Pre-1922

Events before 1922 which have relevance to The Walt Disney Company.

1452

 * April 15 - Leonardo da Vinci is born.

1519

 * May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci dies.

1564

 * April 26 - William Shakespeare is born.

1616

 * April 23 - William Shakespeare dies.

1619

 * March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac is born.

1655

 * July 28 - Cyrano de Bergerac dies.

1743

 * May 28 - Johann Wyss is born.

1749

 * August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born.

1757

 * September 6 - The Marquis de La Fayette is born.

1769

 * August 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte is born.

1792

 * February 29 - Gioachino Rossini is born.

1801

 * George Washington Dixon is born.

1803

 * December 11 - Hector Berlioz is born.

1813

 * Richard Wagner is born.

1818

 * January 11 - Johann Wyss dies.

1819

 * June 20 - Jacques Offenbach is born.

1820

 * February 28 - John Tenniel is born.

1821

 * May 5 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies.

1829

 * February 9 - Jules Verne is born.

1832

 * March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies.

1834

 * May 20 - The Marquis de La Fayette dies.

1835

 * November 30 - Mark Twain is born.

1848

 * December 9 - Joel Chandler Harris is born.

1850

 * November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson is born.

1856

 * May 15 - L. Frank Baum is born.

1857

 * April 23 - Ruggero Leoncavallo is born.
 * September 15 - William Howard Taft is born.

1859

 * February 6 - Elias Disney is born.
 * March 8 - Kenneth Grahame is born.
 * May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born.

1861

 * March 2 - George Washington Dixon dies.

1862

 * October 4 - Edward Stratemeyer is born.

1863

 * August 14 - Ernest Thayer is born.

1865

 * December 29 - Otis Harlan is born.

1868

 * April 22 - Flora Disney is born.
 * November 13 - Gioachino Rossini dies.
 * December 19 - Eleanor H. Porter is born.

1869

 * March 8 - Hector Berlioz dies.
 * September 6 - Felix Salten is born.

1872

 * November 8 - Lucille La Verne is born.

1874

 * March 24 - Harry Houdini is born.

1875

 * September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs is born.

1876

 * January 12 - Jack London is born.

1877

 * July 27 - Florence Gill is born.

1878

 * January 20 - Finlay Currie is born.
 * May 2 - Roy Atwell is born.
 * May 16 - Taylor Holmes is born.

1879

 * March 14 - Albert Einstein is born.
 * May 27 - Lucile Watson is born.
 * October 15 - Jane Darwell is born.
 * December 10 - E.H. Shepard is born.

1880

 * January 1 - Edie Martin is born.
 * January 29 - W.C. Fields is born.
 * October 5 - Jacques Offenbach dies.
 * October 19 - Scotty Mattraw is born.

1881

 * August 28 - Ferdinand Hovarth is born.
 * November 10 - Ned Norton is born.

1882

 * January 18 - A.A. Milne is born.
 * April 18 - Leopold Stokowski is born.
 * June 17 - Igor Stravinsky is born.
 * July 27 - Donald Crisp is born.
 * August 17 - Charles Judels is born.

1883

 * January 24 - Estelle Winwood is born.
 * February 13 - Richard Wagner dies.
 * March 20 - Colin Campbell is born.
 * May 11 - Albert Hurter is born.
 * Eddie Collins is born.

1884

 * June 15 - Harry Langdon is born.

1885

 * April 15 - Albert Sharpe is born.
 * December 22 - Deems Taylor is born.
 * Alex Mackenzie is born.

1886

 * February 8 - Charles Ruggles is born.
 * April 13 - Christian Rub is born.
 * April 23 - Belle Montrose is born.

1887

 * August 5 - Reginald Owen is born.
 * August 6 - Oliver Wallace is born.

1888

 * February 20 - Lee Millar Sr. is born.
 * May 25 - Miles Malleson is born.
 * August 2 - D. A. Clarke-Smith is born.
 * September 12 - Maurice Chevalier is born.
 * October 3 - Claud Allister is born.
 * November 24 - Cathleen Nesbitt is born.
 * December 18 - Gladys Cooper is born.

1889

 * February 4 - Walter Catlett is born.
 * March 30 - Herman Bing is born.
 * April 16 - Charlie Chaplin is born.
 * June 2 - Martha Wentworth is born.
 * June 10 - Sessue Hayakawa is born.
 * June 27 - Moroni Olsen is born.

1890

 * February 18 - Adolphe Menjou is born.
 * June 12 - Junius Matthews is born.
 * June 16 - Stan Laurel is born.
 * July 20 - Verna Felton is born.

1891

 * March 10 - Sam Jaffe is born.
 * May 26 - Paul Lukas is born.
 * October 15 - Burt Gillett is born.

1892

 * January 18 - Oliver Hardy is born.
 * June 13 - Basil Rathbone is born.
 * June 27 - Robert Ellis is born.
 * September 11 - Pinto Colvig is born.
 * October 25 - Leo G. Carroll is born.
 * November 10 - Carl Stalling is born.
 * December 26 - Don Barclay is born.
 * December 30 - John Litel is born.

1893

 * February 10 - Jimmy Durante is born.
 * June 24 - Roy O. Disney is born.
 * September 18 - Ernest Jay is born.

1894

 * March 18 - Stuart Buchanan is born.
 * July 23 - Arthur Treacher is born.
 * September 12 - Billy Gilbert is born.
 * September 24 - Billy Bletcher is born.
 * December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson dies.
 * Larry Grey is born.

1895

 * February 27 - Edward Brophy is born.
 * April 11 - Jack King is born.
 * June 10 - Hattie McDaniel is born.
 * June 14 - Cliff Edwards is born.
 * September 13 - Ruth McDevitt is born.
 * October 2 - Bud Abbott is born.
 * November 4 - Ben Sharpsteen is born.

1896

 * January 20 - George Burns is born.
 * April 17 - Señor Wences is born.
 * May 3 - Dodie Smith is born.
 * May 18 - Walter Fitzgerald is born.
 * July 3 - Doris Lloyd is born.
 * November 4 - Ian Wolfe is born.
 * November 16 - Jim Jordan is born.

1897

 * January 3 - Pola Negri is born.
 * March 25 - John Laurie is born.
 * July 11 - Bernice Hansen is born.
 * September 3 - Cecil Parker is born.

1898

 * January 2 - Dick Huemer is born.
 * January 14 - Lewis Carroll dies.
 * January 20 - Tudor Owen is born.
 * June 18 - Dink Trout is born.
 * July 4 - Johnny Lee is born.
 * November 29 - C.S. Lewis is born.
 * December 12 - Noreen Gammill is born.
 * December 14 - Lillian Randolph is born.

1899

 * February 15 - Lillian Disney is born.
 * August 9 - P.L. Travers is born.
 * November 5 - Forrest Lewis is born.

1900

 * January 23 - David Hand is born.
 * January 30 - Martita Hunt is born.
 * February 6 - Ted Osborne is born.
 * February 17 - Ruth Clifford is born.
 * March 3 - Gage Clarke is born.
 * March 13 - Ted Sears is born.
 * June 9 - Fred Waring is born.
 * October 10 - Helen Hayes is born.
 * November 20 - Chester Gould is born.
 * December 6 - Agnes Moorehead is born.

1901

 * February 1 - Clark Gable is born.
 * March 24 - Ub Iwerks is born.
 * March 27 - Carl Barks is born.
 * June 12 - Clyde Geronimi is born.
 * June 29 - Nelson Eddy is born.
 * August 15 - Ned Washington is born.
 * August 27 - Al Ritz is born.
 * October 20 - Frank Churchill is born.
 * December 5 - Walt Disney is born.

1902

 * January 20 - Leon Ames is born.
 * January 26 - Romney Brent is born.
 * April 27 - Harry Stockwell is born.
 * September 2 - Norman Ferguson is born.
 * September 25 - Al Hoffman is born.
 * October 29 - Elsa Lanchester is born.
 * October 31 - Eduard Franz is born.

1903

 * January 7 - Alan Napier is born.
 * February 16 - Edgar Bergen is born.
 * February 18 - George Givot is born.
 * May 3 - Bing Crosby is born.
 * May 12 - Wilfrid Hyde-White is born.
 * May 29 - Bob Hope is born.
 * June 21 - Al Hirschfeld is born.
 * October 16 - Hamilton Luske is born.
 * December 10 - Una Merkel is born.
 * December 10 - Mary Norton is born.

1904

 * January 10 - Ray Bolger is born.
 * February 16 - James Baskett is born.
 * March 15 - J. Pat O'Malley is born.
 * May 6 - Raymond Bailey is born.
 * May 18 - Fred Shields is born.
 * June 24 - Phil Harris is born.
 * June 26 - Peter Lorre is born.
 * August 22 - Jay Novello is born.
 * September 15 - Tom Conway is born.
 * September 17 - Jerry Colonna is born.
 * September 19 - Elvia Allman is born.
 * September 21 - Alexander Key is born.
 * September 29 - Greer Garson is born.
 * October 4 - Jimmy Ritz is born.
 * October 9 - Wally Brown is born.
 * October 25 - Vladimir "Bill" Tytla is born.
 * December 7 - Clarence Nash is born.

1905

 * January 4 - Sterling Holloway is born.
 * January 12 - Tex Ritter is born.
 * January 15 - Allie Wrubel is born.
 * January 26 - Charles Lane is born.
 * February 18 - Queenie Leonard is born.
 * March 10 - Richard Haydn is born.
 * March 24 - Jules Verne dies.
 * March 31 - Robert Stevenson is born.
 * April 26 - Denis O'Dea is born.
 * June 5 - John Abbott is born.
 * June 16 - Leslie Denison is born.
 * August 20 - Duncan Macrae is born.
 * August 29 - Al Taliaferro is born.
 * September 3 - Eric Larson is born.
 * October 7 - Andy Devine is born.
 * November 19 - Eleanor Audley is born.
 * November 28 - Mary Moder is born.
 * December 7 - Leonard H. Goldenson is born.

1906

 * The Disney family moves to Marceline.
 * January 24 - Wilfred Jackson is born.
 * March 3 - Donald Novis is born.
 * March 6 - Lou Costello is born.
 * March 12 - Gordon Gordon is born.
 * May 19 - James MacDonald is born.
 * May 29 - T. H. White is born.
 * June 4 - Vinton Hayworth is born.
 * July 3 - George Sanders is born.
 * August 21 - Friz Freleng is born.
 * September 2 - Barbara Jo Allen is born.
 * October 30 - Paul Smith is born.
 * November 13 - Hermione Baddeley is born.
 * November 25 - Larry Clemmons is born.
 * November 29 - Luis van Rooten is born.
 * December 9 - Freddy Martin is born.

1907

 * February 5 - Samuel W. Taylor is born.
 * February 12 - Joseph Kearns is born.
 * February 15 - Cesar Romero is born.
 * February 26 - Dub Taylor is born.
 * March 26 - Leigh Harline is born.
 * April 23 - James Hayter is born.
 * May 22 - Harry Ritz is born.
 * June 6 - Edward H. Plumb is born.
 * June 15 - James Robertson Justice is born.
 * June 16 - Jack Albertson is born.
 * June 27 - John McIntire is born.
 * August 20 - Alan Reed is born.
 * October 8 - Art Babbitt is born.
 * November 17 - Les Clark is born.
 * November 21 - Charles Korvin is born.
 * December 20 - Al Rinker is born.
 * December 25 - Andrew Cruickshank is born.

1908

 * January 10 - Bernard Lee is born.
 * January 16 - Ethel Merman is born.
 * January 19 - Jack Cutting is born.
 * February 1 - Gene Sheldon is born.
 * February 13 - Patrick Barr is born.
 * February 22 - John Mills is born.
 * April 2 - Buddy Ebsen is born.
 * April 5 - Bette Davis is born.
 * April 13 - Bob Nolan is born.
 * May 15 - Joe Grant is born.
 * May 25 - Barbara Luddy is born.
 * May 26 - Robert Morley is born.
 * May 30 - Mel Blanc is born.
 * June 7 - Ken O'Connor is born.
 * June 29 - John Hench is born.
 * July 12 - Milton Berle is born.
 * July 23 - Karl Swenson is born.
 * August 30 - Fred MacMurray is born.
 * September 13 - Mae Questel is born.
 * September 30 - Judge Whitaker is born.
 * October 24 - Preston Blair is born.
 * November 12 - Shamus Culhane is born.

1909

 * January 3 - Victor Borge is born.
 * February 6 - Harvey Toombs is born.
 * February 9 - Heather Angel is born.
 * March 17 - Ken Anderson is born.
 * March 22 - Milt Kahl is born.
 * March 24 - Clyde Chestnut Barrow is born.
 * March 25 - Jerry Livingston is born.
 * March 29 - Jack Kinney is born.
 * May 15 - James Mason is born.
 * June 10 - Mary Field is born.
 * June 14 - Burl Ives is born.
 * June 26 - Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman is born.
 * September 11 - Anne Seymour is born.
 * October 1 - Everett Sloane is born.
 * October 31 - Thelma Boardman is born.
 * November 7 - Campbell Grant is born.
 * December 20 - Amby Paliwoda is born.
 * December 26 - Don Patterson is born.

1910

 * February 17 - Marcellite Garner is born.
 * March 1 - David Niven is born.
 * March 15 - Nicodemus Stewart is born.
 * March 28 - Jimmie Dodd is born.
 * April 21 - Mark Twain dies.
 * May 23 - Scatman Crothers is born.
 * May 24 - Ed Love is born.
 * June 13 - Mary Wickes is born.
 * July 26 - Kenneth Muse is born.
 * August 16 - Gloria Blondell is born.
 * September 7 - Ben Stahl is born.
 * September 15 - Charles A. Nichols is born.
 * October 1 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker is born.
 * October 8 - Winston Hibler is born.
 * November 22 - Ethel Smith is born.
 * December 7 - Louis Prima is born.
 * December 21 - Marvin Davis is born.
 * Judd Conlon is born.
 * Yale Gracey is born.

1911

 * January 29 - Bryan Coleman is born.
 * March 9 - John Lounsbery is born.
 * March 24 - Joseph Barbera is born.
 * March 26 - T. Hee is born.
 * May 11 - Doodles Weaver is born.
 * May 27 - Vincent Price is born.
 * July 6 - LaVerne Sophia Andrews is born.
 * July 14 - Terry-Thomas is born.
 * September 2 - Eileen Way is born.
 * September 7 - Fred Moore is born.
 * October 21 - Mary Blair is born.
 * October 27 - Daniel P. Mannix is born.
 * November 4 - Jack Rose is born.
 * November 5 - Roy Rogers is born.
 * November 15 - Joaquin Garay is born.
 * November 23 - Ray Patterson is born.
 * November 25 - Paul Murry is born.
 * December 14 - Spike Jones is born.
 * December 30 - Jeanette Nolan is born.
 * Bob Karp is born.

1912

 * May 11 - Don Towsley is born.
 * May 29 - Iris Adrian is born.
 * June 11 - James Algar is born.
 * June 24 - Mildred Gordon is born.
 * July 5 - Mack David is born.
 * July 15 - Al Bertino is born.
 * July 26 - Buddy Clark is born.
 * August 23 - Gene Kelly is born.
 * September 5 - Ray Gilbert is born.
 * September 5 - Frank Thomas is born.
 * September 13 - Reta Shaw is born.
 * September 21 - Chuck Jones is born.
 * October 5 - Riley Thomson is born.
 * October 31 - Dale Evans is born.
 * October 31 - Ollie Johnston is born.
 * November 24 - Joan Sanderson is born.

1913

 * January 5 - Jack Hannah is born.
 * January 17 - Claude Coats is born.
 * January 18 - Danny Kaye is born.
 * January 23 - Max Smith is born.
 * February 25 - Jim Backus is born.
 * March 3 - Manuel Gonzales is born.
 * March 22 - James Westerfield is born.
 * March 29 - Niall MacGinnis is born.
 * March 30 - Marc Davis is born.
 * April 4 - Frances Langford is born.
 * May 24 - Peter Ellenshaw is born.
 * July 2 - Andy Ho is born.
 * July 8 - Bill Thompson is born.
 * July 18 - Marvin Miller is born.
 * August 1 - Hal Ambro is born.
 * August 25 - Walt Kelly is born.
 * October 18 - Evelyn Venable is born.
 * October 28 - Douglas Seale is born.
 * December 25 - Candy Candido is born.
 * December 28 - Henry Rowland is born.

1914

 * February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft is born.
 * February 9 - Bill Justice is born.
 * February 25 - John Tenniel dies.
 * March 4 - Ward Kimball is born.
 * March 14 - Bill Owen is born.
 * March 20 - Crahan Denton is born.
 * April 20 - Betty Lou Gerson is born.
 * June 3 - Roy Glenn is born.
 * July 3 - George Bruns is born.
 * July 14 - Hubert Gregg is born.
 * August 9 - Anita Gordon is born.
 * October 9 - Edward Andrews is born.
 * November 6 - Jonathan Harris is born.
 * November 22 - Frank Graham is born.
 * December 27 - Jack Bradbury is born.
 * December 30 - José Oliveira is born.

1915

 * January 21 - Ray Erlenborn is born.
 * January 21 - Alan Hewitt is born.
 * January 29 - Bill Peet is born.
 * February 16 - Elton Hayes is born.
 * February 28 - Zero Mostel is born.
 * April 10 - Harry Morgan is born.
 * April 20 - Aurora Miranda is born.
 * May 1 - Art Stevens is born.
 * May 5 - Ben Wright is born.
 * May 6 - Orson Welles is born.
 * May 12 - Tony Strobl is born.
 * May 20 - Peter Copley is born.
 * June 19 - Pat Buttram is born.
 * September 10 - Edmond O'Brien is born.
 * October 3 - Anthony Forwood is born.
 * November 14 - Martha Tilton is born.
 * November 23 - John Dehner is born.
 * December 7 - Eli Wallach is born.
 * December 12 - Frank Sinatra is born.

