Famous Birthdays for Year 1896

Months in Year 1896: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 302

Jan 1st - Maurice Jacobson, composer
Jan 1st - Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon)
Jan 1st - Yitzhak Edel, composer
Jan 2nd - Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
Jan 2nd - Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer
Jan 2nd - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
Jan 4th - Everett Dirksen, American politician (Sen-R-Ill) (d. 1969)
Jan 5th - Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP)
Jan 6th - Abram N Pritzker, US businessman (Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine)
Jan 6th - Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter
Jan 7th - Arnold Ridley, Bath England, actor/dramatist (The Ghost Train)
Jan 8th - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Bird's Opera)
Jan 8th - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chile, writer (Men of the South)
Jan 8th - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)
Jan 9th - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
Jan 11th - Eva Le Gallienne, London England, actress/director (Resurrection)
Jan 11th - Paddy Driscoll, NFL QB/coach (Chic Cardinals, Bears)
Jan 12th - Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor/director (Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre)
Jan 12th - David Wechsler, American psychologist (d.1981)
Jan 14th - John dos Passos, novelist (1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel)
Jan 15th - Jacobo Ficher, composer
Jan 16th - Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
Jan 17th - Harry Reser, Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
Jan 18th - Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt)
Jan 18th - C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (d. 1967)
Jan 20th - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik)
Jan 20th - George Burns, [Nathan Birnbaum], NYC, actor/comedian (Oh God)
Jan 20th - Rolfe Sedan, NYC, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show)
Jan 20th - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
Jan 23rd - Charlotte A E M W, grand duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64)
Jan 25th - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire
Jan 29th - Teddy Hoad, cricketer (pioneering West Indian Test batsman)
Jan 31st - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
Feb 1st - Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)
Feb 2nd - Jane Wilde, writer
Feb 2nd - Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
Feb 3rd - Johannes Urzidil, writer
Feb 4th - Friedrich Glauser, writer
Feb 4th - Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
Feb 7th - Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
Feb 7th - Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jorgen Stein)
Feb 8th - Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)
Feb 10th - Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
Feb 15th - Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor (River, Enchanted Island)
Feb 16th - Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin)
Feb 18th - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
Feb 19th - André Breton, French poet (d. 1966)
Feb 20th - Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
Feb 21st - Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
Feb 22nd - Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
Feb 22nd - Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
Feb 22nd - Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
Feb 22nd - Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
Feb 25th - John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
Feb 26th - Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism)
Feb 26th - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer
Feb 28th - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
Feb 29th - Omer C F L Tulippe, Belgian geographer
Feb 29th - Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India (1977-79)
Feb 29th - Stanley Swash, CEO (Woolworths)
Feb 29th - William W Wellman, Brookline Mass, director (Star is Born)
Feb 29th - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer
Mar 1st - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
Mar 1st - Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
Mar 7th - Erwin Bodky, composer
Mar 8th - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
Mar 10th - Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon)
Mar 10th - Nancy Cunard, writer
Mar 12th - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
Mar 13th - Dorothy Aldis, writer
Mar 16th - Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)
Mar 20th - Hal Walker, Ottumwa Ia, director (I Married Joan)
Mar 22nd - Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Austria, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank))
Mar 22nd - Giulia D De Albertis, writer
Mar 22nd - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
Mar 24th - Gianna Manzini, writer
Mar 26th - Richard Flury, composer
Mar 26th - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
Apr 3rd - Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
Apr 4th - Robert Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight)
Apr 4th - Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man)
Apr 6th - Juan Tomas Perez, composer
Apr 7th - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
Apr 8th - Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
Apr 8th - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
Apr 10th - Edith Day, Minneapolis MN
Apr 11th - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)
Apr 15th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
Apr 17th - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet)
Apr 18th - C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse)
Apr 20th - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)
Apr 20th - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
Apr 21st - Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte)
Apr 23rd - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
Apr 26th - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
Apr 27th - Rogers Hornsby, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
Apr 27th - Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon)
Apr 29th - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
Apr 29th - Walter Mehring, writer
Apr 30th - Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
Apr 30th - Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
May 1st - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947)
May 1st - Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984)
May 1st - J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987)
May 2nd - Helen of Greece and Denmark, queen of Romania (d. 1982)
May 3rd - Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
May 3rd - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
May 11th - Josip Slavenski, composer
May 11th - Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter
May 13th - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
May 17th - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
May 17th - Hannah Tillich, writer
May 18th - Walter Fitzgerald, Keyhan Devonport England
May 19th - Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon
May 23rd - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
May 25th - Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian
May 28th - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer
May 28th - Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
May 29th - George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
May 30th - Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
Jun 6th - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
Jun 6th - Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
Jun 6th - Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran
Jun 7th - Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
Jun 7th - Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women)
Jun 7th - Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
Jun 7th - Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
Jun 8th - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
Jun 9th - Aura Abranches, Lisbon Portugal, actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio)
Jun 9th - Catherine Filene Shouse, philanthropist (Wolf Trap Institute)
Jun 16th - Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
Jun 16th - William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
Jun 16th - Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
Jun 18th - Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience)
Jun 18th - Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936)
Jun 18th - Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story)
Duchess of Windsor Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson (Jun 19th) Jun 19th - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
Jun 21st - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)
Jun 22nd - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea)
Jun 27th - Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond
Jun 29th - Irene Browne, England, actress (All at Sea, Peg O' My Heart)
Jun 30th - Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
Jul 1st - Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS]
Jul 2nd - Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
Jul 3rd - Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah & Son)
Jul 4th - Adolf Hallis, composer
Jul 4th - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
Jul 6th - Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society)
Jul 10th - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
Jul 13th - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)