Chronology of Notable Births

Copyright © 2008-2024 Ken Polsson
internet e-mail: ken@kpolsson.com
All rights reserved. Permission is granted to create web links
to this site, not to copy these pages to other web sites.
URL: http://kpolsson.com/birth/

References are numbered in [brackets], which are listed here. A number after the dot gives the page in the source.

Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1885

January 1
  • Birth of Lawrence Alfred Bowes in Newark, California, USA; actor (Big Town Ideas). [1]
  • Birth of Winifred Greenwood in Geneseo, New York, USA; actress (Don't Call Me Little Girl, Love Never Dies). [1]
January 2
  • Birth of Johannes Ringers; Dutch water engineer (dikes). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of John Curtin in Victoria; Australian Prime Minister (Labor, 1941-45). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Alice Paul; ERA advocate/founder (National Woman's Party). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Alfred Fuller; CEO (Fuller Brush Man). [1]
January 16
  • Birth of Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz; president of Poland (1939-40). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Joseph Arendt; Belgian worker's union leader. [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Umberto Nobile; Italian General. [1]
January 25
  • Birth of A J Else Mauhs; German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Eduard Künneke; German composer (Vetter aus Dingsda). [1]
  • Birth of Jerome Kern in New York City, New York, USA; Broadway composer ("Ol' Man River", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Lovely to Look At", "The Way You Look Tonight", "The Last Time I Saw Paris"). [1] [457]
February 1
  • Birth of Camille Chautemps; premier of France. [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Aldo Palazzeschi [Giurlani]; Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Cairine Ray Wilson in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; first female Canadian senator (appointed). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Sinclair Lewis; novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel Prize 1930). [1]

    vvv advertisement vvv

    ^^^ advertisement ^^^
February 8
  • Birth of Edith Evans in London, England; actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Julius Streicher; German district leader (Stürmer). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Sacha Guitry in France; actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Chester Nimitz; US Admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WWII). [1]
  • Birth of Bert Lytell in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Henry - One Man's Family). [1]
  • Birth of Joseph Sprinzak; Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59). [1]
  • Birth of Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski; Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Lionel Atwill in Croyden, England; actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Willem H Winkel; Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curaçao). [1]
March 6
  • Birth of Ring Lardner; US writer (You Know Me Al). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Malcolm Campbell; first auto racer to travel five miles/minute (300 MPH, 8 km/minute). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Sydney Chaplin in South Africa; actor (Limelight). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of Eugen Herrigel in Germany; philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe. [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Charlie Daniels; US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 1908). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Veit Valentin; German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier); British baroness. [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Harry Saint John Philby; sheik Abdullah, British explorer. [1]
April 13
  • Birth of György Lukács; Hungarian philosopher (Zerstörung der Vernunft). [1]
  • Birth of Pieter S Gerbrandy; Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Leo Weiner in Hungary; composer (Fasching). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Isak Dinesen; Danish writer (Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales). [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Egon E Kisch in Prague, Austria-Hungary; writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter). [1]
  • Birth of Wallingford Riegger in Albany, Georgia, USA; composer (Bacchangle). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Hedda Hopper AKA Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA; gossip columnist (From Under My Hat). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Henri Velge; first chairman (Belgian Council of State). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of George Hayes AKA Gabby Hayes in Wellsville, New York, USA; actor (The Gabby Hayes Show TV show, In Old Santa Fe movie, El Paso movie). [1] [457]
May 10
  • Birth of Mae Murray in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA; actress (High Stakes). [1]
  • Birth of Marie Benavente AKA Maria Wissink; actress (Scapegoat). [1]
May 14
  • Birth of Otto Klemperer in Breslau, Germany; conductor/composer (Das Ziel). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of Eurico Gaspar Dutra; President of Brazil (1945-50). [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich; British astronomer (theory of relativity). [1]
June 12
  • Birth of Werner Josten in Elberfeld, Germany; composer (Jungle). [1]
July 19
  • Birth of Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amarale Abranches in Portugal; Portuguese consul general in France 1938-40, issued tens of thousands of transit visas to refugees escaping European war through Spain to Portugal. [972.416]
July 21
  • Birth of Frances Parkinson Keyes; novelist (Dinner at Antoine). [1]
August 7
  • Birth of Billie Burke in Washington, DC, USA; actress/comedienne (Glinda the Good Witch - The Wizard of Oz movie, Eddie Cantor Radio Show, Playhouse 90). [1] [457]
August 26
  • Birth of Jules Romains in France; novelist/dramatist/poet (Men of Good Will). [1]
August 31
  • Birth of DuBose Heyward; novelist (Porgy). [1]
September 6
  • Birth of Otto Kruger in Toledo, Ohio, USA; actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon). [1]
September 11
  • Birth of David Herbert Lawrence in England; writer (Lady Chatterly's Lover). [1]
  • Birth of Eratstus Flaval Beadle; publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels). [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Albert Henry Harris in Croydon, England; philatelic publisher (Harris Publishing, HILATELIC Magazine, Philatelic Trader, Who's Who in Philately, Stamp Collectors' Annual). [1227.42]
September 22
  • Birth of Erich von Stroheim; early film director/actor (Grand Illusion). [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Wilbur 'Lefty' Good; pitcher (New York Yankees, 1905). [1]
October 1
  • Birth of Louis Untermeyer in New York City, New York, USA; poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems). [1]
October 2
  • Birth of Ruth Bryan Rohde; American politician (Republican), minister to Denmark. [1]
October 7
  • Birth of Niels Bohr in Denmark; physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922) (dies 1962). [1] [5]
October 11
  • Birth of François Mauriac in France; novelist/poet/playwright (Nobel Prize 1952). [1]
October 13
  • Birth of Harry Hershfield in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA; cartoonist (Can You Top This?). [1]
October 22
  • Birth of Giovanni Martinelli in Montagnana, Italy; opera singer (New York Metropolitan). [1]
October 30
  • Birth of Ezra Pound in Hailey, Idaho, USA; poet (Cantos). [1] [5]
November 2
  • Birth of Harlow Shapley; US astronomer (studied the galaxies). [1]
November 5
  • Birth of Will Durant; writer/historian (Story of Civilization). [1]
November 11
  • Birth of George Smith Patton in San Gabriel, California, USA; US general "Old Blood and Guts". [1] [1100.1523]
December 2
  • Birth of George Minot; US physician, worked on anemia (Nobel Prize 1934). [1]
  • Birth of Níkos Kazantazakís in Greece; writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Marchien Zwitsers; farmer in Lutten (died at age 109 years old). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Dirk H W Filarski; Dutch painter/lithographer (Bergense School). [1]
December 6
  • Birth of Albrecht Schaeffer; German writer (The General). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of F S Flint in London, England; translator/poet (imagist movement). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Edgard Varèse in Paris, France; composer (Innisation). [1]
  • Birth of Joseph Deems Taylor in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Peter Ibbetson). [1]
December 24
  • Birth of Arthur Dolphin; cricket player (Yorkshire and England keeper, later Test umpire). [1]

1886

January 1
  • Birth of Willard Robertson in Runnels, Texas, USA; actor (Deep Valley, Fury at Furnace Creek). [1]
  • Birth of William Edmunds in Italy; actor (Lost Moment, Big Sombrero). [1]
January 2
  • Birth of Moyshe Leyb Halpern; Galican/US poet (In New-York). [1]
January 3
  • Birth of Arthur Mailey; cricket player (great Aussie leg-spinner and cartoonist). [1]
  • Birth of John G Fletcher; US poet (Epic of Arkansas). [1]
  • Birth of Josephine Hull in Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA; Academy award winning character actress (Harvey). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Noble Drew Ali AKA Timothy Drew in North Carolina, USA; prophet (Moorish Science Temple). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of George Zucco in England; actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Fury). [1]
January 12
  • Birth of Dorothy Green in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Lavinia - Tammy). [1]
January 14
  • Birth of Hugh Lofting; English/American writer and illustrator (Dr Dolittle). [1]
January 17
  • Birth of Glenn Luther Martin; aviator (Collier Trophy-1933). [1]
  • Birth of Ronald Firbank in London, England; novelist (The Flower Beneath the Foot). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Gustaaf Sap; Belgian minister of Finance/Economy. [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Joannes A Veraart; Dutch economist/Member of Parliament (Jews of the Netherlands). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Alfonso Lopez in Colombia; statesman (President of United Nations security council - 1948). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Kurt Baschwitz; German/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Du und). [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Louis Piérard; Belgian journalist/writer (Great Germany). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Charlie Ruggles in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (The Ruggles, Aesop - The Bullwinkle Show). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Ricardo Güiraldes in Argentina; novelist/poet (Don Segundo Sombra). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Sax Rohmer in England; author (Dr Fu Manchu). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Andrew Ducat; cricket player (Test for England 1921 (3 and 2) Soccer International). [1]
  • Birth of Van Wyck Brooks in New Jersey, USA; literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Béla Kun in Czehul, Romania; head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Hugo Ball; German playwright, co-founder of Flametti. [1]
February 27
  • Birth of Hugo L Black in Alabama, USA; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Alabama), 78th US Supreme Court justice (1937-71). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of José Gutiérrez Solana; Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas). [1]
  • Birth of Max Vasmer; German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Oskar Kokoschka; Russian/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Paul Radmilovic in England; swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1908). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Raymond Largay in Wisconsin, USA; actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Anton Portielje; Dutch radio host/zoo director (Artis). [1]
  • Birth of Edward Kendall; chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel Prize 1950). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of John "Home Run" Baker; hall of famer (hit two homeruns in 1911 World Series). [1]
March 18
  • Birth of Edward Everett Horton in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor/narrator (The Bullwinkle Show). [1]
  • Birth of Kurt Koffka in Germany; Gestalt psychologist. [1]
  • Birth of Marianne Goudeket-Philips; Dutch author (Between Heaven and Earth). [1]
March 27
  • Birth of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe; German/US architect (Bauhaus). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Wallace Beery in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8, Ah Wilderness). [1]
April 5
  • Birth of Jacques Handschin; Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Valentine Paul in Denver, Colorado, USA; silent film actor (Red Red Heart, Lair of the Wolf). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Edward C Tolman; US psychologist (behaviorism). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Ernst Thälmann; German communist presidential candidate. [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Otto Lederer in Prague, Auto-Hungarian Empire; actor (Jazz Singer). [1]
April 21
  • Birth of Charlie Naughton in Glasgow, Scotland; actor (Frozen Limits). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of R Pelgrom; oldest Dutch man (died April 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Ma Rainey AKA Gertrude Pridgett; "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer. [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Conrad Busken Huet; writer (Country of Rubens). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland; theologian/author (Action in Waiting). [1]
  • Birth of Olaf Stapleton; British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker). [1]
May 12
  • Birth of Piotr F Scharoff; Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Joseph Achron; Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Alfonso XIII Borbón; proclaimed King of Spain (rules 1902-31), with mother Queen Maria Christina appointed regent. [1] [1157.93]
May 24
  • Birth of Paul Paray in Le Tréport, Normandy, France; conductor/composer (Artemis Trouble). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Philip Murray; founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Al Jolson AKA Asa Yoelson; jazz singer/silent film actor (Mamie, Swanee). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Nicolai Sokoloff near Kiev, Ukraine; conductor (Seattle Symphony). [1]
June 11
  • Birth of David Steinman in New York City, New York, USA; bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough). [1]
June 18
  • Birth of George Mallory in England; mountain climber ("because it is there"). [1]
June 25
  • Birth of Henry (Hap) Arnold; commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW II. [1]
July 5
  • Birth of Willem Drees; Prime Minister of Netherland (1948-58). [1]
August 7
  • Birth of Louis Hazeltine; inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible). [1]
August 24
  • Birth of William Francis Gibbs; naval architect, designed Liberty ships. [1]
September 14
  • Birth of Jan Garrique Masaryk in Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire; statesman, US minister to London (1918-35). [1]
September 21
  • Birth of Teiichi Igarashi in Japan; climbed Mount Fuji at age 99. [1]
October 3
  • Birth of Henri Alain-Fournier; French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes). [1]
October 16
  • Birth of David Ben-Gurion in Plonsk, Poland; first Prime Minister of Israel (1948-53, 1955). [1]
October 17
  • Birth of Spring Byington in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; actress (Lily Ruskin - December Bride). [1]
October 25
  • Birth of Leo G. Carroll in Weedon, England; actor (Topper, The Man From UNCLE). [457]
November 1
  • Birth of Hermann Broch in Austria; novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment). [1]
November 4
  • Birth of Ian Wolfe in Canton, Illinois, USA; actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards and Warriors). [1]
November 9
  • Birth of Isaiah Edwin Leopold AKA Ed Wynn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; comic/actor (The Ed Wynn Show, All Star Revue, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor). [1] [5] [457]
  • Birth of Aron Mendel Michelson AKA David Boder in Labau, Latvia; psychologist, interviewed and recorded 70+ displaced persons after World War II in Europe, wrote "I Did Not Interview the Dead" (1949). [1615.53]
November 15
  • Birth of Pedro Sanjuan in San Sebastian, Spain; composer (Castilla). [1]
November 20
  • Birth of Karl von Frisch; zoologist/bee expert (Nobel Prize 1973). [1]
November 25
  • Birth of Rex Maupin in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; orchestra leader (Tin Pan Alley TV). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Jack Crawford; cricket player (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1905-08). [1]
  • Birth of Pierre Kemp; Dutch poet (Fugitives and Constants). [1]
  • Birth of Rex Stout; mystery writer (Nero Wolf). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn; Swedish physicist (röntgen spectroscope, Nobel Prize 1924). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Pieter J Oud; lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52). [1]
December 6
  • Birth of Joyce Kilmer; US poet (Trees). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Diego Rivera [Lenin of México] in México; painter/wife of Frida Kahlo. [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Clarence Birdseye; frozen vegatable king (Birdseye). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Victor McLaglen in England; actor (Informer, Academy Award-1935). [1]
  • Birth of William Booth; cricket player (Yorks all-rounder, England before WWI). [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Owen Moore in County Meath, Ireland; actor (She Done Him Wrong). [1]
December 13
  • Birth of Lambertus J van Apeldoorn; lawyer (martial law). [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Ty Cobb in Colorado, USA; batted .367, stole 892 bases (Detroit Tigers). [1] [5]
December 20
  • Birth of Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman in California, USA; tennis player (US Open 1909-11). [1]
December 21
  • Birth of Hermann A J Kees; German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Albert Ehrenstein in Austria, writer (Message from the Madhouse). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Gyula Gömbös von Jákfa; general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35). [1]

