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- Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in Torun, Poland. He was a writer, known for Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004). He died on 24 May 1543 in Frombork, Poland.
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- Soundtrack
David Garrick was born on 19 February 1717 in Hereford, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Miss in Her Teens (2014), Il matrimonio segreto (1943) and The Country Girl (1915). He was married to Eva Maria Veigel. He died on 20 January 1779 in London, England, UK.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Luigi Boccherini was born on 19 February 1743 in Lucca, Republic of Lucca [now Tuscany, Italy]. He is known for Congo (1995), 2012 (2009) and Cruising (1980). He died on 28 May 1805 in Madrid, Spain.- Jules Sandeau was born on 19 February 1811 in Aubusson, Creuse, France. He was a writer, known for La roche aux mouettes (1933), Le gendre de Monsieur Poirier (1933) and Mademoiselle de La Seiglière (1921). He died on 24 April 1883 in Paris, France.
- Lauro Rossi was born on 19 February 1812 in Macerata, Kingdom of Italy [now Marche, Italy]. He died on 5 May 1885 in Cremona, Lombardy, Italy.
- Niko Lomouri was born on 19 February 1852 in Arbo, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire [now Republic of Georgia]. He was a writer, known for Qajana (1941). He died on 30 April 1915 in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire [now Republic of Georgia].
- Ercole Luigi Morselli was born on 19 February 1882 in Pesaro, Marche, Italy. Ercole Luigi was a director, known for Effetti di luce (1916). Ercole Luigi died on 16 March 1921 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Ludwig Hartau was born on 19 February 1877 in Trachenberg, Silesia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Deception (1920), Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin (1922) and Johann Baptiste Lingg (1920). He died on 24 November 1922 in Berlin, Germany.
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A prolific director--over 700 films, most of them short- or medium-length--Louis Feuillade began his career with Gaumont where, as well as directing his own features, he was appointed artistic director in charge of production in 1907. His work was largely comprised of film series; his first series, begun in 1910 and numbering 15 episodes, was 'Le Film Esthétique', a financially unsuccessful attempt at "high-brow" cinema. More popular was La vie telle qu'elle est (1911), which moved from the costume pageantry of his earlier work to a more realistic--if somewhat melodramatic--depiction of contemporary life. Feuillade also directed scores of short films featuring the characters Bébé and René Poyen. His most successful feature-length serials were Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine (1913), which chronicled the diabolical exploits of the "emperor of crime," and Les vampires (1915), which trailed a criminal gang led by Irma Vep (Musidora) and was noted for its imaginative use of locations and lyrical, almost surreal style.- Director
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Ray Grey was born on 19 February 1890 in San Diego, California, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Down on the Farm (1920), Loose Change (1922) and Stand Pat (1922). He was married to Florence Anna Pauly. He died on 18 April 1925 in Glendale, California, USA.- Arthur von Gerlach was born on 19 February 1876 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director, known for The Chronicles of the Gray House (1925) and Vanina (1922). He died on 4 August 1925 in Berlin, Germany.
- Fred Comer was born on 19 February 1893 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. He died on 12 October 1928 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA.
- José Eustasio Rivera was born on 19 February 1888 in San Mateo, Huila, Colombia [now Rivera, Huila, Colombia]. José Eustasio was a writer, known for La vorágine (1949), La vorágine (1975) and The Vortex (1990). José Eustasio died on 1 December 1928 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Alma Rubens was born Alma Genevieve Reubens in San Francisco, California. She was interested in entertaining at an early age. Like most young girls, she enjoyed fantasy play acting and by the time she was 19 had become a full-fledged star. She didn't have to wait long like some of the starlets who haunted casting offices continually. Her break came in 1916 in the film Reggie Mixes In (1916). Six more films followed that year, and she won critical acclaim in The Half-Breed (1916). In 1917 she again starred in a box-office smash, The Firefly of Tough Luck (1917). She became a busy young actress with role after role and hit after hit. In 1924, as Mildred Gower, she performed magnificently in The Price She Paid (1924). After a busy 1925, Alma suddenly found it difficult to obtain work, but it was not because her star had suddenly dimmed--it was because of her addiction to heroin. The money she made dwindled away in search of the next high. She was in and out of mental asylums, but it didn't really help much because she was still dabbling in drugs. Weakened by her habit, she died in Los Angeles in 1931, of pneumonia. She was less than a month away from her 34th birthday. Her final two films were two years earlier, Show Boat (1929) and She Goes to War (1929).
