Famous People Born in 1895 (Part 2)

Birthdays 201 - 339 of 339

Sep 10 George 'High Pockets' Kelly, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (World Series 1921, 22; NL HR leader 1921; NY Giants), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1984)
Sep 10 Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian Telugu writer (Ramayana Kalpa Vrukshamu, Veyipadagalu), born in Nandamuru, Madras state, British India (d. 1976)
Sep 11 Harry Tobias, American song lyricist (“Sweet and Lovely”; “It’s a Lonesome Old Town”; “Sail Along, Silv’ry Moon”), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
Sep 12 Alice Lake, American silent screen actress (Glamour, Wicked), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1967)
Sep 13 Ruth McDevitt, American actress (All in the Family), born in Coldwater, Michigan (d. 1976)
Sep 15 Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
Sep 15 Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
Sep 16 Charles Bidwill, American Pro Football HOF team owner (Chicago Cardinals 1933-46), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1947)
Sep 16 Karol Rathaus, German-Austrian composer, born in Ternopil, Austria-Hungary (d. 1954)

John Diefenbaker (1895-1979)

Sep 18 13th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1957-63), born in Neustadt, Ontario

Sep 18 Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian who dies of old age at 113, born in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan (d. 2009)
Sep 21 Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet, born in Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1925)
Sep 22 Babette Deutsch, American poet (Animal vegetable mineral), born in New York City (d. 1982)

Paul Muni (1895-1967)

Sep 22 American actor (Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez), born in Lviv, Ukraine

Sep 23 Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
Sep 23 Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
Sep 24 André F. Cournand, French physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), born in Paris (d. 1988)
Sep 26 Fay Holden, British actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1973)
Sep 26 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, born in Detmold, Germany (d. 1952)
Sep 27 Woolf Barnato, British financier and racing driver, born in Spencer House, London (d. 1948)
Sep 28 Charles Petrie, British historian known for his study of royalism and Jacobitism (If: A Jacobite Fantasy), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1977)
Sep 28 Dave Franklin, American composer (The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down), born in New York City (d. 1970)
Sep 28 Wallace Harrison, American architect (Metropolitan Opera House, United Nations complex), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1981)
Sep 28 Whitey Witt, American baseball player (NY Yankees, 1922-25), born in Orange, Massachusetts (d. 1988)
Sep 29 Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception), born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
Sep 29 Louise Granville, Australian actress (How Green Paid the Rent), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1968)
Sep 29 Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
Sep 30 Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
Oct 1 Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947-51), born in Karnal, Punjab, British India (d. 1951)
Oct 2 Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer and resistor (Law), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1982)
Oct 2 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1986)

Buster Keaton (1895-1966)

Oct 4 American actor and comedian (Navigator, Steamboat Bill Jr, The General), born in Piqua, Kansas

Oct 4 Giovanni Brunero, Italian road cyclist (Giro d'Italia General classification 1921, 22, 26), born in San Maurizio Canavese, Italy (d. 1934)
Oct 4 Richard Sorge, German spy for the Soviet Union in Tokyo during World War II, born in Baku, Russian Empire (d. 1944)
Oct 4 Sergei Yesenin, Russian lyric poet, born in Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1925)
Oct 5 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. Army general (WWII) and head of CIA (1950-52), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1961)
Oct 6 Caroline Gordon, American writer (Green Centuries), born in Todd County, Kentucky (d. 1981)
Oct 8 Jeanne Gabrielle Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl), born in Amsterdam (d. 1984)

Juan Perón (1895-1974)

Oct 8 Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), born in Buenos Aires

Oct 8 Zog I, King of Albania (1928-39), born in Burgajet Castle, Ottoman Empire (d. 1961)

Eugene Bullard (1895-1961)

Oct 9 1st African-American military pilot, flew for France in World War I as part of the French Foreign Legion, born in Columbus, Georgia

Oct 10 Fridolf Rhudin, Swedish actor and comedian (The Wrong Millionaire, Secret Svensson), born in Munkfors, Värmland, Sweden (d. 1935)
Oct 10 Johnny Taylor, Australian cricket batsman (20 Tests; 1 x 100, 8 x 50) and rugby union fly-half (2 caps), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1971)
Oct 10 Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (German Air Force-WW II), born in Barzdorf, German Empire (d. 1945)
Oct 11 Jakov Gotovac, Croatian conductor and composer (Ero the Joker), born in Split, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) (d. 1982)
Oct 12 Alfred "Tubby" Hall, American jazz drummer (King Oliver; Louis Armstrong), born in Sellers, Louisiana (d. 1945)
Oct 13 Kurt Schumacher, German political chairman (SPD), born in Kulm, Germany (d. 1952)
Oct 13 Mike Gazella, American baseball player (NY Yankees), born in Olyphant, Pennsylvania (d. 1978)
Oct 13 Vera [Veronica] Bondam, Flemish actress (Een brief van de generaal), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1982)
Oct 15 Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil), born in Lautenburg, Germany (now in Poland) (d. 1952)
Oct 17 Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (Dances of Women), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1958)
Oct 18 Raymond Brulez, Belgian author (Appearance at Kallista), born in Blankenenberge, Belgium (d. 1972)
Oct 19 Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d. 1999)
Oct 19 Louis Mumford, American cultural historian, city planner and writer, born in Flushing, Queens (d. 1990)
Oct 20 Rex Ingram, American actor (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tarzan of the Apes, The Ten Commandments), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1969)
Oct 21 Edna Purviance, American silent film actress, worked with Charlie Chaplin (The Kid), born in Paradise Valley, Nevada (d. 1958)
Oct 21 J Delos Jewkes, American light opera, vaudeville, choral (Mormon Tabernacle), film and television bass singer, and actor (Stars And Stripes Forever; The Music Man; The Andy Griffith Show), born in Orangeville, Utah (d. 1984)
Oct 21 Shukichi Mitsukuri, Japanese composer (10 Haikai de Basho), born in Tokyo (d. 1971)
Oct 24 Jack Warner [Waters], British actor (Dixon of Dock Green, Christmas Carol), born in London, England (d. 1981)
Oct 25 Levi Eshkol [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69), born in Oratov, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1969)
Oct 28 John Boles, American singer and actor (Babes in Baghdad), born in Greenville, Texas (d. 1969)
Oct 30 Dickinson W. Richards, American physician (Nobel 1956 - development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases), born in Orange, New Jersey (d. 1973)
Oct 30 Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1939 in Physiology or Medicine - first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil), born in Lagow, Brandenburg (d. 1964)
Oct 31 B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian and publicist (The Rommel Papers), born in Paris (d. 1970)
Oct 31 C. K. Nayudu, Indian cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), born in Nagpur, Maharashtra (d. 1967)
Nov 5 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (The Scoundrel), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
Nov 5 Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist, composer, and lepidopterist, born in Lyon, France (d. 1956)
Nov 7 Jacob Kaplan, French Grand Rabbi (1955-81), born in Paris (d. 1994)
Nov 8 Euphemia Giannini Gregory, Italian-American opera singer and educator (Curtis Institute), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1979)
Nov 8 Hermann Schey, German-Dutch singer, born in Bunzlau, Silesia, Germany (d. 1981)
Nov 8 Photis Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer, born in Ayvalık, Turkey (d. 1965)
Nov 10 John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft designer (Northrop Air), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1981)
Nov 10 Mary Victor Bruce (née Petre), British speedboat pilot, race car driver, and aviator who flew around Empire State building in 1930, born in Chelmsford, Essex, England (d. 1990)
Nov 11 Beulah Ecton Woodard, African-American sculptor, born in Frankfort, Ohio (d. 1955)
Nov 11 Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer, born in Split, Austria-Hungary (d. 1982)
Nov 14 Louise Huff, American actress (What Women Want), born in Columbus, Georgia (d. 1973)
Nov 14 Walter Freeman, American physician (d. 1972)
Nov 15 Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
Nov 15 Olga Nikolaevna, eldest daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, born in Alexander Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1918)
Nov 16 Eduard Bagritsky, Russian-Soviet poet and journalist (South-West), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
Nov 16 Michael Arlen [Dikran Kouyoumdjian], British author and scriptwriter (An American Verdict), born in Ruse, Bulgaria (d. 1956)

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Nov 16 German composer (Mathis der Maler), born in Hanau

