Famous People Born in 1882

Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928)

Jan 17 American gambler and mobster who fixed the 1919 World Series, born in NYC, New York

Jan 17 Noah Beery, American character actor (Story of Esther, The Mark of Zorro), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1946)

A. A. Milne (1882-1956)

Jan 18 English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, born in Hampstead, Middlesex

Jan 18 Jacob Clay, Dutch philosopher and physicist (cosmic rays as charged particles), born in Berkhout, Netherlands (d. 1955)
Jan 21 Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
Jan 22 Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1956)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Jan 25 British author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse), born in London

Jan 27 Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italian-American writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano), born in Perugia, Italy (d. 1982)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Jan 30 32nd US President (Democrat: 1933-1945), born in Hyde Park, New York

Jan 31 Josef van Schaik, Dutch politician and lawyer (Vice-Premier of the Netherlands), (d. 1962)

Louis St. Laurent (1882-1973)

Feb 1 12th Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1948-57), born in Compton, Quebec

Feb 2 Andrew, Prince of Greece and Denmark, born in Monte Carlo, Monaco (d. 1944)

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Feb 2 Irish novelist and poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake), born in Dublin, Ireland

Feb 3 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma; oldest person in the Netherlands (d. 1991)
Feb 5 Felice Lattuada, Italian composer and educator (Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan, 1935-62), born at Caselle di Morimondo, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1962)
Feb 7 Wilbur Sweatman, American ragtime and dixieland jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader, born in Brunswick, Missouri (d. 1961) [1]
Feb 8 George Siegmann, American actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba, Oliver Twist), born in NYC, New York (d. 1928)
Feb 8 Thomas Selfridge, American army officer, 1st person to die in an airplane crash, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1908)
Feb 9 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950)
Feb 9 Tom Campbell, South African cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests, 8 dismissals), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1924)
Feb 11 Gheorghe Cucu, Romanian composer, born in Puiești, Romania (d. 1932)
Feb 12 Walter Vaes, Belgian painter and etcher (d. 1958)
Feb 14 George Jean Nathan, American editor, author and critic (American Mercury), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana (d. 1958)
Feb 14 Ignaz Friedman, Polish pianist & composer, born in Podgórze, Kraków, Austrian Poland (d. 1948)

John Barrymore (1882-1942)

