Chronology of Notable Births

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Last updated: 2023 December 20.


1883

January 1
  • Birth of Federigo Tozzi; Italian writer/journalist (La Torre, Tre Croci). [1]
  • Birth of Heiko E Arnoldi; Dutch actor (Three Drops of Water), theater director. [1]
January 3
  • Birth of Clement Richard Attlee; (Liberal) British Prime Minister (1945-51). [1]
January 4
  • Birth of Johanna Westerdijk; botanist/Netherlands first female professor (Utrecht, 1917-52). [1]
  • Birth of Max F Eastman; US critic/essayist (Masses). [1]
January 6
  • Birth of Khalil Gibran in Lebanon; mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings). [1]
January 7
  • Birth of Andrew Browne; Irish/British admiral (WWII). [1]
January 10
  • Birth of Aleksei Tolstoi; Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj). [1]
  • Birth of Florence Reed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; silent film actress (Dancing Girl). [1]
  • Birth of Francis X Bushman in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; silent film actor (Ben Hur, Spy's Defeat). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Betram Home Ramsay; English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces. [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Estelle Winwood [Goodwin] in England; actress (Miracle on 34th Street). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Jevgeni B Vachtangov; Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of Clarence Mulford in Illinois, USA; western writer (Hopalong Cassidy). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Eubie Blake; ragtime composer/pianist ("I'm Just Wild About Harry", "Memories of You"). [1]
February 8
  • Birth of Joseph A Schumpeter; Austria/US economist/minister of finance. [1]

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February 11
  • Birth of Paul August von Klenau; Danish composer/conductor (Sulamith). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Ludwig Stossel in Austria; actor (Man With a Camera). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Tom Walls in Kingsthorpe, England; actor/producer (Undercover). [1]
February 20
  • Birth of Shiga Naoya in Japan; novelist (Road Through the Dark Night). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of J M M "Mick" Commaille; cricket player (dual South African cricket/soccer representative). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Alfred Wikenhauser; German Roman Catholic exegetist (John-Apokalyps). [1]
  • Birth of Marguerite Clark; voice of Snow White - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Victor Fleming in Pasadena, California, USA; director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Erich R Jaensch; German psychologist (eidetism). [1]
March 1
  • Birth of Thomas Shelvin; college football player great (Yale). [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Joseph W Stilwell; US General (China). [1]
March 20
  • Birth of Colin Campbell in Falkirk, Scotland; actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys). [1]
March 23
  • Birth of Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali; first king of Iraq/Syria. [1]
March 24
  • Birth of James I Wedgwood; British theosophist/old-catholic bishop. [1]
March 29
  • Birth of Donald Dexter Van Slyke; US chemist (Micromanometric analysis). [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Jo Davidson; US sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Lon Chaney in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera). [1]
April 11
  • Birth of Leonard Mudie in England; actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence). [1]
April 12
  • Birth of Imogen Cunningham; photographer (1965 ASMP award). [1]
April 19
  • Birth of Getúlio Vargas; President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer. [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Elsa Maxwell in Keokuk, Iowa, USA; writer (Jack Paar Show). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of Hubert Harrison in Saint Croix, Virgin Island; writer/freedom fighter. [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Jaroslav Hasekin Prague, Austria-Hungary; writer (Brave soldier Schweik). [1]
May 7
  • Birth of Martin Albertz; German theologist (Church Jesus Christ). [1]
May 9
  • Birth of José Ortega y Gasset in Spain, philosopher (Revolt of the Masses). [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Henk JFM Sneevliet; leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies). [1]
May 14
  • Birth of Jan Olieslagers; Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil). [1]
May 18
  • Birth of Walter Gropius in Berlin, Germany; architect (founded Bauhaus school of design). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Henricus Keuls; Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp). [1]
May 23
  • Birth of Douglas Fairbanks in Denver, Colorado, USA; actor (Zorro, Three Musketeers, Robin Hood). [1] [5]
June 5
  • Birth of John Maynard Keynes in Cambridge, England; economist/math/journalist. [1]
June 11
  • Birth of Frank O. King in Cashton, Wisconsin, USA; Gasoline Alley cartoonist. [1]
July 3
  • Birth of Alfred Korzybski in Poland; scientist (Science and Sanity). [1]
  • Birth of Franz Kafka in Prague, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire; author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika) (dies 1924). [1] [5]
July 4
  • Birth of Rube Goldberg; cartoonist, made the easy outrageously difficult (dies 1970). [1] [5]
July 25
  • Birth of Alfredo Casella in Turin, Italy; composer (La Giara). [1]
July 29
  • Birth of Benito Mussolini AKA Il Duce; Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43). [1]
August 6
  • Birth of Scott Nearing; US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life). [1]
August 9
  • Birth of George Hoyt; NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961). [1]
August 23
  • Birth of Art Van Harvey in Chicago, Illinois, USA; radio actor (Vic - Vic and Sade). [457]
September 6
  • Birth of Lord Birkett in England; judge (Nüremburg Trials). [1]
September 18
  • Birth of Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt) in England; composer (first Childhood). [1]
November 8
  • Birth of Arnold Bax in London, England; composer (Farewell My Youth). [1]
November 11
  • Birth of Ernest Ansermet in Vevey, Switzerland; conductor (Ruilles de Printemps). [1]
November 23
  • Birth of Jose Clemente in Orozco, Mexico; painter (Epic of Culture in New World). [1]
December 3
  • Birth of Albert "Tibby" Cotter; cricket player (great Aussie quick of early century). [1]
December 9
  • Birth of Alexander Papagos; Greek fieldmarshal/supreme commander. [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Andrej J Vysjinski; Russian lawyer, foreign minister, UN ambassador. [1]
December 14
  • Birth of Morihei Ueshiba; founder (Aikido). [1]
December 16
  • Birth of Max Linder in Caverne, France; actor/comic/director (Max Prend un Bain). [1]
December 22
  • Birth of Arthur James Cook in England; union leader (coal miners). [1]
  • Birth of Edgard Victor Achille C Varèse in Paris, France; composer (Innisation). [1]
December 23
  • Birth of Hubert M E Pierlot; Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45). [1]
December 25
  • Birth of Maurice Utrillo in France; painter (Port Saint Martin, Montmartre). [1]
December 26
  • Birth of Carl Oscar Ahues in Germany; International Chess Master (1950). [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Lester Patrick; NHL pioneer. [1]
  • Birth of Mary Forbes in Hornsey, England; actress (Terror by Night). [1]

1884

January 1
  • Birth of George W Meyer in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; composer/lyricist ("Bells of St. Mary's", "Broadway Babies"). [1]
January 2
  • Birth of Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau]; French writer (l'Epithalame). [1]
January 3
  • Birth of Eli S Jones; US evangelist (Christ of Indian road). [1]
January 13
  • Birth of Johannes Elsensohn; Dutch actor/writer (Arie, novel from the Jordan). [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Arthur Ransome; English author (Swallows and Amazons). [1]
January 20
  • Birth of Abraham P Merritt; US sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!). [1]
January 21
  • Birth of Katie Sandwina in Germany; legendary woman weight-lifter. [1]
  • Birth of Roger Nash Baldwin; founder (American Civil Liberties Union). [1]
January 26
  • Birth of Edward Sapir in Germany; linguist/anthropologist (Indians). [1]
January 28
  • Birth of Auguste Piccard in Switzerland; scientist/explorer (balloonist). [1]
  • Birth of Lucien H d'Azambuja in France; astronomer (chromosphere of sun). [1]
January 31
  • Birth of Nicholas Joy in Paris, France; actor (Boss Lady). [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Yevgeny Zamyatin in Russia; novelist/playwright (We). [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Julis Deutsch in Austria; politician/General Spanish Republican Army. [1]
  • Birth of S Z Sakall in Budapest, Hungary; actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca). [1]
February 4
  • Birth of Rolland Beaumont; cricket player (South African batsman in five tests 1912-14). [1]
February 7
  • Birth of George Ward Linn, in Ohio, USA; founder and editor of Linn's Weekly Stamp News. [795.3]
February 10
  • Birth of Herbert Hordern; cricket player (pioneering leggie for Australia and Philadelphia). [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Robert Flaherty in Michigan, USA; father of documentary film (Nanook of the North). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Arthur Vanderpoorten; Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940). [1]
February 18
  • Birth of Burt Mustin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show). [1]
February 22
  • Birth of Abraham "Abe" Attell; boxing hall of famer. [1]
February 23
  • Birth of Frank Cellier in Surbiton, England; actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade). [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Stuart Holmes in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Prisoner of Zenda). [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Jan Lemaire; Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet). [1]
March 13
  • Birth of Emanuel Stickelberger; Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit). [1]
  • Birth of Oskar Loerke; German writer (Longest Day - 1926). [1]
  • Birth of Hugh S Walpole in New Zealand; novelist/critic/dramatist (Jeremy, Maradick at 40). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Harrison Ford in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; silent screen actor (Just Married, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear, Rubber Tires). [1]
March 21
  • Birth of George D Birkhoff; US mathematician (Aesthetic measure). [1]
March 24
  • Birth of Peter Debye in Holland; physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1936). [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Wilhelm Backhaus in Leipzig, Germany; pianist (Rubinstein 1905). [1]
April 1
  • Birth of Laurette Taylor AKA Helen LM Cooney; US actress (Broadway). [1]
April 3
  • Birth of Jackie Matthews; cricket player (Australia leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912). [1]
April 4
  • Birth of Isoroku Yamamoto; Admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet. [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Walter Huston in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre). [1]
April 7
  • Birth of Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal; Dutch politician/resistance fighter. [1]
