Notable Birthdays - 1899
1899 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer |
Jan 1 |
Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu) |
Jan 1 |
Raymond Loucheur, composer |
Jan 1 |
Khaziakhmet Bukharskiy, Salavat Yulayev |
Jan 1 |
Valentina Zimina, La Boheme |
Jan 1 |
Jack Beresford, Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty |
Jan 1 |
László Kemény, Baleset |
Jan 1 |
Joseph Hamilton, Mirror Image |
Jan 1 |
Lev Kuleshov, Po zakonu |
Jan 2 |
Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer |
Jan 2 |
Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61) |
Jan 6 |
Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory) |
Jan 7 |
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches) |
Jan 7 |
Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant) |
Jan 8 |
Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59) |
Jan 11 |
Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991) |
Jan 12 |
Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948) |
Jan 12 |
Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979) |
Jan 13 |
Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968) |
Jan 14 |
Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo) |
Jan 14 |
Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985) |
Jan 15 |
Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman) |
Jan 15 |
Louis Guilloux, La ligne d'ombre |
Jan 15 |
Trude Lieske, Asphalt |
Jan 17 |
Al Capone, Brooklyn New York, American gangster (Chicago bootlegging) |
Jan 17 |
Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice) |
Jan 17 |
Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian |
Jan 17 |
Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character) |
Jan 19 |
[John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer |
Jan 20 |
Alexander Tcherepnin, composer |
Jan 20 |
Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC) |
Jan 22 |
Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany) |
Jan 23 |
Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts) |
Jan 23 |
Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931) |
Jan 25 |
Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces) |
Jan 26 |
Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One) |
Jan 27 |
Granville English, composer |
Jan 28 |
Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger |
Jan 28 |
Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940) |
Jan 30 |
Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951) |
Feb 2 |
Benny Rubin, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show) |
Feb 2 |
Elena Bindokaite, Tadas Blinda |
Feb 3 |
Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street) |
Feb 3 |
Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961) |
Feb 3 |
João Café Filho, Brazilian president (d.1970) |
Feb 3 |
Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966) |
Feb 6 |
Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], Durango Mexico, actor (Ben Hur) |
Feb 7 |
Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member |
Feb 12 |
Albert Huybrechts, composer |
Feb 14 |
John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man) |
Feb 15 |
Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio) |
Feb 15 |
Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer |
Feb 15 |
Lillian Disney, Mrs Walt Disney |
Feb 18 |
Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II) |
Feb 19 |
Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960) |
Feb 20 |
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways) |
Feb 20 |
Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes) |
Feb 22 |
Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein) |
Feb 22 |
George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966) |
Feb 22 |
Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986) |
Feb 23 |
Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974) |
Feb 23 |
Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981) |
Feb 24 |
Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall) |
Feb 25 |
Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist |
Feb 26 |
Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994) |
Feb 27 |
Charles Herbert Best, Washington County, Maine, American-Canadian physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin) |
Feb 27 |
Ian Keith, Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers) |
Feb 27 |
Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer |
Feb 28 |
Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist |
Mar 1 |
Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972) |
Mar 2 |
Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian dame |
Mar 2 |
Eric Hodgins, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House |
Mar 2 |
Josef Mischel, Prison Ship |
Mar 2 |
Audrey Chapman, Daddy-Long-Legs |
Mar 3 |
Alfred M Gruenther, US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56) |
Mar 3 |
Juri Olescha, writer |
Mar 4 |
Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962) |
Mar 5 |
Patrick Hadley, composer |
Mar 8 |
Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows) |
