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1874Honus Wagner, Chartiers Pennsylvana, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)

1874William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)

1874Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)

1874John D. Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, American financier and philanthropist

1874Eugen Fischer, Bade Germany, Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), (d. 1967)

1874Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st US President (1929-1933), (d. 1964)

1874Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)

1874Arthur Meighen, Anderson Ontario, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)

1874Joseph Erlanger, San Francisco, California, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)

1874Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clifton Prince Edward Island, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables)

1874August Krogh [Schack], Denmark, zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel-1920), (d. 1949)

1874Winston Churchill, (C) British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)

1874 Birthdays
Date Event
Jan 1
Hugo Leichtentritt, composer 
Jan 1
Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927) 
Jan 1
Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944) 
Jan 4
Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael) 
Jan 4
Sven Fleuron, writer 
Jan 5
Joseph Erlanger, San Francisco, California, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944) 
Jan 6
Fred Niblo, U.S. film actor, director, producer (d. 1948) 
Jan 6
Fred Niblo, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 
Jan 6
S. Fowler Wright, Deluge 
Jan 9
Walter Turszinsky, The Pride of the Firm 
Jan 9
Robert Koppel, Henriette Jacoby 
Jan 10
Henry Pettibone, Behold the Man 
Jan 12
Pierre Bressol, Loin du foyer 
Jan 13
Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin 
Jan 13
Rozsi T. Forrai, A szerencse fia 
Jan 14
Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit) 
Jan 14
Georges Wague, Paris pendant la guerre 
Jan 14
Thornton W. Burgess, Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie 
Jan 14
Otto Conradsen, The Isle of the Dead 
Jan 15
Fructuós Gelabert, Baño imprevisto 
Jan 16
Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee) 
Jan 16
Robert W. Service, Eureka 
Jan 17
Edna Wallace Hopper, The Perils of Divorce 
Jan 17
Pepi Glöckner-Kramer, Boys of the Prater 
Jan 17
Louis Romaine, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 
Jan 19
Otto Storm, Das schwindende Herz 
Jan 20
Lottie Williams, Dark Victory 
Jan 21
Hans Stürm, Love and Trumpet Playing 
Jan 22
Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, PM of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926) 
Jan 22
Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940) 
Jan 24
Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Alfonso), Puerto Rico, archivist of African American history and culture 
Jan 25
Hewlett Johnson, [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop 
Jan 25
[William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, British novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage) 
Jan 25
W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil 
Jan 27
Kathleen Chambers, That Royle Girl 
Jan 27
Dario Niccodemi, Scampolo 
Jan 27
Campbell McCullough, Kelly from the Emerald Isle 
Jan 28
Mary Tourtel, Rupert 
Jan 29
John D. Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, American financier and philanthropist 
Jan 29
Robert Lach, composer 
Jan 29
John D. Rockefeller Jr.,  
Jan 29
Charles E. King, The Descendants 
Jan 29
Owen Davis, Jezebel 
Jan 29
Raoul Barre, Cartoons on Tour 
Jan 30
Oscar Langkilde, Hamlet 
Jan 31
William Cavanaugh, Love's Plaything 
Jan 31
Harald Tandrup, Only One Night 
Feb 1
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist 
Feb 1
Conrad Seideman, Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau 
Feb 1
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Der Rosenkavalier 
Feb 2
Totò Majorana, Rabagas 
Feb 3
Franklyn Dyall, Liverpool England, actor (Easy Virtue) 
Feb 3
Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas) 
Feb 3
Gertrude Stein, Cinema Falado 
Feb 3
Franklin Dyall, The Private Life of Henry VIII. 
Feb 3
Stephen Pell, Nice and Friendly 
Feb 5
George Periolat, The Mark of Zorro 
Feb 5
Maxine Elliott, A Doll for the Baby 
Feb 6
Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel) 
Feb 7
Marie Cahill, When Betty Bets 
Feb 7
Luigi Barzini, India favolosa 
Feb 7
Louis A. Fuertes, The Hermit of Lonely Gulch 
Feb 8
Bror Berger, Herr Arnes pengar 
Feb 9
Amy Lowell, US poet/critic (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed) 
Feb 9
Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor (Houligan) 
Feb 9
Vsevolod Meyerhold, The Picture of Dorian Grey 
Feb 10
Marie Gutheil-Schoder, Das verbotene Land 
Feb 11
Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author 
Feb 11
Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer 
Feb 11
Elsa Beskow, Nötknäpparen 
Feb 12
Auguste Perret, Les bâtisseurs 
Feb 13
Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician (social-democratic) 
Feb 14
Jenny Haggar, The Maid of Cefn Ydfa 
Feb 14
Dan Bain,  
Feb 15
Emilis Melngailis, composer 
Feb 15
Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica) 
Feb 15
Ernest Shackleton, South 
Feb 15
Donald Bowles, Rhoda's Burglar 
Feb 16
Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935) 
Feb 17
Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM) 
Feb 18
Ethel Desmond, Polygamy 
Feb 19
Carl Stockdale, The Bank 
Feb 20
Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star 
Feb 20
Nino Cochise, Natas: The Reflection 
Feb 20
Mary Garden, The Splendid Sinner 
Feb 20
Salvatore Cardillo, Avanti! 
Feb 21
Agnes Lorentzen, The Folly of Sin 
Feb 22
Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951) 
Feb 22
Bertram Wallis, The Cost of a Kiss 
Feb 22
Staf Cauwenberg, De storm in het leven 
Feb 23
Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40) 
Feb 23
Franz Skondrup, The Princess's Dilemma 
Feb 24
Honus Wagner, Chartiers Pennsylvana, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17) 
Feb 24
Honus Wagner, Spring Fever 
Feb 24
George Botsford, The George Burns Special 
Feb 25
Aristide Baghetti, Empty Eyes 
Feb 26
Carl Vogler, composer 
Feb 26
Emma Dunn, The Great Dictator 
Feb 26
Arthur Stringer, The Wilderness Woman 
Feb 26
Mario Caserini, The Last Days of Pompeii 
Feb 26
Yvonneck, Une java 
Feb 26
William Gorham, The Bank 
Feb 26
Frank Hamilton, Cupid's Thumb Print 
Feb 28
Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range) 
Feb 28
Soledad Jiménez, Kid Galahad 
Mar 1
Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth 
Mar 3
Ada Reeve, Night and the City 
Mar 3
Fred Rath, Paramount Headliner: The Magic of Music 
Mar 4
J. Barney Sherry, Granddad 
Mar 5
Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party) 
Mar 5
Henry Travers, England, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra) 
Mar 5
Henry Travers, It's a Wonderful Life 
Mar 8
Gabriel Scott, Tante Pose 
Mar 9
Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer 
Mar 9
Károly Lovik, A leányvári boszorkány 
Mar 10
Wright Lorimer, The Shepherd King 
Mar 12
Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer 
Mar 12
Edmund Eysler, Schützenliesel 
Mar 13
Hans Ledeboer, Duel in the Sun 
Mar 14
Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips 
Mar 14
Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles) 
Mar 14
Mary Carr, The Wizard of Oz 
Mar 15
Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician 
Mar 15
Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951) 
Mar 15
Harold L. Ickes, Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert 
Mar 15
Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz, Powrót 
Mar 17
Kincsem, horse that never lost a race 
Mar 17
Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America 
Mar 17
J. Will Callahan, Another Woman 
Mar 18
Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948) 
Mar 19
Arthur Hoyt, Georgetown CO, actor (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along) 
Mar 20
Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945) 
Mar 20
Alida Rouffe, Marius 
Mar 20
Angus MacLeod, Bombs Over London 
Mar 22
Ellen Glasgow, novelist 
Mar 23
James Keane, The Life and Death of King Richard III 
Mar 23
Frank Rainboth, The Big Trail 
Mar 24
Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist 
Mar 24
Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55) 
Mar 24
Harry Houdini, Haldane of the Secret Service 
Mar 24
Hamilkar Boskovic, Gricka vjestica 
Mar 25
Robert Hale, What Happened to Harkness? 
Mar 26
Gerald du Maurier, London England, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces) 
Mar 26
Oskar Nedbal, composer 
Mar 26
Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) 
Mar 26
Robert Frost, Fireflies in the Garden 
Mar 26
Aubrey Fitzgerald, Cross My Heart 
Mar 26
Oskar Nedbal, Criminal Lovers 
Mar 26
Aladár Sarkadi, A Papagály 
Mar 27
Andrés de Segurola, One Night of Love 
Mar 28
Frank Petley, The Golden Dawn 
Mar 28
Karl Kraus, Die letzten Tage der Menschheit 
Mar 29
Lou Henry Hoover, Hearst Metrotone News Vol. 3 #220 
Mar 29
H.M. Harwood, Queen Christina 
Mar 30
Charles Herbert Lightoller,  
Mar 30
Ned Wayburn, The Great White Way 
Mar 31
Anna Kallina, Die Familie ohne Moral 
Apr 3
Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer 
Apr 3
Elemér Thury, The Last Bohemian 
Apr 3
Ernst Tautenhayn, Wo die Lerche singt 
Apr 4
Lechmere Worrall, Her Winning Way 
Apr 5
Orfilia Rico, Nobleza gaucha 
Apr 6
Peter Robinson, Freaks 
Apr 7
Friedrich Kayßler, Der zerbrochene Krug 
Apr 7
Thomas G. Lingham, The Star Packer 
Apr 7
Edward Knoblock, Rosita 
Apr 8
Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960) 
Apr 9
Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet) 
Apr 9
Julius Bittner, Strauss' Great Waltz 
Apr 11
Chief Many Treaties, The Law Rides Again 
Apr 12
Dorothea Wolbert, A Model Made 
Apr 14
Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada) 
Apr 15
Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919) 
Apr 15
George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954) 
Apr 15
Herbert Bunston, Dracula 
Apr 15
Arthur Melbourne Cooper, Dreams of Toyland 
Apr 15
Catherine Chisholm Cushing, The Prince and the Pauper 
Apr 15
Lou Archer, Creeps 
Apr 16
J. Chauncey Brainerd, Too Many Crooks 
Apr 16
Al Fordyce, The Courtesan 
Apr 17
Rudolf Berger,  
Apr 17
Paul Crawley, The Crooked Circle 
Apr 18
Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941) 
Apr 18
Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Segrt Hlapic 
Apr 18
Herbert Ashley, Midnight Limited 
Apr 19
Firmin Baes, Flemish painter 
Apr 19
Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952) 
Apr 21
Vincent Scotto, EuroTrip 
Apr 21
Arthur Millett, Winds of the Wasteland 
Apr 22
Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life 
Apr 22
Hans Homma, Das vierte Gebot 
Apr 22
Viktor Haak, Gay Old Time 
Apr 24
John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial) 
Apr 24
Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist 
Apr 24
Lillian Elliott, Call of the Cuckoo 
Apr 25
Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909) 
Apr 25
Guglielmo Marconi, Cavalcade of Faith 
Apr 26
J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v Australia 1902) 
Apr 27
Constance Adams, Where the Trail Divides 
Apr 27
Miles McCarthy, Fear Not 
Apr 27
Maurice Baring, King and Women 
Apr 27
Jef Mertens, Jopie Gaat Trouwen 
Apr 28
Karl Kraus, writer 
Apr 28
Sidney Toler, Warrensburg MO, actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight) 
Apr 28
Sidney Toler, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service 
Apr 28
Fanchon Frankel, Pick 'Em Young 
Apr 29
Virgil Williams, In the Depths of Our Hearts 
Apr 30
Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer 
May 1
Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard), Rome Italy, American painter 
May 1
Giovanni Vitrotti, Life and Customs of Naples 
May 3
Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker 
May 3
V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954) 
May 3
Louis Dean, The Birth of a Race 
May 3
Otto Bökman, Prinsparets ankomst till Stockholm den 9 juli 
May 3
Moriss, Le bidon d'or 
May 3
Frédéric Moriss, The Captain 
May 4
Edward Reinach, A Man's Past 
May 5
Jacques Tyrol, The Red Viper 
May 6
Paul Scardon, Saved from Sin 
May 6
Jules Mendel, Fun at a Ball Game 
May 7
Ilmari Kianto, Punainen viiva 
May 8
Ernest W. Marland, Lest We Forget 
May 10
Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941) 
May 10
Rideamus, Der Vetter aus Dingsda 
May 11
George Grossmith, The Time Machine 
May 12
Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet) 
May 12
Howard Lang, The Call of the Sea 
May 12
Henri Duval, Le Noël du vagabond 
May 12
Henry C. Rowland, Conquering the Woman 
May 13
Henry Clough-Leiter, composer 
May 13
Charles E. Boss, Orphans of the Storm 
May 14
Pauline Polaire, Le friquet 
May 15
Jean Kemm, Le dédale 
May 15
Stanley Dark, Stung! 
May 16
Laurence Hanray, The Private Life of Henry VIII. 
May 17
Lillian Leighton, Feet First 
May 17
Bertha Kalich, Love and Hate 
May 17
Eddie McAuliffe, City Lights 
May 19
Gilbert Laird Jessop, cricketer (The Croucher) 
May 20
Folkert E Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry 
May 21
John O'Connor, Cassidy 
May 21
Shalva Dadiani, Modzgvari 
May 22
Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54) 
May 22
Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer 
May 22
D.F. Malan,  
May 23
Antoni Fertner, Ada, Don't Do That! 
May 25
Herbert Messmore, Polly of the Circus 
May 26
Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker) 
May 27
Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870] 
May 27
Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos) 
May 27
Dustin Farnum, The Squaw Man 
May 28
Emiliano Bonetti, Love Everlasting 
May 29
G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], London, English writer (Man Who Made Gold) 
May 29
G.K. Chesterton, The Detective 
May 29
John Emerson, Wild and Woolly 
May 31
Franz Egenieff, Colibri 
Jun 1
Pierre Souvestre, Fantomas 
Jun 2
Lulu Glaser, Love's Pilgrimage to America 
Jun 2
Tilley Christiansen, The Marconi Operator 
Jun 2
Léon Walther, The Virtuous Scoundrel 
Jun 2
Kathleen Kay, 7th Heaven 
Jun 2
E. Alyn Warren, The Mysterious Mr. Wong 
Jun 4
William Postance, Sherlock Holmes 
Jun 5
Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Highlanders - won 41 in 1904) 
Jun 5
Enrico Novelli, Un matrimonio interplanetario 
Jun 7
Theodor Streicher, composer 
Jun 7
William Wadsworth, A Christmas Accident 
Jun 8
Clara Clemens,  
Jun 8
H. Wolfinger, The Gold Rush 
Jun 11
Richard Stohr, composer 
Jun 11
J. Robert Pauline, The Mystery Mind 
Jun 11
Lucien Rozenberg, La première aventure de Lucien 
Jun 12
Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer 
Jun 12
Genevieve Blinn, A Wife's Sacrifice 
Jun 13
Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer 
Jun 13
Peggy Blackwood, A Motion to Adjourn 
Jun 13
Leopoldo Lugones, La guerra gaucha 
Jun 14
Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour) 
Jun 14
Edward Bowes, Major Bowes' Amateur Parade No. 1 
Jun 15
Stanislawa Slubicka, Zazdrosc 
Jun 16
Arthur Meighen, Anderson Ontario, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926) 
Jun 16
Otto Rung, The End of the World 
Jun 17
Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner) 
Jun 17
Grant Mitchell, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 
Jun 17
Edgar Jones, Border River 
Jun 18
Ivan Moskvin, Polikushka 
Jun 18
Alfred Huger Moses Jr., The Social Secretary 
Jun 19
Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941) 
Jun 20
Helge Brinck, Sonja 
Jun 21
J.H. Benrimo, The Yellow Jacket 
Jun 24
Percy Honri, The Schooner Gang 
Jun 26
Albert Relf, cricketer (England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14) 
Jun 26
Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer 
Jun 26
Charles Wheelock, A Brother's Sacrifice 
Jun 27
Lew Payton, Jezebel 
Jun 27
John Golden, Chaplin 
Jun 27
Anne Crawford Flexner, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 
Jun 28
Oley Speaks, composer 
Jun 28
Oley Speaks, Watch Your Stern 
Jun 29
Georg Gohler, composer 
Jun 29
Frederick S. Armitage, The Ghost Train 
Jun 29
Bela Horská, Tam na horách 
Jun 30
Daisy Belmore, Seven Days Leave 
Jul 1
Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim) 
Jul 1
Zsigmond Vincze, The Last Bohemian 
Jul 1
Nigel Playfair, Perfect Understanding 
Jul 1
Sarah Rosenberg, A Dog's Life 
Jul 2
John Thorn, The Reverend Salamander Unattached 
Jul 2
Henry Houry, La sandale rouge 
Jul 3
Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader 
Jul 3
Āpirana Ngata, Te Araroa on the East Coast of New Zealand, a prominent Maori New Zealand politician and lawyer 
Jul 3
Dana Ong, The Cheat 
Jul 4
Gardner Crane, The Woman Pays 
Jul 5
Gerhard von Keussler, composer 
Jul 5
Eugen Fischer, Bade Germany, Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), (d. 1967) 
Jul 6
Wyndham Martin, Pawns and Queens 
Jul 7
Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945) 
Jul 10
Austin Diamond, cricket non-Test capt (NSW batsman 1899-1919, Aust) 
Jul 10
Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971) 
Jul 12
Dallas Anderson, The Fordington Twins 
Jul 13
Hulda Malmström, Åh, i morron kväll 
Jul 13
Ludwig Gruber, Die unsterbliche Theresa 
Jul 14
'Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914) 
Jul 14
Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium) 
Jul 14
Jerzy Zulawski, On the Silver Globe 
Jul 17
André Barde, Not on the Lips 
Jul 18
Oscar Bergström, Orfeus i Underjorden 
Jul 20
Joseph Levering, Back to the Farm 
Jul 20
Fred J. Williams, A Modern Cain 
Jul 22
Frank Conlan, The Devil and Daniel Webster 
Jul 22
Obed 'Dad' Pickard, Frontier Vengeance 
Jul 23
John T. Doyle, Mother's Boy 
Jul 23
William Zollinger, The Unfortunate Marriage 
Jul 24
Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917) 
Jul 25
Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Lublin Poland, Russian Chemist who invented the first commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber 
Jul 25
Luise Heilborn-Körbitz, Under the Lantern 
Jul 26
Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp) 
Jul 26
Serge Koussevitzky, Tanglewood Music School and Music Festival 
Jul 27
Frank Shannon, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 
Jul 28
Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator (Essay on Man) 
Jul 28
Alice Duer Miller, Roberta 
Jul 28
Orin Jackson, Lizzie's Waterloo 
Jul 29
August Stramm, writer 
Jul 29
James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942) 
Jul 30
Billy Meredith, The Ball of Fortune 
Jul 31
Clarence Kolb, His Girl Friday 
Jul 31
Charles Paton, Blackmail 
Aug 1
Charles S. Drew, A Day's Pleasure 
Aug 1
Augustus Phillips, A Christmas Accident 
Aug 2
Sidney Morgan, Bulldog Drummond's Third Round 
Aug 3
Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra) 
Aug 3
Ed McFarland, World Series Baseball Game 
Aug 4
Dora Dean, Time Lock No. 776 
Aug 4
A.G. Heimerl, The Bowery Bishop 
Aug 6
Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932) 
Aug 6
Charles Fort, Magnolia 
Aug 8
Tilly von Kaulbach, Under galgen 
Aug 9
Reynaldo Hahn, Norwegian Wood 
Aug 10
Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st US President (1929-1933), (d. 1964) 
Aug 10
James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style 
Aug 10
Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972) 
Aug 10
Herbert Hoover, Amerikka auttaa 
Aug 10
Ernest C. Warde, King Lear 
Aug 10
Tod Sloan, Determination 
Aug 11
Jalmari Finne, Kiljusen herrasväki 
Aug 12
Callie Frey, The Pilgrim 
Aug 13
Alma Berglund, Kun onni pettää 
Aug 14
Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Cairo Egypt, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, and nationalist activist 
Aug 15
Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert 
Aug 16
Raymond Brown, The Story of Louis Pasteur 
Aug 18
Joseph Belmont, A Good Elk 
Aug 18
Gérard Bourgeois, Terror 
Aug 19
Abe Holzmann, Trapeze 
Aug 21
Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27) 
Aug 21
Edmund Mortimer, The Devil Bat 
Aug 22
Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer 
Aug 22
Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte) 
Aug 22
Charles E. Kaufman, Civilization 
Aug 23
Albert Capellani, Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp 
Aug 24
John Power, The Moonstone 
Aug 24
Aniela Boguslawska, Dzieje grzechu 
Aug 26
Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938) 
Aug 26
Andrew B. Sterling, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 
Aug 26
Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett 
Aug 27
Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931) 
Aug 27
Edward MacKay, The Spirit of the Poppy 
Aug 28
Helen Haye, The 39 Steps 
Aug 29
Walter Field 
Aug 29
Manuel Machado, La Lola se va a los puertos 
Aug 31
Edward Thorndike, Williamsburg, Massachusetts, USA, American psychologist (father of modern educational psychology) 
Sep 1
Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer 
Sep 1
Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica) 
Sep 4
Johanna M "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach 
Sep 5
Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959) 
Sep 11
Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer 
Sep 13
Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Vienna Austria, composer (2nd Quartet). Died 1951. 
Sep 13
Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962) 
Sep 17
Ben[jamin] Turpin, US, comic (Uncle Tom Without the Cabin) 
Sep 18
Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten) 
Sep 21
Gustav Theodore Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets) 
Oct 2
W.E. Woodward, Evelyn Prentice 
Oct 2
Eugenie Krix, Krates 
Oct 3
Charles Middleton, Duck Soup 
Oct 5
George Irving, Bringing Up Baby 
Oct 6
Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950) 
Oct 6
Samuel Merwin, Crooked Streets 
Oct 8
Nance O'Neil, Oakland CA, actor (Cimarron) 
Oct 8
Nance O'Neil, Cimarron 
Oct 8
Thorkild Roose, Mens porten var lukket 
Oct 8
Charles Newton, The Sheriff of Plumas 
Oct 9
Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947) 
Oct 10
George S. Trimble, The Man Who Stood Still 
Oct 10
John Bergqvist, En färd på Kinda kanal 
Oct 11
Frank Brownlee, Beyond the Great Wall 
Oct 11
Mary Heaton Vorse, The Sea Tiger 
Oct 12
Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942) 
Oct 13
J.G. Hawks, 'Blue Blazes' Rawden 
Oct 14
Margarete Susman, writer 
Oct 14
Sam Rice, Ye Olde Saw Mill 
Oct 14
William Balfour, A Son of the Hills 
Oct 14
Georges Jomier, Heaven Can Wait 
Oct 15
Otallo Morales, composer 
Oct 15
Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (d. 1899) 
Oct 15
Charles Tenney Jackson, The Show 
Oct 15
Douglas Z. Doty, Laughter 
Oct 16
Mabel Love, In Another Girl's Shoes 
Oct 16
Joel Jansson, Ådalens poesi 
Oct 17
Stanley Drewitt, The Marvellous History of St. Bernard 
Oct 19
Oscar Radin, The Big Parade 
Oct 19
Siegmund Popert, Lille Kalles dröm om sin snögubbe 
Oct 20
Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step) 
Oct 20
Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65) 
Oct 20
Bouck White, The Toast of New York 
Oct 20
Charles Ives, The Thin Red Line 
Oct 20
Johan Rudolf Sundström, Janne Vängman i farten 
Oct 21
Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist 
Oct 21
Antonín Pech, Rudi na záletech 
Oct 23
Robert Dinesen, The Four Daredevils 
Oct 23
Billie Bennett, Robin Hood 
Oct 24
Henry H. Knibbs, Tony Runs Wild 
Oct 25
Emma Gramatica, Miracle in Milan 
Oct 26
Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936) 
Oct 28
Walter Downing, Two-Fisted Sheriff 
Nov 1
Raymond Duncan, Germs and Microbes 
Nov 1
Emma Bell Clifton, The Little Diplomat 
Nov 2
Cora Lobb, The Maltese Falcon 
Nov 2
Pál Prónay, Imposztorok 
Nov 4
Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920) 
Nov 5
Guy Jones, The Human Monster 
Nov 5
Frédéric Boutet, Mother of Mine 
Nov 7
Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96) 
Nov 7
Joe Calder, The Barber Shop 
Nov 7
John Wolcott Adams, Saved by Parcel Post 
Nov 9
Albert Francis Blakeslee, Geneseo New York, American Botanist 
Nov 9
Caroline van Dommelen, De bannelingen 
Nov 10
Idabelle Firestone, The Voice of Firestone 
Nov 11
Karl Graumann, Hinter Klostermauern 
Nov 12
Bert Williams, A Natural Born Gambler 
Nov 12
Karl Forest, Vater Radetzky 
Nov 15
August Krogh [Schack], Denmark, zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel-1920), (d. 1949) 
Nov 15
Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941) 
Nov 15
Selma Kurz, Johann Strauß an der schönen blauen Donau 
Nov 16
Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August)/wife of Henri Dons 
Nov 16
John L.E. Pell, Down to the Sea in Ships 
Nov 16
Aleksandr Kolchak,  
Nov 16
Jim Newman, The Birth of a Nation 
Nov 18
Carrie White, oldest US woman (dies Nov 1990 at 116) 
Nov 18
Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father) 
Nov 18
Riccardo Martin, composer 
Nov 18
Clarence Day, Life with Father 
Nov 18
Charles Simone, Il trovatore 
Nov 19
Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer 
Nov 19
Carl Jacobi, The Riddle: Woman 
Nov 20
James Michael Curley, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958) 
Nov 20
James Michael Curley, Episode #4.34 
Nov 20
Nikolay Livanov, Vosstaniye rybakov 
Nov 20
Doris Langkilde, The Man with the Missing Finger 
Nov 22
Max Dearly, Madame Bovary 
Nov 23
Cosmo Kyrle Bellew, Strange Cargo 
Nov 24
Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953) 
Nov 24
Virginia De Castro e Almeida, Os Olhos da Alma 
Nov 25
Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910) 
Nov 25
Joe Gans, The Joe Gans-Battling Nelson Fight 
Nov 26
Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel) 
Nov 26
Edmond Fleg, The Thinker 
Nov 27
Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President) 
Nov 27
Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism) 
Nov 27
Eugene Walter, The Way of a Woman 
Nov 27
Chaim Weizmann,  
Nov 28
Émilienne Dux, Irène 
Nov 29
Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949) 
Nov 29
Francis Dodd, British artist (d. 1949) 
Nov 30
Winston Churchill, (C) British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953) 
Nov 30
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clifton Prince Edward Island, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables) 
Nov 30
Winston Churchill, Young Winston 
Nov 30
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea 
Nov 30
Lloyd Ingraham, Scaramouche 
Dec 1
Dominicus Johner, composer 
Dec 3
Arthur Wimperis, The Private Life of Henry VIII. 
