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Notable Birthdays - 1893

1893Mae West, New York, film and stage actress and singer (She Done him Wrong), (d. 1980)

1893Dorothy Parker, NJ, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967)

1893Hermann Goering, Rosenheim, Bavaria, leading Nazi politician and party member

1893Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)

1893Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus)

1893Mao Zedong, Shaoshan, Hunan, Chinese revolutionary & Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), (d. 1976)

1893 Birthdays
Date Event
Jan 1
Paulo Setubal, Marquesa de Santos 
Jan 1
Frank Badgley, The Royal Visit 
Jan 1
Jay Rescher, The Devil's Daughter 
Jan 1
Mieczyslaw Krawicz, Pawel i Gawel 
Jan 2
Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931) 
Jan 3
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles) 
Jan 3
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Oslo, August 31st 
Jan 3
Gilbert Seldes, This Is America 
Jan 3
Rudy Wiedoeft, Darn Tootin 
Jan 4
Manuel Palau Boix, composer 
Jan 4
Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007) 
Jan 5
Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik) 
Jan 5
Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown) 
Jan 5
Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) 
Jan 5
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Zorro's Black Whip 
Jan 5
Constance Johnson, The Purple Scar 
Jan 7
Arturo Bragaglia, Miracle in Milan 
Jan 7
Ruth Wightman, The Ace of Hearts 
Jan 7
Lajos Ihász, Kísértetek vonata 
Jan 10
Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932) 
Jan 12
Hermann Goering, Rosenheim, Bavaria, leading Nazi politician and party member 
Jan 12
Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946) 
Jan 13
Clarke Ashton Smith, US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci) 
Jan 13
Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer 
Jan 13
Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963) 
Jan 13
Robert Kalloch, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 
Jan 15
Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies, Cardiff Wales, composer/writer/actor (Truth Game) 
Jan 15
Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-4.) 
Jan 16
Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981) 
Jan 18
John Lawrence Seymour, composer 
Jan 20
Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos) 
Jan 20
Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946) 
Jan 22
Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary) 
Jan 23
Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks) 
Jan 23
Doris Lytton, Mutiny 
Jan 23
Salvatore Campochiaro, A Difficult Life 
Jan 23
Jan Hajduga, Love or a Kingdom 
Jan 23
Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, Su última canción 
Jan 26
Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot 
Jan 26
Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976) 
Jan 26
Ben Bard, 7th Heaven 
Jan 26
Christian Arhoff, Ballade i Nyhavn 
Jan 27
Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981) 
Jan 28
Elliot Griffis, composer 
Jan 29
Edric Cundell, composer 
Jan 29
Martian Negrea, composer 
Jan 31
Freya Stark, English explorer/ travel writer 
Jan 31
Walter Schulze-Mittendorff, The Castle 
Jan 31
Józef Daniel, Podhale w ogniu 
Jan 31
Clarke Silvernail, Behind That Curtain 
Feb 1
S.K. Lauren, Blonde Venus 
Feb 1
David Boehm, Always 
Feb 2
Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974) 
Feb 2
Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970) 
Feb 3
Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978) 
Feb 4
Bernard Rogers, NYC, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion) 
Feb 4
Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus) 
Feb 4
Mikhail Tukhachevsky,  
Feb 5
Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica) 
Feb 5
Samuel Armstrong, Dumbo 
Feb 5
Peter Abriss, Night Life of the Gods 
Feb 6
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63) 
Feb 7
Doris Schroeder, Heart of the West 
Feb 8
Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977) 
Feb 9
Gino Corrado, Paradise Canyon 
Feb 9
Stellan Windrow, Halvvägs till himlen 
Feb 9
Monroe Bennett, The Garden of Allah 
Feb 9
Jacques Schreurs, Deel 1 
Feb 10
Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash) 
Feb 10
William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29) 
Feb 10
Jimmy Durante, The Notebook 
Feb 10
Esme Church, Autumn Crocus 
Feb 10
Brandon Peters, The Corsage 
Feb 11
Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary (Festival) 
Feb 12
Marcel G J Minnaert, Dutch astronomer 
Feb 12
Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II (GI General) 
Feb 13
Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52) 
Feb 13
Paul Lieberenz, Triumph of the Will 
Feb 14
Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen) 
Feb 15
Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist 
Feb 15
Walter Donaldson, US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee) 
Feb 16
Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic [OS] 
Feb 17
Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965) 
Feb 18
Ward Wing, Eyes of Hollywood 
Feb 18
Holbeche Bastos, Xeque-Mate 
Feb 19
Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III) 
Feb 19
Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi) 
Feb 19
Cedric Hardwicke, Rope 
Feb 19
Martta Hannula, Nuori luotsi 
Feb 20
Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) 
Feb 20
Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993) 
Feb 21
Andres Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist, (d. 1987) 
Feb 21
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter) 
Feb 23
Arthur Reppert, Snow White 
Feb 23
Lew Lipton, The Cameraman 
Feb 26
Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) [NS] 
Feb 26
William Frawley, Burlington, Iowa, American actor (I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons) 
Feb 27
Joseph Messner, composer 
Feb 27
Ralph Linton, US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture) 
Feb 28
Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page) 
Mar 1
Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy) 
Mar 1
Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968) 
Mar 2
Maxime Dumoulin, composer 
Mar 2
Gustaw Krynski, Z ramion w ramiona 
Mar 2
Helena Makowska, Kochanka Szamoty 
Mar 3
Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author 
Mar 3
Bill Nestell, CA, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier) 
Mar 5
Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization 
Mar 5
Jack Evans, Rawhide Romance 
Mar 5
Dorothy Sands, Country Full of Swedes 
Mar 6
Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street) 
Mar 6
[Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues 
Mar 7
Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965) 
Mar 9
Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist/decorator 
Mar 9
Hans Munch, composer 
Mar 11
Jozef Sterkens, De witte 
Mar 11
Ramón Martori, La herida luminosa 
Mar 11
Harry Nestor, Das Achtgroschenmädel, Teil 1 
Mar 16
Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger) 
Mar 18
Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) 
Mar 18
Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978) 
Mar 18
Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962) 
Mar 21
Geoffrey Dearmer, poet 
Mar 22
Tito Vuolo, The Killing 
Mar 22
Manfred Noa, Nathan der Weise 
Mar 23
Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960) 
Mar 24
George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973) 
Mar 25
Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities 
Mar 26
Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy) 
Mar 26
Norman Long, The New Hotel 
Mar 26
Palmiro Togliatti,  
Mar 26
Dhirendranath Ganguly, Srinkhal 
Mar 27
Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator 
Mar 27
Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia) 
Mar 28
Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971) 
Mar 28
Spyros P. Skouras,  
Mar 31
Clemens Krauss, Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937) 
Apr 1
Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure) 
Apr 2
Carola Toelle, Vier um die Frau 
Apr 2
Del Castillo, The Magic Fluke 
Apr 3
Leslie Howard, [Stainer], London, actor (Gone With the Wind) 
Apr 3
Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945) 
Apr 5
Clas Thunberg, Finland, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924, 28) 
Apr 7
Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement) 
Apr 7
Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969) 
Apr 8
Grace Cunard, Columbus OH, silent screen actress (Resurrection) 
Apr 8
Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit) 
Apr 10
Hazel Pierce, Fred and Ethel Fight 
Apr 11
Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53) 
Apr 11
Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft) 
Apr 12
Robert Harron, The Birth of a Nation 
Apr 13
Beppie De Vries, De jantjes 
Apr 13
Kobunji Ichikawa, Denkô sekkâ 
Apr 14
Lucjan Zitrig, Awatar czyli zamiana dusz 
Apr 16
Federico Mompou, composer 
Apr 16
Joseph Yasser, composer 
Apr 18
Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944) 
Apr 19
Ora Carew, Dollars and Sense 
Apr 19
Connie De Roo, Flapper Wives 
Apr 20
Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last) 
Apr 20
Hermann Ungar, writer 
Apr 20
Edna Parker, American supercentenarian 
Apr 20
Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983) 
Apr 23
Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo) 
Apr 24
Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance) 
Apr 25
Earl Wooden, My Pal Trigger 
Apr 25
Kalibek Kuanyshbayev, Amangeldy 
Apr 25
Svend Noldan, Hvad er verden? 
Apr 26
Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946) 
Apr 27
Norman Bel Geddes, Adrian Mich, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End) 
Apr 27
Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939) 
Apr 28
Charles Edgar Schoenbaum, Little Women 
Apr 28
Alec Lovejoy, Murder on Lenox Avenue 
Apr 29
Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet 
Apr 29
Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934) 
Apr 29
Dorothy Haydel, Flirting with Fate 
Apr 29
Harold Urey, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy 
Apr 29
Héctor Quintanilla, The Dance of Fortune 
Apr 30
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946) 
Apr 30
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nuremberg Trials 
Apr 30
Bernard Zimmer, Shadow of the Guillotine 
May 2
Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912] 
May 2
Assen Karastoyanov, composer 
May 3
Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN 
May 3
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975) 
May 3
Hope Landin, I Remember Mama 
May 4
Edgar Dearing, Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy) 
May 4
Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], Atlanta GA, actor 
May 4
Edgar Dearing, Pollyanna 
May 4
Rachel Bérendt, Diary of a Country Priest 
May 4
Roy Butler, Strangers in the Night 
May 6
Nisse Karlsson, Noidan kirot 
May 7
Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985) 
May 8
Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913) 
May 8
Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988) 
May 8
Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (d. 1963) 
May 8
Lester Dorr, Quicksand 
May 8
Charles Williams, The Rocketeer 
May 8
Edd Roush, The Glory of Their Times 
May 9
William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947) 
May 9
William M. Marston, Justice League 
May 9
Gizi Bajor, The Laughing Lady 
May 13
George J. Teague, He Walked by Night 
May 13
Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch, Die eiserne Jungfrau 
May 13
Miklos Por, A tanítónö 
May 13
Pedro Sienna, El húsar de la muerte 
May 13
Blanka Orszanska, Godziny nadziei 
May 14
Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer 
May 14
Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952) 
May 14
Jack Rice, Dummy Ache 
May 14
Louis Verneuil, Deception 
May 14
Jan Bielicz, Ulan ksiecia Józefa 
May 14
Vilmos Lengyel, Segítség, örököltem! 
May 15
Michel Gusikoff, composer 
May 15
Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes) 
May 16
Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30) 
May 16
Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer 
May 16
Dick Johnstone, The Cheyenne Social Club 
May 16
Tom Lambert, Gun Crazy 
May 16
Hannes Hako, Anna Liisa 
May 16
Joseph Waddell, Napoleon's Barber 
May 19
Willy Rösner, Die Martinsklause 
May 19
Wladyslaw Raczkowski, Jasne lany 
May 21
Arthur Carr, cricket captain (England v Australia 1926) 
May 21
Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat) 
May 21
Maurice Champreux, Lucette 
May 21
Charles Portal,  
May 22
Noel M. Smith, Clash of the Wolves 
May 22
Homer Hobson, The Family Honor 
May 22
Lou Jorda, Game 5 
May 22
Al Terr, Bullwhip 
May 23
Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977) 
May 24
W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda) 
May 24
Francis Cugat, The Caine Mutiny 
May 24
David Curtiz, Young Man with a Horn 
May 24
Francesc Cugat, The Gaucho 
May 24
Eugene Goossens, The Constant Nymph 
May 24
Dobrila Dzimic, Shots in the Sky 
May 25
Kathryn Adams, The Best of Luck 
May 26
Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus) 
May 26
Norma Talmadge, NY, actress (Sign on Door, Camille) 
May 27
Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005) 
May 29
Kynaston Reeves, Fiend Without a Face 
May 29
Max Brand, Destry Rides Again 
May 29
Betzy Holter, Andrine og Kjell 
May 29
Väinö Haapalainen, Valkoiset ruusut 
Jun 1
Cy Stevens, The Sellout 
Jun 1
George Sperry, Citizen Kane 
Jun 1
Charles Soldani, Escort West 
Jun 4
Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania 
Jun 4
Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife) 
Jun 4
Russell Huestis, The More the Merrier 
Jun 4
Perry Harris, The Bells 
Jun 6
Ludovic Feldman, composer 
Jun 7
Phil L. Ryan, Secret Command 
Jun 7
Albert Duvaleix, La Poison 
Jun 7
J.B. Morton, Boys Will Be Boys 
Jun 9
Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs) 
Jun 9
Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963) 
Jun 9
S.N. Behrman, Quo Vadis 
Jun 9
Irish Meusel, Slide, Kelly, Slide 
Jun 9
Jerry Brown, Deceit 
Jun 9
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, Jane 
Jun 10
Franz Andre, Belgian conductor 
Jun 10
Martin Boyd, Lucinda Brayford 
Jun 12
Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director (Paul Vlaanderen) 
Jun 13
Dorothy Leigh Sayers, England, novelist (9 Taylors) 
Jun 14
Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980) 
Jun 14
Joseph Forte, Reefer Madness 
Jun 14
Suzanne Grandais, Le mystère des roches de Kador 
Jun 14
Richard Maurice, Eleven P.M. 
Jun 14
Else Reval, Zwischenfall im Roxy 
Jun 14
Frank E. Hughes, Lifeboat 
Jun 15
Jacob HA van Coeverden, boer/edelman 
Jun 16
Philo McCullough, Tarzan the Fearless 
Jun 16
William K. Howard, Fire Over England 
Jun 16
Daisy Burrell, Little Women 
Jun 16
Ray Kirkwood, The Shadow of Silk Lennox 
Jun 18
George Bloom, Around the World in Eighty Days 
Jun 18
William Hughes Curran, The Freshie 
Jun 18
Ernö Kulinyi, Úrilány szobát keres 
Jun 19
Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano) 
Jun 19
Helen Holmes, The Hazards of Helen 
Jun 20
Jacques Haïk, Azaïs 
Jun 20
Edwin Wolfe, All the Way Home 
Jun 21
Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973) 
Jun 22
Osvald Chlubna, composer 
Jun 22
Allen McNeil, The Ox-Bow Incident 
Jun 22
Cynthia Harnett, Thieves Discovered 
Jun 22
Aaro Hellaakoski, Kuusi runoilijaa 
Jun 23
Donald McBride, Brooklyn NY, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Irma) 
Jun 23
Adolf Jahr, 'Swing it' magistern 
Jun 23
Frank Dalby Davison, Dusty 
Jun 23
Pick Malone, American Minstrels of 1949 
Jun 24
Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971) 
Jun 24
Roy O. Disney, Alice's Spooky Adventure 
Jun 24
Arthur Hughes, The Great Gatsby 
Jun 25
Charlotte Greenwood, Phila, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami) 
Jun 25
Guillermo Calles, Dios y ley 
Jun 26
"Big Bill" Broonzy, Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy) 
Jun 28
Luciano Gallet, composer 
Jun 28
Nils Bjorkander, composer 
Jun 29
Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter 
Jun 29
Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (12-tones music) 
Jun 29
Franz Pfaudler, Das Ochsenmenuett 
Jun 29
Alma Kitchell, The Pirates of Penzance 
Jun 29
Aarre Merikanto, Maailmat kohtaavat - XV Olympiakisat Helsingissä 1952 
Jun 30
Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..) 
Jun 30
Walter Ulbricht, president German DR 
Jul 1
Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia 
Jul 1
Bunroku Shishi, Jiyû gakkô 
Jul 2
August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Shylock-Hamlet) 
Jul 2
Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950) 
Jul 2
Virginia Flohri, Alibi 
Jul 2
Gust Maes, Diepten 
Jul 2
Viola Dolan, Judge Her Not 
Jul 2
Harry Crocker, The Circus 
Jul 3
Mississippi John Hurt, Teoc Mississippi, American blues singer and guitarist 
Jul 5
Sara Taft, Death Ship 
Jul 5
Anthony Berkeley, Suspicion 
Jul 6
Wilton St Hill, WI cricketer (3 Tests 1928-30) 
Jul 6
Elliott Lester, City Girl 
Jul 6
Nicolas Amato, Savage Triangle 
Jul 6
Lech Owron, Ludzie dzisiejsi 
Jul 6
Eugene Hornboestel, A Shriek in the Night 
Jul 7
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[NS=7/19] 
Jul 7
Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981) 
Jul 8
Fritz Perls, father of Gestalt therapy 
Jul 9
George Geary, cricketer (sturdy pace bowler for England 1924-34) 
Jul 11
Jack Durston, cricketer (England fast bowler against Australia 1921) 
Jul 14
John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58) 
Jul 14
Spencer Williams, Vidalia La, actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy) 
Jul 14
Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965) 
Jul 14
Spencer Williams, The Blood of Jesus 
Jul 14
Frank McClure, Citizen Kane 
Jul 14
Mrs. Norman T. Chaney, Railroadin' 
Jul 14
Abel Jacquin, The Unfrocked One 
Jul 15
Enid Bennett, Australia, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins) 
Jul 17
John V.A. Weaver, The Crowd 
Jul 18
Josef Huttel, composer 
Jul 18
Richard Dix, St Paul MN, actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron) 
Jul 19
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7] 
Jul 19
Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Young Lady and the Holligan 
Jul 19
Gus Peterson, Trouble in Texas 
Jul 19
László Schäffer, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 
Jul 19
Florence Deshon, The Roof Tree 
Jul 20
Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20) 
Jul 20
Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came) 
Jul 20
George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915) 
Jul 21
Hans Fallada, writer 
Jul 21
Phyllis Povah, The Women 
Jul 21
Eugen Schüfftan, The Hustler 
Jul 21
Hans Fallada, Everyone Dies Alone 
Jul 21
Ellen Richter, Der Flug um den Erdball, 1. Teil - Paris bis Ceylon 
Jul 21
Alice Hechy, Die Puppe vom Lunapark 
Jul 22
Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978) 
Jul 23
Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic) 
Jul 24
Edward R. Robinson, The Killers 
Jul 24
Premysl Prazský, Dve matky 
Jul 25
Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy) 
Jul 26
George Grosz, German painter (Gott mit uns) 
Jul 27
Daisy Lee, Little Tokyo, U.S.A. 
Jul 27
Andor Zsoldos, A tanítónö 
Jul 27
Frank Barnes, The White Buffalo 
Jul 28
Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer 
Jul 28
Coba Kelling, De dijk is dicht 
Jul 28
Meinrad Inglin, Der schwarze Tanner 
Jul 28
Alfhild Degerberg, Skåningar 
Jul 28
Rafael Pihlaja, Katupeilin takana 
Jul 29
Slim Whitaker, Bullet Code 
Jul 29
Harry Tom McKenna, Moment of Triumph 
Jul 29
George Switzer, Rascals 
Jul 30
Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967) 
Jul 30
Harold McCord, The Jazz Singer 
Jul 31
Charles Wilfred Orr, composer 
Aug 1
Florette Faulkner, The Kid 
Aug 3
Gene Marsh, His Prehistoric Past 
Aug 3
Reece Gardner, The Village Blacksmith 
Aug 4
Peter Seal, Ghosts on the Loose 
Aug 5
Vera Kholodnaya, Her Sister's Rival 
Aug 6
Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset) 
Aug 6
Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976) 
Aug 9
Carl Miller, The Kid 
Aug 9
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, Hell's Angels 
Aug 9
Eugene Strong, The Front Page 
Aug 9
Pierrette Madd, Le roi de la vitesse 
Aug 9
Roland Price, The Bride and the Beast 
Aug 10
Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard) 
Aug 10
Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61) 
Aug 10
Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki) 
Aug 10
Raoul Moretti, Under the Roofs of Paris 
Aug 10
Signe Deurell, Röda dagen 
Aug 11
Jarmila Kronbauerová, Rina 
Aug 12
Howard Smith, Attleboro Mass, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel) 
Aug 14
Alfred Alessandrescu, composer 
Aug 14
Carl Benton Reid, Lansing MI, actor (Pressure Point) 
Aug 15
Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer 
Aug 15
Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8) 
Aug 15
Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950) 
Aug 17
Mae West, New York, film and stage actress and singer (She Done him Wrong), (d. 1980) 
Aug 17
Mae West, I'm No Angel 
Aug 18
Ernest MacMillan, composer 
Aug 18
Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985) 
Aug 19
Alfred Lunt, Milwaukee WI, Broadway actor (Emmy 1965) 
Aug 19
Olga Baclanova, Freaks 
Aug 19
Elsie Waters, It's in the Bag 
Aug 19
Enzo Masetti, Hercules 
Aug 19
Jane Bernoudy, The Mad Stampede 
Aug 19
Marie Manley, Aired in Court 
Aug 19
Alma Belwin, The Ivory Snuff Box 
Aug 19
Thomas Charles Arnold, Old King Cole 
Aug 20
Virginia Hammond, Romeo and Juliet 
Aug 20
Odette Barencey, Casque d'Or 
Aug 20
Edward Kaufman, The Gay Divorcee 
Aug 20
Giorgi Tsagareli, They Wanted Peace 
Aug 21
Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer 
Aug 22
Dorothy Parker, NJ, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967) 
Aug 23
Roy Agnew, composer 
Aug 25
Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962) 
Aug 25
Chester Gore, Boomerang! 
