Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of alleged Communist influences in the motion picture industry.

9 December 1905

Born on the same birth day (9 December): Bob O'Connor (mayor) • Bárbara Padilla • Gastón Gaudio • Jason Dozzell • Joaquín Turina • Joe Lando • Joe McGinniss • John Cassavetes • Jolene Purdy • Laura Smulders • Leon Hall • Liaqat Baloch • Margaret Brundage • Margaret Hamilton (actress) • Nikolai Luzin • Petr Nedvěd • Ángel Guirado • Ödön von Horváth

Born in the same month (December 1905): Ann Barzel • Anthony Powell • Bill O'Reilly (cricketer) • Daniil Kharms • Erico Verissimo • Francisco Javier Arana • Gerard Kuiper • Gilbert Roland • Giovanni Lurani • Helen Dodson Prince • Howard Hughes • Kenneth Rexroth • Käte Fenchel • Mohammad Hidayatullah • Otto Preminger • Pierre Brasseur • Pierre Levegh • Piet Hein (scientist) • Simo Häyhä • William Loeb III