Born in 1889

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• 1889–1980Otto FrankFather of Anne FrankMay 12
• 1889–1949Victor FlemingAmerican film director, cinematographer, and producerFebruary 23
• 1889–1957Gabriela MistralChilean author and diplomatApril 7
• 1889–1981Beulah BondiAmerican actressMay 3
• 1889–1975Arnold J. ToynbeeBritish historianApril 14
• 1889–1966Clifton WebbAmerican actor, singer, dancerNovember 19
• 1889–1944Thomas Midgley Jr.American chemist and engineerMay 18
• 1889–1968Carl Theodor DreyerDanish film directorFebruary 3
• 1889–1970Erle Stanley GardnerAmerican writer and lawyerJuly 17
• 1889–1938Carl von OssietzkyGerman journalist and pacifistOctober 3
• 1889–1974Walter LippmannAmerican journalistSeptember 23
• 1889–1956Risto RytiFinnish politicianFebruary 3
• 1889–1951Warner BaxterAmerican actorMarch 29
• 1889–1957James WhaleEnglish film directorJuly 22
• 1889–1967Charles BickfordAmerican actorJanuary 1
• 1889–1953Robert A. TaftAmerican politicianSeptember 8
• 1889–1952Jean de Lattre de TassignyFrench generalFebruary 2
• 1889–1975Thomas Hart BentonAmerican painterApril 15
• 1889–1947Han van MeegerenDutch painter and art forgerOctober 10
• 1889–1968Pitirim SorokinRussian sociologistJanuary 21
• 1889–1943R. G. CollingwoodBritish historian and philosopherFebruary 22
• 1889–1967Francis SpellmanAmerican Catholic prelateMay 4
• 1889–1978Hannah HöchGerman artistNovember 1
• 1889–1941Günther LütjensGerman admiralMay 25
• 1889–1952Stafford CrippsBritish politician and diplomatApril 24
• 1889–1981Abel GanceFrench film director and producerOctober 25
• 1889–1982Philip Noel-BakerBritish athlete and politicianNovember 1
• 1889–1971Edith TolkienWife of J. R. R. TolkienJanuary 21
• 1889–1940K. B. HedgewarIndian activist and physicianApril 1
• 1889–1976Harry NyquistSwedish-American physicistFebruary 7
• 1889–1981Anita LoosAmerican actress and writerApril 26
• 1889–1965Ray CollinsAmerican actorDecember 10
• 1889–1946Dorothy GibsonAmerican actressMay 17
• 1889–1973Conrad AikenAmerican novelist and poetAugust 5
• 1889–1967Abelardo L. RodríguezPresident of Mexico from 1932 to 1934May 12
• 1889–1961George S. KaufmanAmerican playwright, theater director and producerNovember 16
• 1889–1946Otto Georg ThierackGerman Nazi jurist and politicianApril 19
• 1889–1945Richard GlücksGerman SS officerApril 22
• 1889–1945Robert BenchleyAmerican writer and actorSeptember 15
• 1889–1948Claude McKayJamaican American writer and poetSeptember 15
• 1889–1946Paul NashEnglish Surrealist painterMay 11
• 1889–1977Edgar AdrianEnglish electrophysiologistNovember 30
• 1889–1910Luo YixiuFirst wife of Mao ZedongOctober 20
• 1889–1929Richard RétiCzechoslovak chess playerMay 28
• 1889–1979A. Philip RandolphAmerican civil rights activistApril 15
• 1889–1968Hermann-Bernhard RamckeGerman generalJanuary 24
• 1889–1952Efim BogoljubowRussian-German chess grandmasterApril 14
• 1889–1943Sophie Taeuber-ArpSwiss artistJanuary 19
• 1889–1924Lyubov PopovaRussian artistApril 24
• 1889–1918Prince Erik, Duke of VästmanlandSwedish princeApril 20
• 1889–1938Pearl WhiteAmerican actressMarch 4
• 1889–1977Dietrich von HildebrandGerman Catholic philosopherOctober 12
• 1889–1968Robert Z. LeonardAmerican film directorOctober 7
• 1889–1966Hannes KolehmainenFinnish long-distance runnerDecember 9
• 1889–1988Sewall WrightAmerican geneticistDecember 21
• 1889–1957MusidoraFrench actressFebruary 23
• 1889–1971Paul KarrerSwiss organic chemistApril 21
• 1889–1956Reşat Nuri GüntekinTurkish novelist, storywriter and playwrightNovember 25
• 1889–1983Adrian BoultEnglish conductorApril 8
• 1889–1979Walther GerlachGerman physicistAugust 1