Born in 1896

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• 1896–1958Imre NagyHungarian politician and leader of the 1956 revolutionJune 7
• 1896–1966André BretonFrench co-founder of SurrealismFebruary 19
• 1896–1960Paula HitlerYounger sister of Adolf HitlerJanuary 21
• 1896–1948Antonin ArtaudFrench artistSeptember 4
• 1896–1940Italo BalboItalian Marshal of the Air Force and ministerJune 6
• 1896–1970Leslie GrovesAmerican military officerAugust 17
• 1896–1964Paulino AlcántaraAssociation footballerOctober 7
• 1896–1966Felix SteinerWaffen-SS commanderMay 23
• 1896–1984Anna AndersonImpostor of Grand Duchess AnastasiaDecember 16
• 1896–1968Trygve LieUN Secretary-General from 1946 to 1952July 16
• 1896–1970John Dos PassosAmerican novelistJanuary 14
• 1896–1990Sandro PertiniPresident of Italy from 1978 to 1985September 25
• 1896–1963Tristan TzaraRomanian-French poetApril 28
• 1896–1983Raymond MasseyCanadian-American actorAugust 30
• 1896–1953Klement GottwaldLeader of Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1953November 23
• 1896–1974David Alfaro SiqueirosMexican social realist painterDecember 29
• 1896–1993Jimmy DoolittleAmerican general and aviatorDecember 14
• 1896–1984Mark W. ClarkAmerican generalMay 1
• 1896–1948Andrei ZhdanovSoviet politicianFebruary 26
• 1896–1983Ira GershwinAmerican lyricistDecember 6
• 1896–1954Dziga VertovSoviet-Jewish filmmakerJanuary 2
• 1896–1982Roman JakobsonRussian linguistOctober 11
• 1896–1957Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaSicilian writer and princeDecember 23
• 1896–1981A. J. CroninScottish physician and novelistJuly 19
• 1896–1971Carlos P. GarciaPresident of the Philippines from 1957 to 1961November 4
• 1896–1957Gerty CoriCzech-American biochemistAugust 15
• 1896–1977Ethel WatersAmerican vocalist and actressOctober 31
• 1896–1936Buenaventura DurrutiSpanish anarchist militantJuly 14
• 1896–1941Ernst UdetLuftwaffe generalApril 26
• 1896–1993Leon ThereminRussian inventorAugust 28
• 1896–1964Joseph SchildkrautAustrian-American actorMarch 22
• 1896–1990Dodie SmithEnglish novelist and playwrightMay 3
• 1896–1981Eugenio MontaleItalian writerOctober 12
• 1896–1987Salim AliIndian ornithologistNovember 12
• 1896–1975William A. WellmanAmerican filmmakerFebruary 29
• 1896–1933Kenji MiyazawaJapanese writerAugust 27
• 1896–1974V. K. Krishna MenonFormer Indian Defence MinisterMay 3
• 1896–1973J. Carrol NaishAmerican actorJanuary 21
• 1896–1947Herbert BackeGerman Nazi politician and SS functionaryMay 1
• 1896–1981Adele AstaireAmerican dancer and entertainerSeptember 10
• 1896–1952Josephine TeyScottish authorJuly 25
• 1896–1937Wallace CarothersAmerican chemist and inventorApril 27
• 1896–1987J. Lawton CollinsUnited States Army generalMay 1
• 1896–1953Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsAmerican novelistAugust 8
• 1896–1986Robert S. MullikenAmerican physicist and chemistJune 7
• 1896–1984Carl Ferdinand CoriAustrian-American Nobel prize laureate and scientistDecember 5
• 1896–2009Henry AllinghamEnglish supercentenarianJune 6
• 1896–1926Barbara La MarrAmerican actressJuly 28
• 1896–1937Marie PrevostCanadian actressNovember 8
• 1896–1980Kazimierz KuratowskiPolish mathematician and logicianFebruary 2
• 1896–1969He LongMarshal of the People's Republic of ChinaMarch 22
• 1896–1986Nikolay SemyonovSoviet physicist and chemistApril 15
• 1896–1969Everett DirksenAmerican politicianJanuary 4
• 1896–1987André MassonFrench painterJanuary 4
• 1896–1980Harry R. TrumanAmerican businessman and airmanOctober 30
• 1896–1956Louis BromfieldAmerican author and conservationistDecember 27
• 1896–1994Lilia SkalaAmerican actressNovember 28
• 1896–1963Rogers HornsbyAmerican baseball player, coach and managerApril 27
• 1896–1937Ted HealyAmerican vaudeville performer, comedian, and actorOctober 1
• 1896–1967Julien DuvivierFrench film director and screenwriterOctober 8