Famous Birthdays for Year 1890

Months in Year 1890: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 250

Jan 1st - Florence Lawrence, Hamilton Ont, silent screen actress (Confidence)
Jan 1st - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
Jan 4th - Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff
Jan 4th - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP (communist)
Jan 5th - Cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies
Jan 7th - Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star (Deception)
Jan 7th - Maurice E McLoughlin, tennis champ (US Open-1912)
Jan 8th - Sandor Rado, Hungarian/US psycho analyst
Jan 9th - Karel Capek, Czech, writer (R U R); coined the word "robot"
Jan 9th - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co)
Jan 10th - Douglas MacLean, Phila, silent film comedian/producer (Going Up)
Jan 10th - Ernest Milton, SF CA, actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three)
Jan 10th - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
Jan 11th - Monte Blue, Indianapolis IN, silent film actor (Montana, Oh Boy)
Jan 11th - Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954)
Jan 11th - Max Carey, American baseball player (d. 1976)
Jan 12th - Mordecai W Johnson, educator
Jan 13th - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945)
Jan 15th - Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
Jan 16th - Karl Freund, Czech/Austrian cameraman/director
Jan 16th - Lloyd Bacon, San Jose CA, actor (Charlie Chaplin)
Jan 22nd - Fred M Vinson, Ky, 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53)
Jan 22nd - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
Jan 28th - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
Jan 29th - Marguerite Canal, composer
Jan 31st - Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde)
Feb 2nd - Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China)
Feb 3rd - Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria Ill, actor (Calvin & Colonel)
Feb 8th - Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist/opponent of US colonialism
Feb 9th - Jacobus J P Oud, Dutch architect/co-founder (Stijl)
Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak (Feb 10th) Feb 10th - Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
Feb 10th - Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage)
Feb 10th - Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin. (d. 1918)
Feb 11th - John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer
Feb 11th - David Drummond, Australian politician (d. 1965)
Feb 14th - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
Feb 15th - Robert Ley, Nazi politician. Committed suicide 1945.
Feb 16th - Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer
Feb 18th - Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born)
Feb 18th - Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
Feb 18th - Lauri SA Haarla, Finnish (stage)writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja)
Feb 24th - Antonio Massana, composer
Feb 24th - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
Feb 25th - Myra Hess, London England, concert pianist
Feb 27th - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
Feb 28th - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
Mar 1st - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
Mar 3rd - Norman Bethune, Canada, Doctor in Spain & China
Mar 6th - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
Mar 8th - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
Mar 9th - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN)
Mar 11th - Vannevar Bush, developed 1st electronic analogue computer
Mar 12th - A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
Mar 12th - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
Mar 12th - William Dudley Pelley, American leader of the Silver Legion (d. 1965)
Mar 13th - Michael Taube, composer
Mar 13th - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
Mar 16th - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
Mar 17th - Harold Morris, composer
Mar 18th - Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education
Mar 20th - Lauritz Melchior, Copenhagen Denmark, baritone tenor (Natl Symphony)
Mar 25th - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
Mar 26th - Jozef Arras, Flemish writer
Mar 28th - Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club)
Mar 31st - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
Apr 5th - Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
Apr 6th - Anton Hermann Fokker, avation pioneer born
Apr 6th - Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
Apr 6th - Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, Holland, aircraft pioneer (Spider)
Apr 7th - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
Apr 11th - Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
Apr 13th - Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
Apr 17th - Art Acord, Glenwood Sevier UT, western actor (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists)
Apr 18th - James Rennie, Toronto Ontario, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
Apr 19th - Lou Bandy, [Lodewijk F Dieben], revue-artist (Look for the Sun)
Apr 20th - Adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)
Apr 20th - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec, known as "Le Chef" (d. 1959)
Apr 23rd - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
Apr 23rd - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
Apr 26th - Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, US actor/director (My Old Dutch)
May 2nd - E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary). Died 1965
May 3rd - B Traven, writer
May 5th - Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil)
May 6th - Claire Whitney, NY, silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine)
May 7th - Billy House, Minn, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
May 11th - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
May 14th - Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
May 15th - Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
May 17th - Philip James, composer
May 19th - Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)
May 20th - Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
May 21st - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
May 23rd - Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)
May 23rd - Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer
May 26th - Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits)
May 29th - Francis de Bourguignon, composer
Jun 1st - Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Wizard of Oz), (d. 1949)
Jun 2nd - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
Jun 6th - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
Jun 6th - Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
Jun 9th - Leslie Banks, English actor/director (Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours)
Jun 10th - Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author
Jun 10th - Powell Weaver, composer
Jun 10th - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
Jun 12th - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist
Jun 14th - May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
Jun 16th - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], England, comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
Jun 19th - Barbara Everest, London England, actress (Fatal Witness, Inquest)
Jun 21st - Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)
Jun 25th - Marchwitza, writer
Jun 30th - Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
Jun 30th - Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder for S Afr in 2 Tests)
Jul 2nd - Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)
Jul 5th - Frederick Lewis Allen, American social historian (d. 1954)
Jul 6th - Andrew Sandham, cricketer (Test cricket's 1st triple centurion)
Jul 7th - Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)
Jul 8th - W Hasenvlever, writer
Jul 10th - Andre Souris, composer
Jul 11th - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)
Jul 11th - Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter
Jul 14th - Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City)
Jul 18th - Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57)
Jul 18th - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
Jul 20th - Theda Bara, [Theodosia Goodman], Cincinnati, actress (Love Goddeses)
Jul 20th - Verna Felton, Salinas California, actress (Hilda-December Bride)
Kennedy Family Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (Jul 22nd) Jul 22nd - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Boston Massachusetts, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted, (d. 1995)
Jul 25th - Julian Rivero, SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express)
Jul 25th - Tom O'Brien, San Diego CA, actor (Physical Evidence)
Jul 27th - Judith Lowry, Ft Sill OK, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...)
Jul 28th - Marie Lohr, Sydney Australia, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel)
Jul 30th - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st)
Aug 1st - George II, king of Greece
Aug 2nd - Pauline Hall, composer
Aug 2nd - Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
Aug 4th - Erich Weinert, writer
Aug 4th - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
Aug 5th - Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
Aug 5th - Hans Gal, composer
Aug 5th - Naum Gabo, [Pevsner], Russian/US sculptor (Stillife Flower)
Aug 9th - Cesar Cortinas, composer
Aug 9th - Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher
Aug 9th - Sandor Jemnitz, composer
Aug 10th - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
Aug 11th - Erich Wichman, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor
Aug 12th - Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
Aug 13th - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia
Aug 15th - Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
Aug 15th - Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (d. 2006)
Aug 17th - Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law)
Aug 17th - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)