1885

January 1

• Birth of Lawrence Alfred Bowes Newark California; actor (Big Town Ideas). [1]
• Birth of Roland Diggle composer. [1]
• Birth of Winifred Greenwood Geneseo New York, actress (Don't Call Me Little Girl, Love Never Dies). [1]

January 2

• Birth of Johannes Ringers Dutch water engineer (dikes). [1]

January 8

• Birth of John Curtin Victoria, Australian Prime Minister (Labor, 1941-45). [1]

January 11

• Birth of Alice Paul ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party). [1]

January 13

• Birth of Alfred Fuller CEO (Fuller Brush Man). [1]

January 16

• Birth of Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz president of Poland (1939-40). [1]

January 17

• Birth of E Ball-Hennings writer. [1]
• Birth of Joseph Arendt Belgian worker's union leader. [1]

January 21

• Birth of Umberto Nobile Italian General. [1]

January 23

• Birth of Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski composer. [1]

January 25

• Birth of A J Else Mauhs German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon). [1]

January 27

• Birth of Eduard Künneke German composer (Vetter aus Dingsda). [1]
• Birth of Jerome Kern New York City, New York, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta). [1]

January 30

• Birth of John Henry Towers aviator/naval hero. [1]

February 1

• Birth of Camille Chautemps premier France. [1]

February 2

• Birth of Aldo Palazzeschi [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi). [1]

February 4

• Birth of Cairine Ray Wilson Montréal, first female Canadian senator (appointed). [1]

February 7

• Birth of Sinclair Lewis novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel Prize 1930). [1]

February 8

• Birth of Dame Edith Evans London England, actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield). [1]

February 9

• Birth of Alban Maria Johannes Berg Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!. [1]

February 12

• Birth of Julius Streicher German district leader (Stürmer). [1]
• Birth of Licinio Refice composer. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman first lady (1945-53). [1]

February 15

• Birth of Richard Wurz composer. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Sacha Guitry France; actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat). [1]

February 24

• Birth of Admiral Chester Nimitz US Admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WWII). [1]
• Birth of Bert Lytell New York City, New York; actor (Henry-One Man's Family). [1]
• Birth of Joseph Sprinzak Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59). [1]
• Birth of Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings). [1]

February 26

• Birth of Lili Green [Alice Sally Mary], Netherlands/England dancer. [1]

March 1

• Birth of Lionel Atwill Croyden England; actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum). [1]

March 4

• Birth of Willem H Winkel Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curaçao). [1]

March 6

• Birth of Ring Lardner US, writer (You Know Me Al). [1]

March 9

• Birth of Ringgold "Ring" Lardner baseball player. [1]

March 11

• Birth of Malcolm Campbell first auto racer to travel five miles/minutes (8 km/minute). [1]

March 12

• Birth of Raphaël Verwilghen Flemish architect/urban developer. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Giacomo Benvenuti composer. [1]
• Birth of Sydney Chaplin South Africa; actor (Limelight). [1]

March 20

• Birth of Eugen Herrigel Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe. [1]
• Birth of Hendrik A de Fish [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological/sociologist. [1]

March 22

• Birth of Adriano Lualdi composer. [1]
• Birth of Jakabs Medins composer. [1]

March 24

• Birth of Charlie Daniels US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 1908). [1]

March 25

• Birth of Veit Valentin German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution). [1]

March 26

• Birth of Julius Harrison composer. [1]
• Birth of Robert Blackburn British aviation pioneer. [1]

March 28

• Birth of Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas composer. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Jules Pascin [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier) British barones. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Harry Saint John Philby [sheik Abdullah], British explorer. [1]

April 5

• Birth of Dimitrie Cuclin composer. [1]

April 6

• Birth of Carlos Leon Salzedo composer. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Dimitrios Levidis composer. [1]

April 12

• Birth of Robert Délaunay French painter. [1]

April 13

• Birth of György Lukács Hungarian philosopher (Zerstörung der Vernunft). [1]
• Birth of Pieter S Gerbrandy Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45). [1]

April 16

• Birth of Leo Weiner Hungary, composer (Fasching). [1]

April 17

• Birth of Cecil Burleigh composer. [1]
• Birth of Isak Dinesen Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales). [1]
• Birth of Karen Blixen-Finecke [Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa). [1]

April 29

• Birth of Egon E Kisch Czechoslovakia, writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter). [1]
• Birth of Wallingford Riegger Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle). [1]

April 30

• Birth of Luigi Russolo composer. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry] Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat). [1]

May 5

• Birth of Henri Velge first chairman (Belgian Council of State). [1]

May 7

• Birth of George "Gabby" Hayes Wellesvile New York; actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso). [1]

May 10

• Birth of Fritz v Unruh writer. [1]
• Birth of Mae Murray [Girl with bee-stung lips] Portsmouth Virginia, actress (High Stakes). [1]
• Birth of Marie Benavente [Maria Wissink] actress (Scapegoat). [1]

May 14

• Birth of Otto Klemperer Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel). [1]

May 18

• Birth of Eurico Gaspar Dutra President of Brazil (1945-50). [1]

May 22

• Birth of Julio Fonseca composer. [1]

May 29

• Birth of Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich British astronomer (theory of relativity). [1]

June 12

• Birth of Werner Josten Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle). [1]

July 21

• Birth of Frances Parkinson Keyes novelist (Dinner at Antoine). [1]

August 7

• Birth of Billie Burke Washington DC, actress (Glinda-The Wizard of Oz). [1]

August 26

• Birth of Jules Romains France, novelist/dramatist/poet (Men of Good Will). [1]

August 31

• Birth of DuBose Heyward novelist (Porgy). [1]

September 6

• Birth of Otto Kruger Toledo Ohio; actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon). [1]

September 11

• Birth of David Herbert "DH" Lawrence England, writer (Lady Chatterly's Lover). [1]
• Birth of Eratstus Flaval Beadle publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels). [1]

September 20

• Birth of Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer. [1]

September 22

• Birth of Erich von Stroheim early film director/actor (Grand Illusion). [1]

September 28

• Birth of Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitcher (New York Yankees, 1905). [1]

October 1

• Birth of Louis Untermeyer New York City, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems). [1]

October 2

• Birth of Ruth Bryan Rohde US, (Rep), minister to Denmark. [1]

October 7

• Birth of Niels Bohr in Denmark; physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922) (dies 1962). [1] [5]

October 11

• Birth of François Mauriac France, novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel Prize 1952). [1]

October 13

• Birth of Harry Hershfield Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist (Can You Top This?). [1]

October 22

• Birth of Giovanni Martinelli Montagnana Italy, opera singer (New York Met). [1]

October 30

• Birth of Ezra Pound in Hailey, Idaho, USA; poet (Cantos). [1] [5]

November 2

• Birth of Harlow Shapley US, astronomer (studied the galaxies). [1]

November 5

• Birth of Will Durant writer/historian (Story of Civilization). [1]

November 11

• Birth of George S Patton general "Old Blood and Guts". [1]

December 1

• Birth of Guy de Lioncourt composer. [1]

December 2

• Birth of George Minot US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel Prize 1934). [1]
• Birth of Níkos Kazantazakís Greece, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ). [1]

December 3

• Birth of Marchien Zwitsers farmer in Lutten (died at age 109 years old). [1]

December 5

• Birth of Dirk H W Filarski Dutch painter/lithographer (Bergense School). [1]

December 6

• Birth of Albrecht Schaeffer German writer (The General). [1]

December 10

• Birth of Janos Hammerschlag composer. [1]
• Birth of Mario Varvoglis composer. [1]

December 19

• Birth of F S Flint London England, translator/poet (imagist movement). [1]

December 22

• Birth of Edgard Varèse Paris France, composer (Innisation). [1]
• Birth of Joseph Deems Taylor New York City, New York, composer (Peter Ibbetson). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Arthur Dolphin cricketer (Yorkshire and England keeper, later Test umpire). [1]

1886

January 1

• Birth of Willard Robertson Runnels Texas; actor (Deep Valley, Fury at Furnace Creek). [1]
• Birth of William Edmunds Italy; actor (Lost Moment, Big Sombrero). [1]

January 2

• Birth of Moyshe Leyb Halpern Galican/US poet (In New-York). [1]

January 3

• Birth of Arthur Mailey cricketer (great Aussie leg-spinner and cartoonist). [1]
• Birth of John G Fletcher US, poet (Epic of Arkansas). [1]
• Birth of Josephine Hull Newtonville Massachusetts, Academy award character actress (Harvey). [1]

January 8

• Birth of Noble Drew Ali [Timothy Drew], North Carolina, prophet (Moorish Science Temple). [1]

January 10

• Birth of Jose Antonio de Donostia composer. [1]

January 11

• Birth of George Zucco England; actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Fury). [1]

January 12

• Birth of Dorothy Green Los Angeles California, actress (Lavinia-Tammy). [1]

