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| Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| January | 3 | Ray Milland | UK | Actor, Director | 1986 | |
| 6 | Helen Kleeb | US | Actress | 2003 | ||
| 16 | Alexander Knox | Canada | Actor | 1995 | ||
| 20 | Paula Wessely | Austria | Actress, Producer | 2000 | ||
| 22 | Mary Dresselhuys | Netherlands | Actress | 2004 | ||
| February | 12 | Joseph Kearns | US | Actor | 1962 | |
| 15 | Cesar Romero | US | Actor | 1994 | ||
| 22 | Sheldon Leonard | US | Actor, Director, Producer, Writer | 1997 | ||
| 22 | Robert Young | US | Actor | 1998 | ||
| March | 11 | Jessie Matthews | UK | Actress, Dancer, Singer | 1981 | |
| 19 | Kent Smith | US | Actor | 1985 | ||
| 27 | Mary Treen | US | Actress | 1989 | ||
| 31 | Eddie Quillan | US | Actor, Singer | 1990 | ||
| April | 11 | Paul Douglas | US | Actor | 1959 | |
| 19 | Lina Basquette | US | Actress | 1994 | ||
| 29 | Fred Zinnemann | Austria | Director | 1997 | ||
| May | 12 | Katharine Hepburn | US | Actress | 2003 | |
| 22 | Laurence Olivier | UK | Actor, Director | 1989 | ||
| 26 | John Wayne | US | Actor | 1979 | ||
| June | 4 | Rosalind Russell | US | Actress, Comedienne, Screenwriter, Singer | 1976 | |
| 16 | Jack Albertson | US | Actor, Comedian, Dancer, Singer | 1981 | ||
| 27 | John McIntire | US | Actor | 1991 | ||
| 29 | Joan Davis | US | Actress | 1961 | ||
| July | 14 | Annabella | France | Actress | 1996 | |
| 14 | Olive Borden | US | Actress | 1947 | ||
| 15 | Craig Reynolds | US | Actor | 1949 | ||
| 16 | Barbara Stanwyck | US | Actress, Model, Dancer | 1990 | ||
| 19 | Isabel Jewell | US | Actress | 1972 | ||
| 22 | Phillips Holmes | US | Actor | 1942 | ||
| 27 | Ross Alexander | US | Actor | 1937 | ||
| August | 3 | Adrienne Ames | US | Actress | 1947 | |
| 3 | Irene Tedrow | US | Actress | 1995 | ||
| 12 | Joe Besser | US | Actor, Comedian, Musician | 1988 | ||
| September | 10 | Tala Birell | Romania | Actress | 1958 | |
| 15 | Fay Wray | Canada | Actress | 2004 | ||
| 29 | Gene Autry | US | Singer, Songwriter, Actor | 1998 | ||
| October | 17 | John Marley | US | Actor | 1986 | |
| November | 10 | Salme Reek | Estonia | Actress | 1996 | |
| 16 | Burgess Meredith | US | Actor, Filmmaker | 1997 | ||
| December | 16 | Barbara Kent | Canada | Actress | 2011 | |
| 22 | Peggy Ashcroft | UK | Actress | 1991 | ||
| 25 | Mike Mazurki | Austria-Hungary | Actor, Wrestler | 1990 | ||
| 25 | Cab Calloway | US | Actor | 1994 | ||
The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1908 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1906 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1905 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1901 in film involved some significant events.
Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.
Ben Hur is a 1907 American silent drama film set in ancient Rome, the first screen adaptation of Lew Wallace's popular 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Co-directed by Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose, this "photoplay" was produced by the Kalem Company of New York City, and its scenes, including the climactic chariot race, were filmed in the city's borough of Brooklyn.
Charles Morand Pathé was a pioneer of the French film and recording industries. As the founder of Pathé Frères, its roots lie in 1896 Paris, France, when Pathé and his brothers pioneered the development of the moving image. Pathé adopted the national emblem of France, the cockerel, as the trademark for his company. After the company, now called Compagnie Générale des Éstablissements Pathé Frères Phonographes & Cinématographes, invented the cinema newsreel with Pathé-Journal.
Gene Gauntier was an American screenwriter and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry. A writer, director, and actress in films from mid 1906 to 1920, she wrote screenplays for 42 films. She performed in 87 films and is credited as the director of The Grandmother (1909).
The Kalem Company was an early American film studio founded in New York City in 1907. It was one of the first companies to make films abroad and to set up winter production facilities, first in Florida and then in California. Kalem was sold to Vitagraph Studios in 1917.
The Lad from Old Ireland, also called A Lad from Old Ireland, is a one-reel 1910 American motion picture directed by and starring Sidney Olcott and written by and co-starring Gene Gauntier. It was the first film appearance of prolific actor/director J.P. McGowan.
Ferdinand Zecca was a pioneer French film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He worked primarily for the Pathé company, first in artistic endeavors then in administration of the internationally based company.
L'Enfant prodigue was the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, running 90 minutes. Directed by Michel Carré, from his three-act stage pantomime, The Prodigal Son. The film was an unmodified filmed record of his play. Filmed at the Gaumont Film Company studios in May 1907.
Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz was a pioneering Spanish film director, cinematographer and screenwriter. He produced many short films in France while working for Pathé Frères and has been compared to Georges Méliès, due to his frequent camera tricks and optical illusions. He is regarded as the most significant Spanish silent film director in an international context.
Julienne Alexandrine Mathieu was one of the earliest French silent film actresses who appeared mostly in French silents between 1905 and 1909. She appeared in the silent film Hôtel électrique released in 1908, one of the first films to incorporate stop animation. She was the wife of the director Segundo de Chomón. Her contribution to his work was not only her participation in the cast, but also in the script and the special effects.
Excursion to the Moon is a 1908 French silent trick film directed by Segundo de Chomón. The production was supervised by Ferdinand Zecca, designed by V. Lorant-Heilbronn, and released by Pathé Frères. The film is an unauthorized remake, and an almost shot-by-shot copy, of Georges Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon.
Gaston Velle (1868–1953) was a French silent film director and pioneer of special effects, who was prominent in early French and Italian cinema during the first two decades of the 20th century. Like his father, the Hungarian entertainer Joseph "Professor" Velle, Gaston began his career as a travelling magician, before putting his illusionist skills to work in cinema and ultimately creating more than fifty films between 1903 and 1911. He worked under Auguste and Louis Lumière, before serving as the head of production for the Italian film studio Cines. But he is best remembered for his work at Pathé, where he was hired to produce trick films that might rival those of his contemporary, Georges Méliès, including classic shorts like Burglars at Work (1904). Some films pioneered lasting techniques, such as his Les Invisibles (1906) – the first known invisible man film.
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper is a 1913 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Cândido Aragonez de Faria was a Brazilian caricaturist, painter, lithographer and poster designer who emigrated to France in 1882. Faria designed posters for performers in café-chantants and the cinema but also for music scores. The collective art work of his workshop, which continued after his death, was signed Atelier Faria.
Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs(English: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the eponymous folk tale added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from the Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. It is the first cinematographic adaptation of this tale.