Famous Personalities Born In 1885

Jan 01 Roland diggle: Composer  

Jan 02 Johannes ringers: Dutch water engineer (dikes)  

Jan 05 Humbert wolfe: Italian-british poet  

Jan 08 A. j. muste: Dutch pacifist and activist  

Jan 08 John curtin: Victoria, australian pm (labor, 1941-45)  

Jan 11 Jack hoxie: American actor, rodeo performer  

Jan 11 Alice paul: Era advocate/founder (national woman's party)  

Jan 13 Alfred fuller: Ceo (fuller brush man)  

Jan 15 Grover lowdermilk: American baseball player  

Jan 15 Lorenz böhler: Austrian physician  

Jan 15 Huang yuanyong: Chinese writer  

Jan 16 Zhou zuoren: Chinese writer  

Jan 16 Wladyslaw raczkiewicz: President of poland (1939-40)  

Jan 17 Joseph arendt: Belgian worker's union leader  

Jan 17 E ball-hennings: Writer  

Jan 21 Huddie ledbetter: "leadbelly", blues singer [or 12/1/89, 1/29/89]  

Jan 21 Umberto nobile: Italian general  

Jan 23 Boleslaw wallek-walewski: Composer  

Jan 25 A j else mauhs: German/dutch actress (eline vere, l'aiglon)  

Jan 25 Kitahara hakushÅ«: Japanese poets and children's writers  

Jan 27 Eduard künneke: German composer  

Jan 27 Maeda seison: Japanese painter  

Jan 27 Jerome kern: Nyc, broadway composer (showboat, roberta)  

Jan 30 John henry towers: Aviator/naval hero  

Feb 01 Camille chautemps: Premier france  

Feb 02 Aldo palazzeschi: [giurlani], italian writer (i cavalli bianchi)  

Feb 04 Cairine ray wilson: Montreal, 1st female canadian senator (appointed)  

Feb 07 Sinclair lewis: Novelist/social critic (main street, nobel 1930)  

Feb 08 Edith evans: London england, actress (tom jones, david copperfield)  

Feb 09 Alban maria johannes berg: Vienna austria, a lulu of a composer!  

Feb 12 Licinio refice: Composer  

Feb 13 Elizabeth virginia "bess" truman: 1st lady (1945-52)  

Feb 14 Syed zafarul hasan: Prominent muslim indian/pakistani philosopher  

Feb 15 Richard wurz: Composer  

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Jan 04 Eduard yosif kotek: Composer,  

Jan 06 Peter c asbjornsen: Norwegian fairy tale writer,  

Jan 13 Schuyler colfax: American politician (b.1823)  

Jan 19 Fred burnaby: English colonel/balloon pioneer,  

Jan 24 Martin r delany: Politician & black nationalist,  

Jan 26 Charles george gordon: Brit gov-gen (sudan), executed at 51  

Feb 14 Jules vallès: French writer (b. 1832)  

Feb 15 Leopold damrosch: Composer,