1893

January 1

• Birth of Frank Badgley Ottowa Canada; actor (Man From Glengarry). [1]
• Birth of Jay Rescher Bayonne New Jersey, cinematographer (Girl of the Sea, Straight To Heaven). [1]

January 3

• Birth of Pierre Drieu La Rochelle French novelist/essayist (Gilles). [1]

January 4

• Birth of Manuel Palau Boix composer. [1]

January 5

• Birth of Friedrich Blume German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik). [1]

January 12

• Birth of Hermann Göring in Rosenheim, Germany; head of Germany's air force, propaganda minister, one of the highest ranking Nazis. [1] [37]
• Birth of Alfred Rosenberg in Reval, Estonia; editor for Nazi party paper, Völkischer Beobachter, warned of a Jewish plot to take over the world. [37]

January 13

• Birth of Clarke Ashton Smith US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci). [1]
• Birth of Jan Evangelista Zelinka composer. [1]

January 15

• Birth of D Ivor D Novello Cardiff Wales, British actor/composer/writer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend, Truth Game). [1]
• Birth of Dragisa Cvetkovic Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-41). [1]

January 16

• Birth of Henry C Rümke Dutch psychiatrist (Periods in Man's Life). [1]

January 18

• Birth of John Lawrence Seymour composer. [1]
• Birth of Jorge Guillén Valladolid Spain, poet/critic (Cántico, Final). [1]

January 20

• Birth of Kaj Birket-Smith Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos). [1]

January 22

• Birth of Conrad Veidt Potsdam Germany; actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari). [1]

January 23

• Birth of Frank Carlson (Governor/Republican/Senator-Republican-Kansas). [1]

January 28

• Birth of Elliot Griffis composer. [1]

January 29

• Birth of Edric Cundell composer. [1]
• Birth of Martian Negrea composer. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Freya Stark English explorist/author. [1]

February 4

• Birth of Bernard Rogers New York City, New York, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion). [1]
• Birth of Raymond Dart Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus). [1]

February 5

• Birth of Roman Ingarden Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica). [1]

February 6

• Birth of Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan President of United Nations General Assembly (1962-63). [1]

February 10

• Birth of Jimmy Durante New York City, New York, long-nosed comedian (and good-night Mrs Calabash). [1]
• Birth of William [Bill] T Tilden II tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Johan C P Alberts Dutch literary (Festival). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Marcel G J Minnaert Dutch astronomer. [1]
• Birth of Omar Bradley General of Army WWII "The GI General". [1]

February 13

• Birth of Ana Pauker-Rabensohn Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Kay Fisker Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen). [1]

February 15

• Birth of Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes painter/etcher/ceramist. [1]
• Birth of Walter Donaldson US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee). [1]

February 16

• Birth of Ivor Armstrong Richards England, literary critic. [1]

February 19

• Birth of Cedric Hardwicke Stourbridge England; actor (Peter Pan, Richard III). [1]
• Birth of Pietro Pancrazi Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Russel Crouse journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father). [1]

February 21

• Birth of Andrés Segovia Linares Spain, classical guitarist. [1]
• Birth of Vsevolod Pudovkin Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter). [1]

February 26

• Birth of Ivor A "I A" Richards English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning). [1]
• Birth of William Frawley Iowa; actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My Three Sons). [1]

February 27

• Birth of Joseph Messner composer. [1]
• Birth of Ralph Linton US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture). [1]

February 28

• Birth of Ben Hecht New York City, New York, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (The Front Page). [1]

March 1

• Birth of Theo Frenkel actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy). [1]

March 2

• Birth of Maxime Dumoulin composer. [1]

March 3

• Birth of Beatrice Wood potter/artist/author. [1]
• Birth of Bill Nestell California; actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier). [1]
• Birth of Karel Lotsy Dutch insurance director/Olympics-chief d'équipe. [1]

March 5

• Birth of Emmett J Culligan founder of water treatment organization. [1]

March 6

• Birth of Kathleen Smoothy housewife (last link to Siege of Sidney Street). [1]
• Birth of [Walter] Furry Lewis father of the blues. [1]

March 9

• Birth of Edgar Scauflaire Belgian muralist/decorator. [1]
• Birth of Hans Munch composer. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Isobel Elsom actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger). [1]

March 18

• Birth of Wilfred Owen England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth). [1]

March 21

• Birth of Geoffrey Dearmer poet. [1]

March 24

• Birth of George Sisler baseball hall of fame first baseman (257 hits in 1920). [1]

March 25

• Birth of Edward Hart (Representative-Democrat-New Jersey)/first chairman of Committee on Un-American Activities. [1]

March 26

• Birth of Palmiro Togliatti founder (Communist Party of Italy). [1]

March 27

• Birth of Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic Yugoslavian General/Nazi collaborator. [1]
• Birth of Karl Mannheim Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology and Utopia). [1]
• Birth of William Harrigan New York City, New York; actor (Affair of Three Nations, Cabaret). [1]

March 31

• Birth of Clemens Krauss Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orchestra-1937). [1]

April 1

• Birth of Cicely Courtneidge Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure). [1]

April 3

• Birth of Leslie Howard [Stainer] London England; actor (Ashley Wilkes-Gone With the Wind). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Clas Thunberg Finland, speed skater (Olympics-gold-1924, 28). [1]
• Birth of Pál Szabó Hungarian farmer/author (Talpalatnyi Föld). [1]

April 7

• Birth of Allan W Dulles US diplomat/Central Intelligence Agency head 1953-61 (Germany's Underground). [1]
• Birth of Irene Castle dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement). [1]

April 8

• Birth of Grace Cunard Columbus Ohio, silent screen actress (Resurrection). [1]
• Birth of Henri Puvrez Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit). [1]
• Birth of Mary Pickford [Gladys Louise Smith] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actress (Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs). [1] (1892 [5])

April 11

• Birth of Dean G Acheson statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53). [1]
• Birth of Johannes T Thijsse Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft). [1]

April 16

• Birth of Federico Mompou composer. [1]
• Birth of Joseph Yasser composer. [1]

April 20

• Birth of Harold Lloyd Burchard Nebraska, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last). [1]
• Birth of Hermann Ungar writer. [1]
• Birth of Joan Miró Spain, painter/sculptor (Dog Barking at the Moon). [1]

April 23

• Birth of Frank Borzage Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo). [1]

April 24

• Birth of Robert Harron New York City, New York; actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance). [1]

April 26

• Birth of Anita Loos author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes). [1]

April 27

• Birth of Norman Bel Geddes Adrian Michigan, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End). [1]

April 29

• Birth of Elisaveta Bagrjana [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet. [1]
• Birth of Harold C Urey Walkerton Indiana, physicist (discovered Deuterium, Nobel Prize 1934). [1]

April 30

• Birth of Joachim von Ribbentrop German SS führer/foreign minister. [1]

May 2

• Birth of Beppie Nooij Jr Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Hope Landin Minneapolis Minnesota. [1]

May 4

• Birth of Edgar Dearing Ceres California; actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy). [1]
• Birth of Royal Butler [Edwin Richey] Atlanta Georgia, USA; actor. [1]

May 8

• Birth of Francis Quimet Massachusetts shop assistant who won golf's US Open (1913). [1]

May 14

• Birth of Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky composer. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Michel Gusikoff composer. [1]
• Birth of Stanley Lupino English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes). [1]

May 16

• Birth of José Calvo Sotelo Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30). [1]
• Birth of Paul Amadeus Pisk composer. [1]

May 21

• Birth of Arthur Carr cricket captain (England versus Australia 1926). [1]
• Birth of Simon Delmonte actor/director (Boemeladvocaat). [1]

May 24

• Birth of W H Walter Baade German/US astronomer (Andromeda). [1]

May 26

• Birth of Norma Talmadge Jersey City New Jersey, actress (Sign on the Door, Camille). [1]
• Birth of Sir Eugene Goossens London England, conductor/composer (Perseus). [1]

