Page 3: Famous Personalities Born In 1897

Mar 25 John laurie: Dumfries scotland, actor (jericho, island of desire)  

Mar 27 Carlo mierendorff: German politician/anti-fascist  

Mar 27 ... hartree: Mathematician  

Mar 28 Sepp herberger: German football coach  

Apr 01 Willem h van de pol: Dutch theologist (christian dilemma)  

Apr 04 Pierre fresnay: Paris france, actor (grand illusion)  

Apr 07 Harald sigurd johan saeverud: Composer [os]  

Apr 07 Erich loewenhardt: German flying ace of world war i  

Apr 07 Walter winchell: Harlem nyc, newscaster/columnist (untouchables)  

Apr 08 Herbert eimert: German composer/musicologist (glockenspiel)  

Apr 10 Ross youngs: American baseball player  

Apr 11 Caspar neher: German set designer/librettist  

Apr 13 Werner voss: German world war i pilot  

Apr 14 Claire windsor: American actress  

Apr 14 Barbara baroness wootton of abinger: English lower house leader  

Apr 16 John b glubb: British commandant/writer (a soldier with the arabs)  

Apr 16 Arthur charles ernest hoeree: Composer  

Apr 16 Jaap vranken: Dutch organist/composer (stabat mater)  

Apr 17 Harald saeverud: Bergen norway, composer (saline) [ns]  

Apr 17 Antonius f "anton" coolen: Dutch author (village by the river)  

Apr 17 Thornton n wilder: Us, novelist/playwright (our town)  

Apr 18 Pedro regas: Actor (pat paulsen's half a comedy hour) [or apr 12]  

Apr 18 Ardito desio: Italian topographer  

Apr 19 Peter de noronha: Indian businessman and philanthropist  

Apr 19 Vivienne segal: Phila, broadway actress (pal joey)  

Apr 19 Gertrude vanderbilt whitney: Sculptor/art benefactor  

Apr 20 Gregory ratoff: Petrograd russia, actor/director (corsican brothers)  

Apr 20 Bernard verhoeven: Poet/literature (about the laugh)  

Apr 23 Lester bowles pearson: (l) 14th canadian pm (1963-68) (nobel 1957)  

Apr 23 Harold french: Director (encore)/actor  

Apr 23 Lucius du bignon clay: Us, general (ww ii)/gov (west germany)  

Apr 23 John wengraf: Vienna austria, actor (12 to moon, pride & passion)  

Apr 24 Gyorgy kosa: Composer  

Apr 24 Benjamin lee whorf: Linguist (or 1797)  

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Jan 12 Isaac pitman: British inventor (pitman shorthand) (b. 1813)  

Jan 30 John cottam: Cricket (test for aust 1897, no sheffield matches),  

Feb 01 Constantin von ettingshausen: Austrian geologist (b. 1826)  

Feb 05 Hoss radbourn: Pitcher won 60 games in 1884,  

Feb 06 Ebenezer c brewer: British writer (dictionary of phrase & fable),  

Feb 07 Galileo ferraris: Italian physicist (ferrari),  

Feb 19 Karl t weierstrass: German mathematician,  

Feb 23 Woldemar bargiel: Composer,