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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1877 January 4 Birth of Gibson Gowland England; actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera). [1] January 7 Birth of Johannes F Buziau Dutch cabaret performer (one great dog). [1] January 10 Birth of Frederick Gardner Cottrell inventor (electrostatic precipitator). [1] January 15 Birth of Lewis M Terman Indiana, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test). [1] January 17 Birth of Hans Jelmoli composer. [1] January 19 Birth of Charles Coburn Savannah Georgia, USA; actor (Devil and Miss Jones). [1] January 20 Birth of Ruth Saint Denis Newark New Jersey, ballerina (Dances of the Five Senses). [1] January 22 Birth of Hjalmar Schacht president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics. [1] January 26 Birth of Kees van Dongen Netherlands, French painter. [1] January 31 Birth of Max Ettlinger German philosopher. [1] February 1 Birth of Thomas Frederick Dunhill composer. [1] February 7 Birth of Feliks Nowowiejski composer. [1] Birth of Godfrey H Hardy England, number theorist. [1] Birth of Julius Curtius German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-). [1] February 13 Birth of Jazeps Medins composer. [1] February 17 Birth of Henri Vandeputte Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune). [1] February 18 Birth of Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann [Theodora], Dutch author/actress (Dead Water). [1] February 19 Birth of Else Berg German/Dutch painter. [1] Birth of Louis François-Marie Aubert French composer (Habanera). [1] February 21 Birth of Jacob D du Toit [Totius] South African poet/theologist. [1] February 22 Birth of Yme C Schuitmaker Dutch potato salesman/dramatist. [1] February 24 Birth of Rudolf Ganz composer. [1] February 26 Birth of Carel S Adama van Scheltema Dutch poet/writer (socialism). [1] Birth of Russell Alexander composer. [1] February 28 Birth of Sergei Bortkiewicz composer. [1] March 3 Birth of Garrett Morgan African-American inventor. [1] March 4 Birth of Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike composer. [1] Birth of Daniël G van Beuningen Dutch art collector. [1] March 5 Birth of Malcolm D Whitman tennis champion (US Open-1898). [1] March 9 Birth of Emil Abderhalden Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist. [1] March 10 Birth of David Mendes Chumaceiro Curaçao, poet (Crisálidas). [1] March 12 Birth of Wilhelm Frick German protector of Bohemia/Moravia. [1] March 17 Birth of Albert P Hahn Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker). [1] March 18 Edgar Cayce is born; psychic (dies 1945). [5] Birth of Clem Hill cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman). [1] March 25 Birth of Alphonse de Châteaubriant French writer (Instantanés aux Pays-Bas). [1] April 2 Birth of Arnold Schering German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik). [1] April 10 Birth of Alfred Kubin writer. [1] April 14 Birth of Daniël Plooy Dutch new testament scholar. [1] April 19 Birth of Ole Evinrude inventor (outboard marine engine). [1] April 23 Birth of Arthur Farwell composer. [1] April 24 Birth of Charles Cuvillier composer. [1] May 4 Birth of Arthur Lang US, boxer/businessman (Died August 8, 1992 at age 115). [1] May 10 Birth of Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar composer. [1] May 25 Birth of Billy Murray singer. [1] May 26 Birth of Isadora Duncan San Francisco California, free form/interpretative dancer. [1] Birth of Jean Schlumberger French writer (La Mort de Sparte). [1] Birth of Sadao Araki Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34). [1] June 3 Birth of Raoul Dufy France, Fauvist painter (The Palm). [1] June 4 Birth of Heinrich Wieland German chemist (bile acids-Nobel Prize 1927). [1] June 18 Birth of James Montgomery Flagg illustrator "I want you" recruiting poster. [1] June 19 Birth of Charles Coburn Macon Georgia; actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes). [1] July 2 Birth of Hermann Hesse Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize 1946). [1] July 5 Birth of Wanda Landowska Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist. [1] July 27 Birth of Ernö (Ernst von) Dohnányi Hungary, composer (Msg to Posterity). [1] September 9 Birth of Frank Chance baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance. [1] September 11 Birth of Sir James Jeans England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer. [1] September 16 Birth of James J Jeans cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe). [1] September 25 Birth of Plutarco Elías Calles Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28). [1] October 18 Birth of Florence Dahl Walrath humanitarian, founded Cradle society. [1] October 25 Birth of Henry Norris Russell astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram). [1] November 24 Birth of Alben W Barkley Graves County Kentucky, (35th Vice President-Democrat-1949-53). [1] November 25 Birth of Harley Granville-Barker London, dramatist/producer/critic. [1] December 8 Birth of Paul Emile Ladmirault composer. [1] December 13 Birth of Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych composer. [1] December 14 Birth of Lieven Duvosel Flemish music writer/composer (Leiecyclys). [1] December 18 Birth of Max Pallenberg Austria; actor (Brave Suender)/husb of Fritzi Massary. [1] December 22 Birth of Endre Ady Hungary, lyric poet. [1] 1878 January 1 Birth of Edwin Franko Goldman composer. [1] Birth of François Ambrosiny French dancer/choreograph (L'oiseau enchanté). [1] January 4 Birth of Alfred Edgar Coppard England, writer (Black Dogs and Other Stories). [1] January 6 Birth of Carl Sandburg US, poet/biographer of Lincoln (The People, Yes). [1] January 11 Birth of Theodorus Pangalos Greek General /dictator (1926). [1] January 12 Birth of Ferenc Molnár Budapest Hungary, playwright (The Play's The Thing, A Pal Utrai Fiuk). [1] January 14 Birth of Victor A D Ségalen [Max Anély], French writer. [1] January 15 Birth of Johanna Muller-Hermann composer. [1] January 16 Birth of Harry [Henry Dewitt] Carey Sr Bronx New York, US actor (Informer, Aces Wild, Border Cafe, Air Force). [1] Birth of Robert Garbe German poet (Görniek). [1] January 17 Birth of Oscar Apfel Cleveland Ohio; actor (Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn). [1] January 18 Birth of Hendrik Baels Belgian politician. [1] January 20 Birth of Finlay Currie Scotland; actor (Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, Avengers). [1] January 21 Birth of Egon Friedell Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe). [1] January 22 Birth of Constance Collier Windsor England, actress/writer (Kitty, Whirlpool). [1] Birth of Francis Picabia French painter/illustrator. [1] January 23 Birth of Oton Zupancic Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom). [1] Birth of Rutland Boughton composer. [1] January 26 Birth of A W "Dave" Nourse cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket). [1] Birth of R A Schröcker writer. [1] January 28 Birth of Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski] German composer (Der Juxbaron). [1] January 29 Birth of Barney Oldfield Ohio, daredevil. [1] January 31 Birth of Willem J M van Eysinga Dutch international law jurist. [1] February 1 Birth of Hattie Wyatt Caraway politician/teacher/first woman elected to senate. [1] February 2 Birth of Christian Gauss educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake). [1] February 3 Birth of Joseph Gordon Coates Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925-28). [1] February 5 Birth of André-Gustave Citroën France, auto maker. [1] February 6 Birth of Waclaw Gieburowski composer. [1] February 7 Birth of Ossip Gabrilovich composer. [1] February 8 Birth of Martin Buber German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du). [1] February 16 Birth of Selim Palmgren Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl). [1] February 21 Birth of Fritz Cortolezis composer. [1] March 1 Birth of Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont composer. [1] March 2 Birth of Wander J de Haas Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz. [1] March 10 Birth of Karel van de Woestijne Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea). [1] March 12 Birth of Gemma Galgani Italian saint. [1] Birth of Joseph Gustav Mraczek composer. [1] March 14 Birth of Carel T Scharten Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future). [1] March 15 Birth of Hanson Carter cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie wicketkeeper of early 20th century). [1] March 16 Birth of Clemens A Graaf von Galen cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-Nazi. [1] Birth of Henry B Walthall Shelby City Alabama; actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike). [1] Birth of Reza Sjah Pahlawi [Reza Chan], shah of Iran. [1] March 21 Birth of Thurlow Weed Lieurance composer. [1] March 23 Birth of Franz Schrecker composer. [1] March 24 Birth of Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff] Dutch writer. [1] March 25 Birth of Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour Belgian President of International Olympic Committee (1925-42). [1] Birth of Theodore Samuel Holland composer. [1] March 31 Birth of Jack Johnson first black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915). [1] April 1 Birth of Carl Sternheim German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa). [1] April 6 Birth of Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg composer. [1] Birth of Erich Mühsam writer. [1] April 7 Birth of C M M Hathorn cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06). [1] Birth of Jozef C Bittremieux Flemish theologist (Virgin and Mother of God). [1] April 8 Birth of Rudolf Nelson composer. [1] April 12 Birth of Richard B Goldschmidt German/US zoologist. [1] April 15 Birth of Robert Walser writer. [1] April 16 Birth of R E "Tip" Foster cricketer (287 on debut England vs Australia SCG 1903). [1] April 21 Birth of Albert Weisgerber German painter/graphic artist. [1] April 22 Birth of Kitty Gordon Folkestone England, entertainer. [1] April 26 Birth of Ethel Griffies actress (Billy Liar, Birds, We Live Again). [1] April 28 Birth of Lionel [Herbert Blythe] Barrymore Philadelphia Pennsylvania; actor (A Free Soul, David Cooperfield, Dr Kildare). [1] May 10 Birth of Gustav Stresemann German chancellor (1923, Nobel Prize 1926). [1] May 11 Birth of Mr Reyskens oldest male resident of Netherlands, ever. [1] May 15 Birth of Francisco Pujol composer. [1] May 16 Birth of Taylor Holmes Newark New Jersey; actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely). [1] May 17 Birth of Conway Tearle US actor (Klondike Annie, Should Ladies Behave?). [1] May 19 Birth of Adam von Ahn Carse composer. [1] May 21 Birth of Glenn Hammond Curtiss US, inventor (hydroplane). [1] Birth of Louis L H de Visser Dutch Member of Parliament (CPN). [1] May 24 Birth of Lillian Moller Gilbreth engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954). [1] May 25 Birth of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel). [1] [5] June 1 Birth of John Masefield England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads). [1] June 5 Birth of Francisco (Pancho) Villa Mexico, revolutionary/guerrilla leader. [1] June 19 Birth of James M Kilroe priest of Saint Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx. [1] July 3 George M. Cohan is born. [5] July 4 Birth of George M Cohan entertainer, Give my regards to Broadway. [1] July 6 Birth of Eino Leino Finland, poet/playwright/novelist (Elámän Koreus). [1] July 9 Birth of H.V. Kaltenborn Milwaukee Wisconsin, newscaster (Who Said That?). [1] July 24 Birth of Lord Edward Dunsany Ireland, dramatist/poet (Mirage Water). [1] July 29 Birth of Don Marquis Illinois, journalist/poet (archy and mehitabel). [1] August 2 Birth of Princess Ingeborg of Sweden. [1] August 19 Birth of Manuel Quezon first president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42). [1] August 28 Birth of George Hoyt Whipple US, astrophysicist (Nobel Prize-1934). [1] September 20 Birth of Upton Sinclair novelist (Jungle). [1] September 22 Birth of Shigeru Yoshida Japanese Prime Minister (most of 1946-54). [1] October 18 Birth of James Truslow Adams historian (Pul-1921-Founding of New England). [1] November 1 Birth of Carlos Saavedra Lamas Argentina, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936). [1] November 8 Birth of Marshall Walter "Mayor" Taylor famous African. [1] November 17 Birth of Grace Abbott Grand Island Nebraska, social worker (US Children Bureau). [1] December 1 Birth of Arthur B Spingarn US NAACP-chairman (1940-65). [1] December 5 Birth of Arrigo Pedrollo composer. [1] December 7 Birth of Akiko Yosano Japan, poet (Tangled Hair). [1] December 9 Birth of Géza Révész Hungarian/Dutch psychologist (Talent and Genius). [1] December 15 Birth of Hans Carossa writer. [1] December 19 Birth of Anton Lajovic composer. [1] December 25 Birth of W Starling Burgess yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise). [1] December 26 Birth of Isaiah Bowman US, geography/co-founder (Geographical Review). [1] December 