Notable Birthdays - 1897
1897 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Walter Greaza, St Paul Minn, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye) |
Jan 1 |
Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Music Lovers |
Jan 1 |
Al Martin, Invisible Ghost |
Jan 1 |
Einar Reim, Harry og kammertjeneren |
Jan 1 |
Albert Van Antwerp, The Chechahcos |
Jan 1 |
Walter Greaza, The Edge of Night |
Jan 1 |
Bert Young, Dumb -- And How |
Jan 2 |
Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975) |
Jan 3 |
Marion Davies, [Marion Cecelia Douras], Bkln, actress (Operator 13) |
Jan 3 |
Pola Negri, [Barbara A Chalupec], Polish/US actress (Madame Bovary) |
Jan 5 |
Jack Wagner, OH, actor (Jive Junction) |
Jan 5 |
Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami) |
Jan 6 |
Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family) |
Jan 7 |
Gréta Harsányi, A látszat csal |
Jan 8 |
Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977) |
Jan 9 |
Luis Gianneo, composer |
Jan 9 |
Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973) |
Jan 10 |
Albert Moeschinger, composer |
Jan 11 |
August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979) |
Jan 12 |
Hendrik J Valk, painter/cartoonist/graphic artist |
Jan 14 |
Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978) |
Jan 15 |
Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931) |
Jan 16 |
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977) |
Jan 17 |
Nils Asther, Malmö Sweden, actor (Bluebeard, Night Monster) |
Jan 17 |
Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946) |
Jan 19 |
Natacha Rambova, Salt Lake City UT, costume designer |
Jan 19 |
René Victor, Flemish lawyer/knight (Rechtskundig Weekblad) |
Jan 20 |
Mae Busch, Australian/US actress (Cowboy Socialist) |
Jan 21 |
J Carrol Naish, NYC, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan) |
Jan 21 |
René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954) |
Jan 22 |
Josef Stanislav, composer |
Jan 22 |
Rosa Ponselle, opera diva (Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino) |
Jan 22 |
"Blind" Willie Johnson American blues/spiritual singer and guitarist |
Jan 23 |
Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician |
Jan 23 |
Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989) |
Jan 23 |
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000) |
Jan 28 |
Valentin Kataev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled) Died 1986 |
Feb 1 |
Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss) |
Feb 2 |
Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972) |
Feb 2 |
Aimé Avignon, France's former oldest living man (d. 2007) |
Feb 4 |
Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany (CDU) |
Feb 5 |
Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO |
Feb 6 |
Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby) |
Feb 6 |
Louis Buchalter, New York City New York, Jewish American mobster (Murder, Inc.) |
Feb 7 |
Quincy Porter, New Haven Ct, composer |
Feb 9 |
Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator |
Feb 10 |
John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954) |
Feb 11 |
Yves de La Casiniere, composer |
Feb 12 |
Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970) |
Feb 14 |
Jorgen Bentzon, composer |
Feb 15 |
Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965) |
Feb 17 |
Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady) |
Feb 18 |
Charles Kuentz, WW1 veteran, changed nationality 4 times (d.2005) |
Feb 19 |
Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931) |
Feb 20 |
Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window) |
Feb 21 |
Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (Soylent Green, T'Pau-Star Trek) |
Feb 22 |
Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947) |
Feb 27 |
Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter) |
Feb 27 |
G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color) |
Feb 27 |
Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993) |
Mar 2 |
Jack White, Back from the Front |
Mar 3 |
Jose Moreno Gans, composer |
Mar 4 |
Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball |
Mar 5 |
Mei-ling Soong, Madame Chiang Kai-shek |
Mar 5 |
Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960) |
Mar 11 |
Henry Dixon Cowell, Menlo Park California, composer (New Musical Resources) |
Mar 13 |
Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue) |
Mar 13 |
William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920) |
Mar 15 |
Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986) |
Mar 17 |
Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970) |
Mar 18 |
Betty Compson, actress (Big City, Docks Of New York) |
Mar 19 |
Betty Compson, Beaver UT, actress (Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth) |
Mar 19 |
L O'Flaherty, writer |
Mar 24 |
Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor |
Mar 24 |
Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis) |
Mar 25 |
John Laurie, Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire) |
Mar 27 |
Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist |
Mar 27 |
Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist |
Mar 28 |
Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977) |
Apr 1 |
Willem H van de Pol, Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma) |
Apr 4 |
Pierre Fresnay, Paris France, actor (Grand Illusion) |
Apr 7 |
Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer [OS] |
Apr 7 |
Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables) |
Apr 7 |
Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918) |
Apr 8 |
