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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

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 QC 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 Penn, 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 Ky, 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 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 Brooklyn, composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring). [1] 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]