January 14

• Birth of Hugh Lofting English/American writer and illustrator (Dr Dolittle). [1]

January 17

• Birth of Glenn Luther Martin aviator (Collier Trophy-1933). [1]
• Birth of Ronald Firbank London England, novelist (The Flower Beneath the Foot). [1]

January 18

• Birth of Antoine Pevsner French sculptor. [1]
• Birth of Peter Alma Dutch painter/graphic artist. [1]

January 21

• Birth of Gustaaf Sap Belgian minister of Finance/Economy. [1]

January 22

• Birth of John Joseph Becker composer. [1]

January 25

• Birth of Wilhelm Fürtwängler Berlin Germany, conductor/composer. [1]

January 26

• Birth of Joannes A Veraart Dutch economist/Member of Parliament (Jews of the Netherlands). [1]

January 28

• Birth of Artur Rubinstein Lódz Poland, pianist. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Alfonso Lopez Colombia, statesman (President United Nations security council-1948). [1]

February 2

• Birth of Kurt Baschwitz German/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Du und). [1]
• Birth of William R Benét writer. [1]

February 3

• Birth of Erwin Kroll composer. [1]

February 6

• Birth of Louis Piérard Belgian journalist/writer (Great Germany). [1]

February 8

• Birth of Charlie Ruggles Los Angeles California; actor (The Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist composer. [1]
• Birth of Michel Brusselmans composer. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Ricardo Güiraldes Argentina, novelist/poet (Don Segundo Sombra). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Theodor Werner German painter. [1]

February 15

• Birth of Sax Rohmer England, author (Dr Fu Manchu). [1]

February 16

• Birth of Andrew Ducat cricketer (Test for England 1921 (3 and 2) Soccer International). [1]
• Birth of Van Wyck Brooks New Jersey, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain). [1]

February 19

• Birth of George Luther Foote composer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Béla Kun Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Hugo Ball German playwright/co-founder Flametti. [1]

February 23

• Birth of Albert Edward Sammons composer. [1]
• Birth of Ventura García Calderón Peruvian diplomat/author. [1]

February 27

• Birth of Hugo L Black Alabama, (Senator-Democrat-Alabama)/78th US Supreme Court justice (1937-71). [1]

February 28

• Birth of José Gutiérrez Solana Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas). [1]
• Birth of Max Vasmer German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo). [1]

March 1

• Birth of Oskar Kokoschka Russian/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960). [1]

March 3

• Birth of James Friskin composer. [1]
• Birth of Reginald Owen Morris composer. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Paul Radmilovic England, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1908). [1]

March 7

• Birth of Raymond Largay Wisconsin; actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl). [1]

March 8

• Birth of Anton Portielje Dutch radio host/zoo director (Artis). [1]
• Birth of Edward Kendall chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel Prize 1950). [1]

March 13

• Birth of Henri D Gagnebin Swiss organist. [1]
• Birth of John "Home Run" Baker hall of famer (hit two homeruns in 1911 world series). [1]

March 18

• Birth of Edward Everett Horton Brooklyn New York; actor/narrator (Bullwinkle Show). [1]
• Birth of Kurt Koffka Germany, Gestalt psychologist. [1]
• Birth of Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips Dutch author (Between Heaven and Earth). [1]

March 27

• Birth of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe German/US architect (Bauhaus). [1]

March 28

• Birth of Jaroslav Novotny composer. [1]

March 29

• Birth of Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson composer. [1]

March 30

• Birth of Stanislaw Lesniewski Poland, logician/mathematician. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Casimir von Paszthory composer. [1]
• Birth of Wallace Beery Kansas City Missouri; actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8, Ah Wilderness). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Jacques Handschin Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter). [1]

April 8

• Birth of Margaret A Barnes writer. [1]

April 10

• Birth of Val[entine] Paul Denver Colorado, silent film actor (Red Red Heart, Lair of the Wolf). [1]

April 13

• Birth of Ethel Leginska composer. [1]

April 14

• Birth of Edward C Tolman US psychologist (behaviorism). [1]
• Birth of Ernst R Curtius German literature historian. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Ernst Thälmann German communist presidential candidate. [1]
• Birth of Jekabs Graubins composer. [1]
• Birth of Konstantin Mostras composer. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Otto Lederer Czechoslovakia; actor (Jazz Singer). [1]

April 21

• Birth of Charlie Naughton Glasgow Scotland; actor (Frozen Limits). [1]

April 24

• Birth of Kurt Pinthus writer. [1]
• Birth of R Pelgrom oldest Dutch man (died April 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108). [1]

April 26

• Birth of Ma Rainey [Gertrude Pridgett] "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer. [1]

April 28

• Birth of Erich Salomon German photographer. [1]

April 30

• Birth of Frank Merrik composer. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Gottfried Benn writer. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Marcel Dupré French organist/composer. [1]

May 5

• Birth of Manuel Borguno composer. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Jef van Hoof composer. [1]

May 10

• Birth of Karl Barth Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting). [1]
• Birth of Olaf Stapleton British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Albert Saverys Flemish painter. [1]
• Birth of Hermann Grabner composer. [1]
• Birth of Piotr F Scharoff Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov). [1]

May 13

• Birth of Joseph Achron Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite). [1]

May 17

• Birth of Alfonso XIII Borbón King of Spain (1902-31). [1]

May 18

• Birth of Ole Windingstad composer. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Hermann Neiße writer. [1]

May 24

• Birth of Paul Paray Le Tréport Normandy, conductor/composer (Artemis Trouble). [1]

May 25

• Birth of Philip Murray founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [1]

May 26

• Birth of Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson] jazz singer/silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee). [1]

May 28

• Birth of Nicolai Sokoloff near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symphony). [1]

June 6

• Birth of Paul Dudley White heart specialist. [1]

June 11

• Birth of David Steinman New York City, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough). [1]

June 18

• Birth of George Mallory England, mountain climber ("because it is there"). [1]

June 25

• Birth of Henry (Hap) Arnold commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW II. [1]

June 29

• Birth of James Van DerZee famous African. [1]

July 5

• Birth of Willem Drees Prime Minister of Netherland (1948-58). [1]

August 7

• Birth of Louis Hazeltine inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible). [1]

August 24

• Birth of William Francis Gibbs naval architect, designed Liberty ships. [1]

August 27

• Birth of Eric Coates Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, composer. [1]

September 14

• Birth of Jan Garrique Masaryk Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35). [1]

September 21

• Birth of Teiichi Igarashi Japan, climbed Mount Fuji at age 99. [1]

October 3

• Birth of Henri Alain-Fournier French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes). [1]

October 16

• Birth of David Ben-Gurion Plonsk Poland, first Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 55). [1]

October 17

• Birth of Spring Byington Colorado Springs, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride). [1]

November 1

• Birth of Hermann Broch Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment). [1]

November 4

• Birth of Ian Wolfe Canton Illinois; actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards and Warriors). [1]

November 9

• Birth of Ed Wynn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; comedian (The Ed Wynn Show). [1] [5]

November 15

• Birth of Pedro Sanjuan San Sebastian, Spain, composer (Castilla). [1]

November 20

• Birth of Karl von Frisch zoologist/bee expert (Nobel Prize 1973). [1]

November 25

• Birth of Rex Maupin Saint Joseph Missouri, orchestra leader (Tin Pan Alley TV). [1]

December 1

• Birth of Jack Crawford cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1905-08). [1]
• Birth of Pierre Kemp Dutch poet (Fugitives and Constants). [1]
• Birth of Rex Stout mystery writer (Nero Wolf). [1]
• Birth of Willem E Crown Antillian writer. [1]

December 3

• Birth of Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn Swedish physicist (röntgen spectroscope, Nobel Prize 1924). [1]

December 5

• Birth of Pieter J Old lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52). [1]

December 6

• Birth of Joyce Kilmer US, (male) poet (Trees). [1]

December 8

• Birth of Diego Rivera [Lenin of México] México, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo. [1]

December 9

• Birth of Clarence Birdseye frozen vegatable king (Birdseye). [1]

December 10

• Birth of Victor McLaglen England; actor (Informer, Academy Award-1935). [1]
• Birth of William Booth cricketer (Yorks all-rounder, England before WWI). [1]

December 12

• Birth of Owen Moore County Meath Ireland; actor (She Done Him Wrong). [1]

December 13

• Birth of Lambertus J van Apeldoorn lawyer (martial law). [1]

December 18

• Birth of Ty Cobb in Colorado, USA; batted .367, stole 892 bases (Detroit Tigers). [1] [5]

December 20

• Birth of Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia composer. [1]
• Birth of Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman California, tennis player (US Open 1909-11). [1]

December 21

• Birth of George Norman Peterkin composer. [1]
• Birth of Hermann A J Kees German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology). [1]

December 23

• Birth of Albert Ehrenstein Austria writer (Message from the Madhouse). [1]

December 26

• Birth of Gyula Gömbös von Jákfa general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35). [1]