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Birthdays 1 - 150 of 270

Jan 1st - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence
Jan 3rd - Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)
Jan 3rd - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
Jan 10th - Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)
Jan 11th - Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society)
Jan 13th - George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
Jan 16th - John Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman)
Jan 17th - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
Jan 19th - Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner)
Jan 21st - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer
Jan 21st - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
Jan 22nd - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
Jan 25th - Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze)
Jan 26th - Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist
Jan 26th - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)
Jan 26th - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
Jan 27th - Carl Blegen, Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos)
Jan 28th - Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
Jan 28th - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
Jan 29th - Albert Conti, Trieste Austria, actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion)
Feb 1st - Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect
Feb 1st - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
Feb 2nd - Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
Feb 3rd - Carlo Jachino, composer
Feb 3rd - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely)
Feb 3rd - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore)
Feb 3rd - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
Feb 6th - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
Feb 7th - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
Feb 9th - Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)
Feb 9th - Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love)
Feb 10th - [Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9]
Feb 11th - John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen)
Feb 13th - Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
Feb 15th - H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
Feb 16th - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
Feb 17th - Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer
Feb 18th - Nikos Kasandsakis, writer
Feb 20th - David McKinley Williams, composer
Feb 20th - Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
Feb 21st - Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
Feb 22nd - Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
Feb 23rd - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer
Feb 24th - Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
Feb 25th - Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter)
Feb 26th - Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
Feb 26th - Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
Feb 26th - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
Feb 26th - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
Feb 27th - James D Innes, English painter
Feb 28th - William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
Mar 4th - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
Mar 5th - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
Mar 6th - Henri Gagnon, composer
Mar 7th - Heino Eller, composer
Mar 9th - Phil Mead, cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI)
Mar 9th - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
Mar 10th - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
Mar 11th - Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
Mar 13th - Carlos Isamitt, composer
Mar 14th - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
Mar 14th - Lawrence Collingwood, composer
Mar 14th - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
Mar 15th - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
Mar 17th - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
Mar 21st - Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor
Mar 22nd - Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers)
Mar 23rd - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
Mar 23rd - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
Mar 23rd - Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
Mar 23rd - Sidney Hillman, union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation)
Mar 24th - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)
Mar 28th - Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer
Mar 30th - Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)
Mar 31st - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
Apr 1st - Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist
Apr 8th - Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)
Apr 10th - Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
Apr 10th - Heinz Tiessen, composer
Apr 12th - Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
Apr 13th - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
Apr 21st - Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer
Apr 21st - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
Apr 24th - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
May 1st - Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)
May 2nd - Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's)
May 2nd - Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918)
May 5th - Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA
May 5th - Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury
May 7th - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
May 9th - Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer
May 9th - Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (d. 1957)
May 10th - Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels)
May 12th - Nandor Zsolt, composer
May 16th - Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)
May 16th - J van Hoddis, writer
May 18th - Ernst Wiechert, writer
May 21st - Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
May 23rd - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
May 24th - Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)
May 25th - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
May 27th - Emiel van der Straeten, Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends)
May 27th - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts)
May 27th - Frank Woolley, cricketer (long-running England left-arm all-rounder)
May 28th - Hank Mann, NYC, actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road)
May 30th - Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
May 30th - Gino Tagliapietra, composer
May 31st - Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960) [or Mar 31]
Jun 1st - Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)
Jun 2nd - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
Jun 3rd - Emil Axman, composer
Jun 4th - Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949)
Jun 5th - Ruth Benedict, New York City, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
Jun 7th - William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily)
Jun 13th - Bruno Frank, writer
Jun 18th - Blanche Yurka, St Paul MN, actress (Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities)
Jun 20th - Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist
Jun 20th - Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages)
Jun 21st - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)
Jun 22nd - Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist (Uprising & Remorse)
Jun 22nd - Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog
Jun 23rd - Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag)
Jun 23rd - John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor (Westminster Choir)
Jun 25th - George Abbott, Forestville NY, producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
Jun 26th - Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist
Jun 28th - Boleslav Vomacka, composer
Jul 1st - Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)
Jul 2nd - Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54)
Jul 7th - Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises)
Jul 7th - Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village)
Jul 7th - Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer)
Jul 9th - Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
Jul 10th - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer
Jul 16th - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
Jul 18th - Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45)
Jul 20th - Willem H Drucker, Dutch lawyer
Jul 22nd - Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925)
Jul 28th - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase)
Jul 29th - Rudi Stephan, composer
Jul 29th - Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)
Jul 30th - Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity)
Jul 30th - Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants)
Jul 31st - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
Aug 2nd - Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936)
Aug 3rd - Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
Aug 5th - Reginald Owen, Wheathampstead Engld, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)
Aug 6th - Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
Aug 7th - Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician
Aug 7th - Luckey Roberts, composer
Aug 8th - Esme Percy, London England, actor (Old Spanish Custom)

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