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Notable Birthdays - 1887

1887Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Alamein, British Field Marshal, Kennington, South London

1887Vincent Massey, Toronto Ontario, Governor General of Canada

1887Georges Vezina, Chicoutimi Quebec, Canadian ice hockey goalie (Vezina Trophy)

1887Marcel Duchamp, Blainville-Crevon, French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase)

1887Erwin Schrodinger, Vienna Austria, physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, (d. 1961)

1887Walter Johnson, Humboldt Kansas, Washington Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)

1887 Birthdays
Date Event
Jan 1
Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence 
Jan 2
Jack Tornek, Bombs and Banknotes 
Jan 2
Mona Geijer-Falkner, Only a Mother 
Jan 2
Leopold A. Nattheim, The Pioneers 
Jan 3
Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan) 
Jan 3
August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) 
Jan 4
Mary Mersch, A Mother's Secret 
Jan 4
Viljo Huttunen, Hiipivä vaara 
Jan 5
Clifford Grey, The Wolf of Wall Street 
Jan 6
Berthe Bovy, The Cupboard Was Bare 
Jan 6
Nealson Smith, The Son of the Sheik 
Jan 7
Oskar Luts, Kevade 
Jan 8
Sandy Roth, Steamboat Bill, Jr. 
Jan 9
Pat Noonan, Ourselves Alone 
Jan 9
Patrick J. Noonan, Do Unto Others 
Jan 10
Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea) 
Jan 10
Jacques Derives, La Poison 
Jan 10
Robin H. Townley, Honeymoon Ranch 
Jan 10
José Américo de Almeida, Soledade, a Bagaceira 
Jan 10
Robinson Jeffers, Medea 
Jan 11
Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society) 
Jan 11
Monte Blue, Key Largo 
Jan 11
Robert Gleckler, Great Guy 
Jan 11
Arthur Cunningham, Beaten at the Bath 
Jan 11
Juan Carlos Dávalos, Güemes - la tierra en armas 
Jan 11
William Schiller, All Quiet on the Western Front 
Jan 11
Orin S. Pinney, Thin Ice 
Jan 12
Theresa Helburn, The Thief 
Jan 12
Kyle Onstott, Mandingo 
Jan 12
Renée Gardès, Le Grand Amour 
Jan 12
Margit Thurzó, Semmelweis 
Jan 12
Wolf Trutz, Two in a Big City 
Jan 13
George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949) 
Jan 13
Gabriel Gabrio, Pépé le Moko 
Jan 13
Paula Menari, Wenn dem Esel zu wohl ist... 
Jan 14
James Hilary Finn, The Lawyer's Secret 
Jan 14
Édouard Pinto, Le bonheur des autres 
Jan 16
John Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman) 
Jan 16
John Hamilton, The Maltese Falcon 
Jan 16
Ralph Ince, The Singapore Mutiny 
Jan 16
George Kelly, Studio One in Hollywood 
Jan 16
Jessalyn Van Trump, Bonita of El Cajon 
Jan 17
Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) 
Jan 17
Marcel Le Picard, Invisible Ghost 
Jan 18
W. Franke Harling, Rain Man 
Jan 19
Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner) 
Jan 19
Alexander Woollcott, Five Times Five 
Jan 19
Paul Hagman, Thomas Graals bästa barn 
Jan 19
Beulah Lewis, Mixed Wives 
Jan 19
Carlos Cabral, Adriana Cáceres 
Jan 20
Greta Ekman, Kungliga patrasket 
Jan 20
Waldo Twitchell, The Howards of Virginia 
Jan 20
Paul Günther, Mr. Gillie 
Jan 21
Alfred Henry Ackley, composer 
Jan 21
Georges Vezina, Chicoutimi Quebec, Canadian ice hockey goalie (Vezina Trophy) 
Jan 21
Jack Coogan Sr., The Hayseed 
Jan 21
Andrej Andrejew, Anastasia 
Jan 21
Elmer Sheeley, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 
Jan 21
Georges Vezina,  
Jan 21
William Webb,  
Jan 21
James Hanney, Native Land 
Jan 22
Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972) 
Jan 22
Franz Klebusch, Durch die Wüste 
Jan 22
Marc-Hély, La femme-poisson 
Jan 23
Percy Wenrich, This Boy's Life 
Jan 24
Zanka Stokic, Gresnica bez greha 
Jan 25
Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze) 
Jan 25
Klaus Richter, The Student of Prague 
Jan 26
Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist 
Jan 26
Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58) 
Jan 26
François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915) 
Jan 26
Helvi Kaario, Puck 
Jan 26
Joe Strassner, Sabotage 
Jan 26
Marc A. Mitscher, The Fighting Lady 
Jan 27
Carl Blegen, Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos) 
Jan 27
Carl Lamac, Bílý ráj 
Jan 27
Zsolt Harsányi, Boy, the Noszty 
Jan 28
Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist 
Jan 28
Lily Theresa Strickland, composer 
Jan 28
Artur Rubinstein, The Truman Show 
Jan 28
Hans W. Petersen, Hunger 
Jan 28
Zakaria Berishvili, Samanishvilis dedinatsvali 
Jan 29
Albert Conti, Trieste Austria, actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion) 
Jan 29
Albert Conti, The Eagle 
Jan 29
Kokuten Kôdô, Seven Samurai 
Jan 29
Harry L. Decker, The Cowboy Star 
Jan 29
Imre Fazekas, Love Me and the World Is Mine 
Jan 30
June Mathis, Greed 
Jan 30
Arne Lindblad, Panik 
Jan 30
Lotte Pritzel, Die Pritzelpuppe 
Jan 31
Charles Irwin, Mutiny on the Bounty 
Feb 1
Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect 
Feb 1
Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947) 
Feb 1
Charles Nordhoff, Mutiny on the Bounty 
Feb 2
Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975) 
Feb 2
María Francés, Placido 
Feb 2
Noah Young, Safety Last! 
Feb 3
Carlo Jachino, composer 
Feb 3
Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely) 
Feb 3
Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore) 
Feb 3
Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956) 
Feb 3
Georg Trakl, Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me 
Feb 3
Carlo Jachino, Bicycle Thieves 
Feb 3
Silvio D'Amico, Partenza ore 7 
Feb 4
Zena Dare, No. 5 John Street 
Feb 4
Sheila Kaye Smith, The Loves of Joanna Godden 
Feb 5
Pearl Sindelar, Cleopatra 
Feb 5
Albert Paris Gütersloh,  
Feb 6
Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978) 
Feb 6
Ernest Gruening,  
Feb 6
Valentin Turkin, The Girl with the Hat Box 
Feb 7
Eubie Blake, Baltimore Maryland, US ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You) (d. 1983) 
Feb 7
Walter Janssen, Destiny 
Feb 7
Eubie Blake, My Girl 
Feb 8
Heinrich Spoerl, The Punch Bowl 
Feb 9
Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs) 
Feb 9
Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love) 
Feb 10
[Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9] 
Feb 10
Mila Kaminska, Pan Twardowski 
Feb 11
John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen) 
Feb 11
Ross Fisher, Los tres García 
Feb 11
Shinobu Origuchi, The Book of the Dead 
Feb 12
Robert Boudrioz, The Man with a Broken Ear 
Feb 13
Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I 
Feb 13
John Wray, All Quiet on the Western Front 
Feb 13
Max Neufeld, Idyll in Mallorca 
Feb 13
Géza Csáth, Opium: Diary of a Madwoman 
Feb 13
Susan Ertz, In the Cool of the Day 
Feb 14
Viva Birkett, Trilby 
Feb 14
Albert Willemetz, Chocolat 
Feb 14
Johan Rosén, Rannsakningsdomaren 
Feb 14
Edward R. Abrams, The Sport of the Gods 
Feb 15
H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist 
Feb 15
Jerzy Rygier, Przeor Kordecki - obronca Czestochowy 
Feb 16
Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962) 
Feb 16
Kathleen Clifford, When the Clouds Roll by 
Feb 16
Paul Borgelt, The Old Fritz 
Feb 16
Francis William Sullivan, The Wilderness Trail 
Feb 17
Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer 
Feb 17
Tenen Holtz, Show People 
Feb 17
Gunboat Smith, Wings 
Feb 17
Leevi Madetoja, The Man Without a Past 
Feb 18
Nikos Kasandsakis, Heraklion, Crete, Greek writer and philosopher (Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ) 
Feb 18
Charles Watt, Tarzan of the Apes 
Feb 18
John F. Goodrich, The Last Command 
Feb 18
Jack House, The Smoking Trails 
Feb 19
Paul Terry, Down on the Phoney Farm 
Feb 19
Gustav Helios, En rekrut fra 64 
Feb 19
Janina Munclinger, Spy 
Feb 20
David McKinley Williams, composer 
Feb 20
Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel) 
Feb 20
Vincent Massey, Toronto Ontario, Governor General of Canada 
Feb 20
Chris Willow Bird, Where the North Begins 
Feb 20
Vincent Massey, Rescue 
Feb 20
Carl Ebert, Nora 
Feb 20
Frank Richards, Crashing the Movies 
Feb 20
Royal Byron, He Gave Him a Million 
Feb 20
Lyle Clement, Marked Men 
Feb 21
Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 
Feb 21
Kate Melkus, Swiss Miss 
Feb 21
Edward Glinski, Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny 
Feb 21
Wilhelm Speyer, A Night of Adventure 
Feb 21
Ingeborg Larsen, Folkets Vilje 
Feb 22
Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award) 
Feb 22
Albert Herman, The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand 
Feb 23
Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer 
Feb 23
Cyril Delevanti, The Night of the Iguana 
Feb 23
Hermann Asmus, Heart of Stone 
Feb 23
Oskar Lindberg, Korset 
Feb 24
Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate) 
Feb 24
Eugene Sigaloff, Bashful Ballerina 
Feb 24
Martin Sterner, Sun Over Klara 
Feb 25
Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter) 
Feb 25
Leonard Carey, Rebecca 
Feb 25
Al Herman, Melodies 
Feb 26
Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950) 
Feb 26
Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs) 
Feb 26
Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936) 
Feb 27
James D Innes, English painter 
Feb 27
Anna Chandler, Redhead 
Feb 27
James Dale, Victoria the Great 
Feb 27
Olof Hillberg, Sigge Nilsson och jag 
Feb 28
William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance) 
Feb 28
Annie Mörk, Kaksi Vihtoria 
Feb 28
S. Cartaino Scarpitta, I Give My Love 
Mar 3
Lincoln Beachey, Niagara Falls Celebration 
Mar 4
Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953) 
Mar 4
Galan Galt, Castillos en el aire 
Mar 4
Prins Gustav, Islands Altings besög i Köbenhavn 
Mar 4
Hans Fehrmann, Sieg des Herzens 
Mar 5
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz) 
Mar 5
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Fifty Shades of Grey 
Mar 5
Yvonne Yma, Casque d'Or 
Mar 5
Vladimir Podgornyy, Zoya 
Mar 5
Robert Ford, Zivotem vedla je láska 
Mar 6
Henri Gagnon, composer 
Mar 6
David Imboden, The King of Kings 
Mar 6
Jean Choux, The Vocation of André Carel 
Mar 6
Clayton Packard, The King of Kings 
Mar 6
John B. Clymer, What Men Want 
Mar 6
Konstantin Skorobogatov, Pirogov 
Mar 7
Heino Eller, composer 
Mar 7
Pansy Perry, The Girl from Montana 
Mar 7
R.H. Wilenski, Artists and Their Work 
Mar 7
Camillo Bruto Bonzi, Company and the Crazy 
Mar 8
Phillip Parmalee, A Dash Through the Clouds 
Mar 8
Harry Wulze, The Movie Queen 
Mar 8
Jeanne Koek, Willem van Oranje 
Mar 9
Phil Mead, cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI) 
Mar 9
Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976) 
Mar 9
Allan Sears, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 
Mar 9
August Ballin, En Dæmon fra Skovene 
Mar 10
Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972) 
Mar 10
Melville W. Brown, Check and Double Check 
Mar 10
Ronald Jeans, Young Wives' Tale 
Mar 11
Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980) 
Mar 11
Raoul Walsh, White Heat 
Mar 11
Al Ernest Garcia, City Lights 
Mar 11
Gottfried Huppertz, Metropolis 
Mar 12
Bert Sternbach, Dead Men Walk 
Mar 13
Carlos Isamitt, composer 
Mar 13
Victor Beecroft, Dusty Portrait 
Mar 14
George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter 
Mar 14
Lawrence Collingwood, composer 
Mar 14
Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962) 
Mar 14
Charles Reisner, Steamboat Bill, Jr. 
Mar 14
Julius Außenberg, Two in a Car 
Mar 14
Joseph I. Schnitzer, Tomorrow at Seven 
Mar 14
Sylvia Beach,  
Mar 14
Makoto Inokuchi, Sibyl's Scenario 
Mar 14
George H. Sistare Jr., Down to the Sea in Ships 
Mar 15
Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973) 
Mar 16
Violet Haggar, The Life of Charles Peace 
Mar 16
Vitomir Bogic, Karadjordje 
Mar 17
Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician 
Mar 17
Edward A. Golden, Hitler's Children 
Mar 17
Ivan Stepanov, The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 
Mar 17
Enrique Pedro Maroni, Jack and Jill 
Mar 19
Gyula Kabos, Hyppolit, the Butler 
Mar 19
J.B. Zokovich, Citizen Kane 
Mar 20
Harry Sinclair Drago, Leather Burners 
Mar 20
Lawrence Judd,  
Mar 21
Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor 
Mar 21
Lajos Kassak, Angyalok földje 
Mar 22
Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers) 
Mar 22
Chico Marx, A Night at the Opera 
Mar 22
William Royle, Drums of Fu Manchu 
Mar 22
Rudolph G. Kopp, Vengeance Valley 
Mar 23
Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog) 
Mar 23
Felix Yussupov, Russian aristocrat, best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin 
Mar 23
Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window) 
Mar 23
Sidney Hillman, union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation) 
Mar 23
Feliks Yusupov, Rasputin 
Mar 23
Yukichi Iwata, A Mother Should Be Loved 
Mar 23
Josef Capek, Jak pejsek s kocickou myli podlahu 
Mar 23
Kyrle Bellew, Vanity Fair 
Mar 24
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) 
Mar 24
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, The Bell Boy 
Mar 24
Oleg Frelikh, Zhukovsky 
Mar 24
Theresa Testa, Around the World in Eighty Days 
Mar 25
Germaine Charley, Ma femme est folle 
Mar 25
Miklos Bretán, Din Grozaviile lumii 
Mar 25
Oskar Glück, Heaven on Earth 
Mar 25
Raymond Gram Swing, How War Came 
Mar 26
Rose Lichtenstein, Der Passagier in der Zwangsjacke 
Mar 26
Albert de Courville, Doomed Cargo 
Mar 26
Walter Schmidtkunz, Der Rebell 
Mar 28
Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer 
Mar 28
Frederick Vogeding, Ulbo Garvema 
Mar 28
Jean Guitton, Rothchild 
Mar 28
Beulah Dark Cloud, The Crimson Challenge 
Mar 29
Cecil Holland, Spooks 
Mar 30
Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great) 
Mar 30
Hap Depew, The Devil's Brother 
Mar 31
Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer 
Mar 31
Laura K. Brooks, In a Lonely Place 
Mar 31
A.D. Blake, Where Are My Children? 
Mar 31
José María Usandizaga, Las golondrinas 
Mar 31
Anna-Lisa Hellström, Järnbäraren 
Apr 1
Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist 
Apr 1
Sol Michaels, Charlie Chan at the Opera 
Apr 1
Richard Christensen, Erik Ejegods pilgrimsfærd 
Apr 1
Ivan Kavaleridze, Koliivshchina [1767-1768] 
Apr 2
Christel Holch, Den lille hornblæser 
Apr 2
Verna Willis, Sarah and Son 
Apr 3
Wellington Cross, The Grey Parasol 
Apr 4
William Cumming Rose, Greenville South Carolina, American Biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid) 
Apr 4
Ernst Dernburg, The Captain from Köpenick 
Apr 4
Frank Wilcock, Band Waggon 
Apr 4
Bruno Lechowski, Za trzy spojrzenia 
Apr 4
Roy Rice, House of Danger 
Apr 5
Aline Goodwin, Firebrand Jordan 
Apr 5
Ferenc Szende, A Benedek-ház 
Apr 6
Milburn Morante, The Detectress 
Apr 6
Karl Falkenberg, Die Minderjährige - Zu jung fürs Leben 
Apr 6
Jack Morrison, The Strangler 
Apr 6
Filippo Sacchi, La primadonna 
Apr 7
Stanley Orr, The Love Hunger 
Apr 7
Anne Merwin, Stormflower 
Apr 8
Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl) 
Apr 8
Walter Connolly, It Happened One Night 
Apr 8
Edith Erastoff, The Outlaw and His Wife 
Apr 8
Walter Supper, Rosen aus dem Süden 
Apr 8
Tsukasa Kôzuki, Koi ni zekkyo suru mono 
Apr 9
Konrad Tom, Ksiazatko 
Apr 10
Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947) 
Apr 10
Heinz Tiessen, Königsberg, German composer 
Apr 10
Olive Mix, Dad's Girls 
Apr 10
Erkki Karu, Koskenlaskijan morsian 
Apr 10
Juliette Clarens, L'argent qui tue 
Apr 11
Jaromíra Pacová, U peti veverek 
Apr 12
Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918) 
Apr 12
Harold Lockwood, Tess of the Storm Country 
Apr 12
Carl Struve, Den nye lægen 
Apr 13
Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995) 
Apr 14
F.E. Miller, Harlem Rides the Range 
Apr 14
Franz Seitz, Der letzte Schuß 
Apr 14
Gero Zambuto, Scrollina 
Apr 14
Waleria Dobosz-Markowska, Przed sadem 
Apr 14
Fred V. Williams, Rim of the Desert 
Apr 14
Leon Schiller, Halka 
Apr 15
Violet Bonham Carter, Munich or Peace in Our Time 
Apr 16
Mark Smith, Annexing Bill 
Apr 16
Bill Cato, Broncho Billy's Greaser Deputy 
Apr 17
Ernest Wood, Horse Shoes 
Apr 17
Lydia Dickson, Don't Marry 
Apr 17
Teréz Nagy, Father 
Apr 18
Clara Edwards, Clean Slate 
Apr 18
Jimmie Lucas, Strangers in the Night 
Apr 19
Charles-Félix Tavano, Ce bon Monsieur Durand 
Apr 19
Frieda Stoll, Letter from an Unknown Woman 
Apr 20
Fred Kohler, Underworld 
Apr 20
Leslie Pearce, The Dentist 
Apr 20
Hans Feist, Ein Schlaf Gefangener 
Apr 20
Germaine Stainval, Goodbye Darling 
Apr 21
Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer 
Apr 21
Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978) 
Apr 21
Lillian Walker, The Kid 
Apr 21
John Garside, Parliament of Science 
Apr 21
Joe McCarthy, Sport Thrills: Play Ball 
Apr 22
Mir Jam, Love Isn't Always on Time 
Apr 22
James Norman Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty 
Apr 22
Pete Gordon, Lady of Burlesque 
Apr 22
John I. Booker, The Judge's Story 
Apr 22
Alina Gryficz-Mielewska, Lokaj 
Apr 23
Pauline Sabin,  
Apr 23
Jenö Törzs, It Was Me 
Apr 23
John B. Browne, Garden of the Moon 
Apr 24
Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931) 
Apr 24
Jirí Steimar, Svetlo jeho ocí 
Apr 25
Robert C. Bruce, Deschutes Driftwood 
Apr 26
Elisabeth Risdon, The Roaring Twenties 
Apr 27
Arthur Margetson, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 
Apr 27
Pedro Larrañaga, The Cursed Village 
Apr 28
Edward D. Venturini, The Headless Horseman 
Apr 28
Adolph Seidel, The Big House 
Apr 28
Jacob Bergqvist, The Happy Tailor 
Apr 29
Erich Waschneck, Regine 
Apr 29
Gladys Young, Kathy's Love Affair 
Apr 29
T. Arthur Hughes, The Picture of Dorian Gray 
Apr 29
Robert Cushman Murphy, The Bottom of the World 
Apr 29
Tommy Hughes, Manhattan Moon 
Apr 29
Leonid Vivyen, Vzyatiye zimnego dvortsa 
Apr 30
Hooper Atchley, The Three Musketeers 
May 1
Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) 
May 1
Alan Cunningham,  
May 1
Vincenzo Cardarelli, La primadonna 
May 1
Kurt Vespermann, Ein Tag Film 
May 1
Spinelly, American Love 
May 2
Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's) 
May 2
Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918) 
May 2
Vernon Castle, The Whirl of Life 
May 2
Michael Bohnen, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 
May 2
Walter Percival, Almost Married 
May 2
Eddie Collins, The Baseball Revue of 1917 
May 3
Aku Käyhkö, Meidän poikamme merellä 
May 3
Marika Kotopouli, The Wrong Road 
May 3
George Fiske, Melody of the Plains 
May 3
André Saint-Germain, Deadly Decision 
May 3
Ragnar Widestedt, Den farliga leken 
May 3
Ebba Thomsen, Fødselsdagsgaven 
May 4
Bob Card, Riders of the Rio 
May 4
Earl Pingree, Dark Streets 
May 4
Andrew Dasburg, Reds 
May 5
Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA 
May 5
Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury 
May 5
Estelle Hemsley, America America 
May 5
Bert Jordan, Sons of the Desert 
May 5
Max Mannes, An Affair to Remember 
May 6
Georg Hartmann,  
May 6
John C. Flinn, Rubber Tires 
May 7
Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) 
May 7
Benjamin Glazer, A Farewell to Arms 
May 7
Perry Evans, Hearts and Flowers 
May 7
George DuBois Proctor, The Fortune Teller 
May 7
Perry Evenvold, His Foothill Folly 
May 8
William Adams, Damn Yankees! 
May 8
Harry Lucenay, Pups Is Pups 
May 8
Maria Grünwald-Bertelsen, Sol over Danmark 
May 8
Sanford H. Dickinson, Glen or Glenda 
May 8
Arnold Czempin, Das Geheimnis des Irren 
May 9
Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer 
May 9
Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (d. 1957) 
May 9
Francisco Alonso, Carol's Journey 
May 9
Levi E. Folk, Yellow Jack 
May 10
Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels) 
May 10
August Pepöck, Romance 
May 10
Pavel Pol, Aelita: Queen of Mars 
May 11
Carl Lundbeck, Lyntoget 
May 12
Nandor Zsolt, composer 
May 12
Yvonne de Bray, Les parents terribles 
May 12
Earle Chase, Down to the Sea in Ships 
May 12
Bertha Lewis, The Mikado 
May 14
Florence Hale, Jones' Hypnotic Eye 
May 14
Harry MacPherson, The Remains of the Day 
May 15
Angela Rakar, Na svoji zemlji 
May 16
Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory) 
May 16
J van Hoddis, writer 
May 16
Bull Montana, The Lost World 
May 17
Frank J. Wilson, The Undercover Man 
May 17
João da Baiana, Da Terra 
May 17
Julia de Gruyter, The M.P. Case 
May 17
Valeska Stock, Die Weber 
May 17
Ludwig Sievert, Women Are Better Diplomats 
May 18
Ernst Wiechert, writer 
May 18
Jeanie Macpherson, Dynamite 
May 18
Ernst Wiechert, Elze's Life 
May 18
Philip Lonergan, Her Life and His 
May 18
Salvatore Gotta, Everybody's Woman 
May 19
Polidor, La Dolce Vita 
May 19
Ivan Lagutin, Alexander Nevsky 
May 20
Hugh Thompson, The Key to Power 
May 20
Nicolai Remisoff, Ocean's 11 
May 20
Lee Hugunin, Don't Get Jealous 
May 20
Christian Gottschalch, Once Upon a War 
May 21
Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back) 
May 21
Mabel Taliaferro, The Rich Slave 
May 21
Ruth Law, Animated Weekly, No. 43 
May 21
Philip Joubert, Past and Future 
May 22
Jim Thorpe, Wagon Master 
May 22
Juan Ortiz, El jugador de golf 
May 22
A.W. Sandberg, The Clown 
May 23
Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963) 
May 23
Vester Pegg, The Joke on Yellentown 
May 23
Jose Collins, The Sword of Damocles 
May 23
Joe Ryan, The Purple Riders 
May 23
Douglas Bronston, Snowbound 
May 23
Nelson Laraby, Frozen River 
May 24
Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918) 
May 24
Agnes Rehni, Grevindens ære 
May 24
June Keith, The Old Sin 
May 25
Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968) 
May 26
Willem van der Veer, Amsterdam bij nacht 
May 26
Ida Bolender, The Legend of Marilyn Monroe 
May 26
Walter Richard Stahl, What Becomes of the Children? 
May 26
Hugó Déri, The Old Scoundrel 
May 27
Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends) 
May 27
Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts) 
May 27
Frank Woolley, cricketer (long-running England left-arm all-rounder) 
May 27
Nell Martin, Lord Byron of Broadway 
May 28
Hank Mann, NYC, actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road) 
May 28
Hank Mann, Modern Times 
May 28
Jean Galland, The Earrings of Madame de... 
May 28
Sermet Muhtar Alus, Kivircik pasa 
May 29
Keith Hitchcock, The Little Princess 
May 29
Emil Viljanen, Kun isä tahtoo... 
May 30
Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer 
May 30
Gino Tagliapietra, composer 
May 30
Paulette Noizeux, Le roman du tzigane 
May 30
Lillian Goodman, The Cats Bah 
May 30
Emil Reesen, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages 
May 31
Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) [or Mar 31] 
May 31
Johannes Riemann, Geliebter Schatz 
Jun 1
Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger) 
Jun 1
Fernand Charpin, Pépé le Moko 
Jun 1
Clive Brook, Shanghai Express 
Jun 2
Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941) 
Jun 2
Howard Johnson, Beginners 
Jun 2
Walter Reimann, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 
Jun 3
Emil Axman, composer 
Jun 3
Roland Hayes,  
Jun 3
Fanny Watson, Her Wedding Night-Mare 
Jun 3
Anna-Lisa Fröberg, Vi två 
Jun 4
Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949) 
Jun 4
Wladyslaw Walter, Border Street 
Jun 5
Ruth Benedict, New York City, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture) 
Jun 5
Ramón Peón, Entre hermanos 
Jun 5
Ruth Benedict, Brotherhood of Man 
Jun 6
Rigmor Jerichau, Hamlet 
Jun 6
Clarence Hodge, Their Act 
Jun 7
William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily) 
Jun 8
Neville Fleeson, American Splendor 
Jun 8
Albert Johansson, It Rains on Our Love 
Jun 9
Emilio Mola,  
Jun 10
Prins Aage, De kongelige skal fotograferes 
Jun 10
Dorothy Granville, The Bliss of Ignorance 
Jun 11
Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Escape from Dartmoor 
Jun 11
Alexandre Devarennes, Vautrin 
Jun 12
Richard Lancaster, Big Time Charlie 
Jun 13
Bruno Frank, writer 
Jun 13
Ivor Barnard, Great Expectations 
Jun 13
Ali Al-Kassar, Osman wa Ali 
Jun 13
Bruno Frank, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 
Jun 13
'Senator' Ed Ford, Episode #1.3 
Jun 13
André Francois-Poncet, Munich or Peace in Our Time 
Jun 13
C. Tracy Hoag, What's Your Husband Doing? 
Jun 13
Frank Bruno, Tall, Dark and Handsome 
Jun 14
Alice Wilson, The Children in the House 
Jun 14
Joe Niemeyer, Swing, Sister, Swing 
Jun 15
Johnnie Morris, Li'l Abner 
Jun 15
Hedwig Schmitz, Finale 
Jun 15
Jack Macy, The Other Woman 
Jun 16
John Wenger, Paramount on Parade 
Jun 16
Silvio Pettirossi,  
Jun 16
Aage Bendixen, Flickorna i Åre 
Jun 18
Blanche Yurka, St Paul MN, actress (Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities) 
Jun 18
Blanche Yurka, A Tale of Two Cities 
Jun 18
Theodore Reed, Tropic Holiday 
Jun 18
Søren Kruse, En pige med pep 
Jun 19
Wiktor Andersson, Summer with Monika 
Jun 19
Will Morrissey, Look-Out Sister 
Jun 19
Ludwik Lawinski, The Colditz Story 
Jun 19
William Ehfe, The Best Man 
Jun 20
Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist 
Jun 20
Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages) 
Jun 20
Donatien, Mon curé chez les riches 
Jun 20
Kurt Schwitters, Primiti Too Taa 
Jun 21
Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956) 
Jun 21
Mieczyslaw Mieczynski, Strachy 
Jun 21
Hastings Ismay, Friends of Mr. Churchill 
Jun 21
Olga Raphael-Linden, The President 
Jun 21
Aubrey M. Kennedy, Sky Eye 
Jun 22
Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist (Uprising & Remorse) 
Jun 22
Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog 
Jun 22
Julian Huxley, The Private Life of the Gannets 
Jun 22
Gotthardt Wolf, I Kiss Your Hand Madame 
Jun 23
Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag) 
Jun 23
John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir) 
Jun 24
Madama Ganna Walska, The Child of Destiny 
Jun 25
George Abbott, Forestville NY, producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game) 
Jun 25
George Abbott, The Pajama Game 
Jun 25
Frigyes Karinthy, Trip Around My Cranium 
Jun 26
Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist 
Jun 26
A.F. Mantz, The Last Card 
Jun 27
Paul Simmel, Um eine Nasenlänge 
Jun 28
Boleslav Vomacka, composer 
Jun 28
Floyd Dell, Casanova Brown 
Jun 28
Enzo Biliotti, L'ultima carta 
Jun 28
Edna Britton, The Master Mystery 
Jun 30
Erik 'Bullen' Berglund, Intermezzo 
Jun 30
Charles Novi, To Have and Have Not 
Jun 30
Paul Mederow, Der Nachfolger 
Jul 1
Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor) 
Jul 1
F. Harmon Weight, Midnight Madness 
Jul 1
Yvonne Ducos, The Letters 
Jul 1
Charles D. Brown, The Big Sleep 
Jul 2
Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54) 
Jul 2
Madge Titheradge, David and Jonathan 
Jul 3
Elith Pio, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages 
Jul 4
Emilie Nielsen, Guds mærkelige veje 
Jul 6
Annette Kellerman, A Daughter of the Gods 
Jul 7
Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises) 
Jul 7
Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village) 
Jul 7
Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer) 
Jul 7
Raymond Hatton, In Cold Blood 
Jul 7
Marc Chagall, Chagall 
Jul 7
George Somnes, Torch Singer 
Jul 7
Adolf Hultgran, Luffar-Petter 
Jul 8
Jean Ray, Malpertuis 
Jul 8
Lon Young, The House of Shame 
Jul 9
Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea) 
Jul 9
Bruce Bairnsfather, Old Bill and Son 
Jul 9
Florence Rockwell, He Fell in Love with His Wife 
Jul 9
James Chapin, Night Descends on Treasure Island 
Jul 10
Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer 
Jul 10
Gail Kane, Idle Hands 
Jul 10
John Cherry, H.M.S. Pinafore 
Jul 11
Edgar Klitzsch, Das goldene Kalb 
Jul 12
Robert Bürkner, Becket oder Die Ehre Gottes 
Jul 12
Pierre Darteuil, La meilleure bobonne 
Jul 13
Robert Land, I Kiss Your Hand Madame 
Jul 13
Walter Bechmann, Wunschkonzert 
Jul 13
T. Jerome Lawler, The Debt 
Jul 13
Graham John, Devotion 
Jul 14
Laura R. Parrish, The Perils of Pauline 
Jul 14
Henning Ohlsson, Närkingarna 
Jul 16
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe) 
Jul 16
Skeeter Bill Robbins, The Fighting Parson 
Jul 16
Charles Haefeli, Les Misérables 
Jul 16
Wayland Trask, Fatty and Mabel Adrift 
Jul 16
Floyd Gibbons, Three-Minute Fuse 
Jul 17
Jack Conway, Libeled Lady 
Jul 17
George LeGuere, Strife 
Jul 18
Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45) 
Jul 18
Thomas Atkins, Hi, Gaucho! 
Jul 18
Vidkun Quisling, Once Upon a Honeymoon 
Jul 18
Madeline Grey, That's My Baby! 
Jul 19
Ray C. Smallwood, Camille 
Jul 19
Bert Currigan, Battling Orioles 
Jul 20
Willem H Drucker, Dutch lawyer 
Jul 20
Henry Bergman, Do It Now 
Jul 21
Pepa Delgado, Só Lotero e Siá Ofrásia com Seus Produtos na Exposição 
Jul 21
Thomas Bodkin, Episode dated 14 October 1954 
Jul 22
Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925) 
Jul 24
Inez Lundmark-Hermelin, Tösen från Stormyrtorpet 
Jul 25
Boleslaw Horski, Maly marynarz 
Jul 26
Maude T. Howell, The Man Who Played God 
Jul 26
Frank J. Collins, Illegal 
Jul 26
Belle Daube, A Virtuous Vamp 
Jul 27
Yuzo Yamamoto, Shinjitsu ichiro 
Jul 28
Marcel Duchamp, Blainville-Crevon, French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase) 
Jul 28
Marcel Duchamp, Entr'acte 
Jul 28
Morgan Flowers, Abilene Town 
Jul 28
William J. Oliver, Beaver Family 
Jul 28
Carl H. Christensen, Klør Dame 
Jul 29
Rudi Stephan, composer 
Jul 29
Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time) 
Jul 29
Sigmund Romberg, U-571 
Jul 29
Mario Puccini, La prigione 
Jul 29
Gordona Bennet, The Holly House 
Jul 29
Mamoru Shigemitsu, Victory in the Pacific 
Jul 30
Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity) 
Jul 30
Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants) 
Jul 30
Alfred Hustwick, The Beast of Borneo 
Jul 31
Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969) 
Aug 1
Molly Clifford,  
Aug 1
Anthony Coldeway, Marshal of Reno 
Aug 1
Molly Hamley-Clifford, Androcles and the Lion 
Aug 2
Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936) 
Aug 2
Fritz Jöde, The Heath Is Green 
Aug 2
Andrew Mazzei, I Became a Criminal 
Aug 2
Gigetta Morano, The Devil on Two Sticks 
Aug 3
Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914) 
Aug 3
Slim Padgett, The Story the Desert Told 
Aug 3
Ernest Dryden, The Prisoner of Zenda 
Aug 4
Erik Henning-Jensen, Livet paa Hegnsgaard 
Aug 4
Emilie Smith, The War Correspondents 
Aug 5
Reginald Owen, Wheathampstead England, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes) 
Aug 5
Reginald Owen, Mary Poppins 
Aug 5
Ellinor Vanderveer, Girl Shock 
Aug 6
Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957) 
Aug 6
Oliver Wallace, Peter Pan 
Aug 6
Ivor McFadden, The Delicious Little Devil 
Aug 6
Felix Modjeska, The Motor Boat Bandits 
Aug 6
Armand Tallier, Jocelyn 
Aug 7
Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician 
Aug 7
Luckey Roberts, composer 
Aug 7
Hermann Rauschning, The Hitler Gang 
Aug 7
Edward Sowders, Foolish Wives 
Aug 7
Anna Elisabeth Weihrauch, Es lebe die Liebe 
Aug 8
Esme Percy, London England, actor (Old Spanish Custom) 
Aug 8
J C Heldring, Dutch businessman 
Aug 8
Malcolm Keen, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama) 
Aug 8
Ullrich Haupt, Prussia, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion) 
Aug 8
Malcolm Keen, The Lodger 
Aug 8
Ullrich Haupt, Morocco 
Aug 8
Esme Percy, Murder! 
Aug 9
Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Swammerdam) 
Aug 9
Henri Vidon, The Giant Behemoth 
Aug 9
Edwin E. Ludig, The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair 
Aug 10
Sam Warner, A Dangerous Adventure 
Aug 11
Martin H. Kennelly, Night Life in Chicago 
Aug 12
Erwin Schrodinger, Vienna Austria, physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate, (d. 1961) 
Aug 12
Gus Van, Bank Notes 
Aug 13
Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952) 
Aug 13
Fletcher Bowron, Tax Refund 
Aug 13
Eric Locke, Lady Windermere's Fan 
Aug 13
Nellie Slattery, The Little Grey Mouse 
Aug 14
Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (d.1937) 
Aug 14
Therese Lyon, Mirror Image 
Aug 14
Marija Leiko, Am Ruedesheimer Schloss steht eine Linde 
Aug 14
Fred H. Bagley, The Floorwalker 
Aug 15
Edna Ferber, Giant 
Aug 15
Viggo Cavling, Lydia 
Aug 16
Hugh Dalton, The Big Blockade 
Aug 16
George W. Lawrence, Rule G 
Aug 17
Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18) 
Aug 17
Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks 
Aug 17
Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend 
Aug 17
Emperor Karl,  
Aug 18
Nico J Polak, Dutch economist 
Aug 18
Ruth Robinson, The Story of Louis Pasteur 
Aug 18
Walter Decker, A Guy Named Joe 
Aug 18
Robert Finlay, The Winning Punch 
Aug 18
Bessie Banks, Dulcie's Adventure 
Aug 19
Ivar Enhörning, The Prisoner of Zenda 
Aug 21
Norman Houston, The Broadway Melody 
Aug 21
Ernst Gronau, Genuine 
Aug 21
Ida Nielsen, The Divine Law 
Aug 21
James Dent, Indiscreet 
Aug 21
Stina Hedberg, Flickorna på Uppåkra 
Aug 21
Karl Imelsky, Der Kilometerfresser 
Aug 21
James Moody,  
Aug 22
Robert Battier, Love and Hisses 
Aug 23
Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright (Fatherland) 
Aug 23
Mark Daly, The Ghost Goes West 
Aug 24
Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974) 
Aug 24
Doris Rankin, The Great Adventure 
Aug 24
Huguette Duflos, La princesse aux clowns 
Aug 24
William O'Leary, South Sea Woman 
Aug 24
Henri La Barthe, Pépé le Moko 
Aug 24
Donald Henderson Clarke, The Ghost Ship 
Aug 24
Hal G. Evarts, The Big Trail 
Aug 24
Harry Hooper, The Glory of Their Times 
Aug 25
Olav Fartein Valen, composer 
Aug 25
Irén Iványi, Torockói menyasszony 
Aug 26
Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer 
Aug 26
Carl Boese, The Golem 
Aug 27
James Finlayson, Way Out West 
Aug 27
Wes Warner, The Lost Jungle 
Aug 27
J. Wesley Warner, Scarlet Days 
Aug 28
Daniel Zamudio, composer 
Aug 28
Vladimir Uralsky, Strike 
Aug 28
Oscar Lindelöf, Finnland 
Aug 29
Norbert A. Myles, The Wizard of Oz 
Aug 29
Al Taylor, Zorro's Fighting Legion 
Aug 29
Mrs. Wilfrid North, Meet John Doe 
Aug 30
Adam Kuckhoff, writer 
Aug 30
Myra D. Hemmings, Go Down, Death! 
Aug 30
Béla Tompa, Kettesben 
Aug 31
Friedrich A Paneth, Austrian/British chemist 
Aug 31
Billy Wells, Cloudburst 
Aug 31
Tollie Zellman, While the Door Was Locked 
Sep 1
Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer 
Sep 1
Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar 
Sep 3
Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973) 
Sep 7
Edith L Sitwell, English poetess/author (Wheels) 
Sep 8
Prince George of Yugoslavia (d. 1972) 
Sep 9
Alf (Alfred) Landon, (R-Ks) American politician and Presidential candidate (1932, 1936). Dies 1987 
Sep 9
Raymond Walburn, Plymouth In, actor (Christmas in July) 
Sep 10
Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy 
Sep 12
George Georgescu, composer 
Sep 13
Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976) 
Sep 14
Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist 
Sep 14
Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10) 
Sep 15
Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss sculptor, artist and poet 
Sep 15
Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955) 
Sep 16
Nadia Boulanger, conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony) 
Sep 16
Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor 
Sep 19
Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972) 
Sep 19
Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943) 
Sep 21
Lodewijk de Vocht, composer 
Sep 22
Hobart Cavanaugh, US, actor (Border Town, Black Angel) 
Sep 25
May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904) 
Sep 26
Antonio Moreno, Madrid Spain, actor/director (It, Careers)