Birthdays Date 1905 January | History by KabAstro

Ray Milland (1905-1986)

Jan 3 Welsh actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), born in Neath, Wales

Jan 4 Sterling Holloway, American actor (The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, The Aristocats, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree), born in Cedartown, Georgia (d. 1992)
Jan 6 Eric Frank Russell, British sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides), born in Sandhurst, Berkshire (d. 1978)
Jan 8 Carl Gustav Hempel, German writer and philosopher, born in Oranienburg, Germany (d. 1997)
Jan 8 Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and surrealist poet, born in La Spezia, Italy (d. 1988)
Jan 11 Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist (d. 1960)
Jan 11 John Henry Jacques, English co-operative retailer and politician, born in Ashington, Northumberland (d. 1995)
Jan 12 James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist, born in Atchison, Kansas (d. 1997)
Jan 12 Marie Paxton, British stage and screen actress (Ouanga; Kind Lady), born in London, England (d. 1992)
Jan 13 Kay Francis [Katherine E Gibbs], American actress (False Madonna), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1968)
Jan 13 Percy Humphrey, American jazz trumpet player and bandleader, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1995)
Jan 14 Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan, born in Gunma, Japan (d. 1995)
Jan 15 Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese film actor (Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1985)
Jan 15 Roosevelt Holts, American blues singer and guitarist, born in Tylertown, Mississippi (d. 1994)
Jan 15 Torin Thatcher, British actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), born in Bombay Presidency, British India (d. 1981)
Jan 16 Ernesto Halffter, Spanish classical and film score composer (Rapsodia portuguesa; Don Quixote de la Mancha), and conductor, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1989)
Jan 17 Franz Schmid, German climber (1st to ascend northside of Matterhorn 1931), born in Garmisch, Germany (d. 1992)
Jan 17 Grant Withers, American actor (Rio Grande, Oklahoma, Annie), born in Pueblo, Colorado (d. 1959)
Jan 17 Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
Jan 18 Chick Chandler [Fehmer Chandler], American actor (Seven Doors to Death, One Happy Family), born in Kingston, New York (d. 1988)
Jan 18 Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mafioso and crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy (d. 2002)
Jan 19 Anne Hummert, American radio pioneer and producer of daytime radio serials during the 1930s and 1940s (Just Plain Bill, The Romance of Helen Trent), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1996)
Jan 19 Oveta Culp Hobby, American government official (1st US Secretary of Health) and newspaper publisher (Houston Post), born in Killeen, Texas (d. 1995)
Jan 21 "Ossie" O.S. Stevens Nock, English railway writer, born in Sutton, England (d. 1994)

Christian Dior (1905-1957)

Jan 21 French fashion designer (New Look), born in Granville, France

Jan 21 Karl "The Great" Wallenda, German acrobat (The Flying Wallendas) (d. 1978)
Jan 23 David Newell, American actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves), born in Carthage, Missouri (d. 1980)
Jan 23 Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1953)
Jan 24 Dorothy Patten, American actress, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 1975)
Jan 24 J. Howard Marshall [James Howard Marshall II), American businessman and husband of Anna Nicole Smith, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
Jan 25 Julia Smith, American composer (Prairie Kaleidoscope; Cynthia Parker), pianist (Orchestrette Classique), teacher, and musicologist (Aaron Copland: His Work and Contribution to American Music), born in Denton, Texas (d. 1989)
Jan 26 Charles Lane, American actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2007)
Jan 26 John Carmel Heenan, British clergyman, Catholic Cardinal (Archbishop of Westminster, 1963-75), born in Ilford, England (d. 1975)
Jan 26 Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austrian singer who inspired "The Sound of Music", born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1987)
Jan 27 Howard McNear, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Anatomy of a Murder, Irma La Douce), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1969)
Jan 27 Luther Diamond, American radio personality (d. 1994)
Jan 28 Luther Simjian, Armenian-American Inventor (teleprompter and first self-posing portrait camera), born in Aintab, Ottoman Empire (d. 1997)
Jan 29 Barnett Newmann, American abstract expressionist painter (Black Fire I), born in New York City (d. 1970)

Emilio G. Segrè (1905-1989)

Jan 30 Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), born in Tivoli, Italy

Jan 31 Anna Blaman [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1960)
Jan 31 Eva Hart, British Titanic passenger, one of last living survivors, born in Ilford, Essex, England (d. 1996)
Jan 31 John O'Hara, American short story writer and novelist (Appointment in Samarra; Pal Joey; BUtterfield-8), born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (d. 1970)