Alexander Dovzhenko

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.

10 September 1894

Born on the same birth day (10 September): Angus Bethune (politician) • Ayub Masika • Bill Stevenson (musician) • David Pountney • Eleanor, Princess of Asturias • Gabriel Bateman • Gunpei Yokoi • John J. Crittenden • Laura Taylor (swimmer) • Michel Bélanger • Mohammad Akram (Islamabad cricketer) • Nicolás Bravo • Roy Ayers • Waldo Rudolph Wedel • William Mason (New York politician)

Born in the same month (September 1894): Elisabeth Rethberg • Fay Compton • George Waggner • Gladys Brockwell • Humphrey Mitchell • Jean Renoir • Lothar von Richthofen • Oskar Klein • Rachel Field