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- James Cook FRS (7 November 1728- 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
- William Wilberforce was born on 24 August 1759 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on 29 July 1833 in London, England.
- Anne Lister was born on 3 April 1791 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Gentleman Jack (2019) and A Skirt Through History (1994). She was married to Ann Walker. She died on 22 September 1840 in Kutaisi, Georgia.
- Charlotte was born 1816, the third of the six children of Patrick Brontë, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Maria Branwell Brontë. After their mother's death in 1821, Charlotte and her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, were sent to Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters' School, which Charlotte would later immortalize as the brutal Lowood school in "Jane Eyre". Conditions at the school were so bad that both Maria and Elizabeth became ill with consumption (tuberculosis) which killed them in 1825. Charlotte was very close to her surviving siblings, Anne Brontë, Branwell, and Emily Brontë. The children invented the imaginary kingdoms of Angria and Gondal, and spent much of their childhood writing poetry and stories about their make-believe realms. In 1846 the three sisters published a collected work of their poetry called, appropriately enough, "Poems", and in 1847 Charlotte published her most famous book, "Jane Eyre", under a male pseudonym, Currer Bell. Charlotte lost her remaining siblings within a brief time -- Branwell from alcoholism and Emily from consumption, both in 1848; Anne also from consumption in 1849. Charlotte was devastated, and became a lifelong hypochondriac. She resided in London, where she made the acquaintance and admiration of William Makepeace Thackeray. In 1854, she married Reverend A. B. Nicholls, curate of Haworth, against her father's wishes. Charlotte found she was pregnant not long after her marriage, and it was felt she would have a difficult pregnancy due to previous ill-health. She died on 31 March 1855.
- Joseph Whitley was born on 17 October 1816 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Sarah Whitley. He died on 12 January 1891 in New York City, New York, USA.
- The dreamiest of the talented Brontë clan, Emily Jane Brontë was born in 1818. Her mother died when she was barely more than a toddler, and Emily and her younger sister, Anne, became very close. Along with their other siblings, 'Charlotte Bronte' and Branwell Bronte, they invented the make-believe kingdoms of Angria and Gondal, which occupied their lonely childhoods.
Emily never socialized well, and had few friends outside her family. In 1846 she and her sisters published a compilation of their poetry, "Poems", which was followed a year later by Emily's only novel, "Wuthering Heights". An intense and powerful novel, whose enigmatic hero Heathcliff was modeled on Emily's brother, Branwell, "Wuthering Heights" was not an immediate success like Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", but was later recognized as one of the best books of English Literature. Like her sisters, Emily published her book under a male pseudonym, Eliss Bell. In 1848, while attending the funeral of her brother Branwell, Emily caught a cold that developed quickly into the tuberculosis that would take her own life later that year. - The youngest of the talented Brontë siblings, Anne was born January 17th, 1820 to Rev. Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell Brontë. Her mother died of cancer when she was only a year old, and growing up Anne was especially close to her elder sister Emily Brontë. Along with their other sister, Charlotte Brontë and their only brother, Branwell Brontë, Anna and Emily invented the imaginary realms of Gondal and Angria, which absorbed most of their childhoods on the lonely Moors.
Despite her fragile health, Anne worked as a governess for some years before her brother, Branwell, entered the service of the same family she worked for. He was supposed to tutor the family's elder sons, but was dismissed in 1845 after having an affair with his employer's wife. Anne also resigned her position, and took up writing with her sisters, publishing "Poems" in 1846, a compilation of the Brontë girls' poetry. Encouraged by her literary success, Anne published two more novels, "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall".
After her brother Branwell and sister Emily died within three months of one another in 1848, Anne herself came down with consumption. She was taken to the seaside, which she adored, by her sole surviving sister Charlotte, in the hopes of finding a cure. Anne Brontë died at Scarborough in 1849, a victim of tuberculosis. - Soundtrack
John B. Dykes was born on 10 March 1823 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. John B. died on 22 January 1876 in Ticehurst, Sussex, England, UK.- Set Decorator
Hawes Craven was born on 3 July 1837 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Hawes was a set decorator, known for King John (1899). Hawes was married to Mary Tees. Hawes died on 22 July 1910 in Brockley, Lewisham, London, England, UK.- Soundtrack
Joseph Barnby was born on 12 August 1838 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on 28 January 1896 in London, England, UK.- John Hare was born on 16 May 1844 in Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Vicar of Wakefield (1916), Caste (1915) and A Pair of Spectacles (1916). He was married to Mary Adela Elizabeth Holmes. He died on 28 December 1921 in London, England, UK.
