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Famous People Born in 1893
Born in 1893? 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 189332
1893–1976Mao Zedong
Communist revolutionary who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and launched the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution
Photo: Chen Zhengqing (1917–1966) · Public domain
1893–1930Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian Futurist poet and playwright of A Cloud in Trousers and The Bedbug who became the voice of the revolution
Photo: Unidentified photographer · Public domain
1893–1946Hermann Göring
Nazi leader who founded the Gestapo, commanded the Luftwaffe and was sentenced to death at Nuremberg
Photo: Robert Röhr · Public domain
1893–1980Mae West
American actress and playwright of She Done Him Wrong, famous for her witty double entendres and line come up and see me sometime
Photo: Paramount Pictures · Public domain
1893–1983Joan Miró
Catalan Surrealist painter and sculptor whose playful, colourful symbols made him a giant of modern art
Photo: Carl Van Vechten · Public domain
1893–1993Lillian Gish
Pioneering silent film actress called the First Lady of American Cinema
Photo: Bain News Service; Uploaded by Calliopejen ; Edited by jjron . · Public domain
1893–1946Joachim von Ribbentrop
Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany during the Second World War
Photo: Unknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
1893–1978Jomo Kenyatta
First President of Kenya and leader of its independence movement
Photo: Pridan Moshe · Public domain
Born in 1893, month by month
- January
- Paramahansa Yogananda (January 5) · Hindu monk who introduced meditation and yoga to the Western world
- Hermann Göring (January 12) · Nazi leader who founded the Gestapo, commanded the Luftwaffe and was sentenced to death at Nuremberg
- Alfred Rosenberg (January 12) · Nazi ideologue and developer of racial theories
- Chaïm Soutine (January 13) · Expressionist painter known for his vivid and distorted still lifes
- Soong Ching-ling (January 27) · Prominent Chinese political figure known as the Mother of Modern China
- February
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky (February 4) · Soviet military officer and theorist known as the Red Napoleon
- Omar Bradley (February 12) · Senior United States Army officer during World War II
- March
- Walter Baade (March 24) · German astronomer who identified two distinct populations of stars
- April
- Dean Acheson (April 11) · US Secretary of State who helped define Cold War foreign policy
- Joan Miró (April 20) · Catalan Surrealist painter and sculptor whose playful, colourful symbols made him a giant of modern art
- Harold Lloyd (April 20) · Silent film actor and comedian famous for his glasses and stunts
- Harold Urey (April 29) · Nobel Prize-winning chemist who discovered deuterium
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (April 30) · Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany during the Second World War
- June
- Hattie McDaniel (June 10) · First African American to win an Academy Award
- Dorothy L. Sayers (June 13) · Renowned English author and creator of detective Lord Peter Wimsey
- Walter Ulbricht (June 30) · East German leader who oversaw the construction of the Berlin Wall
- July
- Miroslav Krleža (July 7) · Influential Croatian writer and playwright of the twentieth century
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (July 19) · Russian Futurist poet and playwright of A Cloud in Trousers and The Bedbug who became the voice of the revolution
- Hans Fallada (July 21) · German author of social novels like Alone in Berlin
- George Grosz (July 26) · German artist known for his satirical paintings of life in Berlin
- August
- Alexander of Greece (August 1) · King of Greece whose short reign ended after a monkey bite
- Mae West (August 17) · American actress and playwright of She Done Him Wrong, famous for her witty double entendres and line come up and see me sometime
- Dorothy Parker (August 22) · American poet and critic known for her sharp, witty observations
- September
- Albert Szent-Györgyi (September 16) · Hungarian scientist who first isolated vitamin C
- October
- Ip Man (October 1) · Martial arts grandmaster who popularised the art of Wing Chun
- Lillian Gish (October 14) · Pioneering silent film actress called the First Lady of American Cinema
- Jomo Kenyatta (October 20) · First President of Kenya and leader of its independence movement
- November
- Prajadhipok (November 8) · Last absolute monarch of Siam and its first constitutional king
- Lazar Kaganovich (November 10) · High-ranking Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin
- Edward Adelbert Doisy (November 13) · American biochemist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering vitamin K
- December
- Edward G. Robinson (December 12) · Hollywood actor famous for playing tough-talking gangster characters
- Mao Zedong (December 26) · Communist revolutionary who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and launched the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution