Birthdays In History 1896

1896 Dziga Vertov Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1954)

1896 Lawrence Wackett Australian commander and engineer (d. 1982)

1896 Everett Dirksen American politician (d. 1969)

1896 André Masson French painter and illustrator (d. 1987)

1896 Jaromír Weinberger Czech-American composer and academic (d. 1967)

1896 Warwick Braithwaite New Zealand-English conductor and director (d. 1971)

1896 Yong Mun Sen Malaysian watercolour painter (d. 1962)

1896 Dinkar G. Kelkar Indian art collector (d. 1990)

1896 Uberto De Morpurgo Italian tennis player (d. 1961)

1896 David Wechsler Romanian-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)

1896 John Dos Passos American novelist poet and playwright (d. 1970)

1896 Marjorie Bennett Australian-American actress (d. 1982)

1896 C. M. Eddy Jr. American author (d. 1967)

1896 Ville Ritola Finnish-American runner (d. 1982)

1896 George Burns American actor comedian and producer (d. 1996)

1896 Guy Gilpatric American pilot and journalist (d. 1950)

1896 Paula Hitler younger sister of Adolf Hitler (d. 1960)

1896 J. Carrol Naish American actor (d. 1973)

1896 Masa Perttilä Finnish wrestler (d. 1968)

1896 Alf Blair Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1944)

1896 Alf Hall English-South African cricketer (d. 1964)

1896 Sofya Yanovskaya Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)

1896 Kazimierz Kuratowski Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)

1896 Friedrich Glauser Austrian-Swiss author (d. 1938)

1896 Friedrich Hund German physicist and academic (d. 1997)

1896 Alberto Vargas Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1982)

1896 Eugénie Blanchard French super-centenarian (d. 2010)

1896 Li Linsi Chinese educator and diplomat (d. 1970)

1896 André Breton French poet and author (d. 1966)

1896 Nirala Indian poet and author (d. 1961)

1896 Richard Thorpe American director and screenwriter (d. 1991)

1896 Philip Showalter Hench American physician and endocrinologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

1896 Morarji Desai Indian civil servant and politician fourth Prime Minister of India (d. 1995)

1896 William A. Wellman American actor director producer and screenwriter (d. 1975)

1896 Dimitri Mitropoulos Greek pianist composer and conductor (d. 1960)

1896 Moriz Seeler German playwright and producer (d. 1942)

1896 Kai Holm Danish actor and director (d. 1985)

1896 Charlotte Whitton Canadian journalist and politician 46th Mayor of Ottawa (d. 1975)

1896 Frederick Coulton Waugh British cartoonist painter teacher and author (d. 1973)

1896 Jesse Fuller American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1976)

1896 Friedrich Waismann Austrian mathematician physicist and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1959)

1896 He Long Chinese general and politician 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1969)

1896 Joseph Schildkraut Austrian-American actor (d. 1964)

1896 Wilhelm Ackermann German mathematician (d. 1962)

1896 Johnny Golden American golfer (d. 1936)

1896 Robert E. Sherwood American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1955)

1896 Einar Lundborg Swedish aviator (d. 1931)

1896 Frits Peutz Dutch architect designed the Glaspaleis (d. 1974)

1896 Yip Harburg American composer (d. 1981)

1896 Léo-Paul Desrosiers Canadian journalist and author (d. 1967)

1896 Fred Barnett English footballer (d. 1982)

1896 Robert Henry Best American journalist (d. 1952)

1896 Árpád Weisz Hungarian footballer (d. 1944)

1896 Señor Wences Spanish-American ventriloquist (d. 1999)

1896 Fred Haney American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1977)

1896 Ruut Tarmo Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)

1896 Ernst Udet German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)

1896 William Hudson New Zealand-Australian engineer (d. 1978)

1896 Wallace Carothers American chemist and inventor of nylon (d. 1937)

1896 Na Hye-sok South Korean journalist poet and painter (d. 1948)

1896 Tristan Tzara Romanian-French poet and critic (d. 1963)

1896 Reverend Gary Davis American singer and guitarist (d. 1972)

1896 Hans List Austrian scientist and businessman founded the AVL Engineering Company (d. 1996)

1896 Herbert Backe German agronomist and politician (d. 1947)

1896 Mark W. Clark American general (d. 1984)

1896 J. Lawton Collins American general (d. 1987)

1896 Karl Allmenröder German soldier and pilot (d. 1917)

1896 V. K. Krishna Menon Indian lawyer jurist and politician Indian Minister of Defence (d. 1974)

1896 Dodie Smith English author and playwright (d. 1990)

1896 Rolf Maximilian Sievert Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1966)

1896 Kathleen McKane Godfree English tennis and badminton player (d. 1992)

1896 Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955)

