Polly Adler

Pearl "Polly" Adler was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was posthumously adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Debby Applegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age with Doubleday.

16 April 1900

Born on the same birth day (16 April): Charlotta Sörenstam • Gotthold Eisenstein • Ike Pappas • Joan Bakewell • Joan Snyder • John Amabile (American football) • John Hadley • Joseph Black • Michel Blanc • Ray Ventura • Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet • Tucker Fredricks • Vadim Kuzmin (physicist)

Born in the same month (April 1900): Alfred Strange • Alice Berry • Allen Jenkins • Anis Fuleihan • Bertha Isaacs • Elizabeth Goudge • Leo Robin • Marie Byles • Nellie Beer • Rhea Silberta • Roberto Arlt • Shivrampant Damle • Stefanie Clausen