1895

January 1

• Birth of Alice Tissot Paris France, actress (Tambour battant, Jamais deux sans trois). [1]
• Birth of J. Edgar Hoover in Washington DC; Director of US Fedreal Bureau of Investigation (dies 1972). [1] [5]
• Birth of Nathaniel Shilkret New York City, New York, conductor. [1]
• Birth of Rafael Martínez Zaragoza Spain, composer (Nuestra Natacha, Ana María). [1]

January 2

• Birth of Count Folke Bernadotte Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, United Nations). [1]

January 3

• Birth of Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky composer. [1]
• Birth of Mihail Andricu composer. [1]

January 4

• Birth of Lourens G M Baas Becking Dutch botanist/resistance fighter. [1]

January 5

• Birth of Jeannette Piccard balloonist/Episcopal priest. [1]

January 7

• Birth of Marie-Dominique Chenu French Roman Catholic theologist. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Anton Betzner writer. [1]
• Birth of Fortunio Bonanova Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer. [1]

January 14

• Birth of George Richard Samways children's writer. [1]

January 20

• Birth of Eva A Jessye US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah). [1]

January 24

• Birth of Albin Zollinger Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch). [1]
• Birth of Eugen Roth writer. [1]
• Birth of Hans Fischböck Austria, Finance minister (Nazi-occupied Holland). [1]

January 27

• Birth of Claudio Carneyro composer. [1]
• Birth of Joseph Rosenstock Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1936-41). [1]

February 1

• Birth of John Ford Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man). [1]

February 2

• Birth of George S Halas [Papa Bear], end/coach (Chicago Bears), co-founder NFL. [1]

February 3

• Birth of Izak Buys cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 and 4, 0-52). [1]
• Birth of Nick Kenny Astoria New York City, New York, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show). [1]
• Birth of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre politician (found APRA party in Peru). [1]

February 4

• Birth of Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor Dutch historian (Erflaters). [1]
• Birth of Hanns [Johann] Rauter German SS-Lieutenant-General/SS police chief in Netherlands. [1]

February 6

• Birth of George Herman "Babe" Ruth in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; baseball player (Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, record 714 home runs). [1] [129]

February 8

• Birth of King Vidor director (War and Peace, Stella Dallas). [1]

February 11

• Birth of Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky composer. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Fred Essler Austria; actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Max Horkheimer German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice). [1]
• Birth of Nigel Bruce Baja Mexico; actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman). [1]

February 17

• Birth of Anita Stewart New York, actress (South of Hell Mountain). [1]
• Birth of Edna Park Edwards Pennsylvania. [1]

February 18

• Birth of George "The Gipper" Gipp Notre Dame football star. [1]
• Birth of Semjon Timoshenko Russian marshal/inspector-general (WWII). [1]

February 19

• Birth of Louis Calhern New York City, New York; actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle). [1]

February 20

• Birth of Freida Geiken autobiographer (National Historic Taping). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre founder (Peruvian Aprista Party). [1]

February 23

• Birth of Richard Goolden London England; actor (School for Husbands). [1]

February 25

• Birth of DeBenneville "Bert" Bell Pennsylvania, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles). [1]
• Birth of Henri Martelli composer. [1]

February 27

• Birth of Edward Brophy actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys). [1]

February 28

• Birth of Guiomar Novaes Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit). [1]
• Birth of Marcel Pagnol French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire). [1]

March 1

• Birth of G B "Duke" Keats hockey hall of famer (elected 1958). [1]

March 2

• Birth of Felix Bressart Eydtkuhnen East Prussia Germany; actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads). [1]

March 3

• Birth of Alexander Nicholas Voormolen Dutch composer. [1]
• Birth of General Matthew Ridgeway US, military leader (WWII/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO). [1]
• Birth of Juanita Hansen Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love). [1]
• Birth of Ragnar Frisch Norway, economist (first Nobel Prize in economy-1969). [1]
• Birth of Robert Gordon Kansas; actor (Loveless). [1]

March 5

• Birth of Fritz Usinger German writer (Eternal Struggle). [1]

March 7

• Birth of Juan Jose Castro composer. [1]

March 14

• Birth of Frans Ganshof Belgian historian. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Shemp Howard [Samuel Horwitz] in Brooklyn, New York; comedian/actor (The Three Stooges, Bank Dick). [1] (March 4 [5])

March 22

• Birth of Joseph Schildkraut Vienna Austria; actor (Flame of Barbary Coast, Joseph Schildkraut Presents). [1]

March 23

• Birth of Dane Rudhyar composer. [1]

March 24

• Birth of Arthur Murray dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party). [1]
• Birth of Sid Saylor Chicago Illinois; actor (Wally-Waterfront). [1]

March 28

• Birth of Spencer W Kimball 12th prophet of Mormon church. [1]

March 29

• Birth of Ernest Jünger German philosopher (Anschwellender Bocksgesang). [1]

March 30

• Birth of Jean Giono French writer (World Chant). [1]

March 31

• Birth of John Jay McCloy lawyer/banker (Assistant Secretary of War 1941-45, president-Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-60)). [1]
• Birth of Vardis A Fisher US author (Darkness and Deep). [1]

April 1

• Birth of Alberta Hunter African-American blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues). [1]

April 3

• Birth of Bjarne Brustad composer. [1]
• Birth of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer. [1]

April 4

• Birth of Arthur Murray New York City, New York, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party). [1]
• Birth of Charlie Hallows cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28). [1]

April 7

• Birth of Eduardo Toldra composer. [1]
• Birth of Lewis B Combs naval commander/civil engineer. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Bert I[ra] Gordon Kenosha Wisconsin, diector/producer (Empire of the Ants, Magic Sword, Amazing Colossal Man). [1]
• Birth of Sigurdur Thordarson composer. [1]

April 9

• Birth of Mance Lipscomb Navasota Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper). [1]
• Birth of Michel Simon [Francois], Geneva Switzerland. [1]
• Birth of Rudolf Kattnigg composer. [1]

April 13

• Birth of Olga Rudge violinist. [1]
• Birth of Olof R Jändel Swedish poet. [1]

April 14

• Birth of Mary Marquet Saint Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance). [1]
• Birth of Wiktor Labunski composer. [1]

April 15

• Birth of Corrado Alvaro Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte). [1]
• Birth of Harry F V Edward British Guiana, 100 metre/200 metre runner (Olympics-bronze-1920). [1]

April 17

• Birth of Bert Wheeler actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers). [1]

April 19

• Birth of Anton F Pieck; Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel). [1]

April 24

• Birth of S Constantine Timoshenko Russian marshal/people's commissioner. [1]

April 25

• Birth of Stanley Rous British soccer official. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Rudolf Hess Hitler's Deputy Führer, only prisoner at Spandau. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Malcolm Sargent English conductor (Promenade Concerts). [1]

May 1

• Birth of Leo Sowerby Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946). [1]

May 2

• Birth of Alfred Kurella writer. [1]
• Birth of Peggy Bacon Ridgefield Connecticut, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads). [1]

May 3

• Birth of Earnest Kantorowicz German/US historian (Laudes regiae). [1]
• Birth of Gabriel Chevallier French author (Le petit général). [1]
• Birth of Zoltan Korda Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, Four Feathers). [1]

May 6

• Birth of Rudolph Valentino Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle). [1]

May 8

• Birth of Edmund Wilson American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore). [1]
• Birth of Fulton J Sheen El Paso Illinois, bishop (Life is Worth Living). [1]
• Birth of José Gómez [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter. [1]

May 9

• Birth of Lucian Blaga Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon). [1]
• Birth of Richard Barthelmess New York City, New York; actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose). [1]

May 11

• Birth of Jan Parandowski writer. [1]
• Birth of Jiddu Krishnamurti India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life). [1]
• Birth of William Grant Still Woodville Mississippi, composer (Africao-American). [1]

May 14

• Birth of Lew Lehr Philadelphia Pennsylvania, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One). [1]
• Birth of Renato Lunelli composer. [1]

May 15

• Birth of Charles Lamont San Francisco California, director (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars). [1]

May 19

• Birth of Albert Hay Malotte composer. [1]
• Birth of Cecil Gray composer. [1]

May 20

• Birth of Reginald J "R" Mitchell English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire). [1]

May 24

• Birth of H S T L "Stork" Hendry cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI). [1]
• Birth of Samuel I Newhouse US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour). [1]

May 26

• Birth of Dorothea Lange US documentary photographer. [1]
• Birth of Paul Lukas Budapest Hungary; actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx). [1]

May 27

• Birth of Marij Kogoj composer. [1]

May 30

• Birth of Maurice Tate cricketer (great England pace bowler of 1920s). [1]

June 3

• Birth of Kavalam Madhava Panikkar India, statesman/diplomat/writer. [1]

June 4

• Birth of Dino Conte Grandi Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32). [1]

June 5

• Birth of William Boyd Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy). [1]

June 10

• Birth of Immanuel Velikovsky writer (Worlds in Collision). [1]

June 11

• Birth of Nikolai A Bulganin Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-8). [1]

June 16

• Birth of Stan Laurel comedian (Laurel and Hardy). [1]

June 24

• Birth of Jack Dempsey heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) (Manassa Mauler). [1]

July 10

• Birth of Carl Orff München (Munich) Germany, composer (Antigonae). [1]

July 12

• Birth of Oscar Hammerstein II New York City, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers. [1]
• Birth of R Buckminster Fuller architect (invented geodesic dome). [1]

July 14

• Birth of Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue). [1]
• Birth of Frank Raymond Leavis British literary critic (Culture and Environment). [1]

July 22

• Birth of Hans Rosbaud Graz Austria, conductor (Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich). [1]

July 24

• Birth of Robert Graves England, poet/historical novelist (I, Claudius). [1]

August 13

• Birth of Robert Burton actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row). [1]

August 16

• Birth of Lucien Littlefield San Antonio Texas; actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie). [1]

August 22

• Birth of Paul White Bangor Maine, composer (Adante and Rondo for Cello). [1]

September 13

• Birth of Ruth McDevitt Coldwater Michigan, actress (Jo-All in the Family). [1]

September 16

• Birth of Charles W Bidwill Sr Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals). [1]

September 18

• Birth of John G Diefenbaker Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative) (1957-63). [1]

September 22

• Birth of Paul Muni actor (Acad Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez). [1]

September 26

• Birth of Fay Holden Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films). [1]

September 27

• Birth of George Raft in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot). [1] [5]

September 28

• Birth of Lawton Whitey Witt outfielder (New York Yankees, 1922-25). [1]

September 29

• Birth of Joseph Banks Rhine Pennsylvania, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception). [1]

October 2

• Birth of Bud Abbott in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA; comedian (Abbott and Costello) (dies 1974). [1] [5]

October 4

• Birth of Buster Keaton actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr). [1]

October 6

• Birth of Caroline Gordon Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries). [1]

October 8

• Birth of Juan Perón Argentine President (1946-55, 1973-74). [1]
• Birth of King Zog I of Albania (1928-1939). [1]

October 10

• Birth of Lin Yü-t'ang China, writer (My Country and My People). [1]

October 19

• Birth of Lewis Mumford cultural historian/city planner/writer. [1]

November 10

• Birth of John Knudsen Northrop aircraft designer (Northrop Air). [1]

November 15

• Birth of Ina Claire actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound). [1]

November 16

• Birth of Michael Arlen Armenia, English writer (An American Verdict). [1]
• Birth of Paul Hindemith Hanau Germany, composer (Tutti Funtchen). [1]

November 25

• Birth of Anastas I Mikoyan Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet. [1]
• Birth of Wilhelm Kempff Juterbog Germany, pianist (Unterdem Zimbelstern). [1]

November 28

• Birth of Jose Iturbi Valencia Spain, pianist (Pequena danza Espanola). [1]

November 29

• Birth of William V.S. Tubman (Whig), 17th Liberian President (1943-70). [1]

December 2

• Birth of Klaas Voskuil journalist. [1]

December 3

• Birth of Anna Freud Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund Freud. [1]

December 4

• Birth of Nils FA Nilsson Piraten Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag). [1]

December 5

• Birth of Henriëtte H Bosmans Dutch cellist/pianist/composer. [1]

December 7

• Birth of Jack Pennick Portland Oregon; actor (Lady From Louisiana). [1]

December 14

• Birth of George VI king of England (1936-52). [1]
• Birth of Paul Eluard French communist/poet/resistance fighter (Le Phénix). [1]

December 16

• Birth of Lidj Jasu emperor of Ethiopia. [1]

December 17

• Birth of David Butler San Francisco California, director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane). [1]

December 19

• Birth of Ingeborg Refling-Hagen Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre). [1]
• Birth of Maurice Roelants Belgian author (Jazz Player). [1]

December 20

• Birth of Susanne Langer US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key). [1]

December 21

• Birth of Paul Hoffer composer. [1]

December 27

• Birth of Sig Arno Hamburg, Germany; actor (Holiday in Havana). [1]

December 28

• Birth of Auguste Lumiere twin brother of Louis who opened first commercial cinema. [1]
• Birth of Louis Lumiere twin brother of Auguste who opened first commercial cinema. [1]

December 30

• Birth of August De Boodt Belgian politician. [1]