Notable Birthdays - 1896
1896 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Maurice Jacobson, composer |
Jan 1 |
Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon) |
Jan 1 |
Yitzhak Edel, composer |
Jan 1 |
Nathaniel Lief, Start Cheering |
Jan 1 |
Samson Noble, Swiss Miss |
Jan 1 |
George Elder, Ninotchka |
Jan 1 |
Vladimir Braun, Malva |
Jan 1 |
Hans von Morhart, Spy Smasher |
Jan 1 |
Man-Ching Kwan, Gong di |
Jan 1 |
Thomas T. Moulton, Gone with the Wind |
Jan 1 |
Frances White, Milk |
Jan 1 |
Iván Petrovich, Elevator to the Gallows |
Jan 1 |
Teinosuke Kinugasa, Gate of Hell |
Jan 2 |
Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!) |
Jan 2 |
Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer |
Jan 2 |
Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982) |
Jan 4 |
Everett Dirksen, American politician (Sen-R-Ill) (d. 1969) |
Jan 5 |
Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP) |
Jan 6 |
Abram N Pritzker, US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine) |
Jan 6 |
Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter |
Jan 7 |
Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train) |
Jan 7 |
Arnold Ridley, Dad's Army |
Jan 7 |
Marjorie Crossland, The Captive City |
Jan 7 |
Ilo Mosashvili, Is kidev dabrundeba |
Jan 7 |
Jack Young, The Last of the Mohicans |
Jan 8 |
Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera) |
Jan 8 |
Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South) |
Jan 8 |
Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971) |
Jan 9 |
Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971) |
Jan 11 |
Eva Le Gallienne, London England, actress/director (Resurrection) |
Jan 11 |
Paddy Driscoll, NFL QB/coach (Chic Cardinals, Bears) |
Jan 12 |
Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor/director (Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre) |
Jan 12 |
David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981) |
Jan 14 |
John dos Passos, novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel) |
Jan 15 |
Jacobo Ficher, composer |
Jan 16 |
Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978) |
Jan 17 |
Harry Reser, Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show) |
Jan 18 |
Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt) |
Jan 18 |
C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967) |
Jan 20 |
Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik) |
Jan 20 |
George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God) |
Jan 20 |
Rolfe Sedan, NYC, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show) |
Jan 20 |
Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968) |
Jan 23 |
Charlotte A E M W, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64) |
Jan 25 |
John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire |
Jan 29 |
Teddy Hoad, cricketer (pioneering West Indian Test batsman) |
Jan 31 |
Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966) |
Feb 1 |
Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56) |
Feb 2 |
Jane Wilde, writer |
Feb 2 |
Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980) |
Feb 3 |
Johannes Urzidil, writer |
Feb 4 |
Friedrich Glauser, writer |
Feb 4 |
Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997) |
Feb 7 |
Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ) |
Feb 7 |
Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jorgen Stein) |
Feb 8 |
Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning) |
Feb 10 |
Olin Howlin, Denver Colorado, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy) |
Feb 14 |
Arthur Milne [Edward Arthur Milne], Hull Yorkshire, English Astrophysicist (kinematic relativity) |
Feb 15 |
Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor (River, Enchanted Island) |
Feb 16 |
Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin) |
Feb 18 |
Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966) |
Feb 19 |
André Breton, French poet (d. 1966) |
Feb 20 |
Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist |
Feb 21 |
Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets) |
Feb 22 |
Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924) |
Feb 22 |
Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy) |
Feb 22 |
Nacio Herb Brown, US composer |
Feb 22 |
Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City) |
Feb 25 |
John Little McClellan, Sheridan Arkansas, American lawyer and politician (Sen-D-Ark) |
Feb 26 |
Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism) |
Feb 26 |
Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer |
Feb 28 |
Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel) |
Feb 29 |
Omer C F L Tulippe, Belgian geographer |
Feb 29 |
Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India (1977-79) |
Feb 29 |
Stanley Swash, CEO (Woolworths) |
Feb 29 |
William W Wellman, Brookline Mass, director (Star is Born) |
Feb 29 |
Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer |
Feb 29 |
William A. Wellman, A Star Is Born |
Feb 29 |
Morarji Desai, Congress Session in Bombay |
Feb 29 |
Archie Ricks, The Rip Snorter |
Mar 1 |
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer |
Mar 1 |
Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942) |
Mar 2 |
Jan Van Ees, Op hoop van zegen |
Mar 2 |
A. Earl Hedrick, The Lost Weekend |
Mar 2 |
Grant Code, From These Roots |
Mar 7 |
Erwin Bodky, composer |
Mar 8 |
Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975) |
Mar 10 |
Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon) |
Mar 10 |
Nancy Cunard, writer |
Mar 12 |
Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great |
Mar 13 |
Dorothy Aldis, writer |
Mar 16 |
Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time) |
Mar 20 |
Hal Walker, Ottumwa Ia, director (I Married Joan) |
Mar 22 |
Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Austria, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank)) |
Mar 22 |
Giulia D De Albertis, writer |
Mar 22 |
He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969) |
Mar 24 |
Gianna Manzini, writer |
Mar 26 |
Richard Flury, composer |
Mar 26 |
Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974) |
Apr 2 |
Hans Schumm, Spy Smasher |
Apr 3 |
Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement) |
Apr 4 |
Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight) |
Apr 4 |
Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man) |
Apr 6 |
Juan Tomas Perez, composer |
Apr 7 |
Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25) |
Apr 8 |
Karl Hermann Pillney, composer |
Apr 8 |
Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981) |
Apr 10 |
Edith Day, Minneapolis MN |
Apr 11 |
Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967) |
Apr 15 |
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) |
Apr 17 |
Senor Wences, ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet) |
Apr 18 |
C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse) |
Apr 20 |
Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door) |
Apr 20 |
Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952) |
Apr 21 |
Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte) |
Apr 23 |
Margaret Kennedy, novelist |
Apr 25 |
Fritz Schulz, 'S Wiesenhendl |
Apr 25 |
Joe Schuster, The Geisha Boy |
Apr 25 |
Fred Haney, Episode #10.36 |
Apr 25 |
Hiroshi Masakuni, Nichiyôbi |
Apr 26 |
Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941) |
Apr 27 |
Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards) |
Apr 27 |
Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon) |
Apr 29 |
Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer |
Apr 29 |
Walter Mehring, writer |
Apr 30 |
Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith) |
Apr 30 |
Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996) |
May 1 |
Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947) |
May 1 |
Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984) |
May 1 |
J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987) |
May 2 |
Helen of Greece and Denmark, queen of Romania (d. 1982) |
May 3 |
Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990) |
May 3 |
Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917) |
May 7 |
Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov, Moscow, Russian mathematician (topology) |
May 11 |
Josip Slavenski, composer |
May 11 |
Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter |
May 13 |
Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928, 32) |
May 17 |
Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer |
May 17 |
Hannah Tillich, writer |
May 18 |
Walter Fitzgerald, Keyhan Devonport England |
May 19 |
Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon |
May 19 |
Michael Balcon, Kind Hearts and Coronets |
May 19 |
Fred J. Rode, Broken Arrow |
May 21 |
Kathryn Johnson, South Pacific |
May 21 |
John Verney, The Battle for The Battle of Britain |
May 21 |
Paul Russell, That Certain Woman |
May 22 |
Magda Lane, Fighting Pals |
May 22 |
Clarence Sinclair Bull, The Wizard of Oz |
May 23 |
Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966) |
May 25 |
Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian |
May 25 |
Freeman Lang, Out of Singapore |
May 25 |
Armas Hirvonen, Anna Liisa |
May 28 |
Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer |
May 28 |
Warren Giles, baseball's National League president |
May 29 |
George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology) |
May 29 |
Lillian Powell, Millionaire Father Gilhooley |
May 29 |
Mimi Aylmer, Two Happy Hearts |
May 30 |
Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface) |
Jun 6 |
Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome) |
Jun 6 |
Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End) |
Jun 6 |
Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran |
Jun 7 |
Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966) |
Jun 7 |
Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women) |
Jun 7 |
Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958) |
Jun 7 |
Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990) |
Jun 7 |
Hope Summers, Rosemary's Baby |
Jun 7 |
Kate Davenport, Sentimental Tommy |
Jun 7 |
Aníbal Vela, Los ojos dejan huellas |
Jun 7 |
Imre Nagy, |
Jun 7 |
Isobel Wilford, Fair Fighting |
Jun 8 |
Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross) |
Jun 9 |
Aura Abranches, Lisbon Portugal, actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio) |
Jun 9 |
Catherine Filene Shouse, philanthropist (Wolf Trap Institute) |
Jun 11 |
Vernon Drake, Dad's Army |
Jun 16 |
Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot) |
Jun 16 |
William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants) |
Jun 16 |
Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976) |
Jun 18 |
Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience) |
Jun 18 |
Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936) |
Jun 18 |
Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story) |
Jun 19 |
Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, American divorcee and wife of Edward VIII (abdicated) |
Jun 19 |
Walter Lang, composer |
Jun 21 |
Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967) |
Jun 22 |
Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) |
Jun 27 |
Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond |
Jun 29 |
Irene Browne, England, actress (All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart) |
Jun 29 |
Irene Browne, The Red Shoes |
Jun 29 |
Mathieu Ahlersmeyer, Die Reise auf den Mond |
Jun 30 |
Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone) |
Jul 1 |
Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS] |
Jul 2 |
Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965) |
Jul 2 |
Hubert Masarík, Munich or Peace in Our Time |
Jul 2 |
Van Boolen, Decameron Nights |
Jul 2 |
Quirino Cristiani, El apóstol |
Jul 3 |
Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah & Son) |
Jul 3 |
Doris Lloyd, The Sound of Music |
Jul 3 |
Igo Sym, Kasernenzauber |
Jul 3 |
Oscar Wright, The Great Dictator |
Jul 3 |
Hal Neiman, The Footloose Heiress |
Jul 4 |
Adolf Hallis, composer |
Jul 4 |
Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981) |
Jul 5 |
Jack Specht, The Girl in Room 20 |
Jul 5 |
Jean Mihail, România |
Jul 5 |
Dave Morris, Decorating for Profit! |
Jul 5 |
Serge Walter, The Desert Song |
Jul 6 |
Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society) |
Jul 10 |
Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981) |
Jul 13 |
Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992) |
Jul 14 |
Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936) |
Jul 16 |
Mauritius R J Dekker [Boris Robazki], Dutch writer (Merkteken) |
Jul 16 |
Trygve Halvdan Lie, Norway, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52) |
Jul 16 |
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969) |
Jul 19 |
A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981) |
Jul 24 |
Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom) |
Jul 24 |
Hermann Kasack, Der Untergang des goldenen Webstuhls |
Jul 25 |
Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy) |
Jul 25 |
Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967) |
Jul 26 |
Charles Butterworth, US, lawyer/actor (Mad Genius) |
Jul 26 |
Evelyn Preer, US actress (Homesteader, Spider's Webs) |
Jul 26 |
Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933) |
Jul 27 |
Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969) |
Jul 28 |
Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926) |
Jul 28 |
Barbara La Marr, The White Moth |
Jul 28 |
Gonda Durand, His Wife's Friend |
Jul 28 |
Lazar Wechsler, The Search |
Jul 28 |
Mel Pedesky, Swiss Miss |
Jul 30 |
Johanna Hofer, Possession |
Aug 1 |
Samuel Greiner, Their Anniversary |
Aug 1 |
William Scott, Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley |
Aug 1 |
Erle C. Kenton, Island of Lost Souls |
Aug 2 |
Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960) |
Aug 6 |
Cyril Mockridge, composer |
Aug 8 |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wash DC, writer (Yearling) |
Aug 9 |
Jean Piaget, Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist |
Aug 9 |
Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20) |
Aug 9 |
Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980) |
Aug 13 |
Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor |
Aug 15 |
Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985) |
Aug 16 |
(or the 17th) Tina Modotti, Udine Italy, Italian artist and activist |
Aug 17 |
Henry P de Vries, Dutch painter/poet (Laws of the Americas) |
Aug 17 |
Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970) |
Aug 18 |
Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack) |
Aug 18 |
Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933) |
Aug 19 |
Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer |
Aug 19 |
John Harlow, While I Live |
Aug 21 |
Blossom Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family) |
Aug 21 |
Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho) |
Aug 21 |
Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun) |
Aug 22 |
Laurence McKinley Gould, Lacota Michigan, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929 |
Aug 24 |
Phil Baker, Phila, comedian (Who's Whose) |
Aug 25 |
Dick Ryan, CT, actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad) |
Aug 25 |
Dick Ryan, Wild Is the Wind |
Aug 25 |
Folke Walder, Pig Hunt |
Aug 25 |
Ludwik Jablonski, Czerwone i zlote |
Aug 26 |
Richard Hammond, composer |
Aug 26 |
Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990) |
Aug 27 |
Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor [o.s. 15-08] |
Aug 27 |
Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984) |
Aug 30 |
Raymond Massey, Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare) |
Aug 30 |
Raymond Massey, Arsenic and Old Lace |
Aug 30 |
Zacharias Yaconelli, The Doctor and the Countess |
Aug 30 |
Willy Reichert, Der Vogel läßt das Singen nicht |
Aug 30 |
Trilby Clark, Maria Marten |
Aug 31 |
Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982) |
Sep 1 |
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977) |
Sep 4 |
Agnes Ayres, [Hinkle], US, actress (Sheik, Souls at Sea) |
Sep 4 |
Antonin Artaud, Marseilles France, songwriter/dir (Theatre Seraphin) |
Sep 6 |
Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer |
Sep 6 |
Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo) |
Sep 6 |
Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer |
Sep 8 |
Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983) |
Sep 9 |
Fritz Reuter, composer |
Sep 10 |
Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946) |
Sep 10 |
Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981) |
Sep 10 |
Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970) |
Sep 12 |
Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Il Libro Dell'Alpe) |
Sep 13 |
Morris Kirksey, US, 4 X 100m (Olympic-gold-1920) |
Sep 15 |
Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer |
Sep 16 |
Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist |
Sep 17 |
Denise Grey, [Edouardine Verthuy], Turin Italy, actress (Julietta) |
Sep 20 |
Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [NS=Oct 2] |
Sep 22 |
Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930) |
Sep 24 |
F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby), (d. 1940) |
Sep 25 |
Elsa Triolet, writer |
Sep 25 |
Roberto Gerhard, composer |
Sep 25 |
Sandro Pertini, president Italy |
Sep 27 |
George Bender, Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh) |
Sep 27 |
Sam Ervin, (Sen-D-NC), Watergate committee chairman (d. 1985) |
Oct 1 |
Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937) |
Oct 2 |
Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [OS=Sep 20] |
Oct 2 |
Fritz Eberhard, [Hellmut Rauschenplat], W-German lawyer/resistor (Law) |
Oct 2 |
Liaqat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister (d. 1951) |
Oct 3 |
Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987) |
Oct 6 |
Otto Siegl, composer |
Oct 7 |
Cyril Allcott, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in their early Tests) |
Oct 7 |
Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam |
Oct 8 |
Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967) |
Oct 11 |
Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language) |
Oct 12 |
Eugenio Montale, Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975) |
Oct 13 |
Jack Shilkret, Paris on Parade |
Oct 13 |
Mike Gazella, Alibi Ike |
Oct 15 |
Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist (I Got a Secret) |
Oct 16 |
Edmond van Dooren, Flemish painter |
Oct 19 |
Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988) |
Oct 20 |
Nat Holman, basketball coach (CCNY) |
Oct 22 |
Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C) |
Oct 23 |
André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930) |
Oct 24 |
Jack Warner, [Waters], London England, actor (Christmas Carol) |
Oct 27 |
Edith Haisman, Titanic survivor |
Oct 28 |
Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic) |
Oct 30 |
Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer |
Oct 30 |
Ruth Gordon, Mass, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude) |
Oct 30 |
Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928) |
Oct 31 |
Ethel Waters, Chester Pa, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather) |
Nov 1 |
Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War) |
Nov 3 |
Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970) |
Nov 4 |
Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971) |
Nov 6 |
Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee) |
Nov 7 |
Herbert R O'Connor, Balt Md, (Sen-Md)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicate) |
Nov 7 |
Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975) |
Nov 8 |
Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees) |
Nov 10 |
Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976) |
Nov 12 |
Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987) |
Nov 13 |
Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60) |
Nov 14 |
Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1953-61) |
Nov 16 |
Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield California, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50) |
Nov 16 |
Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi |
Nov 16 |
Joan Lindsay, Australian author (d. 1984) |
Nov 17 |
Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934) |
Nov 19 |
Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974) |
Nov 20 |
Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer |
Nov 20 |
Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977) |
Nov 21 |
David Flaherty, Elephant Boy |
Nov 21 |
Marvin Loback, The Big Shot |
Nov 21 |
Maurice De Packh, House of Wax |
Nov 22 |
Mario La Broca, composer |
Nov 22 |
Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [OS] |
Nov 23 |
Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher |
Nov 23 |
Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1946-53) |
Nov 23 |
Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer/actress (Roman scandals) |
Nov 24 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster, (d. 1962) |
Nov 25 |
Virgil Thomson, KC Mo, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts) |
Nov 27 |
Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio) |
Nov 28 |
Lilia Skala, Vienna, actress (House of Games, Flashdance, Charly) |
Nov 28 |
Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965) |
Nov 29 |
Philip L Carret, Lynn Mass, CEO (Pioneer Fund) |
Nov 29 |
Rod(erique) La Rocque (La Tour), western actor (Beau Bandit) |
Nov 29 |
Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (d. 1986) |
Dec 1 |
Petko Staynov, composer |
Dec 2 |
Georgi K Zjukov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad [NS-Dec 11] |
Dec 3 |
Boleslaw Szabelski, composer |
Dec 3 |
John Urzidil, Austria/US writer (Die erbeuteten Frauen) |
Dec 4 |
Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [NS] |
Dec 5 |
(Lady Huxley) Juliette Baillot, author |
Dec 5 |
Willem F M Lampe, Dutch ambassador of the Dutch Antilles |
Dec 6 |
Arnold Foster, composer |
Dec 6 |
George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears) |
Dec 6 |
Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm) |
Dec 7 |
Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer |
Dec 7 |
István Szegedi Szabó, Valamit visz a víz |
Dec 7 |
Vasiliy Orlov, Gibel sensatsii |
Dec 7 |
Maria Kierzkowa, Zimowy zmierzch |
Dec 11 |
Georgi K Zjukov, Russian minister of Defense (WW II) [OS-Dec 2] |
Dec 12 |
Eslanda Goode, US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson |
Dec 14 |
James Doolittle, Alameda California, USAF General (Raid on Tokyo 1942) |
Dec 15 |
Carl Ferdinand Cori, US bio-chemist |
Dec 15 |
George B Cressey, US geographer (Asia's Lands & Peoples) |
Dec 15 |
Margaret Bannerman, Toronto Ontario, actress (Elopement) |
Dec 15 |
Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor |
Dec 15 |
Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972) |
Dec 19 |
John Seldon Whale, theologian |
Dec 21 |
Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-min Socialist Business |
Dec 21 |
Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal/vice-premier of Poland |
Dec 21 |
Leroy Robertson, composer |
Dec 22 |
Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St Petersburg Russia, poet |
Dec 23 |
Alberto Hemsi, composer |
Dec 23 |
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard) |
Dec 25 |
Ludmilla Pitoëff, La danseuse rouge |
Dec 25 |
Louis Stevens, The Cimarron Kid |
Dec 25 |
Branko Djurdjevic, Prvi gradjanin male varosi |
Dec 25 |
Walter F. Fichelscher, Das Ekel |
Dec 25 |
Tryggve Jerneman, Only a Mother |
Dec 25 |
Milton Herbert Gropper, No Man of Her Own |
Dec 27 |
Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game) |
Dec 27 |
Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright |
Dec 27 |
Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board) |
Dec 27 |
Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926) |
Dec 28 |
Roger Huntington Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Masks) |
Dec 29 |
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile) |
Dec 30 |
Tom Keene, Rochester NY, actor (Our Daily Bread) |
Dec 31 |
Ronald Adam, Herefordshire England, actor (Phantom Shot) |
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