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): Cole Kimball • Frank Havens (canoeist) • Iago Aspas • Konstantinos Logothetopoulos • Lorenz Oken • Meena Kumari • Saleh Gomaa • William B. Travis • Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Born in the same month (August 1929): Bill Evans • Bill Foster (basketball, born 1929) • Buck Owens • Dick Tiger • Don Matheson • Francis Gary Powers • Guy de Lussigny • Hugues Aufray • Ion N. Petrovici • John Gale (theatre producer) • Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer) • Luis García Meza • Mike Elliott (saxophonist) • Peter Thomson (golfer) • Reuben Kamanga • Roxie Roker • Thom Gunn • Valery Alekseyev (anthropologist) • Vellore G. Ramabhadran • Vidya Charan Shukla • Zoltán Czibor