Notable Birthdays - 1898
1898 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
George van Derton, Belgian racer (won 500 race) |
Jan 1 |
Viktor Ullmann, opera composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) |
Jan 1 |
Gerhard T. Buchholz, Many Passed By |
Jan 1 |
Carl Wester, The Hurricane Express |
Jan 1 |
Mike Siebert, Sold for Marriage |
Jan 1 |
Rosemary Cooper, The Return of Boston Blackie |
Jan 3 |
Johannes Hin, Holland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1920) |
Jan 3 |
ZaSu Pitts, Parsons Kansas, actress (Life With Father, Dames) |
Jan 4 |
Roger Vuataz, composer |
Jan 6 |
Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor (De Standaard 1929-39) |
Jan 6 |
Charles E. Pont, American artist (d. 1971) |
Jan 7 |
Art Baker, NYC, TV host (You Asked For It) |
Jan 7 |
Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer |
Jan 7 |
Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941) |
Jan 7 |
Art Baker, Spellbound |
Jan 9 |
Gracie Fields, [Stansfield], England, music hall/vaudeville performer |
Jan 9 |
Vilma Banky, Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress (Eagle, Rebel) |
Jan 9 |
Wally Baker, American supercentenarian |
Jan 10 |
Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) [OS] |
Jan 11 |
Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Fiskerne, Slaven) |
Jan 12 |
Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer |
Jan 13 |
Pedro DE Teixeira de Mattos, Dutch diplomat |
Jan 13 |
Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944) |
Jan 13 |
Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978) |
Jan 14 |
Helen Flint, Chicago, actress (Sea Devils, Married Before Breakfast) |
Jan 16 |
Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002) |
Jan 16 |
Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999) |
Jan 20 |
Colin Clive, [Greig], St Malo France, actor (Bride of Frankenstein) |
Jan 20 |
U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947) |
Jan 21 |
Avery Claflin, composer |
Jan 21 |
John George, Syria, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu) |
Jan 22 |
Alexander Abramsky, composer |
Jan 22 |
Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch writer (Arid Earth) |
Jan 22 |
Gustaf Paulson, composer |
Jan 22 |
Hans van Werveke, Flemish historian (Diocese Terwaan) |
Jan 22 |
Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss) |
Jan 23 |
Randolph Scott, actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union) |
Jan 23 |
Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director (Battleship Potemkin) [NS] |
Jan 23 |
Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978) |
Jan 24 |
Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939) |
Jan 25 |
Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding) |
Jan 28 |
Vittorio Rieti, composer |
Jan 28 |
Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi |
Jan 29 |
Fernand Quinet, Belgian cellist/composer/conductor (La Guerre) |
Jan 29 |
Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist/writer (History of Sascha) |
Feb 2 |
Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Theatre De la Mar) |
Feb 3 |
Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House) |
Feb 3 |
Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician |
Feb 7 |
Dock Boggs, American musician (d. 1971) |
Feb 10 |
Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer |
Feb 10 |
Joseph Kessel, French journalist/writer (Army of the Shadows) |
Feb 10 |
Judith Anderson, Adelaide Aust, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon) |
Feb 10 |
Robert Keith, Fowler IN, actor (Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One) |
Feb 11 |
Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist |
Feb 12 |
Wallace Ford, [Samuel Jones Grundy], Batton England, actor (Deputy) |
Feb 12 |
[Le]Roy Harris, Oklahoma, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home) |
Feb 13 |
Neville Pearson, English publisher |
Feb 14 |
Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (supernova, dark matter) |
Feb 15 |
Toto, (Antonio de Curtis), Naples Italy, actor (Motorizzate, Noi Duri) |
Feb 15 |
Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982) |
Feb 16 |
Katharine Cornell, actress (Barretts of Wimpole St) |
Feb 17 |
Tom Lowry, cricketer (NZ batsman in seven Tests & their 1st Test capt) |
Feb 18 |
Enzo Ferrari, racing car manufacturer, Modena |
Feb 18 |
K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier |
Feb 18 |
Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980) |
Feb 19 |
Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch sect leader |
Feb 21 |
Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh) |
Feb 22 |
Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter |
Feb 23 |
Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist |
Feb 24 |
Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer |
Feb 25 |
William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist (textiles) |
Feb 26 |
Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer |
Feb 27 |
Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History) |
Feb 27 |
Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer |
Feb 28 |
Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey) |
Mar 2 |
Oscar Rundblom, The Minister of Uddarbo |
Mar 2 |
Lionel Le Blanc, Louisiana Story |
Mar 2 |
Amélia Rey Colaço, Gente Fina É Outra Coisa |
Mar 2 |
Cecillia Stark, Stranger Than Paradise |
Mar 4 |
Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940) |
Mar 5 |
Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976) |
Mar 6 |
Hal Hooker, cricketer (NSW pace bowler of 20's & 30's) |
Mar 6 |
Jay C Flippen, Little Rock AR, actor (Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay) |
Mar 6 |
Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB/coach/team owner (Chicago) |
Mar 6 |
Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion) |
Mar 7 |
Jan Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer |
Mar 8 |
Louise Beavers, Cin Ohio, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for each other) |
Mar 10 |
Cy Kendall, St Louis Mo, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown) |
Mar 11 |
Dorothy Gish, Massillon OH, film actress (Orphans of the Storm) |
Mar 12 |
Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa) |
Mar 13 |
Josie Sedgwick, TX, actress (Son of Oklahoma) |
Mar 14 |
Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985) |
Mar 18 |
Otto Jochum, composer |
Mar 18 |
Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960) |
Mar 23 |
Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus |
Mar 23 |
Hazel Dawn, [LaTout], Utah, actress (Niobe, Under Cover, Feud Girl) |
Mar 24 |
Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard) |
Mar 24 |
George Alpert, railroad executive |
Mar 26 |
Renzo Massarani, composer |
Mar 26 |
Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979) |
Mar 29 |
Cecil Lewis, airman/writer |
Mar 30 |
Heinz Risse, writer |
Mar 30 |
Joyce Carey, English actress (Black Windmill) |
Apr 1 |
Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], NYC, actress (Blood & Sand) |
Apr 1 |
Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer (Stolica) |
Apr 1 |
Roger Bastide, French sociologist |
Apr 1 |
William James Sidis, American genius (d. 1944) |
Apr 3 |
George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of Young Comic) |
Apr 3 |
Henry R Luce, Tengchow China, publisher (Time, Fortune, Life) |
Apr 4 |
Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940) |
Apr 6 |
Bobby Gilbert, PA |
Apr 8 |
Achiel H Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58) |
Apr 8 |
Cecil [Maurice] Bowra, British classics expert (Greek experience) |
Apr 9 |
[Earl] Curly Lambeau, Green Bay Wisconsin, NFL coach (GB Packers) |
Apr 9 |
Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer |
Apr 9 |
Paul Robeson, Philadelphia, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer |
Apr 11 |
Lou Holtz, comedian/actor (Follow the Leader) |
Apr 12 |
Grantley H Adams, president of Barbados |
Apr 12 |
Lily Pons, Draguignan France, opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris) (d. 1976) |
Apr 14 |
Lee Tracy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye) |
Apr 15 |
Marian Jordan, actress, radio comedienne (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly) |
Apr 15 |
Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer (White Horse) |
Apr 18 |
Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer |
Apr 19 |
Constance Talmadge, Brooklyn NY, comedienne/actress (Intolerance) |
Apr 19 |
Sybil Andrews, English/Canadian painter |
Apr 21 |
Steve Owen, NFL tackle, coach (NY Giants) |
Apr 23 |
Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov) |
Apr 25 |
Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977) |
Apr 26 |
Edward PF Eagan, Denver, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32) |
Apr 26 |
John Grierson, documentary film maker |
Apr 26 |
Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977) |
May 1 |
Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62) |
May 2 |
Jef [Josephus C F] Last, Dutch poet/politician (The Spark) |
May 3 |
Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74) |
May 3 |
Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator |
May 6 |
Daniel Gerber, Freemont Mi, beloved by babies at mealtime |
May 6 |
Jascha Horenstein, Kiev Russian Empire, Russian-born American conductor |
May 7 |
Vera Chapman, writer |
May 10 |
Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization) |
May 10 |
Herbert Elwell, Minneapolis Minnesota, composer (Happy Hypocrite) |
May 13 |
Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007) |
May 14 |
Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer |
May 14 |
Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer |
May 15 |
Arlette-Leonie Arletty, [Bathiat], Courbevoie France, actress (Maxime) |
May 16 |
August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP) |
May 16 |
Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980) |
May 17 |
Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992) |
May 18 |
Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada) |
May 19 |
Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974) |
May 21 |
Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum) |
May 21 |
Karel Haba, composer |
May 21 |
Armand Hammer, The Visit |
May 21 |
Maria Mindzenty, Der siebente Junge |
May 21 |
Glen MacWilliams, Lifeboat |
May 22 |
René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven) |
May 22 |
Lucy Doraine, Labyrinth of Horror |
May 22 |
Ethel Shannon, Maytime |
May 23 |
Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young) |
May 23 |
Joseph Hazen, lawyer |
May 23 |
Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989) |
May 24 |
Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando) |
May 25 |
Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) panelist (What's My Line) |
May 25 |
Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30) |
May 25 |
Gustav Regler, writer |
May 25 |
Mischa Levitzki, composer |
May 26 |
Ernst Bacon, composer |
May 26 |
Gerard Bertouille, composer |
May 28 |
Andy Kirk, jazz musician |
May 31 |
Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter |
May 31 |
Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) |
Jun 1 |
Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932) |
Jun 1 |
Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show) |
Jun 1 |
Lieb Glantz, composer |
Jun 1 |
Molly Picon, NYC, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey) |
Jun 3 |
Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist |
Jun 5 |
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, poet/dramatist (Blood Wedding) |
Jun 6 |
Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet) |
Jun 6 |
Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl) |
Jun 9 |
Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt) |
Jun 9 |
Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952) |
Jun 10 |
Virginia Valli, [McSweeney], Chicago IL, actress (Pleasure Garden) |
Jun 11 |
Delmer Blair, South Pacific |
Jun 13 |
Eva J C Beck, actress (Resurrection) |
Jun 15 |
Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, organist |
Jun 15 |
Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist |
Jun 17 |
Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist |
Jun 17 |
Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961) |
Jun 18 |
Carleton Percy Hobbs, Farnborough England |
Jun 19 |
Paul Muller-Zurich, composer |
Jun 19 |
James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968) |
Jun 21 |
Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964) |
Jun 22 |
Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front) |
Jun 25 |
Kay (Katherine Linn) Sage, Albany New York, American painter and poet |
Jun 26 |
Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer |
Jun 26 |
Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971) |
Jun 27 |
Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students) |
Jun 27 |
Tibor Harsanyi, composer |
Jun 29 |
Rodolphe Marcilly, Astérix et Cléopâtre |
Jun 30 |
George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie) |
Jul 1 |
Andre-Marie Charue, bishop of Namen Belgium |
Jul 4 |
Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt) |
Jul 4 |
Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy) |
Jul 4 |
Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997) |
Jul 5 |
Yip Man, Ving Tsun Sifu and Master of Style (Gung-Gung) (d. 1972) |
Jul 6 |
Hanns Eisler, German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda |
Jul 7 |
Hanns Eisler, composer |
Jul 8 |
Alec Waugh, London, novelist (Island in the Sun); brother of Evelyn |
Jul 8 |
Melville Ruick, Boise Idaho, actor (Barton-City Hospital) |
Jul 9 |
Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer/journalist (Mary, Revolt in Congo) |
Jul 9 |
Marcel Delannoy, composer |
Jul 11 |
Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness) |
Jul 11 |
Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], Dutch writer/Radio Orange |
Jul 13 |
Martin David, German/Neth law historian |
Jul 13 |
Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936) |
Jul 14 |
Ivan Triesault, Estonia, actor (Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute) |
Jul 14 |
A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991) |
Jul 15 |
Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer |
Jul 15 |
Norman Demuth, composer |
Jul 17 |
Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget) |
Jul 17 |
Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999) |
Jul 18 |
Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher (Eros & Civilization) |
Jul 18 |
John Stuart, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Number 17) |
Jul 19 |
Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer |
Jul 21 |
Ernest Willem Mulder, composer |
Jul 21 |
Sara Carter, Virginia, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family) |
Jul 22 |
Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles) |
