Famous Birthdays for Year 1909

Months in Year 1909: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 497

Jan 1st - Barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- )/Pres candidate (R) 1964)
Jan 1st - D D Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46)
Jan 1st - Dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
Jan 1st - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
Jan 2nd - Rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)
Jan 3rd - Victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian
Jan 5th - Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile
Jan 5th - Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions)
Jan 6th - Johannes H Moesman, Dutch surrealist painter (Rumor)
Jan 6th - Keith Davis, voice tutor/author
Jan 8th - Bruce Mitchell, cricketer (South African bat, their top run-scorer (3471))
Jan 8th - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
Jan 8th - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
Jan 9th - Herva Nelli, soprano
Jan 10th - Grace Mitchell, educator
Jan 10th - Rudolf Kubin, composer
Jan 11th - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer
Jan 11th - Marguerite Kelsey, English model/painter (Haunting)
Jan 12th - Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor (Atomic Blonde, Road Agent)
Jan 13th - Danny Barker, jazz guitarist
Jan 13th - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist
Jan 14th - Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director (Damned, Accident)
Jan 15th - Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)
Jan 15th - Enrique Sasal y Chapi, composer
Jan 15th - Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
Jan 15th - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
Jan 19th - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
Jan 21st - Todor Skalovski, composer
Jan 22nd - Ann Sothern, [Harriette Lake], ND, actress (Lady in a Cage)
Jan 22nd - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962)
Jan 22nd - [Sithu] U Thant, Burma, 3rd UN sec-genl (1962-72)
Jan 22nd - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
Jan 23rd - Norman Fulton, composer
Jan 24th - Ann Todd, Hartford England, actress (Paradine Case, 7th Veil)
Jan 24th - Tiny Winters, musician
Jan 28th - Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II-George Medal)
Jan 29th - Alan Marshal, Sydney Aust, actor (White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia)
Jan 29th - Tonypandy, Viscount
Jan 30th - Mihaly Hajou, composer
Jan 30th - Richard Hearne, Norwich England, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower)
Jan 30th - Saul David Alinsky, Chic Ill, radical writer (John L Lewis)
Jan 31st - Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
Jan 31st - Miron Grindea, literary editor
Feb 1st - George Beverly Shea, Winchester, Ontario, American gospel singer
Feb 1st - Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
Feb 1st - Helen Chandler, Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
Feb 2nd - Franc Albertson, Fergus Falls MN, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams)
Feb 3rd - M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix)
Feb 3rd - Simone Weil, Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter (WW II)
Feb 4th - Kenneth W Howell, English Anglican bishop (Chile/Bolivia/Peru)
Feb 4th - Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
Feb 5th - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
Feb 6th - Israel Citkowitz, composer
Feb 7th - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37) [OS]
Feb 7th - Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
Feb 8th - Henry Roth, writer
Feb 9th - Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
Feb 9th - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
Feb 9th - Harald Genzmer, composer
Feb 9th - Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans)
Feb 9th - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian
Feb 10th - Lord Milne
Feb 11th - Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/director (Sleuth)
Feb 11th - Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35)
Feb 11th - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
Feb 12th - Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
Feb 14th - A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
Feb 15th - Harold Beeley, British diplomat
Feb 15th - Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank
Feb 16th - Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence Ks, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
Feb 16th - Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Mass, actor (My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties)
Feb 16th - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1998)
Feb 17th - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37)[NS]
Feb 17th - Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
Feb 18th - Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
Feb 18th - Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose)
Feb 19th - Charlie Walker, South Aust cricket wicket-keeper (toured but no Tests)
Feb 21st - George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
Feb 21st - Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
Feb 21st - Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist
Feb 22nd - Roderick Barclay, diplomat
Feb 23rd - Frank Ward, cricketer (Australian leggie late 30s)
Feb 24th - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
Feb 24th - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
Feb 24th - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
Feb 24th - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
Feb 25th - Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
Feb 25th - John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer
Feb 26th - Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock, TV Chef
Feb 26th - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
Feb 27th - Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
Feb 28th - Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
Feb 28th - Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
Mar 1st - Richard de Guide, composer
Mar 1st - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
Mar 1st - Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
Mar 2nd - Hanoch Jacoby, composer
Mar 2nd - Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright
Mar 2nd - Mel Ott, American baseball player, 1st NLer to hit 500 home runs, hall of famer (NY Giants) (d. 1958)
Mar 3rd - Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician
Mar 3rd - Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator
Mar 4th - Harry B Helmsley, NYC, billionaire builder (Empire State Building)
Mar 5th - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
Mar 6th - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter
Mar 6th - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83)
Mar 7th - Greta Schoon, writer
Mar 7th - Leo Malet, writer
Mar 8th - Anthony Donato, composer
Actress Claire Trevor (Mar 8th) Mar 8th - Claire Trevor, [Wemlinger], NYC, actress (Marjorie Morningstar)
Mar 8th - Hugh Murphy, English multi-millionaire
Mar 9th - Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
Mar 10th - Gerard Croiset, Dutch paragnost
Mar 11th - Ljubica Maric, composer
Mar 13th - Gilbert Inglefield, Mayor of London (1967-68)
Mar 14th - Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin)
Mar 17th - Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
Mar 18th - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
Mar 19th - Louis Hayward, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors)
Mar 19th - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
Mar 22nd - Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
Mar 22nd - Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright
Mar 24th - Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
Mar 24th - Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor (Phoenix)
Bank Robber Clyde Barrow (Mar 24th) Mar 25th - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
Mar 25th - Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
Mar 26th - Chips Rafferty, Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats)
Mar 26th - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
Mar 27th - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
Mar 27th - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
Mar 28th - Nelson Algren, US, novelist (Man with the Golden Arm)
Mar 29th - Moon Mullican, hillbilly pianist (7 Nights of Rock)
Mar 29th - Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke)
Mar 30th - Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute)
Mar 31st - Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP (GVP)/editor (Neth Daily)
Mar 31st - Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator
Apr 1st - Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak)
Apr 1st - Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch)
Apr 2nd - Jean Kurt Forest, composer
Apr 5th - Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond)
Apr 5th - Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer
Apr 5th - Gerald Bond, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1938, 0 & 0-16)
Apr 6th - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
Apr 6th - William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
Apr 7th - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
Apr 8th - George Dixon, trumpet/sax
Apr 8th - Olavi Pesonen, composer
Apr 8th - William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
Apr 9th - Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio
Apr 9th - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer
Apr 9th - Robert Helpmann, Mt Gambier Australia, actor (Second Time Lucky)