Events

Top grossing films

1. The Birth of a Nation

Movies released

• A Fool There Was , starring Theda Bara
• The Birth of a Nation, starring Lillian Gish
• Carmen, starring Theda Bara
• Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
• Les Vampires

Births

• January 9 - Anita Louise, actress (d. 1970)
• January 9 - Fernando Lamas, actor (d. 1982)
• January 11 - Veda Ann Borg , actress (d. 1973)
• January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (d. 1999)
• January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (d. 1934)
• February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (d. 2002)
• February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)
• February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (d. 1967)
• February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (d. 1979)
• February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (d. 1977)
• March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (d. 1992)
• April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (d. 2001)
• May 5 - Alice Faye, actress (d. 1998)
• May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (d. 1985)
• June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (d. 1995)
• July 7 - Yul Brynner, actor (d. 1985)
• August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
• September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)
• October 13 - Cornel Wilde, actor (d. 1989)
• December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (d. 1998)
• December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (d. 1982)

Deaths

• April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian