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Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color.
His films include A Trip to the Moon (1902) and An Impossible Voyage (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films.
Méliès died of cancer on 21 January 1938 at the age of 76.
In 2016, a Méliès film long thought lost, A Wager Between Two Magicians, or, Jealous of Myself (1904), was discovered in a Czechoslovak film archive.- Florence Roberts was born on 16 March 1861 in Frederick, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934), Les Misérables (1935) and Off to the Races (1937). She was married to Walter Gale (actor). She died on 6 June 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Jose Rizal was born on 19 June 1861 in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines. He was a writer, known for El filibusterismo (1962), Sisa (1951) and Noli me tangere (1930). He died on 30 December 1896 in Bagumbayan [now Luneta], Manila, Philippines.- Writer
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Rabindranath Tagore was born on 6 May 1861 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]. He was a writer and composer, known for Song of the Body, Streer Patra (1972) and Natir Puja (1932). He was married to Mrinalini Devi. He died on 7 August 1941 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India].- Henrietta Crosman was born on 2 September 1861 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Charlie Chan's Secret (1935), The Right to Live (1935) and The Royal Family of Broadway (1930). She was married to Maurice Campbell and Sedley Brown. She died on 31 October 1944 in Pelham Manor, New York, USA.
- Chung Ling Soo was born on 2 April 1861 in New York, USA. He died on 24 March 1918 in Wood Green, London, England, UK.
- Martha Bernays was born on 26 July 1861 in Hamburg, Germany. She was married to Sigmund Freud. She died on 2 November 1951 in London, England, UK.
- Eille Norwood was born on 11 October 1861 in York, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921) and The Sign of Four (1923). He was married to Ruth Mackay. He died on 24 December 1948 in London, England, UK.
- Howard Truesdale was born on 3 January 1861 in Conneautville, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Burning Daylight (1928), Go West (1925) and The Whisper Market (1920). He died on 8 December 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- The son of a sea captain, Theodore Roberts was a veteran stage actor, making his first appearance in 1880. Often referred to as the "Grand Duke of Hollywood," Roberts was a regular on the Cecil B. DeMille team and appeared in 23 of DeMille's films. He is best remembered for his role as Moses in DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923). A well-known and well-loved actor, his funeral in Westlake Park (he died from uremic poisoning) was attended by nearly 2,000 people. However, Roberts felt so much bitterness in his heart for his immediate relatives that he bequeathed his estate to a nephew (a commercial illustrator) in New York. The estate was valued at nearly $20,000, including a yacht valued at $10,000. Several of Roberts' personal items were left to his friends William C. de Mille and his brother Cecil. Roberts claimed that during the worst times of his life, no one in his family offered a word of sympathy or any help at all. His only request was that he be laid to rest next to his beloved wife Florence Smythe, who passed away in 1925.
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William J. Burns was born on 19 October 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Squaw Man (1914), The Argyle Case (1917) and The Argyle Case (1929). He was married to Annie M. Ressler. He died on 14 April 1932 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.- Director
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Wallace McCutcheon was born on 3 November 1861 in New York City, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea (1905), The Nihilist (1905) and How They Rob Men in Chicago (1900). He was married to Mira West. He died on 3 October 1918 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.- Director
- Actor
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André Calmettes was born on 18 August 1861 in Paris, France. He was a director and actor, known for La dame aux camélias (1912), Tosca (1908) and La Tosca (1909). He died on 14 March 1942 in Paris, France.- Producer
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Maud Gage Baum was born on 27 March 1861 in Fayetteville, New York, USA. Maud Gage was a producer, known for The Wizard of Oz (1938). Maud Gage was married to L. Frank Baum. Maud Gage died on 6 March 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- William Morris was born on 1 January 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Monsieur Lecoq (1915), Romeo and Juliet (1916) and Behind Office Doors (1931). He was married to [Henrietta Luna] Etta Hawkins (actress). He died on 11 January 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Concordia Selander was born on 2 June 1861 in Arboga, Västmanlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for The Phantom Carriage (1921), Mästerman (1920) and The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1917). She was married to Hjalmar Selander. She died on 31 March 1935 in Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Getting her show business start in vaudeville, Phyllis Allen's large physique and excellent timing made her a natural for film comedies, and she appeared in many of Mack Sennett's slapstick films. She also appeared in several of Charles Chaplin's movies, and was often paired with equally hefty comedian Mack Swain.
- Alberta Gallatin was born on 5 April 1861 in Cabell County, West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for The Christian (1914), Mr. Barnes of New York (1914) and The Fifth Commandment (1915). She was married to Edwin Ogden Childe and Percy Sage Richardson (aka Percy Sage). She died on 25 August 1948 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Sam Allen was born on 25 December 1861 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Death Valley (1927), The Midnight Limited (1926) and The Power God (1925). He died on 13 September 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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- Visual Effects
Dark Cloud was born on 20 September 1861 in St. Francis Indian Village, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for What Am I Bid? (1919), The Dishonored Medal (1914) and The Woman Untamed (1920). He was married to Margaret Camp. He died on 17 October 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Juhani Aho was born on 11 September 1861 in Lapinlahti, Finland. He was a writer, known for Juha (1937), Johan (1921) and Juha (1999). He was married to Venny Soldan. He died on 8 August 1921 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Wilhelm Diegelmann was born on 28 September 1861 in Ellers, Electorate of Hesse [now Neuhof, Hesse, Germany]. He was an actor, known for The Wildcat (1921), Deception (1920) and Der Schimmelreiter (1934). He died on 1 March 1934 in Berlin, Germany.
- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was born on 6 August 1861 in Norwich, Connecticut, USA. She was married to Theodore Roosevelt. She died on 30 September 1948 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.
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Fred Storey was born on 20 June 1861 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Rip Van Winkle (1914), The Soldier's Courtship (1896) and Specialty Dance by Fred Storey (1899). He was married to Flora Bessie Constance Clitherow and Lilian Margaret Thorley Holmes (actress). He died on 4 December 1917 in London, England, UK.- Henry Irving Dodge was born on 11 April 1861 in Williamstown, New York, USA. Henry Irving was a writer, known for The 13th Juror (1927), Skinner's Dress Suit (1926) and The Yellow Dog (1918). Henry Irving was married to Margaret Small. Henry Irving died on 28 July 1934 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- William H. Turner was born on 21 October 1861 in County Cork, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was an actor, known for The Last Performance (1929), Traffic in Souls (1913) and The Power God (1925). He was married to Ann Vislaire. He died on 27 September 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Leo Stein was born on 25 March 1861 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. Leo was a writer, known for The Merry Widow (1934), The Csardas Princess (1934) and The Merry Widow (1925). Leo died on 28 July 1921 in Vienna, Austria.- Hal Wilson was born on 2 October 1861 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Sundown (1924), Indian Romeo and Juliet (1912) and Rob Roy (1913). He was married to Ethel Harbord. He died on 22 May 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Lucius Henderson was born on 8 June 1861 in Aledo, Illinois, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Under Southern Skies (1915), Sapho (1913) and The Huntress of Men (1916). He was married to Helene Studebaker and Gretchen Violet Lyons. He died on 18 February 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.- Adolph Lestina was born on 26 February 1861 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919), The Burglar's Dilemma (1912) and A Wreath of Orange Blossoms (1911). He was married to Mary Elizabeth (Bessie) Rice (aka Bessie Lea Lestina, actress). He died on 23 August 1923 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
- Marie Wright was born on 18 December 1861 in Woolwich, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Silver Top (1938), A Cup of Kindness (1934) and Quinneys (1919). She was married to Nelson Barry. She died on 1 May 1949 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Harrison Grey Fiske was born on 30 July 1861 in Harrison, New York, USA. Harrison Grey was a writer, known for The District Attorney (1915). Harrison Grey was married to Minnie Maddern Fiske. Harrison Grey died on 3 September 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Maxime Desjardins was born on 17 September 1861 in Auxerre, Yonne, France. He was an actor, known for Les mystères de Paris (1922), The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930) and Le bossu (1925). He died on 2 October 1936 in Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Grace Duffie Boylan was on 9 February, 1861, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, one of eleven children born to Phelix K. and Juliette Duffie. Her father, who had emigrated from Ireland, owned the Dollar House Hotel in Kalamazoo. During the American Civil War he served for eighteen months as a Captain in the 19th Michigan Infantry, Company K. Boylan attended the "Harvard Annex," (now part of Radcliffe College) and the Northeastern Conservatory of Music in Boston. After graduation she worked as a journalist in Chicago. Duffie had worked as a art critic for the Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean and wrote a column called "One-Minute Romances from Real Life" for The Chicago Journal.
Boylan published her "Kids of Many Colors" series of children's books in 1901. Theses stories were about children of diverse races and cultures and came with titles like: "Our Little Cuban Kiddies", "Our Little Eskimo Kiddies", "Our Little Hawaiian Kiddies" "Our little Indian Kiddies", "Our Little Canadian Kiddies" and "Our Little Philippine Kiddies". Boylan also authored several works of juvenile fiction, "Yama Yama Land" and "Young Folks' Uncle Tom's Cabin" (not to be confused with the Harriet Beecher Stowe book), to name a couple.
She was well known as a writer of dialect poetry and patriotic verse with works like, "If Tam O'Shanter 'd Had a Wheel, and Other Poems and Sketches", "When Mary Looks at Me.", "Who Goes There?", "The Star of Christmas Morn" and "At Christmas Time", "When the Band Played and other readings and recitations", "Hosanna and Huzzah" and "In the Transvaal".
Books by Boylan include: "The Little White Cross", "Kiss of Glory", "The Supplanter", "The Pipes of Clovis; a Fairy Romance of the Twelfth Century", "The Old House", "Steps to Nowhere", "John of Joy", "Love Finds a Way", "Conquerors" and "When Geronimo Rode" (with Forrestine C. Hooker).
In 1918 Grace Duffie Boylan wrote, "Thy Son Liveth: Messages from a soldier to his mother", and had it initially published anonymously. The book told the story of an American soldier who after he was killed on a battlefield in France was able to send his grieving mother comforting messages through Morse code and automatic writing, assuring her that whilst his body had been destroyed, his soul was alive and vigorous. Boylan would later insist that her story was true and that she was the dead soldier's mother. Years later, 'Peter O'Fallon' would base his film A Rumor of Angels (2000) on Boylan's touching story.
Boylan was married several times. In the early 1890s she published works under the name Grace Duffie Roe, a surname that her daughter Clover also used. She had at least one child with husband Robert J. Boylan (1862-1934), a well known newspaper reporter and horse racing expert. Her third husband, St. George Kempson, whom she married on 20 December, 1905, was the editor of the New York Insurance Journal. Kempson died on 12 August, 1907, after an emergency appendectomy. She married next Louis Napoleon Geldert in March of 1909. Geldert was the owner of the respected publication, The Insurance Herald of Louisville, Kentucky. He would go to be an executive officer in the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association and found the industry magazine, Cotton Oil Press. In 1906 he published "The Eagle Fire Company of New York: A History of Its First Century (1806-1906)" and in 1916 compiled and edited for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, "Facts about Georgia: a state rich in resources and opulent in opportunities".
Grace Duffie Boylan died of heart disease on 24 March, 1935, at Memphis, Tennessee. She was survived by her husband, a daughter, Clover Roscoe and son, Malcolm Stuart Boylan. She had been a member of the Arts Club of Washington (DC), Authors League of America, Poetry Society of America and past president of the National League of Pen Women. - Edmund Allenby was born in 1861 at Brackenhurst Hall, Nottinghamshire county, England, one of six children and the son of a country gentleman. His military service began when he entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1881 where he was commissioned into the Royal Cavalry and sent to South Africa a year later where, as a 2nd Lieutenant, he participated in Bechuanaland and Zululand military expeditions from 1884 to 1888. Allenby attended Staff College in 1896 and was given command of the Royal 3rd Cavalry Squadron which fought in the Boer War in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. He worked his way up the military ladder to Brigadier-General commanding the BEF calvary at the start of World War I in 1914. In May 1915 Allenby was promoted to full General and took over the 5th Corps, and later the 3rd Army in France. He led the British Cavalry at the Battle of Arras (April 9-May 3, 1917) until he was removed to Egypt to take over the British-Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine in June 1917, which saw the high point of his military career with the Battle of Beersheba (October 31-November 7) where he defeated the Turkish army in Palestine which led to the capture of Jerusalem on December 9. In 1918, Allenby led the Jordan Valley operations and launched the final offensive against the Turks at the Battle of Megiddo (September 19-30) which destroyed the last Turkish armies in Palestine and secured an armistice in October ending World War I in the Middle East. After the end of the war, Allenby was made Special High Commissioner for Egypt in March 1919, was promoted to Field Marshall in July, and created a Viscount in October, positions he held until he retired from the British army in 1925 and lived the rest of his life in London until his death in 1936.
