Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1895

January 1
  • Birth of Alice Tissot in Paris, France; actress (Tambour battant, Jamais deux sans trois). [1]
  • Birth of J. Edgar Hoover in Washington DC; Director of US Fedreal Bureau of Investigation (dies 1972). [1] [5]
  • Birth of Rafael Martínez in Zaragoza, Spain; composer (Nuestra Natacha, Ana María). [1]
January 2
  • Birth of Count Folke Bernadotte in Sweden; statesman (Red Cross, United Nations). [1]
January 7
  • Birth of Marie-Dominique Chenu; French Roman Catholic theologist. [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Eva A Jessye; US singer/actress/songwriter ("Hallelujah"). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Albin Zollinger; Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch). [1]
  • Birth of Hans Fischböck in Austria; Finance minister (Nazi-occupied Holland). [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Harry Ruby AKA Harry Rubinstein in New York City, New York, USA; songwriter (with Bert Kalmar - "Who's Sorry Now", "Three Little Words", "A Kiss to Build a Dream On", "Nevertheless"). [457]
  • Birth of Joseph Rosenstock in Cracow, Poland; conductor (Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1936-41). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of John Ford in Maine, USA; director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of George S Halas AKA Papa Bear; end/coach (Chicago Bears), co-founder NFL. [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Izak Buys; cricket player (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 and 4, 0-52). [1]
  • Birth of Nick Kenny in Astoria, New York City, New York, USA; columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show). [1]
  • Birth of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre; politician (founded APRA party in Peru). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor; Dutch historian (Erflaters). [1]

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  • Birth of Hanns [Johann] Rauter; German SS-Lieutenant-General/SS police chief in Netherlands. [1]
February 6
  • Birth of George Herman Ruth AKA Babe Ruth in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; baseball player (Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, record 714 home runs). [1] [129]
February 8
  • Birth of King Vidor; director (War and Peace, Stella Dallas). [1]
February 13
  • Birth of Fred Essler in Austria; actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Max Horkheimer; German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice). [1]
  • Birth of Nigel Bruce in Baja, Mexico; actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Anita Stewart in New York City, New York, USA; actress (South of Hell Mountain). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of George Gipp AKA The Gipper; Notre Dame football star. [1]
  • Birth of Semjon Konstantinovich Timoshenko; Russian marshal/people's commissioner. [1]
February 19
  • Birth of Louis Calhern in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Freida Geiken; autobiographer (National Historic Taping). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre; founder (Peruvian Aprista Party). [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Richard Goolden in London, England; actor (School for Husbands). [1]
February 25
  • Birth of DeBenneville "Bert" Bell in Pennsylvania, USA; NFL owner/commissioner/Hall of Fame (Philadelphia Eagles). [1]
February 27
  • Birth of Edward Brophy; actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys). [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Guiomar Novaes in Brazil; pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit). [1]
  • Birth of Marcel Pagnol; French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of G B "Duke" Keats; hockey hall of famer (elected 1958). [1]
March 2
  • Birth of Felix Bressart Eydtkuhnen in East Prussia, Germany; actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads). [1]
March 3
  • Birth of General Matthew Ridgeway; US military leader (WWII/China/Nicaragua/Korea/NATO). [1]
  • Birth of Juanita Hansen in Iowa, USA; actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love). [1]
  • Birth of Ragnar Frisch in Norway; economist (first Nobel Prize in economy-1969). [1]
  • Birth of Robert Gordon in Kansas, USA; actor (Loveless). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Fritz Usinger; German writer (Eternal Struggle). [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Shemp Howard AKA Samuel Horwitz in Brooklyn, New York; comedian/actor (The Three Stooges, Bank Dick). [1] (March 4 [5])
March 22