Mar 8 |
Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984) |
Mar 10 |
Finn Hoffding, composer |
Mar 10 |
Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007) |
Mar 11 |
Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72) |
Mar 13 |
Pancho Vladigerov, composer |
Mar 13 |
Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956) |
Mar 13 |
John Van Vleck, Middletown Connecticut, American Physicist, Mathematician, and Nobel Laureate who pioneered the modern quantum mechanical theory of magnetism |
Mar 14 |
K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992) |
Mar 15 |
George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979) |
Mar 18 |
Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin |
Mar 23 |
Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943) |
Mar 25 |
Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate) |
Mar 25 |
Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men) |
Mar 25 |
Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978) |
Mar 26 |
James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale) |
Mar 26 |
William Baines, composer |
Mar 27 |
Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly) |
Mar 28 |
Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973) |
Mar 28 |
August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989) |
Mar 28 |
Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977) |
Mar 30 |
Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM) |
Mar 30 |
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, well known Bengali writer (d. 1970) |
Apr 1 |
Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968) |
Apr 3 |
Cees Lasseur, Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy) |
Apr 3 |
David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958) |
Apr 4 |
William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23) |
Apr 4 |
Carmel Myers, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
Apr 4 |
Norma Lee, Wise Girls |
Apr 4 |
Jesús Grovas, Even the Wind Is Afraid |
Apr 4 |
Joseph E. Aiken, Cavalcade |
Apr 4 |
Arthur Jasmine, Salomé |
Apr 4 |
Davit Badridze, Jurgais pari |
Apr 4 |
Frank Serjack, The Trouble with Harry |
Apr 4 |
Earl Rolfe, Blackmail |
Apr 5 |
William Hornby Steer, barrister/judge |
Apr 7 |
Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972) |
Apr 9 |
James Smith McDonnell, Denver Colorado, American aviator and engineer |
Apr 11 |
Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis) |
Apr 13 |
Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer |
Apr 13 |
Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor (Scrabble) |
Apr 13 |
Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher |
Apr 16 |
Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988) |
Apr 17 |
Vincent Wigglesworth, entomologist |
Apr 19 |
George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985) |
Apr 21 |
Clement D'Hooghe, composer |
Apr 21 |
Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Trip to Nahant) |
Apr 22 |
Martyn Green, London, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Iceman Cometh) |
Apr 23 |
Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg, Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada) |
Apr 24 |
Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986) |
Apr 26 |
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, TX, actor (Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail) |
Apr 27 |
Leo Diegel, Detroit Michigan, American golfer (two-time PGA Champion) |
Apr 29 |
Duke Ellington, Washington, District of Columbia, American bandleader, composer and pianist (Take the A Train) |
Apr 29 |
Karl Yngve Skold, composer |
Apr 29 |
Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality) |
Apr 30 |
Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels) |
Apr 30 |
Lucie Mannheim, Berlin, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps) |
May 3 |
Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven) |
May 5 |
Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy) |
May 6 |
Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969) |
May 8 |
Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter |
May 8 |
[Friedrich] August von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom) |
May 8 |
Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959) |
May 9 |
Edward Pollock, saxophone/clarinet |
May 10 |
Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime) |
May 10 |
Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979) |
May 11 |
Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963) |
May 12 |
Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002) |
May 14 |
Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993) |
May 14 |
Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
May 15 |
Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970) |
May 17 |
Ralf Harolde, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off) |
May 19 |
Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright |
May 20 |
Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments) |
May 20 |
John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71) |
