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Birthdays 1 - 150 of 300

Jan 2nd - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
Jan 3rd - Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles)
Jan 4th - Manuel Palau Boix, composer
Jan 4th - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007)
Jan 5th - Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik)
Jan 5th - Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)
Jan 5th - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
Jan 10th - Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
Jan 12th - Hermann Goering, propoganda minister (Nazi Germany)
Jan 12th - Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
Jan 13th - Clarke Ashton Smith, US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)
Jan 13th - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer
Jan 13th - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
Jan 15th - Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies, Cardiff Wales, composer/writer/actor (Truth Game)
Jan 15th - Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-4.)
Jan 16th - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
Jan 18th - John Lawrence Seymour, composer
Jan 20th - Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos)
Jan 20th - Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
Jan 22nd - Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary)
Jan 23rd - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks)
Jan 26th - Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
Jan 26th - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
Jan 27th - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
Jan 28th - Elliot Griffis, composer
Jan 29th - Edric Cundell, composer
Jan 29th - Martian Negrea, composer
Jan 31st - Freya Stark, English explorer/ travel writer
Feb 2nd - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
Feb 2nd - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970)
Feb 3rd - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
Feb 4th - Bernard Rogers, NYC, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion)
Feb 4th - Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus)
Feb 5th - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica)
Feb 6th - Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63)
Feb 8th - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
Feb 10th - Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
Feb 10th - William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
Feb 11th - Johan C P Alberts, Dutch literary (Festival)
Feb 12th - Marcel G J Minnaert, Dutch astronomer
Feb 12th - Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II (GI General)
Feb 13th - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
Feb 14th - Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen)
Feb 15th - Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
Feb 15th - Walter Donaldson, US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee)
Feb 16th - Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic [OS]
Feb 17th - Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
Feb 19th - Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
Feb 19th - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi)
Feb 20th - Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
Feb 20th - Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
Feb 21st - Andres Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist, (d. 1987)
Feb 21st - Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
Feb 21st - Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
Feb 26th - Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) [NS]
Feb 26th - William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
Feb 27th - Joseph Messner, composer
Feb 27th - Ralph Linton, US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)
Feb 28th - Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
Mar 1st - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
Mar 1st - Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
Mar 2nd - Maxime Dumoulin, composer
Mar 3rd - Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author
Mar 3rd - Bill Nestell, CA, actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier)
Mar 5th - Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization
Mar 6th - Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street)
Mar 6th - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues
Mar 7th - Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
Mar 9th - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist/decorator
Mar 9th - Hans Munch, composer
Mar 16th - Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
Mar 18th - Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
Mar 18th - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
Mar 18th - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
Mar 21st - Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
Mar 23rd - Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
Mar 24th - George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
Mar 25th - Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
Mar 26th - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
Mar 27th - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
Mar 27th - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
Mar 28th - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
Mar 31st - Clemens Krauss, Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937)
Apr 1st - Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure)
Apr 3rd - Leslie Howard, [Stainer], London, actor (Gone With the Wind)
Apr 3rd - Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945)
Apr 5th - Clas Thunberg, Finland, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924, 28)
Apr 7th - Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
Apr 7th - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
Apr 8th - Grace Cunard, Columbus OH, silent screen actress (Resurrection)
Apr 8th - Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit)
Apr 11th - Dean G Acheson, statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
Apr 11th - Johannes T Thijsse, Dutch founder (Waterloopkundig lab Delft)
Apr 16th - Federico Mompou, composer
Apr 16th - Joseph Yasser, composer
Apr 18th - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
Apr 20th - Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)
Apr 20th - Hermann Ungar, writer
Apr 20th - Edna Parker, American supercentenarian
Apr 20th - Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)
Apr 23rd - Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
Apr 24th - Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
Apr 26th - Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
Apr 27th - Norman Bel Geddes, Adrian Mich, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End)
Apr 27th - Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
Apr 29th - Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet
Apr 29th - Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
Apr 30th - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
May 2nd - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien) [or May 13, 1912]
May 3rd - Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN
May 3rd - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
May 4th - Edgar Dearing, Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy)
May 4th - Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], Atlanta GA, actor
May 7th - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
May 8th - Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
May 8th - Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988)
May 8th - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (d. 1963)
May 9th - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947)
May 14th - Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
May 14th - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
May 15th - Michel Gusikoff, composer
May 15th - Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes)
May 16th - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
May 16th - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer
May 21st - Arthur Carr, cricket captain (England v Australia 1926)
May 21st - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
May 23rd - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
May 24th - W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda)
May 26th - Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
May 26th - Norma Talmadge, NY, actress (Sign on Door, Camille)
May 27th - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005)
Jun 3rd - Assen Karastoyanov, composer
Jun 4th - Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania
Jun 4th - Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife)
Jun 6th - Ludovic Feldman, composer
Jun 9th - Samuel N Behrman, US screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs)
Jun 9th - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
Jun 10th - Franz Andre, Belgian conductor
Jun 12th - Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director (Paul Vlaanderen)
Jun 13th - Dorothy Leigh Sayers, England, novelist (9 Taylors)
Jun 14th - Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
Jun 15th - Jacob HA van Coeverden, boer/edelman
Jun 19th - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano)
Jun 21st - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)
Jun 22nd - Osvald Chlubna, composer
Jun 23rd - Donald McBride, Brooklyn NY, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Irma)
Jun 24th - Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
Jun 25th - Charlotte Greenwood, Phila, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami)
Jun 26th - "Big Bill" Broonzy, Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy)
Jun 28th - Luciano Gallet, composer

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