Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1887

January 1
  • Birth of Wilhelm Canaris in Aplerbeck, Germany; admiral, head of German military intelligence, participated in the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler. [1] [37]
January 3
  • Birth of Helen Parkhurst; US educator (Education on the Dalton plan). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Robinson Jeffers; US poet/playwright (Tamar and Other Poems, Medea). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Aldo Leopold; founder (Wilderness Society). [1]
January 16
  • Birth of John Hamilton in Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Perry White - Superman). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Alexander Woollcott in New Jersey, USA; short story writer/critic (The Man Who Came to Dinner). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Wolfgang Köhler; German/US Gestalt psychologist (Mentality of Apes). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Miklós Kállay; premier of Hungary (1942-44). [1]
January 25
  • Birth of Diego Valeri; Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Marc A "Pete" Mitscher; US Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Carl Blegen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos). [1]
January 29
  • Birth of Albert Conti in Trieste, Austria; actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Georg Trakl; Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely). [1]
  • Birth of Silvio d'Amico; Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore). [1]
February 9
  • Birth of Henry Zimmerman; baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 home runs). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstängl; German/US pianist/politician (NSDAP). [1]

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  • Birth of John van Melle; South African writer (Dawid Booysen). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Alvin York; famed US soldier with 25 kills in WWI. [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Hesketh Pearson in England; biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Mary Ellen Chase; educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award). [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Mary Ellen Chase; US linguistic/author (White Gate). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of Leonard Carey in England; actor (Laughter). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Grover Cleveland Alexander; Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs). [1]
  • Birth of Benegal Narsing Rau in India; president of United Nations Security Council (1950). [1]
  • Birth of William Frawley in Burlington, Iowa, USA; actor (Fred Mertz - I Love Lucy, Bub - My Three Sons). [1] [457]
February 28
  • Birth of William Zorach in Lithuania; US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Heitor Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; composer (Salon Waltz). [1]
March 9
  • Birth of Phil Mead; cricket player (strong batsman for England pre- and post-WWI). [1]
March 21
  • Birth of Edwin Scharff; German "entartet" painter/sculptor. [1]
March 22
  • Birth of Leonard Marx AKA Chico Marx in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Marx Brothers). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Anthony van Hoboken; Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog). [1]
  • Birth of Felix Felixovitch Yussupov; Russian prince, murderer of Rasputin. [1]
  • Birth of Juan Gris in Spain; cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window). [1]
  • Birth of Sidney Hillman; union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation). [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Roscoe Arbuckle AKA Fatty Arbuckle in Smith Center, Kansas, USA; actor (Keystone comedies). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Josef Capek; Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic (Kulhavy Poutník). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Albert P Termote; Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great). [1]
March 31
  • Birth of Saint-John Perse [MRA Alexis Léger]; French poet (Nobel Prize 1960). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Walter Connolly in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl). [1]
April 10
  • Birth of Bernardo A Houssay; Argentine physiologist (Nobel Prize 1947). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Alan Gordon Cunningham; Irish/British general/director of Palestine (1945-48). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Edward Collins New York, USA; Hall of Fame infielder (Chicago White Sox, Athletics). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth; archbishop of Canterbury. [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Henri Pourrat; French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Jacobus C Bloem; Dutch poet (Sintels). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Bull Montana in Vogliera, Italy; actor (Brass Buttons, Victory). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Mabel Taliaferro in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back). [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Emiel van der Straeten; Flemish playwright (Sudanese legends). [1]
  • Birth of Erich Kuttner; German journalist/historian (Vorwärts). [1]