End of 1885-1886. Next: 1887.

vvv advertisement vvv

^^^ advertisement ^^^

start-1399 1400-1499 1500-1549 1550-1599 1600-1619 1620-1649 1650-1679 1680-1699 1700-1719 1720-1729
1730-1739 1740-1749 1750-1759 1760-1769 1770-1779 1780-1789 1790-1799 1800-1804 1805-1809 1810-1814
1815-1819 1820-1821 1822-1824 1825-1829 1830-1831 1832-1834 1835-1839 1840-1844 1845-1849 1850-1854
1855-1857 1858-1859 1860-1861 1862-1864 1865-1866 1867-1869 1870-1871 1872-1874 1875-1876 1877-1879
1880-1881 1882 1883-1884 1885-1886 1887 1888 1889 1890-1891 1892 1893
1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903
1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913
1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943
1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983
1984 1985 1986-1987 1988-1989 1990-1992 1993-1994 1995-1999 2000-end


A list of references to all source material is available.


Last updated: 2023 December 20.
Copyright © 2008-2024 Ken Polsson (email: ken@kpolsson.com).
URL: http://kpolsson.com/birth/
Link to Ken P's home page.

vvv advertisement vvv

^^^ advertisement ^^^
History Timelines Postage Stamps Today in History
PCs Video Games Timeline Today
Amiga World Silly This Day
Apple Space Coins Sports
Commodore 64 Impacts Corvettes Disney
Processors Sports Cruise Ships USA
Corvettes Gambling Disney Music
World War II Weather Errors PC and Game
Sweden Earthquakes Novelties TV and Movies
A&W USA Births Finder Anniversaries
A&W Canada Deaths
Postage Stamps Dow Jones Coins Chevrolet Corvettes
Walt Disney Co. Television Timeline: Canada Timeline
Disneyland Cruise Ships Timeline: USA Racing Success
Walt Disney World Oak Island Timeline: World On Stamps
Disney Cruise Line Killing JFK Novelties Pop Culture
Canada coins On Stamps
USA coins Other
World coins Mug Shots(A&W)
Stuff For Sale

Privacy Policy

kpolsson.com does not collect or share personal information. I have better things to do. There are links to advertiser sites that are beyond my control, from which I may receive a placement fee or a sale commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.