- Bob Fleming was born in Picton, Ontario, Canada to Robert J. Fleming and Janet Ruthven Fleming. He had a least one sister, "Doll" and a nephew, Roderick Fleming. The family moved to a Cattle Ranch in Iliad, Montana (near Big Sandy) when he was a young man. He was never in the military because he had been shot in the foot early in life and had a slight limp. He was an expert horseman. Was present in San Francisco in 1905 earthquake. He began acting in Westerns as early as 1914 because of his expertise with horses. Married Mary Elizabeth Van Dusen around 1915. One child: Marian Patricia Fleming, born 9/14/1919.
- Ernest Glendinning was born on 19 February 1884 in Ulverston, Cumbria, England, UK. He was an actor, known for When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), The Seventh Noon (1915) and Grounds for Murder (1930). He was married to Marie Julie Horne. He died on 17 May 1936 in South Coventry, Connecticut, USA.
- John Lince was born on 19 February 1862 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Glorious Fool (1922), Stop Thief (1920) and Framing Framers (1917). He died on 21 June 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Edward Owings Towne was born on 19 February 1859 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. Edward Owings was a writer, known for The Woman in Chains (1923). Edward Owings was married to Sarah Johnston Cooper. Edward Owings died on 6 March 1938 in Glenwood, Westchester County, New York, USA(undisclosed).
- Nora Bryant McCue was born on February 19, 1880, at Ottumwa, Iowa, the daughter of William Dunbar and Lily Bryant Head McCue. Her family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, when she was a small child, where her father worked for a local railroad line and later as a clerk at the federal courthouse. Nora was the salutatorian of her senior class at Madison Central High School in 1898 and went on to attend the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in history. It was said that Nora, who was a tall, striking brunette, cut quite a figure on campus while walking Cedric, her Great Dane. Nora's father was appalled when a few years earlier she had spent $50 of her savings to purchase Cedric, then a two-month-old puppy.
On August 1, 1904, she married Henry Elmer Willsie (1875-1948), in Madison. Willsie was a consulting mining engineer and inventor who would later help develop a gas mask for the military during World War I. It was while she and her husband were living in Arizona that Nora began her writing career by submitting western stories and articles under the name "Honore Willsie" to Collier's magazine and Harper's Weekly. Her first novel, "Heart of the Desert: Kut-Le of the Desert", was published in 1913. The following year she began a five-year stint as editor of The Delineator, a women's magazine about "Fashion, Fine Arts and Culture".
She and Willsie divorced in December of 1922. On April 25, 1923, she married publisher William Morrow at her Gramercy Park home in New York City. Morrow, who was born on June 15, 1872, at Belfast, Ireland, would go to found the New York based publishing house William Morrow and Company. The couple later adopted three children-- a son, Richard, and two daughters, Felicia and Anne.
Through 10 years of meticulous research, she became an authority on the life of Abraham Lincoln and is best known for her "Great Captain" trilogy: "Forever Free" (1927), "With Malice Toward None" (1928) and "The Last Full Measure" (1930). She was also the author of "Benefits Forgot: A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love" (1917), "Forever Free" (1927) and "Mary Todd Lincoln: An Appreciation of the Wife of Abraham Lincoln " (1928).
Honore's other books include "Still Jim" (1915); "Lydia of the Pines" (1917); "The Forbidden Trail" (1919); "The Enchanted Canyon" (1921); "Judith of the Godless Valley" (1922); "The Devonshires" (1924); "The Exile of the Lariat" (1925); "We Must March" (1925); "The Father of Little Women" (1927), a biography of Bronson Alcott; "Splendor of God" (1929), a biography of Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson; "Just a Dog's Life" (1929), a biography of Cedric, her Great Dane; "Tiger Tiger" (1930), a biography of temperance leader John B. Gough; "Black Daniel: The Love Story of a Great Man" (1931), a story about Daniel Webster; "Judith of the Godless Valley" (1931) and "Yonder Sails the Mayflower" (1934). Her last book, "Demon Daughter" (1939), is thought to be based on one of her daughters who was somewhat neurotic.
The Morrows lived several months out every of year in a 16th-century estate in Brixham, a small town in the county of Devon, in southwest England. After her husband passed away on 11 November 1931, Honore and her three children lived there full time, for the next eight years.
Honore was visiting a sister, Mrs. Manley Chester, when she died on 12 April, 1940 of influenza at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Connecticut. She was survived by all three of her children. - Saxon Kling was born on 19 February 1891 in Paulding County, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Indestructible Wife (1919) and The Mohican's Daughter (1922). He died on 29 July 1940 in Marion, Ohio, USA.
- Justus Paris was born on 19 February 1885 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was an actor, known for Venus vor Gericht (1941), Rheinische Brautfahrt (1939) and Enemies (1940). He died on 3 March 1942 in Munich, Germany.
- Mae Talbot was born on 19 February 1869 in Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Gloriana (1916), A Bit o' Heaven (1917) and The Girl from Nowhere (1919). She was married to ? Winchel. She died on 4 August 1942 in Glendale, California, USA.
- Will Jeffries was born on 19 February 1882 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fire Flingers (1919), The Law of the Great Northwest (1918) and Souls of Men (1921). He died on 24 November 1942 in Alameda, California, USA.
- Daisy Prideaux was born on 19 February 1877 in Jackson, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Saved by Fire (1912), A Crucial Test (1912) and The Box Car Baby (1912). She was married to Edwin Bascomb Prideaux. She died on 27 November 1943 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- Elinor Oliver was born on 19 February 1865 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Camille (1921) and A Doll's House (1922). She died on 6 April 1945 in Santa Clara, California, USA.
- Holde Goebbels was born on 19 February 1937 in Berlin, Germany. She died on 1 May 1945 in Berlin, Germany.
- Hedda Goebbels was born on 19 February 1937 in Berlin, Germany. She died on 1 May 1945 in Berlin, Germany.
- M.M. Rost van Tonningen was born on 19 February 1894 in Surabaja, Dutch East Indies. He was married to Florrie Rost van Tonningen. He died on 6 June 1945 in Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
- Algot Persson was born on 19 February 1884 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Investigating Magistrate (1911) and Värmländingarna (1910). He died on 16 March 1947 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
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Was a cafe concert entertainer before Charles Pathe noticed him during the Universal Exhibition, where Zecca had been assigned to Pathe's stand. After a few daysPathe asked Zecca if he would like to work in cinematography. Zecca immediately accepted the offer and rapidly became Pathe's right hand man and head of production.- Actor
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Jack Kirk was born on 19 February 1895 in Nickerson, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Zorro's Black Whip (1944), Stormy (1935) and The Topeka Terror (1945). He was married to Ethel Mason. He died on 13 September 1948 in Ketchikan, Alaska, USA.- Clarence Penalver was born on 19 February 1894 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Midnight Ace (1928). He was married to Bettie Young. He died on 24 September 1948 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Aurora A. Quezon was born on 19 February 1888 in Baler, Tayabas, Philippines. She was a writer, known for Sawing gantingpala (1940) and Principeng hindi tumatawa (1946). She was married to Manuel Quezon. She died on 28 April 1949 in Bongabon, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.- Elinor Morgenthau was born on 19 February 1892 in New York City, New York, USA. Elinor was a writer, known for No Exceptions (1943). Elinor was married to Henry Morgenthau. Elinor died on 21 September 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Armin Knab was born on 19 February 1881 in Neuschleichach, Oberaurach, Bavaria, Germany. He was a composer, known for Bustelli, ein Spiel in Porzellan (1951). He was married to Paula Yvonne Herrmann. He died on 23 June 1951 in Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany.
- Morris McNeil Musselman was born in Wichita, Kansas on February 19, 1899. He was for the majority of his youth an only child until his sister Alva arrived sometime around 1914. His parents were Alvin J. and Gertrude M. Musselman, natives of Quincy, Illinois and Lafayette, Indiana, respectively. Alvin J. Musselman (1873-1950) was a bicycle repairman who would go on to invent a number of important devices, including improved brakes for bicycles, super balloon bicycle tires and the braking system for the B-29 bomber. Morris M. Musselman later chronicled his father's accomplishments in his book "Wheels in His Head: Father and His Inventions" (1945). Morris Musselman was a Hollywood screenwriter and the author of a number of humorous books. Among his most popular were "Get a Horse", (1950), "I Married a Redhead" (1951) and with Adolphe Menjou, the actor's autobiography, "It Took Nine Tailors" (1948). Morris McNeil Musselman passed away after battling cancer on April 22, 1952 in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by his wife Mildred, whom he'd married sometime in the 1920s.
- Charles Thursby was born on 19 February 1872 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Faithful Heart (1922) and The Little Mother (1922). He died on 11 June 1952 in Cape Town, South Africa.
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Edward S. Curtis was born on 19 February 1868 in Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA. He was a director and writer, known for In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), The Alaskan Indians (1916) and Seeing America (1916). He was married to Clara Phillips. He died on 19 October 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
Camille de Morlhon was born on 19 February 1869 in Paris, France. Camille was a director and writer, known for La Broyeuse de Coeur (1913), Simone (1918) and L'ibis bleu (1919). Camille died on 24 November 1952 in Paris, France.- Swen Hedin was born on 19 February 1865 in Stockholm, Sweden. He died on 26 November 1952 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Stockdale, a very good friend of Mary Miles Minter's mother, Charlotte Shelby, claimed on the witness stand that he was with Mrs. Shelby when movie director William Desmond Taylor--Minter's lover--was murdered, therefore Charlotte could not have killed him. Stockdale said that he suspected Taylor's former chauffeur, a man named Sands, was responsible for the murder. However, after many different investigations of the murder over the years by authors, private detectives and even director King Vidor, most sources familiar with the case say the evidence points to Mrs. Shelby as Taylor's killer.
- Gilberto González was born on 19 February 1902 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Pearl (1947), Canaima (1945) and Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950). He was married to Lydia Pérez Martínez and Eliane Arcq Tournoret. He died on 21 March 1954 in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico.
- Edmund Wiercinski was born on 19 February 1899 in Jurgowo, Grodno Governorate, Vilna Governorate-General, Russian Empire [now Jurgowo, Grodno Region, Belarus]. Edmund was married to Maria Wiercinska. Edmund died on 13 September 1955 in Warsaw, Warszawskie, Polish People's Republic [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland].
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- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Tall, distinguished, aristocratic Louis Calhern seemed to be the poster boy for old-money, upper-crust urban society, but he was actually born Carl Vogt, to middle-class parents in New York City. His family moved to St. Louis when he was a child, and it was while playing football in high school there that he was spotted by a representative of a touring acting troupe and hired as an actor. He returned to New York to work in the theater, but his career was interrupted by military service in France in World War I. He returned to the stage after the war, and eventually broke into films. Although his regal bearing would seem to pigeonhole him in aristocratic parts in serious drama, he proved to be a very versatile actor, as much at home playing a comic foil to The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (1933) as he was as Buffalo Bill to Betty Hutton's Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (1950) or, most memorably, the lawyer involved with the criminal gang in The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Married four times, he was in Tokyo, Japan, filming The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) when he suffered a fatal heart attack.- Constantin Brâncusi was born on 19 February 1876 in Hobita, Romania [now Hobita, Gorj County, Romania]. He died on 16 March 1957 in Paris, France.
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- Stunts
Carl Mathews was born on 19 February 1899 in Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Custer's Last Stand (1936), The Black Coin (1936) and Rough Riding Ranger (1935). He was married to Irene and Margaret F.. He died on 3 May 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Bob Bumpas was born on 19 February 1911 in Norman, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Ace in the Hole (1951). He was married to Martha Bumpas Gaylord. He died on 9 December 1959 in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Actor
Gill Dennis was born on 19 February 1921 in Colorado, USA. He was an actor. He died on 5 January 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- George Du Count was born on 19 February 1881 in Kavkaz, Georgia, Russia. He was an actor, known for The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936), White Fang (1936) and The Gay Desperado (1936). He was married to Natalie ?. He died on 7 February 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mary Marlo was born on 19 February 1895. She was an actress, known for The Second Greatest Sex (1955). She died on 25 February 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.