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Notable Birthdays - 1895

1895John Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63)

1895Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26)

1895John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)

1895George Hainsworth, Toronto Ontario, Canadian ice hockey player

1895George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], Memphis Tennessee, American gangster, (d. 1954)

1895George Halas, Chicago Illinois, NFL pioneer (owner of the Chicago Bears)

1895J. Edgar Hoover, Washington, D.C., first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72)

1895Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)

1895 Birthdays
Date Event
Jan 1
J. Edgar Hoover, Washington, D.C., first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) 
Jan 1
Nathaniel Shilkret, NYC, conductor 
Jan 1
Ferdinand Zegel, Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns 
Jan 1
Rafael Martínez, Morena Clara 
Jan 1
Art Gillham, The Public Enemy 
Jan 1
Bernard Schubert, Mark of the Vampire 
Jan 1
Eugene Frenke, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison 
Jan 1
Jimmy Hollywood, Yoo Yoo Hollywood 
Jan 1
J. Edgar Hoover, Walk East on Beacon! 
Jan 2
Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN) 
Jan 3
Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer 
Jan 3
Mihail Andricu, composer 
Jan 4
Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter 
Jan 4
Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982) 
Jan 5
Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest 
Jan 5
Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987) 
Jan 5
A. Edward Sutherland, The Flying Deuces 
Jan 5
Vibeke Krøyer, Prinsessens Tilbeder 
Jan 5
Sybille Binder, Blanche Fury 
Jan 5
Else Eckersberg, Der Dummkopf 
Jan 5
Elizabeth Cotten, Dogfight 
Jan 7
Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist 
Jan 7
Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960) 
Jan 7
Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974) 
Jan 7
Charles de Grandcourt, Victoria the Great 
Jan 7
Harold Liebman, Pan-Americana 
Jan 7
Marie Gavette, Highlights and Shadows 
Jan 9
Carmen Phillips, Shackles 
Jan 13
Anton Betzner, writer 
Jan 13
Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer 
Jan 14
George Richard Samways, children's writer 
Jan 15
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973) 
Jan 16
Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955) 
Jan 20
Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah) 
Jan 21
Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972) 
Jan 24
Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch) 
Jan 24
Eugen Roth, writer 
Jan 26
Geoffrey Kerr, The Ghost Goes West 
Jan 26
Piotr Morskoy, Dakarguli saundje 
Jan 26
Fred Hennings, Silhouetten 
Jan 27
Claudio Carneyro, composer 
Jan 27
Joseph Rosenstock, Kraków Poland, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41) 
Jan 27
Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974) 
Jan 29
Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965) 
Feb 1
John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man) 
Feb 2
George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL 
Feb 2
George Halas, Chicago Illinois, NFL pioneer (owner of the Chicago Bears) 
Feb 3
Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52) 
Feb 3
Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show) 
Feb 3
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (APRA-Peru) [or Feb 22] 
Feb 4
Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters) 
Feb 4
Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth 
Feb 4
Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, British actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes) 
Feb 6
George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, Maryland, baseball great (NY Yankees) 
Feb 8
King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas) 
Feb 9
Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959) 
Feb 11
Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer 
Feb 13
Fred Essler, Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk) 
Feb 14
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice) 
Feb 15
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971) 
Feb 17
Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain) 
Feb 17
Edna Park Edwards, PA 
Feb 18
George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star (Notre Dame) 
Feb 18
Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II) 
Feb 19
Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle) 
Feb 20
Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) 
Feb 21
Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976) 
Feb 22
Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party) 
Feb 23
Richard Goolden, London England, actor (School for Husbands) 
Feb 25
DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles) 
Feb 25
Henri Martelli, composer 
Feb 27
Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys) 
Feb 28
Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit) 
Feb 28
Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire) 
Mar 1
G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of fame (elected 1958) 
Mar 2
Felix Bressart, Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads) 
Mar 2
Tage Aurell, Wonderful Adventures of Nils 
Mar 2
Eduardo Cansino, The Voice in the Sky 
Mar 3
Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer (d. 1980) 
Mar 3
Juanita Hansen, Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love) 
Mar 3
Matthew B Ridgway, US gen (WW II/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO) 
Mar 3
Ragnar Frisch, Oslo, Norwegian economist (1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics-1969) 
Mar 3
Robert Gordon, Ks, actor (Loveless) 
Mar 4
Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953) 
Mar 5
Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle) 
Mar 7
Juan Jose Castro, composer 
Mar 12
William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948) 
Mar 14
Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian 
Mar 17
Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891] 
Mar 20
Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981) 
Mar 21
Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955) 
Mar 23
Dane Rudhyar, composer 
Mar 23
Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001) 
Mar 24
Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party) 
Mar 24
Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront) 
Mar 25
Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954) 
Mar 26
Giulio Calì, Variety Lights 
Mar 26
Helen Gammeltoft, Den forfulgte Brudgom 
Mar 26
Rena Parker, Dangerous Hour 
Mar 28
Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church 
Mar 28
Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966) 
Mar 29
Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998) 
Mar 30
Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant) 
Mar 31
John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man) 
Mar 31
Vardis A Fisher, US author (Darkness & Deep) 
Apr 1
Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues) 
Apr 2
Elga Brink, Im Banne der Berge 
Apr 2
William Moll, On the Level 
Apr 3
Bjarne Brustad, composer 
Apr 3
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer 
Apr 4
Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party) 
Apr 4
Charlie Hallows, cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28) 
Apr 7
Eduardo Toldra, composer 
Apr 7
Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer 
Apr 8
Bert I Gordon, NY 
Apr 8
Sigurdur Thordarson, composer 
Apr 9
Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper) 
Apr 9
Michel Simon, [Francois], Geneva Switzerland 
Apr 9
Rudolf Kattnigg, composer 
Apr 13
Olga Rudge, violinist 
Apr 13
Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973) 
Apr 14
Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance) 
Apr 14
Wiktor Labunski, composer 
Apr 14
Ann Forrest, Love's Boomerang 
Apr 14
Mary Marquet, The Great Promenade 
Apr 15
Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte) 
Apr 15
Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920) 
Apr 15
Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980) 
Apr 16
Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948) 
Apr 17
Bert Wheeler, actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers) 
Apr 19
Anton F Pieck, Den Helder, Netherlands, illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel) 
Apr 20
Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973) 
Apr 23
Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982) 
Apr 24
S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner 
Apr 25
Stanley Rous, British soccer official 
Apr 25
George W. Hill, The Big House 
Apr 29
Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts) 
Apr 30
Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960) 
May 1
Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946) 
May 2
Alfred Kurella, writer 
May 2
Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads) 
May 2
Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943) 
May 3
Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae) 
May 3
Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers) 
May 3
Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987) 
May 6
Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle) 
May 6
Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946) 
May 6
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974) 
May 8
Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore) 
May 8
Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living) 
May 8
Jose Gomez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter 
May 8
James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962) 
May 9
Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon) 
May 9
Richard Barthelmess, NYC, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose) 
May 9
Richard Barthelmess, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl 
May 9
Rankin Mansfield, Just Like Your Father 
May 9
Prudence Beers, Psycho 
May 9
Ascenso Ferreira, Oropa, França e Bahia 
May 9
Lucian Blaga, Adela 
May 11
Jan Parandowski, writer 
May 11
William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American) 
May 12
Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22] 
May 14
Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One) 
May 14
Renato Lunelli, composer 
May 15
Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars) 
May 15
William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941) 
May 19
Albert Hay Malotte, composer 
May 19
Cecil Gray, composer 
May 19
Albert Hay Malotte, The Enchanted Forest 
May 20
Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire) 
May 21
