October.E2.80.93December 2 1879

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max von laue



leon trotsky



paul klee



october 2 – wallace stevens, american poet (d. 1955)
october 3 – warner oland, swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
october 5 – francis peyton rous, american pathologist, recipient of nobel prize in physiology or medicine (d. 1970)
october 9 – max von laue, german physicist, nobel prize laureate (d. 1960)
october 15 – jane darwell, american actress (d. 1967)
october 18 – giovanni marinelli, italian fascist political leader (d. 1944)
october 21

joseph canteloube, french composer , singer (d. 1957)
eugene ely, american pioneer aviator (d. 1911)


october 28 – sydney jacob, indian born british male tennis player (d. 1977)
october 29 – franz von papen, german diplomat; served chancellor (1932) , vice-chancellor (1933–34; under adolf hitler) (d. 1969)
november 1 – pál teleki, 2-time prime minister of hungary (d. 1941)
november 4 – rogers, american humorist (d. 1935)
november 7 – leon trotsky, russian revolutionary (d. 1940)
november 9 – s. o. davies, oldest post-war british mp (d. 1972)
november 10

vachel lindsay, american poet (d. 1931)
patrick pearse, irish rebel leader (d. 1916)


november 15 – lewis stone, american stage , film actor, known playing judge hardy (d. 1953)
november 26 – charles w. goddard, playwright , screenwriter (d. 1951)
december 4 – nagai kafu, japanese writer (d. 1959)
december 5 – clyde cessna, american aviator , aircraft designer , manufacturer (d. 1954)
december 10

jouett shouse, american politician (d. 1968)
hanna grönvall, swedish politician , trade union worker. (d. 1953)
p. l. robertson, canadian inventor (d. 1951)
e. h. shepard, english artist , book illustrator (d. 1976)


december 12 – laura hope crews, american film , stage actress (d. 1942)
december 18 – paul klee, swiss artist (d. 1940)
december 20

ion g. duca, 35th prime minister of romania (d. 1933)
earle ovington, american aviator, flew first experimental airmail (d. 1936)


december 25 – grace george, american stage actress (d. 1961)
december 27 – sydney greenstreet, british-born american film , stage actor (d. 1954)
december 28 – billy mitchell, u.s. general , military aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
december 29 – florence mary taylor, australia s first female architect (d. 1969)
december 30 – ramana maharshi, indian sage , jivanmukta (d. 1950)






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