Notable Birthdays - 1900
1900 Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Hubert van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF) |
Jan 1 |
William Haines, Staunton VA, actor (Fast Life, Little Annie Rooney) |
Jan 1 |
Xavier Cugat, Barcelona Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo) |
Jan 1 |
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986) |
Jan 1 |
Khikmat Latypov, Semurg |
Jan 1 |
Rakhim Pirmukhamedov, Pokhozhdeniya Nasreddina |
Jan 1 |
Odette Roger, The Baker's Wife |
Jan 1 |
Erich Claunigk, Roses for the Prosecutor |
Jan 1 |
Aurora Redondo, Las bicicletas son para el verano |
Jan 1 |
Erwin S. Gelsey, Swing Time |
Jan 1 |
Roger Maxwell, Doctor Zhivago |
Jan 1 |
Karen Winther, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages |
Jan 1 |
Paola Borboni, Roman Holiday |
Jan 1 |
Lillian Rich, On the Front Page |
Jan 1 |
Xavier Cugat, 2046 |
Jan 3 |
Dorothy Arnzer, director |
Jan 3 |
Maurice Jaubert, composer |
Jan 4 |
James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989) |
Jan 5 |
Dennis Gabor, Hung/Brit physicist (holography-Nobel 1971) [or Jun 5] |
Jan 5 |
Paula Ludwig, writer |
Jan 5 |
Yves Tanguy, French/US sailor/surrealistic painter |
Jan 6 |
Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse) |
Jan 7 |
John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969) |
Jan 8 |
Queen Marie, of Yugoslavia |
Jan 9 |
Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer |
Jan 9 |
Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939) |
Jan 12 |
Vaino Hannikainen, composer |
Jan 13 |
Yasuji Kiyose, composer |
Jan 15 |
Caesar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son) |
Jan 15 |
Compton Bennett, King Solomon's Mines |
Jan 15 |
Keiji Sakakida, Seven Samurai |
Jan 15 |
William Heinesen, The Dance |
Jan 17 |
Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts |
Jan 20 |
Boris Semyonovich Shekhter, composer |
Jan 20 |
Doris Deane, WI, entertainer |
Jan 20 |
Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937) |
Jan 20 |
Tone Seliskar, Sinji galeb |
Jan 22 |
Franz Salmhofer, composer |
Jan 23 |
Mary Philips, CT, actress (Farewell to Arms, Incendiary Blonde) |
Jan 23 |
Ralph Graves, Cleve Ohio, actor (Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street) |
Jan 23 |
William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988) |
Jan 25 |
Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story) |
Jan 25 |
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving) |
Jan 25 |
Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986) |
Jan 26 |
Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967) |
Jan 27 |
Hyman G Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy) |
Jan 28 |
Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher (History of Ecuador) |
Jan 28 |
Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner (Olympic-1928) |
Jan 28 |
Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange) |
Jan 28 |
Michael Dewar Head, composer |
Jan 28 |
Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984) |
Jan 29 |
Marco Tajcevic, composer |
Jan 29 |
Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter/poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea) |
Jan 30 |
Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer |
Jan 30 |
Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress (Man in Grey, Becket) |
Jan 30 |
Sandy Powell, Rotherham England, costume designer (Rob Roy) |
Jan 31 |
Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer |
Feb 1 |
Stephen Potter, humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders) |
Feb 2 |
Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Springfield Ohio, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65) |
Feb 2 |
Willie Kamm, MLB third baseman (d. 1988) |
Feb 2 |
Jaroslav Mottl, Konecne sami |
Feb 2 |
David Diamond, Swing It, Sailor! |
Feb 2 |
Anatoli Golovnya, Storm Over Asia |
Feb 2 |
Emmett Miller, Yes Sir, Mr. Bones |
Feb 2 |
Gorella Gori, Roman Holiday |
Feb 2 |
Carroll Righter, Episode #7.3 |
Feb 2 |
Mercia Swinburne, Saraband |
Feb 3 |
Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon) |
Feb 5 |
Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956) |
Feb 6 |
Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist |
Feb 6 |
Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen) |
Feb 8 |
Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer |
Feb 8 |
John Cameron, judge |
Feb 8 |
Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987) |
Feb 11 |
Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher |
Feb 11 |
Thomas Hitchcock Jr, great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39) |
Feb 11 |
Josei Toda, Japanese educator (d. 1958) |
Feb 12 |
Fred Emney, London England, actor (Let the People Sing, Lilac Domino) |
Feb 16 |
Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter |
Feb 19 |
Giorgos Seferis, writer |
Feb 20 |
Antonio Veretti, composer |