Aug 25
Maksim Mikhaylov, Ivan the Terrible, Part I 
Aug 25
Boyce Combe, The Stage Door Pest 
Aug 26
Madeleine Ruthven, Dangerous Corner 
Aug 26
Eileen Molyneux, The Key of the World 
Aug 30
Huey P Long, Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La) 
Aug 30
Nat Holt, Rage at Dawn 
Aug 30
Sophie Cossaeus, Öl und Champagner 
Aug 30
Huey Long, All the King's Men 
Aug 30
Jimsy Maye, Nine-Tenths of the Law 
Aug 31
Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988) 
Sep 1
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer 
Sep 3
Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer/choreography/teacher (Schepelingen) 
Sep 4
Henry Schultz, US, farm commune leader 
Sep 6
Irving Bacon, St Joseph MO, actor (Branded Men, Fort Ti) 
Sep 6
Claire Chennault, American pilot (d. 1958) 
Sep 7
Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport 
Sep 10
Al "Fuzzy" St John, Santa Ana California, actor (Lash of the West) 
Sep 10
Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian 
Sep 11
W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974) 
Sep 13
Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953) 
Sep 16
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937) 
Sep 16
Alexander Korda, British movie producer (3rd man) 
Sep 17
Abel J Herzberg, Russ/Dutch writer (Persecution of Jews) 
Sep 18
Arthur Benjamin, Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba) 
Sep 18
William March, [Campbell], US, writer (Company K) 
Sep 20
Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic) 
Sep 21
Moses Pergament, composer 
Sep 24
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Coutchman, Texas, blues singer and guitarist, (d. 1929) 
Sep 24
Julia Faye, Richmond VA, actress (10 Commandments, Samson & Delilah) 
Sep 26
Milos Crnjanski, Serbian poet (Seobe) 
Sep 27
Joannes DM Cornelissen, Dutch historian (Hooft & Tacitus) 
Sep 28
Marie V Felix, prince of Luxemburg/Bourbon-Parma 
Sep 29
Fabien Sevitzky, Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch) 
Sep 29
Phillip Tead, Somerville Mass, actor (Lightnin', Fighting Blade) 
Sep 30
Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964) 
Oct 1
Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love) 
Oct 1
Yip Man, Martial Arts Master d.(1972) 
Oct 1
Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974) 
Oct 1
Anta Klints, Mernieku laiki 
Oct 1
Bud Harrison, Pete and Repeat 
Oct 1
Cliff Friend, The Shawshank Redemption 
Oct 1
Faith Baldwin, Wife vs. Secretary 
Oct 2
Leroy B Shield, US pianist/producer/composer (Laurel & Hardy) 
Oct 2
Julia Delgado Caro, Death of a Cyclist 
Oct 2
Leroy Shield, Shanghai Knights 
Oct 3
Frantisek Picha, composer 
Oct 5
Fujie Satsuki, Black Cat Mansion 
Oct 5
James Hartnett, The Moon's Our Home 
Oct 5
Lajos Czeizler, Sunday Heroes 
Oct 6
Earle Hodgins, Paradise Canyon 
Oct 6
Milton Ager, The Aviator 
Oct 6
Reggie Lanning, Sands of Iwo Jima 
Oct 6
Julian La Mothe, The White Sin 
Oct 7
Dwain Esper, Maniac 
Oct 7
Alfredo Codona, Swing High 
Oct 7
Fritz Puchstein, When the Grapevines Bloom on the Danube 
Oct 7
Alfredo Codona, 4 Devils 
Oct 8
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Epping England, British painter and etcher 
Oct 9
Heinrich George, (Schulz), German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex) 
Oct 9
M de Andrade, writer 
Oct 9
Heinrich George, Metropolis 
Oct 9
Roy Emerton, The Thief of Bagdad 
Oct 9
Patrick Kearney, A Place in the Sun 
Oct 9
Mário de Andrade, Macunaima 
Oct 10
August Balthazar, Belgian politician 
Oct 12
Pall Isolfsson, composer 
Oct 12
Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980) 
Oct 13
George Moskov, The Big Combo 
Oct 13
Tania, Capricious and Millionaire 
Oct 14
Lillian Gish, American silent film/stage actress (Birth of a Nation). Died 1993. 
Oct 14
Lillian Gish, The Night of the Hunter 
Oct 14
Bernard Nedell, Monsieur Verdoux 
Oct 15
Charles II, King of Romania (1930-40) 
Oct 17
Jean Binet, composer 
Oct 17
Fritz Ascher, Berlin Germany, German Expressionist artist 
Oct 18
Roy Del Ruth, DE, director (About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show) 
Oct 18
Sidney Holland, NZ, PM of NZ (1949-57) 
Oct 18
Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966) 
Oct 18
Roy Del Ruth, Topper Returns 
Oct 18
Raymond Friedgen, Killers of the Sea 
Oct 18
Carlo Bentsen, Panserbasse 
Oct 19
Bessie Breuer, In Name Only 
Oct 20
Charley Chase, American comedian, actor and director (d. 1940) 
Oct 20
Charley Chase, On the Wrong Trek 
Oct 20
Fay Roope, Viva Zapata! 
Oct 20
Carl Winston, The Blue Angel 
Oct 20
Janina Janecka, My Uncle from America 
Oct 21
Bertha Mann, Behind the Mask 
Oct 21
Edgar K. Bruce, The Coffin 
Oct 23
Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Peau d'Ane) 
Oct 23
Ernest Julius Öpik, Kunda, Estonian Astronomer and Astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos 
Oct 27
Johan G Dancer, Dutch poet (Meetings) 
Oct 27
Gordon Richards, High Society 
Oct 28
Christopher K Ingold, English chemist 
Oct 28
Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor-in-chief (Negro Worker) 
Oct 28
Karl Farkas, Wonder Bar 
Oct 28
Ethel Corcoran, Benjamin Bunter: Book Agent 
Oct 28
Ferdinand Hart, Panic in Chicago 
Oct 29
Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor 
Oct 29
David Cavendish, Captain Blood 
Oct 29
Richard Weil, Shine on Harvest Moon 
Oct 29
James J. Geller, Rookie of the Year 
Oct 30
Charles Atlas, [Angelo Siciliano], US, bodybuilder 
Oct 30
Jan M Romein, Dutch historian (Low Countries at Sea) 
Oct 30
Willi Apel, German/US musicologist (Harvard dictionary of music) 
Oct 30
Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945) 
Oct 31
Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase) 
Nov 2
Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966) 
Nov 3
R Lindley Murray, tennis champ (US Open-1918) 
Nov 3
Carl Jöken, Schuberts Frühlingstraum 
Nov 3
Everil Worrell, Death on a Barge 
Nov 5
Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer 
Nov 6
August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island) 
Nov 7
Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985) 
Nov 8
John Miljan, Lead City SD, actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox) 
Nov 8
Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965) 
Nov 8
Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941) 
Nov 8
J. Paul Fogarty, Betty Co-ed 
Nov 8
Édouard Francomme, Le Cercle Rouge 
Nov 8
Martin Matosevic, Ciguli Miguli 
Nov 8
King Prajadhipok, Their Majesties the King and Queen of Siam Visiting the Famous Carlsberg Breweries at Copenhagen (Denmark) 
Nov 10
John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960) 
Nov 11
Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author 
Nov 13
Edward A Doisy Sr, US bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943) 
Nov 13
Jalmari Rinne, Koskenlaskijan morsian 
Nov 13
Stanislaw Ratowski, Skandal w eleganckim swiecie 
Nov 14
Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Madonna dei filosofi) 
Nov 14
Evert S J Kruythoff, Ned Antillean author (conservation flora) 
Nov 14
Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champ cyclist (1921-24, 26) 
Nov 16
Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist 
Nov 19
René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952) 
Nov 19
Chris-Pin Martin, The Ox-Bow Incident 
Nov 19
Bert Glennon, Stagecoach 
Nov 21
Chris Beute, Indestructible Man 
Nov 21
Ernst Grunfeld, Chess Fever 
Nov 22
M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin 
Nov 22
Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969) 
Nov 23
Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for South Africa) 
Nov 24
Fern Andra, Watseka IL, actress (Eyes of the World) 
Nov 24
Charles F. Hurley, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946) 
Nov 27
Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer 