1896 Felix Steiner Russian-German SS officer (d. 1966)

1896 Howard Hawks American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1977)

1896 Henry Allingham English World War I soldier and supercentenarian (d. 2009)

1896 Italo Balbo Italian air marshal and fascist politician who played a key role in developing Mussolini's air force (d. 1940)

1896 Douglas Campbell American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1990)

1896 Robert S. Mulliken American physicist and chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1896 Murray Leinster American author and screenwriter (d. 1976)

1896 Blanche Sweet American actress (d. 1986)

1896 Rajani Palme Dutt English journalist and politician (d. 1974)

1896 Wilfrid Pelletier Canadian pianist composer and conductor (d. 1982)

1896 Charles Momsen American admiral invented the Momsen lung (d. 1967)

1896 Leonard W. Murray Canadian admiral (d. 1971)

1896 Doris Lloyd English actress (d. 1968)

1896 Mao Dun Chinese journalist author and critic (d. 1981)

1896 Thomas Playford IV Australian politician 33rd Premier of South Australia (d. 1981)

1896 Thérèse Casgrain Canadian politician (d. 1981)

1896 Mordecai Ardon Israeli painter and educator (d. 1992)

1896 Buenaventura Durruti Spanish soldier and anarchist (d. 1936)

1896 Rupert Atkinson English RAF officer (d. 1919)

1896 Reginald Baker English film producer (d. 1985)

1896 A. J. Cronin Scottish physician and novelist (d. 1981)

1896 Bob Meusel American baseball player and sailor (d. 1977)

1896 Sophie Bledsoe Aberle Native American anthropologist physician and nutritionist (d. 1996)

1896 Jack Perrin American actor and stuntman (d. 1967)

1896 Josephine Tey Scottish author and playwright (d. 1952)

1896 Tim Birkin English soldier and race car driver (d. 1933)

1896 Robert George Scottish air marshal and politician 24th Governor of South Australia (d. 1967)

1896 Henri Longchambon French lawyer and politician (d. 1969)

1896 Barbara La Marr American actress and screenwriter (d. 1926)

1896 Maria L. de Hernández Mexican-American rights activist (d. 1986)

1896 Ralph Horween American football player and coach (d. 1997)

1896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings American author and academic (d. 1953)

1896 Erich Hückel German physicist and chemist (d. 1980)

1896 Jean Piaget Swiss psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)

1896 Albert Ball English fighter pilot (d. 1917)

1896 Theodor Luts Estonian director and cinematographer (d. 1980)

1896 Gerty Cori Czech-American biochemist and physiologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)

1896 Catherine Doherty Russian-Canadian activist founded the Madonna House Apostolate (d. 1985)

1896 Paul Outerbridge American photographer and educator (d. 1958)

1896 Tõnis Kint Estonian lieutenant and politician Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1991)

1896 Oliver Waterman Larkin American historian and author (d. 1970)

1896 Jack Pickford Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1933)

1896 Gostha Pal Indian footballer (d. 1976)

1896 Laurence McKinley Gould American geologist educator and polar explorer (d. 1995)

1896 Ivan Mihailov Bulgarian soldier and politician (d. 1990)

1896 Kenji Miyazawa Japanese author and poet (d. 1933)

1896 Firaq Gorakhpuri Indian author poet and critic (d. 1982)

1896 Raymond Massey Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983)

1896 Brian Edmund Baker English Air Marshal (d. 1979)

1896 Félix-Antoine Savard Canadian priest and author (d. 1982)

1896 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Indian religious leader founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (d. 1977)

1896 Antonin Artaud French actor director and playwright (d. 1948)

1896 Howard Dietz American publicist and songwriter (d. 1983)

1896 Adele Astaire American actress and dancer (d. 1981)

1896 Robert Taschereau Canadian lawyer judge and politician 11th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1970)

