Raymond Massey

Raymond Hart Massey was a Canadian actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised his role as Lincoln on television and in How the West Was Won (1962). Among his other well-known roles were Dr. Gillespie in the NBC television series Dr. Kildare (1961–1966), John Brown in Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Seven Angry Men (1955), Abraham Farlan in A Matter of Life and Death (1946), and Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

30 August 1896

Born on the same birth day (30 August): Anna Politkovskaya • Bebe Rexha • Emily Ruete • Frank Conniff • Fred Hampton • Gediminas Kirkilas • Gerald Albright • Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia • Harvey Hart • Jim Paredes • Joe Inoue • Justin Mortelliti • Kenny Dorham • Kwon So-hyun • Martin Jackson • Peter Tunks • Theo Hutchcraft

Born in the same month (August 1896): Brian Edmund Baker • Catherine Doherty • Erich Hückel • Félix-Antoine Savard • Gostha Pal • Jack Pickford • Jean Piaget • Kenji Miyazawa • Laurence McKinley Gould • Oliver W. Larkin • Paul Outerbridge • Ralph Horween • Tõnis Kint