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J.M. Barrie(† 77)

Crew | Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland (GB)

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them.

Known for: Peter Pan, Pan, Peter Pan, Hook
* 05/09/1860

Anton Chekhov(† 44)

Crew | Taganrog (RU)

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright and writer, whose plays received international acclaim, and who as a short-story writer is still regarded as virtually unmatched. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."The son of a former serf, Chekhov started out supporting his family by writing popular comic sketches as a medicine student. While practicing as a doctor, he produced his first full-length play, Ivanov (1887). He took up serious themes with stories such as “The Steppe” (1888) and “A Dreary Story” (1889); later stories include “Ward Number Six” (1892), “The Black Monk” (1894) and “The Lady with the Dog” (1899). His play The Seagull (1896) was badly received until its successful revival in 1899 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre. After this he converted his earlier work The Wood Demon (1889) into the universally acclaimed play Uncle Vanya (1897). To nurse his eventually fatal tuberculosis he moved to the Crimea, where he wrote his famous last plays, Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

Known for: Winter Sleep, Summer Storm, Black Sabbath
* 01/29/1860

William K.L. Dickson(† 75)

Crew | Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse (FR)

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and the Edison Manufacturing Company's official photographer. In 1889, he was assigned to turn the concept of a the proposed motion picture device, named the Kinetoscope, into a reality. The first working prototype was unveiled in May 1891 and the design of system was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

Known for: Sandow, The Boxing Cats
* 08/03/1860

Kate Bruce(† 86)

Actress | Columbus, Indiana (US)

Kate Bruce (February 17, 1860 – April 2, 1946) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 280 films between 1908 and 1931. She was born in Columbus, Indiana, and died in New York, New York. In 1885, Bruce left Boone, Iowa, in a wagon with a group of traveling actors at a time when stages were illuminated by oil lights. On Broadway, Bruce performed in The Starbucks (1903).

Known for: Gretchen the Greenhorn, The White Rose, The Broken Locket
* 02/17/1860

Emily Fitzroy(† 93)

Actress | London, England (GB)

England native Emily Fitzroy was an actress in American films from 1913 to 1944.

Known for: Driven, The Bat, The Red Lily, Show Boat
* 05/24/1860

Al Fremont(† 69)

Actor | Cohoes, New York (US)

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Known for: Kultur, Cupid's Fireman, Let's Go, Drag Harlan
* 02/23/1860

Charles K. French(† 92)

Actor | Columbus, Ohio (US)

Charles K. French (born Charles Ekrauss French or Charles E. Krauss; January 17, 1860 – August 2, 1952) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director who appeared in more than 240 films between 1909 and 1945.

Known for: Abysmal Brute, Hands Up!, Gentle Julia
* 01/17/1860

Hans Lanser-Rudolf(† 73)

Actor | Bonn (DE)

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Known for: Das Kind ruft, Der Schatten der Gaby Leed, The Head of Janus
* 06/19/1860

Lillian Langdon(† 82)

Actress | New Jersey / Garden State (US)

Lillian Langdon (November 25, 1860 – February 8, 1943) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1912 and 1928. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Langdon was a descendant of Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak, and Jasper Crane, founder of Newark. She acted on stage before she began her career in films. In private life, she was known as Lillie H. Bolles. She died at her home in Santa Monica, California, aged 82.

Known for: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, Daddy-Long-Legs, The Millionaire Pirate, Reggie Mixes In
* 11/25/1860

George Fawcett(† 78)

Actor | Alexandria, Virginia (US)

George Fawcett was an American stage and screen actor as well as a three-time (in 1920 and 1921) film director. His screen acting career spanned the years 1915 to 1931.

