Ladislas Starevich

Ladislas Starevich was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in France.

8 August 1882

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Adolf Busch • Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield • Arthur Goldberg • Cécile Chaminade • Dino De Laurentiis • Dustin Hoffman • Emi Shinohara • Ferenc Kölcsey • George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland • James Morgan (actor) • Jerry Tarkanian • Kane Williamson • Leo Chiosso • Nigel Mansell • Paul Taylor (cricketer, born 1964) • Pierre Garçon • Ronnie Biggs • Stephen Walkom • Toby Flood • William Asher

Born in the same month (August 1882): Albert Bloch • Anne Acheson • Gisela Richter • James Franck • Marion Bauer • Raymonde de Laroche • Red Ames • Sam Hardy (footballer) • Seán T. O'Kelly