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- Gustaf Philip Creutz was born on 1 May 1731 in Anjala, Finland. He was a writer, known for Atis och Camilla (1963). He died on 30 October 1785 in Sweden.
- José de Alencar was born on 1 May 1829 in Messejana, Ceará, Brazil. He was a writer, known for O Guarani (1916), Lucíola (1916) and Iracema (1949). He was married to Georgina Augusta Cochrane. He died on 12 December 1877 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Laza Lazarevic was born on 1 May 1851 in Sabac, Serbia. He was a writer, known for Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje (1969), Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje (1992) and Sve ce to narod pozlatiti (1995). He died on 29 December 1890 in Belgrade, Serbia.
- Jacob Gordin was born on 1 May 1853 in Mirgorod, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Myrhorod, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Kreutzer Sonata (1915), Di shtifmuter (1914) and Mirele Efros (1939). He was married to Rebecca C. Smith. He died on 11 June 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- Ferruccio Garavaglia was born on 1 May 1868 in San Zenone Po, Italy. He was an actor, known for Othello (1909), Rigoletto (1910) and Romeo and Juliet (1912). He was married to Adele Garavaglia. He died on 29 April 1912 in Naples, Italy.
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William Percy French was born on 1 May 1854 in County Roscommon, Ireland, UK. William Percy is known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010). William Percy was married to Helen (Lennie) Sheldon and Ettie ?. William Percy died on 24 January 1920 in Formby, Lancashire, England, UK.- Marie Corelli was born on 1 May 1855 in London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Leaves From Satan's Book (1920), The Treasure of Heaven (1916) and Innocent (1921). She died on 21 April 1924 in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK.
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Anthony J. Showalter was born on 1 May 1858 in Cherry Grove, Virginia, USA. Anthony J. died on 16 November 1924 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.- Ray Keech was born on 1 May 1900 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 15 June 1929 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Mary Palfrey was born on 1 May 1873 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Great Day (1920). She was married to Weedon Grossmith. She died on 31 October 1929.
- Maria Tenazi was born on 1 May 1903 in Baku, Russian Empire. She was an actress, known for Shuquras saidumloeba (1925), Metskhre talga (1926) and Grubelta tavshesapari (1928). She died on 1 May 1930 in Kobuletti, Georgia, USA.
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- Actor
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Songwriter ("After The Ball", "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven", "Break the News to Mother"), composer, author and publisher who began his career as a songwriter and banjo player for vaudeville acts. He became a music publisher in Chicago, Illinois and also wrote silent film scripts and plays. Joining ASCAP in 1914 as a charter member, his other popular-song compositions include "I'm Trying So Hard to Forget You", "There'll Come a Time", "Better than Gold", "Just Behind the Times", "I've Just Come to Say Goodbye", "Mid the Green Fields of Virginia", "For Old Time's Sake", "I've a Longing in My Heart for You, Louise", "Always in the Way", "Would You Care?", "The Best Things in Life", "Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares", "Songs of Yesterday", and several more.- Arturo De Nava was born on 1 May 1876 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an actor, known for Federación o muerte (1917) and El carretero (1930). He died on 22 October 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Hugh C. Weir was born on 1 May 1884 in Vergennes, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Under Suspicion (1918), Graft (1915) and What Shall We Do with Him? (1919). He died on 16 March 1934 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Charley Patton was born on 1 May 1891 in Bolton, Mississippi, USA. He was married to Bertha Lee. He died on 28 April 1934 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA.
- Katherine Grant was born on May 1, 1904 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents divorced and her father passed away in 1921. At the age of eighteen she won the Miss Los Angeles beauty contest and competed in the Miss America pageant. Katherine worked as a professional dancer and to make extra money she posed nude for an art study project. She made her film debut in the comedy short Saturday Morning and was offered a contract with Hal Roach. In 1923 she appeared in more than a dozen films including A Man About Town and Frozen Hearts. As her career took off the photographer who had taken her nude photos started to extort her. Katherine reported the man to the police and the scandalous photos did not hurt career. By 1925 she had become one of Hal Roach's favorite comedy vamps and he signed her to a new five year contract. Katherine worked with Oliver Hardy in Wild Papa and with Charley Chase in The Uneasy Three.She and Charley also performed in a vaudeville act together.
Unfortunately Katherine struggled with her weight and went on starvation diets to stay thin. On December 8, 1925, she was the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Doctors told her to take a break from acting but she returned to work a few days later. In the Spring of 1926 Katherine suffered a nervous breakdown on the set and was put in a sanitarium. Newspaper reports blamed the breakdown on her extreme dieting. Sadly Katherine would never make another film. Her health continued to get worse and she started suffering from dementia. Eventually she was sent to to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino where she would live the rest of her life. Katherine died on April 2, 1937 from pulmonary tuberculosis. She was only thirty-two years old. Katherine was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Fans of the late actress honored her with a marked headstone, in a special ceremony, on August 27, 2016. - Zbigniew Unilowski was born on 1 May 1909 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for One Room Tenants (1960), Television Theater (1953) and Zycie Kamila Kuranta (1983). He died on 12 November 1937 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Andor Kardos was born on 1 May 1875 in Nagyvárad, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Az utolsó hajnal (1917), Alraune (1919) and Cox és Box (1915). He died on 18 March 1938 in Budapest, Hungary.
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John W. Leezer was born on 1 May 1876 in Keokuk, Iowa, USA. John W. was a cinematographer, known for The Marriage of Molly-O (1916), Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916) and Cheerful Givers (1917). John W. was married to Rena B Crocker, Jennie Cramblit and Hester McClement Sears. John W. died on 6 August 1938 in Vista, California, USA.- Animation Department
Fred Spencer was born on 1 May 1904 in Missouri, USA. He is known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). He died on 11 November 1938 in California, USA.- John Sturgeon was born on 1 May 1859 in Elderton, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Vanity Fair (1915), Martin Chuzzlewit (1912) and It Is Never Too Late to Mend (1913). He died on 20 December 1938 in Plumcreek, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Harry Leon Wilson was born on 1 May 1867 in Oregon, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Bunker Bean (1936), Cameo Kirby (1914) and Make Me a Star (1932). He was married to Helen MacGowan Cook, Rose Cecil Latham (aka Rose O'Neill) and Wilbertine Nesselrode Teters. He died on 28 June 1939 in Monterey, California, USA.
- Sirkka Sari was born on 1 May 1920 in Raivola, Finland. She was an actress, known for Women of Niskavuori (1938), Rikas tyttö (1939) and Sysmäläinen (1938). She died on 30 July 1939 in Aulanko, Finland.
- C.W. Stowell was born on 1 May 1876 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ramparts We Watch (1940). He was married to Helen. He died on 26 November 1940 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA.
- Marcel Prévost was born on 1 May 1862 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Halbe Unschuld (1919), Il romanzo di Maud (1917) and Chonchette (1918). He died on 8 April 1941 in Vianne, Lot-et-Garonne, France.
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Rex De Rosselli was born on 1 May 1878 in Kentucky, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Rescued by Wireless (1914), Howlin' Jones (1913) and The Lion's Claws (1918). He died on 21 July 1941 in East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA.- Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught was born on 1 May 1850 in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK. He was married to Princess Margaret Louise of Prussia Duchess of Connaught. He died on 16 January 1942 in Bagshot, Surrey, England, UK.
- Mario Giannini was born on 1 May 1920 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for La prima donna che passa (1940), L'allegro fantasma (1941) and Disillusion (1940). He died on 24 April 1942 in Falconara Marittima, Marche, Italy.
- Albert Schaefer was born on 1 May 1916 in Galveston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Set-Up (1926), Winnie Be Good (1927) and The American (1927). He died on 26 October 1942 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Winfield Hogaboom was born on 1 May 1866 in New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Daughter of the Don (1916) and The Argonauts of California - 1849 (1916). He died on 29 November 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
Red Cagle was born on 1 May 1905 in De Ridder, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor. He died on 26 December 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.- Joseph Achron was born on 1 May 1886 in Lozdzieje, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lazdijai, Lithuania]. He was a composer, known for Spring Night (1935), Hebrew Melody (1935) and Al Mizbah Ha'zichronot (2006). He died on 29 April 1943 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- In 1906 Dieudonné was friends with a group of anarchists that included Jules Bonnot, Victor Serge, Raymond Callemin and Octave Garnier. Bonnot soon formed a gang that included local anarchists. Serge was totally opposed to what the group intended to do. On 21st December, 1911 the gang robbed a messenger of the Société Générale Bank of 5,126 francs in broad daylight and then fled in a stolen Delaunay-Belleville car. It is claimed that they were the first to use an automobile to flee the scene of a crime. The gang then stole weapons from a gun shop in Paris. On 2nd January, 1912, they broke into the home of the wealthy Louis-Hippolyte Moreau and murdered both him and his maid. This time they stole property and money to the value of 30,000 francs. Bonnot and his men fled to Belgium, where they sold the stolen car. In an attempt to steal another they shot a Belgian policeman. On 27th February they shot two more police officers while stealing an expensive car from a garage in Place du Havre. On 25th March, 1912, the gang stole a De Dion-Bouton car in the Sénart Forest by killing the driver. Later that day they killed two cashiers during an attack on the Société Générale Bank in Chantilly. Leading anarchists in the city were arrested. The police offered a reward of 100,000 in an effort to capture members of the gang. This policy worked and on information provided by an anarchist writer, André Soudy was arrested at Berck-sur-Mer on 30th March. This was followed a few days later when Edouard Carouy was betrayed by the family hiding him. Raymond Callemin was captured on 7th April. Dieudonné was also arrested because he was a known associate of Soudy, Carouy and Callemin. The trial of Dieudonné, Raymond Callemin, Victor Serge, Rirette Maitrejean, Edouard Carouy, Jean de Boe, André Soudy and Stephen Monier, began on 3rd February, 1913. Callemin, Soudy, Dieudonné and Monier were sentenced to death. When he heard the judge's verdict, Callemin jumped up and shouted: "Dieudonné is innocent - it's me, me that did the shooting!" Carouy was sentenced to hard labour for life (he committed suicide a few days later). Serge received five years' solitary confinement but Maitrejean was acquitted. Dieudonné was reprieved by Raymond Poincare but Callemin, Soudy and Monier were guillotined at the gates of the prison on 21st April, 1913. Dieudonné was sent to Îles du Salut where he served his time as a cabinetmaker. He was later transferred to the penal colony of Cayenne but managed to escape in December, 1926. He eventually reached Brazil. Meanwhile, back in France, the journalist, Albert Londres ran a campaign to get him pardoned. This was achieved in 1927. He settled in Faubourg Saint-Antoine where he became a cabinet-maker.
- J. Fisher White was born on 1 May 1865 in Clifton, Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Owd Bob (1924), As You Like It (1936) and Under the Red Robe (1937). He was married to Edith Blackwood and Joan V. Rees. He died on 14 January 1945 in London, England, UK.
- Antal Szerb was born on 1 May 1901 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a writer, known for A Pendragon legenda (1974), VII. Olivér (2001) and Egy filozopter szerelmei (1973). He was married to Klara Balint and Amalia Lakner. He died on 27 January 1945 in Balf, Hungary.
- Arthur Shaw was born on 1 May 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Mona Lisa (1926) and The Lucky Break (1930). He was married to Irma K. Frankenthal. He died on 22 March 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
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Jack W. Robson was born on 1 May 1881 in Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Scaramouche (1923), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Revelation (1924). He died on 8 October 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Arthur Morrison was born on 1 May 1877 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), The Border Legion (1918) and The Silent Flyer (1926). He died on 20 February 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Ada Brown was born on 1 May 1890 in Junction City, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Stormy Weather (1943), Stars in Stripes (1938) and International Rhythms (1938). She died on 31 March 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.- Soundtrack
Nat Bonx was born on 1 May 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 23 October 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.- Daniel G. Tomlinson was born on 1 May 1889 in New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), The Crowd (1928) and Captain Lash (1929). He died on 4 January 1951 in Orange, California, USA.
- Ian Maclaren was born on 1 May 1875 in Lynmouth, Devon, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Prestige (1931) and Journey's End (1930). He was married to Gertrude Ruby Williams Maclaren. He died on 10 April 1952 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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J.G. Bachmann was born on 1 May 1891 in Russia. He was a producer and production manager, known for Double Cross (1941), Eight Bells (1935) and Nothing But the Truth (1929). He was married to Fanny Bachmann and Beatrice. He died on 10 June 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Oscar Åberg was born on 1 May 1882 in Norrköping, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Lyckobarnen (1926), Panik (1939) and Thomas Graals bästa barn (1918). He died on 17 September 1952 in Björkö-Arholma, Uppland, Sweden.
- Cecil Bevan was born on 1 May 1875 in Paddington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Old Curiosity Shop (1921), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Bardell Against Pickwick (1946). He died on 22 January 1953 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK.
- Pierre Ringel was born on 1 May 1922 in Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France. He was an actor, known for Vient de paraître (1949), Monelle (1948) and Vive la liberté (1946). He died on 5 April 1953 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France.
- Stanislaw Brylinski was born on 1 May 1890 in Kamenets-Podolsky, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khmelnitskyi Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Pan Twardowski (1921), Tamten (1921) and Tajemnica przystanku tramwajowego (1922). He was married to Krystyna Feldman and Helena Górska-Brylinska. He died on 10 October 1953 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Alphons Fryland was born on 1 May 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Der Geliebte seiner Frau (1928), Die Insel der Träume (1925) and Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg - Die Tragödie eines Kaiserreiches (1928). He was married to Magdalena Stemann. He died on 29 November 1953 in Graz, Austria.
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Juan Carlos Cobián was born on 1 May 1896. He was an actor and writer, known for Tango Bar (1987), La virgencita de Pompeya (1935) and Prisioneros de una noche (1961). He died on 10 December 1953.- Julius Barc-Ivan was born on 1 May 1909 in Krompachy, Austria-Hungary [now Slovakia]. Julius was a writer, known for Matka (1968), Dvaja (1971) and Zelezné ruky (1979). Julius died on 25 December 1953 in Martin, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].