Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1882

January 1
  • Birth of W C Wendelaar; mayor of Alkmaar (1919-34)/Dutch Member of Parliament (VVD). [1]
January 3
  • Birth of Willem Benoy; Flemish actor/director (Pygmalion). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Samuel Rayburn in Tennessee, USA; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Texas), speaker of the House (1940-57). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Charles Trowbridge in Vera Cruz, Mexico; actor (Fatal Hour). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Jakob Jud in Wängli, Switzerland; professor of linguistics at the University of Zürich, etymologist. [1] [37]
January 14
  • Birth of Hendrik W van Loon in Netherlands; commentator/writer (Story of America). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Florian Znaniecki; Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Noah Beery in Smithville, Arkansas, USA; actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf) (dies 1946). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Alan Alexander Milne; English author (Winnie-the-Pooh) (dies 1956). [1] [5]
  • Birth of Jacob Clay; Dutch philosopher/physicist (Mesones). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Virginia [Adeline] Woolf in London, England; author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse). [1] [5]
January 27
  • Birth of Giuseppe Prezzolini in Italy; writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano). [1]
January 30
  • Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in New Hyde Park, New York, USA; 32nd President (Democrat) (1933-1945). [1] [5]
February 1
  • Birth of Louis Saint Laurent in Compton, Québec, Canada; (Liberal) 12th Canadian Prime Minister (1948-57). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of James Joyce in Ireland; novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake). [1]
  • Birth of James Stephens; Irish poet (Crock of Gold). [1]

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February 8
  • Birth of George Siegmann; actor (Birth of a Nation, Queen of Sheba, Oliver Twist). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Thomas Campbell; South African cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests 1909-12). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of George Jean Nathan; US editor/author/critic (American Mercury). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of John Barrymore [Blythe] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Tempest, Beloved Rogue). [1] [5]
February 22
  • Birth of Eric Gill in England; sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Bruno Traven; German writer (Sierra Madre). [1]
  • Birth of Jozef Goossenaerts; Flemish philologist (Language boundary). [1]
  • Birth of Ludvig Nordström in Sweden; writer (Story of Peter Svensk). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Walter Lucht; German artillery general (WWI/WWII). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Geraldine Farrar; US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Ida Moore in Altoona, Kansas, USA; actress (Mr Music, Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Wallis Clark in Essex, England; actress (Postal Inspector). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of Floris H L Prims; Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp. [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Guy Kibbee in El Paso, Texas, USA; actor (Big Shot). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Gaston Lachaise; US sculptor (Standing Woman). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of René Coty in Le Havre, France; President of France (1953-58). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Don Blackie; cricket player (Australian off-spinner in 1928-29, at age 46). [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger; cricket player (belated Australian representative 1928-33). [1]
  • Birth of Kurt von Schleiger; German chancellor (December 2, 1932 to January 28, 1933). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Simon F H J Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel; theologist (Fear and Religion). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Giovanni Amendola; Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Artur Schnabel in Lipnik, Austria; pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Leopold Stokowski in London, England; conductor (Cincinnati Symphony). [1]
April 23
  • Birth of Albert Coates in Saint Petersburg, Russia; conductor/composer (Eagle). [1]
  • Birth of Max [G M J] Winders in Maximilien, Belgium; architect (WWII). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Alberto Pirelli; Italian industrialist. [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Hendrik N Werkman; painter/printer/resistance fighter (Hot printing). [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf; author (To the Invisible). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Willem Elsschot AKA Alfons J de Ridder; Flemish writer (Mend). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of Henry J Kaiser; builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Thurston Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Roaming Lady, In Society). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Georges F Braque; French cubist painter (The Bike). [1]
May 20
  • Birth of Sigrid Undset in Norway; novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel Prize 1928). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Georgine M "May" Basting; actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of James Gleason in New York City, New York, USA; writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Creighton Hale in Cork, Ireland; actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East). [1]
June 3
  • Birth of Saly Mayer in Switzerland; dragged out negitiations with German SS from August 1944 to February 1945 for release of Jews, resulting saving about 230,000 from death. [972.422]
June 17
  • Birth of Igor Stravinsky in Oranienbaum, Russia; composer ("The Rite of Spring"). [1] [5]
June 21
  • Birth of Rockwell Kent; artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales). [1]
July 8
  • Birth of Percy Grainger in Melbourne, Australia; composer/pianist/conductor (Hill Songs). [1]
July 10
  • Birth of Ima Hogg in Texas, USA; art patron/founder of the Houston Symphony. [1]
July 22
  • Birth of Edward Hopper; US painter (House by the Railroad). [1]
August 27
  • Birth of Samuel Goldwyn; pioneer film maker/producer (MGM). [1] (August 17 [5])
September 28
  • Birth of Jack Fournier; second baseman (1917-18 New York Yankees). [1]
October 5
  • Birth of Robert Hutchings Goddard in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; rocket pioneer, holder of 214 patents. [1] [1046.370] [1193.1096]
October 6
  • Birth of Karol Szymanowski in Timoshovka, Ukraine; composer (Stabatmater). [1]
October 14
  • Birth of Eamon DeValera in New York, USA; President of Ireland (1937-48, 1951-54, 1957-59). [1]
October 24
  • Birth of Sybil Thorndike in England; actress (Saint Joan). [1]
October 29
  • Birth of Jean Giraudoux in Bellac, France; playwright (Églantine, Provinciales). [1]
November 10
  • Birth of Frances Perkins; Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor 1933-45). [1]
November 13
  • Birth of John Lowry in Mount Vernon, New York, USA; New York City builder (Radio City Music Hall). [1]
November 15
  • Birth of Felix Frankfurter in Vienna, Austria; US supreme court justice (1939-62). [1]
November 18
  • Birth of Jacques Maritain in France; Catholic philosopher (exponent of Saint Thomas). [1]
  • Birth of Wyndham Lewis; English writer/painter (Tarr, Apes of God). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Warren Bardsley; cricket player (great New South Wales and Aussie opening bat 1909-26). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Manuel María Ponce in Fresnillo, México; composer (Estrellita). [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Joaquín Turina in Seville, Spain; composer (Rima). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Otto Neurath; Australian/British philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences). [1]
December 11
  • Birth of Fiorello La Guardia; American politician (Mayor-Republican-New York, 1933-45) (dies 1947). [1] [5]
  • Birth of Max Born in Germany; physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize 1954). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Akiba Rubinstein; Polish chess player (openings theory). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Helena Rubinstein; US cosmetic manufacturer. [1]
December 16
  • Birth of John Berry Hobbs in England; first cricket player knighted (1953). [1]
  • Birth of Walther Meissner; German physicist (Meissner effect). [1]
  • Birth of Zoltán Kodály in Kecskemét, Hungary; composer (Psalmus Hungaricus). [1]
December 31
  • Birth of Ben Jones in Missouri, USA; horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway). [1]
  • Birth of David Cohen; Dutch historian/chairman (Jewish Council). [1]

End of 1882. Next: 1883.

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