Famous Birthdays for Year 1894

Months in Year 1894: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 254

Jan 1st - Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
Jan 1st - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
Jan 2nd - Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
Jan 3rd - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
Jan 4th - Wesley La Violette, composer
Jan 4th - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (d. 1962)
Jan 7th - Jose Rozo Contreras, composer
Jan 8th - St Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (d. 1941)
Jan 9th - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist
Jan 10th - Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed)
Jan 11th - Jaroslav Vogel, composer
Jan 15th - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
Jan 16th - Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach (Canton, Frankford, Cards)
Jan 16th - Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
Jan 18th - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch parapsychologist
Jan 20th - Harold L Gray, creator (Little Orphan Annie)
Jan 20th - Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer (Incredible Flutis)
Jan 22nd - Charles Morgan, England, writer (Fountain)
Jan 22nd - Matt McHugh, PA, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair)
Jan 23rd - Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Patriot/Idiot)
Jan 27th - Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
Jan 30th - Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
Jan 30th - Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet)
Jan 31st - Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men)
Jan 31st - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
Feb 1st - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
Feb 3rd - Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
Feb 6th - Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
Feb 8th - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher
Feb 10th - Roy D'Arcy, SF, actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies)
Feb 10th - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
Feb 11th - Alfonso Leng, composer
Feb 11th - Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist (Massenanalyse)
Feb 14th - Jack Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski], Waukegan Ill, "Oh! Rochester!"
Feb 15th - Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
Feb 19th - Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins)
Feb 22nd - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
Feb 25th - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
Feb 25th - Howard Wendell, Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
Feb 25th - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
Feb 27th - Robert-Lucien Siohan, composer
Mar 2nd - Renaat Veremans, Flemish composer/conductor
Mar 5th - Henry Daniell, London, actor (Camille, Phila Story, Body Snatchers)
Mar 9th - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
Mar 14th - Josef Schelb, composer
Mar 14th - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
Mar 15th - Slava Vorlova, composer
Mar 17th - Paul Green, US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom)
Mar 19th - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
Mar 25th - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
Mar 26th - Will Wright, SF CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
Mar 26th - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
Mar 27th - William Harrigan, NYC
Mar 30th - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
Apr 2nd - Rudolph P Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer
Apr 2nd - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air)
Apr 3rd - Dooley Wilson, Tyler Tx, actor (Bill-Beulah, Casablanca)
Apr 6th - Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian
Apr 7th - Gerald Brenan, English writer
Apr 9th - Ernest Kanitz, composer
Apr 10th - Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)
Apr 10th - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist (d. 1983)
Apr 12th - Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general/president (1951-58)
Apr 13th - Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer
Apr 15th - Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev (Apr 15th) Apr 15th - Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64)
Apr 20th - Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)
Apr 23rd - Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
Apr 23rd - George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
Apr 23rd - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
Apr 26th - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
Apr 27th - Nicolas Slonimsky, composer
Apr 27th - George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)
May 5th - Kit Guard, Denmark, actor (El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous)
May 6th - Filip Lazar, composer
May 10th - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
May 11th - Anton A Mussert, Dutch nazi leader (NSB)
May 11th - Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
May 11th - Martha Graham, Allegheny Penn, choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
May 12th - Cleo Ridgely, NY, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama)
May 13th - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
May 20th - Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent)
May 20th - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
May 25th - Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence)
May 27th - Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, detective novelist (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon)
May 27th - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
May 28th - Sammy White, RI, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off)
May 29th - Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
May 29th - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
May 30th - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
May 31st - Fred Allen, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show)
Jun 4th - Blanch Knopf, publishing CEO (Knopf)
Jun 5th - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
Jun 6th - Sabin V Dragoi, composer
Jun 8th - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
Jun 10th - Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
Jun 11th - Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner), Canadian magician, The Professor (d. 1992)
Jun 13th - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarmija, Marija) [or Jul 13]
Jun 13th - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, France, photographer
Jun 13th - Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic, Transients)
Jun 13th - Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
Jun 14th - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
Jun 15th - Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City, composer/arranger (Oklahoma!)
Jun 15th - Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
Jun 16th - Norman Kerry, Rochester NY, actor (Phantom of the Opera)
Jun 20th - George Delacorte, NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
Jun 20th - Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
Jun 21st - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
Jun 23rd - Alfred Kinsey, Hoboken, New Jersey, American entomologist/sexologist (Kinsey Report)
King of Great Britain Edward VIII (Jun 23rd) Jun 23rd - Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India (1936)
Jun 25th - Hermann Oberth, Germany, founded modern astronautics (V2/Redstone)
Jun 26th - Bill Wirges, Buffalo NY, orchestra leader (Growing Paynes)
Jun 26th - Jeanne Eagels, actress (Rain, Under False Colors)
Jun 28th - Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
Jun 30th - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand)
Jul 2nd - Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point)
Jul 4th - Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play)
Jul 8th - Clemens VI Trefois, Flemish architect/sociologist
Jul 9th - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
Jul 10th - Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer
Jul 11th - Walter Wanger, [Feuchtwanger], US producer (Stagecoach)
Jul 13th - Isaak Babel, Rus short-story writer/dramatist (Red Calvary) [or 6/13]
Jul 15th - Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
Jul 17th - Mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent)
Jul 18th - Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese)
Jul 19th - Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
Jul 19th - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
Jul 19th - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
Jul 22nd - O M Graf, writer
Jul 23rd - Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
Jul 24th - Walter Schulthess, composer
Jul 26th - Aldous L Huxley, Surrey England, author (Brave New World)
Jul 26th - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Henric van Veldeken)
Jul 27th - Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
Jul 31st - Roy Bargy, Mich, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show)
Jul 31st - Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d.1972)
Aug 1st - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
Aug 3rd - Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
Aug 3rd - John H van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice/Internal minister
Aug 10th - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
Aug 11th - Wilhelm Grosz, composer
Aug 13th - Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director
Aug 13th - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer
Aug 16th - George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO)
Aug 17th - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author (Jorden)
Aug 17th - Johan Polet, Dutch sculptor
Aug 22nd - Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights)
Aug 23rd - Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor (Midnight Girl)
Aug 24th - Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark)
Aug 26th - Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)