Famous Birthdays for Year 1889

Months in Year 1889: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 240

Jan 1st - Alexander Smallens, St Petersburg, Russia, conductor
Jan 1st - Charles Bickford, Cambridge Mass, actor (John-The Virginian)
Jan 1st - Tadeusz Jarecki, composer
Jan 1st - Tom Dugan, Dublin Ireland, actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway)
Jan 2nd - Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
Jan 2nd - Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
Jan 4th - Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum, actor/director (Abandoned Child)
Jan 5th - Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal) [or 1899]
Jan 6th - Alan M Bateman, Canadian geologist (Yale professor)
Jan 8th - Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor (Haunted Castle)
Jan 11th - Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938)
Jan 14th - Vincenzo Davico, composer
Jan 20th - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
Jan 21st - Bert Collins, cricketer (Aussie batsman in the post WW I years)
Jan 21st - Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility)
Jan 22nd - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
Jan 23rd - Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living)
Jan 23rd - Prosper Arents, Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography)
Jan 25th - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
Jan 27th - Balthasar van der Pol, physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol)
Jan 29th - Francisco Santiago, composer
Jan 29th - Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
Jan 30th - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
Jan 31st - F R Foster, cricketer (330 runs & 45 wickets for England)
Feb 1st - Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
Feb 3rd - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'arc)
Feb 3rd - Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
Feb 4th - Walter Catlett, SF CA, actor (Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities)
Feb 5th - Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren, cricketer (prolific England bat of 20's)
Feb 5th - Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer (1st Lancastrian to score 100 100's)
Feb 5th - Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
Feb 6th - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter
Feb 6th - Siegfried Kracauer, writer
Feb 7th - Harry Nyquist, important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
Feb 10th - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
Feb 11th - John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers)
Feb 11th - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer
Feb 17th - H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
Feb 18th - Sybold van Ravesteyn, architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht)
Feb 19th - Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
Feb 20th - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
Feb 21st - Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
Feb 22nd - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
Feb 22nd - Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
Feb 23rd - Cyril Delevanti, England, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye)
Feb 23rd - Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer (League of Nations)
Director Victor Fleming (Feb 23rd) Feb 23rd - Victor Fleming, American director (Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind), (d. 1949)
Feb 23rd - Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
Feb 25th - Homer S. Ferguson, United States Senator (d. 1982)
Feb 28th - Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
Mar 1st - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
Mar 3rd - Fritz Behrend, composer
Mar 4th - Pearl White, [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
Mar 4th - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
Mar 4th - Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
Mar 5th - Frits Slomp, [Frits de Rover], Dutch vicar/resistance fighter
Mar 8th - Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business)
Mar 12th - Philip Guedalla, historian
Mar 12th - Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
Mar 16th - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
Mar 18th - F Rijkens, oldest living person in Netherlands
Mar 19th - Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10)
Mar 24th - Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
Mar 26th - Vaclav Kapral, composer
Mar 27th - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
Mar 29th - Howard Lindsay, Waterford NY, playwright/actor/dir (State of Union)
Mar 29th - Warner Baxter, Columbus OH, actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid)
Apr 3rd - Grigoras Dinicu, composer
Apr 6th - Barry Macollum, Northern Ireland
Apr 6th - Gabriela Mistral, writer
Apr 8th - Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orch)
Apr 9th - Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on Don Russia, composer/violinist
Apr 11th - Nick LaRocca, US jazz coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag) (d. 1961)
Apr 13th - Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958)
Apr 14th - Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
Apr 14th - Efim D Bogoljubov, Russian chess player
Apr 14th - James Stephenson, actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew)
Apr 15th - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union)
Apr 15th - Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
Comedian Charlie Chaplin (Apr 16th) Apr 16th - Charlie Chaplin, (Tramp), comedian (City Lights)/IBM salesman
Apr 18th - Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter
Apr 18th - John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
Apr 19th - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
Apr 20th - Adolph Hitler, Braunau, Austria, dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45)
Apr 20th - Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996)
Apr 21st - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
Apr 22nd - Ludwig Renn, writer
Apr 22nd - Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945, by suicide)
Apr 23rd - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
Apr 24th - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
Apr 24th - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
Apr 25th - Charles Kellaway, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder of 1920's)
Apr 26th - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus)
Apr 28th - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68)
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolph Hitler (Apr 20th) Apr 28th - Bryant Washburn, Chicago, actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga)
Apr 28th - Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear admiral
Apr 30th - Acario Cotapos, composer
Apr 30th - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
May 4th - Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
May 5th - Herbie Taylor, cricketer (prolific South African pre- & post-WWI)
May 6th - Arthur Morison, typographer
May 10th - Mae Murray, Portsmouth, Virginia, American silent screen actress (d. 1965)
May 12th - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
May 15th - Bessie Hillman, founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
May 16th - Joan Collette, Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft)
May 17th - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
May 18th - G Gunnarson, writer
May 18th - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
May 20th - Felix Arndt, composer
May 20th - Margery Allingham, detective story writer
May 20th - William Lawther, union leader
May 23rd - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
May 25th - Gilardo Gilardi, composer
May 25th - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft
May 25th - Sverre Jordan, composer
May 28th - Jose Padilla, composer
May 31st - Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
Jun 8th - Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
Jun 10th - Cliff Clark, actor (Kid Glove Killer, Golden Hoofs, Vigilante Hideout)
Jun 11th - Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
Jun 14th - Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
Jun 18th - Paul Joostens, Flemish painter
Jun 19th - Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland)
Jun 20th - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)
Jun 21st - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)
Jun 23rd - Anna Akhmatova, Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa. Russian poet (d. 1966)
Jun 25th - Ethel Glenn Hier, composer
Jun 25th - Margriet M C Baers, Flemish philosopher
Jun 27th - Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor
Jun 27th - Moroni Olsen, Ogden UT, actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White)
Jun 28th - Frank Mayo, silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters)
Jun 29th - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
Jul 2nd - Cor Hermus, Dutch actor/director/writer (A Mother)
Jul 5th - Jean Cocteau, France, writer/artist/director (Le Potamak, Orphée)
Jul 8th - Eugene Pallette, Winfield KS, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, Mark of Zorro)
Jul 9th - Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian hockey executive (d. 1964)
Jul 10th - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, NYC, actor (Go West, Distant Drums)
Jul 11th - Alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story)
Jul 13th - Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
Jul 15th - Marjorie Rambeau, SF California, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song)
Jul 16th - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)
Detective Writer Erle Stanley Gardner (Jul 17th) Jul 17th - Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden Mass., US detective writer (Perry Mason), (d. 1970)
Jul 20th - John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st dir-gen BBC (1927-38)
Jul 22nd - Frederick Preston Search, composer
Jul 29th - Karl Otten, writer
Jul 30th - Vladimir K Zworykin, USSR, electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
Jul 31st - Donald Foster, PA, actor (Scaramouche)
Aug 1st - John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
Aug 5th - Conrad P Aiken, US, Pulitzer poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation)
Aug 6th - George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)