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1898 births
- Ivy PinchbeckIvy Pinchbeck stood on the stage at the University of Nottingham in 1920 to receive her Bachelor of Arts degree. This moment marked the beginning of a career…
- Kenzō MasaokaKenzō Masaoka made history in 1917. He became the first person to use cel animation and recorded sound in anime. This technical shift changed how Japanese…
- C. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis was born on the 29th of November 1898 in Belfast, Ulster. His father Albert James Lewis worked as a solicitor while his mother Florence…
- Bertolt BrechtEugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was born on the 10th of February 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. His father worked for a paper mill and became its managing…
- George GershwinJacob Gershwine entered the world on the 26th of September 1898, inside a second-floor apartment at 242 Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn.
- Guy Stewart CallendarGuy Stewart Callendar was born in Montreal on the 9th of February 1898. His father Hugh Longbourne Callendar served as Professor of Physics at McGill College.
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was born on the 19th of July 1898 in Berlin. His family belonged to the German upper-middle class and identified as Jewish.
- Zhou EnlaiZhou Enlai was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, on the 5th of March 1898. He entered the world as the first son of his branch of the Zhou family.
- Warren Sturgis McCullochWarren Sturgis McCulloch was born in Orange, New Jersey on the 16th of November 1898. He originally planned to join the Christian ministry as a teenager.
- Lionel RobbinsLionel Charles Robbins was born on the 22nd of November 1898 in Sipson, west of London. His father Rowland Richard Robbins worked as a farmer and served on…
- Leopold InfeldLeopold Infeld entered the world on the 20th of August 1898 in Kraków. His family belonged to the Polish Jewish community within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Sergei EisensteinSergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was born on the 11th of February 1898 in Riga, within the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.
- Trofim LysenkoTrofim Denisovich Lysenko was born on the 29th of September 1898 in the village of Karlovka. His family belonged to a peasant class within the Poltava…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898. His father Jean Dumézil served as a highly educated general in the French Army.
- Armand HammerOn the 5th of July 1919, federal agents watched a thirty-three-year-old woman named Marie Oganesoff enter the medical office of Julius Hammer in the Bronx.