Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1888

January 1
  • Birth of Chesley Bonestell in San Francisco, California, USA; special effects/actor/writer (Swiss Family Robinson, War of the Worlds). [1]
  • Birth of Joseph Marievsky in Russia; actor (Three Godfathers). [1]
  • Birth of Ludwig Rex in Berlin, Germany; actor (Der Mensch am Wege). [1]
January 4
  • Birth of Arthur Berry in England; soccer player (Olympics-gold-1908, 1912). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Matt Moore in County Meath, Ireland; actor (Coquette, Deluge). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Emile van Bosch; Dutch revue/operetta-artist (Fair Folks). [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Chester Conklin in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA; actor (Every Day's a Holiday, Greed). [1]
January 15
  • Birth of Joseph Henabery in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; director (Cobra). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Ernst Heinrich Heinkel; German inventor (first rocket-powered aircraft). [1]
  • Birth of Hedwig "Vicki" Baum; Austrian/US author (Men Never Know). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Frank Lloyd in Scotland; actor/director (Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver Twist). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Joris Baers; Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Paul Althaus; German theologist (The Christian Truth). [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Ljudmil Stojanow; Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Georgios Papandreou; Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier. [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck; actress (Bouwmeester Award). [1]

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  • Birth of Otto Stern; German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel Prize 1943). [1]
  • Birth of Ronald Aburthnott Knox; English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Gladys Cooper in England, actress (Margaret - The Rogues). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Marie Rambert in Warsaw, Poland; English ballet producer/director/teacher. [1]
  • Birth of Georges Bernanos in France; novelist (Diary of a Country Priest). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Florence Bates in Texas, USA; actress (Moon and Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio). [1]
  • Birth of Willem Banning; Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of John Foster Dulles; US Secretary of State (1953-59). [1]
February 27
  • Birth of Lotte Lehmann in Perleberg, Germany; soprano (Fidello). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Knute Rockne; Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame). [1] [5]
March 5
  • Birth of Friedrich Schnack; German journalist/writer (Rosewood). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Alidius van Starkenborch Stachouwer; Governor of Netherland Indies (1936-45). [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Stuart Chase in Somersworth, New Hampshire, USA; writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Barry Fitzgerald in Dublin, Ireland; actor (Academy Award - Going My Way). [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Frank Buck; actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Josef Albers; German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus). [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Jameson Thomas in London, England; actor (Farmer's Wife). [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Sigurd Erixon; Swedish etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folk culture). [1]
March 29
  • Birth of Adrianus M de Jong; Dutch writer (World Tour of Bulletje and Bonestaak). [1]
  • Birth of James E Casey; founder (United Parcel Service). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Anna Q Nilsson in Ystad, Sweden; actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Neville Cardus; cricket player (doyen of cricket writers). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Tris Speaker; baseball great, hit more doubles than Pete Rose. [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Daniel Andersson; Swedish poet/writer (Svarta Ballader). [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Florence Smith Price; US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932). [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Donald Calthrop in London, England; actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Florence Bates in San Antonio, Texas, USA; actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of Henry Crerar; Canadian General (WWI/Italy/Netherlands). [1]
April 30
  • Birth of John Crowe Ransom; American poet/critic (God Without Thunder). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Emmanuel Celler; American politician (Representative-Democrat-New York, 1923-73). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Selmer Jackson in Lake Mills, Iowa, USA; actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp). [1]
May 10
  • Birth of Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria; composer (Gone With the Wind). [1]
May 11
  • Birth of Irving Berlin AKA Israel Isidor Baline in Temum, Siberia, Russia; songwriter ("There's No Business Like Show Business", "God Bless America", "White Christmas", Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1968)). [1] [457]
  • Birth of P A J Losecaat Vermeer; leader of Dutch High Council. [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Inge Lehmann in Denmark; discovered the inner core of the Earth, a zone of solid material, at a depth of 5150 km, in the early 1930s. [53]
May 14
  • Birth of Miles Mander in Wolverhampton, England; actor (Tower of London). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of A P "Tich" Freeman' cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent and England). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Adrian Roland Holst; Dutch poet (Raged and Tired). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Miles Malleson; writer/actor (Phantom of the Opera, Postman's Knock). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of James Francis Thorpe AKA Jim Thorpe AKA Wa-Tho-Huk (Bright Path) in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA; decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912) (dies 1953). [1] [5] [1020.812]
May 30
  • Birth of James A Farley; US postmaster general (1933-38). [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Jack Holt; US golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone). [1]
June 15
  • Birth of Maria Dermoût in Java; Dutch novelist (The 10,000 Things). [1]
July 8
  • Birth of John Sinnock; US Mint Chief Engraver. [512.36]
July 10
  • Birth of Giorgio De Chirico in Greece; Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer). [1]
  • Birth of Graham McNamee; sportscaster (first Rose Bowl). [1]
July 11
  • Birth of Lyman Bryson in Valentine, Nebraska, USA; educator (UN Casebook). [1]
July 16
  • Birth of Frits Zernike; invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel Prize 1953). [1]
July 17
  • Birth of Shmuel Agnon in Israel; novelist (Day Before Yesterday - Nobel Prize 1966). [1]
July 22
  • Birth of Raymond Chandler in Chicago, Illinois, USA; mystery writer (The Long Goodbye). [1]
July 23
  • Birth of Dr Milan Stoyadinovich in Serbia; fascist Yugoslavia Prime Minister (1935-39). [1]
  • Birth of Gluyas Williams in San Francisco, California, USA; cartoonist (Fellows Citizen). [1]
August 13
  • Birth of John Logie Baird in Scotland; inventor (father of TV). [1]
August 15
  • Birth of T.E. Lawrence AKA Lawrence of Arabia in Tremadoc, Wales; soldier/writer. [1]
August 17
  • Birth of Monty Wooley in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Pied Piper, The Man Who Came to Dinner). [1]
September 6
  • Birth of Joseph P Kennedy; financier/diplomat, father of John, Robert, and Edward. [1]
September 12
  • Birth of Maurice Chevalier in Paris, France; actor (Gigi). [1]
September 16
  • Birth of Frans Sillanpää in Finland; writer (Meek Heritage - Nobel Prize 1939). [1]
September 26
  • Birth of T.S. Eliot in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land - Nobel Prize 1948). [1]
October 3
  • Birth of Carl von Ossietzky in Germany; journalist, pacifist (Nobel Prize 1935). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Li Ta-chao; cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party. [1]
October 7
  • Birth of Henry A Wallace; 33rd US Vice President, Progressive presidential candidate. [1]
October 9
  • Birth of Hank Patterson in Alabama, USA; actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel - Green Acres). [1]
October 14
  • Birth of Katherine Mansfield; New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party). [1]
October 16
  • Birth of Eugene O'Neill in New York City, New York, USA; dramatist (Desire Under the Elms - Nobel Prize 1936) (dies 1953). [1] [5]
October 25
  • Birth of Richard E Byrd in Virginia, USA; admiral/polar explorer (1926). [1]
October 31
  • Birth of George Hubert Wilkins in Australia; polar explorer (Flying the Arctic). [1]
November 7
  • Birth of Chandrasekhara Raman in India; physicist (Nobel Prize 1930). [1]
November 16
  • Birth of Burnet Corwin Tuthill in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Laurentia). [1]
  • Birth of Clinton Golden in Pennsylvania, USA; founder (United Steelworkers of America). [1]
November 19
  • Birth of Jose Raul in Capablanca, Cuba; world chess champion (1921-27). [1]
November 23
  • Birth of Harpo Marx [Adolph] in New York City, New York, USA; actor/comedian (Marx brothers) (dies 1964). [1] [5]
November 24
  • Birth of Cathleen Nesbitt in Belfast, Ireland; actress (Agatha - Farmer's Daughter). [1]
  • Birth of Dale Carnegie; author (How to Win Friends and Influence People). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Benjamin Crémieux; French author (Le premier the la Classe). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Aleksandar I Karadordjevic; king of Yugoslavia (1921-34). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Joyce Cary; Anglo-Irish writer (House of Children). [1]
  • Birth of Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun; first president of American Newspaper Guild. [1]
December 8
  • Birth of Paul Cavanagh in Chislehurst, England; actor (Tarzan and his Mate). [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Artturi A Leinonen; Finnish journalist/writer (Kati), politician. [1]
  • Birth of Jan Greshoff; Dutch poet/author/journalist (Bric à Brac). [1]
  • Birth of Maxwell Anderson; US dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Alexander in Montenegro; King Alexander I. [1268.85]
December 18
  • Birth of Gladys Cooper in Lewisham, England; actress (My Fair Lady). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Moses; power broker (built Long Island and New York City parks and roads). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Fritz Reiner in Budapest, Hungary; conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony 1938-48). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Joseph Arthur Rank; English film magnate/baron. [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi; Japanese stagewriter (Tjitj Kaeru). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Joseph Beran; Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal. [1]

End of 1888. Next: 1889.

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.
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