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): Bernard Malamud • Debra Wilson • Eyvind Earle • Harry Gallatin • Howard Davies (director) • James Holt (historian) • Jeanne Sauvé • Joey Wendle • John Grierson • Margaret Scott (dancer) • Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily • Marilyn Nelson • Ms. Dynamite • Roger Moens • Samantha Cristoforetti • Tionne Watkins

Born in the same month (April 1905): Attila József • Elizabeth Huckaby • Erika Nõva • Erwin Keller • Gaston Eyskens • Georg Lammers • George H. Hitchings • George Nēpia • Helen Joseph • J. William Fulbright • Jean Pierre-Bloch • Joachim Büchner • John Kuck • Pat Brown • Robert Sink • Sergey Nikolsky • Sydney Halter