1896 Ye Ting Chinese general (d. 1946)

1896 José Mojica Mexican tenor and actor (d. 1974)

1896 Uri Zvi Greenberg Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)

1896 Henry Segrave American-English race car driver (d. 1930)

1896 Sandro Pertini Italian journalist and politician 7th President of Italy (d. 1990)

1896 Gilbert Ashton English cricketer (d. 1981)

1896 Sam Ervin American soldier and politician (d. 1985)

1896 Ted Healy American actor singer and screenwriter (d. 1937)

1896 Auvergne Doherty Australian businesswoman (d. 1961)

1896 Gerardo Diego Spanish poet and critic (d. 1987)

1896 Dorothy Lawrence English reporter who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I (d. 1964)

1896 David Howard American film director (d. 1941)

1896 Paulino Alcántara Spanish Filipino football player and manager (d. 1964)

1896 Julien Duvivier French director producer and screenwriter (d. 1967)

1896 Roman Jakobson Russian-American linguist and theorist (d. 1982)

1896 Eugenio Montale Italian poet and translator Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)

1896 Roman Petrovich Russian prince (d. 1978)

1896 Bob O'Farrell American baseball player and manager (d. 1988)

1896 Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d. 1985)

1896 Charles Glen King American biochemist and academic (d. 1988)

1896 José Leitão de Barros Portuguese film director and playwright (d. 1967)

1896 Lilyan Tashman American actress (d. 1934)

1896 Marjorie Joyner American make-up artist and businesswoman (d. 1994)

1896 Nils Backlund Swedish water polo player (d. 1964)

1896 Rex Cherryman American actor (d. 1928)

1896 Ruth Gordon American actress and screenwriter (d. 1985)

1896 Kostas Karyotakis Greek poet and educator (d. 1928)

1896 Harry R. Truman American soldier (d. 1980)

1896 Antonino Votto Italian conductor (d. 1985)

1896 Ethel Waters American singer and actress (d. 1977)

1896 Edmund Blunden English author poet and critic (d. 1974)

1896 Gustaf Tenggren Swedish-American illustrator and animator (d. 1970)

1896 Carlos P. Garcia Filipino lawyer and politician 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971)

1896 Esdras Minville Canadian economist and sociologist (d. 1975)

1896 Erika Abels d'Albert Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1975)

1896 Bucky Harris American baseball player and manager (d. 1977)

1896 Marie Prevost Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1937)

1896 Jimmy Dykes American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)

1896 Shirley Graham Du Bois American author playwright composer and activist (d. 1977)

1896 Carlos Eduardo Castañeda Mexican-American historian (d. 1958)

1896 Salim Ali Indian ornithologist and author (d. 1987)

1896 Leonard Lord English businessman (d. 1967)

1896 Joan Lindsay Australian author and critic (d. 1984)

1896 Oswald Mosley English fascist leader and politician (d. 1980)

1896 Lawrence Tibbett American actor and singer (d. 1960)

1896 Lev Vygotsky Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher (d. 1934)

1896 Chiyono Hasegawa Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2011)

1896 Carl Mayer Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (d. 1944)

1896 David J. Mays American lawyer and author (d. 1971)

1896 Klement Gottwald Czechoslovak politician President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (d. 1953)

1896 Tsunenohana Kan'ichi Japanese sumo wrestler the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960)

1896 Albertus Soegijapranata Indonesian archbishop (d. 1963)

1896 Virgil Thomson American composer and critic (d. 1989)

1896 Dawn Powell American author and playwright (d. 1965)

1896 Lilia Skala Austrian-American actress (d. 1994)

1896 Ann Nolan Clark American historian author and educator (d. 1995)

1896 Carl Ferdinand Cori Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)

1896 Torsten Bergström Swedish actor and director (d. 1948)

1896 Betty Smith American author and playwright (d. 1972)

1896 Anna Anderson an imposter who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1984)

1896 Gerald Barry English colonel and cricketer (d. 1977)

1896 Konstantin Rokossovsky Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (d. 1968)

1896 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Italian lieutenant and author (d. 1957)

1896 Louis Bromfield American author and theorist (d. 1956)

1896 Maurice De Waele Belgian cyclist (d. 1952)

1896 Carl Zuckmayer German author and playwright (d. 1977)

1896 David Alfaro Siqueiros Mexican painter (d. 1974)

1896 Andrei Zhdanov Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician (d. 1948)

1896 Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969)

1896 Eric Backman Swedish runner (d. 1965)

1896 Richard Day Canadian-American art director and set decorator (d. 1972)

1896 Wop May Canadian captain and pilot (d. 1952)

1896 Nikolay Semyonov Russian physicist and chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1896 Roger Sessions American

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