Jul 22 |
Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943) |
Jul 23 |
Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46) |
Jul 23 |
Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977) |
Jul 24 |
Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter |
Jul 27 |
Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] |
Jul 28 |
Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970) |
Jul 29 |
Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944) |
Jul 30 |
Henry Moore, England, sculptor (Vertebrae) |
Jul 30 |
Lorenzo Barcelata, Machete |
Jul 30 |
Henry Moore, Henry Moore: Man of Form |
Jul 30 |
Nadine March, A Ship in the Bay |
Jul 30 |
Carlotta King, The Desert Song |
Aug 1 |
Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey) |
Aug 3 |
Brother Adam [Kehrle], benedictine monk/beekeeper |
Aug 8 |
Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans) |
Aug 8 |
Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990) |
Aug 9 |
David de Jong, Dutch writer (Mutiny on the Canal) |
Aug 10 |
Jack Haley [John Joseph], Boston, Massachusetts, American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue) |
Aug 11 |
Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist |
Aug 12 |
Oscar Homolka, Vienna Austria, actor (I Remember Mama) |
Aug 13 |
Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64) |
Aug 15 |
Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom |
Aug 15 |
Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966) |
Aug 17 |
Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian |
Aug 20 |
G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands) |
Aug 20 |
Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love) |
Aug 20 |
Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973) |
Aug 22 |
Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress (John Meade's Woman) |
Aug 24 |
Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician (Nobel 1974) |
Aug 24 |
Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author (Flowering of New England) |
Aug 24 |
Marie J Hugenholtz, [Doctor Grandi], surgeon on Curacao |
Aug 25 |
Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975) |
Aug 25 |
Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973) |
Aug 26 |
Peggy Guggenheim, art patron & collector |
Aug 27 |
Enny de Leeuwe, [Engelina], actress (Anatevka)/wife of Pierre Mols |
Aug 28 |
Ludwig Turek, writer |
Aug 29 |
Preston Sturges, [Edmund P Biden], Chic, director (Sullivan's Travels) |
Aug 30 |
Shirley Booth, NYC, American actress (Hazel) |
Sep 1 |
Marilyn Miller, [Renolds], US actress (Sunny)/wife of Jack Pickford |
Sep 5 |
Ebbe Hamerik, composer |
Sep 8 |
Queenie Smith, NYC, actress/dancer (Funny Side) |
Sep 9 |
Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931) |
Sep 10 |
Adele Marie Astaire, Omaha NE, sister of Fred Astaire, entertainer |
Sep 10 |
Bessie Love, Midland TX, actress (Broadway Melody, Children of Damned) |
Sep 10 |
Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999) |
Sep 12 |
Ben Shahn, painter (1964 Arts & Letters) |
Sep 12 |
Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963) |
Sep 14 |
Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974) |
Sep 15 |
John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado) |
Sep 16 |
H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977) |
Sep 19 |
Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71) |
Sep 21 |
Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor |
Sep 22 |
Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981) |
Sep 24 |
Charlotte D baroness of Pallandt, Dutch sculptress |
Sep 24 |
Howard Florey, Adelaide Aust, pathologist/phamacologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45), (d. 1968) |
Sep 25 |
Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980) |
Sep 26 |
George Gershwin, [Jacob Gershvin], Bkln, composer (Rhapsody in Blue) |
Sep 27 |
Vincent (Miller) Youmans, US composer/songwriter (Tea for Two) |
Sep 28 |
Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957) |
Sep 29 |
Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (d. 1976) |
Sep 30 |
Felix Kersten, Baltic-German/Finnish masseuse (Heinrich Himmler) |
Sep 30 |
Johannes Rontgen, composer |
Sep 30 |
Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933) |
Sep 30 |
Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977) |
Oct 1 |
Karl Ranki, composer |
Oct 3 |
Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969) |
Oct 7 |
Alfred Wallenstein, Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29) |
Oct 8 |
Clarence Williams, composer |
Oct 10 |
Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989) |
Oct 14 |
Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor/director (Flying Dutchman) |
Oct 15 |
Gunther Ramin, composer |
Oct 15 |
Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1951) |
Oct 16 |
Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR |
Oct 16 |
William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75) |
Oct 17 |
Mildred Knopf, cookbook writer |
Oct 17 |
Shinichi Suzuki, Nagoya, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method) |
Oct 17 |
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer/poet (5th Seal) |
Oct 18 |
George Cuzon, Amersham England, actor (Hooded Terror) |
Oct 18 |
Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian singer and actress (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, From Russia with Love) |
Oct 18 |
Raymond Glenn, Frankfort KY, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones) |
Oct 21 |
Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/gov-gen of Ital East-Africa |
Oct 21 |
Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960) |
Oct 22 |
Damaso Alonso, Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira) |
Oct 22 |
Marcel Mihalovici, composer |
Oct 25 |
Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician |
Oct 26 |
Beryl Rubinstein, composer |
Oct 29 |
Emmanuel Bondeville, composer |
Oct 30 |
Bill Terry, baseball player (d. 1989) |
Oct 31 |
Alfred Sauvy, French statistician (Affluence & Population) |
Nov 1 |
Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960) |
Nov 7 |
Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963) |
Nov 8 |
Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937) |
Nov 9 |
Leonard Carmichael, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, American Psychologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1953-1964) |
Nov 9 |
Owen Barfield, philosopher of language |
Nov 11 |
Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher |
Nov 11 |
Rene Clair, director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow) |
Nov 12 |
Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice) |
Nov 12 |
Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999) |
Nov 13 |
Earl Sande, jockey (Hall of Famer) |
Nov 14 |
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944) |
Nov 15 |
Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch entertainer/poet (Fish-Trap) |
Nov 18 |
Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain) |
Nov 18 |
Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer |
Nov 19 |
Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003) |
Nov 21 |
René Magritte, Belgian surrealistic painter (This is Not a Pipe) |
Nov 22 |
Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska) |
Nov 26 |
Karl Ziegler, Helsa, German Empire, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973) |
Nov 27 |
Nelly Steuer-Wagenaar, Dutch pianist |
Nov 27 |
Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981) |
Nov 28 |
Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [OS] |
Nov 29 |
C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Belfast, sci-fi author (Silver Chair), (d. 1963) |
Nov 29 |
Rod La Rocque, Chicago IL, actor (Our Modern Maidens) |
Nov 30 |
Roy "Link" Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears) |
Dec 1 |
Cyril Ritchard, Sydney Australia, actor (Peter Pan, Hans Brinker) |
Dec 2 |
Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918) |
Dec 3 |
Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer |
Dec 5 |
Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (d. 1982) |
Dec 5 |
Grace Moore, Slabtown, Tennessee, American soprano (One Night of Love) |
Dec 6 |
Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist |
Dec 6 |
Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974) |
Dec 6 |
Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine) |
Dec 9 |
Emmett Kelly, Sedan KS, circus clown (Weary Willie) |
Dec 10 |
Anton Mauve, Dutch painter |
Dec 10 |
Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS] |
Dec 11 |
Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet (Barfotabarn) |
Dec 11 |
Nils Ferlin, Adventurer |
Dec 13 |
Daniel Lazarus, composer |
Dec 14 |
Frederick Douglass Hall, composer |
Dec 15 |
Fernando Remacha, composer |
Dec 18 |
Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist |
Dec 20 |
Irene [Marie] Dunne, Louisville, actress (Show Boat, I Remember Mama) |
Dec 21 |
Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar) |
Dec 22 |
Lionel Charles Robbins, Middlesex England, economist |
Dec 22 |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974) |
Dec 24 |
Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967) |
Dec 24 |
Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959) |
Dec 25 |
Theo Swagemakers, Dutch portrait painter |
Dec 25 |
Gaspar Arbet, The Angelos Trio |
Dec 25 |
Irving Friedman, He Walked by Night |
Dec 25 |
Vladimir Lepko, My s vami gde-to vstrechalis |
Dec 25 |
Clint Dorrington, Around the World in Eighty Days |
Dec 25 |
Georges Spanelly, Rubber |
Dec 25 |
Barney Ruditsky, The Cutie Jaffe Story |
Dec 25 |
Nikola Balabanov, Pod staroto nebe |
Dec 28 |
Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957) |
Dec 28 |
Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947) |
Dec 29 |
Jeanne Leleu, composer |
Dec 30 |
Vincent Lopez, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard) |
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