and author (d. 1948) 1896 – Señor Wences, Spanish-American ventriloquist (d. 1999) 1897 – Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator (d. 1981) 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (d. 1975) 1897 – Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (d. 1983) 1899 – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1958) 1901–present 1903 – Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator (d. 1978) 1903 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (d. 1976) 1903 – Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach (d. 1975) 1905 – Louis Jean Heydt, American journalist and actor (d. 1960) 1905 – Arthur Lake, American actor (d. 1987) 1906 – Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente (d. 1984) 1909 – Alain Poher, French politician, President of France (d. 1996) 1910 – Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister of Defence (d. 1990) 1910 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer (d. 1999) 1910 – Helenio Herrera, French footballer and manager (d. 1997) 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French author and poet (d. 1996) 1911 – Lester Rodney, American soldier and journalist (d. 2009) 1912 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer (d. 2013) 1914 – George Davis, American art director (d. 1984) 1914 – Mac Raboy, American illustrator (d. 1967) 1915 – Martin Clemens, Scottish soldier (d. 2009) 1915 – Joe Foss, American general and politician, 20th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2003) 1915 – Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter (d. 1999) 1916 – Win Maung, 3rd President of Union of Myanmar (d. 1989) 1916 – A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan educator and politician (d. 1981) 1916 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, world's first female prime minister (d. 2000) 1918 – William Holden, American actor (d. 1981) 1919 – Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian lieutenant and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2016) 1919 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012) 1920 – Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and author (d. 2016) 1923 – Lindsay Anderson, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994) 1923 – Solly Hemus, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2017) 1923 – Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (d. 2014) 1923 – Gianni Raimondi, Italian lyric tenor (d. 2008) 1923 – Harry Reasoner, American soldier and journalist (d. 1991) 1924 – Kenneth Norman Jones, Australian public servant (d. 2022) 1924 – Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (d. 2013) 1925 – René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President