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): AD 37 • Alan Whetton • Alex Cox • Bhaichung Bhutia • Martyn Bernard • Michelle Dockery • Ranganathananda • Robert Charles Wilson • Serge Pizzorno

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