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 • Andrea de Rossi • Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham • Conrad Lycosthenes • Countess Amalia Katharina of Waldeck • Daniel House (musician) • Danilo Gallinari • David Florence • Drew Lachey • Sabine Klaschka

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