John Heartfield

John Heartfield was a 20th-century German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for book authors, such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for contemporary playwrights, such as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.

19 June 1891

Born on the same birth day (19 June): Ai Miyazato • Alajos Szokolyi • Ayman al-Zawahiri • Dan Ellis (ice hockey) • Doug Mientkiewicz • Erna Schneider Hoover • Julius Schwartz • Lou Gehrig • Louis Jourdan • Pier Angeli • Rahul Gandhi • Rashard Mendenhall

Born in the same month (June 1891): Al Dubin • Carl Spaatz • Cole Porter • Ed Lewis (wrestler) • Erich Marcks • Esther Forbes • Franz Alexander • Giannina Arangi-Lombardi • Hermann Scherchen • John A. Costello • Man Mountain Dean • Masti Venkatesha Iyengar • Pier Luigi Nervi • Stanley Spencer • Takijirō Ōnishi • Thurman Arnold • William Funnell (public servant)