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 (dies 1992). [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]

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 versus 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 in Mexico; revolutionary/guerrilla leader (dies 1923). [1] [5]

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 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; physicist (E=mc^2 / Theory of Relativity, Nobel Prize 1921). [1] [5] [129]

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 Pennsylvania, 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]