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Birthdays 1 - 44 of 44

1st - Kinue Hitoma, Japan, 800m runner (Oly-silver-1928)
2nd - Ben Grauer, NYC, newscaster (Big Story)
2nd - Janis Kepitis, composer
4th - Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal, Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
4th - Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
5th - George Dolenz, Trieste Italy, actor (Count of Monte Cristo)
6th - Menahem Avidom, composer
7th - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
8th - (Fearless) Mary Nadia Wadia, actress
8th - William Hartnell, London England, actor (Agitator, Jackpot)
9th - Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
10th - Bernard Lee, London, English actor (M in James Bond movies)
10th - Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
11th - Lionel Stander, NYC, actor (Max-Hart to Hart, Unfaithfully Yours)
12th - Ben Seijes, Dutch historian (WW II)
12th - Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (I, Odysseus)
12th - Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
14th - Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor (Address Unknown, Hitler)
14th - Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo, US singer/actor (Miracle of Women)
Father of the H-bomb Edward Teller (15th) 15th - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project), (d. 2003)
15th - Roberta Bitgood, composer
16th - Ethel Merman, stage & screen actress (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam)
16th - Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
17th - Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer
17th - Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
18th - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59)
18th - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
18th - Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1972)
19th - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
20th - Ian Peebles, cricketer (Scottish leg-spinner, England 1927-31)
20th - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer (Masquerade)
20th - Wilfred Conwell Bain, composer
23rd - Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
23rd - Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer
Actor Paul Henreid (10th) 25th - Lord Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar)
25th - W H V "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper (England in 1 Test in Calcutta)
26th - Stephane Grappelli, French jazz/violinist
26th - Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
27th - William Randolph Hearst Jr, newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
27th - Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
28th - Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor/director/writer (Fear)
28th - Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
29th - Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY, 1945-70)
31st - René Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934)

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