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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Business
2-Nov-1885 25-Feb-1974 Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1934-53
Phog Allen
Basketball
18-Nov-1885 16-Sep-1974 KU Head Coach, 1919-56
Leona Anderson
Actor
3-Apr-1885 25-Dec-1973 House on Haunted Hill
Lionel Atwill
Actor
1-Mar-1885 22-Apr-1946 The Ghost of Frankenstein
Theda Bara
Actor
29-Jul-1885 7-Apr-1955 A Fool There Was
Wallace Beery
Actor
1-Apr-1885 15-Apr-1949 Grand Hotel
Alban Berg
Composer
9-Feb-1885 24-Dec-1935 Violin Concerto
Harry Blackstone
Magician
27-Sep-1885 16-Nov-1965 Vaudeville illusionist
Karen Blixen
Author
17-Apr-1885 7-Sep-1962 Babette's Feast and Out of Africa
Ernst Bloch
Philosopher
8-Jul-1885 4-Aug-1977 Principle of Hope
Niels Bohr
Physicist
7-Oct-1885 18-Nov-1962 Father of Quantum Theory
Hugo Boss
Fashion Designer
8-Jul-1885 9-Aug-1948 Designed Nazi uniforms
Heinrich Bruening
Head of State
26-Nov-1885 30-Mar-1970 Chancellor of Germany, 1930-32
Billie Burke
Actor
7-Aug-1885 14-May-1970 Glinda, the Good Witch of the North
Doyle E. Carlton
Politician
6-Jul-1885 25-Oct-1972 Governor of Florida, 1929-33
Edward P. Carville
Politician
14-May-1885 27-Jun-1956 Governor of Nevada, 1939-45
Ben Chifley
Head of State
22-Sep-1885 13-Jun-1951 Prime Minister of Australia, 1945-49
A. J. Clark
Scientist
19-Aug-1885 30-Jul-1941 Drug responses
George Cleveland
Actor
17-Sep-1885 15-Jul-1957 Gramps on Lassie
John Curtin
Head of State
8-Jan-1885 5-Jul-1945 Prime Minister of Australia, 1941-45
Jan Czochralski
Scientist
23-Oct-1885 22-Apr-1953 Czochralski Process
Esther Dale
Actor
10-Nov-1885 23-Jul-1961 Curly Top
Joseph S. Davis
Economist
5-Nov-1885 1975 Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-58
Will Durant
Historian
5-Nov-1885 7-Nov-1981 The Story of Civilization
Allan Dwan
Film Director
3-Apr-1885 28-Dec-1981 Sands of Iwo Jima
Edna Ferber
Novelist
15-Aug-1885 16-Apr-1968 Show Boat and Giant
Jacques Feyder
Film Director
21-Jul-1885 24-May-1948 Carnival in Flanders
George Fitzmaurice
Film Director
13-Feb-1885 13-Jun-1940 The Son of the Sheik
Alfred C. Fuller
Business
13-Jan-1885 4-Dec-1973 Founder of Fuller Brush Company
Amy Jacques Garvey
Activist
31-Dec-1885 25-Jul-1973 Pan-African black nationalist
Walter S. Gifford
Business
10-Jan-1885 7-May-1966 President of AT&T, 1925-48
Romano Guardini
Religion
17-Feb-1885 1-Oct-1968 Roman Catholic theologian
Ethel Browne Harvey
Zoologist
14-Dec-1885 2-Sep-1965 Embryology of sea urchins
Gabby Hayes
Actor
7-May-1885 9-Feb-1969 Don't Fence Me In
George de Hevesy
Chemist
1-Aug-1885 5-Jul-1966 Radioisotope researcher
DuBose Heyward
Novelist
31-Aug-1885 16-Jun-1940 Porgy
Joseph H. Himes
Politician
15-Aug-1885 9-Sep-1960 Congressman from Ohio, 1921-23
Hedda Hopper
Actor
2-May-1885 1-Feb-1966 Queen of the Quickies
Karen Horney
Psychologist
16-Sep-1885 4-Dec-1952 Disputed Freud's concept of "penis envy"
Tom Kennedy
Actor
15-Jul-1885 6-Oct-1965 Character actor, 1910s to 1960s
Jerome Kern
Composer
27-Jan-1885 12-Nov-1945 Show Boat
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Novelist
21-Jul-1885 3-Jul-1970 All That Glitters
Otto Klemperer
Conductor
14-May-1885 6-Jul-1973 Prominent German conductor
Otto Kruger
Actor
6-Sep-1885 6-Sep-1974 Saboteur
