Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.

31 December 1908

Born on the same birth day (31 December): Alex Salmond • Carmen Contreras-Bozak • Emperor Go-Yōzei • Friedrich Robert Faehlmann • Luke Schenscher • Taylor Hackford • Tyrone Corbin • Valerie Pearl • Winston Benjamin • Émile Loubet

Born in the same month (December 1908): Alfred Hershey • Amon Göth • Celia Johnson • Claude Davey • Concha Piquer • Elizabeth Alexander (scientist) • Giacomo Manzù • Jo-Jo Moore • John A. Volpe • Lew Ayres • Magnus Pyke • Manoel de Oliveira • Miklós Szabó (middle-distance runner) • Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira