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): Atje Keulen-Deelstra • Ellen Datlow • Fred Marriott • Grégory Coupet • Herman Boerhaave • Jeff Waldstreicher • Katie Volynets • Kelvin Herrera • Margaret Simpson • Robert Goodwill • Shandon Anderson

Born in the same month (December 1908): Alfred Hershey • Amon Göth • Celia Johnson • Claude Davey • Elizabeth Alexander (scientist) • Gertrude Bancroft • Giacomo Manzù • Helmut Gollwitzer • Hákun Djurhuus • Jo-Jo Moore • John A. Volpe • Lew Ayres • Manoel de Oliveira • Morey Amsterdam • Olivier Messiaen • Paul Siple • Pierre Graber • Quentin Crisp • Ralph Hill (runner) • Van Heflin • Willard Libby • Yousuf Karsh