Feb 20 |
Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer |
Feb 20 |
Jean Negulesco |
Feb 21 |
Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir) |
Feb 21 |
Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones & Son) |
Feb 22 |
Luis Buñuel, Calanda Spain, Spanish surrealist film director (Belle de Jour) |
Feb 22 |
Evald Aav, composer |
Feb 22 |
Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963) |
Feb 22 |
Seán Ó Faoláin [John Whelan], Irish short story writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk) |
Feb 22 |
Sean O'Faoláin, The Woman Who Married Clark Gable |
Feb 23 |
Elinor Remick Warren, composer |
Feb 25 |
Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball) |
Feb 26 |
Jean Negulesco, Craiova Romania, director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica) |
Feb 28 |
Laura Z Hobson, writer |
Feb 28 |
Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959) |
Mar 1 |
Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM |
Mar 1 |
Yorgos Seferis, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi) |
Mar 1 |
Donald Keith Falkner, singer |
Mar 2 |
Kurt J Weill, Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany) |
Mar 3 |
Edna Best, Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo) |
Mar 3 |
Winnie C. Logan, |
Mar 4 |
Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968) |
Mar 4 |
Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971) |
Mar 4 |
Bruno Fritz, Ein Mann für Jenny |
Mar 5 |
Ludwig Donath, actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again) |
Mar 6 |
John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian (University of London) |
Mar 6 |
Ludwig Donath, Vienna Austria, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco) |
Mar 6 |
Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher (300 game winner) |
Mar 7 |
Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter |
Mar 7 |
[Albert] Carel Willink, Dutch painter (magic realism) |
Mar 9 |
Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43) |
Mar 9 |
Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973) |
Mar 10 |
Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club) |
Mar 12 |
David Croll, QC senator |
Mar 12 |
Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer |
Mar 13 |
Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981) |
Mar 15 |
Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer |
Mar 17 |
Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing) |
Mar 19 |
Roy Roberts, Tampa Fla, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show) |
Mar 19 |
[Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935) |
Mar 21 |
Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal) |
Mar 21 |
Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor |
Mar 23 |
Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society) |
Mar 23 |
Jose Antonio Calcano, composer |
Mar 24 |
June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet |
Mar 26 |
Isadore Freed, composer |
Mar 28 |
Achille Longo, composer |
Mar 28 |
Robert Harris, actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne) |
Mar 29 |
John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980) |
Mar 29 |
Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974) |
Mar 31 |
Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters |
Apr 1 |
Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough, Queensland (d. 1988) |
Apr 2 |
Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist |
Apr 2 |
Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942) |
Apr 3 |
Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon |
Apr 4 |
Albert Augustíny, The Organ |
Apr 4 |
Joseph Glücksmann, Mein oder Dein |
Apr 5 |
Spencer Tracy, Milwaukee, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib) |
Apr 6 |
Andres Sas, composer |
Apr 6 |
Leo Robin, US writer (Thanks For the Memory) |
Apr 7 |
Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952) |
Apr 9 |
Allen Jenkins, Staten Island, actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit) |
Apr 10 |
Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950) |
Apr 11 |
Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989) |
Apr 13 |
Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976) |
Apr 14 |
Salvatore Baccaloni, Rome, actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby) |
Apr 16 |
Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home) |
Apr 18 |
Louise Tazewell, [Louise Skiller Tazewell], entertainer |
Apr 19 |
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth) |
Apr 19 |
Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991) |
Apr 20 |
Fred Raymond, composer |
Apr 20 |
Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist |
Apr 23 |
Ary Verhaar, composer |
Apr 23 |
Henry Barraud, composer |
Apr 23 |
Joseph Green, film maker |
Apr 23 |
Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959) |
Apr 25 |
