Famous People Born in 1893

Birthdays 1 - 200 of 306

• Jan 1 Barney Stanley, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame forward (Stanley Cup 1915, Vancouver Millionaires; coach Chicago Black Hawks 1927-28), born in Edmonton, Alberta (d. 1971)
• Jan 2 Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
• Jan 3 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist and essayist (Gilles), born in Paris, France (d. 1945)

• Jan 4 Manuel Palau Boix, Spanish composer (Conservatory of Valencia), born in Alfara del Patriarca, Spain (d. 1967)
• Jan 4 Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007)
• Jan 5 Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik), born in Schlüchtern, Germany (d. 1975)
• Jan 5 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (Autobiography of a Yogi), born in Gorakhpur, India (d. 1952)
• Jan 5 Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. unknown)
• Jan 10 Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Australian World War I Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
• Jan 12 Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946)

• Jan 13 Clarke Ashton Smith, American sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci), born in Long Valley, California (d. 1961)
• Jan 13 Jan Evangelista Zelinka, Czech composer (Meluzina), born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1969)
• Jan 13 Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
• Jan 15 Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian politician (Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1939-41), born in Niš, Kingdom of Serbia (d. 1969)
• Jan 15 Ivor Novello [David Ivor Davies], Welsh composer, writer and actor (Keep the Home Fires Burning, The Truth Game), born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 1951)
• Jan 16 Daisy Kennedy, Australian concert violinist, born in Burra-Burra (now Burra), Australia (d. 1981)
• Jan 18 John Lawrence Seymour, American composer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1986)
• Jan 20 Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (Olympic silver triple jump; bronze long jump 1912), born in Norrköping, Sweden (d. 1946)
• Jan 20 Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist and anthropologist (Inuit and Eyak) (d. 1977)
• Jan 22 Conrad Veidt, German actor (Casablanca, Cabinet of Dr Calgary), born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1943)
• Jan 22 Godfried Devreese, Belgian violist, conductor, and composer (Elf Dance; Gothic Symphony),born in Kortrijk, Belgium (d. 1972)
• Jan 23 Frank Carlson, American politician (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), born in Cloud County, Kansas (d. 1987)
• Jan 26 Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
• Jan 27 Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
• Jan 28 Elliot Griffis, American composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1967)
• Jan 29 Edric Cundell, British composer (Serbia; The Tragedy of Deirdre) conductor, and educator (Guildhall School of Music, 1938-56), born in London, England (d. 1961)
• Jan 29 Martian Negrea, Romanian composer and conductor, born in Valea Viilor, Romania (d. 1973)
• Jan 31 Freya Stark, English explorer and travel writer (The Southern Gates of Arabia), born in Paris, France (d. 1993)
• Feb 2 Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician, born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary (d. 1974)
• Feb 2 Len Doyle, American actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1959)
• Feb 3 Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
• Feb 4 Abe Waddington, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 1 wicket; Yorkshire CCC), born in Bradford, England (d. 1959)
• Feb 4 Bernard Rogers, American composer (The Warrior; Three Japanese Dances; To The Fallen), and pedagogue (Eastman School, 1929-67), born in New York City (d. 1968)

• Feb 5 Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary (d. 1970)
• Feb 6 Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of UN General Assembly (1962-63), born in Sialkot, Pakistan (d. 1985)
• Feb 8 Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)

• Feb 12 Marcel Minnaert, Belgian-Dutch astronomer, and writer (Light and colour in the open air), born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1970)

• Feb 13 Ana Pauker, Romanian communist leader and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1947-52), the world's 1st female Foreign Minister, born in Codăești, Vaslui County, Kingdom of Romania (d. 1960)
• Feb 14 Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen), born in Frederiksberg, Denmark (d. 1965)
• Feb 15 Harm Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch painter, etcher and ceramist, born in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands (d. 1985)
• Feb 15 Walter Donaldson, American pianist and popular song composer ("Makin' Whoopee"; "My Blue Heaven"; My Buddy"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1947)
• Feb 17 Wally Pipp, American baseball first baseman (World Series 1923; AL HR leader 1916, 17; NY Yankees), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1965)
• Feb 19 Cedric Hardwicke, British stage actor (Rope; Suspicion; Peter Pan; Richard III), born in Lye, Worcestershire, England (d. 1964)
• Feb 19 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi) (d. 1952)
• Feb 20 Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
• Feb 20 Russel Crouse, American Broadway playwright and journalist (Life with Father), born in Findlay, Ohio (d. 1966)
• Feb 21 Andres Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist, born in Linares, Spain (d. 1987)
• Feb 21 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director and theorist (Mother, Deserter), born in Penza, Russia (d. 1953)
• Feb 26 (Ivor Armstrong) I. A. Richards, British poet and influential critic (Meaning of Meaning), born in Sandbach, England (d. 1979)
• Feb 26 William Frawley, American vaudeville, silent and sound screen actor (I Love Lucy - "Fred"; My Three Sons - "Bub"; Miracle on 34th Street), born in Burlington, Iowa (d. 1966)
• Feb 27 Joseph Messner, Austrian organist and composer, born in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria (d. 1969)
• Feb 27 Ralph Linton, American cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1953)
• Feb 28 Ben Hecht, American novelist, screenwriter and playwright (The Front Page), born in New York City (d. 1964)
• Mar 1 Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
• Mar 2 Maxime Dumoulin, French composer, born in Lille, France (d. 1972)
• Mar 3 Beatrice Wood, American artist, ceramist and editor (The Blind Man, inspiration for Titanic film character Rose), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1998)
• Mar 3 Bill Nestell, American actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1966)
• Mar 5 Emmett J. Culligan, American entrepreneur (founder of water treatment organization Culligan Inc.), born in Yankton, South Dakota (d. 1970)
• Mar 6 [Walter] "Furry" Lewis, American blues musician, born in Greenville, Mississippi (d. 1981) [birth year disputed]
• Mar 7 Milton Avery, American artist, born in Almar, New York (d. 1965)
• Mar 8 Mississippi John Hurt, American country blues singer and guitarist, born in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi (d. 1966)
• Mar 9 Billy Southworth, American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1942, 44 St. Louis Cardinals; Boston Braves) and outfielder (World Series 1926 NY Giants), born in Harvard, Nebraska (d. 1969)
• Mar 9 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian painter and decorator, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1960)
• Mar 9 Hans Münch, Swiss conductor and composer, born in Mulhouse, France (d. 1983)
• Mar 16 Isobel Elsom, British actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1981)
• Mar 18 (John) Jean Goldkette, French jazz pianist and bandleader, born in Valenciennes, France (d. 1962)
• Mar 18 Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist, born in Novi Ligure, Italy (d. 1978)

• Mar 21 Geoffrey Dearmer, British poet (d. 1996)
• Mar 23 Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)
• Mar 24 George Sisler, American Baseball HOF first baseman (AL MVP 1922; AL batting champion 1920, 22 St. Louis Browns) and manager (St. Louis Browns 1924–26), born in Manchester, Ohio (d. 1973)
• Mar 25 Edward Hart, American politician (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities, born in Jersey City (d. 1961)
• Mar 26 James B. Conant, American chemist and President of Harvard University, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (d. 1978)

• Mar 27 Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist and writer (Ideology and Utopia; Diagnosis of Our Time), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1947)
• Mar 28 Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (20th Century Fox), born in Skourohorion, Greece (d. 1971)
• Mar 29 Dora Carrington, British Bloomsbury artist, born in Hereford, Herefordshire (d. 1932)
• Mar 31 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera; Berlin State Opera), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1954)
• Apr 1 Cicely Courtneidge, Australian actress (Double Exposure), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 1980)
• Apr 3 Leslie Howard [Stainer], British actor (Gone With The Wind; Of Human Bondage), born in London, England (d. 1943)
• Apr 3 Princess Maud of Fife, Countess of Southesk, born in East Sheen Lodge, Richmond-upon-Thames (d. 1945)
• Apr 4 Hans Riegel Sr., German confectioner and inventor of the 'gummy bear' (founder of Haribo), born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1945)

• Apr 8 Grace Cunard, American silent screen actress (Untamed, Resurrection), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1967)
• Apr 8 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), born in Molenbeek-St-Jean, Belgium (d. 1971)
• Apr 11 Dean Acheson, American statesman and U.S. Secretary of State (1949-53), born in Middletown, Connecticut (d. 1971)
• Apr 11 Johannes Theodoor Thijsse, Dutch director of Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, born in Amsterdam (d. 1984)
• Apr 16 Federico Mompou, Catalan composer (Música Callada -'The Voice of Silence'), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1987)
• Apr 16 Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, born in Łódź, Poland (d. 1981)
• Apr 17 Irene Castle, American vaudeville, stage, and screen dancer, and animal rights activist, born in New Rochelle, New York (d. 1969)
• Apr 18 Violette Morris, French athlete and spy for Nazi Germany, born in Paris (d. 1944)
• Apr 20 Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007, born in Morgan County, Indiana (d. 2008)
• Apr 20 Harold Lloyd, American silent and sound film actor, comedian, and director (Why Worry?; The Freshman; Safety Last!; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), born in Burchard, Nebraska (d. 1971)
• Apr 20 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, born in Boskovice (d. 1929)
• Apr 20 Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor, born in Barcelona (d. 1983)
• Apr 23 Frank Borzage, American director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1962)
• Apr 24 Robert Harron, American actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), born in New York City (d. 1920)

• Apr 27 Norman Bel Geddes, American theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End), born in Adrian, Michigan (d. 1958)
• Apr 29 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 1991)
• Apr 29 Harold Urey, American physical chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), born in Walkerton, Indiana (d. 1981)

• May 3 Hope Landin, American actress (I Remember Mama; Sugarfoot), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1973)
• May 3 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor, born in Abasha, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1975)
• May 4 Edgar Dearing, American actor (Pollyanna, Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy), born in Ceres, California (d. 1974)
• May 4 Royal Butler [Edwin Richey], American actor (Zenobia), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1973)
• May 7 Frank J. Selke, Canadian Hockey HOF executive (9 x Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens), born in Berlin, Ontario (d. 1985)
• May 8 Edd Roush, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1919; NL batting champion 1917, 19; Cincinnati Reds), born in Oakland City, Indiana (d. 1988)
• May 8 Francis Ouimet, American golfer (US Open 1913, US Amateur 1914, 31), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1967)
• May 8 Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster (BBC) and rugby union player (captain Harlequin RFC), born in Herefordshire, England (d. 1963)
• May 9 William Moulton Marston, American psychologist (inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector) and writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman), born in Saugus, Massachusetts (d. 1947)
• May 14 Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Russian microtonal composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1979)
• May 14 Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
• May 15 Michel Gusikoff, American violinist, concert master, and composer, born in New York City (d. 1978)
• May 15 Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up; Over She Goes), born in London (d. 1942)
• May 16 José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (Minister of Finance 1925-30, his murder helped lead to civil war), born in Tui, Spain (d. 1936)
• May 16 Paul Amadeus Pisk, Austrian-American composer, musicologist, and educator, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1990)
• May 17 Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor (developments in refrigeration), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1961)
• May 21 Arthur Carr, English cricket batsman and captain (11 Tests, 1 x 50; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Mickleham, England (d. 1963)
• May 23 Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
• May 24 Walter Baade, German-American astronomer (Andromeda), born in Schröttinghausen, German Empire (d. 1960)
• May 25 (Ernest) "Pop" Stoneman, American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and autoharp player ("Sinking of the Titanic"; The Stoneman Family), born in Monarat, Virginia (d. 1968)
• May 26 Eugene Goossens, British conductor and composer (Perseus), born in London, England (d. 1962)
• May 27 Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian, born in Essen, Germany (d. 2005)
• May 31 Janet Sobel [Jennie Olechovsky], Ukrainian-American abstract expressionist and drip-paint pioneering artist (Milky Way), born in Katerynoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) (d. 1968)
• Jun 3 Asen Karastoyanov, Bulgarian composer, born in Samokov, Bulgaria (d. 1976)
• Jun 4 Armand Călinescu, Prime Minister of Romania, born in Piteşti, Romania (d. 1939)
• Jun 4 Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife), born in Ostend, Belgium (d. 1977)
• Jun 6 Ludovic Feldman, Romanian composer, born in Galați, Romania (d. 1987)
• Jun 7 Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold 1920, 24, 28), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1938)
• Jun 9 Irish Meusel, American baseball left fielder (World Series 1921, 22; NL RBI leader 1923; Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants), born in Oakland, California (d. 1963)
• Jun 9 Samuel N. Behrman, American screenwriter (Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1973)
• Jun 10 Franz Andre, Belgian conductor, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1975)
• Jun 12 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and radio play director (Tomorrow It Will Be Better), born in Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1982)
• Jun 13 Dorothy L. Sayers, English novelist (The Nine Tailors), born in Oxford, England (d. 1957)
• Jun 14 Siggie Nordstrom, American singer (The Nordstrom Sisters), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1980)
• Jun 19 Adriaan Franciscus Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor and co-founder (Union National Arubano), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1965)
• Jun 21 Alois Hába, Czech composer, born in Vizovice, Zlín Region, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1973)
• Jun 22 Osvald Chlubna, Czech composer (Symphony of Life and Love; In Spring), and musicologist, born in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1971)
• Jun 23 Donald MacBride, American stage and screen character actor (Topper Returns; The Seven Year Itch; My Friend Irma - "Mr. Clyde"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1957)
• Jun 24 Roy O. Disney, American businessman and co-founder of the Walt Disney Company with brother Walt, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1971)
• Jun 26 "Big" Bill Broonzy, American blues singer and guitarist (Blues by Broonzy), born in Scott, Mississippi (d. 1958)
• Jun 26 Dorothy Fuldheim, American print and broadcast journalist (The Cleveland Press; WEWS-TV, Cleveland, Ohio), credited as being 1st woman in US to anchor a television news broadcast, born in Passiac, New Jersey (d. 1989)
• Jun 28 Luciano Gallet, Brazilian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1931)
• Jun 28 Nils Björkander, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1972)
• Jun 29 Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (Lemminkäinen; Juha; Schott Concerto), and educator, born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1958)
• Jun 29 Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet and resistance fighter, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1945)

• Jun 30 Harold Laski, English economist, academic, and poitical leader (Labour Party chairman,1945-46), born in Manchester, England (d. 1950)

• Jul 1 Walter Francis White, American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1955)
• Jul 2 Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center), born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 1950)
• Jul 7 Miroslav Krleža, Croatian poet, novelist and playwright (Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh), born in Zagreb, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1981)
• Jul 8 Fritz Perls, German-American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (father of Gestalt therapy), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1970)
• Jul 9 George Geary, English cricket fast bowler (14 Tests, 46 wickets), born in Barwell, Leicestershire, England (d. 1981)
• Jul 11 Jack Durston, English cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 5 wickets; Middlesex CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (Queens Park Rangers, Brentford), born in Clophill, England (d. 1965)
• Jul 14 Clarence J. Brown, American newspaper publisher and politician (US Rep-R-Ohio 1939-65), born in Blanchester, Ohio (d. 1965)
• Jul 14 John G. Strijdom, South African politician and nationalist, Prime Minister of South-Africa (1954-58), born in Willowmore, Cape Colony (d. 1958)
• Jul 14 Spencer Williams, American director, writer and actor (The Amos 'n' Andy Show), born in Vidalia, Louisiana (d. 1969)
• Jul 15 Enid Bennett, Australian silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins), born in York, Western Australia (d. 1969)
• Jul 18 Josef Hüttel, Czech composer, born in Mělník, Bohemia (d. 1951)
• Jul 18 Richard Dix, American actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron, The Ghost Ship), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1949)

• Jul 20 George Llewelyn-Davies, English inspiration for the Peter Pan character, born in London (d. 1915)
• Jul 20 Richard Billinger, Austrian poet and writer (From Where I Came), born in Sankt Marienkirchen, Austria (d. 1965)
• Jul 21 Hans Fallada [Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen], German writer (Little Man, What Now?), born in Greifswald (d. 1947)
• Jul 22 Jesse Haines, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1926, 31, 34; pitched no-hitter 1924; St. Louis Cardinals), born in Clayton, Ohio (d. 1978)
• Jul 23 Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), born in Topeka, Kansas (d. 1990)
• Jul 25 Dorothy Dickson, American actress and dancer (Paying The Piper; Danny Boy), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1995)
• Jul 26 George Grosz, German cartoonist and painter (Gott mit uns), born in Berlin (d. 1959)
• Jul 28 Rued Immanuel Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (Music of the Spheres; Antikrist), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1952) [1]
• Jul 28 Wilbur "Bullet" Rogan, American Baseball HOF pitcher, outfielder, manager (Kansas City Monarchs NgL 1920-38), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1967)

• Jul 31 Charles Wilfred Orr, English pianist and composer (settings of A.E. Housman poems), born in Cheltenham, England (d. 1976)
• Aug 1 Alexander, King of Greece (1917-20), born at Tatoi Palace in Parnitha, Kingdom of Greece (d. 1920)
• Aug 6 Guthrie McClintic, Broadway producer and director (Winterset), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1961)
• Aug 6 Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
• Aug 10 Douglas Moore, American organist, pianist, songwriter ("Goodnight Harvard"), and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Giants in the Earth; The Ballad of Baby Doe), born in Cutchogue, Long Island, New York (d. 1969)
• Aug 10 Voranc Prezikov [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki), born in Podgora, Austria-Hungary (d. 1950)
• Aug 10 William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, British politician (Governor General of Australia 1959-61), born in Torinturk, Scotland (d. 1961)
• Aug 12 Alfred Lunt, American Broadway actor (The Guardsman, Sally of the Sawdust), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1977)
• Aug 12 Howard Smith, American actor (Kiss of Death, Call Northside 777), born in Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 1968)
• Aug 14 Alfred Alessandrescu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest (d. 1959)
• Aug 14 Carl Benton Reid, American actor (Pressure Point, In a Lonely Place), born in Lansing, Michigan (d. 1973)
• Aug 15 Alexander Gauk, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1963)

• Aug 15 Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer, born in Pukekohe, New Zealand (d. 1950)

• Aug 18 Burleigh Grimes, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1931 St. Louis Cardinals; NL wins leader 1921, 28; NL strikeout leader 1921 Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Emerald, Wisconsin (d. 1985)
• Aug 18 Ernest MacMillan, Canadian organist, conductor and composer, born in Etobicoke, Ontario (d. 1973)
• Aug 19 Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1974)
• Aug 21 (Marie-Juliette) "Lili" Boulanger, French composer (first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize), born in Paris (d. 1918)
• Aug 21 Theresa Weld Blanchard, American figure skater (US Singles C'ship 1914, 20-24; Pairs C'ship 1920-27; Olympic bronze 1920), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1978)

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