May 20 |
Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969) |
May 21 |
Ilse Lagner, writer |
May 21 |
Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp) |
May 24 |
Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) |
May 24 |
Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984) |
May 25 |
Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976) |
May 26 |
Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian |
May 26 |
Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal |
May 26 |
Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968) |
May 31 |
Leonid Leonow, writer |
Jun 1 |
Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY) |
Jun 1 |
Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963) |
Jun 2 |
Royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman) |
Jun 3 |
Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961) |
Jun 4 |
Leo Spies, composer |
Jun 4 |
Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989) |
Jun 7 |
Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters) |
Jun 8 |
Noel Wien, Lake Nebagamon Wisconsin, aviation pioneer (Wien Air Alaska) |
Jun 10 |
Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS) |
Jun 11 |
George Frederick McKay, composer |
Jun 11 |
Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes) |
Jun 13 |
Carlos Chavez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfonia India) |
Jun 14 |
Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968) |
Jun 16 |
Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday) |
Jun 18 |
James Ralph Darling, teacher |
Jun 19 |
George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei) |
Jun 20 |
Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer |
Jun 20 |
Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance (WW II) |
Jun 21 |
Pavel Haas, composer |
Jun 22 |
Dorothy Devore, Fort Worth TX, actress (Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil) |
Jun 22 |
Michal Kalecki, Polish economist |
Jun 23 |
Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer |
Jun 24 |
Bruce Marshall, writer |
Jun 24 |
Chief Dan George, actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man. Smith!) |
Jun 25 |
Arthur Tracy, Kamenets-Podolsky Russia, street singer (Vincent Lopez Show, Limelight) |
Jun 26 |
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) |
Jun 27 |
Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981) |
Jun 30 |
Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal |
Jun 30 |
Madge Bellamy [Margaret Derden Philpott], Hillsboro, Texas, American actress (White Zombie, The Iron Horse) |
Jul 1 |
Cavan O'Connor, singer |
Jul 1 |
Charles Laughton, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus) |
Jul 1 |
Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr, fictional character "Indiana Jones" |
Jul 1 |
Konstantinos Tsatsos Greek politician and president (1975-1980) |
Jul 3 |
Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer |
Jul 3 |
Otto Reinhold, composer |
Jul 5 |
Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist (NYC cabinet) |
Jul 5 |
Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, composer |
Jul 5 |
Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright (Jean de la Lune) |
Jul 7 |
George Cukor, producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story) |
Jul 8 |
David Eli Lilienthal, US government organizer (Wisconsin) |
Jul 10 |
John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936) |
Jul 10 |
Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978) |
Jul 11 |
E. B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style), (d. 1985) |
Jul 15 |
Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971) |
Jul 16 |
Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney (NY) |
Jul 17 |
James Cagney, New York City, NY, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy) |
Jul 18 |
Willem Kernkamp, Dutch minister of Colonies (Islam & Woman) |
Jul 19 |
Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth) |
Jul 21 |
Ernest Hemingway, Oak Park Illinois, author ('for whom the bell tolled... ', Nobel 1954), (d. 1961) |
Jul 21 |
Hart Crane, US, poet (Bridge) |
Jul 23 |
Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany |
Jul 24 |
Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man) |
Jul 25 |
Arthur Lubin, film director |
Jul 25 |
Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz) |
Jul 26 |
Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian & Roman art) |
Jul 26 |
Danton Walker, Mariette Ga, columnist (Broadway Spotlight) |
Jul 27 |
Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler (20's) |
Jul 29 |
Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959) |
Jul 30 |
Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud) |
Jul 30 |
Henricus Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP) |
Jul 30 |
John Woods Duke, composer |
Jul 30 |
Gerald Moore, Poltergeist |
Jul 30 |
Ann Price, The Smart Set |
Jul 30 |
J. Harold Reeves, Happy Days |
Aug 1 |
William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71) |
Aug 2 |
