Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1889

January 1
  • Birth of Tom Dugan in Dublin, Ireland; actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway). [1]
January 2
  • Birth of Tito Schipa in Italy; tenor/composer (La Rondine). [1]
  • Birth of Walter Baldwin in Ohio; actor (Gay Amigo). [1]
January 4
  • Birth of Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum; actor/director (Abandoned Child). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Alan M Bateman; Canadian geologist (Yale professor). [1]
January 8
  • Birth of Paul Hartmann in Furth, Germany; actor (Haunted Castle). [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Sophie Taeuber/Täuber-Arp Swiss sculptor/wife of Hans Arp (Dada). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter in Mooringsport, Louisiana, USA; blues 12-string guitarist (Rock Island Line). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Bert Collins; cricket player (Aussie batsman in the post WWI years). [1]
  • Birth of Pitirim A Sorokin; Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility). [1]
January 23
  • Birth of Franklin Pangborn in Newark, New Jersey, USA; actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living). [1]
  • Birth of Prosper Arents; Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Balthasar van der Pol; physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of F R Foster; cricket player (330 runs and 45 wickets for England). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Gertrude Caton-Thompson; British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, Southern Arabia). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Carl Theodor Dreyer; Danish movie director (Leaves from Satan's Body, Passion of Jeanne d'arc). [1]