Known for: His Children's Children, Pied Piper Malone, Burn 'Em Up Barnes, The Circle
* 08/25/1860

William J. Butler(† 67)

Actor | Ireland (IE)

William J. Butler (1860 – 27 January 1927) was an Irish silent film actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1908 and 1917. An Irish immigrant to the United States, moved his family from Ohio to Hollywood, California in 1908. On Broadway, Butler performed in The Serio-Comic Governess (1904), The Great Divide (1906), and Pippa Passes (1906). At the age of 48, he wanted to get involved in a new industry called motion pictures. He appeared in more than 200 silent films. He made frequent appearances in films made by famed silent film producer/director D. W. Griffith, who made more than 500 films beginning in 1908. In addition to acting, Butler was a crew member and screenwriter of early films. William's son, Larry Butler, born in Akron, Ohio, just before the family's move to Hollywood. Larry grew up in the film business, dropped out of Burbank High School to work with his father on special effects projects. In 1940, Larry won his first of two Oscars. He was nominated five times for Oscars. His first Oscar was for special effects work done on The Thief of Baghdad. Larry is credited with inventing the blue screen and the traveling matte, both processes were necessary for all special effects and are used today. Butler's grandsons, Michael C. Butler and David Butler, became highly respected cinematographers. William's grandson, Christopher Butler, is also a cinematographer. The Butler family which began with William Butler in 1908 have made movies for 100 years, and the generations span the silent era, the studio era, the independent director era and the current era. Butler was married to actress Emma Lathrop, and they had a daughter, actress Kathleen Butler, as well as their son. He died on 27 January 1927 in the Staten Island Hospital, aged 67.

Known for: A Summer Idyll
* 01/01/1860

Morton Selten(† 79)

Actor | Marlborough, England (GB)

Morton Selten (6 January 1860 – 27 July 1939) was a British stage and film actor. He was occasionally credited as Morton Selton.

Known for: The Thief of Bagdad, The Divorce of Lady X, Shipyard Sally, Moscow Nights
* 01/06/1860
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James Neill(† 70)

Actor | Savannah, Georgia (US)

James F. Neill (September 29, 1860 – March 16, 1931) was an American stage actor and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1913 and 1930.

Known for: The Cheat, Joan the Woman, Oliver Twist
* 09/29/1860

George F. Marion(† 85)

Actor | San Francisco, California (US)

George Francis Marion Sr. (July 16, 1860 – November 30, 1945) was an American film and stage actor and director, known for Anna Christie, both (1923) and (1930), and Death from a Distance (1935). Marion acted in 35 films between 1915 and 1935.

Known for: Death from a Distance, The White Monkey
* 07/16/1860

Gustav Mahler(† 50)

Crew | Kaliště (CZ)

Gustav Mahler (German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈmaːlɐ]; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. Born in Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire) to Jewish parents of humble origins, the German-speaking Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). During his ten years in Vienna, Mahler—who had converted to Catholicism to secure the post—experienced regular opposition and hostility from the anti-Semitic press. Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest performance standards ensured his reputation as one of the greatest of opera conductors, particularly as an interpreter of the stage works of Wagner, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. Late in his life he was briefly director of New York's Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic. Mahler's œuvre is relatively limited; for much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are generally designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists. These works were frequently controversial when first performed, and several were slow to receive critical and popular approval; exceptions included his Second Symphony, and the triumphant premiere of his Eighth Symphony in 1910. Some of Mahler's immediate musical successors included the composers of the Second Viennese School, notably Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten are among later 20th-century composers who admired and were influenced by Mahler. The International Gustav Mahler Society was established in 1955 to honour the composer's life and achievements.

Known for: Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Children of Men, Shutter Island, Irreversible
* 07/07/1860

Lewis Waller(† 55)

Actor

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Known for: King John, Fires of Fate, Henry, King of Navarre
* 1860

Georges Deneubourg(† 75)

Actor | 2nd arrondissement of Paris (FR)

Georges Deneubourg (1860–1936) was a French stage and film actor.

Known for: Kean, La dame de Monsoreau, The Fall of the Romanoffs, The Thirteenth Chair
* 11/23/1860

George Stevens(† 80)

Actor | London, England (GB)

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Known for: A Million Bid
* 01/01/1860

Charlotte Granville(† 82)

Actress

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Known for: A Damsel in Distress, Werewolf of London, Now and Forever
* 1860

Ida Carloni Talli(† 80)

Actress | Rome (IT)

Ida Carloni Talli (31 January 1860 – 23 April 1940) was an Italian film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 92 films between 1912 and 1924. She was born Rome and died in Milan. She made her debut as a stage actress in 1887.