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, British politician and diplomat |
Apr 25 |
Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist (Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945) |
Apr 26 |
Charles Richter, Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale) |
Apr 26 |
Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje) |
Apr 26 |
James Sutherland, English literature scholar/actor (Rob Roy 1953) |
Apr 26 |
Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948) |
Apr 27 |
Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator) |
Apr 28 |
Bruno Apitz, writer |
Apr 28 |
Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (hypothesized "Oort Cloud") |
Apr 28 |
Maurice Thorez, secretary-general (French Communist Party) |
May 1 |
Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) |
May 1 |
Arkadi Vovsi, Rasplata |
May 1 |
June Blumenthal, The Invisible Ray |
May 1 |
Robert Baberske, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
May 1 |
Ignazio Silone, Fontamara |
May 1 |
Nat Bonx, Radio Days |
May 2 |
Helen Morgan, singer/actress (Applause, Frankie & Johnny) |
May 5 |
Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924) |
May 5 |
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt) |
May 5 |
Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope) |
May 5 |
Dennis Gabor, electrical engineer and physicist, Nobel Prize winner |
May 7 |
Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur) |
May 7 |
Ralph Truman, London England, actor (Web of Evidence) |
May 12 |
Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage) |
May 13 |
Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer) |
May 14 |
Billie Dove, [Lilian Bohny], NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride) |
May 14 |
Leo Smit, composer |
May 14 |
Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978) |
May 14 |
Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971) |
May 17 |
Nicolai Berezowsky, composer |
May 18 |
Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825) |
May 20 |
Lydia Cabrera, Havana, Cuban Anthropologist |
May 22 |
Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979) |
May 23 |
Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946) |
May 24 |
Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954) |
May 24 |
Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
May 25 |
Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975) |
May 27 |
Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933) |
May 28 |
Owen Aisher, president (Marley) |
May 28 |
Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939) |
May 31 |
Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef) |
Jun 2 |
David Wynne, composer |
Jun 3 |
Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New) |
Jun 5 |
Barbara Gooden, novelist |
Jun 6 |
Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train) |
Jun 6 |
Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957) |
Jun 7 |
Jan [Johannes A A] Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros) |
Jun 8 |
Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer (Last general) |
Jun 9 |
Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender) |
Jun 9 |
Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot |
Jun 10 |
Henri Bruning, Dutch literary |
Jun 11 |
Lawrence E Spivak, Brooklyn New York, American news panelist (Meet the Press) |
Jun 12 |
Amadeo Roldan, composer |
Jun 12 |
Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Sonna) |
Jun 13 |
Ian Hunter, Capetown South Africa, actor (Dr Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn) |
Jun 14 |
June Walker, IL, actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven) |
Jun 15 |
Otto Clarence Luening, Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon) |
Jun 15 |
Paul J Mares, US, jazz trumpetist/composer (Farewell blues) |
Jun 15 |
Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984) |
Jun 16 |
Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62) |
Jun 17 |
Hermann Reuter, composer |
Jun 17 |
Martin Bormann, propoganda minister (Hitler) |
Jun 19 |
Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret) |
Jun 20 |
Ernest White, composer |
Jun 21 |
Gunnar Ek, composer |
Jun 22 |
Jennie Tourel, St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera 1943-47) |
Jun 24 |
Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945) |
Jun 25 |
Izak D du Plessis, South African writer/director (3rd World) |
Jun 25 |
Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative/earl/baron/admiral |
Jun 26 |
Joseph E A "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter |
Jun 27 |
Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77) |
Jun 28 |
Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham) |
Jun 29 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944) |
Jul 2 |
Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971) |
Jul 3 |
John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway) |
Jul 5 |
Bernardus J Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands |
Jul 6 |
Emil Barth, writer |
Jul 6 |
Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012) |
Jul 7 |
Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990) |
Jul 8 |
George Antheil, Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata) |
Jul 9 |
Robert Oboussier, composer |
Jul 10 |
Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's) |
Jul 10 |
Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow) |
Jul 10 |
Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979) |
Jul 10 |
Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993) |
Jul 12 |
Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky) |
Jul 13 |
JH Scheps, Dutch 2nd-Member of parliament (social democratic) |
Jul 13 |
George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969) |
Jul 18 |
Nathalie Sarraute [Tcherniak], Ivanovo, Russia, writer and lawyer (Portrait of a Man Unknown, The Golden Fruits) |
Jul 19 |
Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor |
Jul 19 |
Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier |
Jul 19 |
Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer |
Jul 20 |
Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist |
Jul 20 |
Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria's Life) |
Jul 20 |
Maurice Leyland, prolific cricket left-handed batsman (England) |
Jul 24 |
Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott |
Jul 25 |
Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola) |
Jul 27 |
Charles Vidor, Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl) |
Jul 27 |
Hans Haug, composer |
Jul 28 |
Maurice Johnstone, composer |
Jul 29 |
Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer [OS] |
Jul 29 |
Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times) |
Jul 29 |
Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974) |
Jul 29 |
Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964) |
Jul 31 |
Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll) |
Jul 31 |
Erich Katz, composer |
Aug 1 |
Otto Nothling, cricketer (Test for Australia 1928, 52 runs aver 26) |
Aug 2 |
Helen Morgan [Riggins], Danville, Illinois, American singer/actress (Applause, Show Boat) |
Aug 2 |
Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer |
Aug 3 |
Arnoldus J N M Struycken, Dutch lawyer |
Aug 3 |
Ernie Pyle, England, correspondent during WW II |
Aug 3 |
John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution |
Aug 4 |
Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66) |
Aug 4 |
Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch) |
Aug 4 |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, London or Hitchin UK, consort of King George VI and Queen Mother after his death (d. 2002) |
Aug 5 |
Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher |
Aug 6 |
Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003) |
Aug 7 |
Taylor Caldwell, novelist |
Aug 8 |
Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on NY stock exchange |
Aug 8 |
Victor Young, Chicago Illinois, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old California) |
Aug 10 |
Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924) |
Aug 11 |
Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod) [NS] |
Aug 11 |
Charles William Paddock, Texas, American athlete and 100m record breaker (Olympic-2 gold-1920) (d. 1943) |
Aug 11 |
Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994) |
Aug 12 |
Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta, composer |
Aug 14 |
Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer |
Aug 15 |
Estelle Brody, NYC, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything) |
Aug 17 |
Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News) |
Aug 18 |
Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood) |
Aug 18 |
Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964) |
Aug 18 |
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Allahabad Oudh, Indian diplomat and politician |
Aug 19 |
Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976) |
Aug 20 |
Edward J "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player, 1st witnessed 147 break |
Aug 21 |
Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress (Let's Go) |
Aug 22 |
Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great) |
Aug 22 |
Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964) |
Aug 23 |
Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf) |
Aug 23 |
Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978) |
Aug 24 |
Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger) |
Aug 25 |
Mary Bruce, dance Teacher |
Aug 26 |
Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980) |
Aug 28 |
Olga Dickie, Horror of Dracula |
Aug 28 |
Diana Bourbon, Atlantic Adventure |
Aug 28 |
Rudy Schrager, Monsieur Verdoux |
Aug 28 |
Wynant D. Hubbard, Adventures in Africa No. 11: Beasts of the Wilderness |
Aug 29 |
Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou) |
Aug 30 |
Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief) |
Aug 31 |
Roland Culver, London England, actor (Thunderball, Encore) |
Aug 31 |
Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943) |
Sep 1 |
Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) |
Sep 1 |
Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer |
Sep 1 |
Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand) |
Sep 3 |
Urho K Kekkonen, premier/president Finland (1956-81) |
Sep 4 |
Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder |
Sep 6 |
Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois) |
Sep 6 |
W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979) |
Sep 7 |
"Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist (Melissa) |
Sep 7 |
Emerson Treacy, Phila, actor (California Straight Ahead) |
Sep 8 |
Claude D Pepper, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- ), old people's advocate |
Sep 9 |
James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips) |
Sep 11 |
D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999) |
Sep 12 |
Eric Harding Thiman, composer |
Sep 14 |
Sidney Marion, MA, entertainer |
Sep 15 |
Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes) |
Sep 17 |
John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985) |
Sep 17 |
Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980) |
Sep 19 |
Ricardo Cortez [Jacob Krantz], New York City, New York, American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon) |
Sep 19 |
Solomon Pimsleur, composer |
Sep 20 |
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/pres (1964-67) |
Sep 20 |
Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer |
Sep 20 |
Wilhelm Weismann, composer |
Sep 22 |
William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967) |
Sep 22 |
Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985) |
Sep 23 |
Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I |
Sep 24 |
Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955) |
Sep 29 |
Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983) |
Sep 30 |
Otto Roesch, paleontologist |
Oct 1 |
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966) |
Oct 2 |
Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Dvinsk, Famous Russian clown |
Oct 3 |
Jay Irving, NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh) |
Oct 3 |
Thomas Wolfe, Asheville, North Carolina, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) |
Oct 6 |
Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961) |
Oct 7 |
Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi and head of the Gestapo |
Oct 8 |
Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect |
Oct 8 |
Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer |
Oct 8 |
Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer |
Oct 9 |
Alastair Sim, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright) |
Oct 9 |
Silvio Cator, Haiti, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1928) |
Oct 10 |
Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) |
Oct 11 |
Cal Hubbard, NFL tackle (Giants, Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates) |
Oct 13 |
Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer |
Oct 13 |
Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997) |
Oct 14 |
Edwin McLeod, cricketer (played in NZ's 2nd-ever Test 1930) |
Oct 15 |
Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus) |
Oct 15 |
Mervyn LeRoy, movie producer (Devil at 4 O'Clock) |
Oct 16 |
Lloyd Corrigan, SF, actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank) |
Oct 16 |
[Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928) |
Oct 16 |
Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979) |
Oct 16 |
Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988) |
Oct 17 |
Jean Arthur, New York, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1991) |
Oct 19 |
Bill Ponsford, cricketer (great Australian batsman, HS 437 Vic v NSW) |
Oct 19 |
Theodoro Valcarcel, composer |
Oct 19 |
Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957) |
Oct 19 |
Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990) |
Oct 20 |
Rodolfo Halffter, composer |
Oct 20 |
Wayne Morse, (Sen-R/D-Ore) |
Oct 22 |
Edward R Stettinius, US, foreign minister (1944-45)/diplomat |
Oct 22 |
James Hall, Dallas TX, actor (Hell's Angels) |
Oct 23 |
Douglas Jardine, cricketer (England's Bodyline captain) |
Oct 24 |
Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages |
Oct 24 |
Karl Otto Runolfsson, composer |
Oct 26 |
Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan (1958-64) |
Oct 26 |
Karin Boye, writer |
Oct 30 |
Augustin Lara, composer |
Oct 30 |
Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991) |
Oct 31 |
Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball & football Hall of Famer |
Nov 3 |
Roger Blunt, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in 9 Tests 1930-32) |
