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Carlo Gozzi
Writer, The Love for Three Oranges
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13 December 1720 |
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Heinrich Heine
Writer, Die Nacht
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1797 to a Jewish family, Heine was sent to Hamburg as a young man to work for his rich uncle. He studied at the universities at Bonn, Berlin and Göttingen, and got a law degree in 1825; he also changed his name to Heinrich Heine to ease his integration into German society...
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13 December 1797 |
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Phillips Brooks
Soundtrack, Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage
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13 December 1835 |
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Benjamin Young
Self, Pitcairn Island Today
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13 December 1851 |
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G.H. Chirgwin
Writer, The Blind Boy
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13 December 1854 |
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Lucien Guitry
Self, Those of Our Land
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13 December 1860 |
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Félix Galipaux
Actor, Gorgibus et Sganarelle
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13 December 1860 |
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Harry Todd
Actor, Alkali Ike's Auto
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13 December 1863 |
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Gustave Luders
Writer, The Prince of Pilsen
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13 December 1865 |
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Edward LeSaint
Actor, Modern Times
LeSaint started his stage career while still a child in Philadelphia. He moved to Hollywood in 1912 to work in the movies. Edward often played judges or college professors in films.
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13 December 1870 |
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George Ovey
Actor, Ruined by Love
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13 December 1870 |
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Emily Carr
Self, Klee Wyck
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13 December 1871 |
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Edward Childs Carpenter
Writer, The Major and the Minor
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13 December 1872 |
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Paul M. Bryan
Writer, The Fast Express
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13 December 1872 |
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Harry Stafford
Actor, The Winner
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13 December 1873 |
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Valery Briusov
Writer, Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Valeri Briusov was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist, critic, and historian. He was one of the founders of Symbolist movement in Russia. He was born Valeri Yakovlevich Briusov on December 13, 1873, in Moscow, Russia. His grandfather, Aleksandr Bakulin, was a poet, and his father, Yakov Briusov, was a wealthy merchant who also published his poems and stories...
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13 December 1873 |
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George Beban
Actor, His Sweetheart
American actor-director-writer-producer of silent pictures, formerly a singer and vaudevillian. A native of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, he was one of four sons born to Rocco Beban, a Dalmatian immigrant, and Johanna Dugan, from County Cork, Ireland. He exhibited singing talent at an early age and was known in San Francisco theater circles as "The Boy Baritone." By age 8...
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13 December 1873 |
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Gustave Kleeman
Actor, The Slacker's Heart
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13 December 1874 |
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Kenneth Lawton
Actor, The Gentleman from Louisiana
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13 December 1875 |
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Jaroslav Hurt
Actor, Falesný hrác
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13 December 1877 |
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Konstanze Grobe
Actress, Tischlein deck dich, Eselein streck dich, Knüppel aus dem Sack
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13 December 1878 |
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Ivo Dawson
Actor, Kitty Tailleur
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13 December 1879 |
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Eleanor Robson Belmont
Writer, The Case of the Black Parrot
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13 December 1879 |
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William R. Fraser
Miscellaneous Crew, The Kid Brother
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13 December 1879 |
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Niels Th. Thomsen
Writer, Hvorledes jeg kom til Filmen
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13 December 1879 |
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Richard Schayer
Writer, Frankenstein
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13 December 1880 |
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Luciano Molinari
Actor, La scala di seta
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13 December 1880 |
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Maurice Goldberg
Camera and Electrical Department, City Across the River
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13 December 1881 |
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Bertl Schultes
Actor, Der verlorene Sohn
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13 December 1881 |
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Park French
Art Department, The Thief of Bagdad
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13 December 1881 |
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Albert Austin
Actor, The Immigrant
British-born supporting actor, primarily in the films of Charles Chaplin, for whom Austin also worked as an assistant director and co-writer. His career paralleled that of Chaplin, but dwindled prior to the coming of sound. His brother, William Austin, had a lengthy Hollywood career as a character actor.
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13 December 1882 |
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Harold Dearden
Writer, Wives Beware
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13 December 1882 |
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John B. O'Brien
Actor, The Second Mrs. Roebuck
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13 December 1884 |
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William Quinn
Actor, The Cry of the First Born
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13 December 1884 |
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L.E. Oates
Miscellaneous Crew, Mystery of the Wax Museum
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13 December 1884 |
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Kenelm Foss
Writer, Arcadia Revisited
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13 December 1885 |
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Maria Morozowicz-Szczepkowska
Writer, Dr. Monica
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13 December 1885 |
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Diego Rivera
Self, Exotic Mexico
Diego Rivera was a revolutionary Mexican artist and controversial politician, whose actions fluctuated from supporting Joseph Stalin and Soviet communism to dealing with Henry Ford and other tycoons promoting Pan-Americanism. He was born Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuciento Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez on December 8...
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13 December 1886 |
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Doris Johannessen
Actress, Den stundesløse
Celebrated stage actress from 1905-1963, a mainstay of the national stage in Bergen. Several performances in the plays of Holberg, and other Norwegian writers. Her specialty in the later years was a long repertoire of great comedy acting. Also a gifted director. Appeared only in two Danish silent movies in 1913: " Arvingen till Skjoldborg " and " Enken ".
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13 December 1886 |
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Jean Signoret
Actor, L'histoire de Marouf
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13 December 1886 |
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Alvin C. York
Writer, Sergeant York
Alvin Cullum York was born in rural Pall Mall, Tennessee. Raised in the mountains, he learned to shoot guns when he was just a boy, becoming an expert with both a pistol and rifle before his teens. Under the influence of his high school girlfriend--and his future wife--Gracie Williams, he also became a devout born-again Christian and gave up the drinking...
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13 December 1887 |
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George Daly
Actor, King Kong
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13 December 1888 |
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Percy Hermes
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, Green for Danger
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13 December 1888 |
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Fred Maguire
Editor, And When the Sky Was Opened
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13 December 1889 |
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Elmer Decker
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director, King Dinosaur
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13 December 1889 |
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Bernhard Villinger
Actor, Milak, der Grönlandjäger
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13 December 1889 |
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Marc Connelly
Writer, Captains Courageous
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13 December 1890 |
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Minoru Takase
Actor, Gekka no kyôto
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13 December 1890 |
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Dulcie Deamer
Writer, A Daughter of Australia
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13 December 1890 |
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Georg Christensen
Actor, Udenfor loven
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13 December 1890 |