May Whitty

Dame Mary Louise Webster,, known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors' union Equity was established in her home in 1930.

19 June 1865

Born on the same birth day (19 June): Alajos Szokolyi • Aung San Suu Kyi • Bernd Hoss • Billy Midwinter • Cléophas Beausoleil • Ernst Chain • Hugh Dancy • Kim Walker (actress) • Lou Pearlman • Macklemore • Marilyn P. Johnson • Marisa Galvany • Paula Abdul • Philipp van Limborch • Phylicia Rashad • Sabine Braun • Tommy DeVito (musician) • Virginia MacWatters • Yuko Nakazawa

Born in the same month (June 1865): Adelaide Casely-Hayford • Albéric Magnard • Bernard Berenson • Carl Nielsen • Frederick Cook • George Lohmann • George Redmayne Murray • George V • John Monash • Karl Blossfeldt • Robert Henri • Susan La Flesche Picotte • W. B. Yeats