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Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English barrister, individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. He studied at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1876 he filed a patent for a film camera which he named a "kinesigraph." In 1885, he was the co-founder of the British Chess Association and the British Chess Club. He was associated with the Liberty and Property Defence League until his split from the League in 1888. In 1890, together with his cousin William Carr Crofts, he produced a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square (1890). The camera that produced this moving picture was patented in 1889 along with the projector necessary to show the motion frames. In 1893, he was one of the founding members and President of the children's rights and free love advocacy organisation the Legitimation League; he left the organization in 1897.- Carlotta Addison was born on 9 July 1849 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Blue Bird (1910). She was married to Charles A. La Trobe. She died on 15 June 1914 in London, England, UK.
- Mrs. O.F. Walton was born on 9 August 1849 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. Mrs. O.F. was a writer, known for The Old Arm Chair (1920), A Peep Behind the Scenes (1918) and A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929). Mrs. O.F. was married to Octavius Frank Walton. Mrs. O.F. died in 1939 in Leigh, Kent, England, UK.
- Whimsical Walker was born on 5 July 1851 in Hull, East Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Starting Point (1919), The Fordington Twins (1920) and The Knut and the Kernel (1915). He died on 10 November 1934 in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK.
- H.H. Asquith, considered the founder of the British welfare state, was the prime minister of the United Kingdom who led the British Empire into the monumental debacle that was World War I.
The son of a cloth merchant, Henry Herbert Asquith was born in Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and attended Balliol College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. After graduation he became a barrister and was called to the bar in 1876. He married Helen Kelsall Melland, the daughter of a Manchester physician, in 1877. By the early 1880s he had become financially well-off from his law practice, enough so to consider politics (members of Parliament were not paid a real salary until the 1970s). He was first elected to Parliament in 1886, standing as the Liberal candidate for East Fife, Scotland.
His first wife gave him four sons and one daughter before dying from typhoid in 1891. He remarried in 1894, taking Margot Tennant, the daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, as his second wife. She bore several children, but only a son and daughter survived into adulthood. Asquith was called Herbert by his family, but his second wife called him Henry, and those who called him by his Christian name made the switch. However, in public he was addressed only as H.H. Asquith.
In 1892 he became Home Secretary during William Gladstone's last government (as Home Secretary Asquith signed the arrest order for Oscar Wilde, who was eventually incarcerated for lewd behavior). Three years after the Liberals went out of power in 1895, he was offered the party leadership but turned it down. After the Liberals' landslide victory in the 1906 general election, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer under Campbell Bannerman, a post in which he proved a stalwart proponent of free trade. Bannerman resigned the premiership due to illness in April 1908 and Asquith succeeded him, becoming the first member of the professional middle class to serve as Prime Minister.
His first government launched a guns-and-butter legislative programme, building up the British Navy in an arms race with Germany while introducing social welfare programmes. Asquith can be considered the father of the British welfare state, as his government introduced government pensions in 1908. The programme was fiercely resisted by the Tories, which provoked a constitutional crisis in 1909 when the Conservative majority in the House of Lords rejected the government's "People's Budget." Traditionally finance was the province of the House of Commons, and the resulting constitutional crisis forced a general election in January 1910. Though the Liberals were returned to government with a majority, their numbers in the Commons were much reduced, and the crisis continued.
King Edward VII consented to filling the House of Lords with freshly-minted Liberal peers, who would override the Lords' veto, if Asquith agreed to hold another general election, after which he would act if the impasse continued. However, Edward VII died in May 1910, before the second general election. Asquith had to use his considerable powers of persuasion to get Edward's successor, King George V, to agree to the plan. The new king was hesitant, as packing the Lords would undermine the power of the hereditary aristocracy. Before the December 1910 general election (the last held for eight years), Asquith's persuasion paid off, and George V agreed to pack the House of Lords. The Liberals won their second election of 1910, though the balance of power in the government rested with peers from Ireland, who demanded a Home Rule bill as the price of support for Asquith's third government.
The Parliament Act of 1911 circumscribed the legislative power of the House of Lords, as the upper chamber of Parliament was limited to delaying, but not defeating outright, any bill passed by the House of Commons. Asquith paid off the Irish block with the Third Irish Home Rule Bill, which achieved Royal Assent in late 1914, though implementation of the law was suspended for the duration of World War I, which the UK had become involved in due to a spider web of treaties. The Irish question remained a tinderbox, and while civil war in Ireland over the fate of Ulster was averted in 1914 by the outbreak of the war in Europe, simmering tensions would lead to the Easter Rebellion of 1916, which would prove to be one of the factors that contributed to Asquith's loss of power. The other was the war.
