Kurt Schuschnigg

Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Although Schuschnigg considered Austria a "German state" and Austrians to be Germans, he was strongly opposed to Adolf Hitler's goal to absorb Austria into the Third Reich and wished for it to remain independent.

14 December 1897

Born on the same birth date (14 December 1897): Margaret Chase Smith

Born on the same birth day (14 December): Anne Conway (philosopher) • Aphra Behn • Archie Kao • Barthélemy d'Herbelot • Calvyn Justus • Charlie Hodge (guitarist) • Ed Rainsford • Ellen Willis • Emmett Tyrrell • George Furth • Jan Antonín Koželuh • Jane Cowl • June Taylor • Karl Carstens • Kyle Shanahan • Li Zijun • Mary Tappan Wright • Mohamed Saad (actor) • Patty Schnyder • Peeter Kreitzberg • René Eespere • Steve Sidwell • Zdeněk Pospěch

Born in the same month (December 1897): Albert Aalbers • Alfredo Bracchi • Drew Pearson (journalist) • Fletcher Henderson • Gershom Scholem • Hermione Gingold • Nunnally Johnson • Robert Redfield • Ronald Skirth • Väinö Sipilä