Charles Bennett, screenwriter |
Aug 2 |
George Malcolm Thomson, journalist |
Aug 3 |
Sally Benson, novelist |
Aug 3 |
Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979) |
Aug 4 |
Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994) |
Aug 7 |
Ricci Riano, England |
Aug 9 |
Armand Salacrou, French playwright |
Aug 9 |
Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins), (d. 1996) |
Aug 12 |
Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian (Spanish Diary) |
Aug 12 |
Ben Sealey, West Indian cricketer (d. 1963) |
Aug 13 |
Alfred Hitchcock, Leytonstone Essex, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window) |
Aug 14 |
Jaroslav Jeremias, composer |
Aug 16 |
Glenn Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke) |
Aug 19 |
Kenneth MacKenna, Canterbury NH, actor/director (Those We Love) |
Aug 19 |
Olga Baclanova, Moscow Russia, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY) |
Aug 19 |
Colleen Moore, Port Huron MI, actress (Scarlet Letter) |
Aug 19 |
Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959) |
Aug 19 |
Franz C. Schmelkes, Prague, Czech-born Chemist who discovered azochloramid (chlorazodin), widely used as a disinfectant to sterilize wounds and burns |
Aug 20 |
Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist (Church und Welt) |
Aug 24 |
Johan J Fabricius, Dutch novelist (Island of Demons) |
Aug 24 |
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths) |
Aug 24 |
Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer (Rose, Black King) |
Aug 26 |
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter |
Aug 27 |
Byron Foulger, Ogden UT, actor (River's Edge, Up in Smoke) |
Aug 27 |
Cecil Scott Forester, English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower) (d. 1966) |
Aug 28 |
Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park) |
Aug 28 |
Pedro Maffia, Sombras porteñas |
Aug 28 |
H.N. Swanson, The Half Naked Truth |
Aug 28 |
Jan Mrozinski, Czarci zleb |
Aug 29 |
George Macready, Providence RI, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place) |
Aug 29 |
Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general (WW II) |
Aug 31 |
Paul E Garber, US founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum |
Aug 31 |
Walter Muller von Kulm, composer |
Sep 6 |
Billy Rose, theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show) |
Sep 7 |
Leendert A Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA) |
Sep 9 |
Louis Cheslock, composer |
Sep 9 |
Neil Hamilton, Lynn Mass, actor (Commisioner Gordon-Batman) |
Sep 9 |
Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984) |
Sep 11 |
Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Driestuivers Opera) |
Sep 11 |
Jimmie Davis, Quitman, Louisiana, American singer and songwriter (You Are My Sunshine) |
Sep 12 |
Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter |
Sep 13 |
Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer |
Sep 13 |
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938) |
Sep 14 |
Hal Wallis, movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park) |
Sep 15 |
Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State) |
Sep 16 |
Hans Swarowsky, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Graz Opera 1947-50) |
Sep 17 |
Winnie Lightner, Greenport NY, comedienne (Sit Tight, Side Show) |
Sep 20 |
Elliot Nugent, director (And so They were Married) |
Sep 20 |
Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973) |
Sep 21 |
Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre) |
Sep 21 |
Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986) |
Sep 23 |
Louise Nevelson, Kiev, Russia, sculptor (Sky Cathedral) |
Sep 23 |
Marcel Dalio, [Israel Blauschild], Paris France, actor (China Gate) |
Sep 23 |
William Levi Dawson, composer |
Sep 24 |
Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, composer |
Sep 24 |
Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970) |
Sep 29 |
Billy Butlin, South Africa, holiday camp promoter |
Sep 29 |
Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, & Eva |
Sep 30 |
Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic |
Oct 1 |
Lajos Bardos, composer |
Oct 1 |
Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950) |
Oct 3 |
Gertrude Berg, Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs) |
Oct 5 |
Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer |
Oct 5 |
Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1962) |
Oct 8 |
Milner Connorton Gray, designer |
Oct 8 |
Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found (VHP) |
Oct 9 |
Bruce Catton, US, historian/writer (Civil War) |
Oct 11 |
A L "Oosh" Ochse, cricketer (no relation to A E South African fast bowler) |
Oct 11 |
Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964) |
Oct 13 |
Marcelle de Manziarly, composer |
Oct 14 |
Alan Washbond, US, 2-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932) |
Oct 19 |
Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), (d. 1974) |
Oct 20 |
Evelyn Brent, Tampa FL, actress (Panama Lady, Last Coomand) |
Oct 20 |
Marnix Gijsen, [baron Jan-Albert Goris], Flemish writer (Grote God Pan) |
Oct 23 |
Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Bulldog Drummond) |
Oct 24 |
Ferhat Abbas, Algerian pharmacist/MP chairman (1962-63) |
Oct 29 |
Akim Tamiroff, Tiflis Russia, actor (For Whom the Bell Tolls) |
Oct 30 |
Ernst H Ridder van Rappard, Dutch SS officer/founder (NSNAP) |
Nov 2 |
Eddy [Charles E] du Perron, Dutch author/poet |
Nov 3 |
Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986) |
Nov 4 |
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet (Teotihuacan) |
Nov 4 |
Mimi Boesnach, Dutch actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roosje) |
Nov 4 |
Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985) |
Nov 5 |
Forrest Lewis, actor (Monster of Piedras Blancas) |
Nov 11 |
Harold "Pie" Traynor, baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates) |
Nov 11 |
Pat O'Brien, Milwaukee, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces) |
Nov 15 |
Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990) |
Nov 15 |
Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969) |
Nov 16 |
Mary Margaret McBride, Paris Mo, radio personality (WOR-AM, NYC) |
Nov 17 |
Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Coup of Trafalgar) |
Nov 17 |
Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971) |
Nov 18 |
Eugene Ormandy, [Blau], Budapest Hungary, conductor (Phila Orch) |
Nov 19 |
Allen Tate, US, poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems) |
Nov 19 |
Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992) |
Nov 20 |
Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer |
Nov 22 |
Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington Ind, actor/songwriter (Stardust) |
Nov 23 |
Norman Hunter, writer |
Nov 24 |
Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer |
Nov 24 |
Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966) |
Nov 25 |
Vera Reynolds, Richmond VA, silent screen actress (Lawless Woman) |
Nov 25 |
William R Burnett, US, author (Little Caesar) |
Nov 26 |
Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936) |
Nov 29 |
Gustave Reese, composer |
Nov 29 |
Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (d. 1988) |
Dec 1 |
Robert Welch, found John Birch Society |
Dec 2 |
John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orchestra) |
Dec 2 |
John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952) |
Dec 2 |
Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989) |
Dec 3 |
Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965) |
Dec 4 |
Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Frisian farmer/writer |
Dec 4 |
Charles William (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player (d. 1953) |
Dec 5 |
Sonny Boy Williamson, [Aleck Miller], blues player |
Dec 6 |
Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith |
Dec 6 |
Nikolai Batalov, Moscow Russia, actor (Mother) |
Dec 8 |
James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist |
Dec 8 |
John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Searchers) |
Dec 8 |
Sarah Williamson, US missionary in Liberia |
Dec 9 |
Frans van Amelsvoort, Dutch choir conductor |
Dec 9 |
Howard Freeman, Helena MT, actor (Double Dynamite) |
Dec 9 |
Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant) |
Dec 9 |
Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (Those not elected) |
Dec 11 |
Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst |
Dec 11 |
Manfred Curry, Boote mit Flügeln |
Dec 13 |
Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild) |
Dec 13 |
Yusef Greiss, composer |
Dec 15 |
Frank Vosper, London England, actor (Man Who Knew Too Much) |
Dec 15 |
Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978) |
Dec 16 |
Harold Walter Bailey, philologist |
Dec 16 |
Noel Coward, England, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award) |
Dec 21 |
Guy Wilkerson, TX, actor (Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron) |
Dec 22 |
Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf, Germany, actor and director (M, Faust) |
Dec 22 |
Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer |
Dec 25 |
Frank Fergusson, actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place) |
Dec 25 |
Humphrey Bogart, NYC, actor, Here's looking at you, kid (Casablanca) |
Dec 25 |
Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression Scenes in NYC) |
Dec 25 |
Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca |
Dec 25 |
Oscar Polk, Gone with the Wind |
Dec 25 |
Rintarô Fujima, What Made Her Do It? |
Dec 25 |
Charles Cruz, The Night Message |
Dec 25 |
Kazuo Ozaki, Mole Alley |
Dec 27 |
Paul Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1920, 24, 28) |
Dec 28 |
Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943) |
Dec 29 |
Nie Rongzhen, People's Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992) |
Dec 30 |
Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001) |
Dec 31 |
Gaston Glass, Paris France, film executive |
Dec 31 |
Silvestre Revueltas, Santiago Papasquiaro Mexico, composer (Sensemaya) |
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