1900

January 1

• Birth of Erwin S. Gelsey New York City, New York, screenwriter (Cover Girl, Touchdown Army). [1]
• Birth of Hubert van Doorne Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF). [1]
• Birth of Lillian Rich Herne Hill London England, actress (One Wonderful Night, Never Say Die). [1]
• Birth of Paola Borboni Parma Italy, actress (La Cage aux folles II, Cicciabomba). [1]
• Birth of William Haines Staunton Virginia; actor (Fast Life, Little Annie Rooney). [1]
• Birth of Xavier Cugat [Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Brue y Deulofeo] Tirona Catalonia Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo). [1]

January 3

• Birth of Dorothy Arnzer director. [1]
• Birth of Maurice Jaubert composer. [1]

January 5

• Birth of Paula Ludwig writer. [1]
• Birth of Yves Tanguy French/US sailor/surrealistic painter. [1]

January 6

• Birth of Pierre-Octave Ferroud French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse). [1]

January 8

• Birth of Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. [1]

January 9

• Birth of Joseph Frederick Wagner composer. [1]

January 12

• Birth of Vaino Hannikainen composer. [1]

January 13

• Birth of Yasuji Kiyose composer. [1]

January 15

• Birth of César Domela Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son). [1]
• Birth of William Heinesen Färoës Island, writer (Noatun). [1]

January 17

• Birth of Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant patron of the arts. [1]

January 20

• Birth of Boris Semyonovich Shekhter composer. [1]
• Birth of Doris Deane Wisconsin, entertainer. [1]

January 22

• Birth of Franz Salmhofer composer. [1]

January 23

• Birth of Mary Philips Connecticut, actress (Farewell to Arms, Incendiary Blonde). [1]
• Birth of Ralph Graves Cleveland Ohio; actor (Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street). [1]

January 25

• Birth of Mildred Dunnock Baltimore Maryland, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story). [1]
• Birth of Theodosius Dobzhansky Ukraine, geneticist/writer (Mankind Evolving). [1]

January 27

• Birth of Hyman G Rickover US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy). [1]

January 28

• Birth of Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke] publisher (History of Ecuador). [1]
• Birth of Anni Holdmann Germany, 100m runner (Olympics-1928). [1]
• Birth of Hermann Kesten German writer (Allert de Lange). [1]
• Birth of Michael Dewar Head composer. [1]

January 29

• Birth of Marco Tajcevic composer. [1]
• Birth of Willem F K Hussem Dutch painter/poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea). [1]

January 30

• Birth of Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky composer. [1]
• Birth of Martita Hunt Argentina, actress (Man in Grey, Becket). [1]
• Birth of Sandy Powell Rotherham England, costume designer (Rob Roy). [1]

February 1

• Birth of Stephen Potter humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders). [1]

February 2

• Birth of Asa Smith Bushnell Jr Springfield Ohio, Secretary of US Olympics (1945-65). [1]

February 3

• Birth of Mabel Mercer English cabaret singer (Fly Me to the Moon). [1]

February 4

• Birth of Jacques Prévert France, poet/screenwriter (Paroles). [1]

February 5

• Birth of Adlai E Stevenson (Governor-Democrat-Illinois), presidential candidate (Democrat) (1952, 1956). [1]

February 6

• Birth of Roy Smeck guitarist/banjoist. [1]
• Birth of Rudolf Värnlund Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen). [1]

February 8

• Birth of Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack composer. [1]
• Birth of John Cameron judge. [1]

February 10

• Birth of Rebecca Negrin. [1]

February 11

• Birth of Hans-Georg Gadamer German philosopher. [1]
• Birth of Thomas Hitchcock Jr great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39). [1]

February 12

• Birth of Ferenc Körmendy Hungarian/US author (Budapest Kaland). [1]
• Birth of Fred Emney London England; actor (Let the People Sing, Lilac Domino). [1]

February 16

• Birth of Albert Maurice Hackett playwright/screenwriter. [1]

February 19

• Birth of Giorgos Seferis writer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Antonio Veretti composer. [1]
• Birth of Graham Spry Saint Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer. [1]
• Birth of Jean Negulesco. [1]

February 21

• Birth of Madeleine Renaud French actress/theater director (Plaisir). [1]
• Birth of Sydney Arnold English comic/actor (Miss Jones and Son). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Evald Aav composer. [1]
• Birth of Giorgios Seferis Greece, poet (Nobel Prize 1963). [1]
• Birth of Luis Bruñel Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty). [1]
• Birth of Sean O'Faolain [John Whelan], Ireland, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk). [1]

February 23

• Birth of Elinor Remick Warren composer. [1]

February 25

• Birth of Jed Harris producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball). [1]

February 26

• Birth of Jean Negulesco Craiova Romania, director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica). [1]

February 28

• Birth of Edna Swithenbank Manley Jamaican sculptor, wife of Prime Minister. [1]
• Birth of Laura Z Hobson writer. [1]

February 29

• Birth of Yórgos Seféris [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi). [1]

March 1

• Birth of Donald Keith Falkner singer. [1]

March 2

• Birth of Kurt J Weill Dessau Germany, composer/Brecht collaborator (Mahogany). [1]

March 3

• Birth of Edna Best Hove England, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo). [1]

March 4

• Birth of Roberto Soundy El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympics-1968). [1]

March 5

• Birth of Ludwig Donath actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again). [1]

March 6

• Birth of John Henry Pyle Pafford librarian (University of London). [1]
• Birth of Ludwig Donath Vienna Austria; actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco). [1]
• Birth of Robert "Lefty" Grove baseball pitcher (300 game winner). [1]

March 7

• Birth of Giuseppe Capogrossi Italian painter. [1]
• Birth of [Albert] Carel Willink Dutch painter (magic realism). [1]

March 9

• Birth of Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta Italian king of Croatia (1941-43). [1]

March 10

• Birth of Sherman Billingsley Enid Oklahoma, talk show host (Stork Club). [1]

March 12

• Birth of David Croll Queen's Council senator. [1]
• Birth of Zoltan Vasarhelyi composer. [1]

March 15

• Birth of Gilberto Freye Brazilian sociologist/writer. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Alfred Newman New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing). [1]

March 19

• Birth of Roy Roberts Tampa Florida; actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show). [1]
• Birth of [Jean] Frédéric Joliot-Curie French physicist (Nobel Prize 1935). [1]

March 21

• Birth of Eugenie Leontovitch Moscow Russia; actor (Homicidal). [1]
• Birth of Paul Klecki/Kletzki Polish violinist/composer/conductor. [1]

March 23

• Birth of Erich Fromm Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society). [1]
• Birth of Jose Antonio Calcano composer. [1]

March 24

• Birth of June [Algeria Junius] Clark musician trumpet. [1]

March 26

• Birth of Isadore Freed composer. [1]

March 28

• Birth of Achille Longo composer. [1]
• Birth of Robert Harris actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne). [1]

March 31

• Birth of Henry WFA English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters. [1]
• Birth of Lörinc Szabó Hungary, poet (Huszonhatodik év). [1]

April 2

• Birth of Heinrich Besseler German musicologist. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Camille Chamoun President of Lebanon. [1]

April 5

• Birth of Spencer Tracy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner). [1]

April 6

• Birth of Andrés Sas Perú, composer. [1]
• Birth of Leo Robin US writer (Thanks For the Memory). [1]

April 7

• Birth of Tebbs Lloyd Johnson England, 50K walker (Olympics-bronze-1952). [1]

April 9

• Birth of Allen Jenkins Staten Island New York; actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit). [1]

April 10

• Birth of Jean Duvieusart premier (Belgium 1950). [1]

April 14

• Birth of Salvatore Baccaloni Rome; actor (Merry Andrew, Rock-a-Bye Baby). [1]

April 16

• Birth of Polly Adler Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home). [1]

April 18

• Birth of Louise Tazewell [Louise Skiller Tazewell], entertainer. [1]

April 19

• Birth of Allen Jenkins New York City, New York; actor (Girl Habit, Fugitive from a Chain Gang). [1]
• Birth of Richard Arthur Warren Hughes English writer (Fiction as Truth). [1]

April 20

• Birth of Fred Raymond composer. [1]
• Birth of Kees Verwey painter/water colors painter/cartoonist. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Ary Verhaar composer. [1]
• Birth of Henry Barraud composer. [1]
• Birth of Joseph Green film maker. [1]

April 25

• Birth of Lord [Hubert Miles] Gladwyn [Jebb] Member of Parliament (Liberal). [1]
• Birth of Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Austria, physicist (Pauli inhibition/Nobel Prize 1945). [1]

April 26

• Birth of Charles Richter Ohio, Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale). [1]
• Birth of Douglas Sirk director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje). [1]
• Birth of James Sutherland English literature scholar/actor (Rob Roy 1953). [1]

April 27

• Birth of Walter Lantz in New Rochelle, New York, USA; animator, creator of Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Buzz Buzzard, Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker, and many others. [1] [36.39]

April 28

• Birth of Bruno Apitz writer. [1]
• Birth of Jan Hendrik Oort Dutch astronomer (hypothesized "Oort Cloud"). [1]
• Birth of Maurice Thorez coal miner, Secretary-General of French Communist Party. [1]

May 1

• Birth of Ignazio Silone Italy, novelist/politician (Bread and Wine). [1]

May 2

• Birth of Helen Morgan singer/actress (Applause, Frankie and Johnny). [1]

May 5

• Birth of Charles Jewtraw US, 500 metre speed skater (Olympics-gold-1924). [1]
• Birth of Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt). [1]
• Birth of Mervyn A Ellison British astronomer (spectrohelioscope). [1]

May 7

• Birth of Bauke Tuinstra Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur). [1]
• Birth of Ralph Truman London England; actor (Web of Evidence). [1]

May 12

• Birth of Helene Weigel Austria/German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage). [1]

May 13

• Birth of Jos Panhuysen author (Pornographer). [1]

May 14

• Birth of Leo Smit composer. [1]

May 17

• Birth of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran's spiritual leader (1979-89). [1]
• Birth of Nicolai Berezowsky composer. [1]

May 18

• Birth of Sarah Miriam Peale US, portrait painter (General Lafayette-1825). [1]

May 28

• Birth of Owen Aisher president (Marley). [1]

May 31

• Birth of Helma Wolf-Catz Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef). [1]

June 5

• Birth of Dennis Gabor inventor (holography (3D laser photography)). [1]

June 9

• Birth of Fred Waring Tyrone Pennsylvania, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender). [1]

June 11

• Birth of Lawrence E Spivak Brooklyn, New York, news panelist (Meet the Press). [1]

June 13

• Birth of Ian Hunter South Africa; actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood). [1]

June 15

• Birth of Otto Clarence Luening Milwaukee Wisconsin, composer (Sonority Canon). [1]

June 19

• Birth of Laura Hobson New York City, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret). [1]

June 22

• Birth of Jennie Tourel [Jennie Davidson], Saint Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano. [1]

June 25

• Birth of Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, royal relative. [1]

June 27

• Birth of Otto E Passman (Representative-Democrat-Louisiana, 1947-77). [1]

June 29

• Birth of Antoine Saint-Exupéry France, aviator/writer (Wind, Sand and Stars). [1]

July 3

• Birth of John Mason Brown Louisville Kentucky, critic (Tonight on Broadway). [1]

July 4

• Birth of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong New Orleans Louisiana, jazz musician (Hello Dolly). [1]

July 5

• Birth of Bernard Cardinal Alfrink cardinal of Ultrecht Netherlands. [1]

July 8

• Birth of George Antheil Trenton New Jersey, composer (Airplane Sonata). [1]

July 17

• Birth of James Cagney actor, A yankee doodle dandy, hold that grapefruit. [1]

July 24

• Birth of Zelda Fitzgerald; first wife of F Scott. [1] [5]

July 29

• Birth of Don Redman Piedmont West Virginia, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times). [1]
• Birth of Eyvind Johnson Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel Prize 1974). [1]

July 31

• Birth of Elmo Roper pollster (Roper Poll). [1]

August 3

• Birth of Ernie Pyle correspondant during WW II. [1]
• Birth of John T Scopes Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution. [1]

August 4

• Birth of Arturo Umberto Illia president of Argentina (1963-66). [1]
• Birth of Elizabeth Britain's Queen Mother. [1]

August 8

• Birth of Victor Young Chicago Illinois, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old California). [1]

August 10

• Birth of Arthur Porritt New Zealand, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924). [1]
• Birth of Norma Shearer Canada, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight). [1]

August 11

• Birth of Alexander Mosolov Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod). [1]
• Birth of Charles Paddock sprinter (world's fastest human of 1920s). [1]

August 17

• Birth of Quincy Howe Boston Massachusetts, newscaster (CBS Weekend News). [1]

August 18

• Birth of Walter O'Keefe Hartford Connecticut, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood). [1]

August 22

• Birth of Elizabeth Bergner Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great). [1]

August 23

• Birth of Ernst Krenek Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf). [1]

August 24

• Birth of Preston Foster Ocean City New Jersey; actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger). [1]

September 1

• Birth of Richard Arlen actor (Alice in Wonderland). [1]

September 7

• Birth of "Janet" Taylor Caldwell England, novelist (Melissa). [1]

September 8

• Birth of Claude D Pepper (Representative-Democrat-Florida), old people's advocate. [1]

September 9

• Birth of James Hilton hotel magnate (Hilton Hotels). [1]

September 23

• Birth of Louise Nevelson US, sculptor (Sky Cathedral). [1]

October 3

• Birth of Jay Irving New York City, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh). [1]
• Birth of Thomas Wolfe American novelist (Look Homeward Angel). [1]

October 9

• Birth of Alastair Sims actor (Christmas Carol, Stage Fright). [1]

October 10

• Birth of Helen Hayes Washington DC, actress (Cæsar and Cleopatra, Happy Birthday). [1]

October 11

• Birth of Cal Hubbard NFL tackle (Giants, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Pirates). [1]

October 15

• Birth of Fritz Feld actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus). [1]
• Birth of Mervyn Le Roy movie producer (Devil at Four O'Clock). [1]

October 16

• Birth of Leon (Goose) Goslin baseball hall of famer (American League bat champion 1928). [1]
• Birth of Lloyd Corrigan SF; actor (Papa Dodger-Willy, Prof McKillup-Hank). [1]

October 18

• Birth of Paul Irving in Quitman, Arkansas, USA; American innovator in aviation during World War II. [158.72]

October 20

• Birth of Wayne Morse (Senator-Republican/Democrat-Oregon). [1]

November 4

• Birth of Luigi Lucioni Italian, landscape painter (opera stars). [1]

November 6

• Birth of Heinrich Himmler Nazi SS leader. [1]

November 7

• Birth of Efrem Kurtz Saint Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symphony 1948-54). [1]

November 8

• Birth of Margaret Mitchell writer (Gone With the Wind). [1]

November 9

• Birth of Kathy Negrin. [1]

November 11

• Birth of Helena Konopacka Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928). [1]
• Birth of Hugh Scott (Senator-Republican-Pennsylvania), minority whip. [1]
• Birth of John Longden West Indies; actor (Man From Interpol). [1]

November 14

• Birth of Aaron Copland in Brooklyn, New York, USA; composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring). [1] [5]

November 17

• Birth of Marcel Dalio Paris; actor (Casablanca). [1]

November 18

• Birth of Constantin Alajalov Russia, artist (Ditters and Jitters). [1]
• Birth of Howard Thurman theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger). [1]

November 20

• Birth of Chester Gould cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job). [1]

November 25

• Birth of Helen Gahagan Douglas Nixon's first opponent. [1]

November 27

• Birth of Leon Barzin Brussels Belgium, conductor (New York City Ballet 1948-58). [1]

December 3

• Birth of Lester Matthews Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adventures of Fu Manchu). [1]
• Birth of Richard Kuhn Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel Prize 1938). [1]

December 13

• Birth of Jonel Perlea composer. [1]
• Birth of Norman Foster Richmond Indiana; actor (Skyscraper Souls). [1]

December 14

• Birth of Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov composer. [1]

December 15

• Birth of Francesco Messina sculptor. [1]

December 16

• Birth of Victor S Pritchett literary critic/author (Myth Makers). [1]

December 17

• Birth of Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslavia, composer/conductor. [1]

December 20

• Birth of Gabby Harnett (National League Most Valuable Player 1935). [1]

December 21

• Birth of Oda Schaefer German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only). [1]
• Birth of Wischnewski writer. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Alan Dudley Bush composer pianist/teacher. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Marc Allégret French director (Voyage ouch Congo). [1]

December 25

• Birth of Gladys Swarthout Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda). [1]
• Birth of W L "Tich" Cornford cricketer (Sussex keeper played for England 1930). [1]

December 29

• Birth of Willie Humphrey jazz Clarinetist. [1]