Anna Anderson

Anna Anderson was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra, was murdered along with her parents and siblings on 17 July 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but the location of her body was unknown until 2007.

16 December 1896

Born on the same birth day (16 December): A. N. R. Robinson • Craig White • Edward Ruscha • Gareth Williams (footballer, born 1981) • Gordon Miller (athlete) • Heather Hallett, Baroness Hallett • Indrek Kaseorg • James Mangold • James McCracken • Jeffrey Stone • Jessie Ward • Kelenna Azubuike • Mary Hartwell Catherwood • Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (gardener) • Quentin Blake • Stanislav Manolev • Steven Bochco • Todd Glass • Trevor Immelman • Trevor Żahra • Wendy Doolan

Born in the same month (December 1896): Ann Nolan Clark • Betty Smith • Carl Ferdinand Cori • Carl Zuckmayer • Georgy Zhukov • Gerald Barry (British Army officer) • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa • Ira Gershwin • Jimmy Doolittle • Konstantin Rokossovsky • Louis Bromfield • Maurice De Waele • Torsten Bergström