Famous Birthdays for August 1885
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Birthdays 1 - 23 of 23
1st - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
3rd - Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer
6th - Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
7th - Billie Burke, Washington DC, actress (Glinda-Wizard of Oz)
7th - Gordon Harker, London England, actor (Facts of Love, Champagne)
12th - Alexander Albrecht, composer
12th - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
12th - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
15th - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
15th - Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968)
15th - Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
16th - Charles Carson, London England, actor (Cry the Beloved Country)
17th - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society)
17th - Kurt Hiller, writer
18th - Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
19th - Elsie Ferguson, NY, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages)
19th - Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
20th - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
23rd - Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
26th - Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
28th - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer
28th - Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
31st - DuBose Heyward, US novelist (Porgy)