Nov 17 Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966)
Nov 17 Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher, born in Oryol, Russian Empire (d. 1975)
Nov 18 Ernst Levy, Swiss composer, born in Basel (d. 1981)
Nov 19 Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American fashion photographer, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1989)
Nov 25 Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian revolutionary and member of Supreme Soviet, born in Sanahin, Yelizavetpol Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1978)
Nov 25 Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer ("...And Ladies of the Club"), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1986)
Nov 25 Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician (8th President of Czechoslovakia, 1968-75), born in Hroznatín, Moravia, Austria Hungary (d. 1979)
Nov 25 Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (Unter dem Zimbelstern), born in Jüterbog, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1991)
Nov 26 Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system), born in Örebro, Sweden (d. 1965)
Nov 26 Bill Wilson, American co-founder (alcoholics anonymous), born in East Dorset, Vermont (d. 1971)
Nov 28 José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor, born in Valencia, Spain (d. 1980)
Nov 29 Busby Berkeley [Enos], American film choreographer (42nd Street) and director (Strike Up The Band: They Made Me A Criminal), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1976)
Nov 29 Lodovico Rocca, Italian composer, born in Turin (d. 1986)
Nov 29 William V. S. Tubman, Liberian politician (President of Liberia 1943-70), born in Harper, Liberia (d. 1971)
Nov 29 Yakima Canutt [Enos Edward], American rodeo cowboy, actor and director (Texas Terror), born in Colfax, Washington (d. 1986)
Nov 30 Johann Nepomuk David, Austrian-German composer, born in Eferding, Austria (d. 1977)
Dec 1 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), born in Bedfordshire, England (d. 1977)
Dec 2 Harriet Cohen, British pianist, born in London (d. 1967)
Dec 2 Jesse Crawford, American pianist, theatre organist for silent films, and recording artist, born in Woodland, California (d. 1962)
Dec 2 Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, born in Zwolle, Netherlands (d. 1975)
Dec 3 Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychoanalyst and daughter of Sigmund Freud, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1982)
Dec 4 Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag), born in Vollsjö, Sweden (d. 1972)
Dec 4 Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher, born in Tanghe County, Henan, Qing Dynasty (d. 1990)
Dec 5 Elbert Frank Cox, African-American mathematician (first African-American to receive PhD in Mathematics), born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 1969)
Dec 6 Henriëtte Bosmans, Dutch pianist and composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1952)
Dec 7 Jack Pennick, American actor (Lady From Louisiana), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1964)
Dec 9 Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer, born in Barcelona (d. 1936)
Dec 9 Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy radioman, Medal of Honor recipient, born in Thomaston, Connecticut (d. 1941)
Dec 11 Eddie Dowling, American actor (Rainbow Man, Anywhere USA), born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island (d. 1976)

George VI (1895-1952)

Dec 14 King of the United Kingdom (1936-52), born in Norfolk, England

Dec 14 Paul Éluard, French communist and poet, born in Saint-Denis, France (d. 1952)
Dec 16 Lidj Jasu [Iyasu], Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-16), born in Dessie, Ethiopia (d. 1935)

Gerald Patterson (1895-1967)

Dec 17 Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1919, 21; Australian C'ships 1927), born in Melbourne, Victoria

Dec 19 Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet (Loke Saar Havre), born in Hedmark, Norway (d. 1989)
Dec 19 Maurice Roelants, Flemish novelist and poet (Komen en gaan, Prayer for a Good End), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1966)
Dec 20 Susanne Langer, American philosopher & educator (Philosophy in a New Key), born in Manhattan, New York City (d. 1985)
Dec 21 Paul Hoffer, German composer, born in Barmen, Germany (d. 1949)
Dec 24 E. Roland Harriman, American financier, born in NYC, New York (d. 1978)
Dec 27 Sig Arno [Siegfried Aron], German-Jewish actor (Holiday in Havana, My Friend Irma), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)
Dec 28 Carol Ryrie Brink, American Newberry Medal-winning novelist (Caddie Woodlawn), born in Moscow, Idaho (d. 1981)
Dec 30 August De Boodt, Belgian politician (Minister of Reconstruction), born in Nieuwmunster, Belgium (d. 1986)

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