Feb 15 American actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Feb 17 Kurt Schindler, German-American composer and conductor, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1935)
Feb 22 Eric Gill, English sculptor, engraver and typographer (Perpetua, Gill sans), born in Brighton, England (d. 1940)
Feb 23 Ladislav Vycpalek, Czech composer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1969)
Feb 25 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language boundary), born in Wuustwezel, Belgium (d. 1963)
Feb 26 Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral, commander of the Pacific Fleet during Pearl Harbour Attack, born in Henderson, Kentucky (d. 1968)
Feb 28 Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress (Story of American Singer), born in Melrose, Massachusetts (d. 1967)
Feb 28 Jose Vasconcelos, politician, essayist, philosopher, born in Oaxaca, Mexico (d. 1959)
Feb 28 Richard Stein, German composer, born in Halle, Germany (d. 1942)
Mar 1 Ida Moore, American character actress (Mr. Music; Ma and Pa Kettle; Desk Set), born in Altoona, Kansas (d. 1964)
Mar 2 Wallis Clark, British-American stage and screen actor (Penny Serenade; Great Guy; Postal Inspector; Easy Money), born in Essex, England (d. 1961)
Mar 3 Charles Ponzi [Carlo], Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy (d. 1949)
Mar 3 Floris Prims, Flemish priest and historian (archivist of Antwerp), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1954)
Mar 4 Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
Mar 6 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
Mar 6 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), born in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1962)
Mar 6 Guy Kibbee, American actor (Big Shot), born in El Paso, Texas (d. 1956)
Mar 14 Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Sierpinski triangle), born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1969)
Mar 16 Jim Lightbody, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m, 2590m Steeplechase 1904), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1953)
Mar 18 Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer, pedagogue (Venice Liceo Musicale, 1932-52), and musicologist (Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi), born in Venice, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1973)
Mar 19 Gaston Lachaise, American sculptor (Standing Woman), born in Paris, France (d. 1935)
Mar 20 René Coty, French politician and President of France (1954-59), born in Le Harve, France (d. 1960) [1]
Mar 23 C. Montague Shaw, Australian actor (Buck Rogers; Zorro's Fighting Legion), born in Adelaide, South Australia (d. 1968)
Mar 23 Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
Mar 25 Haydn Wood, English composer, born in Slaithwaite (d. 1959)
Mar 26 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist, member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Grenchen, Switzerland (d. 1940)
Mar 30 Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1960)
Apr 1 Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (Olympic gold individual epée, team epée 1912), born in Burcht, Belgium (d. 1981)
Apr 4 Mary Howe, American composer (Sand) and pianist, born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1964)
Apr 5 Don Blackie, Australian cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1928-29), born in Bendigo, Australia (d. 1955)
Apr 7 Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricket spin bowler (14 Tests; 74 wickets @ 17.97; Queensland, Victoria), born in Pine Mountain, Australia (d. 1971)
Apr 7 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
Apr 8 Lulu McConnell, American vaudeville, radio, and television comedienne (It Pays To Be Ignorant), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1962)
Apr 9 Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, born in Palermo, Italy (d. 1945)
Apr 10 Simon F H J Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel, theologist (Fear & Religion)
Apr 14 Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1936)
Apr 15 Giovanni Amendola, Italian anti-fascist and editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), born in Naples, Italy (d. 1926)
Apr 16 Seth Bingham, American organist and composer (Six Pieces for Organ), born in Bloomfield, New Jersey (d. 1972)
Apr 17 Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas), born in Lipnik, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1951)
Apr 18 Leopold Stokowski, British conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1912-40; Disney's Fantasia, 1939; American Symphony Orchestra, 1962-72), born in London, England (d. 1977)
Apr 20 Holland Smith, American General in the U.S. Marine Corps, born in Seale, Alabama (d. 1967)
Apr 21 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist (Nobel 1946 - physics of high pressure), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1961)
Apr 23 Albert Coates, English conductor and composer (Eagle), born in St Petersburg, Russia
Apr 23 Max Winders, Belgian architect (WWII), responsible for bringing the Belgian gold stock, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1982)
Apr 24 Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, born in Moffat, Scotland (d. 1970)
Apr 25 Fred McLeod, Scottish golfer (US Open 1908), born in North Berwick, Scotland (d. 1976)
Apr 28 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist, born in Milano, Italy (d. 1971)
Apr 29 Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist (The Blue Barge) and resistance fighter, born in Leens, Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1945)
Apr 30 Nine van de Schaaf, Dutch author (To the Invisible), born in Terhorne, Netherlands (d. 1973)
May 4 Wilhelm Lehmann, German writer, born in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela (d. 1968)
May 5 Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and educator, born in Shipley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (d. 1958)
May 5 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist and suffragette, born in Old Trafford, Manchester, England (d. 1960)
May 6 Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian composer (Gergana), born in Plovdiv (d. 1931)
May 6 Wilhelm, the last Crown Prince of the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia, born in Marmorpalais, Potsdam, German Empire (d. 1951)
May 7 Willem Elsschot [Alfons Josephus de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1960)
May 8 Philips C. Visser, Dutch explorer and diplomat
May 9 George Barker, American portrait and landscape painter, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1965)

Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967)

May 9 American ship builder and industrialist (Liberty Ships, Jeep, Boulder/Hoover Dam; Kaiser Broadcasting), born in Sprout Brook, New York

May 10 Thurston Hall, American actor (Roaming Lady, In Society), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1958)
May 11 Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic
May 12 Kyrylo Stetsenko, Ukrainian composer (Burlaka), choral conductor, music critic, teacher, and later, Ukrainian Orthodox priest, born in Kvitkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1922)
May 13 Georges Braque, French cubist painter and sculptor (My bicycle) who helped develop Cubism with Pablo Picasso, born in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise (d. 1963)
May 18 Charles "Babe" Adams, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1906-26 (1 game with St. Louis Cardinals; Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Tipton, Indiana (d. 1968)
May 18 Eduardo Fabini, Uruguayan composer, born in Solís de Mataojo, Uruguay (d. 1950)
May 19 Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
May 20 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
May 21 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier, Hostage Rights of Aemstel), (d. 1950)
May 23 James Gleason, American writer and actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool), born in NYC, New York (d. 1959)
May 25 Harry Fox [Arthur Carringford], American vaudeville dancer, comedian and actor (Talent Scout), born in Pomona, California (d. 1959)
May 25 Marie Doro, American stage and film actress of the early silent film era (The Heart of Nora Flynn, The White Pearl), born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
May 29 Doris Ulmann, American photographer best known for her portraits of the people of Appalachia, born in NYC, New York (d. 1934)
May 30 Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (Olympic gold 1908), born in London (d. 1915)
May 31 Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian nobleman and politician, born in Dég, Fejér county, Hungary (d. 1956)
Jun 1 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
Jun 4 Karl Valentin, Bavarian comedian and film producer, born in Munich (d. 1948)
Jun 9 Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (1909 Olympics), born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland (d. 1963)
Jun 10 Neville Henderson, British diplomat and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany (1937-39), born in Sedgwick, Sussex, England (d. 1942)
Jun 14 Ion Antonescu, Romanian soldier and authoritarian politician (1940-1944), born in Argeș County, Romania (d. 1946)
Jun 14 Michael Zadora, American pianist and composer, born in New York City (d. 1946)

Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882-1967)

Jun 16 Prime Minister of Iran (1951-53) who was overthrown in a coup d'état aided by the CIA and the British SIS, born in Tehran, Persia

Jun 17 Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, born in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (d. 1918)

Harold Gillies (1882-1960)

Jun 17 New Zealand father of modern plastic surgery who pioneered skin graft techniques on injured soldiers in WWI, born in Dunedin, New Zealand [1]

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Jun 17 Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps - The Rite of Spring; The Firebird), born in Oranienbaum, Russia

Jun 18 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49) [or 6/28]
Jun 21 Lluís Companys, Spanish politician, 123rd President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1933-40), born in El Tarròs, Urgell, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1940)
Jun 21 Rockwell Kent, American artist, painter and illustrator (Canterbury Tales), born in Tarrytown, New York (d. 1971)
Jun 24 Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
Jun 24 Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
Jun 27 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist and educator, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1963)
Jul 2 Edgar Mayne, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria), born in Jamestown, South Australia (d. 1961)
Jul 5 Inayat Khan, Indian singer, musicologist, and philosopher (founder of Sufi Order - London, 1914), born in Vadodra, Bombay State, British India (d. 1927)
Jul 7 Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
Jul 8 John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, British civil servant, politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1943-45), born in Midlothian, Scotland (d. 1958)
Jul 8 Percy Grainger, Australian-American concert pianist and composer (Hill Songs; Country Garden), born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (d. 1961)
Jul 10 Ima Hogg, American society leader, Texas art patron and founder of Houston Symphony, born in Mineola, Texas (d. 1975)
Jul 10 Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, Italian composer, born in Strakonice, Czech Republic (d. 1949)
Jul 11 Jim Larkin White, American cave explorer and guide (Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico), born in Mason County, Texas (d. 1946)
Jul 16 Edward Earle, Canadian actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1972)
Jul 16 Felix Locher, Swiss insurance salesman, mapping system inventor, and late in life, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), born in Berne, Switzerland (d. 1969)
Jul 18 Manuel Gálvez, Argentine novelist (La maestra normal), born in Paraná, Argentina (d. 1962)
Jul 21 David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
Jul 22 Edward Hopper, American painter (Nighthawks, House by the Railroad), born in Upper Nyack, New York (d. 1967)
Jul 25 George S. Rentz, U.S. Navy Chaplain (awarded the Navy Cross during WW II), born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania (d. 1942)
Jul 27 Donald Crisp, British actor and director (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana), born in Bow, London, England (d. 1974)
Jul 27 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer, born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1965)
Jul 30 Holmes Herbert, British actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Kiss), born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1956)
Jul 30 Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian and museum curator
Jul 31 Grete Gulbransson, Austrian writer and poet (Geliebte Schatten), born in Thüringen, Austria (d. 1934)
Aug 1 Vaclav Klicka, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1953)
Aug 2 George Sargent, English golfer (US Open 1909), born in Dorking, Surrey (d. 1962)
Aug 2 Johannes Tralow, German writer (Ottoman tetralogy), born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1968)
Aug 3 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, Ecuadorian composer and musicologist, born in Cotacachi, Ecuador (d. 1972)
Aug 5 Joe English, Irish-Flemish draftsman, painter, and soldier (designed WWI gravestones), born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1918)
Aug 6 Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, Dutch vicar and founder (Calvinist party), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1948)
Aug 8 Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
Aug 10 Max Kowalski, German pianist, singer, and composer (Pierrot Lunaire), born in Kowal, Russian Empire/Poland (d. 1956)
Aug 11 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian Marshal, fascist and Viceroy of Italian East Africa, born in Filettino, Italy (d. 1955)
Aug 14 Gisela Richter, English art historian, born in London (d. 1972)
Aug 16 Pierre H. Ritter Jr, Dutch literary, writer and journalist, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1962)

Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

Aug 17 Polish born Jewish-American film producer (The Best Years of Our Lives) and movie magnate, born in Warsaw, Poland

Aug 18 Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor
Aug 18 Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, French organist and opera composer (Le Bon Roi Dagobert), born in Paris (d. 1955)
Aug 21 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter (Lady in Blue), and sculptor (The Nymph), born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1916)
Aug 22 Harry Makepeace, English cricketer (4 Tests for England v Australia 1920-21), born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (d. 1952)
Aug 25 Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician and President of Ireland (1945-59), born in Abbotstown, Dublin (d. 1966)
Aug 26 Carl Wilhelm de Vries, Dutch jurist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1967)
Aug 26 James Franck, German-American physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1964)
Aug 26 Johannes Lindeboom, Dutch vicar and church historian (Neth Archives), born in Deventer, Netherlands (d. 1958)
Aug 27 Jaroslav Křička, Czech composer, born in Kelč, Czech Republic (d. 1969)
Aug 30 Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1943)
Aug 31 Charles O'Neill, Canadian composer and bandmaster, born in Duntocher, near Glasgow, (d. 1964)
Sep 3 Johnny Douglas, English cricket all-rounder, captain (23 Tests, 1 x 100, 45 wickets; Essex CCC) and boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1908), born in London, England (d. 1930)
Sep 6 John Powell, American pianist and composer, born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1963)
Sep 7 Johanna Zandstra-Giezen, Dutch supercentenarian (oldest person in Netherland - dies at 111 years and 9 days), born in Friesland, Netherlands (d. 1993)
Sep 9 Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (NBC Radio; RKO newsreels), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1962)
Sep 10 Paul Harvey, American actor (Spellbound, Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), born in Sandwich, Illinois (d. 1955)
Sep 13 Henri Potiron, French composer, born in Rezé-lès-Nantes, Loire-Atlantique (d. 1972)
Sep 13 Ramón Grau, 6th and 10th President of Cuba, born in La Palma, Spanish Cuba (d. 1969)
Sep 14 Harald Fryklöf, Swedish composer, born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 1919)
Sep 17 Anton Hendrik Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of Light), born in Elst, Overbetuwe, Netherlands (d. 1942)
Sep 17 Frank Schulte, American baseball outfielder (NL MVP 1911; Chicago Cubs), born in Cochecton, New York (d. 1949)
Sep 19 Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
Sep 19 Paul-Marie Masson, French musicologist (L’Opéra de Rameau), and composer, born in Sète, France (d. 1954)
Sep 21 Alf Hurum, Norwegian composer (Lilja), and painter, born in Kristiania, Norway (d. 1972)
Sep 22 Emil Ábrányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1970)

Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946)

Sep 22 Nazi military leader (head of the German High Command), born in Helmscherode, German Empire

Sep 28 Eugenio d'Ors, Spanish Catalan essayist and philosopher, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1954)
Sep 28 Mart Saar, Estonian composer, born in Hüpassaare, Viljandi County (d. 1963)
Sep 30 George Bancroft, American actor (Underworld), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
Sep 30 Hans Geiger, German physicist (co-inventor of the Geiger counter), born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, German Empire (d. 1945)
Oct 2 Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander, born in Zlatoust, Ufa Governorate Russian Empire (d. 1945)
Oct 3 A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (Group of Seven), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1974)

Günther von Kluge (1882-1944)

Oct 3 German field marshal during World War II (Invasion of Poland, Battle of France, Operation Barbarossa), born in Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire

Oct 5 Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics), born in Padua, Italy (d. 1982)

Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)

Oct 5 American rocket pioneer (invented and built the first liquid-fueled rocket), born in Worcester, Massachusetts

Oct 6 Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (Symphony No. 3 - Song Of The Night), born in Tymoszówka, Russian Empire (now Tymoshivka, Ukraine) (d. 1937)
Oct 11 R. Nathaniel Dett, Canadian-American pianist, organist, choral director, and composer (In The Bottoms), born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (d. 1943)
Oct 11 Will Vesper, German author (Vom grossen Krieg), born in Wuppertal, Germany (d. 1962)
Oct 12 Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist and composer, born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 1954)
Oct 12 Pete Hill, American Baseball HOF outfielder (NgL lifetime batting average: .326) and manager (Detroit Stars, Baltimore Black Sox), born in Culpeper, Virginia (d. 1951)
Oct 14 Charlie Parker, English cricketer (legend Gloucs SLA, but 2-32 in only Test), born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire (d. 1959)

Éamon de Valera (1882-1975)

Oct 14 Irish republican politician and President of Ireland (1937-48, 51-54, 57-59), born in NYC, New York

Oct 15 Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1941)
Oct 18 Lucien Petit-Breton, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1907-8), born in Plessé, France (d. 1917)

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