Nov 3 |
Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978) |
Nov 4 |
Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars) |
Nov 4 |
Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954) |
Nov 4 |
Pál Fekete, A kék bálvány |
Nov 4 |
Signe Ramberg, Ungen |
Nov 4 |
Joan Dotras i Vila, Catalina de Inglaterra |
Nov 5 |
Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972) |
Nov 7 |
Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) |
Nov 8 |
Georges Lonque, composer |
Nov 8 |
Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia, author (Gone With the Wind), (d. 1949) |
Nov 8 |
Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer |
Nov 8 |
Albert F. Frey-Wyssling, Küssnacht, Swiss Botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology and the discipline of molecular biology |
Nov 11 |
Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928) |
Nov 11 |
Hugh Scott, (Sen-R-Penn), minority whip |
Nov 11 |
John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol) |
Nov 13 |
Edward Buzzell, American film director (d. 1985) |
Nov 14 |
Clara Fasano, sculptor |
Nov 14 |
Aaron Copland, Brooklyn, New York, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) (d. 1990) |
Nov 17 |
Marcel Dalio, Paris, actor (Casablanca) |
Nov 18 |
Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters) |
Nov 18 |
Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger) |
Nov 18 |
George Kistiakowsky, Kiev, Ukrainian-American Chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), but later opposed nuclear weapons |
Nov 19 |
Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross) |
Nov 19 |
Anton Walbrook, [Adolf Wohlbrook], Vienna Austria, actor (Laura) |
Nov 19 |
Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980) |
Nov 19 |
Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985) |
Nov 20 |
Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy) |
Nov 21 |
Alice Calhoun, Cleveland OH, Silent film actress (Flowing Gold) |
Nov 21 |
Jobyna Ralston, South Pittsburgh TN, actress (For Heaven's Sake) |
Nov 22 |
Hugo Godron, composer |
Nov 22 |
Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980) |
Nov 24 |
Cornelius Kee, composer |
Nov 24 |
Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher |
Nov 25 |
Arthur Schwartz, composer (Girl from Paris, Excuse my Dust) |
Nov 25 |
Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent/(Rep-D-Ca) |
Nov 25 |
Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947) |
Nov 25 |
Michael Sonnabend, Michelangelo: A Self Portrait |
Nov 27 |
Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58) |
Nov 27 |
Robert Blum, composer |
Nov 28 |
Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage) |
Nov 30 |
Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian |
Dec 3 |
Lester Matthews, Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu) |
Dec 3 |
Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938) |
Dec 3 |
Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004) |
Dec 6 |
Agnes Moorehead, Clinton, Massachusetts, American actress (Endora-Bewitched) |
Dec 8 |
Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990) |
Dec 9 |
Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977) |
Dec 12 |
Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988) |
Dec 13 |
Jonel Perlea, composer |
Dec 13 |
Norman Foster, Richmond IN, actor (Skyscraper Souls) |
Dec 14 |
Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer |
Dec 15 |
Francesco Messina, sculptor |
Dec 16 |
Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers) |
Dec 17 |
Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslavia, composer/conductor |
Dec 17 |
Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998) |
Dec 17 |
Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973) |
Dec 20 |
Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935) |
Dec 21 |
Oda Schaefer, German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only) |
Dec 21 |
Wischnewski, writer |
Dec 22 |
Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher |
Dec 23 |
Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975) |
Dec 24 |
Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991) |
Dec 25 |
Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie) |
Dec 25 |
Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda) |
Dec 25 |
W L "Tich" Cornford, cricketer (Sussex keeper played for England 1930) |
Dec 25 |
Claude Hulbert, My Learned Friend |
Dec 25 |
Martin Konigsberg, Wild Man Blues |
Dec 25 |
Gladys Swarthout, Champagne Waltz |
Dec 25 |
Leonard Fields, The Scarlet Letter |
Dec 25 |
Al Trace, Duel |
Dec 27 |
Hans Stuck, German race car driver (d. 1978) |
Dec 29 |
Willie Humphrey, jazz Clarinetist |
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Manfred Voss, Der Fremdenlegionär |
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Paul Flato, Holiday |
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