Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.

16 April 1889

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Born in the same month (April 1889): Anita Loos • Grigoraș Dinicu • Karel Doorman • Louis Rougier • Lyubov Popova • Makhanlal Chaturvedi • Marcel Boussac • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Thomas Hart Benton (painter) • Vicente Ferreira Pastinha