1916

 * January 3 - Maxene Angelyn Andrews is born.
 * January 9 - Card Walker is born.
 * February 14 - Edward Platt is born.
 * February 29 - Dinah Shore is born.
 * March 31 - Lucille Bliss is born.
 * April 26 - Eyvind Earle is born.
 * May 16 - Adriana Caselotti is born.
 * May 21 - Dennis Day is born.
 * June 14 - Dorothy McGuire is born.
 * June 17 - Terry Gilkyson is born.
 * June 29 - Ruth Warrick is born.
 * July 2 - Ken Curtis is born.
 * July 27 - Keenan Wynn is born.
 * August 21 - Bill Lee is born.
 * August 24 - Hal Smith is born.
 * September 13 - Roald Dahl is born.
 * September 17 - Mary Stewart is born.
 * September 28 - Peter Finch is born.
 * October 19 - David Lewis is born.
 * November 12 - Liam Dunn is born.
 * November 15 - Bill Melendez is born.
 * November 16 - Daws Butler is born.
 * November 22 - Jack London dies.
 * November 23 - Michael Gough is born.
 * December 6 - Judson Pratt is born.
 * December 9 - Kirk Douglas is born.
 * December 15 - Dick Kinney is born.
 * Van Arsdale France is born.

1917

 * January 5 - Jane Wyman is born.
 * January 11 - Margaret Wright is born.
 * January 24 - Ernest Borgnine is born.
 * March 12 - Millard Kaufman is born.
 * April 15 - Hans Conried is born.
 * April 29 - Milton Reid is born.
 * May 7 - David Tomlinson is born.
 * June 30 - Lena Horne is born.
 * July 17 - Phyliss Diller is born.
 * September 18 - June Foray is born.
 * September 30 - Buddy Rich is born.
 * October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie is born.
 * December 22 - Frankie Darro is born.

1918

 * January 4 - Buddy Baker is born.
 * January 26 - Vito Scotti is born.
 * February 16 - Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews is born.
 * February 22 - Don Pardo is born.
 * March 29 - Pearl Bailey is born.
 * April 16 - Spike Milligan is born.
 * April 17 - Anne Shirley is born.
 * May 11 - Sheila Burnford is born.
 * May 25 - Henry Calvin is born.
 * July 6 - Sebastian Cabot is born.
 * July 13 - Larry Taylor is born.
 * August 19 - Floyd Huddlestone is born.
 * September 15 - Nipsey Russell is born.
 * October 13 - Jack MacGowran is born.
 * November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is born.
 * December 31 - Virginia Davis is born.

1919

 * February 5 - Red Buttons is born.
 * February 11 - Eva Gabor is born.
 * February 25 - John W. Dunn is born.
 * April 29 - Gérard Oury is born.
 * May 6 - L. Frank Baum dies.
 * June 11 - Richard Todd is born.
 * August 9 - Ruggero Leoncavallo dies.
 * September 2 - Marge Champion is born.
 * September 19 - Jacques Marin is born.
 * October 5 - Donald Pleasence is born.
 * November 15 - Joseph Wapner is born.
 * November 25 - Norman Tokar is born.
 * December 17 - Ted Berman is born.

1920

 * January 4 - Rosalie Crutchley is born.
 * January 16 - Elliott Reid is born.
 * January 20 - DeForest Kelley is born.
 * February 26 - Tony Randall is born.
 * March 16 - Leo McKern is born.
 * May 21 - Eleanor H. Porter is born.
 * May 26 - Peggy Lee is born.
 * June 13 - Rex Everhart is born.
 * June 22 - Paul Frees is born.
 * June 29 - Ray Harryhausen is born.
 * August 2 - Bill Scott is born.
 * August 17 - Maureen O'Hara is born.
 * August 22 - Ray Bradbury is born.
 * September 9 - Wally Boag is born.
 * September 18 - Jack Warden is born.
 * September 20 - Jay Ward is born.
 * September 23 - Mickey Rooney is born.
 * November 25 - Ricardo Montalbán is born.
 * December 31 - Rex Allen is born.
 * Margie Gay is born.
 * Carmen Molina is born.

1921

 * January 31 - Carol Channing is born.
 * April 19 - Peter Ustinov is born.
 * May 12 - Farley Mowat is born.
 * May 14 - Richard Deacon is born.
 * June 4 - Don Diamond is born.
 * July 6 - Bill Shirley is born.
 * July 29 - Richard Egan is born.
 * August 28 - Nancy Kulp is born.
 * October 17 - Tom Poston is born.
 * October 20 - Bob Gregory is born.
 * November 14 - Brian Keith is born.
 * November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield is born.