Page 8: Famous Personalities Born In 1898

Aug 24 Malcolm cowley: Belsano penn, author (flowering of new england)  

Aug 24 Marie j hugenholtz: [doctor grandi], surgeon on curacao  

Aug 25 Arthur wood: England cricketer  

Aug 25 Helmut hasse: German mathematician  

Aug 26 Peggy guggenheim: Art patron & collector  

Aug 27 Enny de leeuwe: [engelina], actress (anatevka)/wife of pierre mols  

Aug 28 Ludwig turek: Writer  

Aug 29 Preston sturges: [edmund p biden], chic, director (sullivan's travels)  

Aug 30 Shirley booth: American actress  

Sep 01 Marilyn miller: [renolds], us actress (sunny)/wife of jack pickford  

Sep 05 Ebbe hamerik: Composer  

Sep 08 Queenie smith: Nyc, actress/dancer (funny side)  

Sep 09 Frank "fordham flash" frisch: Nyc, baseball player (nl mvp 1931)  

Sep 10 Waldo semon: American inventor  

Sep 10 Bessie love: Midland tx, actress (broadway melody, children of damned)  

Sep 10 Adele marie astaire: Omaha ne, sister of fred astaire, entertainer  

Sep 12 Ben shahn: Painter (1964 arts & letters)  

Sep 12 Salvador bacarisse: Spanish composer  

Sep 14 Ernest nash: German-born archaeologist  

Sep 15 John j slauerhoff: Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (el dorado)  

Sep 16 H.a. rey: American children's author, creator of "curious george"  

Sep 19 Giuseppe saragat: President of italy (1964-71)  

Sep 21 Tushar kanti ghosh: World's oldest/longest serving newspaper editor  

Sep 22 Katherine alexander: American actress  

Sep 24 Howard w florey: Aust, pathologist; purified penicillin (nobel '45)  

Sep 24 Charlotte d baroness of pallandt: Dutch sculptress  

Sep 25 Robert brackman american artist: Robert brackman american artist (d. 1980)  

Sep 26 George gershwin: [jacob gershvin], bkln, composer (rhapsody in blue)  

Sep 27 Vincent (miller) youmans: Us composer/songwriter (tea for two)  

Sep 28 Carl clauberg: Nazi concentration camp doctor  

Sep 29 Trofim lysenko: Stalinist biologist  

Sep 30 Felix kersten: Baltic-german/finnish masseuse (heinrich himmler)  

Sep 30 Johannes rontgen: Composer  

Sep 30 Renée adorée: French actress  

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Jan 03 James wimshurst: British designer/inventor (vacuum pump),  

Jan 04 Frantisek pivoda: Composer,  

Jan 11 Gaetano capocci: Composer,  

Jan 14 Lewis carroll: Writer (alice in wonderland),  

Jan 16 Charles pelham villiers: Longest-serving mp in the british house of commons (b. 1802)  

Jan 23 W a remy: Composer,  

Jan 28 Alexandru flechtenmacher: Composer,  

Feb 16 Thomas bracken: New zealand poet (b. 1843)