List: 1898 births

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•  Bessie Love

  Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkie eras. Petite and very pretty, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. Besides being an actress, she wrote the 1919 movie A Yankee Princess.

  

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•  Totò

  Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio, called Totò (February 15, 1898 – April 15, 1967), was an eminent and celebrated Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter. In Italy today he is widely considered to be the greatest, most popular and most beloved Italian artist of spectacle of all time, and he is the most cheered Italian comedian and television personality of the last century.

  

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•  Alec Waugh

  Alexander Raban Waugh (Alec Waugh) (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. His first wife was Barbara Jacobs (daughter of the writer William Wymark Jacobs), his second wife was Joan Chirnside and his third wife was Virginia Sorenson, author of the Newbery Medal-winning Miracles on Maple Hill.

  

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•  Irene Dunne

  Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939) and I Remember Mama (1948).

  

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•  Grace Moore

  Grace Moore (December 5, 1898 – January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film, nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale. " Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience.

  

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•  Harry Crosby

  Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929) was an American heir, a bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature. With his wife Mary Phelps Jacob, he founded the Black Sun Press which was one of the first to publish some of the early works of important authors including James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Rene Crevel, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.

  

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•  Saul Lieberman

  Saul Lieberman, also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or The Gra"sh (Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul), was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over 40 years, and was for many years, head of the Harry Fischel Institute in Israel and also president of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

  

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•  Marie Prevost

  Marie Prevost (November 8, 1898 – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born actress of the early days of cinema. During her twenty year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.

  

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•  Yagi Jūkichi

  Jūkichi Yagi (八木重吉, Yagi Jūkichi, February 9, 1898 - October 26, 1927) was a Japanese poet on modern religious themes, active in late Taishō and for the first few years of Shōwa period Japan.

  

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•  Denji Kuroshima

  Denji Kuroshima (黒島 伝治, Kuroshima Denji, December 12, 1898 – October 17, 1943) was a Japanese author.

  

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•  Shirley Booth

  Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an American actress. Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received a Tony Award in 1950. She made her film debut, reprising her role in the 1952 film version, and won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance.

  

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•  Franz Bäke

  Generalmajor der Reserve Dr. med. dent Franz Bäke (28 February 1898 – 12 December 1978) was a German Army officer and panzer ace. Bäke fought during World War I, but rose to fame for his command of heavy Panzer forces in World War II. A reservist, Bäke was a dentist in civilian life, receiving his Doctorate in Dental Medicine in 1923.

  

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•  Maurice Bowra

  Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra (8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.

  

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•  Ninette de Valois

  Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE (6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing The Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world today. She also established the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School.

  

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•  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988) was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.

  

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•  Luís Carlos Prestes

  Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3, 1898 – March 7, 1990) was a leader of the 1920s tenente rebellion and the Communist opposition to the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil.

  

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•  Waldo Semon

  Waldo Lonsbury Semon (September 10, 1898 – May 26, 1999) was a renowned American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama. Semon put his name into the history books for inventing vinyl, the world's second most used plastic. He found the formula for vinyl by mixing a few synthetic polymers, and the result was a substance that was elastic, but wasn't adhesive. Semon worked on methods of improving rubber, and eventually developed a synthetic substitute.

  

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•  Seymour Lubetzky

  Seymour Lubetzky (April 28, 1898-April 5, 2003) was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the United States in 1927. He earned his BA from UCLA in 1931, and his MA from UC Berkeley in 1932. Lubetzky also taught at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, then the School of Library Service.

  

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•  Frank Aiken

  Frank Aiken (13 February 1898 – 18 May 1983) was a commander of the Irish Republican Army and later senior Irish politician. A founding-member of Fianna Fáil, Aiken was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 and at each subsequent election until 1973. Aiken served as Minister for Defence (1932–1939), Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures (1939–1945), Minister for Finance (1945–1948) and Minister for External Affairs (1951–1954 & 1957–1969).

  

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•  Alexander Calder

  Alexander Calder (22 July 1898 – 11 November 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry and jewelry.

  

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•  Henry Ford (jazz)

  Henry Ford (c.1898 – c.1919) was an early New Orleans jazz string bass player. Ford worked with such musicians as Alphonse Picou, "Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle, and Bouboul Valentin. From about 1908 to 1912 he led a band in residency at Delacroix Island, Louisiana.

  

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•  Ross Barnett

  Ross Robert Barnett (January 22, 1898 – November 6, 1987) was the governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a States' Rights Democrat.

  

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•  Lil Hardin Armstrong

  Lil Hardin Armstrong (February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s. Hardin's compositions include "Struttin' With Some Barbecue", "Don't Jive Me", "Two Deuces", "Knee Drops", "Doin' the Suzie-Q", ""Just For a Thrill" (which became a major hit when revived by Ray Charles in 1959), "Clip Joint", and "Bad Boy" (a hit by Ringo Starr in 1978).

  

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•  Anthony McAuliffe

  General Anthony Clement McAuliffe (July 2, 1898 - August 11, 1975) was the United States Army general who commanded the defending 101st Airborne troops during the Battle of Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He is famous for his single-word reply to a German surrender ultimatum: "Nuts!"

  

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•  Dorothy Gish

  Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (born March 11, 1898, Dayton, Ohio – died June 4, 1968, Rapallo, Italy) was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.

  

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