Nov 27
Harry Welch, Rocket to Mars 
Nov 27
Richard K. Sutherland,  
Nov 27
Ashmead Scott, Murder on the Menu 
Nov 29
Nora Gordon, The Nanny 
Dec 1
Ernst Toller, writer 
Dec 1
Herman Griffith, cricketer (pioneering WI pace bowler) 
Dec 2
Julius Bissier, German painter 
Dec 2
Louis Freeman, band leader 
Dec 2
William Gaxton, SF California, actor (Destry, Convoy) 
Dec 4
Schamyl Bauman, 'Swing it' magistern 
Dec 4
Karin Högel, Barnen från Frostmofjället 
Dec 4
Jennie Haggar, The Maid of Cefn Ydfa 
Dec 4
Harold H. MacArthur, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe 
Dec 4
August Cesarec, Tonkina jedina ljubav 
Dec 6
Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960) 
Dec 7
Fay Bainter, Woman of the Year 
Dec 7
Lee S. Marcus, The Spoilers 
Dec 9
Piroska Szabados, Arsene Lupin's Last Adventure 
Dec 9
André Randall, Amazing Monsieur Fabre 
Dec 9
Artur Günther, Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck 
Dec 10
Walter Rein, composer 
Dec 11
Marguerite Ducouret, Carnival in Flanders 
Dec 12
Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], Romania, actor (10 Commandments) 
Dec 13
Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day) 
Dec 15
Victor Milner, The Lady Eve 
Dec 16
Vladimir Golschmann, Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat 
Dec 17
Erwin Piscator, German stage director (Der Stellvertreter) 
Dec 17
Erwin Piscator, Vosstaniye rybakov 
Dec 19
Homer Dietmeier, Julius Caesar 
Dec 20
James Kevin McGuinness, A Night at the Opera 
Dec 20
Stephen Morehouse Avery, Our Little Girl 
Dec 21
Edith Taliaferro, Young Romance 
Dec 21
Mikhail Kedrov, Call to Arms 
Dec 21
Dietzenschmidt, Die kleine Sklavin 
Dec 23
Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father) 
Dec 24
Carl Brisson, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Murder at the Vanities) 
Dec 24
Ruth Chatterton, US actress (Madame X, Sarah & Son) 
Dec 25
Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million) 
Dec 25
Fred Hillebrand, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Martin Kane) 
Dec 26
Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer 
Dec 26
Yury Nikolayevich Tyulin, composer 
Dec 26
Mao Zedong, Shaoshan, Hunan, Chinese revolutionary & Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), (d. 1976) 
Dec 26
Zedong Mao, All Eyes and Ears 
Dec 26
Russell Patterson, Artists & Models 
Dec 29
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth 
Dec 30
Cândida Leal, A Dançarina Descalça 
Dec 30
Olga Hellqvist, Kalle på Spången 
Dec 31
J M Blankenberg, cricketer (60 wkts in 18 Tests for South Africa) 
Dec 31
Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist/author (Flemish Resurrection) 
Dec 31
Einar Bryme, Söderkåkar 
Dec 31
Vladeta Dragutinovic, Filmski bal u Beogradu 
Dec 31
Frank Titterton, Waltz Time 
3
Anthony Collins, Sunny 
3
Harold Williams, Jimmy Boy 
3
Rigmor Reumert, Vask, videnskab og velvære 
9
John McDermott, Three Wise Fools 
9
John Oaker, Vindication 
11
Yôtarô Katsumi, Aka to shiro 
11
Edgar Connor, Black and Tan 
14
Edith Sharpe, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness 
18
Victorio Blanco, La sunamita 
18
William March, The Bad Seed 
18
Ernest Jay, Neighbours 
18
Wolfgang Zeller, Vampyr 
18
Jarl Hemmer, Scarlet Week 
22
Dorothy Dalton, Moran of the Lady Letty 
22
Hans Leip, Judgment at Nuremberg 
22
Spider Roach, Slippery Slim and the Impersonator 
23
Louis Sorin, Animal Crackers 
23
Ruth Renick, The Mollycoddle 
23
Claire Lotto, Die Tragödie der Entehrten 
23
Georg Fraser, Anuschka 
23
Clifford Vaughan, Old Yeller 
24
Julia Faye, The Ten Commandments 
24
Terrell Stapp, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 
24
Alla Moskova, The King of Kings 
25
Paul B. Kossoff, Fantasia 
25
Minwei Li, Sun Dayuanshuai Chuxun Guangdong Dongbei Jiang Ji 
27
Britt Wood, Detour to Danger 
27
Emmett Vogan, The Greener Hills 
28
Jack Hobbs, Miracles Do Happen 
29
Phil Tead, The Front Page 
29
Michael Edwards, Grumpy Old Men 
29
Manuel Varé 'Varelito', Gloria que mata 
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