Maya Deren
Maya Deren was a Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer.
29 April 1917
Born on the same birth date (29 April 1917): Celeste Holm
Born on the same birth day (29 April): Alexander II of Russia • Alfred Hui • Amy Krouse Rosenthal • Bill Slater (footballer) • Duke Ellington • Francis Lee (footballer) • Fred Zinnemann • Georg Carl von Döbeln • Hirohito • James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde • Jay Cutler • Jerry Seinfeld • Joachim Andersen (composer) • Mo Brooks • Otis Rush • Samuel Turell Armstrong
Born in the same month (April 1917): Bea Wain • Brad Dexter • Hans Conried • Hubertus Ernst • I. M. Pei • Johannes Bobrowski • Robert Cornthwaite (actor) • Sidney Nolan • Sven Hassel • Yvette Chauviré