Famous People Born in 1906 (Part 3)

Birthdays 401 - 497 of 497

• Oct 22 Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Willem Pijper)
• Oct 22 Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)

• Oct 23 Miriam Gideon, American composer, born in Greeley, Colorado (d. 1996)
• Oct 24 Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1968)
• Oct 24 Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter, born in Vienna (d. 1996)

• Oct 27 Earle Cabell, American politician, 48th Mayor of Dallas (1961-64), born in Dallas County, Texas (d. 1975)
• Oct 29 Fredric Brown, American sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1972)
• Oct 30 Alexander Gode, German-American linguist, born in Bremen, Imperial Germany (d. 1970)
• Oct 30 Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion, born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy (d. 1966)
• Oct 31 Jo Vis, resistance fighter (Yad Vashem-distinction)
• Oct 31 Louise Talma, American composer (Summer Sounds), born in Arcachon, France (d. 1996)
• Nov 1 John Indrisano, American welterweight boxer, stunt man, and bit-part actor (O.K.. Crackerby!), born in East Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
• Nov 2 Bengt Edlén, Swedish Astrophysicist who specialized in spectroscopy and discovered the source of unidentified emission lines in solar spectrum, born in Gusum, Sweden (d. 2003)
• Nov 2 Daniil Andreev, Russian writer, poet and Christian mystic, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1959)
• Nov 2 Luchino Visconti, Italian director (The Leopard, Death in Venice), born in Milan (d. 1976)
• Nov 2 Paul Thompson, Canadian ice hockey forward and coach (Stanley Cup 1928 [NY Rangers], 1934, 38 Chicago Black Hawks), born in Calgary, Alberta (d. 1991)
• Nov 4 Arnold Cooke, British composer, born in Gomersal, West Yorkshire, England (d. 2005)
• Nov 4 Bob Considine, American journalist and author (Babe Ruth Story), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1975)
• Nov 4 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, American lawyer and diplomat, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
• Nov 4 Siegfried Borris, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1987)
• Nov 5 Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (dirty-snowball theory), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 2004)
• Nov 5 George Trevelyan, British educational pioneer and a founding father of the New Age movement, born in London (d. 1996)
• Nov 6 Francis Lederer, Czech actor (Diary of a Chambermaid), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2000)
• Nov 6 James D. Norris, American sports businessman (Chicago Black Hawks), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1966)
• Nov 7 (Ernest) "Red" Ingle, American jazz and novelty saxophonist, songwriter, arranger and vocalist (Ted Weems; Spike Jones and His City Slickers; The Natural Seven), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1965)
• Nov 7 Eugene Carson Blake, US Secretary-General of World Council of Churches (1966-72), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1985)
• Nov 7 Jan Vercammen, Flemish author and chief inspector LO (Primary Education), born in Temse, Belgium (d. 1984)
• Nov 7 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar) (d. 1995)
• Nov 9 Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer, born in Meiningen, Germany (d. 1996)
• Nov 10 Josef Kramer, German concentration camp Commandant dubbed "The Beast of Belsen", born in Munich, Germany (d. 1945)
• Nov 10 Leonid Wīgner, Latvian conductor (Latvian Opera and Ballet Theater, 1936-49; LPSR Radio Symphony, 1949-75), composer, and pedagogue, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 2001)
• Nov 12 (Booker T. Washington) "Bukka" White, American country and Delta blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter ("Shake'Em On Down"; "Parchman Farm Blues"), born near Aberdeen, Mississippi (d. 1977)
• Nov 13 Conrad Thibault, American singer (Jacques Fray Music Room), born in Northbridge, Massachusetts (d. 1987)
• Nov 13 Eva Zeisel, American industrial designer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2011)
• Nov 13 Hermione Baddeley, British actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life), born in Broseley, England (d. 1986)
• Nov 14 Louise Brooks, American silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box), born in Cherryvale, Kansas (d. 1985)
• Nov 15 Curtis LeMay, American air force general (WWII) and VP candidate, born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1990)
• Nov 17 Betty Bronson, American actress (Evel Knievel, One Stolen Night), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 1971)
• Nov 17 Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer, founder and CEO of Honda Motor Co, born in Hamamatsu, Japan (d. 1991)
• Nov 18 Alec Issigonis, Greek-British automotive designer who designed the Mini, born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (d. 1988)

• Nov 18 Klaus Mann, German-American author (Mephisto), born in Munich (d. 1949)
• Nov 19 Henri Temianka, Scottish-born Polish composer (California Chamber Symphony), born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1992)
• Nov 19 Jacques Leguerney, French composer, born in LeHarve, France, (d. 1997)
• Nov 22 Howard Petrie, American actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), born in Beverly, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
• Nov 23 Mervyn Roberts, Welsh composer, born in Abergele, Denbighshire (d. 1990)
• Nov 24 Andreina Pagnani, Italian actress (Il Commandante), born in Rome, Italy (d. 1981)
• Nov 24 Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Air Bridge monument Berlin), born in Mühlhausen, Germany (d. 1960)
• Nov 26 Sandro Fuga, Italian composer and painist, born in Mogliano, Veneto (d. 1994)
• Nov 28 Henry Picard, American golfer (Masters 1938, PGA 1939), born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1997)
• Nov 29 Luis Van Rooten, Mexican-born American actor, author and translator (One Man's Family), born in Mexico City, Mexico (d. 1973)
• Nov 30 Marina, Princess of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Kent, husband of English Prince George, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1968)
• Dec 1 Jean Cartan, French composer, born in Nancy (d. 1932)
• Dec 2 Donald Woods, Canadian actor (True Grit, Craig Kennedy; Criminologist), born in Brandon, Manitoba (d. 1998)
• Dec 2 Eric Dalton, South African cricket batsman (15 Tests, top score 117), born in Durban, Natal, South Africa (d. 1981)

• Dec 6 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, born in Mechelen, Belgium (d. 1967)
• Dec 7 George James, American jazz saxophonist, born in Boggs, Oklahoma (d. 1995)
• Dec 8 (Lloyd) "Slim" Andrews, American comic actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), and singer-songwriter, born in Gravette, Arkansas (d. 1992) [1]
• Dec 8 Leo Shuken, American film music composer and arranger (Stagecoach; The Fabulous Dorseys; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1976)
• Dec 8 Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley), born in Hendon, Middlesex, England (d. 1983)
• Dec 9 Freddy Martin, American orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin) and tenor saxophonist, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1983)

• Dec 9 Greet Koeman, Dutch opera soprano, born in Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands (d. 1961)
• Dec 10 Walter Zinn, Canadian-American nuclear physicist (invented the breeder reactor), born in Kitchener, Ontario (d. 2000)
• Dec 11 Birago Diop, Senegalese writer and ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs), born in Dakar, French West Africa (d. 1989)
• Dec 11 Jack Purvis, American jazz trumpet player and composer, born in Kokomo, Indiana (d. 1962)
• Dec 12 William Pahlmann, American interior designer (4 Season restaurant, NYC), born in Pleasant Mound, Illinois (d. 1987)
• Dec 13 Ingemar Liljefors, Swedish composer, born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1981)
• Dec 13 Laurens Jan van der Post, South African-born writer, soldier, explorer and conservationist, born in Philippolis (d. 1996)
• Dec 14 Alexander Tsfasman, Soviet Russian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, in Alexandrovsk, Russian Empire (now Zaporizhya, Ukraine) (d. 1971)
• Dec 14 Guy Middleton, British actor (Oh! What a Lovely War, Laughter in Paradise), born in Hove, East Sussex, England (d. 1973)
• Dec 14 Helmut Bornefeld, German organist and composer, born in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, Germany (d. 1990)
• Dec 16 John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, English politician and landowner, last non-royal to be raised to the peerage in UK (1965) (d. 1996)
• Dec 17 Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer (Rustic Suite), born in Tomar, Portugal (d. 1994)
• Dec 18 Edwin H. "Buddy" Morris, American music publisher (Edwin H. Morris & Company), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
• Dec 18 Kam Tong, Chinese American actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song), born in San Francisco (d. 1969)
• Dec 19 H. Allen Smith, American humorist and author (Low Man on Totem Pole), born in McLeansboro, Illinois (d. 1976)

• Dec 20 Dick White, British intelligence officer (Director General of MI5 1953–1956; Head of the Secret Intelligence Service 1956–1968), born in Tonbridge, Kent (d. 1993)
• Dec 20 Irving Krick, American meteorologist and inventor, born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996)
• Dec 20 Lowell Gilmore, American actor (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Living Christ Series), born in St. Paul, Minnesota (d. 1960)
• Dec 23 Ross Lee Finney, American composer (Landscapes Remembered), born in Wells, Minnesota (d. 1997)
• Dec 24 Franz Waxman [Wachsmann], German-American film score composer (Rebecca; Sunset Boulevard; A Place In The Sun), born in Königshütte, Silesia, German Empire (now Chorzów, Poland) (d. 1967)
• Dec 24 John Walker, American art curator, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
• Dec 25 Clark M. Clifford, American lawyer and presidential advisor (US Secretary of Defense 1968-69), born in Fort Scott, Kansas (d. 1998)
• Dec 25 Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
• Dec 25 Herman Jan Scheltema [NEM Pareau], Dutch jurist and poet, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1981)
• Dec 25 Lew Grade, British TV mogul (ATV), movie producer (Boys from Brazil), born in Tokmak, Uyezd, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1998)
• Dec 25 William McChesney Martin, American Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1998)
• Dec 27 Ivan Brkanović, Croatian composer (Triptych - Funeral Folk Rite), born in Škaljari, Montenegro (d. 1987)
• Dec 27 Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer and actor (An American in Paris; Dance of Life), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1972)
• Dec 27 Teun Struycken [Antoon Arnold Marie Struycken], Dutch Minister of Justice (1950-51) and Governor of the Netherlands Antilles (1951-56), born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1977)
• Dec 30 Carol Reed, English motion picture director (3rd Man, Oliver!), born in London, England (d. 1976)
• Dec 30 Johann von Kielmansegg, German general (Commander-in-Chief of NATOs forces), born in Hofgeismar, Germany (d. 2006)
• Dec 31 Erna Bogen-Bogáti, Hungarian foils (Olympic bronze 1932), born in Jaroslaw, Poland (d. 2002)

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