Birthdays in History
Birthdays 101 - 140 of 140
Katherine Mansfield
Oct 14 Katherine Mansfield (Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry), New Zealand short story writer (The Garden Party), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 1923)
Katherine Mansfield
- Oct 15 S.S. Van Dine [pseudonym for William Huntingdon Wright], American art critic and crime writer (Philo Vance), born in Charlottesville, Virginia (d. 1939)
- Oct 16 Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936), born in NYC, New York
- Oct 16 Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
- Oct 23 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
- Oct 25 François Pauwels, Dutch writer and attorney, born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
Richard E. Byrd
Oct 25 Richard E. Byrd, American aviator and polar explorer (1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air - disputed), born in Winchester, Virginia (d. 1957)
Richard E. Byrd
- Oct 25 Nils Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter, born in Bettna, Södermanland, Sweden (d. 1943)
- Oct 26 Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros), born in Helsinki (d. 1925)
- Oct 26 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, born in Hulai-Pole, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
- Oct 31 George Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (Flying the Arctic), born in Hallett, Australia (d. 1958)
- Oct 31 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1944)
- Nov 7 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist (Nobel Prize 1930 for light scattering), born in Tiruchirappalli, India (d. 1970)
- Nov 9 Jean Monnet, French political economist and diplomat, born in Cognac, France (d. 1979)
- Nov 10 Andrej Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, born in Pustomazovo, Russia (d. 1972)
- Nov 11 Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India
- Nov 16 Clinton Golden, Penn, founder (United Steelworkers of America)
- Nov 16 Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author/poet (Gogol)
- Nov 22 Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
- Nov 24 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends & Influence People)
- Nov 24 Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
- Nov 26 Franz Jung, German writer and political activist, born in Nysa (d. 1963)
- Nov 29 Joe Slater, Australian Rules footballer (d. 1917)
- Dec 4 Aleksandar I Karadordjevic, king of Yugoslavia (1921-34)
- Dec 7 Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
- Dec 7 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
- Dec 7 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild
- Dec 8 Fiske Kimball, US architect/art historian
- Dec 15 Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/writer (Kati)/politician
- Dec 15 Maxwell Anderson, American dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor)
- Dec 16 Alphonse Juin, French marshal
- Dec 16 Alexander I, king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (1921–29) and of Yugoslavia (1929–34), born in Cetinje, Montenegro (d. 1934)
- Dec 18 Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
- Dec 22 Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron
- Dec 23 Friedrich Wolf, German writer and diplomat, born in Neuwied, Germany (d. 1953)
- Dec 29 Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal