Famous Birthdays for Year 1885

Months in Year 1885: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 226

Jan 1st - Roland Diggle, composer
Jan 2nd - Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes)
Jan 5th - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940)
Jan 8th - John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM (Labor, 1941-45)
Jan 8th - A. J. Muste, Dutch pacifist and activist (d. 1967)
Jan 11th - Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party)
Jan 11th - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (d. 1965)
Jan 13th - Alfred Fuller, CEO (Fuller Brush Man)
Jan 15th - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
Jan 15th - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)
Jan 15th - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (d. 1968)
Jan 16th - Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40)
Jan 16th - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
Jan 17th - E Ball-Hennings, writer
Jan 17th - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
Jan 21st - Umberto Nobile, Italian general
Jan 23rd - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer
Jan 25th - A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon)
Jan 25th - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
Jan 27th - Jerome Kern, NYC, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta)
Jan 27th - Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
Jan 27th - Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
Jan 30th - John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero
Feb 1st - Camille Chautemps, premier France
Feb 2nd - Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi)
Feb 4th - Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed)
Feb 7th - Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
Feb 8th - Edith Evans, London England, actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield)
Feb 9th - Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
Feb 12th - Licinio Refice, composer
US First Lady Elizabeth Truman (Feb 13th) Feb 13th - Elizabeth Virginia [Bess] Truman, US 1st lady (1945-52)
Feb 14th - Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim Indian/Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)
Feb 15th - Richard Wurz, composer
Feb 17th - Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943)
Feb 21st - Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
Feb 24th - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
Feb 24th - Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
Feb 24th - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
Feb 24th - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
Feb 24th - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
Feb 25th - Sylvia Brett, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak (d. 1971)
Feb 26th - Lili Green, [Alice Sally Mary], Neth/Eng dancer
Feb 26th - Aleksandras Stulginskis, President of Lithuania (d. 1969)
Mar 1st - Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
Mar 4th - Willem H Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao)
US Admiral Chester Nimitz (Feb 24th) Mar 6th - Ringgold "Ring" Lardner, US sports writer (You Know Me Al)
Mar 11th - Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min)
Mar 12th - Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect/urban developer
Mar 14th - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
Mar 16th - Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
Mar 16th - Sydney Chaplin, South Africa, actor (Limelight)
Mar 20th - Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
Mar 20th - Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological/sociologist
Mar 22nd - Adriano Lualdi, composer
Mar 22nd - Jakabs Medins, composer
Mar 22nd - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
Mar 24th - Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)
Mar 25th - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution)
Mar 26th - Julius Harrison, composer
Mar 26th - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
Mar 28th - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer
Mar 31st - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist
Apr 1st - Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones
Apr 3rd - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
Apr 3rd - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
Apr 5th - Dimitrie Cuclin, composer
Apr 6th - Carlos Leon Salzedo, composer
Apr 8th - Dimitrios Levidis, composer
Apr 13th - Pieter S Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45)
Apr 13th - Georg Lukács, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
Apr 13th - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
Apr 15th - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
Apr 16th - Leo Weiner, Hungary, composer (Fasching)
Apr 17th - Cecil Burleigh, composer
Apr 17th - Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales)
Apr 17th - Karen Blixen-Finecke, [pen name Isak Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa)
Apr 29th - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
Apr 29th - Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle)
Apr 30th - Luigi Russolo, composer
May 2nd - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (d. 1966)
May 5th - Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State)
May 7th - George "Gabby" Hayes, Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso)
May 10th - Fritz v Unruh, writer
May 10th - Marie Benavente, [Maria Wissink], actress (Scapegoat)
May 14th - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor/composer (Das Ziel)
May 18th - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50)
May 21st - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d.1936)
May 22nd - Julio Fonseca, composer
May 22nd - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
May 24th - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948).
May 29th - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
May 31st - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
Jun 5th - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940)
Jun 7th - Percy Brier, composer
Jun 8th - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
Jun 12th - Werner Erich Josten, Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle)
Jun 19th - Stevan Hristic, composer
Jun 20th - Andrzej Gawroński, Polish scholar (d. 1927)
Jun 22nd - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
Jun 26th - Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac)
Jun 26th - Anna M F van Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 9/26]
Jun 26th - Billy Jenkins, [Erich Rosenthal], Magdeburg
Jun 27th - Arthur Harmat, composer
Jun 28th - Berthold Viertel, writer
Jun 28th - Giuseppe Mule, composer
Jun 29th - Andre Gailhard, composer
Jun 29th - Virginia Pope, (NY Times)
Jul 5th - Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian (Traité du paysage)
Jul 6th - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
Jul 7th - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
Jul 8th - Ann Jemima Flower, oldest resident of Netherlands
Jul 8th - Emil Bloch, German philosopher
Jul 11th - Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter
Jul 12th - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer
Jul 14th - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
Jul 17th - Benjamin James Dale, composer
Jul 20th - Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic
Jul 21st - Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist (Dinner at Antoine)
Jul 24th - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
Jul 25th - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
Jul 26th - Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer
Jul 29th - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
Aug 1st - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
Aug 3rd - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer
Aug 6th - Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
Aug 7th - Billie Burke, Washington DC, actress (Glinda-Wizard of Oz)
Aug 7th - Gordon Harker, London England, actor (Facts of Love, Champagne)
Aug 12th - Alexander Albrecht, composer
Aug 12th - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
Aug 12th - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
Aug 15th - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
Aug 15th - Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968)
Aug 15th - Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
Aug 16th - Charles Carson, London England, actor (Cry the Beloved Country)
Aug 17th - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society)
Aug 17th - Kurt Hiller, writer
Aug 18th - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
Aug 19th - Elsie Ferguson, NY, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages)
Aug 19th - Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
Aug 20th - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
Aug 23rd - Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
Aug 26th - Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
Aug 28th - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer
Aug 28th - Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
Aug 31st - DuBose Heyward, US novelist (Porgy)
Sep 4th - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (d. 1971)
Sep 4th - Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (d. 1971)
Sep 5th - John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (National monument on the Dam)
Sep 6th - Franz T Csokor, Austrian author (Writings on the Wall)
Sep 6th - Otto Kruger, Toledo Ohio, actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon)