Famous People Born in 1888 (Part 2)

Birthdays 201 - 271 of 271

• Oct 6 Max Butting, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1976)
• Oct 6 Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
• Oct 7 Cecil Coles, Scottish organist and composer (Behind the Lines), born in Tongland, Scotland (d. 1918)

• Oct 7 Henry A. Wallace, American editor and politician (33rd US Vice-President 1941-45, founded Progressive Party), born near Orient, Iowa (d. 1965) [1]
• Oct 8 Clifford Heatherley, British actor (Who Killed Doc Robin?), born in Preston, Lancashire, England (d. 1937)
• Oct 9 Hank Patterson, American actor (Gunsmoke, Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), born in Springville, Alabama (d. 1975)
• Oct 9 Irving Cummings Sr., American silent screen actor and director (Curly Top), born in New York City (d. 1959)
• Oct 9 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1938)
• Oct 11 Piero Coppola, Italian conductor, artistic director (La Voix de son Maître (The Gramophone Company - France), 1923-34). pianist, and composer, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1971)
• Oct 14 Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1942)

• 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 Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
• Oct 23 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec (d. 1961)
• Oct 25 François Pauwels, Dutch writer and attorney, born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
• Oct 25 Nils Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter, born in Bettna, Södermanland, Sweden (d. 1943)

• Oct 26 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, born in Hulai-Pole, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
• Oct 26 Runar Schildt, Finnish writer (Segrande Eros), born in Helsinki (d. 1925)
• Oct 30 Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek athlete (Olympic gold standing long jump, bronze high jump 1912, 2 silver 1908), born in Pylos, Greece (d. 1913)
• Oct 31 George Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (Flying the Arctic), born in Hallett, Australia (d. 1958)
• Oct 31 Harold Vincent Milligan, American musician and composer, born in Astoria, Oregon (d. 1951)
• Oct 31 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1944)
• Nov 2 Dutch Zwilling, American baseball outfielder (Federal League HR all-time leader), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1978)
• Nov 3 William Denis Browne, British composer, born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England (d. 1915)

• Nov 8 David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer, born in Vefsn, Norway (d. 1974)
• 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 10 Hugh Wakefield, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Blithe Spirit), born in Wanstead, England (d. 1971)
• Nov 11 Abul Kalam Azad, 1st Minister of Education in the Indian government, born in Makkah, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (d. 1958)
• Nov 15 James Morrison, American actor (Wine of Youth, Little Detectives), born in Mattoon, Illinois (d. 1974)
• Nov 16 Burnet Corwin Tuthill, American composer (Laurentia), born in New York City (d. 1982)
• Nov 16 Clinton Golden, American labor leader (founder of the United Steelworkers of America), born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (d. 1961)
• Nov 16 Henri Bosco, French author and poet (Gogol), born in Avignon, France (d. 1976)
• Nov 18 Frances Marion, American screenwriter and actress (Pollyanna), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1973)

• Nov 22 Tarzan of the Apes, Fictional character from the famous novel of the same name by author Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Nov 23 Harpo Marx [Adolph], American actor and comedian (Marx brothers), born in New York City (d. 1964)
• Nov 23 Nana Bryant, American stage and screen actress (Ladies of the Chorus; Harvey; Brewster's Millions), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1955)
• Nov 24 Cathleen Nesbitt, British actress (The Farmer's Daughter), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1982)
• Nov 24 Dale Carnegie, American writer and public speaker (How to Win Friends & Influence People), born in Maryville, Missouri (d. 1955)
• Nov 24 Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist (d. 1972)
• Nov 24 Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor and prototype for silent films master criminal (Metropolis, Spies), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1955)
• Nov 26 Franz Jung, German writer and political activist, born in Nysa (d. 1963)
• Dec 3 Algernon Kingscote, English tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1919), born in Bangalore, India (d. 1964)
• Dec 3 Ion Nonna Otescu, Romanian composer and educator (Bucharest Conservatory, 1913-40), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1940)
• Dec 5 Áskell Snorrason, Icelandic composer, born in Öndolfsstaðir, Iceland (d. 1970)
• Dec 6 Emiliana de Zubeldía, Spanish-Mexican concert pianist, composer - chiefly for guitar (Landscape Basko), and educator (Academy of Music at the University of Sonora, 1947-87), born in Salinas de Oro, Spain (d. 1987)
• Dec 6 Will Hay [William Thomson Hay], British comedian, actor and amateur astronomer, born in County Durham, England (d. 1949)
• Dec 7 Hamilton Fish III, American politician (U.S. Representative from New York, 1920-45), born in Garrison, New York (d. 1991)
• Dec 7 Heywood Broun, American journalist (1st President of American Newspaper Guild), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1939)
• Dec 7 Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish writer (House of Children), born in Londonderry, Ireland (d. 1957)
• Dec 8 Fiske Kimball, American architect and art historian, born in Newton, Massachusetts (d. 1955)
• Dec 8 Paul Cavanagh, British actor (The Woman in Green, Tarzan & his Mate), born in Chislehurst, England (d. 1964)
• Dec 9 Mabel Stark, American tiger trainer "crazy Mabel", born in Tennessee or Kentucky (d. 1968)
• Dec 15 Artturi Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer (Kati), born in Ylihärmä, Finland (d. 1963)

• 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 16 Alphonse Juin, French general and Marshal, born in Bône, French Algeria (d. 1967)
• Dec 18 Gladys Cooper, British actress (My Fair Lady), born in Lewisham, England (d. 1971)
• Dec 18 Robert Moses, American Parks official (oversaw rebuilding of Long Island & NYC parks & roads), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1981)
• Dec 19 (Frederick) "Fritz" Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (Cincinnati Symphony, 1922-31; Pittsburgh Symphony, 1938-48; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1953-63), and educator (Curtis Institute), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1963) [1]
• Dec 20 Fred Merkle, American baseball figure, born in Watertown, Wisconsin (d. 1958)
• Dec 22 J. Arthur Rank, English industrialist, born in Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom (d. 1972)
• Dec 23 Friedrich Wolf, German writer and diplomat, born in Neuwied, Germany (d. 1953)
• Dec 27 (Raffaele Attilio) "Tito" Schipa, Italian tenor and composer (La Rondine), born in Lecce, Italy (d. 1965)
• Dec 27 Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (Metropolis), born in Tauperlitz, Döhlau, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1954)
• Dec 28 Gabriel von Wayditch, Hungarian-American composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1969)
• Dec 29 Joseph Beran, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, born in Pilsen, Czech Republic (d. 1969)

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