Born on this day – Sada Cowan:

Sada Cowan

Writer

September 8, 1882 – July 31, 1943

Writing partners: Sada Cowan (left) and Howard Higgin (right).

Credits:

Stop, Look and Love (1939); Forbidden Heaven (1935); Woman in the Dark (1934); Stand and Deliver (1928); Mismates (1926); The Reckless Lady (1926); The New Commandment (1925); In the Name of Love (1925); The Trouble with Wives (1925); The Charmer (1925); Smouldering Fires (1925); East of Suez (1925); Broken Barriers (1924); Changing Husbands (1924); Don't Doubt Your Husband (1924); Lucretia Lombard (1923); Fashion Row (1923); Thundering Dawn (1923); The Silent Partner (1923); Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923); The Rustle of Silk (1923); Brass (1923); Peter the Great (1922); The Worldly Madonna (1922); Fool's Paradise (1921); What No Man Knows (1921); Charge It (1921); Straight from Paris (1921); Courage (1921); Hush (1921); Seeds of Vengeance (1920); Why Change Your Wife? (1920).

Born on this day – Alice Fleming:

Alice Fleming

Actress

August 9, 1882 – December 6, 1952

Credits:

A Medal for Benny (1945); California Gold Rush (1946); Cheyenne Wildcat (1944); Colorado Pioneers (1945); Conquest of Cheyenne (1946); Dick Tracy (1937 / 1990); Fired Wife (1943); Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945); Headin' for God's Country (1943); Her Primitive Man (1944); His Greatest Sacrifice (1921); In Society (1944); It's a Pleasure (1945); Keep 'Em Slugging (1943); Lone Texas Ranger (1945); Marshal of Laredo (1945); Marshal of Reno (1944); Moonlight in Vermont (1943); Mystery Broadcast (1943); Overland Mail Robbery (1943); Phantom Lady (1944); Phantom of the Plains (1945); Playmates (1941); Queen of Burlesque (1946); Reckless Age (1944); Saratoga Trunk (1945); Sheriff of Las Vegas (1944); Sheriff of Redwood Valley (1946); Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943); Silas Marner (1922); Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); State Fair (1945); Storm Over Lisbon (1944); Sun Valley Cyclone (1946); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); The Affairs of Susan (1945); The Beloved Cheater (1919); The Conquest of Canaan (1921); The Dark Corner (1946); The Dark Horse (1946); The Mantrap (1943); The San Antonio Kid (1944); Three Is a Family (1944); Tucson Raiders (1944); Vigilantes of Dodge City (1944); Wagon Wheels Westward (1945); Who Done It? (1942); Women Men Love (1921); Youth for the Kingdom (1945).

Born on this day – Edward Hopper:

Edward Hopper

Artist

July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967

Nighthawks (1942)

Credits:

Television:

Exhibition on Screen: Hopper - An American Love Story / documentary (2022).

Born on this day – Virginia Woolf:

Virginia Woolf

Writer

January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941

Credits:

40 Model Essays (2005); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944); A Letter to a Young Poet (2021); A Moment's Liberty (1990); A Room of One's Own (1928); A Society (1921); A World of Fiction (1983); A Writer's Diary (1953); Alaska Stories (1995); Between the Acts (1941); Books & Portraits (1978); Cape Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Classic Women's Short Stories (2020); Collected Short Stories (2019); Contemporary Writers (1965); Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1989); Fathers: A Literary Anthology (2011); Florida Stories (1993); Flush (1933); Granite and Rainbow (1958); Identity And Self Respect (1952); Into the London Fog (2020); Jacob's Room (1922); Kew Gardens (1919); Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell (2018); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Melymbrosia (1981); Moment And Other Essays (1948); Moments of Being (1976); Monday or Tuesday (1921); Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1929); Mrs. Dalloway (1925); Mrs. Dalloway's Party (1973); New Orleans Stories (1992); Night and Day (1919); Nurse Lugton's Curtain (1991); Freshwater (1935); On Being Ill (1930); On Not Knowing Greek (1925); Orlando (1928); Paper Darts (1991); Passionate Apprentice (1990); Reviewing (1939); Roger Fry: A Biography (1940); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Selected Letters (1990); Southwest Stories (1993); Stories to Get You Through the Night (2010); Street Haunting (2022); Texas Stories (1995); That Kind of Woman: Stories from the Left Bank and Beyond (1991); The Common Reader (1925); The Common Reader: Second Series (1932); The Complete Shorter Fiction (1993); The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five (1984); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four (1982); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One (1977); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three (1980); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two (1978); The Essays, Vol. 1 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 2 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 3 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 4 (1967); The Essays, Vol. 5 (1986); The Essays, Vol. 6 (2011); The Lady in the Looking Glass (1960); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1 (1975); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2 (1976); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3 (1977); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4 (1978); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 (1979); The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 6 (1980); The London Scene (1931); The Mark On The Wall & Other Short Fiction (1917); The Mark on the Wall (1917); The Platform of Time (2007); The Voyage Out (1915); The Waves (1931); The Widow and the Parrot (1985); The Years (1937); Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid (1941); Three Guineas (1938); To the Lighthouse (1927); Travels With Virginia Woolf (1993); Two Stories (1917); Walter Sickert (1978); Witches' Brew (1984); Women and Fiction (1975); Women and Writing (1979); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018).

Born on this day – Margaret Mayo:

Margaret Mayo

Writer

Actress

November 19, 1882 – February 25, 1951

Credits:

Teatro en Canal 13 (1997); Au théâtre ce soir (1966); Chuva de Filhos (1961); Mon bébé (1956); 'Minäkö isä!' (1954); Säg det med blommor (1952); Kraft Theatre (1947); Lluvia de hijos (1948); Twin Beds (1942); The Virginia Judge (1935); The Life of the Party (1934); Polly of the Circus (1932); The Spider (1931); Twin Beds (1929); Baby Mine (1928); The Marriage of William Ashe (1921); Twin Beds (1920); The Poor Boob (1919); Nearly Married (1917); Baby Mine (1917); Polly of the Circus (1917); A kölcsönkért csecsemök (1915); Behind the Scenes (1914); The Jungle (1914).

Born on this day – Bela Lugosi:

Bela Lugosi

Actor

October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956

Born on this day – Margaret Dumont:

Margaret Dumont

Actress

October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965

Hudson River, by Arthur Parton (1882):

Manor with Tower in the Moonlight, by Heinrich Gogarten (1882):