Nikolai Krylenko
Government
2-May-1885 29-Jul-1938 Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Ring Lardner
Journalist
6-Mar-1885 25-Sep-1933 Gullible's Travels
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
11-Sep-1885 2-Mar-1930 Lady Chatterley's Lover
Leadbelly
Guitarist
29-Jan-1885 6-Dec-1949 Goodnight Irene
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist
7-Feb-1885 10-Jan-1951 Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry
Hans Luther
Head of State
10-Mar-1885 11-May-1962 German Chancellor 1925-26
Edmund C. Lynch
Business
19-May-1885 12-May-1938 The Lynch of Merrill-Lynch
François Mauriac
Novelist
11-Oct-1885 1-Sep-1970 Le Noeud de Vipères
André Maurois
Author
26-Jul-1885 9-Oct-1967 French biographer
Louis B. Mayer
Film/TV Producer
4-Jul-1885 29-Oct-1957 The final M in MGM
James M. Mead
Politician
27-Dec-1885 15-Mar-1964 US Senator from New York, 1938-47
Charles E. Merrill
Business
19-Oct-1885 6-Oct-1956 Founder of Merrill Lynch
Robert Milton
Film Director
24-Jan-1885 13-Jan-1956 Outward Bound
George R. Minot
Doctor
2-Dec-1885 25-Feb-1950 Liver therapy for pernicious anemia
Jimmy Monaco
Composer
13-Jan-1885 16-Oct-1945 You Made Me Love You
John Moses
Politician
12-Jun-1885 3-Mar-1945 Governor of North Dakota, 1939-45
Chester W. Nimitz
Military
24-Feb-1885 20-Feb-1966 WWII Commander of US Pacific Navy
King Oliver
Jazz Musician
11-May-1885 10-Apr-1938 King Oliver Creole Jazz Band
Ruth Bryan Owen
Politician
2-Oct-1885 26-Jul-1954 Congresswoman and Ambassador to Demark
George S. Patton
Military
11-Nov-1885 21-Dec-1945 American WWII Army commander
Alice Paul
Activist
11-Jan-1885 9-Jul-1977 Suffragette
St. John Philby
Government
3-Apr-1885 30-Sep-1960 Sheikh Abdullah, Arabist
Ezra Pound
Poet
30-Oct-1885 1-Nov-1972 The Cantos
Joseph Banks Rhine
Paranormal
29-Sep-1885 20-Feb-1980 Father of modern parapsychology
Kenneth Roberts
Novelist
8-Dec-1885 21-Jul-1957 Northwest Passage
Charles G. Ross
Government
9-Nov-1885 5-Dec-1950 White House Press Secretary for Truman
Luigi Russolo
Author
30-Apr-1885 6-Feb-1947 Authored the manifesto The Art of Noises
Erskine Sanford
Actor
19-Nov-1885 7-Jul-1969 Citizen Kane
Blanche Stuart Scott
Aviator
8-Apr-1885 12-Jan-1970 Auto and air daredevil
Harlow Shapley
Astronomer
2-Nov-1885 20-Oct-1972 Organizer of Heaven
Albert Sharpe
Actor
15-Apr-1885 13-Feb-1970 Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Walter W. Stewart
Economist
1885 Mar-1958 Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55
Julius Streicher
Journalist
12-Feb-1885 16-Oct-1946 Editor of Der Stuermer 1923-45
Erich von Stroheim
Actor
22-Sep-1885 12-May-1957 Swanson's servant in Sunset Blvd.
Guilhermina Suggia
Cellist
27-Jun-1885 30-Jul-1950 Cellist
Vladimir Tatlin
Sculptor
16-Dec-1885 31-May-1953 Monument to the Third International
Andrew Tombes
Actor
29-Jun-1885 17-Mar-1976 Doubting Thomas
Bess Truman
First Lady
13-Feb-1885 18-Oct-1982 First Lady under Harry S. Truman
Louis Untermeyer
Poet
1-Oct-1885 18-Dec-1977 Anthologist of poetry
Carl Van Doren
Author
10-Sep-1885 18-Jul-1950 The American Novel
Roland West
Film Director
20-Feb-1885 31-Mar-1952 The Bat Whispers
Elinor Wylie
Poet
7-Sep-1885 16-Dec-1928 Nets to Catch the Wind


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