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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1892 January 1 Birth of Artur Rodzinski Spalato Dalmatia Poland, conductor/composer. [1] Birth of Lillian Lorraine San Francisco California, actress (Lonesome Corners, Should a Wife Forgive?). [1] Birth of Manuel Roxas y Acuna first President of Philippines. [1] Birth of Miklos Radnai composer. [1] January 2 Birth of Lura Anson Nebraska, entertainer. [1] January 3 Birth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings). [1] January 5 Birth of Francesca Bertini Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina). [1] January 6 Birth of Ludwig Berger writer. [1] January 7 Birth of Rudolf Moser composer. [1] January 8 Birth of Werner Wehrli composer. [1] Birth of Giovanni Mardersteig in Weimar, Germany; typographer in Germany and Italy. [37] January 10 Birth of Dumas Malone Mississippi, historian (Jefferson and His Time). [1] January 13 Birth of Paul Smart US, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1948). [1] January 14 Birth of Hal Roach early film director/producer (One Million BC). [1] Martin Niemöller born in Lippstadt, Germany; commander of a submarine in World War I, pastor in Berlin, a leader in the resistance against Hitler, arrested in 1937 and sent to the camp in Dachau, pacivist during the Cold War, recipient of Lenin Peace Prize in 1967 and the German "Grand Cross of Merit" in 1971. [1] [37] January 15 Birth of Frank Hutchens composer. [1] Birth of Rex Ingram [Reginald IM Hitchcock], director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse). [1] January 18 Birth of Oliver Hardy in Harlem, Georgia, USA; comedy team member (Laurel and Hardy), dies 1957. [1] [5] January 19 Birth of Olafur Thors Icelandic Prime Minister (6 times, 1942-63). [1] January 20 Birth of Roscoe Ates Grange Mississippi; actor (Deputy Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass). [1] January 22 Birth of Marcel Dassault [Bloch], French airplane builder. [1] January 26 Birth of Zara Cully Worcester Massachusetts, actress (Mother Jefferson-The Jeffersons). [1] January 27 Birth of Mitya Stillman composer. [1] January 28 Birth of Ernst Lubitsch Germany; actor (Love Parade). [1] January 29 Birth of Clifford Gray US, bobsled (Olympics-gold-1928). [1] January 30 Birth of Charles Trowbridge Haubiel composer. [1] Birth of Grigore Gafencu Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39). [1] January 31 Birth of Eddie Cantor New York City, New York, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater). [1] February 1 Birth of K Rudolf Mengelberg composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall). [1] February 4 Birth of Ugo Betti Italian playwright. [1] Birth of Yrlö Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer. [1] February 5 Birth of George Saiko writer. [1] February 8 Birth of Fritz Todt German Reichs minister (Organization Todt). [1] February 9 Birth of Barend ter Haar Dutch lawyer (Indonesian adat justice). [1] Birth of Peggy Wood Brooklyn New York, actress (One Life to Live, Mama). [1] February 10 Birth of Alan Hale [Rufus Alan Mackahan], Washington DC; actor (Little John-Adventures of Robin Hood). [1] February 13 Birth of Grant Wood US, painter (American Gothic). [1] Birth of Robert Houghwout Jackson 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54). [1] February 14 Birth of Nikolaj A Orloff Russian/British pianist (Chopin). [1] February 15 Birth of James Forrestal US, banker/minister of Navy. [1] February 17 Birth of Theodor Plievier German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad). [1] February 18 Birth of Wendell Wilkie Presidential candidate (Republican-1940)/author (One World). [1] February 22 Birth of David Dubinsky labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom). [1] Birth of Edna Saint Vincent Millay poet/writer/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize). [1] February 23 Birth of Kathleen Harrison actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11). [1] February 27 Birth of William Demarest Saint Paul Minnesota; actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons). [1] March 1 Birth of Ryunosuke Akutagawa Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa). [1] March 3 Birth of Rui Coelho composer. [1] March 8 Birth of Mátyás Rákosi Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53). [1] March 9 Birth of David Garnett England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox). [1] Birth of Frank Puglia Sicily Italy; actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book). [1] Birth of Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang). [1] Birth of Vita Sackville-West England, novelist/poet (The Land). [1] March 10 Birth of Arthur Oscar Honnegger Le Havre France, composer (King David). [1] Birth of Eva Turner British soprano. [1] March 11 Birth of Raoul Walsh New York City, New York, director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry). [1] Birth of Wladyslaw Anders Polish General (WWI, WWII). [1] March 13 Birth of Alec Rowley composer. [1] Birth of Janet Flanner journalist (New Yorker). [1] March 14 Birth of Olive Netta Parsons co-founder (Collet's Bookshop). [1] March 16 Birth of César Vallejo Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros). [1] March 17 Birth of Sayed Darwish composer. [1] March 18 Birth of Robert P Tristram Coffin poet/reporter (WWII). [1] March 19 Birth of Robert Denzler composer. [1] Birth of Siegfried T Bok neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica). [1] March 25 Birth of Andy Clyde Scotland; actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie). [1] March 27 Birth of Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofé New York City, New York, composer. [1] Birth of Thorne Smith author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb). [1] March 29 Birth of József Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal. [1] March 30 Birth of Erwin Panofsky German/US art historian. [1] March 31 Birth of Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek Polish/British General-Major/commandant. [1] April 4 Birth of Cyril Smith Peterhead Scotland; actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot). [1] Birth of Esther Howard Montana, actress (Born to Kill, Murder My Sweet, A Fool's Advice). [1] April 6 Birth of Donald Wills Douglas US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas). [1] Birth of Lowell Thomas Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure). [1] Birth of Mateusz Glinski composer. [1] April 8 Birth of Richard J Neutra Austrian/US architect (Who Built America?). [1] April 10 Birth of Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt German anthropologist (Rassenkunde). [1] Birth of Victor de Sabata Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno). [1] April 12 Birth of Johnny Dodds early jazz clarinettist. [1] April 13 Birth of Arthur Harris Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF. [1] Birth of Robert A Watson-Watt England, physicist (radar). [1] April 14 Birth of Giorgio Cesana Italy, coxswain, (Olympics-gold-1906). [1] Birth of Vere G Childe British archaeologist/prehistorian. [1] April 17 Birth of Jean Haesaert Flemish lawyer/sociologist. [1] April 19 Birth of Germaine Tailleferre [Les Six] Pau-St-Maur France, composer. [1] April 21 First buffalo born in Golden Gate Park. [1] Birth of first buffalo born in Golden Gate Park. [1] Birth of Jaroslav Kvapil composer. [1] April 22 Birth of Nikolai Obouhov composer. [1] April 23 Birth of Minus van Looi [Benjamin van der Voort] Flemish writer. [1] Birth of R Huelsenbeck writer. [1] April 24 Birth of Jack Hulbert Ely England; actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack). [1] April 27 Birth of Louis Victor de Broglie physicist (studied electrons). [1] April 28 Birth of Georges Antoine composer. [1] Birth of John Jacob Niles composer. [1] Birth of Joseph Dunninger New York City, New York, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger). [1] May 1 Birth of Howard Barlow Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone). [1] May 2 Birth of Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [the Red Baron], German WWI ace. [1] May 3 Birth of Beulah Bondi Chicago Illinois, actress (It's a Wonderful Life). [1] Birth of Sir George Thomson demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel Prize 1937). [1] May 7 Birth of Archibald MacLeish Glencoe Illinois, political essayist/poet/dramatist (JB). [1] Birth of Josip Broz Tito WWII partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80). [1] May 8 Birth of Ezio Pinza Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show). [1] May 9 Birth of Eric Westberg composer. [1] Birth of Zita empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary). [1] May 11 Birth of Dame Margaret Rutherford Balham London England, actress (Murder Most Foul, Murder She Said, Arabella). [1] May 14 Birth of Arthur Vincent Lourie composer. [1] Birth of Felix Petyrek composer. [1] May 16 Birth of Coenraad B van Haeringen linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary). [1] Birth of Richard Tauber [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor. [1] May 18 Birth of Ezio Pinza Rome Italy, bass (New York Metropolitan-South Pacific). [1] May 19 Birth of Konstatin G Paustovski Russian author (Povestj Zjizni). [1] May 21 Birth of John Peale Bishop US poet (This Side of Paradise). [1] May 22 Birth of Louis van Tulder Dutch tenor (From Office Stool to High C). [1] May 25 Birth of Josip Broz Tito Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia), leader