Famous People Born in 1890 (Part 2)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oct 14 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, born in Denison, Texas (d. 1969)

Oct 14 Frank Conroy, British actor (Call of the Wild), born in Derby, Derbyshire, England (d. 1964)
Oct 15 Arcady Dubensky, Russian composer, born in Kirov, Russia (d. 1966)
Oct 16 Paul Strand, American photographer (Native Land-1942), born in NYC, New York
Oct 16 Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)

Michael Collins

Oct 16 Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader and leading figure in the struggle for Irish independence in the early 20th century, born in Clonakilty, Ireland (d. 1922)

Oct 17 Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
Oct 18 [Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt)
Oct 20 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, jazz pianist/composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 21 Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters)
Oct 24 Main Rousseau Bocher, American uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1976)
Oct 24 Kathleen Lockhart Manning, American composer, born in Hollywood, California (d. 1951)

Oct 28 Andrés Isasi, Spanish Basque composer, born in Bilbao, Spain (d. 1940)
Oct 29 Claire Goll, German-French writer, born in Nuremberg (d. 1977)
Nov 1 James Barton, American actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh), born in Gloucester City, New Jersey (d. 1962)
Nov 2 Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist/senator
Nov 2 Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (My Mother Gets Married), born in Vårdnäs, Linköping (d. 1964)
Nov 3 Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary in Brazil, born in Aarle-Rixtel, North Brabant, Netherlands (d. 1943)
Nov 4 Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Bracke, Borgia), born in Crossen, Germany (d. 1928)
Nov 5 Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter, born in Okrouhlice near Německý Brod, Bohemia (d. 1977)
Nov 12 Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)
Nov 15 Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
Nov 16 Aloÿs-Henri-Gérard Fornerod, Swiss composer, born in Montet-Cudrefin, Switzerland (d. 1965)

Elpidio Quirino

Nov 16 Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of Philippines (1949-53), born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines (d. 1956)

Nov 16 George Seldes, American investigative journalist, born in Alliance Colony, New Jersey (d. 1995)
Nov 17 Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer (Canton Bulldogs)
Nov 19 George Regas, Greek actor (The Mark of Zorro), born in Goranoi, Greece (d. 1940)
Nov 20 Robert Armstrong, American actor (Mighty Joe Young, King Kong), born in Saginaw, Michigan (1973)
Nov 22 Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1976)

Charles de Gaulle

Nov 22 Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), born in Lille, France (d. 1970)

Nov 23 El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
Nov 25 Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet (Poems from the Trenches) and artist, born in Bristol, England (d. 1918)

Nov 30 John Tasker Howard, American composer and music historian, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1964)
Nov 30 Oege Bakker, Dutch economist
Dec 2 William Gaxton, American actor (Destry, Convoy), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1963)
Dec 4 Bob Shawkey, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1923, 27); AL ERA leader 1920, New York Yankees), born in Sigel, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
Dec 4 Jack Darragh, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing (Stanley Cup 1911, 20-21, 23; Ottawa Senators), born in Ottawa, Ontario (d. 1924)
Dec 5 David Bomberg, English painter, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1957)
Dec 5 Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker and screenwriter (Metropolis), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1976)

Dion Fortune

Dec 6 Dion Fortune, British occultist, born in Llandudno, Wales (d. 1946)

Dec 6 Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (known as the founding father of modern physics research in Japan), born in Satoshō, Okayama (d. 1951)
Dec 6 Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer, born in Calw, Germany (d. 1955)
Dec 8 Bohuslav Martinů, Czech, composer (Hry o Marti), born in Polička, Bohemia (d. 1959)
Dec 10 George Merritt, English actor (I Monster, Q Planes), born in London, England (d. 1977)

Carlos Gardel

Dec 11 Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of tango, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1935)

Dec 13 Marc Connelly, American playwright (One Minute Please), born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
Dec 18 Edwin Howard Armstrong, American radio pioneer inventor (FM), born in NYC, New York (d. 1954)
Dec 19 Klaas Painter, vicar/antifascist (Occupies possession) [or 1880]
Dec 19 Klaas Schilder, Dutch theologist/vicar (Occupied Territory)
Dec 20 Yvonne Arnaud, French-born pianist, singer and actress (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), born in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France (d. 1958)
Dec 21 Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and Nobel laureate, born in NYC, New York (d. 1967)
Dec 22 Mark Tobey, American abstract painter (Broadway Norm), born in Centerville, Wisconsin (d. 1976)
Dec 22 Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, born in Droylsden, United Kingdom (d. 1960)
Dec 25 Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (Believe it or Not), born in Santa Rosa, California (d. 1949)
Dec 26 Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
Dec 27 Maurice Schoemaker, composer
Dec 28 Frank Butler, actor/sreenwriter (Road to Bali, China), born in Oxford, England
Dec 30 Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973)

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