Born on this day – Bukka White:

Bukka White

Blues singer

Guitarist

November 12, 1900 – February 26, 1977

Credits:

Songs:

Aberdeen Mississippi Blues; Parchman Farm Blues; Fixin' To Die Blues; Special Stream Line; Poor Boy Long Ways From Home; Black Train Blues; Bukka's Jitterbug Swing; Bald Eagle Train; High Fever Blues; District Attorney Blues; The Panama Limited; Sugar Hill; Pinebluff, Arkansas; I Am the Heavenly Way; Sic 'Em Dogs On; Baby Please Don't Go; Po' Boy; The New Frisco Train; My Baby; Good Gin Blues; Streamline Special; Old Lady; Jitterbug Swing; New Orleans Streamline; Army Blues; Mama Don't Allow; Mixed Water; Aberdeen Blues; Black Cat Bone Blues; Big Daddy; Corinna, Corinna; Drunken Leroy Blues; Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord; Big Daddy.

Albums:

Mississippi Blues (1963); Sky Songs (1990); Big Daddy (1974); Baton Rouge Mosby Street (1972); 1963 Isn't 1962 (1994); Presenting Bukka White (1931); The Atlanta Special (2010); Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues (Live in Germany) (2019); Introducing Bukka White (2014); Blues Legend of the Century (2012); Patchman Farm Blues (date?); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Bukka White (2011); High Fever (2018); Big Boat up the River (2022); Bukka White (Hd Remastered Edition) (2018); Parchman Farm (1970); The Complete Bukka White (1969); Memphis Hot Shots (1969); Shake 'em On (2023); Bukka White Blues (2019); Contemporary Guitar: Spring ’67 (1967); Saga Blues: Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (2007); The Panama Ltd. (2000); Live, Cafe Au Go Go, 1965 (2014); The Vintage Recordings 1930 - 1940 "Aberdeeen Mississippi Blues" (2003); The Complete Sessions 1930-1940 (1990); Bukka's Jitterbug Swing (2013); Party! At Home (2001); Special Streamline (2018); Fixin' to Die (2004); Shake 'Em On Down (1994); Blues At Home 7 (2013); The New Frisco Train (2018); Parchman Farm Blues (2015); Pinebluff Arkansas (2014); Good Gin Blues (1899); Missipi blues giant (2006); The Old Wild Shadow (2015); Tonight in Time (2015); Instinctively the Blues - Bukka White (2020); Blues Heatwave - Bukka White's 1940s Summer Grooves (2023); Two Blues Icons (2014); Two of a Kind: Big Bill Broonzy & Bukka White (2022); The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (1968); Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (2015); Behind the Mule (2015).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2005); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Deadwood (2004); Death of a Champion, Birth of a Rule: The Tony Marino Story (2016); Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 (1996); Doug MacLeod: Captured Alive (2006); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); From the Vaults (2018); Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007); Life (1999); Memphis '69 (2019); Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye (2008); On the Road (2012); One Last Chance (2004); Reacher (2022); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Devil's Music (1979); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); Two Trains Runnin' (2016).

Born on this day – Margaret Mitchell:

Margaret Mitchell

Writer

November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949

Credits:

Gone with the Wind (1936); Lost Laysen (1996); Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell (2000); Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000); I Want to Be Famous: The Writings of Young Margaret Mitchell (2002); Gone with the Wind Letters (1987); Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 (1989).

Awards:

National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel (1936).

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1937).

Both awards for her 1936 novel: Gone with the Wind.

Born on this day – Mark Sandrich:

Mark Sandrich

Director

Writer

Producer

October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945

Born on this day – Jean Arthur:

Jean Arthur

Actress

October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991

Credits:

4 Clowns (1970); A Foreign Affair (1948); A Lady Takes a Chance (1943); A Man of Nerve (1925); Adventure in Manhattan (1936); AFI Life Achievement Award (1980); America at the Movies (1976); American Masters (1989); Arizona (1940); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001); Biff Bang Buddy (1924); Bigger and Better Blondes (1927); Billy Wilder Speaks (2006); Born to Battle (1926); Bringin' Home the Bacon (1924); Brotherly Love (1928); Cameo Kirby (1923); Case Dismissed (1924); Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999); Compression (2023–2024); Danger Lights (1930); Diamond Jim (1935); Double Daring (1926); Easy Living (1937); Eight-Cylinder Bull (1926); Ex-Bad Boy (1931); False Positive (2021); Fast and Fearless (1924); Flying Luck (1927); Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1999); Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1998); George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984); Get That Venus (1933); Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984); Gunsmoke (1965); Half Way to Heaven (1929); Hello Lafayette (1927); History Is Made at Night (1937); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Horse Shoes (1927); Husband Hunters (1927); If You Could Only Cook (1935); I'll Be There (1927); Lightning Bill (1926); Monks a la Mode (1923); More Than a Secretary (1936); Most Precious Thing in Life (1934); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); My Little Brother (1924); Only Angels Have Wings (1939); Paramount op parade (1930); Party Wire (1935); Public Hero Number 1 (1935); Ridin' Rivals (1926); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 (1938); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 10 (1940); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 2 (1939); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 24 (1930); Seven Chances (1925); Shane (1953); Sins of the Fathers (1928); Somebody Lied (1923); Spring Fever (1923); Stairs of Sand (1929); Street of Chance (1930); Stu's Show (2023); Tearin' Loose (1925); The Block Signal (1926); The Broken Gate (1927); The Canary Murder Case (1929); The College Boob (1926); The Cowboy Cop (1926); The Defense Rests (1934); The Devil and Miss Jones (1941); The Drug Store Cowboy (1925); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936); The Fighting Cheat (1926); The Fighting Smile (1925); The Gang Buster (1931); The Greene Murder Case (1929); The Hurricane Horseman (1925); The Impatient Years (1944); The Jean Arthur Show (1966); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Lawyer's Secret (1931); The Mad Racer (1926); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Masked Menace (1927); The Merv Griffin Show (1973–1974); The More the Merrier (1943); The Movies (2019); The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929); The Past of Mary Holmes (1933); The Plainsman (1936); The Poor Nut (1927); The Powerful Eye (1924); The Public Menace (1935); The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930); The Roaring Rider (1926); The Saturday Night Kid (1929); The Silver Horde (1930); The Talk of the Town (1942); The Whole Town's Talking (1935); This Is Your Life (1955); Thundering Romance (1924); Thundering Through (1925); Too Many Husbands (1940); Travelin' Fast (1924); Twisted Triggers (1926); Under Fire (1926); Virtuous Husband (1931); Wallflowers (1928); Warming Up (1928); Whirlpool (1934); Wine of Youth (1924); Winners of the Wilderness (1927); Yesterday and Today (1953); You Can't Take It with You (1938); Young Eagles (1930).

Born on this day – Mervyn LeRoy:

Mervyn LeRoy

Director

Producer

October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987

Born on this day – Georgia Backus:

Georgia Backus

Actress

October 13, 1900 – September 7, 1983

Credits:

Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Mark of the Renegade (1951); Apache Drums (1951); Cause for Alarm! (1951); Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950); No Man of Her Own (1950); Copper Canyon (1950); Song of Surrender (1949); Too Late for Tears (1949); Force of Evil (1948); Dream Girl (1948); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Lady in the Dark (1944); Standing Room Only (1944); The Moon Is Down (1943); Lucky Jordan (1942); My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942); I Married a Witch (1942); The Talk of the Town (1942); Blondie for Victory (1942); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); Not a Ladies' Man (1942); Take a Letter, Darling (1942); Shut My Big Mouth (1942); The Lady Is Willing (1942); Bedtime Story (1941); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); You Belong to Me (1941); Blondie in Society (1941); They Dare Not Love (1941); Citizen Kane (1941); Repent at Leisure (1941); Footlight Fever (1941); So Ends Our Night (1941); Nobody's Children (1940).

