May 20
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Birthdays In History 1883

1883 William J. Donovan American general lawyer and politician (d. 1959)

1883 Duncan Gillis Canadian discus thrower and hammer thrower (d. 1963)

1883 Max Eastman American author and poet (d. 1969)

1883 Johanna Westerdijk Dutch pathologist and academic (d. 1961)

1883 Kahlil Gibran Lebanese-American poet painter and philosopher (d. 1931)

1883 Pavel Filonov Russian painter and poet (d. 1941)

1883 Patrick J. Hurley American general politician and diplomat 51st United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)

1883 Francis X. Bushman American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1966)

1883 Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Russian journalist author and poet (d. 1945)

1883 Nathaniel Cartmell American runner and coach (d. 1967)

1883 Nina Ricci Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1970)

1883 Compton Mackenzie English-Scottish author poet and playwright (d. 1972)

1883 Hermann Abendroth German conductor (d. 1956)

1883 Enoch L. Johnson American mob boss (d. 1968)

1883 Forrest Wilson American journalist and author (d. 1942)

1883 Olav Aukrust Norwegian poet and educator (d. 1929)

1883 Oskar Baum Bohemian writer (d. 1941)

1883 Mathias Hynes British tug of war competitor (d. 1926)

1883 Johnston McCulley American author and screenwriter created Zorro (d. 1958)

1883 Julia Nava de Ruisánchez Mexican activist and writer (d. 1964)

1883 Reinhold Rudenberg German-American inventor and a pioneer of electron microscopy (d. 1961)

1883 Joseph Schumpeter Czech-American economist and political scientist (d. 1950)

1883 Jules Berry French actor and director (d. 1951)

1883 Edith Clarke American electrical engineer (d. 1959)

1883 H.V. Hordern Australian cricketer (d. 1938)

1883 Hal Chase American baseball player and manager (d. 1947)

1883 Yevgeny Vakhtangov Russian-Armenian actor and director (d. 1922)

1883 Sax Rohmer English-American author (d. 1959)

1883 Nikos Kazantzakis Greek philosopher author and playwright (d. 1957)

1883 Marguerite Clark American actress (d. 1940)

1883 Karl Jaspers German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1969)

1883 Guy C. Wiggins American painter (d. 1962)

1883 Princess Alice Countess of Athlone (d. 1981)

1883 Cyril Burt English psychologist and geneticist (d. 1971)

1883 Paul Marais de Beauchamp French zoologist (d. 1977)

1883 Maude Fealy American actress and screenwriter (d. 1971)

1883 Robert Emmett Keane American actor (d. 1981)

1883 Sam Langford Canadian-American boxer (d. 1956)

1883 Pauline Sperry American mathematician (d. 1967)

1883 Sándor Jávorka Hungarian botanist (d. 1961)

1883 Enrico Toselli Italian pianist and composer (d. 1926)

1883 Ethel Anderson Australian poet author and painter (d. 1958)

1883 Norman Haworth English chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)

1883 Joseph Stilwell American general (d. 1946)

1883 Marie Under Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)

1883 Donald Van Slyke Dutch-American biochemist (d. 1971)

1883 Lon Chaney American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1930)

1883 Edvard Drabløs Norwegian actor and director (d. 1976)

1883 Laurette Taylor Irish-American actress (d. 1946)

1883 Ikki Kita Japanese philosopher and author (d. 1937)

1883 Walter Huston Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1950)

1883 Gino Severini Italian-French painter and author (d. 1966)

1883 R. P. Keigwin English cricketer and academic (d. 1972)

1883 Julius Seljamaa Estonian journalist and politician Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d. 1936)

1883 Frank King American cartoonist (d. 1969)

1883 Imogen Cunningham American photographer and educator (d. 1976)

1883 Dally Messenger Australian rugby player cricketer and sailor (d. 1959)

1883 Aleksanteri Aava Finnish poet (d. 1956)

1883 Henry Jameson American soccer player (d. 1938)

1883 Richard von Mises Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1953)

1883 Jaroslav Hašek Czech soldier and author (d. 1923)

1883 Luigi Russolo Italian painter and composer (d. 1947)

1883 Wang Jingwei Chinese politician (d. 1944)

1883 Archibald Wavell 1st Earl Wavell English general and politician 43rd Governor-General of India (d. 1950)

1883 Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler American mathematician (d. 1966)

1883 Alberto Collo Italian actor (d. 1955)

1883 Georgios Papanikolaou Greek-American pathologist invented the pap smear (d. 1962)

1883 Celâl Bayar Turkish politician 3rd President of Turkey (d. 1986)

1883 Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)