In May 1915 the Cabinet split over a scandal involving the dearth of munitions available at the front. Asquith ultimately was held responsible for the shortcomings in British war production. The "Shell Crisis" underscored the need for the British economy to be put on a wartime footing. Responding to the discord, Asquith formed a new government, creating a national coalition that included members of the Opposition (though an election should have been held in 1915, elections were suspended for the duration of the war). David Lloyd George, the most dynamic of the Liberal ministers from the old cabinet, was made minister of munitions.
The new coalition government did nothing to bolster Asquith's premiership. Both Liberals and Tories criticized his performance over the conduct of the war and assigned him some of the blame for the failed offensives at the Somme (in which Asquith's eldest son Raymond died) and Gallipoli (which led to the resignation of Winston Churchill, then a Liberal MP, as First Sea Lord). He was also blamed for his handling of the armed Easter Rebellion of Irish Catholics in Dublin in April 1916 and the resulting civil war. The Machiavellian Lloyd George undermined Asquith by splitting the Liberal Party into pro- and anti-Asquith factions. The result was that Asquith resigned as prime minister on December 5, 1916, and was succeeded by Lloyd George.
After resigning, Asquith continued in his post as Liberal Party leader, even after losing his seat in the 1918 elections. He returned to the House of Commons in a 1920 by-election and played a key role in helping the Labour Party form a minority in 1924, which gave Ramsay MacDonald his first--though short-lived--premiership.
The minority Labour government fell in 1924, and in the subsequent election won by the Tories, Asquith lost his seat in the Commons. He was raised to the hereditary peerage as Viscount Asquith, of Morley in the West Riding of the County of York, and Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. Asquith moved over to the House of Lords and finally resigned the Liberal Party leadership in 1926. He died in 1928.
Violet Bonham Carter (maiden name Violet Asquith), Asquith's only daughter by his first wife, was a successful writer who was made a Life Peeress in her own right (she is the grandmother of Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter). His son Cyril became a Law Lord, and two other sons married well, one being the poet Herbert Asquith. His two children by Margot were Elizabeth (later Princess Antoine Bibesco), a writer, and Anthony Asquith, a well-regarded film director. - William Herford was born on 5 May 1853 in Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Telltale Heart (1928), The Passionate Quest (1926) and The Man from Hell's River (1922). He died on 27 December 1934.
- Charles Beetham was born on 16 December 1855 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Man from Snowy River (1920), A Daughter of Australia (1922) and Tall Timber (1926). He died on 28 July 1937 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- John Strange Winter was born on 13 January 1856 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK. John Strange was a writer, known for Goodbye (1918), Bootle's Baby (1914) and Lady Jennifer (1915). John Strange died on 13 December 1911 in Putney, London, England, UK.
- Walter Browne was born on 7 May 1856 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Everywoman (1919). He was married to Clara E. Thorn. He died on 9 February 1911 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
- George Gissing was born on 22 November 1857 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK. George was a writer, known for Why Men Forget (1921) and Your Favorite Story (1953). George was married to Edith Underwood, Marianne Helen 'Nell' Harrison and Nell Harrison. George died on 28 December 1903 in Ispoure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
- Mark Ambient was born on 20 June 1860 in Rastrick, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Arcadians (1927). He died on 11 August 1937 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.
- Known as "The Tramp Author", Kennedy wrote around twenty books as he traveled the world by ship or by foot. A native of Manchester, England, Kennedy was working in cotton mills there by the age of six. While still a youth, Kennedy served aboard merchant vessels that plied the North Atlantic before he came to America. He travels there took him throughout the American Southwest where he became involved in the Indian Wars and later north, to participate in the Alaskan Gold Rush. Kennedy also toured by foot much of Spain with only a revolver and his British passport for protection.
After he tired of traveling, Kennedy became an opera singer and actor. Later he would write columns for several newspapers that were occasionally critical of the United States. During the early years of the First World War he felt the United States should have taken a harder stand against Germany. Kennedy also wrote critical articles about the plight of the working poor in America and England.
Kennedy's better known works would include, "Darab's Wine Cup and Other Tales" (1899), "A Man Adrift" (1900, "The Hunger Line" (1908) and) "A Tramp's Philosophy" (1908).
Kennedy died around the age of seventy on 6 December, 1930, in a London sanitarium after a friend found him ill, without food and ambivalent to life or death. He had at one time lived in a fourteen room house in a well-to-do neighborhood in Brighton. Kennedy often gave as his favorite recreation as "Doing nothing". - Music Department
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Frederick Delius was born on 29 January 1862 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Crush (2001), A Village Romeo and Juliet (1992) and The Yearling (1946). He was married to Helene Jelka Rosen. He died on 10 June 1934 in Grez-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne, France.- H. Reeves-Smith was born on 17 May 1862 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929), No More Women (1924) and Three Weeks (1924). He was married to Clara Gertrude White. He died on 29 January 1938 in Elwell, Surrey, England, UK.
- Albert E. Raynor was born on 16 December 1862 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Princes in the Tower (1928), King of the Castle (1925) and The Squire of Long Hadley (1925). He died on 2 September 1945 in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK.
- British mystery writer Joseph S. Fletcher was born in Halifax, England, in 1863. He was orphaned at eight months old, and was taken in and raised by his grandmother, who lived in Yorkshire. At age 18 he moved to London to get into journalism. He worked on a few newspaper, though not as a journalist, and eventually turned to freelance writing. From 1890 to 1900 he wrote pieces about the joys and sorrows of country life for the "Leeds Mercury" newspaper using the alias "Son of the Soil". His first novel, "When Charles the First Was King", was published in 1902 and garnered him some attention. From then on he wrote prolifically in all genres--poetry, fiction, history, biography, theology, romance, comedy, and pretty much everything in between.
In 1918 US President Woodrow Wilson remarked about how much he enjoyed Fletcher's mystery novel "The Middle Temple Murder", and with that endorsement American publisher Alfred Knopf began publishing some of Fletcher's many detective stories, and achieved wide popularity in the US.
Fletcher died on January 31, 1933. - Art Department
- Writer
As youths, Joseph Stringer and his brother, Jack, were merchant sailors in the West Indies trade, Joseph as a ship's carpenter, Jack as a ship's musician (fiddler). In 1891, while his ship was in Boston, he met his soon-to-be wife, a nanny for a Methuen, MA, family, who convinced him to leave the sea and work as a carpenter in Methuen. They traveled in 1894 to his wife's home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, for the birth of their first child. When the child was a year old, they traveled around Cape Horn and settled in fast-growing California. Stringer again took up the carpentry trade in Los Angeles, where he made the acquaintance of D.W. Griffith, and was hired as a motion picture set carpenter. Stringer's special skill was in creating miniature sets for "long shots", especially miniature ships and maritime scenes. He remained in the movie industry until his retirement well into the 1930's.- Ralph Forster was born on 19 October 1863 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Adam Bede (1918), The Passionate Friends (1922) and The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square (1922). He died on 5 January 1928 in Lewisham, London, England, UK.
- Clarence Blakiston born in Biggleswick in 1864, highly well-known classical, melodrama and comedy theatre star from the 1880's. later appeared as a aristocratic gentleman in few silent film roles first in a short drama from the 'Tense Moment from Great Plays' film series starring Sybil Thorndike for the Master (BEF) Film Company in 1922, later worked for the British Gaumont Film Company and then the B&C Film Company. minor roles in few talkies in the mid 1930's. Dead in 1943 age 79.
- Harry Royston was born on 7 September 1864 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Barnaby Rudge (1915), Oliver Twist (1912) and David Copperfield (1913). He died on 7 March 1941 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK.
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- Director
Edith Mellor was born on 18 October 1865 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a writer and director, known for Then You'll Remember Me (1918), The Laundry Girl (1919) and Betta, the Gipsy (1918). She died in 1955 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.- Writer
- Actor
Thomas Wigney Percyval was born on 29 December 1865 in Yorkshire, England, UK. He is known for She (1917), Grumpy (1930) and Cascarrabias (1930).- E.W. Hornung was born on 7 June 1866 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Raffles (1939), Raffles (1930) and Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925). He was married to Constance Conan Doyle. He died on 22 March 1921 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.
- Edward Lingard was born on 13 October 1866 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for As Ye Repent (1915), Through the Valley of Shadows (1914) and Alone in London (1915). He died in September 1934 in Manchester, England, UK.
- Hubert Carter was born on 2 April 1868 in Great Horton, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Rebecca the Jewess (1913), London (1926) and The Wonderful Year (1921). He died on 26 March 1934 in Surrey, England, UK.
- C.V. France was born on 30 June 1868 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Skin Game (1931), If I Were King (1938) and Went the Day Well? (1942). He died on 13 April 1949 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- Ernest Denny was born on 20 July 1869 in Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for All of a Sudden Peggy (1920), The Side Show of Life (1924) and Lazybones (1935). He was married to Florence Pollard. He died on 20 September 1943 in Yorkshire, England, UK.
- The venerable British stage and film actor A.E. Matthews was born Alfred Edward Matthews on November 22, 1869 in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The actor nicknamed "Matty" established himself on the British and American stage and in British films, taking up the craft after working as a clerk in a London bookstore. He said that after he learned that the great actor Sir Henry Irving (the first thespian to be knighted) had worked at the store, and used the very same desk he did, he decided to dedicate his life to the theatre.
The former bookseller started at the Princess Theatre as a "call boy," the factotum who calls the actors to the stage. Eventually, he was given acting roles, and appeared on stage with such greats as Ellen Terry (the aunt of Sir John Gielgud and Sir Gerald du Maurier. Matty made his Broadway debut on August 8, 1910 at the Garrick Theatre, in "Love Among the Lions." Later that year he appeared as Algernon Moncrieff in a production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) at the Lyceum Theatre. He did not appear again on The Great White Way until 1921, when he played Jerry in the comedy Peg o' My Heart (1922) opposite the legendary American stage actress Laurette Taylor. Later that year he played the eponymous lead in Bulldog Drummond (1929).
A.E. Matthews appeared on Broadway an additional eight times in the 1920s and appeared in seven Broadway productions in the 1930s. Of his appearance in W. Somerset Maugham' comedy "The Breadwinner" in 1931, "Time Magazine" credited his acting with contributing to the success of the comedy, which had problems in its third Act and was described by the "Time" reviewer as "simply a bag of parlour tricks performed by dialog." The reviewer praised "gentle, toothy Mr. Matthews, who somehow suggests the kind old water rat in The Wind in the Willows."
Matty's last appearance On Broadway was in 1949, in William Douglas-Home's comedy "Yes, M'Lord," with a cast that featured a young Elaine Stritch. He appeared in numerous roles on the British stage.
He made his film debut in 1916, in the silent comedy Wanted: A Widow (1916). He appeared in two more flicks in 1916, one in 1918, and two more silent films in 1918 before devoting himself to stage-work. He did not make his talking picture debut until 1934, when he supported George Arliss in The Iron Duke (1934), which also featured Emlyn Williams. He made one more movie in the 1930s, the backstage drama Men Are Not Gods (1936) (1936) which featured a young Rex Harrison. His film career began in earnest in 1941, when he appeared in Anthony Asquith's Quiet Wedding (1941), the propaganda film This England (1941) (again with Emlyn Williams), and Leslie Howard's "'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)_. He appeared in another 41 movies from 1942 to 1960, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), _Million Pound Note, the (1956), The Ship Was Loaded (1957), and Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
A.E. Matthews died on July 25, 1960. He was 90. - Producer
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Paul Gerson was born on 25 January 1871 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a producer and actor, known for The Midnight Limited (1926), Perils of the Coast Guard (1926) and The Pride of the Force (1925). He died on 6 June 1957 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Director
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Cherry Kearton was born on 8 July 1871 in Thwaite, Swaledale, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a director and cinematographer, known for On the Equator (1923), Life in the Sudan (1925) and A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization (1911). He was married to Mary Burwood Coates and Ada Forrest. He died on 27 September 1940 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.- Ralph Hodgson was born on 9 September 1871 in Yorkshire, England, UK. Ralph died on 3 November 1962 in Minerva, Ohio, USA.
- Actress
Eve Fairfax was born on 10 October 1871 in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress. She died on 27 May 1978 in York, North Yorkshire, England, UK.- Vangie Beilby was born on 8 January 1872 in Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Fugitive Road (1934). She died on 14 October 1958 in Alameda County, California, USA.
- Ethel Turner was born on 24 January 1872 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for One-Way Ticket (1935), Seven Little Australians (1939) and Seven Little Australians (1953). She died on 8 April 1958 in Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Bellenden Clarke was born on 23 January 1873 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Crime Unlimited (1935) and The Mad Hatters (1935). He died on 29 May 1953 in Fitzrovia, London, England, UK.
- Frank Wild was born on 10 April 1873 in Skelton, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on 19 August 1939 in Transvaal, South Africa.
- James Harcourt was born on 20 April 1873 in Headingley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hobson's Choice (1931), Night Train to Munich (1940) and Laburnum Grove (1936). He died on 18 February 1951 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
Harold Cundall was born on 15 May 1873 in Pocklington, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor. He died in December 1933 in Winchelsea, East Sussex, England, UK.- Oliver Onions was born on 13 November 1873 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Oliver was a writer, known for Journey to the Unknown (1968) and The Beckoning Fair One (2021). Oliver was married to Berta Ruck. Oliver died on 9 April 1961 in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.