Famous Birthdays for Year 1895

Months in Year 1895: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 326

Jan 1st - J Edgar Hoover, Washington, D.C., first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72)
Jan 1st - Nathaniel Shilkret, NYC, conductor
Jan 2nd - Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
Jan 3rd - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer
Jan 3rd - Mihail Andricu, composer
Jan 4th - Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter
Jan 4th - Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
Jan 5th - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest
Jan 5th - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
Jan 7th - Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist
Jan 7th - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
Jan 7th - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
Jan 13th - Anton Betzner, writer
Jan 13th - Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
Jan 14th - George Richard Samways, children's writer
Jan 15th - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
Jan 16th - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
Jan 20th - Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress/songwriter (Hallelujah)
Jan 21st - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
First Director of the FBI J Edgar Hoover (Jan 1st) Jan 24th - Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch)
Jan 24th - Eugen Roth, writer
Jan 27th - Claudio Carneyro, composer
Jan 27th - Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41)
Jan 27th - Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
Jan 29th - Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
Feb 1st - John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
Feb 2nd - George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
Feb 3rd - Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52)
Feb 3rd - Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
Feb 3rd - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (APRA-Peru) [or Feb 22]
Feb 4th - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters)
Feb 4th - Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth
Feb 6th - George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, Maryland, baseball great (NY Yankees)
Feb 8th - King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
Baseball Great Babe Ruth (Feb 6th) Feb 9th - Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
Feb 11th - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer
Feb 13th - Fred Essler, Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk)
Feb 14th - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice)
Feb 14th - Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman)
Feb 15th - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
Feb 17th - Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain)
Feb 17th - Edna Park Edwards, PA
Feb 18th - George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star (Notre Dame)
Feb 18th - Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
Feb 19th - Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
Feb 20th - Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
Feb 21st - Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
Feb 22nd - Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
Feb 23rd - Richard Goolden, London England, actor (School for Husbands)
Feb 25th - DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
Feb 25th - Henri Martelli, composer
Feb 27th - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
Feb 28th - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
Feb 28th - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
Mar 1st - G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of fame (elected 1958)
Mar 2nd - Felix Bressart, Germany, actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads)
Mar 3rd - Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer (d. 1980)
Mar 3rd - Juanita Hansen, Iowa, actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love)
Mar 3rd - Matthew B Ridgway, US gen (WW II/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO)
Mar 3rd - Ragnar Frisch, Oslo, Norwegian economist (1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics-1969)
Mar 3rd - Robert Gordon, Ks, actor (Loveless)
Mar 4th - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
Mar 5th - Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle)
Mar 7th - Juan Jose Castro, composer
Mar 12th - William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
Mar 14th - Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian
Mar 17th - Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
Mar 20th - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
Mar 21st - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
Mar 23rd - Dane Rudhyar, composer
Mar 23rd - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
Mar 24th - Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
Mar 24th - Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
Mar 25th - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
Mar 28th - Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
Mar 28th - Christian Herter, 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
Mar 29th - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
Mar 30th - Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)
Mar 31st - John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man)
Mar 31st - Vardis A Fisher, US author (Darkness & Deep)
Apr 1st - Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)
Apr 3rd - Bjarne Brustad, composer
Apr 3rd - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
Apr 4th - Arthur Murray, NYC, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
Apr 4th - Charlie Hallows, cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28)
Apr 7th - Eduardo Toldra, composer
Apr 7th - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
Apr 8th - Bert I Gordon, NY
Apr 8th - Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
Apr 9th - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
Apr 9th - Michel Simon, [Francois], Geneva Switzerland
Apr 9th - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
Apr 13th - Olga Rudge, violinist
Apr 13th - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
Apr 14th - Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
Apr 14th - Wiktor Labunski, composer
Apr 15th - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
Apr 15th - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
Apr 15th - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
Apr 16th - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
Apr 17th - Bert Wheeler, actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers)
Apr 19th - Anton F Pieck, Den Helder, Netherlands, illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel)
Apr 20th - Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
Apr 23rd - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
Apr 24th - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
Apr 25th - Stanley Rous, British soccer official
Apr 29th - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
Apr 30th - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
May 1st - Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
May 2nd - Alfred Kurella, writer
May 2nd - Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
May 2nd - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
May 3rd - Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
May 3rd - Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
May 3rd - Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
May 6th - Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
May 6th - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946)
May 6th - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (d. 1974)
May 8th - Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
May 8th - Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
May 8th - Jose Gomez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
May 8th - James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (d. 1962)
May 9th - Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
May 9th - Richard Barthelmess, NYC, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
May 11th - Jan Parandowski, writer
May 11th - William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
May 12th - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22]
May 14th - Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
May 14th - Renato Lunelli, composer
May 15th - Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
May 15th - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
May 19th - Albert Hay Malotte, composer
May 19th - Cecil Gray, composer
May 20th - Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire)
May 22nd - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12]
May 24th - H S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI)
May 24th - Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
May 26th - Dorothea Lange, US documentary photographer
May 26th - Paul Lukas, Budapest Hungary, actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx)
May 27th - Marij Kogoj, composer
May 30th - Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
Jun 3rd - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
Jun 4th - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
Jun 5th - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
Jun 5th - William Boyd, Ohio, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy)
Jun 10th - Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
Jun 10th - Hattie McDaniel, Wichita Kansas, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar (Gone With The Wind)
Jun 11th - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
Jun 14th - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish Upon a Star)
Jun 14th - Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)