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  • Birth of Risto Ryti; Finnish premier/president. [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Walter Catlett in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Front Page, Tale of Two Cities). [1]
February 5
  • Birth of Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren; cricket player (prolific England bat of 1920s). [1]
  • Birth of Ernest Tyldesley; cricket player (first Lancastrian to score 100 100's). [1]
February 10
  • Birth of Howard Spring; British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of John Mills; dancer (Mills Brothers). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Haroldson L Hunt; Texas oil multi-millionaire. [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Sybold van Ravesteyn; architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht). [1]
February 19
  • Birth of José Eustasio in Rivera, Colombia; poet/novelist (Vortex). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Felix Aylmer; actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, Saint Joan). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Robin G Collingwood; English philosopher (Roman Britain). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Cyril Delevanti in England; actor (Lucius - Jefferson Davis, Black Eye). [1]
  • Birth of Frederik M; baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer (League of Nations). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Victor Sutherland in Paducah, Kentucky, USA; actor (Captive City). [1]
March 4
  • Birth of Pearl White [Victoria]; US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Frits Slomp AKA Frits de Rover; Dutch vicar/resistance fighter. [1]
March 8
  • Birth of Oscar Ewing; US government official (Everybody's Business). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Manoel II; last king of Portugal (1908-10). [1]
March 29
  • Birth of Howard Lindsay in Waterford, New York, USA; playwright/actor/director (State of Union). [1]
  • Birth of Warner Baxter in Columbus, Ohio, USA; actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid). [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Gabriela Mistral; Chilean poet (Desolación, Tenderness, Nobel Prize 1945). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Adrian Boult in Chester, England; conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra). [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Nick La Rocca; US coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag). [1]
April 12
  • Birth of Pierre-Étienne Flandin; French premier (1934-35), Minister of Foreign affairs. [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Arnold Toynbee in England; historian (A Study of History). [1]
  • Birth of James Stephenson; actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Asa Philip Randolph; labor leader (Railroad Porter's Union). [1]
  • Birth of Thomas Hart Benton in Neosho, Missouri, USA; painter/muralist (Lonesome Road). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Charlie Chaplin in Lambeth, London, England; comedian/actor/director (City Lights) (dies 1977). [1] [5]
April 18
  • Birth of Jessie Street; Australian professional women's/aborigine rights fighter. [1]
  • Birth of John Kilbane; US featherweight boxing champion (1912-23). [1]
April 20
  • Birth of Adolf Hitler in Braunau, Austria; dictator of Germany (1936-45). [1]
April 24
  • Birth of [Richard] Stafford Cripps; English Minister of Plane manufacturing (1942-45). [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Charles Kellaway; cricket player (great Australian all-rounder of 1920s). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Ludwig Wittgenstein in Austria; philosopher (Tractatus). [1]
April 28
  • Birth of António de Oliveira Salazar; premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68). [1]
  • Birth of Bryant Washburn in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga). [1]
  • Birth of Karel Doorman; Dutch Rear Admiral. [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Herbie Taylor; cricket player (prolific South African pre- and post-WWI). [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Bessie Hillman; founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America). [1]
May 16
  • Birth of Joan Collette; Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft). [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Alfonso Reyes; Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel). [1]
  • Birth of Marcel Moyse in Saint-Amour, France; flutist (20 Exercises et études). [1]
May 25
  • Birth of Igor Sikorsky; developed a working helicopter. [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Athene Seyler in London, England; actress (Make Mine Mink). [1]
June 19
  • Birth of Enrico Celio; president of Switzerland. [1]
July 5
  • Birth of Jean Cocteau in France; writer/artist/film maker (Le Potamak). [1]
July 15
  • Birth of Marjorie Rambeau in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song). [1]
July 17
  • Birth of Erle Stanley Gardner; author (created Perry Mason). [1]
July 30
  • Birth of Vladimir Zworykin; electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV. [1]
August 1
  • Birth of Dr John F Mahoney; developed pencillin treatment of syphillis. [1]
August 10
  • Birth of Irene Steer in England; 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1912). [1]
August 31
  • Birth of A Provost Idell; father of modern volleyball. [1]
September 8
  • Birth of Robert A Taft; American politician (Senator-Republican-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act). [1]
September 15
  • Birth of Robert Benchley; author (My Ten Years in a Quandary). [1]
September 19
  • Birth of Ernest Truex in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; actor (Pop - Pete and Gladys, Mr Peepers). [1]
September 23
  • Birth of Walter Lippmann in New York City, New York, USA; journalist/political writer (Men of Destiny). [1]
September 26
  • Birth of Martin Heidegger in Germany; existentialist (Being and Time). [1]
October 4
  • Birth of John B Kelly; Olympic champion rower, father of Grace Kelly. [1]
October 7
  • Birth of Clarence Muse in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (Sam - Casablanca). [1]
October 13
  • Birth of Douglass Dumbrille in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; actor (Mr Deeds Goes to Town). [1]
October 27
  • Birth of Enid Bagnold; novelist (1956 Award of Merit). [1]
November 1
  • Birth of Philip John Noel-Baker; statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel Prize 1959). [1]
November 10
  • Birth of Claude Rains in London, England; actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca). [1]
November 12
  • Birth of DeWitt Wallace in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921). [1]
November 14
  • Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru; first Indian Prime Minister (1947-64). [1]
November 16
  • Birth of George S Kaufman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; playwright (This is Show Business). [1] [5]
November 18
  • Birth of Amelita Galli-Curci in Italy; operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds). [1]
November 20
  • Birth of Edwin Hubble; astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift) (dies 1953). [1] [5]
November 24
  • Birth of Albert J Sylvester in England; ballroom dancer (Alex Moor Award-1977). [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Buck Jones AKA Charles F Gebhart; US actor (War Horse). [1]
  • Birth of Isabel Randolph in Illinois, USA; actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Our Miss Brooks). [1]
December 8
  • Birth of W Hervey Allen; US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse). [1]
December 9
  • Birth of John P "Hannes" Kolehmainen; Finnish long-distance runner (Olympics-gold 1912). [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Ray Collins in Sacramento, California, USA; actor (Homecoming, Good Sam, Rose Marie). [1]
December 17
  • Birth of Vaslav F Nijinski; Ukraine/US ballet dancer (l'après-midi d'une faune). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Minor Watson in Marianna, Arkansas; actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid). [1]
December 24
  • Birth of Vladimir Sokoloff in Moscow, Russia; actor (Road to Morocco). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Georg von der Vring; German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren). [1]

End of 1889. Next: 1890.

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