Page 5: Famous Personalities Born In 1885

Aug 15 Mary nash: Troy ny, actress (phila story, till the clouds roll by)  

Aug 16 Charles carson: London england, actor (cry the beloved country)  

Aug 17 Clara [g meijer-]wichmann: German anarchists/feminist (wife & society)  

Aug 17 Kurt hiller: Writer  

Aug 18 Nettie palmer: Australian poet and essayist  

Aug 19 Werner elert: German luthers theologist  

Aug 19 Elsie ferguson: Ny, actress (lie, footlights, scarlet pages)  

Aug 20 Dino campana: Italian poet (canti orfici)  

Aug 23 Henry thomas tizard: Scientist  

Aug 26 Jules romains: France, novelist/playwright/poet (men of good will)  

Aug 28 Vance palmer: Australian author  

Aug 28 Armas toivo valdemar maasalo: Composer  

Aug 31 Dubose heyward: Novelist (porgy)  

Sep 04 Dimitrios loundras: Greek gymnast  

Sep 04 Antonio bacci: Italian cardinal  

Sep 05 John raedecker: Dutch sculptor (national monument on the dam)  

Sep 06 Franz t csokor: Austrian author (writings on the wall)  

Sep 06 Otto kruger: Toledo ohio, actor (lux video theater, high noon)  

Sep 07 Harry sinclair lewis: Us, writer (babbitt, nobel 1930)  

Sep 10 Johannes de jong: Cardinal/archbishop of utrecht (handbook)  

Sep 10 Berthold altaner: German church historian (patrologie)  

Sep 10 Carl clinton van doren: Us literary (9th wave)  

Sep 11 Herbert stothart: Composer  

Sep 11 David herbert "dh" lawrence: England, writer (lady chatterly's lover)  

Sep 11 Eratstus flaval beadle: Publisher (beadle's dime novels)  

Sep 13 Wilhelm blaschke: Austrian geometer  

Sep 14 Vittorio gui: Italian conductor/composer (batture d'aspetto)  

Sep 16 Karen horney: German/us, neo-freudian psychoanalyst  

Sep 17 Uzeir abdul huseyn hajibeyov: Composer  

Sep 17 George cleveland: Sydney nova scotia, actor (courage of lassie)  

Sep 18 Abdul muslim mahomayev: Composer  

Sep 20 Ferdinand "jelly roll" morton: New orleans, jazz pianist/composer  

Sep 21 Thomas alexandrovich de hartmann: Composer  

Sep 22 Erich von stroheim: Early film director/actor (grand illusion)  

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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,