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): Art Howe • Buddy Cole (musician) • Diogo Fernandes (footballer) • Garath Archer • Garrett Wang • Hans Carossa • Ida Haendel • Jeff Chandler • Joe Jordan • Molly Price • Stefania LaVie Owen • Sylvester James Gates • Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz

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