Curated category
1901 births
- Louis ArmstrongLouis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans on the 4th of August 1901. He grew up in a rough neighborhood known as The Battlefield on Rampart Street.
- Clark GableWilliam Clark Gable arrived in the world on the 1st of February 1901, inside a small house in Cadiz, Ohio. His father worked as an oil-well driller while his…
- Langston HughesJames Mercer Langston Hughes entered the world on the 1st of February 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. His family tree held deep roots of contradiction and…
- Enrico FermiEnrico Fermi was born in Rome, Italy, on the 29th of September 1901. He grew up at Via Gaeta 19 with his parents Alberto and Ida de Gattis.
- Walt DisneyWalter Elias Disney was born on the 5th of December 1901 at 1249 Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri…
- Alfred CobbanAlfred Bert Carter Cobban entered the world on the 24th of May 1901 in London. He attended Latymer Upper School before moving to Gonville and Caius College…
- Werner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was born on the 5th of December 1901 in Würzburg, Germany. His father Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg taught classical languages and…
- C. L. R. JamesCyril Lionel Robert James was born on the 4th of January 1901 in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago. He grew up as the first child of schoolteacher Robert…
- Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)Arthur Lee Samuel entered the world on the 5th of December 1901 in Emporia, Kansas. He walked away from the College of Emporia with a degree in 1923.
- HirohitoHirohito was born on the 29th of April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo. He entered the world as Prince Michi during the reign of his grandfather…
- Robert BressonRobert Bresson was born on the 25th of September 1901 in Bromont-Lamothe, France. He grew up in a quiet region known as Puy-de-Dôme before moving to Paris…
- Jacques LacanJacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on the 13th of April 1901 in Paris. His father worked as a successful soap and oils salesman while his mother remained an…
- SukarnoKoesno Sosrodihardjo was born on the 6th of June 1901 in Surabaya, East Java. His father served as a primary school teacher while his mother came from a…
- Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of BurmaEdwina Cynthia Annette Ashley entered the world on the 28th of November 1901 in London. Her father Wilfrid Ashley served as a Conservative member of…
- Linus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was born on the 28th of February 1901, in Portland, Oregon. His father Herman Henry William Pauling worked as a traveling salesman for the…