29 Birth of Felix M Abel French bible scholar (Jérusalem Nouvelle). [1] December 31 Birth of Horacio Quiroga Uruguayan author/poet (El Crimen del Otro). [1] 1879 January 1 Birth of E[dward] M Forster London England, novelist (Howard's End, Passage to India). [1] Birth of Edward Dillon New York City, New York; actor/director (Young Ironsides, The Golden West). [1] Birth of Emile Argand Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory). [1] Birth of Ernest Jones British psychoanalyst (Life and Work of Sigmund Freud). [1] Birth of Paul Porcasi Palermo Sicily Itlay; actor (Say It Again, I'll Remember April). [1] Birth of William Fox Tulchva Hungary, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon). [1] January 2 Birth of Johannes L "Jan" Walch Dutch literary (Grimaces). [1] Birth of Pieter Tesch Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands). [1] January 3 Birth of Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge first lady (1923-29). [1] January 7 Birth of Saint Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous) 1844, religious visionary. [1] January 9 Birth of John Broadus Watson behaviorist psychologist. [1] January 11 Birth of Antonio Beltramelli writer. [1] January 15 Birth of Ernest Thesiger London England; actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul). [1] January 18 Birth of Henri-Honoré Giraud French General /member of parliament. [1] January 19 Birth of Marie Koenen author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal). [1] January 26 Birth of Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans Flemish (stage)author (Tille). [1] February 1 Birth of Sydney Baynes composer. [1] February 3 Birth of Charles Follis first black US football player (Shelby Ohio). [1] February 5 Birth of Edward Rigby England; actor (Star Look Down, Young and Innocent). [1] February 6 Birth of Carl Ramsauer. [1] February 9 Birth of Carl Natanael Berg composer. [1] Birth of Jacques Bainville French historian/essayist/journalist. [1] February 10 Birth of Franz Carl Bornschein composer. [1] February 11 Birth of Jean Gilbert composer. [1] February 17 Birth of Dorothy Canfield Fisher US, novelist (Book-of-the Month-Club). [1] February 22 Birth of Johannes Brønsted Danish physical chemist (acid-base reactions). [1] February 23 Birth of Agnes Arber English biologist/philosopher (Mind and the Eye). [1] Birth of Norman Lindsay Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist. [1] February 24 Birth of Herman Teirlinck Belgian writer (Sun). [1] February 25 Birth of Otakar Ostrcil composer. [1] February 26 Birth of Frank Bridge English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten. [1] February 27 Birth of Jose Sancho Marraco composer. [1] March 4 Birth of Bernhard Kellermann; writer. [1] March 5 Birth of Walter Long actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol). [1] March 8 Birth of M Lichnowsky writer. [1] Birth of Otto Hahn German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium, co-discoverer-nuclear fission). [1] March 11 Birth of Justus Hermann Wetzel composer. [1] Birth of Niels Bjerrum Danish chemist (ph tests). [1] March 14 Birth of Albert Einstein in Ulm, Germany; (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel Prize 1921). [1] [5] March 15 Birth of Gerrit J Heering Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity). [1] March 19 Birth of Joseph Haas German (opera) composer (Tobias Wunderlich). [1] March 25 Birth of Otakar Zich composer. [1] March 27 Birth of Edward Steichen pioneered American photography. [1] April 4 Birth of Gabriel Groulez composer. [1] April 9 Birth of Gerald Festus Kelly artist. [1] April 11 Birth of Leendert Round Dutch sculptor (entrance Rotterdam Zoo). [1] April 12 Birth of Frederick G Melcher US, publisher/editor/founded children book week. [1] April 14 Birth of James Branch Cabell American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads). [1] April 19 Birth of Richard Scheibe German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz). [1] April 20 Birth of Robert Lynd Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance). [1] April 26 Birth of Sir Owen Williams Richardson England, physicist (Nobel Prize 1928). [1] April 28 Birth of Edgar Tytgat Flemish painter/etcher. [1] Birth of Franz Arnold writer. [1] April 29 Birth of Sir Thomas Beecham England, composer, founded London Philharmonic. [1] May 5 Birth of Symon Petlyura leader Ukraine (pogroms). [1] May 6 Birth of Johan H T Norlind Swedish musicologist. [1] May 19 Birth of Lord Waldorf Astor England, second viscount (Conservative)/publisher (London Observer). [1] Birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor US/England's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor. [1] May 22 Birth of Eastwood Lane composer. [1] Birth of Hendrik Heyman Belgian minister of Nÿverheid/mayor. [1] Birth of Jean Emile Paul Cras composer. [1] Birth of Warwick Armstrong cricketer (Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21). [1] May 25 Birth of W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook Canada/English banker. [1] May 27 Birth of Lucile Watson actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance). [1] May 28 Birth of Milutin Milankovic Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist. [1] May 30 Birth of Colin Blythe cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WWI). [1] May 31 Birth of Mark Hambourg composer. [1] July 1 Birth of Léon Jouhaux France, socialist, cofounded United Nations's ILO (Nobel Prize 1951). [1] July 5 Birth of Dwight Filley Davis donated tennis' Davis Cup. [1] Birth of Wanda A Landowska Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne). [1] July 9 Birth of Ottorino Respighi Bologna, Italy, composer (Pines of Rome). [1] July 10 Birth of Dr Harry Nicholls Holmes Penn, crystallized vitamin A. [1] August 8 Birth of Emiliano Zapata Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader. [1] August 15 Birth of Ethel Barrymore Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green). [1] September 14 Birth of Margaret Sanger feminist/nurse/birth control proponent. [1] October 2 Birth of Wallace Stevens Reading Pennsylvania, poet (Ideas of Order). [1] October 7 Birth of Joe Hill Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr. [1] Birth of Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary leader/writer (Diary in Exile). [1] October 26 Birth of Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary (pres of first Soviet). [1] November 3 Birth of Vilhjalmur Stefansson Canada, Arctic explorer/ethnologist. [1] November 4 Birth of Will Rogers Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma), humorist. [1] November 7 Birth of Leon Trotsky Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik. [1] November 10 Birth of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay US, poet (General William Booth enters Heaven). [1] Birth of Vachel Lindsay Springfield Illinois, poet (Johnny Appleseed). [1] November 15 Birth of Lewis Stone Worcester Massachusetts; actor (Prisoner of Zenda). [1] December 4 Birth of Herbert Hamilton Harty composer. [1] December 7 Birth of Rudolf Friml Czechoslovakian/US composer (Bohemian suite). [1] December 8 Birth of Paul Klee Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus). [1] December 12 Birth of Friedrich Christiansen nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherlands. [1] Birth of Laura Hope Crews US, actress (Camille, Gone With the Wind). [1] Birth of Percy Fletcher composer. [1] December 15 Birth of Hugo W C Bordewijk Dutch lawyer. [1] Birth of Rudolf von Laban Czechoslovakian/German choreographer (modern dance). [1] December 16 Birth of William Duncan Scotland; actor (Thunder Trail). [1] December 18 Birth of Paul Klee in Switzerland; abstract painter (Twittering Machine). [1] [5] December 19 Birth of Beals C Wright tennis champion (US Open-1905). [1] Birth of Otto Emanuel Olsson composer. [1] December 21 Birth of Joseph Stalin [Dzoegashvili]; Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000. [1] (December 18, 1878 [5]) Birth of Theodore Limperg business economist (substitute value). [1] December 22 Birth of Ralph Hawtrey Buckinghamshire England, economist (multiplier). [1] Birth of Stanislas Bizot French world checker champion (1925). [1] December 24 Birth of Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych composer. [1] December 26 Birth of Armen Tigran Tigranyan composer. [1] Birth of Julius Weismann composer. [1] December 27 Birth of Robert Greig Australia; actor (Horse Feathers). [1] Birth of Sydney Greenstreet Sandwich England; actor (Maltese Falcon). [1] December 29 Birth of Billy Mitchell aviation hero general (WWI). [1] December 30 Birth of Sri Ramana Maharshi Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Institute). [1]