Silent Wierdness

1810-1849 Frédéric François Chopin (birth name Fryderyk Franzcisek) was born on this day in Zelazowa Wola, Poland--then part of th...

1880-1946 Born William Claude Dukenfield (hence the "W. C.") in Darby, Pennsylvania; for most of his early life, he was ...

1874-1965 British writer William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris, France--inside the British Embassy there.  He was a writer of...

1896-1996 Born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City to immigrate Jewish parents who came from Romania; he was one of 12 children born ...

1905-1981 Born Torin Herbert Erskine Thatcher in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai) to English parents.  He was educated in Britai...

1920-2014 Born Joseph Yule Jr. in New York City to vaudevillian parents, he was literally born into "the business."  At ...

1891-1985 A giant of the London stage, Jeans was an early Hitchcock muse.  She was born in London and passed away there almost 94 ...

1907-2004 No introductions needed here!  Every horror fan knows her as the original "scream queen"--mostly for her turn ...

Peter Sellers:  1925-1980 This may be a bit of a head-scratcher, because, though Sellers was born in 1925, he was not a child acto...

Roscoe Karns:  1891-1970 Although he is best known for his rapid fire delivery of lines in comedies and crime films of the 1930...