Atlas, Charles (October 30)
Mail-order bodybuilding expert
Famous People Born in 1893
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Bradley, Omar (February 12)
American general during World War II -
Durante, Jimmy (February 10)
Big-nosed comedian of 20th-century radio and TV -
Gish, Lillian (October 14)
Big-eyed silent screen star of Intolerance and La Bohéme -
Göring, Hermann (January 12)
Commander of the Nazi Luftwaffe in World War II -
Hokinson, Helen (June 29)
Cartoonist of urban matrons for The New Yorker -
Kelly, Alvin 'Shipwreck' (May 13)
World-champion flagpole sitter of the 1920s -
Lloyd, Harold (April 20)
The silent film comedian who dangled from a clock face in Safety Last -
Long, Huey P. (August 30)
The "Kingfish" of Louisiana's Depression-era politics -
McDaniel, Hattie (June 10)
The first black actor to win an Oscar, in 1940 -
Miro, Joan (April 20)
Colorful Catalan abstract painter and sculptor -
Moriarty, Professor
Arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes -
Owen, Wilfred (March 18)
English poet of World War I -
Parker, Dorothy (August 22)
The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table -
Robinson, Edward G. (December 12)
The snarling star of 1931's Little Caesar -
Sayers, Dorothy (June 13)
The creator of Lord Peter Wimsey -
Veidt, Conrad (January 22)
The villainous Major Strasser in Casablanca -
West, Mae (August 17)
Early Hollywood sex symbol -
Zedong, Mao (December 26)
Head of the People's Republic of China, 1949-76