Famous people born in 1901

Fulgencio Batista was the dictator of Cuba

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist, considered to be the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud

Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist who was awarded ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1955

Charles Huggins was a Canadian-born American physician, surgeon and physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966

Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist who played a vital role in the development of nuclear weapons

Ernst Lawrence was an American nuclear scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron

Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian poet, author, critic and translator

André Malraux was a French novelist and art theorist who became France’s first ‘Minister of Cultural Affairs’

Grand Duchess Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia

Sergiusz Piasecki is a famous Polish writer renowned for his works such as ‘The Lover of Ursa Major’ and World War II memorial ‘Adam and Eve’