Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

26 April 1905

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Ambrose Dudley Mann • Anna Mucha • Arno Allan Penzias • Bernie Brillstein • Bill Wennington • Charles Richter • Cliff Watson • Duane Eddy • Jadwiga Staniszkis • James Dooley (Australian politician) • Joseph Ward • Marie de' Medici • Ms. Dynamite • Peter Handscomb • Samantha Cristoforetti • Tom Welling • Yuliya Zaripova

Born in the same month (April 1905): Al Bates • Attila József • Elizabeth Huckaby • Erika Nõva • Eugène Bozza • Frits Philips • Gaston Eyskens • Georg Lammers • George H. Hitchings • Helen Joseph • J. William Fulbright • Jean Pierre-Bloch • John Kuck • Louis Jean Heydt • Pat Brown • Paul Hasluck • Robert Choquette • Robert Penn Warren • Robert Sink • Sergey Nikolsky