  • Birth of Frank Woolley; cricket player (long-running England left-arm all-rounder). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Hank Mann in New York City, New York, USA; actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road). [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Gunnar Olof Björling; Finnish/Swedish language poet (Vilande Dag). [1]
  • Birth of Saint-John Perse in France; poet/diplomat (Nobel Prize 1960). [1]
June 5
  • Birth of Ruth Benedict; US anthropologist (Patterns of Culture). [1]
June 22
  • Birth of Julian Huxley in London, England; biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog. [1]
June 23
  • Birth of John Finley Williamson in Canton, Ohio, USA; conductor (Westminster Choir). [1]
June 25
  • Birth of George Abbott in Forestville, New York, USA; producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game). [1]
June 26
  • Birth of Anthony G de Rothschild; British philanthropist. [1]
July 2
  • Birth of Marcel Tabuteau in Compiègne, France; oboist (Philadelphia Orchestra 1915-54). [1]
July 7
  • Birth of Marc Chagall in Vitebsk, Russia; artist (I and The Village). [1]
July 9
  • Birth of Samuel Eliot Morison; historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea). [1]
July 13
  • Birth of Anthony de Francisci; designer of US Peace dollar coin. [418.44] [451.38]
July 16
  • Birth of Joe Jackson AKA Shoeless Joe; black sox player (Say it ain't so, Joe). [1]
July 22
  • Birth of Gustav Hertz; German quantum physicist (Nobel Prize 1925). [1]
July 28
  • Birth of Marcel Duchamp; painter (Nude Descending a Staircase). [1]
July 29
  • Birth of Sigmund Romberg in Nagykanizsa, Hungary; operetta composer (Blossom Time). [1]
July 30
  • Birth of Timothy Mara; NFL owner (New York Giants). [1]
August 3
  • Birth of Rupert Brooke; British WW I poet (1914). [1]
August 8
  • Birth of Malcolm Keen in Bristol, England; actor (Uncle Chris - Mama). [1]
August 12
  • Birth of Erwin Schrödinger in Austria; physicist (had a cat). [1]
August 15
  • Birth of Ferber Edna in Michigan, USA; writer (Showboat, Cimarron, Giant). [1]
August 17
  • Birth of Marcus Garvey; began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks. [1]
September 9
  • Birth of Alfred Landon; American politician (Republican-Kansas) presidential candidate (1932, 1936). [1]
September 10
  • Birth of Giovanni Gronchi; president of Italy. [1]
September 14
  • Birth of Karl Taylor Compton; physicist/atomic bomb scientist. [1]
  • Birth of Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel; heavyweight boxing champion (1908-10). [1]
September 16
  • Birth of Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France; music teacher (Lasiréne Ideology). [1]
September 25
  • Birth of May Sutton Bundy; first US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904). [1]
September 28
  • Birth of Avery Brundage; Amateur Athletic Union and International Olympic Committee president. [1]
October 5
  • Birth of René Cassin; pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Le Corbusier in Switzerland; architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme). [1]
  • Birth of Martín Luis Guzmán in Mexico; novelist (The Eagle and the Serpent). [1]
October 7
  • Birth of Jack Mulhall in Wappinger Falls, New York, USA; actor (Ken Murray Show). [1]
October 20
  • Birth of Addison Richards in Zanesville, Ohio, USA; actor (Colonel - Pentagon). [1]
October 22
  • Birth of John Reed; journalist who reported on Mexican and Russian revolutions. [1]
October 30
  • Birth of Eduardo Ciannelli in Italy; actor (Waldo - Johnny Staccato). [1]
October 31
  • Birth of Chiang Kai-shek in Chekiang Province, China; president of Nationalist China. [1]
  • Birth of Edouard Lalonde in Canada; NHL player (Montreal Canadiens), lacrosse player. [1]
November 6
  • Birth of Walter Johnson in Kansas, USA; Washington Senators' pitcher (1907-27) (414-218). [1]
November 15
  • Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA; painter (Cow's Skull). [1]
  • Birth of Marianne Moore in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; poet (Pulitzer Prize - 1951 - Collected Poems). [1]
November 17
  • Birth of Bernard L Montgomery; British general (WW II-African campaign). [1]
November 23
  • Birth of Boris Karloff AKA William H Pratt in Dulwich, England; actor (Frankenstein) (dies 1969). [1] [5]
December 6
  • Birth of Lynn Fontanne in in Woodford, England; actress (Dulcy, Arms and the Man, The Magnificent Yankee (Emmy award), US Steel Hour, Producer's Showcase), narrator (Peter Pan (1960)). [1] [457]
December 7
  • Birth of Ernst Toch, Vienna, Austria; composer (Melodie Lehre). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Pieter C A Geyl; historian (History of the Dutch Tribe). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan; Indies mathematician ('pi'/Notebooks). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Eric Blore in London, England; actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad). [1]
  • Birth of John Cromwell in Toledo, Ohio, USA; actor/director (Spitfire, Of Human Bondage). [1]
December 24
  • Birth of Louis Jouvet in Crozon, France; actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise). [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Conrad Hilton; hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels). [1]
  • Birth of Jacobus W G Balfoort; Dutch actor (Bulldog Drummond). [1]
  • Birth of John Davidson in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Charlie Chan - Chinese Cat). [1]

End of 1887. Next: 1888.

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.
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