Famous Birthdays for Year 1883

Months in Year 1883: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 232

Jan 1st - Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer/journalist (La Torre, Tre Croci)
Jan 1st - [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor (3 Drops of Water)/theater director
Jan 3rd - Clement Richard Attlee, (L) British PM (1945-51)
Jan 4th - Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Neth 1st female prof (Utrecht, 1917-52)
Jan 4th - Max Eastman, American critic/essayist and editor of The Masses (d. 1969)
Jan 6th - Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings)
Jan 7th - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (WW II)
Jan 8th - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer
Jan 8th - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
Jan 8th - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
Jan 10th - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS]
Jan 10th - Florence Reed, Phila, silent film actress (Dancing Girl)
Jan 10th - Francis X Bushman, Norfolk VA, silent film actor (Ben Hur)
Jan 19th - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor
Jan 20th - Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces
Jan 21st - Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet
Jan 21st - Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
Jan 24th - Estelle Winwood, [Goodwin], England, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
Feb 1st - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
Feb 2nd - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer
Feb 3rd - Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter
Feb 3rd - Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
Feb 7th - Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)
Feb 7th - Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist
Feb 8th - Joseph A Schumpeter, Austria/US economist/minister of finance
Feb 11th - Paul August von Klenau, Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith)
Feb 12th - Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera)
Feb 13th - Bainbridge Crist, composer
Feb 13th - Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager
Feb 15th - Sax Rohmer (real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward), English author of Dr Fu Manchu novels (d. 1959)
Feb 16th - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980)
Feb 18th - Tom Walls, Kingsthorpe England, actor/producer (Undercover)
Feb 18th - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957)
Feb 20th - Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
Feb 21st - J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep)
Feb 22nd - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
Feb 22nd - Jaroslav Kocian, composer
Feb 22nd - Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
Feb 23rd - Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher
Feb 25th - Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)
Feb 26th - Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetism)
Mar 1st - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
Mar 3rd - Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
Mar 4th - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
Mar 5th - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
Mar 7th - Carl Deis, composer
Mar 8th - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer
Mar 9th - Umberto Saba, writer
Mar 12th - Judge Jackson, composer
Mar 12th - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1959)
Mar 13th - Enrico Toselli, composer
Mar 14th - Juan Manen, composer
Mar 16th - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
Mar 17th - Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
Mar 19th - Josef Matthias Hauer, composer
Mar 19th - Joseph W Stilwell, US general (China)
Mar 20th - Colin Campbell, Falkirk Scot, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)
Mar 20th - Karl Hasse, composer
Mar 21st - Jules van Nuffel, composer
Mar 23rd - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria
Mar 24th - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
Mar 27th - Jan Kunc, composer
Mar 27th - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
Mar 28th - William H Harris, composer
Mar 29th - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
Mar 30th - Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)
Apr 1st - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
Apr 1st - Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera)
Apr 6th - Mien Labberton, Dutch poetress
Apr 7th - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
Apr 8th - R. P. Keigwin, English academic (d. 1972)
Apr 9th - Renzo Bossi, composer
Apr 11th - Leonard Mudie, England, actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence)
Apr 12th - Imogen Cunningham, photographer (1965 ASMP award)
Apr 12th - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
Apr 13th - Alexander Alexandrov, composer
Apr 13th - Demjan Bednyi, writer
Apr 15th - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
Apr 17th - Hermann Darewsky, composer
Apr 19th - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer
Apr 19th - Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
Apr 24th - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
Apr 25th - Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show)
Apr 27th - Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter
Apr 30th - David John de Lloyd, composer
May 5th - Charles Bender, only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
May 5th - Leopold Samuel, composer
May 5th - Petar Konjovic, composer
May 5th - Archibald Wavell, British general (d. 1950)
May 6th - Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9]
May 7th - Gino Roncaglia, composer
May 7th - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Church Jesus Christ)
May 13th - Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)
May 13th - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
May 14th - Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil)
May 14th - Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
May 15th - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer
May 18th - Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect (Bauhaus school of design)
May 19th - Henricus WJM Keuls, Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp)
May 20th - Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher
May 23rd - Douglas Fairbanks, Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)
May 26th - Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
May 28th - George Dyson, composer
May 28th - Luigi Perrachio, composer
May 28th - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian activist (d. 1966)
May 28th - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
May 29th - William Beatton Moonie, composer
May 30th - Riccardo Zandonai, composer
May 31st - Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
Jun 2nd - Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author (Lock of Hair)
Jun 5th - John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist/math/journalist
Jun 7th - Sylvanus Morley, U.S. archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
Jun 11th - Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, cartoonist (Gasoline Alley)
Jun 14th - Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
Jun 17th - Alexandre Cellier, composer
Jun 20th - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer
Jun 20th - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G the Graef], actor (Driestuiversopera)
Jun 20th - Leah Baird, Chicago IL, actress (Lady Gangster)
Jun 21st - Feodor Gladkov, Russian socialist writer (Cement) (d. 1958)
Jun 22nd - Jose Rolon, composer
Jun 28th - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
Jul 1st - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
Jul 3rd - Alfred Korzybski, Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)
Jul 3rd - Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
Jul 3rd - Moses Leverock Crossley, US bio-chemist
Jul 4th - Alan Brooke, English general [or Jul 23]
Jul 4th - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
Jul 4th - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult)
Jul 7th - Toivo Kuula, composer
Jul 10th - Johann Blaskowitz, German general
Jul 10th - Sam Wood, US, communist fighter/director (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Jul 13th - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Potasch & Perlemoer)
Jul 14th - Alexandru Zirra, composer
Jul 17th - Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
Jul 17th - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
Jul 19th - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
Jul 23rd - Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke fieldmarshal [or Jul 4]
Jul 25th - Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini (Jul 29th) Jul 29th - Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Forli Kingdom of Italy, Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), (d. 1945)
Jul 29th - Manuel Infante, Spanish composer/conductor
Jul 29th - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
Jul 31st - Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
Aug 6th - Francesco Santoliquido, composer
Aug 6th - Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life)
Aug 7th - J Ringelnatz, writer
Aug 9th - George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961)
Aug 10th - Carlos Lavin, composer
Aug 11th - Ernst Stadler, writer
Aug 12th - Jan Schouten, Dutch co-founder (Daily Trouw)/chairman (ARP)
Aug 12th - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)