of Yugoslavia (1945-80). [1] May 27 Birth of Sara Heyblom Dutch actress (Pygmalion, Fietsen naar de Maan). [1] May 28 Birth of Minna Gombell Baltimore Maryland, actress (Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister). [1] May 29 Birth of Alfonsina Storni Argentine poet (La inquietud del rosal). [1] May 31 Birth of Gregor Strasser German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader. [1] Birth of Konstatin G Paustovski Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj). [1] Birth of Louis Fourestier composer. [1] Birth of Willem Ravelli baritone singer. [1] June 13 Birth of Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South Africa; actor (Sherlock Holmes). [1] [5] June 21 Birth of Hilding Rosenberg Bosjökloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn). [1] Birth of Reinhold Niebuhr US, theologian (Nature and Destiny of Man). [1] June 26 Birth of Hubert Julian (Jay) Stowitts the first American star in the Russian ballet, and Anna Pavlova's only American partner. [1] Birth of Pearl S Buck China, author (Good Earth-Nobel Prize 1938). [1] July 1 Birth of James M Cain Minneapolis Minnesota, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice). [1] July 11 Birth of Thomas Mitchell New Jersey, academy award winning actor (Outlaw, Adventures). [1] July 22 Birth of Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austrian chancellor (1930s). [1] July 23 Birth of Haile Selassie emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74). [1] July 26 Birth of Pearl S Buck US, novelist (The Good Earth). [1] July 28 Birth of Joe E Brown Holgate Ohio, comedian (Buck Circus Hour). [1] July 29 Birth of William Powell actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey). [1] August 2 Birth of John Kieran New York City, columnist/author (Natural History of New York City). [1] August 11 Birth of Hugh MacDiarmid Scotland, writer (Scots Unbound). [1] August 15 Birth of Louis-Victor due de Broglie France, physicist (Nobel Prize 1929). [1] August 16 Birth of Harold Foster cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant"). [1] August 17 Birth of Mae West in Brooklyn, New York; actress (Go up and see her sometime). [1] (1893 [5]) August 19 Birth of Alfred Lunt Broadway actor (Emmy 1965). [1] September 5 Birth of Joseph Szigeti Budapest Hungary, violinist (Violinist Notebook 1933). [1] September 12 Birth of Alfred A Knopf US, publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal). [1] September 22 Birth of Frank Sullivan humorist (New Yorker Magazine). [1] October 4 Birth of Engelbert Dollfuss Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis. [1] October 10 Birth of Ivo Andric Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on the Drina, Nobel '61). [1] November 1 Birth of Alexander Alekhine Russia, world chess champion (1927-46). [1] November 6 Birth of John Sigvard Olsen Wabash Indiana, comedian (Olsen and Johnson). [1] November 14 Birth of James Meredith 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1912). [1] November 26 Birth of Joe Guyon NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc). [1] December 2 Birth of Leo Ornstein composer. [1] December 4 Birth of Francisco Franco [y Bahamonde] general/dictator of Spain (1936-75). [1] December 5 Birth of Cyril Ring Massachusetts; actor (Body and Soul). [1] December 6 Birth of F Osbert S Sitwell London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame). [1] Birth of Lina Carstens Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug). [1] December 7 Birth of Nora Nicholson Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow). [1] December 11 Birth of Leo Ornstein Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form). [1] December 13 Birth of Brand Dirck Ochse filmer/co-founder (Polygoon). [1] December 15 Birth of David Guion composer. [1] Birth of J Paul Getty Minneapolis Minnesota, oil magnate (Getty Oil). [1] Birth of Jose Maria Castro composer. [1] December 16 Birth of A "Shon Nènè" Morales Antillean/Netherlands very old lady. [1] Birth of Cameron Prud'Homme Auburn California; actor (Rainmaker). [1] December 21 Birth of Dame Rebecca West [Cicily I F Andrews] England, journalist/novelist/critic/feminist (Meaning of Treason). [1] Birth of Walter Hagen Rochester New York, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 1919). [1] December 25 Birth of Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield] English author. [1] December 27 Birth of Feliks Roderyk Labunski composer. [1] December 29 Birth of Emory Parnell Saint Paul Minnesota, actress (Rocket Man, County Fair). [1] December 30 Birth of Jaromir Fiala composer. [1] Birth of John Litel Albany Wisconsin; actor (Virginia City, My Hero). [1] December 31 Birth of Jason Robards Sr Hillsdale Michigan; actor (Acapulco). [1]