1883 Carl Johan Lind Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)

1883 Mamie Smith American singer actress dancer and pianist (d. 1946)

1883 Jessie Arms Botke American painter (d. 1971)

1883 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Indian poet and politician (d. 1966)

1883 Clough Williams-Ellis English-Welsh architect designed the Portmeirion Village (d. 1978)

1883 Sandy Pearce Australian rugby league player (d. 1930)

1883 Lauri Kristian Relander Finnish politician 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)

1883 Mary Helen Young Scottish nurse and resistance fighter during World War II (d. 1945)

1883 Sylvanus Morley American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1948)

1883 Fernand Gonder French pole vaulter (d. 1969)

1883 Robert Lowie Austrian-American anthropologist and academic (d. 1957)

1883 Gladys Mills Phipps American horse breeder (d. 1970)

1883 Feodor Gladkov Russian author and educator (d. 1958)

1883 Victor Francis Hess Austrian-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)

1883 Fritz Löhner-Beda Austrian librettist lyricist and writer (d.1942)

1883 Jean Metzinger French artist (d. 1956)

1883 Arthur L. Newton American runner (d. 1956)

1883 Frank Verner American runner (d. 1966)

1883 Arthur Borton English colonel Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1933)

1883 Gustave Lanctot Canadian historian author and academic (d. 1975)

1883 Godfrey Huggins Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (d. 1971)

1883 Toivo Kuula Finnish conductor and composer (d. 1918)

1883 Johannes Blaskowitz German general (d. 1948)

1883 Hugo Raudsepp Estonian playwright and politician (d. 1952)

1883 Denny Barry Irish Hunger Striker (d. 1923)

1883 Max Fleischer Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972)

1883 Alan Brooke 1st Viscount Alanbrooke French-English field marshal and politician Lord Lieutenant of the County of London (d. 1963)

1883 Alfredo Casella Italian pianist composer and conductor (d. 1947)

1883 Porfirio Barba-Jacob Colombian poet and author (d. 1942)

1883 Ramón Fonst Cuban fencer (d. 1959)

1883 Constance Georgina Adams South African botanist (d. 1968)

1883 Scott Nearing American economist and educator (d. 1983)

1883 Martha Hedman Swedish-American actress and playwright (d. 1974)

1883 Marion Lorne American actress (d. 1968)

1883 Ernest Everett Just American biologist and academic (d. 1941)

1883 Ivan Meštrović Croatian sculptor and architect (d. 1962)

1883 José Mendes Cabeçadas Portuguese admiral and politician 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)

1883 Jonathan M. Wainwright American general Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1953)

1883 Theo van Doesburg Dutch artist (d. 1931)

1883 Didier Pitre Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)

1883 Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. 1963)

1883 Otto Erich Deutsch Austrian musicologist and scholar (d. 1967)

1883 Theophrastos Sakellaridis Greek composer and conductor (d. 1950)

1883 LeRoy Samse American pole vaulter (d. 1956)

1883 Petros Voulgaris Greek admiral and politician 136th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1957)

1883 Richard Gerstl Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1908)

1883 Esteban Terradas i Illa Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)

1883 T. E. Hulme English poet and critic (d. 1917)

1883 William Carlos Williams American poet short story writer and essayist (d. 1963)

1883 Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson 14th Baron Berners English composer painter and author (d. 1950)

1883 Mabel Vernon American educator and activist (d. 1975)

1883 Ferenc Oslay Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)

1883 Frank George Woollard English engineer (d. 1957)

1883 Franklin Clarence Mars American businessman founded Mars Incorporated (d. 1934)

1883 Lawson Robertson Scottish-American high jumper and coach (d. 1951)

1883 Bernhard Rust German educator and politician (d. 1945)

1883 Nora Stanton Blatch Barney American civil engineer architect and suffragist (d. 1971)

1883 Karl von Terzaghi Austrian geologist and engineer (d. 1963)

1883 Ernst Pittschau German actor (d. 1951)

1883 Dick Burnett American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)

1883 Otto Heinrich Warburg German physiologist and physician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)

1883 Maria Filotti Greek-Romanian actress (d. 1956)

1883 Alexander Neill Scottish educator (d. 1973)

1883 Thaddeus Shideler American hurdler (d. 1966)

1883 Hugo Wast Argentine writer (d. 1962)

1883 Nikolay Krestinsky Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1938)

1883 Napoleon Hill American philosopher and author (d. 1970)

1883 Paul Pilgrim American runner (d. 1958)

1883 Victor Hochepied French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)

1883 Marie Laurencin French painter and illustrator (d. 1956)

1883 Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve Canadian cardinal (d. 1947)

1883 Nikolaos Plastiras Greek general and politician 135th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1953)

1883 P Moe Nin Burmese author and translator (d. 1940)

1883 Arnold Bax English composer and poet (d. 1953)

1883 Charles Demuth American painter (d. 1935)

1883 Edna May Oliver American actress (d. 1942)

1883 Ernest Ansermet Swiss conductor and academic (d. 1969)

1883 Leo Goodwin American swimmer diver and water polo player (d. 1957)

1883 Ado Birk Estonian lawyer and politician 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)

1883 Emil Breitkreutz American runner and coach (d. 1972)

1883 Carl Vinson American judge and politician (d. 1981)

1883 Ned Sparks Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)

1883 Edwin August American actor and director (d. 1964)

1883 Tony Gaudio Italian American cinematographer (d. 1951)

1883 José Clemente Orozco Mexican painter (d. 1949)

1883 Harvey Spencer Lewis American mystic and author (d. 1939)

1883 Gustav Suits Estonian-Swedish poet and politician (d. 1956)

1883 Henry Cadbury American historian scholar and academic (d. 1974)

1883 Anton Webern Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1945)

1883 Katharine Susannah Prichard Australian author and playwright (d. 1969)

1883 Nikolai Luzin Russian mathematician theorist and academic (d. 1950)

1883 Alexander Papagos Greek general and politician 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)

1883 Joseph Pilates German-American fitness expert developed Pilates (d. 1967)

1883 Giovanni Messe Italian field marshal and politician (d. 1968)

1883 Belle da Costa Greene American librarian and bibliographer (d. 1950)

1883 Manolis Kalomiris Greek pianist and composer (d. 1962)

1883 Morihei Ueshiba Japanese martial artist developed aikido (d. 1969)

1883 Károly Kós Hungarian-Romanian architect ethnologist and politician (d. 1977)

1883 Max Linder French actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1925)

1883 Marcus Hurley American cyclist (d. 1941)

1883 Edgard Varèse French-American composer (d. 1965)

1883 Stefan Jaracz Polish actor and producer (d. 1945)

1883 Hugo Bergmann Czech-Israeli philosopher and academic (d. 1975)

1883 Hana Meisel Belarusian-Israeli agronomist and politician (d. 1972)

1883 Maurice Utrillo French painter (d. 1955)

1883 Cyrus S. Eaton Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1979)

1883 Archer Baldwin American-English farmer and politician (d. 1966)

1883 Lester Patrick Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)

1883 Dorothy Campbell Scottish-American golfer (d. 1945)

1883 Charles Sheeler American photographer and painter (d. 1965)

1883 Eurico Gaspar Dutra Brazilian marshal and politician 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974)

1883 Walter Gropius German-American architect designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (d. 1969)

1883 José Ortega y Gasset Spanish philosopher author and critic (d. 1955)

1883 Stanley Bruce Australian captain and politician 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)

Anthony Wilding

Profession - Tennis Player

Born - Oct 31,1883

Died - May 09,1915

New Zealand

Benito Mussolini

Profession - Dictator

Born - Jul 29,1883

Died - Apr 28,1945

Italian

Clement Attlee

Profession - British Prime Minister

Born - Jan 03,1883

Died - Oct 08,1967

English

Coco Chanel

Profession - Fashion Designer

Born - Aug 19,1883

Died - Jan 10,1971

French

Cyrus Eaton

Profession - Magnate

Born - Dec 27,1883

Died - May 09,1979

American

Douglas Fairbanks

Profession - Actor

Born - May 23,1883

Died - Dec 12,1939

American

Franz Kafka

Profession - Writer

Born - Jul 03,1883

Died - Jun 03,1924

Czech

Georgios Papanicolaou

Profession - Physician

Born - May 13,1883

Died - Feb 19,1962

American

Getulio Vargas

Profession - Dictator

Born - Apr 19,1883

Died - Aug 24,1954

Brazilian

John Maynard Keynes

Profession - Economist

Born - Jun 05,1883

Died - Apr 21,1946

English

Pierre Laval

Profession -

Born - Jun 28,1883

Died - Oct 15,1945

French

Rube Goldberg

Profession - Cartoonist

Born - Jul 04,1883

Died - Dec 07,1970

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