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People: Famous People born in 1896

People in chronological context: 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1896th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 896th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1896, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Hal Taggart(† 75)

Actor

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* 1896

Ryōsuke Kagawa(† 90)

Actor | Saga Prefecture (JP)

Ryosuke Kagawa (香川良介, Kagawa Ryōsuke, 10 October 1896 – 17 April 1987) was a Japanese actor. His son was child actor Sō Shuntarō. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1928 and 1986. His final film role was in the 1986 film Dixieland Daimyō directed by Kihachi Okamoto.

* 10/09/1896

Kathryn Givney(† 81)

Actress | Rhinelander, Wisconsin (US)

Kathryn Givney (October 27, 1896 – March 16, 1978) was an American actress in theater and in films.

* 10/27/1896

Henri Crémieux(† 83)

Actor | Marseille / Massaliotes (FR)

Henri Crémieux (19 July 1896 – 10 May 1980) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1930 to 1980.

* 07/19/1896

F. Scott Fitzgerald(† 44)

Crew | Saint Paul / St. Paul (US)

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934). Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

* 09/24/1896

Ronald Adam(† 82)

Actor | Bromyard, England (GB)

Ronald George Hinings Adams, (31 December 1896 – 28 March 1979), known professionally as Ronald Adam, was a British officer of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, an actor on stage and screen, and a successful theatre manager.

* 12/31/1896

Oskar Sima(† 72)

Actor | Hohenau an der March, Austria-Hungary

Oskar Sima (31 July 1896 – 24 June 1969) was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna. After a brief tour in the army during World War I, he began acting in various theatrical productions in Berlin, Vienna, and other cities in Central Europe. He began his film career in 1921, and appeared in a number of German silent films early on. Sima was frequently cast as the comic villain whose machinations get everyone into trouble, although often his villainous stature was used to more chilling effect. In 1929, Sima married actress Lina Woiwode. The couple remained married until Sima's death. Along with Friedl Czepa, Fred Hennings and Leni Riefenstahl he was identified as being an active supporter of the Nazi Party. After World War II, Sima was a frequent character actor, causing one biographer to write, "... there was hardly a movie in which Oskar Sima didn't act." Sima suffered an aneurysm in 1968 and languished for nearly a year before succumbing to his illness on 24 June 1969. He was 72.

* 07/31/1896

Juano Hernández(† 73)

Actor | San Juan (PR)

An Afro-Puerto Rican stage and film actor who was a pioneer in the African American film industry.

* 07/19/1896

David Howard(† 45)

Crew | Philadelphia / Philly (US)

David Howard (October 6, 1896 – December 21, 1941) was an American film director. He directed 46 films between 1930 and 1941, 29 of them westerns starring George O'Brien, including the acclaimed Mystery Ranch (1932). He was born as David Paget Davis III in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Los Angeles, California.

* 10/06/1896

William A. Wellman(† 79)

Crew | Brookline, Massachusetts (US)

William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion. He also directed several well regarded satirical comedies.Wellman directed the 1927 film Wings, which became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony.

* 02/29/1896

William M. Conselman(† 43)

Crew | Brooklyn (US)

William Marien Conselman (July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1940) was an American screenwriter who also wrote newspaper comic strips under his Bill Conselman byline and sometimes under the pseudonym Frank Smiley.

* 07/10/1896

Erle C. Kenton(† 83)

Crew | Norborne, Missouri (US)

Erle C. Kenton (August 1, 1896 – January 28, 1980) was an American film director. Kenton was director of B films, with his most famous film being Island of Lost Souls starring Charles Laughton.

* 08/01/1896
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Alma Lawton(† 85)

Actress | Woolwich (GB)

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* 08/17/1896

Abraham Sofaer(† 91)

Actor | Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]

Abraham Isaac Sofaer (1 October 1896 – 21 January 1988) was a Burmese-born British actor who began his career on stage and became a familiar supporting player in film and on television in his later years.

* 10/01/1896

Shirô Ôtsuji(† 55)

Actor | Tokyo (JP)

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* 08/05/1896

Brooks Benedict(† 71)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Brooks Benedict (born Harold J. Mann, February 6, 1896 – January 1, 1968) was an American actor of the silent and sound film era, where he played supporting and utility roles in over 300 films, mostly uncredited.

* 02/06/1896

Italia Marchesini(† 76)

Actress | Napoli

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* 10/22/1896

Joseph Schildkraut(† 67)

Actor | Vienna (AT)

Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian born stage, screen, and television actor.

* 03/22/1896

Raymond Massey(† 86)

Actor | Toronto, Ontario (CA)

Raymond Massey was a prominent Canadian/American stage and screen actor.

* 08/30/1896

J. Carrol Naish(† 77)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Joseph Patrick Carrol Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973) was an American actor. He appeared in over 200 films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Naish received two Oscar nominations for his supporting roles in the films Sahara (1943) and A Medal for Benny (1945), the latter of which also earned him a Golden Globe. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

* 01/21/1896

Dodie Smith(† 94)

Crew | Whitefield, Lancashire, England (GB)

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 film. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003).

* 05/03/1896

Doris Lloyd(† 71)

Actress | Liverpool, Lancashire, England (GB)

Hessy Doris Lloyd (3 July 1891 – 21 May 1968) was an English–American film and stage actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965). Lloyd appeared in two Academy Award winners and four other nominees.

* 07/03/1896

Howard Dietz(† 86)

Crew | New York City, New York (US)

Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 – July 30, 1983) was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz.

* 09/08/1896

Marvin Loback(† 41)

Actor | Tacoma (US)

Marvin Loback, sometimes billed as Marvin Lobach (November 21, 1896 – August 18, 1938), was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1916 and 1935. Loback was born in Tacoma, Washington. He joined the Los Angeles film community in 1918 with Universal's Jewel comedies. Later that year he joined Henry Lehrman's L-KO company, promoting himself in trade ads as "Marvin Loback, L-KO 330-Pound Comedian." He played character roles in comedies and westerns into the 1920s, signing with Hal Roach in 1923 and then Mack Sennett in 1924. Sennett usually billed the actor as "Marvin Lobach." In 1927 Loback was hired by Weiss Bros. to co-star with Snub Pollard as a fat-and-skinny comedy team, patterned after the new Laurel and Hardy partnership. These low-budget films were obvious imitations, with Pollard and Loback using Laurel and Hardy's derby hats and some of their situations. Even so, the Pollard-Loback comedies were successful as lower-priced alternatives, and lasted through 1929. These were Marvin Loback's only starring roles, and it is for these films that he is best known. Loback then returned to the Sennett studio, working in two-reel comedies until the studio discontinued production in 1933. He joined Columbia Pictures in 1934, where he worked in feature films and short subjects. By late 1935 there were no further film assignments for the actor, and he turned to the Los Angeles stage. He appeared in the federally funded WPA plays "If It Pleases the Court" (1936) and "Roaring Girl" (1937). Marvin Loback died on August 18, 1938, at the age of 41.

* 11/21/1896

Laidman Browne(† 64)

Actor

Laidman Browne (13 September 1896 - 11 September 1961) was an English radio and television actor. In 1949 he was the narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", the first book read on the BBC's long-running series A Book at Bedtime.

* 09/13/1896

Michael L. Simmons(† 83)

Crew | New York City, New York (US)

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* 04/05/1896

Friedrich Hollaender(† 79)

Crew | London (GB)

Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author.

* 10/18/1896

Marcy Klauber(† 63)

Crew | Budapest (HU)

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* 11/19/1896

Suzy Prim(† 94)

Actress | Paris, Ile-de-France (FR)

Suzy Prim (11 October 1896 – 7 July 1991) was a French actress. She was born Suzanne Mariette Arduini in Paris and died in 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She began her screen career as a child actress during the silent era.

* 10/11/1896

Vivian Edwards(† 53)

Actress | Los Angeles (US)

Vivian Edwards (September 10, 1896 – December 4, 1949) was an American actress of silent film.

* 09/10/1896
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