Ben Hardaway, The Woody Woodpecker Show 
May 21
Lázaro Cárdenas, De Porfirio Díaz a Lazaro Cárdenas: 30 años de historia 
May 21
Harold J. Marzorati, The World, the Flesh and the Devil 
May 22
Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12] 
May 22
Renaud Hoffman, Which Shall It Be? 
May 24
H S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI) 
May 24
Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour) 
May 26
Dorothea Lange, US documentary photographer 
May 26
Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx) 
May 27
Marij Kogoj, composer 
May 29
Heikki Aho, Suomi kutsuu 
May 29
Harry D. Harde, The Twin Pawns 
May 30
Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's) 
Jun 3
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance) 
Jun 4
Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32) 
Jun 5
August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus) 
Jun 5
William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy) 
Jun 7
Hans Schneeberger, The Blue Light 
Jun 9
Lottie Pickford, The Affair of an Egg 
Jun 9
Henri Diamant-Berger, Arsene Lupin, Detective 
Jun 9
Josef Burgwinkel, Das Stacheltier - Der junge Engländer 
Jun 9
Paul Taylor, Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning 
Jun 10
Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision) 
Jun 10
Hattie McDaniel, Wichita Kansas, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar (Gone With The Wind) 
Jun 11
Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58) 
Jun 11
Frank Fredrickson,  
Jun 14
Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish Upon a Star) 
Jun 14
Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees) 
Jun 14
Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (d. 1968) 
Jun 16
Lew Pollack, The Green Mile 
Jun 17
Slavko Osterc, composer 
Jun 18
Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian 
Jun 22
James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, Rabula, Keiskammahoek, Eastern Cape. 
Jun 22
Margaret Fielding, Kentucky Days 
Jun 22
Harold Austin, Big Business 
Jun 23
Fred Rapport, The Case of the Borrowed Brunette 
Jun 23
Rolf Raffé, Ein verhängnisvolles Geigensolo 
Jun 23
Eugen Gürster, Das Leben ein Traum 
Jun 24
Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) 
Jun 26
Jankel Adler, Polish painter 
Jun 26
George Hainsworth, Toronto Ontario, Canadian ice hockey player 
Jun 28
Kazimierz Sikorski, composer 
Jun 29
Louis Beydts, Carnival in Flanders 
Jun 29
Donald Hough, Prairie Chickens 
Jul 2
Janusz Warnecki, Kazdemu wolno kochac 
Jul 3
Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, composer 
Jul 3
Jean Paige, Black Beauty 
Jul 3
Mark Reizen, Khovanschina 
Jul 4
Irving Caesar, songwriter 
Jul 4
Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator 
Jul 4
Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record)) 
Jul 5
Gordon Jacob, composer 
Jul 5
Vladimir Dorofeyev, Kapitanskaya dochka 
Jul 5
Gordon Jacob, For Those in Peril 
Jul 5
Ken'ichi Miyajima, Street of Shame 
Jul 5
Janis Osis, Chuzhaya v posyolke 
Jul 8
Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (God & the Worms) 
Jul 9
Cullen Landis, Nashville TN, actor (Soul of the Beast) 
Jul 10
Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969) 
Jul 10
John Gilbert, [Pringle], Logan UT, actor (Heart o' the Hills) 
Jul 10
Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court 
Jul 10
Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization 
Jul 11
Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941) 
Jul 12
Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner) 
Jul 12
Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers 
Jul 12
R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome) 
Jul 13
Sidney Blackmer, Salisbury NC, actor (Ted Roosevelt in 12 movies) 
Jul 14
Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment) 
Jul 18
Marie Ney, London England, actress (Brief Ecstasy, Simba, Witchcraft) 
Jul 18
George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], Memphis Tennessee, American gangster, (d. 1954) 
Jul 19
Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953) 
Jul 20
László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946) 
Jul 21
H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31) 
Jul 21
Ken Maynard, Texas, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot) 
Jul 22
James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman 
Jul 23
Florence Vidor, [Arto], Houston Texas, actress (Jack Knife Man) 
Jul 23
Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989) 
Jul 24
Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26] 
Jul 24
Paul Kruger, A Hatful of Rain 
Jul 25
Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel) 
Jul 26
Jerry Verno, London England, actor (River of Unrest, Sweeney Todd) 
Jul 26
Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922) 
Jul 28
Roy Martin, Rascals 
Jul 29
Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author 
Jul 30
Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963) 
Jul 30
Wanda Hawley, The Affairs of Anatol 
Jul 30
Harry Miller, Stage Door Canteen 
Jul 30
Paul H. Allen, Orphans of the Storm 
Jul 30
Oskar Wälterlin, Leonor 
Aug 1
Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University) 
Aug 1
Francis Henderson, The Ten Thousand Dollar Trail 
Aug 1
Elsie Maison, The Lumber Yard Gang 
Aug 2
Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test) 
