Leila Abashidze

Leila Abashidze was a Georgian actress, director and writer. She was Meritorious Artist of Georgia, People's Artist of Georgia, a recipient of Order of the Red Banner of Labour, as well as of awards of European and Asian film festivals, and has her own honorary star in front of Rustaveli cinema on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia. During her career she was widely considered as the "Mary Pickford of the USSR". She is one of the most popular Georgian and Soviet actresses.

1 August 1929

Born on the same birth date (1 August 1929): Ann Calvello • Hafizullah Amin

Born on the same birth day (1 August): Claudius • David Brand • David Nemirovsky • Demián Bichir • Dmitry Filippov (politician) • Fiorenzo Angelini • Gego • George Habash • Graham Thorpe • Helen Sawyer Hogg • Jacob Matlala • John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen • José Padilha • Lorenz Oken • Maria Mitchell • Mervyn Kitchen • Robert Cray • Saleh Gomaa

Born in the same month (August 1929): Betty Dodson • Bill Evans • Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Buck Owens • Dick Tiger • Fritz Von Erich • George Scott (wrestler) • Giacomo Capuzzi • Guy de Lussigny • Herman Badillo • Hugues Aufray • Ian McNaught-Davis • Ira Levin • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Kishore Kumar • Luis García Meza • Mike Elliott (saxophonist) • Roy Crimmins • Thom Gunn • Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist) • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vladimir Beekman