Astaire, Fred (May 10)
Hollywood's most famous dancer
Famous People Born in 1899
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Bogart, Humphrey (December 25)
Rick Blaine in Casablanca -
Borges, Jorge Luis (August 24)
Author of the short story collection Ficciones -
Cagney, James (July 17)
Star of the movies Public Enemy and Yankee Doodle Dandy -
Capone, Al (January 17)
The American gangster known as "Scarface" -
Carmichael, Hoagy (November 22)
The composer of "Stardust" -
Crane, Hart (July 21)
Suicidal poet of The Bridge -
Davis, Jimmie (September 11)
Louisiana's "Singing Governor" -
Douglas, Aaron (May 26)
The Harlem Renaissance muralist who did 'Aspects of Negro Life' -
Ellington, Duke (April 29)
Performer of "Take the 'A' Train" -
Forester, C.S. (August 27)
The author of the Horatio Hornblower series of novels -
Hemingway, Ernest (July 21)
The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls -
Hitchcock, Alfred (August 13)
The director of the classic suspense film Psycho -
Nabokov, Vladimir (April)
Author of the novel Lolita -
Swanson, Gloria (March 27)
Early screen legend who's in Sunset Blvd. -
Thalberg, Irving (May 30)
"The Boy Wonder" movie producer of old MGM -
Travers, P.L. (August 9)
The author of the Mary Poppins novels -
Trundle, Guy (April 25)
The secret lover of Wallis Simpson