Page 6: Famous Personalities Born In 1885

Sep 22 Ben chifley: Prime minister of australia  

Sep 22 Gunnar asplund: Swedish architect  

Sep 24 Herman bouber: Dutch actor/playwright (sailor's wives)  

Sep 26 Anna m f "annie" wageningen-salomons: Author (girl student) [or 6/26]  

Sep 27 Harry blackstone: Sr., american magician  

Sep 28 Wilbur 'lefty' good: Pitcher (ny yankees, 1905)  

Oct 01 Louis untermeyer: Nyc, poet/critic (immortal poems, story poems)  

Oct 02 Ruth bryan rohde: Us, (rep), minister to denmark  

Oct 03 Sophie treadwell: American playwright and journalist  

Oct 03 Langley collyer: Hoarder  

Oct 04 Henricus wijdefield: Dutch architect (peace palace)  

Oct 07 Niels bohr: Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (nobel 1922)  

Oct 08 William henry bennett vodery: Composer  

Oct 10 Walter anderson: German folklorist  

Oct 11 Francois mauriac: France, novelist/poet/playwright (nobel 1952)  

Oct 11 Alfred haar: Hungary, mathematician  

Oct 16 Dorando di desiderio pietri: Italian marathoner (olympic-dq gold-1908)  

Oct 17 Aaf bouber-ten hoope: Dutch actress (jantjes)/wife of herman bouber  

Oct 19 Charles merrill: American investment banker  

Oct 21 Egon joseph wellesz: Austria, composer/musicologist  

Oct 21 Jan altink: Dutch painter/co-founder (ploeg)  

Oct 22 Lothar windsperger: Composer  

Oct 22 Giovanni martinelli: Montagnana italy, opera singer (ny met)  

Oct 23 Lawren harris: Canadian painter  

Oct 24 Ernest claes: Belgian author (saints from zichem)  

Oct 27 Sigrid hjertén: Swedish modernist painter  

Oct 28 Velimir khlebnikov: Russian poet  

Oct 28 V chlebnikov: Writer  

Oct 30 Ezra loomis pound: Hailey idaho, poet (cantos)  

Nov 02 Harlow shapley: Us, astronomer (studied the galaxies)  

Nov 05 Will durant: Us, author/historian (story of civilization)  

Nov 06 Emiel poetou: Flemish sculptor  

Nov 08 Emil fahrenkamp: German architect  

Nov 08 Hans cloos: German geologist  

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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,