Herbert Eimert, German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel) |
Apr 10 |
Ross Youngs, American baseball player (d. 1927) |
Apr 11 |
Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist |
Apr 13 |
Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917) |
Apr 14 |
Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader |
Apr 14 |
Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972) |
Apr 16 |
Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer |
Apr 16 |
Jaap Vranken, Dutch organist/composer (Stabat Mater) |
Apr 16 |
John B Glubb, British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs) |
Apr 17 |
Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River) |
Apr 17 |
Harald Saeverud, Bergen Norway, composer (Saline) [NS] |
Apr 17 |
Thornton N Wilder, US, novelist/playwright (Our Town) |
Apr 18 |
Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour) [or Apr 12] |
Apr 18 |
Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001) |
Apr 19 |
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor |
Apr 19 |
Vivienne Segal, Phila, Broadway actress (Pal Joey) |
Apr 19 |
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970) |
Apr 20 |
Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh) |
Apr 20 |
Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor/director (Corsican Brothers) |
Apr 23 |
Harold French, director (Encore)/actor |
Apr 23 |
John Wengraf, Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion) |
Apr 23 |
Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister (1963-68) (Nobel 1957) |
Apr 23 |
Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany) |
Apr 24 |
Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797) |
Apr 24 |
Gyorgy Kosa, composer |
Apr 24 |
Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955) |
Apr 25 |
Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer |
Apr 25 |
VAA Mary, English princess |
Apr 25 |
Paula Trueman, All My Children |
Apr 26 |
Olga Chekova, Russia, actress (Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children) |
Apr 26 |
Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967) |
Apr 28 |
Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986) |
Apr 30 |
Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983) |
May 2 |
J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985) |
May 3 |
V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense |
May 6 |
Paul Alverdes, German writer (Pfeiferstube) |
May 7 |
Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-1920, 24) |
May 10 |
Dalton Parry Conyngham, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1923) |
May 10 |
Ewart Maurice Levy, 2nd Baronet |
May 10 |
Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987) |
May 11 |
Izak W van der Merwe, [Boerneef], S Afr writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek) |
May 11 |
Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961) |
May 14 |
Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader |
May 14 |
Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948) |
May 16 |
Walther Geiser, composer |
May 17 |
Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
May 18 |
Frank Capra, Ital, director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace) |
May 18 |
Jack Raine, London England, actor (Quartet) |
May 19 |
Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918) |
May 19 |
Robert Burnier, La rafle est pour ce soir |
May 20 |
Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (d. 1983) |
May 21 |
Jed Buell, The Terror of Tiny Town |
May 22 |
Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (Waters of Babylon) |
May 22 |
Jeanne De Casalis, Jamaica Inn |
May 22 |
Robert Neumann, Life of Adolf Hitler |
May 25 |
Alan Kippax, cricketer (22 Tests for Australia 1924-34, brilliant bat) |
May 27 |
John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951) |
May 28 |
Henry Kendall, London, actor (Amazing Quest, Shadow, Rich & Strange) |
May 29 |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta) |
May 29 |
Ignace Lilien, composer |
May 31 |
Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society) |
Jun 3 |
Memphis Minnie, rocker |
Jun 7 |
George Szell, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45) |
Jun 7 |
Frank Eldredge, Taste of Danger |
Jun 7 |
Mann Holiner, Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Jun 7 |
Christian Eriksen, De pokkers unger |
Jun 7 |
George Szell, Le mirage |
Jun 8 |
John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974) |
Jun 11 |
Bruno Frei, writer |
Jun 11 |
Grand Duchess Tatiana, De kongelige skal fotograferes |
Jun 11 |
Alfred Norcom, Regeneration |
Jun 12 |
Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique) |
Jun 12 |
Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57) |
Jun 13 |
Paavo Johannes Nurmi, Finland, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1920/24/28) |
Jun 16 |
Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948) |
Jun 16 |
Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987) |
Jun 19 |
Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Brooklyn New York, American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges) |
Jun 20 |
Cyril "Froggy" Francois, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder v Eng 1922-23) |
Jun 20 |
Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973) |
Jun 22 |
Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher (Process of Civilization) |
Jun 22 |
Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1973) |
Jun 23 |
Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer (Wagner Festival) |
Jun 24 |
Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992) |
Jun 25 |