Aug 3
Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941) 
Aug 3
Leslie I. Carey, Touch of Evil 
Aug 3
Antônio Gomide, Candinho 
Aug 3
Conrad Seiler, Redhead 
Aug 7
Edward Gill, baseball player 
Aug 8
Law Pendleton, US, wrestler/actor (Laughing Lady) 
Aug 9
Fred Badcock, cricketer (swing bowler in NZ's 1st Test matches) 
Aug 9
Nat Pendleton, Davenport IA, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless) 
Aug 9
Nat Pendleton, The Thin Man 
Aug 9
Franz Schafheitlin, Die ewige Maske 
Aug 10
Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author 
Aug 10
Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969) 
Aug 11
Friedrich Forster-Burggraf, The Girl and the Legend 
Aug 11
Irving Gaumont, Thieves Fall Out 
Aug 13
Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz) 
Aug 13
Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row) 
Aug 14
Jack Gregory, cricketer (Australian all-rounder of post-WWI years) 
Aug 16
Jacinto Guerrero, composer 
Aug 16
Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie) 
Aug 16
Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981) 
Aug 16
Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000) 
Aug 19
Andrzejewski, writer 
Aug 19
Arnoldt Bronnen, writer 
Aug 19
Jane Eccles, Look Back in Anger 
Aug 19
Afonso Stuart, A Ordem Natural das Coisas 
Aug 19
Cliff Blackstone, The Legion of the Condemned 
Aug 19
Arnolt Bronnen, S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen 
Aug 22
Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello) 
Aug 22
Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966) 
Aug 23
Iphigenie Castiglioni, Funny Face 
Aug 23
Grace Hayes, Babes in Arms 
Aug 24
Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970) 
Aug 25
Habib Benglia, Children of Paradise 
Aug 25
Bertha Powell, The Story of Mr. Hobbs 
Aug 25
Maria Waldner, The Great Love 
Aug 30
Arthur Rankin, Brothers 
Aug 30
Paul Lewitt, Jacob the Liar 
Aug 30
Frank Milliken, Around the World in Eighty Days 
Aug 31
Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer 
Sep 1
Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel) 
Sep 1
Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974) 
Sep 8
Sara García, Mexican actress (d. 1980) 
Sep 10
Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976). 
Sep 11
Harry Tobias, songwriter 
Sep 12
Alice Lake, Brooklyn NY, silent screen actress (Glamour, Wicked) 
Sep 13
Ruth McDevitt, Coldwater Mich, actress (Jo-All in the Family) 
Sep 15
Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977) 
Sep 15
Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974) 
Sep 16
Charles W Bidwill Sr, Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals) 
Sep 16
Karol Rathaus, composer 
Sep 18
John Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63) 
Sep 18
Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007 
Sep 21
Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925) 
Sep 22
Babette Deutsch, US poet (Animal vegetable mineral) 
Sep 22
Paul Muni, actor (Acad Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez) 
Sep 23
Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975) 
Sep 23
Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985) 
Sep 24
Andre Cournand, physician 
Sep 26
Fay Holden, Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films) 
Sep 27
Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948) 
Sep 28
Charles Petrie, Liverpool, historian 
Sep 28
Dave Franklin, NYC, composer (Hop-a-long Cassidy) 
Sep 28
Lawton Whitey Witt, outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25) 
Sep 28
Wallace K Harrison, Worcester Mass, US architect (UN, Lincoln Center) 
Sep 29
Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception) 
Sep 29
Louise Granville, Sydney Australia, entertainer 
Sep 29
Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970) 
Sep 30
Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980) 
Oct 1
Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan (1947-51) 
Oct 2
Bud Abbott, Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello) 
Oct 2
Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian 
Oct 2
Bud Abbott, Africa Screams 
Oct 2
Egon Jacobson, M 
Oct 2
Hideya Iwaki, Nikkô no enzô 
Oct 2
Hans Rodenberg, Little Red Riding-Hood 
Oct 3
Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP [OS] 
Oct 4
Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr) 
Oct 4
Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II) 
Oct 4
Sergei Jessenin, writer 
Oct 5
Walter Bedell Smith, US general (WW II)/head of CIA (1950-52) 
Oct 6
Caroline Gordon, Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries) 
Oct 8
Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl) 
Oct 8
Juan Peron, Argentine Pres (1946-55, 1973-74) 
Oct 8
King Zog I, of Albania (1928-1939) 
Oct 10
Johnny Taylor, cricketer (stalwart Aussie batsman of post-WW I days) 
Oct 10
Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935) 
Oct 10
Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945) 
Oct 11
H Schiebelhuth, writer 
Oct 13
Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman (SPD) [NS] 
Oct 13
Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress 
Oct 13
Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978) 
Oct 13
Frank Gilroy, Mr. Moto Takes a Chance 
Oct 15
Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil) 
Oct 17
Doris Humphrey, Oak Park Ill, dancer (Dances of Women) 
Oct 18
Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista) 
Oct 19
Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer 
Oct 19
Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999) 
Oct 20
Rex Ingram, US actor (Tarzan of the Apes, 10 Commandments) 
Oct 21
Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur 
Oct 21
Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer 
Oct 21
Edna Purviance, Paradise Valley NV, silent film actress worked with Charlie Chaplin (The Kid) 
Oct 21
Edna Purviance, The Kid 
Oct 21
Delos Jewkes, Dressed to Kill 
Oct 25
Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69) 
Oct 27
John Boles, Greenville TX, singer/actor (Babes in Baghdad) 
Oct 28
John Boles, Frankenstein 
Oct 28
Ray Turner, The Patent Leather Kid 
Oct 28
Herbert Butterfield, The House on Telegraph Hill 
Oct 28
Doris Halman, Rocking Horse 
Oct 29
Jess Herring, A Midnight Bell 
Oct 29
Barbara Tremain, A Piano for Mrs. Cimino 
Oct 29
Julius Bernheim, Crash Donovan 
Oct 29
Leigh Carson, Forty Guns 
Oct 30
Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964) 
Oct 30
Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1973) 
Oct 31
Basil H Liddell Heart, English military historian/publicist 
Oct 31
C K Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C S, India's 1st Test capt) 
Nov 5
Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer 
Nov 5
Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956) 
Nov 7
Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81) 
Nov 8
Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer 
Nov 8
Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965) 
Nov 8
John Decker, Cruise of the Zaca 
Nov 8
Rózsi Bordás, Tüzoltó utca 25. 
Nov 9
Mae Marsh, Madrid NM, silent film actress (Birth of a Nation) 
Nov 10
John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air) 
Nov 11
Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor 
Nov 11
Jacov Gotovac, composer 
Nov 13
Hal Taliaferro, Red River 
Nov 13
Edward Buzzell, At the Circus 
Nov 14
Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972) 
Nov 14
Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973) 
Nov 15
Ina Claire, actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound) 
Nov 15
Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976) 
Nov 16
Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzhubin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West) 
Nov 16
Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author (An American Verdict) 
Nov 16
Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963) 
Nov 17
Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975) 
Nov 17
Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966) 
Nov 18
Ernst Levy, composer 
Nov 19
Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989) 
Nov 21
Liliana Zamorska, Jak byc kochana 
Nov 21
Glen Barnes, Tarzan Finds a Son! 
Nov 25
Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet 
Nov 25
Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician 
Nov 25
Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unter dem Zimbelstern) 
Nov 25
Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986) 
Nov 26
Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system) 
Nov 26
William Wilson (Bill), East Dorset, Vermont, co-founder (alcoholics anonymous), (d. 1971) 
Nov 27
Nico Dostal, Marika 
Nov 28
José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980) 
Nov 29
Busby Berkeley, Los Angeles CA, choreographer 
Nov 29
Lodovico Rocca, composer 
Nov 29
William V S Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70) 
Nov 30
Johann Nepomuk David, composer 
Dec 1
Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977) 
Dec 2
Klaas Voskuil, journalist 
Dec 2
Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967) 
Dec 3
Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F 
Dec 4
Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag) 
Dec 4
Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990) 
Dec 4
Evelyn Campbell, The Wicked Darling 
Dec 5
Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cellist/pianist/composer 
Dec 5
Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician (d. 1969) 
Dec 7
Jack Pennick, Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana) 
Dec 7
Jack Pennick, Fort Apache 
Dec 7
Betty Burbridge, Outlaws of Sonora 
Dec 7
Perets Markish, The Return of Nathan Becker 
Dec 9
Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936) 
Dec 11
Gene Markey, The Florodora Girl 
Dec 11
Eddie Dowling, Rainbow Man 
Dec 11
Regina Bookasta, Justine 
Dec 11
Eleanor Masters, The Blue Bird 
Dec 14
Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952) 
Dec 14
King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) Reigned 1936-52. 
Dec 15
Eslanda Robeson, Borderline 
Dec 15
Doris Stone, Mothers-in-Law 
Dec 16
Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia 
Dec 19
Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre) 
Dec 19
Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Jazz Player) 
Dec 20
Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key) 
Dec 21
Paul Hoffer, composer 
Dec 24
E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978) 
Dec 27
Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor (Holiday in Havana) 
Dec 30
August De Boodt, Belgian politician 
23
Zdzislaw Górzynski, Ostatni etap 
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