Richard Hauptmann

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping became known as "The Crime of the Century". Both Hauptmann and his wife, Anna Hauptmann, proclaimed his innocence to his death, when he was executed in 1936 by electric chair at the Trenton State Prison. Anna later sued the State of New Jersey, various former police officers, the Hearst newspapers that had published pre-trial articles insisting on Hauptmann's guilt, and former prosecutor David T. Wilentz.

26 November 1899

Born on the same birth day (26 November): Aaron Wan-Bissaka • Anna Maurizio • Boris Yegorov • Bruce Paltrow • Chris Osgood • Claes Elfsberg • Dave Hughes • Enrico Bombieri • Heinrich Brüning • Ivan Patzaichin • Ivory (wrestler) • Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan • John Harvard (clergyman) • Kara Walker • Paris Lenon • Ram Sharan Sharma • Richard and Maurice McDonald • Roger Wehrli • Shawn Kemp • Shlomo Artzi • Sulejman Tihić

Born in the same month (November 1899): Allen Tate • Avdy Andresson • Emma Morano • Eugene Ormandy • Harekrushna Mahatab • Hoagy Carmichael • Howard Thurman • Jobyna Ralston • Margaret Atwood Judson • Pat O'Brien (actor) • Ralph Greenleaf • Ward Morehouse • Yitzhak Lamdan