Famous Birthdays for Year 1888

Months in Year 1888: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 260

Jan 1st - John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
Jan 4th - Arthur Berry, England, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1908, 12)
Jan 8th - Matt Moore, County Meath Ireland, actor (Coquette, Deluge)
Jan 8th - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972)
Jan 8th - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)
Jan 10th - Emile van Bosch, Dutch revue/operetta-artist (Fair Folks)
Jan 10th - Grock, Switzerland, clown
Jan 11th - Chester Conklin, Oskaloosa IA, actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed)
Jan 12th - Claude Delvincourt, composer
Jan 15th - Joseph Henabery, Omaha NE, director (Cobra)
Jan 16th - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
Jan 20th - Lead Belly, Louisiana, blues 12 string guitarist (Rock Island Line), (d. 1949)
Jan 23rd - Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor
Jan 24th - Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft)
Jan 24th - Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian/US author (Men Never Know)
Jan 24th - Henry King, US, director (Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High)
Feb 2nd - Candelario Huizar, composer
Feb 2nd - Frank Lloyd, Scotland, actor/director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist)
Feb 2nd - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
Blues Musician Lead Belly (Jan 20th) Feb 3rd - Joris Baers, Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids)
Feb 4th - Paul Althaus, German theologist (The Christian Truth)
Feb 6th - Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera)
Feb 8th - Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/music critic
Feb 8th - Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)
Feb 10th - G Ungaretti, writer
Feb 13th - Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier
Feb 13th - Heintje Davids, [Hendrika], Dutch revue star
Feb 17th - Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award)
Feb 17th - Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)
Feb 17th - Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)
Feb 19th - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
Feb 20th - Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
Feb 20th - Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
Feb 21st - Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
Feb 21st - Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
Feb 21st - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
Feb 22nd - Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
Feb 25th - John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
Feb 27th - Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
Feb 27th - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
Feb 27th - Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
Mar 1st - Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
Mar 4th - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
Mar 4th - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942
Mar 4th - Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
Mar 5th - Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
Mar 7th - Alidius WLT van Starkenborch Stachouwer, gov of Neth Indies (1936-45)
Mar 8th - Stuart Chase, NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste)
Mar 10th - Barry Fitzgerald, Dublin Ireland, actor (Acad Award-Going My Way)
Mar 10th - Krsto Odak, composer
Mar 12th - Hall Johnson, composer
Mar 14th - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970)
Mar 17th - Frank Buck, actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs)
Mar 17th - Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
Mar 18th - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor
Mar 19th - Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
Mar 19th - Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
Mar 20th - S V Vegesack, writer
Mar 24th - Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)
Mar 24th - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
Mar 26th - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
Mar 29th - Adrianus M de Jong, Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje & Bonestaak)
Mar 29th - James E Casey, founder (United Parcel Service)
Mar 30th - Anna Q Nilsson, Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Apr 3rd - Neville Cardus, cricketer (doyen of cricket writers)
Apr 4th - Tris Speaker, baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose
Apr 4th - Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975)
Apr 6th - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader)
Apr 8th - Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1964)
Apr 9th - Florence Smith Price, US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932)
Apr 9th - Sol Hurok, theatrical impresario
Apr 11th - Donald Calthrop, London, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express)
Apr 12th - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964)
Apr 15th - Florence Bates, San Antonio Tx, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
Apr 15th - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
Apr 18th - Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, skier
Apr 18th - Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
Apr 19th - William L Axt, composer
Apr 23rd - Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
Apr 26th - Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer
Apr 26th - Anita Loos, American screenwriter, novelist (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and playwright (d. 1981)
Apr 27th - Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
Apr 28th - Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Italy/Netherland)
Apr 30th - John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder)
May 3rd - Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
May 6th - Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73)
May 9th - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)
May 10th - Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
May 11th - Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temum Siberia, composer (White Xmas)
May 11th - P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council
May 11th - Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945)
May 14th - Miles Mander, Wolverhampton England, actor (Tower of London)
May 15th - Jean Wahl, French philosopher
May 17th - A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent & England)
May 17th - Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
May 21st - May Aufderheide, composer
May 23rd - Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)
May 23rd - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
May 25th - Miles Malleson, writer/actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock)
May 27th - Louis Durey, composer
May 28th - James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee OK, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912)
Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe (May 28th) May 28th - Jim Thorpe, Prague, Oklahoma, versatile American athlete (Olympics-gold-1912) (d. 1953)
May 30th - James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
May 31st - Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone)
Jun 3rd - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
Jun 5th - Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen)
Jun 8th - Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer
Jun 9th - Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer
Jun 9th - Hugo Kauder, composer
Jun 10th - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
Jun 11th - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
Jun 12th - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
Jun 13th - Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet
Jun 15th - Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)
Jun 16th - Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)
Jun 16th - Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
Jun 17th - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
Jun 17th - Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954)
Jun 18th - Margarita Xirgu, Barcelona Spain, actress (Bloody Wedding)
Jun 18th - S S Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], author (Canary Murder Case)
Jun 22nd - Harold Burton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1964)
Jun 23rd - Lee Moran, Chicago IL, actor (Circus Clown)
Jun 23rd - Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (d. 1935)
Jun 24th - Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Juliana Hall, Sonsbeek Pavillion)
Jun 27th - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946}
Jun 27th - Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
Jun 28th - George Challenor, cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman)
Jul 2nd - Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
Jul 4th - Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
Jul 6th - Annette Kellerman, Sydney Australia, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid)
Jul 10th - Giorgio De Chirico, Greece, Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer)
Jul 10th - Graham McNamee, sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)
Jul 10th - Toyohiko Kagawa, Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
Jul 11th - Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer (Verfassungslehre)
Jul 11th - Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator (UN Casebook)
Jul 12th - Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer (Grain of Wheat)
Jul 13th - Fernando A N de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Mensagem)
Jul 13th - Jean Murat, Pergneux France, actor (Eternal Rain, Carnival Flanders)
Jul 16th - Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)
Jul 16th - Percy Kilbride, SF CA, actor (Egg & I, Ma & Pa Kettle)
Jul 17th - Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
Jul 18th - Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter
Jul 18th - Sydney Horler, English detective writer
Jul 19th - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
Jul 22nd - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
Jul 23rd - Raymond Chandler, Chic, mystery writer (Farewell My Lovely)
Jul 23rd - Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
Jul 23rd - Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39)
Jul 24th - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's)
Jul 26th - M Jouhandeau, writer