Dec 3
Helen Lindroth, The Right Way 
Dec 4
Jean H L Bossard, actor/impresario (Merchant of Venice) 
Dec 6
Leo Sulky, Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies 
Dec 7
Harry Stubbs, The Invisible Man 
Dec 7
Vasco Creti, Company and the Crazy 
Dec 8
Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951) 
Dec 9
Carlo Zangarini, La danzatrice cieca 
Dec 10
Alphonse Ethier, Baby Face 
Dec 11
Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag) 
Dec 11
Paul Wegener, The Golem 
Dec 12
Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Alastalon salissa) 
Dec 12
Volter Kilpi, Kaaskerin Lundström 
Dec 13
Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst) 
Dec 13
Gustave Kleeman, The Slacker's Heart 
Dec 14
Gertrude Elliot, Hamlet 
Dec 14
Edith Barnard Delano, The White Pearl 
Dec 15
Michael Sherbrooke, The Iron Stair 
Dec 16
Hugh McClung, Mickey 
Dec 17
William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48) 
Dec 17
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Johnny at the Fair 
Dec 18
Theodore Burt, The Commanding Officer 
Dec 19
Max Adalbert, Destiny 
Dec 21
Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36) 
Dec 21
Samuil Stollerman, The Taras Family 
Dec 21
Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski,  
Dec 22
Franz Schmidt, composer 
Dec 22
Herman Harrell Horne, Clayton NC, philosopher (idealism) 
Dec 23
Charles Waldron, The Big Sleep 
Dec 23
Viggo Wiehe, Kan Kvinder fejle? 
Dec 23
Harry Graham, A Southern Maid 
Dec 23
Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Mother and Sons 
Dec 23
Harry Oakes,  
Dec 25
Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944) 
Dec 25
Lina Cavalieri, The Eternal Temptress 
Dec 25
Frank Stayton, A Woman in Pawn 
Dec 25
Mrs. Owen Bronson, Primal Instinct 
Dec 26
Rosa Albach-Retty, Maria Theresia 
Dec 27
Max Ettinger, composer 
Dec 27
Arthur Alftán, Alexander den Store 
Dec 28
Carl Winterhoff, The Sands of Time 
Dec 30
George M. Carpenter, The Right of Way 
Dec 31
Ernest Austin, composer 
Dec 31
Francesco Pastonchi, Gli emigranti 
2
Isa Bowman, Vote for Huggett 
3
Thomas Louden, The Corn Is Green 
5
Nap Lajoie, Game of Base Ball 
6
José Davert, La Brière 
7
Norman Hackett, The Crimson Dove 
7
La Vada Simmons, Jail Bait 
8
Tom Murray, The Gold Rush 
8
Fred Eric, Christopher Columbus 
8
Thaddeus Jones, The Buccaneer 
11
Pietro Cimini, One Night of Love 
12
E.P. Evers, Drugged Waters 
13
Arnold Schönberg, Woman in Gold 
13
Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Baby's Dinner 
13
Henry Fountain Ashurst, Advise & Consent 
15
Jack Dean, The Cheat 
16
Del Lawrence, The Pioneers 
16
Edward Puchalski, Antosia zgubil gorset 
18
Anker Larsen, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 
20
Edith Conrad, Hangmen Also Die! 
20
Siegfried Dessauer, The Captain from Koepenick 
21
Gustav Holst, Invictus 
25
George Soule Spencer, Trooper 44 
26
Lewis Hine, Days of Heaven 
29
Charles Sadler, God Is Good 
29
Sári Kürthy, Cat's Play 
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