Elsie de Wolfe

Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl was an American actress who became a very prominent interior designer and author. Born in New York City, de Wolfe was acutely sensitive to her surroundings from her earliest years and became one of the first female interior decorators, replacing dark and ornate Victorian decor with lighter, simpler styles and uncluttered room layouts.

20 December 1865

Born on the same birth day (20 December): Charlie Callas • Junji Hirata • Kasper Klausen • Kim Weston • Mark Coleman • Marta Xargay • Mitsuko Uchida • Ruhana Kuddus

Born in the same month (December 1865): Charles Sands • Evangeline Booth • Félix Vallotton • Jacques Hadamard • Jean Sibelius • Minnie Maddern Fiske • Rudyard Kipling