Famous Birthdays for Year 1884

Months in Year 1884: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 233

Jan 2nd - Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
Jan 3rd - Eli S Jones, US, evangelist (Christ of Indian road)
Jan 3rd - Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski, composer
Jan 10th - James Philip Dunn, composer
Jan 12th - Louis Horst, composer
Jan 12th - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
Jan 13th - Johannes Elsensohn, Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan)
Jan 13th - Sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
Jan 17th - Noah Beery, US actor (Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf)
Jan 18th - Arthur Ransome, English author (Swallows & Amazons)
Jan 19th - Albert Louis Wolff, composer
Jan 20th - A[braham P] Merritt, US, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)
Jan 21st - Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
Jan 21st - Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
Jan 23rd - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
Jan 25th - Edward Kilenyi, composer
Jan 26th - Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist (indians)
Jan 26th - Roy Chapman Andrews, US, scientist/explorer
Jan 28th - Auguste Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist), twin brother of Jean Felix Piccard
Jan 28th - Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist) twin brother of Auguste Piccard
Jan 28th - Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer (chromosome of sun)
Jan 29th - Juhan Aavic, composer
Jan 31st - Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady)
Jan 31st - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
Feb 1st - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
Feb 2nd - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army
Feb 2nd - S Z Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca)
Feb 4th - Julius Callewaert, Flemish dominican/bringing up children
Feb 4th - Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14)
Feb 8th - Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
Feb 9th - Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician)
Feb 10th - Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)
Feb 10th - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
Feb 12th - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist
Feb 12th - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
Feb 12th - Johan Laidoner, Estonian military commander (d. 1953)
Feb 13th - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete, inventor, and businessman (d. 1961)
Feb 14th - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
Feb 14th - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
Feb 14th - Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
Feb 16th - Robert Flaherty, Mich, father of documentary film (Nanook of North)
Feb 17th - Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)
Feb 18th - Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)
Feb 18th - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
Feb 22nd - Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
Feb 23rd - Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade)
Feb 23rd - Herman Courtens, Belgian painter
Feb 26th - Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer
Feb 26th - Dina Appeldoorn, composer
Feb 26th - Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor
Feb 29th - Alfred Sendrey, composer
Mar 2nd - Leon Jongen, composer
Mar 4th - Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
Mar 10th - Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
Mar 11th - Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
Mar 11th - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974)
Mar 13th - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
Mar 13th - Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
Mar 13th - Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)
Mar 14th - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist
Mar 14th - Winter Haynes Watts, composer
Mar 15th - Rudolf Piskacek, composer
Mar 16th - Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
Mar 17th - Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
Mar 18th - Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
Mar 21st - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
Mar 23rd - Glauco Velasquez, composer
Mar 24th - Gino Marinuzzi, composer
Mar 24th - Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
Mar 25th - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
Mar 26th - Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
Mar 31st - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
Apr 1st - Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], US actress (Broadway)
Apr 2nd - Sir John Squire, British poet, writer, and historian (d. 1958))
Apr 3rd - Jackie Matthews, cricketer (Aust leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912)
Apr 4th - Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
Apr 6th - Walter Huston, Tor, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre)
Apr 7th - Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
Apr 7th - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
Apr 9th - Franco Vittadini, composer
Apr 12th - Otto Meyerhof, Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel-1922)
Apr 12th - Tenby Davies, Welsh world champion runner (d. 1932)
Apr 17th - Leo Frank, American convict (d. 1915)
Apr 18th - Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart)
Apr 20th - Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
Apr 22nd - Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
Apr 22nd - John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Died Sept 3, 1992)
Apr 26th - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers)
Apr 27th - Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)
Apr 30th - Albert Israel Elkus, composer
May 1st - Felipe Boero, composer
May 1st - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)
May 2nd - Francois de Vries, Dutch economist
May 5th - Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35)
33rd US President Harry Truman (May 8th) May 8th - Harry Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953), (d. 1972)
May 19th - Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer) (or 5/10)
May 21st - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
May 22nd - Alceo Toni, composer
May 23rd - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
May 26th - Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
May 27th - Bax Brod, composer
May 28th - Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
May 28th - Theo(door) van Reijn, Dutch sculptor/lithographer
Jun 5th - Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist
Jun 5th - Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
Jun 7th - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last News)
Jun 9th - Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/conductor
Jun 13th - Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
Jun 13th - Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
Jun 13th - Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
Jun 14th - John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
Jun 15th - Harry Langdon, Council Bluffs IA, comic/director (Strong Man)
Jun 17th - Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist
Jun 18th - Edouard Daladier, premier France (1933..40)
Jun 19th - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
Jun 21st - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
Jun 22nd - James Rector, American athlete (d. 1949)
Jun 23rd - Werner Krauss, Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Joyless Street)
Jun 23rd - Cyclone Taylor, ice hockey player (d. 1979)
Jun 25th - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
Jun 27th - Forrester Harvey, Ireland, actor (Tarzan, Chump at Oxford)
Jun 27th - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu)
Jun 28th - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
Jun 30th - Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
Jul 2nd - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
Jul 4th - Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist
Jul 6th - Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist
Jul 6th - Harold Vanderbilt, NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
Jul 6th - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)
Jul 7th - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
Jul 12th - Louis B. Mayer, Dymer, Ukraine, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM)
Jul 12th - Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude)
Jul 12th - Joseph Crehan, Baltimore MD, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
Jul 13th - Francis B Young, British physician/writer (White Ladies)
Jul 13th - John Francis Larchet, composer
Jul 14th - Charles Meldrum Daniels, Dayton Oh, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1904, 08)
Jul 15th - Enrique Soro Barriga, composer
Jul 16th - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
Jul 18th - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
Jul 23rd - Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
Jul 23rd - Apolinary Szeluto, composer
Jul 23rd - Emil Jannings, Germany, actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel)
Jul 24th - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
Jul 25th - Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
Jul 29th - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist
Jul 29th - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
Jul 31st - Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig), "July 20th Plot",,18860731::"Constant Permeke, Flemish painter/statues artist (Sow)
Aug 2nd - Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
Aug 3rd - Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz)
Aug 4th - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)