse
- March
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (March 1) · Japanese author widely regarded as the father of the short story
- Mátyás Rákosi (March 9) · Communist leader of Hungary during the early Cold War era
- Arthur Honegger (March 10) · Swiss composer known for his orchestral work Pacific 231
- César Vallejo (March 16) · Influential Peruvian poet and writer
- Corneille Heymans (March 28) · Belgian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine
- Stefan Banach (March 30) · Influential Polish mathematician who founded modern functional analysis
- April
- Mary Pickford (April 8) · Silent film star and co-founder of the United Artists studio
- Bolesław Bierut (April 18) · Leader of the Polish United Workers' Party and former President
- May
- Manfred von Richthofen (May 2) · First World War fighter pilot known as the Red Baron
- George Paget Thomson (May 3) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the wave properties of electrons
- Josip Broz Tito (May 7) · Partisan leader who freed Yugoslavia from Nazi occupation and ruled it for 35 years, defying Stalin
- Konstantin Paustovsky (May 19) · Soviet writer known for his Nobel Prize-nominated novels and stories
- Alfonsina Storni (May 29) · Influential Argentine modernist poet and playwright
- June
- Amanullah Khan (June 1) · King of Afghanistan who led the country to full independence
- Djuna Barnes (June 12) · American modernist writer and author of the novel Nightwood
- Pearl S. Buck (June 26) · American writer raised in China whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize; she later won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- E. H. Carr (June 28) · Historian known for his multi-volume history of Soviet Russia
- July
- Richard Aldington (July 8) · British writer and poet associated with the Imagist movement
- Thomas Mitchell (July 11) · Character actor who starred in Stagecoach and Gone with the Wind
- Bruno Schulz (July 12) · Polish writer and artist known for The Street of Crocodiles
- Walter Benjamin (July 15) · German philosopher and influential cultural critic
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart (July 22) · Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor during the Anschluss
- Haile Selassie I (July 23) · Emperor of Ethiopia who resisted Italy's invasion, helped found the African Union and is revered by Rastafarians
- William Powell (July 29) · Oscar-nominated actor known for The Thin Man film series
- August
- Louis de Broglie (August 15) · French physicist who discovered that matter behaves like a wave
- September
- Darius Milhaud (September 4) · Prolific French composer and member of the group Les Six
- Edward Victor Appleton (September 6) · Physicist who received the Nobel Prize for discovering the ionosphere
- Arthur Holly Compton (September 10) · American physicist who discovered the particle nature of light
- Marina Tsvetaeva (September 26) · Russian poet known for her emotional and lyrical 20th-century literature
- October
- Engelbert Dollfuss (October 4) · Austrian Chancellor who established a nationalist dictatorship during the 1930s
- Ivo Andrić (October 9) · Yugoslav novelist of The Bridge on the Drina, a sweeping history of Bosnia, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Alexander Alekhine (October 10) · Fourth World Chess Champion known for his imaginative attacking style
- November
- Alice Brady (November 2) · Actress who won an Oscar for the comedy In Old Chicago
- J.B.S. Haldane (November 5) · British geneticist and scientist who helped synthesise modern evolutionary biology
- December
- Francisco Franco (December 4) · Spanish general who won the Spanish Civil War and ruled the country as dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975
- J. Paul Getty (December 15) · American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company
- Rebecca West (December 21) · British author and journalist who wrote Black Lamb and Grey Falcon