Johann Nestroy

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions and his work reflects the new liberal spirit then spreading throughout Europe.

7 December 1801

Born on the same birth day (7 December): Aaron Gray • Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr • Andres Kasekamp • Armando Manzanero • Azzone Visconti • Bobby Osborne • Chuy Bravo • Craig Scanlon • Erika Fuchs • Ernst Toch • Jack Huston • John Bennett Ramsey • Louise Post • Max Zaslofsky • Melba Pattillo Beals • Mike Mucitelli • Nick Katz • Ron Hynes • Rudolf Friml • Sunny Sweeney • Walter Nowotny

Born in the same month (December 1801): Christian Dietrich Grabbe