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Born September 1, 1862 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died February 29, 1928 (aged 65) • Switzerland
Aline Frankau Bernstein
American theatrical designer and writer
Steele MacKaye
American playwright
Jo Mielziner
American stage designer
Norman Bel Geddes
Norman Bel Geddes
American theatrical designer
Akimov, self-portrait
Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov
Russian stage designer
Bernardo Buontalenti
Italian stage designer
Kjeld Abell
Danish dramatist
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
Albert Steffen
Swiss writer
Niklaus Manuel
Swiss artist, author, and statesman
Joseph Viktor Widmann
Swiss author
DeWolf Hopper
American actor
Sydney Greenstreet
British actor
Cedric Webster Hardwicke
English actor
Jeanette MacDonald
American actress and singer
Tom Holland
British actor
James Whitmore
American actor
Jill Haworth
British-born actress
Theodore Bikel
Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist
Florence Henderson
American actress