April 12
  • Birth of Otto Meyerhof in Germany; psychologist/biochemist (Nobel Prize-1922). [1]
April 18
  • Birth of Magda Janssens; Flemish/Netherlands actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart). [1]
April 22
  • Birth of John van Capel; oldest man in Netherlands (dies September 3, 1992). [1]
  • Birth of Otto Rank [Rosenfeld] in Austria; psychoanalysist (Künstler). [1]
April 26
  • Birth of Harry Sothern; actor (Dr Huer - Buck Rogers). [1]
April 27
  • Birth of Louis de Bree AKA Louis C Davids; actor (Bluejackets). [1]
May 5
  • Birth of Wang Tjing-Wei; premier of China (1932-35). [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Harry S Truman in Lamar, Missouri, USA; 33rd US President (Democrat) (1945-1953). [1]
May 19
  • Birth of Arthur Meulemans; Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Charles Winninger in Athens, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Charlie Farrell Show). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of Edvard Benes; premier/President of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 1935-48). [1]
July 2
  • Birth of Otto Böhm in Prussia; scientist (helped create Radar in England). [1]
July 6
  • Birth of Harold Vanderbilt in New York, USA; America's Cup (1930, 1934, 1937), invented contract bridge. [1]
July 12
  • Birth of Amedeo Modigliani in Italy; painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude). [1]
July 25
  • Birth of Davidson Black in Canada; doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man). [1]
August 2
  • Birth of Rómulo Gallegos in Venezuela; novelist (Doña Bárbara), president (1948). [1]
August 3
  • Birth of Louis Gruenberg near Brest, Litovsk, Poland; composer (Daniel Jazz). [1]
August 8
  • Birth of Sara Teasdale; US poet (first Pulitzer Prize - 1918 - Love Songs). [1]
August 12
  • Birth of Frank Swinnerton in England; novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary). [1]
August 16
  • Birth of Hugo Gernsback; sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo). [1]
August 26
  • Birth of Earl Biggers; author ("Charlie Chan" detective series). [1]
August 30
  • Birth of Theodor Svedberg in Sweden; chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel Prize 1926). [1]
September 2
  • Birth of Frank Laubach in Benton, Pennsylvania, USA; educator, taught reading through phonetics. [1]
September 17
  • Birth of Charles Tomlinson Griffes in Elmira, New York, USA; composer (White Peacock). [1]
September 21
  • Birth of Hugh (Shorty) Ray; supervisor of NFL officials, Hall of Fame member. [1]
October 4
  • Birth of V. Leon Belt; American Numismatic Association President. [551.22]
October 6
  • Birth of Lloyd Spooner; US marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920). [1]
October 25
  • Birth of Eduardo Barrios in Chile; novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy). [1]
October 29
  • Birth of Bela Lugosi; horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher). [1]
November 4
  • Birth of Harry Ferguson in Growell, Ireland; first to build and fly his own aircraft in Ireland, designed new plow and the Ferguson Black tractor. [421.40]
November 5
  • Birth of James Elroy Flecker; English poet/dramatist (Hassan). [1]
November 20
  • Birth of Norman Thomas in Marion, Ohio, USA; socialist (presidential candidate 1928-48). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; German painter/sculptor (Brücke). [1]
  • Birth of Torben Myer in Copenhagen, Denmark; actor (Girl Who Came Back). [1]
December 6
  • Birth of Rose Schneiderman in New York, USA; Department of Labor Secretary (1937-44). [1]
December 19
  • Birth of Antonín Zápotocky; premier/President of Czechoslovakia. [1]
December 20
  • Birth of Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl; Dutch nazi collaborator/traitor. [1]
December 28
  • Birth of Joseph Pholien; Belgian premier (1950-52), communist hunter. [1]
December 30
  • Birth of Tojo Hideki; Japanese Prime Minister during WWII. [1]

End of 1883-1884. Next: 1885.

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