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Birthdays 1 - 41 of 41

1st - Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)
1st - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
3rd - Ludvig Nielsen, composer
4th - Clyde William Tombaugh, US, astronomer (discovered Pluto)
4th - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Confessing Church)
4th - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
5th - John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
7th - Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
7th - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
8th - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
8th - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
8th - Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
9th - Gwen Catley, British(?) soprano
9th - André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
10th - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
10th - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist
10th - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
10th - Lon Chaney Jr, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
10th - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
11th - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal
13th - Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1994)
15th - Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
16th - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front)
16th - Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ (1927)
17th - Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
17th - Ramon Tapales, composer
18th - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
19th - Grace Mary Williams, composer
19th - Hendrik W C Spruit, Dutch conductor
22nd - Edmund von Borck, composer
22nd - Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
24th - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
25th - Boris Papandopulo, composer
25th - Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
25th - Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
25th - Warren Hymer, NYC, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob)
26th - Madeleine Carroll, England, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
26th - Nikos Ghika, artist
27th - Alexander Matheson, NZ cricket pace bowler (2 Tests 1930-31)
27th - H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (South Africa/Tibet)
28th - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas

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