Born on this day – Helen Hayes:

Helen Hayes

Actress

October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993

Credits:

Glitter (1985); Murder with Mirrors (1985); Highway to Heaven (1984); A Caribbean Mystery (1983); Love, Sidney (1982); Murder Is Easy (1982); The Love Boat (1980); A Family Upside Down (1978); Candleshoe (1977); Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976); Victory at Entebbe (1976); Hawaii Five-O (1975); One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975); The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974); Herbie Rides Again (1974); Circle of Fear (1972); Harvey (1972); Here's Lucy (1972); Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971); NET Playhouse (1964); Airport (1970); The Front Page (1970); Arsenic and Old Lace (1969); Tarzan (1967); The Ed Sullivan Show (1965); The Christophers (1963); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960); Play of the Week (1959–1960); Cradle Song (1960); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Kraft Theatre (1954–1959); Third Man on the Mountain (1959); Ah, Wilderness! (1959); Omnibus (1952–1958); The Alcoa Hour (1957); The Eighty Yard Run (1957); Anastasia (1956); Producers' Showcase (1955); The Best of Broadway (1954–1955); The Motorola Television Hour (1954); Medallion Theatre (1953); Main Street to Broadway (1953); My Son John (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1951); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1951); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935); What Every Woman Knows (1934); Crime Without Passion (1934); Night Flight (1933); Another Language (1933); The White Sister (1933); The Son-Daughter (1932); A Farewell to Arms (1932); Arrowsmith (1931); The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931); The Dancing Town (1928); The Weavers of Life (1917); Jean and the Calico Doll (1910).

Born on this day – Thomas Wolfe:

Thomas Wolfe

Writer

October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938

Credits:

Books:

Look Homeward, Angel (1929); Of Time and the River (1935); The Web and the Rock (1939); You Can't Go Home Again (1940) The Good Child's River (1991); The Web and the Root (2009); From Death to Morning (1935); The Hills Beyond (1941); A Stone, A Leaf, A Door (poems) (1945); The Story of a Novel (1936); The Face of a Nation (1939); Letters of Thomas Wolfe (1956).

Movies and television:

Camera Three (1976); Charles Laughton (1952); Crusade Report (1951); Days in the Yellow Leaf (1989); Die Herren von der Presse (1965); Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin (1972); Herrenhaus (1966); Look Homeward, Angel (1972); Of Time and the River (1953); Of Time and the River (II);  (1953); Schau heimwärts, Engel (1961); Willkommen in Altamont (1965); You Can't Go Home Again (1979).

Born on this day – Ricardo Cortez:

Ricardo Cortez

Actor

Director

September 19, 1900 – April 28, 1977

Born on this day – Jean Yarbrough:

Jean Yarbrough

Director

Producer

August 22, 1900 – August 2, 1975

Born on this day – Willie Lee Brown:

Willie Lee Brown

Blues singer

Guitarist

August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952

Credits:

Albums:

Tell Me Why Love Don't Last / EP (2015); Two Men on Fire - The Blues Brothers of the Delta (2025); Voice Throwin' Blues (2022).

Songs:

Cadillac Boogie; Camp Hollers; Cut It Out; Do It Like That; East St. Louis Blues; Fever; Fo' Clock Blues; Four O'clock Flower Blues; Future Blues; Going to Fishing; Gonna Make It On Back; Gonna Make on Back; Government Fleet Blues; Korea Blues; Levee Camp Blues; Love That Stranger; M & O Blues; M and o Blues; Make Me a Pallet on the Floor; Mississippi Blues; Ragged and Dirty; Sleep; So Gorgeous; Take My Love; Talk To Me, Talk To Me; Tell Me Why Love Don't Last Always; Together; Together Intrumental; Walkin' Blues; Walking Blues.

Movie:

Crossroads (1986).

Born on this day – Ted D. McCord:

Ted D. McCord

Cinematographer

August 2, 1900 – January 19, 1976

Ted D. McCord (left) with Ida Lupino (center) and Dane Clark (right) on the set of Deep Valley (1947).

Credits:

A Fine Madness (1966); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Airborne Lifeboat (1945); Alice in Movieland (1940); At the Stroke of Twelve (1941); Battle Royal (1932); Between Fighting Men (1932); Beyond the Rockies (1932); Blazing Sixes (1937); Bombers B-52 (1957); Border Romance (1929); Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School (1942); Bullet Scars (1942); Bullets for O'Hara (1941); California Mail (1936); Calling All Husbands (1940); Carnival Boat (1932); Cattle Town (1952); Cheyenne (1956–1957); Code of the Secret Service (1939); Come on, Tarzan (1932); Conflict (1956–1957); Deep Valley (1947); Desert Vengeance (1931); Dynamite Ranch (1932); East of Eden (1955); Empty Holsters (1937); False Faces (1932); Fargo Express (1933); Father Is a Prince (1940); Feud of the West (1936); Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (1930); Flamingo Road (1949); Flirting with Love (1924); For Sale (1924); Force of Arms (1951); Freighters of Destiny (1931); Fugitive in the Sky (1936); Ghost Valley (1932); Giant (1956); Goodbye, My Fancy (1951); Gun Justice (1933); Guns of the Pecos (1936); Hell-Fire Austin (1932); Hero's Island (1962); High Hats and Low Brows (1932); Highway West (1941); Hong Kong (1960); Honor of the Range (1934); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); I Was Framed (1942); I'll See You in My Dreams (1951); In Love at 40 (1935); International Squadron (1941); Irene (1926); Johnny Belinda (1948); June Bride (1948); King of the Arena (1933); Knockout (1941); Ladies Must Live (1940); Land Beyond the Law (1937); Letter from a Friend (1943); Lucky Larkin (1930); Men Without Law (1930); Mountain Justice (1930); Murder in the Air (1940); Murder in the Big House (1942); Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941); Odor in the Court (1934); Off to See the Wizard (1967); Operation Secret (1952); Parade of the West (1930); Poisoned Ivory (1934); Prairie Thunder (1937); Pride of the Blue Grass (1939); Private Detective (1939); Private Property (1960); Ride Him, Cowboy (1932); Rocky Mountain (1950); Rocky Rhodes (1934); Sacred and Profane Love (1921); Sally (1925); Secret Service of the Air (1939); Señor Americano (1929); Senor Jim (1936); Sergeant Murphy (1938); Shadow Ranch (1930); She Couldn't Say No (1940); Singapore Woman (1941); Six Hits and a Miss (1942); Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra (1941); Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948); Smog (1962); Smoking Guns (1934); So Big (1924); So You Want to Play the Horses (1946); So You're Going on a Vacation (1947); Somewhere in Sonora (1933); Song of the Caballero (1930); Sons of the Saddle (1930); South Sea Woman (1953); Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1947); Starlift (1951); Stone of Silver Creek (1935); Stoney Burke (1962); Stop, You're Killing Me (1952); Strawberry Roan (1933); Sugarfoot (1957); Suicide Fleet (1931); Sundown Trail (1931); That Way with Women (1947); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); The All American Bands (1943); The Big Stampede (1932); The Breaking Point (1950); The Burning Hills (1956); The Canyon of Adventure (1928); The Case of the Black Parrot (1941); The Code of the Scarlet (1928); The Cowboy Quarterback (1939); The Crash (1928); The Damned Don't Cry (1950); The Daredevil Drivers (1938); The Dawn Trail (1930); The Desert Flower (1925); The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933); The Fighting Legion (1930); The Girl He Left Behind (1956); The Hanging Tree (1959); The Helen Morgan Story (1957); The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949); The Lone Rider (1930); The Man from Monterey (1933); The Marriage Whirl (1925); The McConnell Story (1955); The Pace That Thrills (1925); The Phantom City (1928); The Proud Rebel (1958); The Rainmakers (1935); The Rear Gunner (1943); The Royal Rider (1929); The Saddle Buster (1932); The Sound of Music (1965); The Spirit of St. Louis (1957); The Telegraph Trail (1933); The Trail Drive (1933); The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The United States Army Air Force Band (1942); The United States Army Band (1943); The United States Marine Band (1942); The United States Navy Band (1943); The United States Service Bands (1943); The Upland Rider (1928); The Valley of the Giants (1927); The Wagon Master (1929); The Wide Open Spaces (1931); The Young in Heart (1938); This Woman Is Dangerous (1952); Three Lives (1953); Tombstone Canyon (1932); Trailin' West (1936); Two for the Seesaw (1962); War Hunt (1962); We Moderns (1925); Wheels of Destiny (1934); When a Man Sees Red (1934); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Young at Heart (1954); Young Man with a Horn (1950).

Born on this day – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

Anthony by Saint-Exupéry

Writer

Aviator

June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944

Credits:

Books:

Night Flight (1931); Southern Mail (1929); The Little Prince (1943) The Wisdom of the Sands (1948); Wind, Sand and Stars (1939).

Movies and television:

Has Kis Herceg (2005); Anne-Marie (1936); Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1958); ARTE Report (2018); With André Gide (1951); Beloved (2019); Courrier Sud (1937); From Kleine Prins (1960); Draw Me a Saint-Ex (2018); God Chose Paris (1969); Éjszakai repülés (1963); Ergasterium atomicum (2021); From Him (2014); Great Performance (2004); Hemingway (2021); I riassuntini (2018); I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018); Kinderbücher für Erwachsene (1954) The Night Listens (1967); The Little Prince 4D (2011); The Little Prince at La Géode (1994); The Little Prince, Birth of a Star (2023); Letec nad planétou (1976) The winter of eternity (2022); Lusitania Illusion (2010); Malenkiy prints (1974); Malý princ (2020 / 2021); Memoirs. The Passing of Time: 1920-1960 (1996); Night Flight - a musical (2021); Night Flight (1933); Night Goes Long (2015); O mikros prigipas (1999); O mikros Prigipas (2018); O Principezinho (2014); Ounce... (2004); Tell me about you (2016); Poust (2004); Sen Anlat Karadeniz (2019); Teatr Polskiego Radia (2023); Television Theater (1958); Tell Me About... The Little Prince (2016); The Conquest of the Air (1931); The Little Prince (1954 / 1965 / 1966 / 1974 / 1978) / 1979 / 1984 / 1990 / 1995 / 2003 / 2012 / 2015); The Little Prince / TV Series (1990); The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight (1979); Touched with Fire (2015).

Born on this day – Georgia Hale:

Georgia Hale

Actress

June 25, 1900 – June 17, 1985

Credits:

A Trick of Hearts (1928); A Woman Against the World (1928); Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003); Fashion News (1930); For Sale (1924); Gypsy of the North (1928); Hills of Peril (1927); His Marriage Wow (1925); Hollywood Party (1937); Josef von Sternberg Interview (1968); Lost Forever (2011); Man of the Forest (1926); No More Women (1924); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); The Floating College (1928); The Gold Rush (1925); The Great Gatsby (1926); The Last Moment (1928); The Lightning Warrior (1931); The Rainmaker (1926); The Rawhide Kid (1928); The Salvation Hunters (1925); The Taxi Driver (1921); The Wheel of Destiny (1927); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Unknown Chaplin (1983).

Born on this day – Catherine Hessling:

Catherine Hessling

Actress

June 22, 1900 – September 28, 1979

Born on this day – Oskar Fischinger:

Oskar Fischinger

Abstract animator

Director

Painter

June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967

Born on this day – Jules Sylvain:

Jules Sylvain

Composer

Screenwriter

Musician

June 11, 1900 – October 29, 1968

Born on this day – Lesley Selander:

Lesley Selander

Director

May 26, 1900 – December 5, 1979

Born on this day – Spencer Tracy:

Spencer Tracy

Actor

April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967

Born on this day – Erich Fromm:

Erich Fromm

Psychologist

Writer

March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980