Known for: The White Sister, The Betrothed
* 01/31/1860

Leo Connard(† 70)

Actor | Pécs (HU)

Leo Connard (born Isak Leopold Kohn; 28 August 1860 – after 1928) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1916 to 1928.

Known for: Wallenstein, 1. Teil - Wallensteins Macht, Wundersam ist das Märchen der Liebe
* 08/28/1860

Eugénie Nau(† 63)

Actress | Tournon-Saint-Pierre (FR)

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Known for: The Mysteries of Paris, Les Misérables - Part 2: Fantine, Les Misérables - Part 4: Cosette and Marius
* 07/22/1860

Josef Šváb-Malostranský(† 72)

Actor | Praha

Josef Šváb-Malostranský (16 March 1860, Prague – 30 October 1932, Prague) was a Czech actor, writer, cabaret singer, publisher, director and screenwriter. He owned a bookstore and song publishing house. He was the first Czech actor performing in three short films directed by Jan Kříženecký in 1898. He was also in the first Czech fully voiced film Když struny lkají in 1931.His niece was actress Zita Kabátová. He is buried at the Olšany Cemetery in Prague.

Known for: Appointment at the Mill, Živé mrtvoly, The Five Senses of Man, Little Heart of Gold
* 03/16/1860

Harry B. Smith(† 76)

Crew

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Known for: Allied, Magic in the Moonlight, Bulworth, A River Runs Through It
* 1860

Jeanne Brindeau(† 85)

Actress | Paris (FR)

Jeanne Brindeau (1860–1946) was a French stage and film actress.

Known for: Paris' Girls, The Clairvoyant, Malencontre
* 11/22/1860

Edward Jobson(† 64)

Actor | Philadelphia (US)

Edward Jobson (February 29, 1860 – February 7, 1925) was an American actor of stage and silent film. He started in silent films in his fifties. He had a sour yet sad bulldog demeanor and can be spotted in several surviving silent films. In The Delicious Little Devil (1919) he plays Rudolph Valentino's father, though the two actors looked nothing alike. He died at the beginning of 1925.

Known for: The Saphead, Burning Daylight, The Brass Bottle
* 02/29/1860

Henri Pouctal(† 61)

Crew | La Ferté-sous-Jouarre (FR)

Henri Pouctal (21 October 1860 - 2 February 1922) was an early French silent film director and actor best known for his silent films of the 1910s and his directorship of the Count of Monte Cristo serials in 1918. In film, Pouctal directed about 100 films between 1908 and 1922.

Known for: Camille, L'Instinct, Will, Le crime du Bouif
* 10/21/1860

Alberta Lee(† 68)

Actress

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Known for: The Little Minister, Reggie Mixes In, Nancy from Nowhere
* 1860

Edwin Stevens(† 62)

Actor | San Francisco (US)

Edwin Stevens (August 16, 1860 – January 3, 1923) was an American stage and film actor. He also directed several films during the silent era. His Broadway performance credits included The Marquis Imari in The Geisha (1896 and 1913 revival), Robert Hutton in Brother Officers (1900 and 1901 revival), Professor Belliarti in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines (1901), Baron Stein in Diplomacy (1901), Hang Chow in A Chinese Honeymoon (1902), Muley Mustapha in Nancy Brown (1903), McGinty in The Pearl and the Pumpkin (1905), the title role in Ferenc Molnár's The Devil (1908), the Sheriff of Nottingham in Reginald De Koven's Robin Hood, and the Honorable Henry Villiers in Kitty Darlin' (1917).

Known for: The Boy Girl, The Little Minister, The Honor of Mary Blake
* 08/16/1860

Albert Kirchner(† 41)

Crew | Hamburg / Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (DE)

Albert Kirchner (1860–1902), better known under the pseudonym Léar, was a French photographer, manufacturer, exhibitor, and filmmaker who is noted for producing several religious and erotic films. He was employed by Eugène Pirou, a French filmmaker and photographer. Kirchner directed the first known erotic film, 1896 Le coucher de la mariée (or Bedtime for the Bride), that featured actress Louise Willy.

Known for: Le coucher de la mariée, Arrestation d'un ivrogne, Bedtime for the Bride
* 09/08/1860
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