  • Birth of Joseph Schildkraut in Vienna, Austria; actor (Flame of Barbary Coast, Joseph Schildkraut Presents). [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Sid Saylor in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Wally - Waterfront). [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Spencer W Kimball; 12th prophet of Mormon church. [1]
March 29
  • Birth of Ernest Jünger; German philosopher (Anschwellender Bocksgesang). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Jean Giono; French writer (World Chant). [1]
March 31
  • Birth of John Jay McCloy; lawyer/banker (Assistant Secretary of War 1941-45, president-Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-60)). [1]
  • Birth of Vardis A Fisher; US author (Darkness and Deep). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Alberta Hunter; blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Arthur Murray in New York City, New York, USA; dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party). [1]
  • Birth of Charlie Hallows; cricket batsman (Lancs played for England 1921-28). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Bert I[ra] Gordon in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA; diector/producer (Empire of the Ants, Magic Sword, Amazing Colossal Man). [1]
April 9
  • Birth of Mance Lipscomb in Navasota, Texas, USA; blues musician (Texas Sharecropper). [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Mary Marquet in Saint Petersburg, Russia; actress (Matter of Resistance). [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Corrado Alvaro; Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte). [1]
  • Birth of Harry F V Edward in British Guiana; 100 metre/200 metre runner (Olympics-bronze-1920). [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Bert Wheeler; actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Anton F Pieck; Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Rudolf Hess; Hitler's Deputy Führer, only prisoner at Spandau. [1]
April 29
  • Birth of Malcolm Sargent; English conductor (Promenade Concerts). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Leo Sowerby in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; composer (Pulitzer 1946). [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Peggy Bacon in Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA; author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads). [1]
May 3
  • Birth of Earnest Kantorowicz; German/US historian (Laudes regiae). [1]
  • Birth of Gabriel Chevallier; French author (Le petit général). [1]
  • Birth of Zoltan Korda; Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, Four Feathers). [1]
May 6
  • Birth of Rudolph Valentino in Castellaneta, Italy; sheik/actor (Eagle). [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Edmund Wilson; American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore). [1]
  • Birth of Fulton J Sheen in El Paso, Illinois, USA; bishop (Life is Worth Living). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of Lucian Blaga Romaniams; philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon). [1]
  • Birth of Richard Barthelmess in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose). [1]
May 11
  • Birth of Jiddu Krishnamurti in India; spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life). [1]
  • Birth of William Grant Still in Woodville, Mississippi, USA; composer (Africao-American). [1]
May 14
  • Birth of Lew Lehr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One). [1]
May 15
  • Birth of Charles Lamont in San Francisco, California, USA; director (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars). [1]
May 20
  • Birth of Reginald J "R" Mitchell; English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of H S T L "Stork" Hendry; cricket player (Australian all-rounder post-WWI). [1]
  • Birth of Samuel I Newhouse; US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Paul Lukas in Budapest, Hungary; actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx). [1]
May 30
  • Birth of Maurice Tate; cricket player (great England pace bowler of 1920s). [1]
June 4
  • Birth of Dino Conte Grandi in Italy; delegate to League of Nations (1925-32). [1]
June 5
  • Birth of William Boyd in Cambridge, Ohio, USA; actor (Hopalong Cassidy in movies, on radio, and on TV). [1] [457]
June 10
  • Birth of Hattie McDaniel in Wichita, Kansas, USA; actress (Mammy - Gone With The Wind (1939, supporting actress Oscar award), Amos and Andy radio show, Eddie Cantor radio show, Beulah radio show (1947-51), Beulah TV show (1950-52)). [457]
  • Birth of Immanuel Velikovsky; writer (Worlds in Collision). [1]
June 11
  • Birth of Nikolai A Bulganin in Gorki, Russia; premier of USSR (1955-58). [1]
June 16
  • Birth of Stan Laurel; comedian (Laurel and Hardy). [1]
June 24
  • Birth of Jack Dempsey; heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) (Manassa Mauler). [1]
July 10
  • Birth of Carl Orff in München, Germany; composer (Antigonae). [1]
July 12
  • Birth of Oscar Hammerstein II in New York City, New York, USA; lyricist/songwriter (with Richard Rodgers, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music). [1] [457]
  • Birth of R Buckminster Fuller; architect (invented geodesic dome). [1]
July 14
  • Birth of Cliff Edwards AKA Ukulele Ike in Hannibal, Missouri, USA; singer (54th Street Revue). [1]
  • Birth of Frank Raymond Leavis; British literary critic (Culture and Environment). [1]
July 22
  • Birth of Hans Rosbaud in Graz, Austria; conductor (Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich). [1]
July 24
  • Birth of Robert Graves in England; poet/historical novelist (I, Claudius). [1]
July 26
  • Birth of Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen AKA Gracie Allen in San Francisco, California, USA; comedian, actor (Burns and Allen Show on radio and TV), spouse of George Burns. [1] [457]
August 13
  • Birth of Robert Burton; actor (Dr Gordon - Kings Row). [1]
August 16
  • Birth of Lucien Littlefield in San Antonio, Texas, USA; actor (Mr Beasley - Blondie). [1]
August 22
  • Birth of Paul White in Bangor, Maine, USA; composer (Adante and Rondo for Cello). [1]
September 13
  • Birth of Ruth McDevitt in Coldwater, Michigan, USA; actress (Jo - All in the Family). [1]
September 16
  • Birth of Charles W Bidwill in Chicago, Illinois, USA; NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals). [1]
September 18
  • Birth of John G Diefenbaker in Neustadt, Ontario, Canada; 13th Canadian Prime Minister (Conservative, 1957-63). [1]
September 22
  • Birth of Paul Muni; actor (Academy Award 1936 - Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez). [1]
September 26
  • Birth of Fay Holden in Birmingham, England; actress (Mother - Andy Hardy films). [1]
September 27
  • Birth of George Raft in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot). [1] [5]
September 28
  • Birth of Lawton Whitey Witt; outfielder (New York Yankees, 1922-25). [1]
September 29
  • Birth of Joseph Banks in Rhine, Pennsylvania, USA; parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception). [1]
October 2
  • Birth of Bud Abbott in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA; comedian (Abbott and Costello) (dies 1974). [1] [5]
October 4
  • Birth of Buster Keaton; actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr). [1]
October 6
  • Birth of Caroline Gordon in Kentucky, USA; writer (Green Centuries). [1]
October 8
  • Birth of Juan Perón; Argentine President (1946-55, 1973-74) (dies 1976). [1] [5]
  • Birth of King Zog I of Albania (1928-1939). [1]
October 10
  • Birth of Lin Yü-t'ang in China; writer (My Country and My People). [1]
November 10
  • Birth of John Knudsen Northrop; aircraft designer (Northrop Air). [1]
November 15
  • Birth of Ina Claire; actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound). [1]
November 16
  • Birth of Michael Arlen in Armenia; English writer (An American Verdict). [1]
  • Birth of Paul Hindemith in Hanau, Germany; composer (Tutti Funtchen). [1]
November 25
  • Birth of Anastas I Mikoyan in Armenia; member of Supreme Soviet. [1]
  • Birth of Wilhelm Kempff in Juterbog, Germany; pianist (Unterdem Zimbelstern). [1]
November 28
  • Birth of Jose Iturbi in Valencia, Spain; pianist (Pequena danza Espanola). [1]
November 29
  • Birth of William V.S. Tubman; 17th Liberian President (Whig, 1943-70). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Anna Freud; Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund Freud. [1]
December 4
  • Birth of Nils FA Nilsson in Piraten; Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag). [1]
December 7
  • Birth of Jack Pennick in Portland, Oregon, USA; actor (Lady From Louisiana). [1]
December 14
  • Birth of George VI, King of England (1936-52). [1]
  • Birth of Paul Eluard; French communist/poet/resistance fighter (Le Phénix). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Lidj Jasu; emperor of Ethiopia. [1]
December 17
  • Birth of David Butler in San Francisco, California, USA; director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Ingeborg Refling-Hagen; Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre). [1]
  • Birth of Maurice Roelants; Belgian author (Jazz Player). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Susanne Langer; US philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key). [1]
December 27
  • Birth of Sig Arno in Hamburg, Germany; actor (Holiday in Havana). [1]

End of 1895. Next: 1896.

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