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Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 665
1905-12-05 - Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer (Laura, Exodus)
1905-12-12 - Manès Sperber, Austrian-born writer (d. 1984)
1906-01-21 - Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer
1906-02-08 - Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
1906-02-18 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
1906-04-28 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
1906-06-14 - Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1907-01-05 - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor
1907-04-12 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
1907-04-16 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
1907-04-29 - Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia)
1907-08-29 - Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/US writer (Looking For a Bluebird)
1907-09-08 - Leon Askin, Vienna Austria, actor (Pierre-Charlie Farrell Show)
1907-09-12 - Joe Lederer, Austrian actress/writer (Drei Tage Liebe)
1908-01-04 - Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal, Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
1908-01-14 - Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor (Address Unknown, Hitler)
1908-01-20 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress/producer (Masquerade)
1908-04-05 - Herbert von Karajan, Austria, Nazi/conductor (Berlin Philharmonic)
1908-04-28 - Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974)
1908-12-31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Polish/Austrian nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center)
1909-06-16 - Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
1909-09-13 - Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor (Belarus File)
1909-09-19 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1909-12-25 - Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
1910-01-05 - Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist
1910-01-12 - Luise Rainer, Austria, actress (Escapade, Good Earth, Big City)
1910-01-28 - John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor (Sgt Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes)
1910-08-15 - Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
1910-10-01 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
1911-01-17 - Hermann Pfrogner, Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus)
1911-01-22 - Bruno Kreisky, Austria, bandleader/chancellor (1970-83)
1911-05-27 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
1912-01-16 - Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist (Cloak, Aufruf)
1912-02-04 - Erich Leinsdorf, Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater
1912-04-08 - Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi
1912-05-08 - Gertrud Fussenegger, [Dorn], Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende)
1912-07-06 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1912-08-29 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
1912-11-20 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman, head of the Habsburg house
1913-02-15 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997)
1913-05-11 - Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
1913-06-28 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913-07-30 - Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director (Albee/Pinter)
1913-08-12 - Kurt Kaszner, Vienna Austria, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants)
1913-10-16 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist
1913-11-09 - Hedy Lamarr, Vienna Austria, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah)
1914-05-19 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
1914-06-28 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1914-12-04 - Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)
1915-01-23 - Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
1915-03-17 - William Roycroft, Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1915-03-20 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, President of Austria (d. 2000)
1915-04-01 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
1915-12-13 - Curd Jürgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982)
1916-02-12 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, Austrian composer (Vom Tode)
1917-05-22 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917-10-07 - Helmut Dantine, Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
1918-01-24 - Gottfried von Einem, Bern Switzerland, Austrian composer (Dantons Tod)
1918-12-21 - Kurt Waldheim, Nazi/4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81)/Austrian pres (1986-92)
1919-01-23 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1919-02-07 - Ilse Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1919-02-25 - Karl H. Pribram, Austrian neuroscientist
1919-10-28 - Bernhard Wicki, St Polten Austria, director/actor (Crime & Passion)
1920-03-30 - Turhan Bey, Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1920-04-08 - Erik Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1920-05-02 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
1920-05-22 - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
1921-03-06 - Julius Rudel, Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957)
1921-07-13 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
1921-11-01 - Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author
1922-04-29 - Helmut Krackowizer, Austrian motorcyclist (d. 2001)
1922-05-31 - Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein
1923-08-30 - Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove)
1923-10-29 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
1923-12-23 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
1924-01-08 - Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer
1924-01-13 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1924-02-02 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American producer and musician
1924-04-07 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
1924-04-12 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (d. 2003)
1924-05-02 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
1924-11-06 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1925-07-10 - Dorothea Hochletiner, Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1925-07-18 - Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Austria, 100m dash (Oly-bronze-1948)
1926-01-15 - Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
1926-01-27 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
1926-04-25 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1926-06-25 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author/poet
1926-09-26 - Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
1927-05-14 - Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
1927-07-20 - Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer
1927-09-02 - Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927-10-06 - Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
1928-01-20 - William Berger, Austria, actress (Adventure of Hercules)
1928-03-24 - Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1928-05-29 - Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
1928-12-15 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
1929-02-05 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician
1929-02-16 - Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980)
1929-03-16 - Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 429 of 429
2002-02-06 - Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2002-02-21 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
2002-04-09 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2002-06-20 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
2002-10-02 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2002-12-02 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
2003-03-23 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
2003-03-24 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2003-06-03 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2003-08-02 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
2004-03-13 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2004-07-06 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004-07-13 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
2005-03-09 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (b. 1924)
2005-04-10 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (b. 1923)
2005-04-26 - Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
2005-08-21 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005-09-13 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005-09-20 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
2005-09-25 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2005-12-15 - Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914)
2006-01-07 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
2006-11-08 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
2007-01-02 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2007-02-05 - Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
2007-06-14 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and statesman (b. 1918)
2007-09-11 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
2008-06-13 - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
2008-06-24 - Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
