Betty Smith

Betty Smith was an American playwright and novelist, who wrote the 1943 bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

15 December 1896

Born on the same birth day (15 December): David Teniers the Younger • David Wingate (basketball) • Florence Jepperson Madsen • Helen Slater • John R. Allen • Kathleen Blanco • Lawrence Funderburke • Nicholas P. Dallis • Norman J. Grossfeld • Pehr Evind Svinhufvud • Pierre Cossette • Steven Nzonzi • Thomas Herrion

Born in the same month (December 1896): Ann Nolan Clark • Anna Anderson • 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