Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf

male, deceased (1984)
Alfred A. Knopf (September 12, 1892 - August 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the 20th century, founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. His...
Arthur Guiterman

Arthur Guiterman

male, deceased (1943)
Arthur Guiterman (November 20, 1871 - January 11, 1943) was an American writer best known for his humorous poems. He was born of American parents...
William Saroyan

William Saroyan

male, deceased (1981)
William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the...
Adolf Berle

Adolf Berle

male, deceased (1971)
Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. (January 271895 - February 171971) was an educator, author, and U.S. diplomat. Educated at Harvard, Berle was a member of...
Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle

male, deceased (1939)
Carl Laemmle, born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood m...
Willy Pogany

Willy Pogany

male, deceased (1955)
William Andrew ("Willy") Pogany (1882-1955), prolific illustrator of children's and adult books. Born Vilmos Andreas Pogany in Szeged, Hungary in...
Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne

male, deceased (1947)
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947) was an English man of letters, very much associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after...
Jean Hersholt

Jean Hersholt

male, deceased (1956) (Hollywood, Florida, United States)
Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 - June 2, 1956) was a Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning Danish actor who lived in the United...

Artur Rodziński

male, deceased (1958)
Artur Rodziński was a Polish conductor. He was born of Polish parents in Spalato, Dalmatia, today's Split, Croatia. He grew up in Lwów, Galicia, no...
Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Mamoulian

male, deceased (1987)
Rouben Mamoulian (October 8, 1897 - December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theatre director. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia (ruled at that...