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- Born on her father's farm in Green Ridge, Missouri, the youngest of five children. Moved with her family to Springfield, Missouri, where she grew up. Joined the Diemer Theatre Company during her second year of high school, and went on the road with a touring stock company at age 18, in 1907. Signed by the Powers Film Co. in New York in 1910, and proceeded to work thereafter for many companies in starring roles. In 1914, she starred in Pathe's The Perils of Pauline, the fifth serial chapter play ever made. She became an international star therein and was the leading heroine of serial films for the next several years. Following an unsuccessful attempt to achieve the same success in feature films, and with her health deteriorating, she retired in 1923, living in France until her death in 1938.
- Billy Dooley was born on 8 February 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Call of the Yukon (1938), The Marines Are Here (1938) and Manhattan Tower (1932). He died on 4 August 1938 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Rudolf G. Binding was born on 13 August 1867 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer (1953), Opfergang (1944) and Reitvorschrift für eine Geliebte (1963). He was married to Hedwig Blaser-Blanc and Helene Wirsing. He died on 4 August 1938 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
- English novelist William Babington Maxwell was born in 1866, the son of Irish publisher John Maxwell and English actress and writer Mary Elizabeth Braddon. He was brought up in Surrey, and because of his parents' professions he met and befriended many of the most famous British artists, writers and actors of the era. As a young man he dabbled in a variety of endeavors, such as painting, writing and editing--his father put him in charge of a failing periodical, "The Mistletoe Bough", and although Robert improved its content and circulation, it wasn't enough to save it. After the magazine failed, he continued to contribute articles, stories and sketches to various publications, He published his first novel, "The Countess of Maybury", in 1901, which was actually a reprint of several stories he had already submitted and had published. The book didn't attract much attention, and neither did his following novel, "Fabulous Fancies", but his third work, "The Ragged Messenger" (1904), hit it big and was turned into a play and several films, one of them being Madonna of the Streets (1930). His next two novels, "Vivien" (1905) and "The Guarded Flame" (1906), were also successes, and Maxwell eventually produced over 40 books.
When World War I broke out in 1914 Maxwell joined the British Army and was attached to the Royal Fusiliers as a lieutenant, and his unit was sent to fight in France in 1915, taking part in some of the most horrendous battles of the war--Loos, the Somme offensive and Paschendale. He was invalided out of the army in 1917 due to health reasons and sent back to England. He continued writing and publishing until shortly before his death in 1938.