June 9

• Birth of Cole Porter Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate). [1]

June 13

• Birth of Dorothy L Sayers in England; novelist (Nine Taylors) (dies 1957). [1] [5]

June 25

• Birth of Charlotte Greenwood Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami). [1]

June 26

• Birth of Big Bill Broonzy Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy). [1]

July 1

• Birth of Walter Francis White Atlanta Georgia. [1]

July 7

• Birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution). [1]

July 8

• Birth of Fritz Perls father of Gestalt therapy. [1]

July 14

• Birth of Spencer Williams Vidalia Louisiana, USA; actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy). [1]

July 23

• Birth of Karl Menninger psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic). [1]

August 6

• Birth of Guthrie McClintic Seattle Washington, Broadway producer/director (Winterset). [1]

August 10

• Birth of Douglas Stuart Moore Cutchogue New York, composer (Good Night Harvard). [1]
• Birth of Viscount Dunrossil Scotland, Governor General of Australia (1959-61). [1]

August 12

• Birth of Howard Smith Attleboro Massachusetts; actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel). [1]

August 15

• Birth of Harlow H Curtice president of General Motors (1953-8). [1]

August 22

• Birth of Dorothy Parker; American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award). [1] [5]

August 30

• Birth of Huey P Long Winn Parish Louisiana, (gov/sen-Democrat-Louisiana). [1]

September 10

• Birth of Al "Fuzzy" Saint John Santa Ana California; actor (Lash of the West). [1]

September 16

• Birth of Albert Szent-Györgyi Hungary, biochemist (Nobel Prize 1937). [1]

September 18

• Birth of Arthur Benjamin Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba). [1]

September 29

• Birth of Fabien Sevitzky Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra). [1]

October 1

• Birth of Faith Baldwin New Rochelle New York, author/novelist (They Who Love). [1]

October 18

• Birth of Sir Sidney Holland New Zealand, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1949-57). [1]

October 30

• Birth of Charles Atlas; body builder. [1] [5]

October 31

• Birth of Sara Allgood Dublin Ireland, actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase). [1]

November 25

• Birth of Robert Ripley illustrator (Believe it or Not). [1]

December 1

• Birth of Ernst Toller writer. [1]
• Birth of Herman Griffith cricketer (pioneering West Indies pace bowler). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Julius Bissier German painter. [1]
• Birth of Louis Freeman band leader. [1]
• Birth of William Gaxton San Francisco California; actor (Destry, Convoy). [1]

December 6

• Birth of Lou Little college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960). [1]

December 10

• Birth of Walter Rein composer. [1]

December 12

• Birth of Edward G Robinson [Goldenberg] Romania; actor (10 Commandments). [1]

December 13

• Birth of Curt Jurgens Munich Germany; actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day). [1]

December 16

• Birth of Vladimir Golschmann Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat. [1]

December 17

• Birth of Erwin Piscator German stage director (Der Stellvertreter). [1]

December 19

• Birth of Harry Blomberg Swedish author (Mäster Jacob). [1]

December 23

• Birth of Ann O'Neal Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father). [1]

December 24

• Birth of Carl Brisson Copenhagen Denmark; actor (Murder at the Vanities). [1]
• Birth of Ruth Chatterton US actress (Madame X, Sarah and Son). [1]

December 25

• Birth of Bert Bertram actor (How to Steal a Million). [1]
• Birth of Fred Hillebrand Brooklyn New York; actor (Martin Kane). [1]
• Birth of Ropert L Ripley Santa Rosa California, cartoonist (Believe It or Not). [1]

December 26

• Birth of Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky composer. [1]
• Birth of Mao Tse-tung of little red book fame, Prime Minister of People's Republic of China (1949-76). [1]
• Birth of Yury Nikolayevich Tyulin composer. [1]

December 31

• Birth of J M Blankenberg cricketer (60 wickets in 18 Tests for South Africa). [1]
• Birth of Max Lamberty Flemish sociologist/author (Flemish Resurrection). [1]