- Cyrus Brady, an Episcopal minister, was a successful author, with over 100 books to his credit, and went to work for Vitagraph in 1914 as a screenwriter. He wrote everything from romances to action pictures, and even took on the serial genre. His brother, Jasper Ewing Brady, was also a screenwriter, first for Vitagraph and then for Metro. Cyrus died in Yonkers, NY, in 1920.
- Robert Disney was born on 7 August 1861 in Canada. He died on 28 July 1953 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Gilbert Dalleu was born on 5 March 1861 in Pons, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. He was an actor, known for Les mystères de Paris (1922), L'agonie des aigles (1922) and Le comte de Monte Cristo - Épisode 15: Le triomphe de Dantès (1918). He died on 1 March 1931 in Paris, France.
- Acton Bond was born on 27 November 1861 in Toronto, Canada. Acton was an actor, known for Henry VIII (1911). Acton was married to Eve Tame. Acton died on 28 November 1941 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
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Marius Sestier was born on 8 September 1861 in Sauzet, Gard, France. Marius was a cinematographer and director, known for The Melbourne Cup (1896), Passengers Alighting from Ferry Brighton at Manly (1896) and New South Wales Horse Artillery in Action (1896). Marius died on 8 November 1928 in Sauzet, Gard, France.- Olga Maisuryan was born on 7 March 1861 in the Russian Empire. She was an actress, known for Suramis tsikhe (1922), Zamallu (1930) and Honor (1925). She died on 3 August 1931 in the USSR.
- Vladimir Mikhaylov was born on 10 December 1861 in Moscow, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for The Girl with the Hat Box (1927), Don Diego i Pelageya (1928) and Three Thieves (1926). He died on 31 March 1935 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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Nellie Melba was born on 19 May 1861 in Richmond, Victoria, Australia. She was married to Charles Frederick Nisbett Armstrong. She died on 23 February 1931 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- Svevo worked as a bank clerk, and, after marrying Lidia Veneziani, he directed her father's factory, which supplied a special naval paint. He was much more successful as a businessman than as a writer at the time, his scripts being totally neglected. His fame came when he was over sixty, thanks to the interest of his English teacher, a young James Joyce.
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Angel Gregorio Villoldo was born on 16 February 1861 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Angel Gregorio was a composer, known for Ce qui me meut (1989) and Twin Sisters or Homeland (2013). Angel Gregorio died on 14 October 1919 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Ada Beecher was born on 24 November 1861 in Derry, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Strange Woman (1918) and Sunlight (1928). She died on 30 March 1935 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp was born on 19 March 1861 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Josephine Sarah was a writer, known for I Married Wyatt Earp (1983). Josephine Sarah died on 19 December 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Alexandra Schmitt was born on 30 January 1861 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She was an actress, known for Pique Dame (1927), Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (1929) and Her Majesty Love (1931). She died in 1938.
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Michel Verne was born on 3 August 1861 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for La Destinée de Jean Morénas (1916), Les Indes noires (1917) and In Search of the Castaways (1914). He was married to Jeanne Raboul and Clémence-Thérese Taton. He died on 5 March 1925 in Toulon, Var, France.- Mrs. William Bechtel was born on 12 June 1861 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Birth of the Star Spangled Banner (1914), Abe Gets Even with Father (1911) and The Purple Lady (1916). She was married to William Bechtel. She died on 21 October 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA.