City, United States. Food product and processing brand Del Monte Foods was founded in California, United States. Births January–February January 2 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born American actress (d. 1938) January 5 – Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (d. 1976) January 7 – Amedeo Maiuri, Italian archaeologist (d. 1963) January 11 George Zucco, English–born American character actor (d. 1960) Chester Conklin, American actor (d. 1971) January 13 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer, comedian (d. 1966) January 14 – Hugh Lofting, English-born American author (d. 1947) January 17 – Joe Masseria, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1931) January 25 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954) January 27 – Frank Nitti, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1943) January 28 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976) January 31 – Alfonso López Pumarejo, 14th and 16th President of Colombia (d. 1959) February 2 – Frank Lloyd, English-born American film director, scriptwriter and producer (d. 1960) February 4 – Edward Sheldon, American playwright (d. 1946) February 7 – Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born British rabbi (d. 1976) February 8 – Charlie Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970) February 9 – Edwin Maxwell, Irish actor (d. 1948) February 12 – Margarita Fischer, American silent film actress (d. 1975) February 17 – Aeneas Francon Williams, English missionary, Church of Scotland minister, writer and poet (d. 1971) February 19 – José Abad Santos, Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. 1942) February 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (d. 1980) February 27 – Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1971) March–April March 2 Willis H. O'Brien, American stop motion animator (d. 1962) Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football player and manager (d. 1968) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (d. 1974) March 4 – Kazimierz Świtalski, Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962) March 6 Saburō Kurusu, Japanese diplomat (d. 1954) Nella Walker, American actress, vaudevillian (d. 1971) March 7 – Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress (d. 1958) March 8 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972) March 9 – Robert L. Eichelberger, American general (d. 1961) March 11 – Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish politician, Marshal of Poland (d. 1941) March 15 – Sergey Kirov, Soviet revolutionary (d. 1934) March 18 Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970) Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German U-boat ace (d. 1941) March