Basil Radford, Chester England, actor (Whiskey Galore, Night Train) |
Jun 25 |
Hans Barth, composer |
Jun 26 |
Viola Dana, Brooklyn, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover) |
Jun 28 |
Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist |
Jun 29 |
Ottmar Gerster, composer |
Jun 29 |
Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001) |
Jun 29 |
Catalina D'Erzell, La razón de la culpa |
Jun 29 |
Pavel Volkov, Fate of a Man |
Jun 29 |
Norman K. VanDerzee, Easter Parade of Stars Auto Show |
Jul 3 |
Khrisanf Khersonsky, Mumu |
Jul 3 |
Kalu K. Sonkur, Bwana Devil |
Jul 5 |
Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer |
Jul 6 |
Richard Krautheimer, art Historian |
Jul 7 |
Anna Luther, NJ, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk) |
Jul 10 |
Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director |
Jul 10 |
Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957) |
Jul 10 |
Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931) |
Jul 11 |
Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973) |
Jul 17 |
Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge |
Jul 18 |
E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935) |
Jul 20 |
Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950) |
Jul 24 |
Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre) |
Jul 24 |
Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer) |
Jul 24 |
Amelia Earhart, Atchison Kansas, American aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic) |
Jul 25 |
Hermann Ambrosius, composer |
Jul 26 |
Paul Gallico, NY, novelist |
Jul 28 |
Emmy Arbous, [Emilia J Henke], Dutch actress (Little Rascal) |
Jul 28 |
Clive Morgan, Tarzan the Tiger |
Jul 28 |
Ugo D'Orsi, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Jul 28 |
Sacy von Blondel, A fogadalom |
Jul 28 |
Emmy Arbous, De cabaret-prinses |
Jul 29 |
Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983) |
Jul 30 |
Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer (Fascism is War!) |
Aug 2 |
Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945) |
Aug 2 |
Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974) |
Aug 4 |
Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil) |
Aug 5 |
Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (d. 1972) |
Aug 7 |
Franz J Weinrich, [Heinrich Lerse], German writer (Himmlisches) |
Aug 9 |
Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography |
Aug 10 |
Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924) |
Aug 10 |
Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch novelist (Ciske the Rat) |
Aug 10 |
John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988) |
Aug 11 |
Louise Bogan, Maine, writer (Sleeping Fury) |
Aug 11 |
Enid Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world (Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure) |
Aug 12 |
Manuel Blancafort, composer |
Aug 12 |
Otto (von) Struve, German/US dir (Yerkes/MacDonald observatory) |
Aug 12 |
Ramon Gonzalez Barron, composer |
Aug 15 |
Marion Eugene Bauer, composer |
Aug 16 |
Robert Ringling, circus master |
Aug 16 |
Vicente Ascone, composer |
Aug 20 |
Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author (Det Store Spelet) |
Aug 22 |
Bill Woodfull, cricketer (Australian captain in the Bodyline series) |
Aug 24 |
Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954) |
Aug 25 |
Jaroslav Ridky, composer |
Aug 26 |
Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990) |
Aug 27 |
Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter |
Aug 28 |
Morris Ankrum, IL, actor (Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers) |
Aug 31 |
Frederic March [Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel], Racine, Wisconsin, American actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Best Years of Our Lives) |
Aug 31 |
Marianne Bruns, writer |
Sep 1 |
Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963) |
Sep 3 |
Cecil Parker, Hastings England, actor (Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities) |
Sep 3 |
Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer |
Sep 3 |
Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972) |
Sep 5 |
Doris Kenyon, Syracuse NY, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton) |
Sep 5 |
Luella Gear, NYC, actress (Joe & Mabel) |
Sep 5 |
Morris Carnovsky, St Louis MO, actor (Dead Reckoning) |
Sep 8 |
[James Charles] Jimmie Rodgers, Mendoza Miss, country singer/singing brakeman |
Sep 10 |
Nancy Keene Lancaster, designer/Collector |
Sep 10 |
Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962) |
Sep 10 |
Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976) |
Sep 12 |
Irene Joliot-Curie, Paris, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (d. 1956) |
Sep 13 |
Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer |
Sep 18 |
John Mens, writer (People Without Money) |
Sep 18 |
Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena, composer |
Sep 20 |
Efim Golishev, composer |
Sep 23 |
Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (surrealist) |
Sep 23 |
Walter Pidgeon, New Brunswick Can, actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie) |
Sep 25 |
Teddy Hart, NYC, actor (3 Men on a Horse) |
Sep 25 |
William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962) |
Sep 26 |
Pope Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78) |
Sep 26 |
Victor O Stomps, writer |
Sep 26 |
Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher (Goethe/Brecht) |
Sep 26 |
Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917) |
Sep 28 |
Muchtar Auesow, writer |
Sep 29 |
Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980) |
Oct 3 |
Josephine "Mama Jo" Riley Matthews, midwife (SC) |
Oct 3 |
Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982) |
Oct 6 |
Jerome Cowan, NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show) |
Oct 8 |
Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause) |
Oct 10 |
Lamar Stringfield, composer |
Oct 10 |
Pricilla L Williams, social activist/humanitarian |
Oct 11 |
Arvo Hannikainen, composer |
Oct 11 |
George Preston Marshall, NFL team owner (Washington Redskins) |
Oct 11 |
Nathan F Twining, USAF general (Neither Liberty nor Safety) |
Oct 11 |
Russell Collins, New Orleans LA |
Oct 16 |
Harrison Kerr, composer |
Oct 16 |
Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man |
Oct 18 |
Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980) |
Oct 19 |
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994) |
Oct 20 |
Jevsei G Liberman, Ukrainian economist (Plan, profit, bonuses) |
Oct 20 |
Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970) |
Oct 24 |
Lazar Weiner, composer |
Oct 28 |
Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander |
Oct 29 |
Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn) |
Oct 29 |
[Paul] Joseph Goebbels, Rheydt, Germany, Nazi Reich Minister of Information and Propaganda |
Oct 30 |
Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928) |
Oct 31 |
Wilbur (Pete) Henry, NFL tackle (Canton, NY Giants, Pottsville) |
Nov 1 |
Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill) |
Nov 2 |
Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian (Devil's Brother) |
Nov 2 |
Jacob A B "Jack" Bjerknes, Norwegian/US meteorologist (USAF in London) |
Nov 3 |
Karel Salmon, composer |
Nov 3 |
Frederick Russell, Bridport Dorset, English Marine Biologist who studied plankton life history and linked their depth in the seas to light availability helping explain long-term changes in the ecosystem |
Nov 4 |
Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara) |
Nov 7 |
Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955 |
Nov 8 |
Dorothy Day, New York, American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert |
Nov 9 |
Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967) |
Nov 11 |
Gordon W Allport, US, psychologist (personalities) |
Nov 12 |
Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor |
Nov 13 |
Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975) |
Nov 14 |
John Steuart Curry, US painter/lithographer (Baptism in Kansas) |
Nov 15 |
Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace) |
Nov 15 |
Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960) |
Nov 16 |
Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon England, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) |
Nov 16 |
Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951) |
Nov 17 |
Ed Baker, Davis WV, actor (Keystone Kops) |
Nov 17 |
Frank Fay, San Francisco, California, American actor (God's Gift to Women, Love Nest) |
Nov 17 |
Sara Haden, Galveston Tx, actress (A Family Affair) |
Nov 18 |
Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show) |
Nov 18 |
Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948) |
Nov 19 |
Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918) |
Nov 20 |
Lores Bonney, aviator |
Nov 20 |
Margaret Sutherland, composer |
Nov 21 |
Mollie Steimer anarchist agitator (d. 1980) |
Nov 22 |
Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989) |
Nov 23 |
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999) |
Nov 23 |
Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948) |
Nov 27 |
Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969) |
Nov 28 |
Uno Choyo, writer |
Nov 29 |
Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Little Emperor) |
Nov 30 |
Andreas Nezertis, composer |
Nov 30 |
Quinto Maganini, composer |
Dec 1 |
Manuel A Neat, Curacaos author (Nobleza di Coerazon) |
Dec 2 |
Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China) |
Dec 2 |
Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) |
Dec 3 |
Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Without My Cloak) |
Dec 4 |
Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor (Dock Worker) |
Dec 5 |
Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1977) |
Dec 6 |
John Axel Fernstrom, composer |
Dec 6 |
O W Cisek, writer |
Dec 8 |
Leslie Heward, composer |
Dec 9 |
Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man) |
Dec 10 |
Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Power of Love) |
Dec 11 |
Ethel B. Borden, I Live My Life |
Dec 13 |
Drew Pearson, Evanston Ill, newscaster (Drew Pearson) |
Dec 14 |
Margaret Chase Smith, (Rep/Sen-R-Maine) |
Dec 14 |
Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977) |
Dec 16 |
Jacobus Petrus Duminy, cricketer (three Tests for South Africa 1927-29) |
Dec 16 |
Paul Neuhuys, Belgian playwright (Le Canari et le Cerise) |
Dec 18 |
Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker |
Dec 18 |
Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952) |
Dec 19 |
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator |
Dec 23 |
Julien Carette, Paris France, actor (Sylvia & the Phantom) |
Dec 25 |
Dorothy Peterson, Saboteur |
Dec 25 |
Ralph Dixon, Shadows Over Chinatown |
Dec 26 |
Willie Corsari, [Wilhelmina A Schmidt], Dutch writer |
Dec 27 |
Iwan S Konew, Russ marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw |
Dec 29 |
Hermann Heiss, composer |
Dec 30 |
Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976) |
Dec 31 |
Rhys Williams, Wales, actor (Nightmare, Okinawa, Cross My Heart) |
23 |
Walter Pidgeon, Forbidden Planet |
23 |
Stubby Kruger, Mister Roberts |
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