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): Adam Setliff • Bhaichung Bhutia • Bill Pitt (racing driver) • Erik Gustafsson (ice hockey, born 1988) • George O. Gore II • Jeff Chandler • Kasey Rogers • Kurt Schaffenberger • Manuel Wilhelm • Paul Simonon • Roger Gaudry • Roman Pavlyuchenko • Sattar Bahlulzade

Born in the same month (December 1896): Ann Nolan Clark • Anna Anderson • Carl Ferdinand Cori • Carl Zuckmayer • Gerald Barry (British Army officer) • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa • Konstantin Rokossovsky • Louis Bromfield • Maurice De Waele • Torsten Bergström